On the Dog House

Well, the Peanuts Characters are just too much fun to punch - simple shapes, recognizable characters but so many poses you can use.  Charles Schultz added so much to our culture with his few panels in the newspaper each day.  Amazing what can be done with paper and ink!  Think what can be done with paper, ink and PUNCHES!!!!!!

Here is Snoopy in a familiar locale with a familiar friend.

Not a full tutorial but here is a photo of snoopy in work to aid you in making him
Head and neck - butterfly punch
collar - slot
hind legs - heart to heart
body - circle 1.25 (I think)

You can see where I drew and cut Linus's blanket on the blue scrap paper.

NOTE: I took this photo before adding the arms - the arm is the small my way arrow and the paw is flower trio trimmed down to three 'fingers'

Woodstock was a Bo Ho blossom flower - trimmed for head

Smallest in heart to heart cut in half - one half body and one half tail - I snipped straight at the end of the tail

For his feet I snipped in two 'V' shapes in the end of a slot punch - then attached it behind Woodstock, folding the "toes" around to the front.  This is some tiny little punch art - I think it would be easier to draw him!

My Sweet Baboo

Y'all must have figured out how this works by now - one punch project leads to an idea for another...

After the little girl dragged her blanket yesterday, how could I not punch Linus hugging his for today?

Head  - 1.75 circle - blush blossom trimmed on the left side with scissors
Ear - word window - blush blossom
Neck - word window - blush blossom
Body - 1.75 circle - red stamped with Solid Stripes in basic gray - piece of 1.75 circle in black for shorts (you can just barely see this between his shoes)
Shoes - 3/4 inch circle  - close to cocoa, trimmed straight on each side - pen markings on sole and sponging
Arms - small oval - blush blossom re-punched with 1 inch circle to shorten
Hands - scallop oval repunched with 1/2 inch circle - blush blossom - slot punch thumb added
Eyes and nose from standard hole punch
Hair - photo corner - offset and repunched over and over to get thin strips with the bend in them
Blanket - free hand - I drew it first with pencil then cut it out.

Add Sally to this, have her talking about her 'sweet baboo' and you have a valentine card!

Jill Shover has done several peanuts characters (including Sally) that you should go look at.  Her Linus is different than mine. Make sure you scroll down to see them all. Her Lucy is fabulous!

Book of He - Love your Uniform

I don't have to feel guilty about showing you punch addicts my scrapbooking - if I make it the second post of the day....  And I really am trying to get my scrapbook groove going again.  It was my love long before cards and punch art consumed me.

I did this for a challenge on yet another scrapbook challenge group I joined.  The challenge was to scrapbook about your "significant other" and use the word 'love' in the title.  Pretty good challenge for the month of February right?

Well, my hubby isn't that fond of having his photo taken (although he is a terribly handsome fella) so a BOOK OF HE will have to be very creative. 

I really like the way this turned out.

I journaled on a transparency - new for me and attached it with some fabulous clips that SU sells.  You probably can't read what I wrote- so you don't have to strain yourselves to figure out what I could possibly write about my hubby's closet, here it is:

Starched shirt, suit and tie - it has been the 'uniform' for over 30 years and comes off within moments of arriving home.  This is a big loss for me, because you look so FINE with it on.  Yeah, I know you look fine all the time... but I love those days when we have a meeting or award program for the girls and you don't have time to change.  I like to be seen with my own personal GQ guy.