Wednesday, March 17, 2010

That little devil....

This really wasn't in my plan (like I have a plan!) until Migdalia mentioned it on a comment yesterday.  Girls are sleeping in this morning so I grabbed some desk time and....
I know there are some darling children who will wind up with this on a scrapbook page

The Taz 'lesson' will be in photos.
I added text where I thought you might need explanation.
Click on photos to make them larger.







Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Wascally Wabbit Hunter

Take a series of Looney Tunes characters, add in the mention of duck hunter on the Daffy post and you had to know this would be coming.  I give you....
Elmer Fudd - Hunter of Wascally Wabbits

Here is the how to:
Hat - 1.75 circle, 2 small ovals - one trimmed
Head  - 1.75 circle trimmed on each side, word window for ears and neck, face drawn on
Hunting Jacket - wide oval for body snipped with star for neckline and shorted with wide oval the other direction
1.75 circle piece back collar
wide heart to heart next to wide heart to heart hole for front collar
half of  1 inch circle for jacket bottom
half of .75 inch circle for jacket bottom
Belt - strip of wide oval
arms - wide heart to heart, word window
legs - small ovals trimmed and rounded at ankles by poking into 1/2 circle punch
boots - wide heart to heart
hands - modern label trimmed with 1/2 circle


Rifle: modern label trimmed, word window pieces, standard hole punch, 1/2 inch circle around small heart to heart hole - trim flat (sorry, I forgot to take a photo of rifle in work)

Monday, March 15, 2010

Help Finding Animals

Barbara Diane (faithful reader and commenter) pointed out that I had punched about 50 animals to date. 

I realized it might be hard for you all to find what you need (since I tend to blather with most posts).

Because I love you, I decided to make a little summary.  Click on the critter you are looking for and it will magically take you to that post!

I split the list into Birds and Not Birds (who knew I liked birds this much? - not me - until I saw this list)

This post will be kept current as I add new animals and critters. If you find a bad link please let me know. Thanks, Ellen.



Birds
Bird
Cardinal
Cardinals (tiny)
Chicken
Chicken (in pot pie)
Crow
Crow in glasses
Daffy Duck
Donald Duck
Duck with Umbrella
Dressed in winter gear
Flamingo
French Hens (3)
Goose (Mother Goose)
Hummingbird
Nurse Owl
Ostrich
Owl (scroll to bottom of post)
Pelican
Penquin
Penguin dancing
Penquin in top hat
Penguin walking on "icebergs"
Realistic Birds (guest puncher)
Road Runner
Rooster
Rubber Duck
Spring Chicken (playing baseball)
Stork Head
Trick or Treating
Turkey
Another Turkey
Tropical Bird
Tweety
Woodstock


Not Birds
Barney - purple dinosaur
Bear - Yogi
Bear - Pooh
Bookworm
Bunny (Bugs look alike)
Camel
Cat face
Cat - holding wine glass
Cat (fat)
Cat (Garfield)
Cat (Felix)
Cat in the Hat
Chipmunks
Cow
Coyote
Dog - Holding something in mouth
Dog - Big Face Mutt
Dog - Dachshund
Dog - Dachshund on a bun
Dog - Droopy
Dog - Hound Dog crying all the time
Dog - Lhasa Apso puppy
Dog - Max (from Grinch)
Dog - Odie
Dog - puppy - first punch project
Dog - Scooby Doo
Dog - Simple puppy
Dog - Snoopy
Dog - Another Snoopy
Dog - Schanauzer/Terrier
Dog - (swap eating)
Dog - With glasses
Dog - Underdog
Dog - Bull dog
Donkey
Donkey - Eeyore
Dragon
Elephant
Fish
Frogs
Frog - Fat
Giraffe
Goat
Ground Hog
Another Ground Hog
Horse
Inchworm
Jellyfish
Longhorn
Mice - Albert Micestein
Mice - Bride and Groom
Mice - Cooking (stirring)
Mice - Elvis
Mice - Pilgrim
Mice - Santa
Mice - Skiing (mouse tutorial here)
Monkeys
Moose
Owl as Chef
Panda
Panther (Pink Panther)
Pig
Pig (in a dress)
Pig (Piglet)
Polar Bear
Polar Bear holding gift
Polar Bear relaxing
Rabbit (from Pooh)
Rabbit - Wiry White Hare
Reindeer
Reindeer on skates
Another Reindeer
Shark
Squirrel (kinda)
Taz
THING 2
Tigger and Tigger
Turtle
Another Turtle

Another Duck

You probably guessed this would happen today.  When you do one famous duck, how can you not do the other?  We want to keep this fair, right?

Donald has loads of  'poses' to choose from, and I almost did an "angry" duck because it was funny but I thought you'd be more likely to use him if he was in a happy mood:

Here is the 'in process' photo:

One eye is small ovals and 1/2 width word window
The other is large ovals and word window
For the hat - trim your wide oval into a "bean" shape (well, that is what it looks like to me - a blue bean)
I think you can see the rest.

And here is a comparison of outlining your pieces with a black marker versus leaving them plain

I did not outline the beak because I didn't want to draw attention to the "seams" of the punch pieces.
And I didn't outline the entire way around the smaller white eye oval
(Actually I did and then rejected it and had to make another)

Sunday, March 14, 2010

Daffy

OK, he isn't as tiny and cute as Tweety but while I was on a Looney Tunes theme...

I have no clue how you would use him - maybe if you know a duck hunter?
I took several photos to show the "how to"
Eyes
two large ovals in black
two large ovals in white
two piece of black oval (see photo)
adhere the black "pieces" over the whites
top of head - wide oval
add while lines at top of eyelids with gel pen (see final duck photo)
trim 1/2 circles to small oval shape (they aren't trimmed yet in the above photo)

Beak: 

  • start with 2 3/4 square

  • cut in half diagonally
  • round bottom corners by sticking as far as it will go into the hole of the 1/2 inch circle
  • snip twice with small oval at top
  • cut by hand on the bottom to give slight curve
  • outline edges in black,add curved line and two nostrils

Bottom of beak  - full heart  
Inside of beak - full heart (trimmed straight on each side)
Side of beak - large ovals
Neck - modern label
Top feathers (see finished photo) curves from punching oval close to oval hole (3X)

In Assembly:
And again - the finished Duck
Isn't he just "desthpicable"?

Saturday, March 13, 2010

I Tawt I Taw a Tweety Pie!

So punch fans, this is one I have wanted to make for a long time - I am surprised it has not been requested.  And this is as close to an Easter chick as I'm coming. 
I decided the correct label for my malady is not Springtime Scrooge.  I'm ready for spring weather (and Spring Break!)  I'm just not "hopping down the bunny trail" this year, so using the correct terminology - my title would be: Ellen, Easter Ebeneezer.

Here is the 'how to' photo and punch info for this little tweety pie:
Head - 1.75 circle
Body & Tail - large oval trimmed as shown in photo - save trimmed out part as tail
Arms - oval ring from large oval punched around small oval hole
Cheeks - small oval snipped in a little (snip isn't shown in the above photo - look at the card)
Beak - tip of small oval
White of eye - word window
blue of eye - part of small heart to heart - see photo for part to cut off
feet - full heart - trim out "pie" shape as shown in photo

Go around the edges of each piece with a black marker.  Draw on eye blacks, eyelashes, eyebrows and toe line.

Spring Break is upon us here in North Texas, so this coming week my posts may be spotty - College girl will be home at least part of the week and hubby gets home from Paris today so I may not have much desk time.


Doesn't it look like Tweety is hiding something behind his back?  Whistling nonchalantly, hoping you won't notice?

Yes, I had to spell check nonchalantly.  I'm pretty sure that is the first time I have ever typed that word.

I'll post when I can.  Have a great weekend!

Friday, March 12, 2010

Ellenized Easter Bunny

Everywhere you look you see Easter stuff.  Baskets and chicks and bunnies and lambs - Spring is in the Air - blah blah blah... 

I must be the Springtime Scrooge because I'm just not feeling it.  I guess when your kids grow up the bunny stuff loses its fun.

Besides not being into the Easter Bunny thing this year - I am also NOT into pastel colors.  I rarely do purple and if I do pink it is probably with brown or black.  Except for baby themes, I don't craft with pastel colors. I don't wear them.  I don't decorate my house with them.  Not my thing.

But in honor of Easter, I did make a bunny for you - please consider this an Ellenized Easter Bunny because it is the only bunny I'm "into" right now.

The base of his head is an approx 3 inch circle trimmed by hand.    I snipped some "fur" or "hair" at the top with scissors. (see photo below)
Ears - large ovals
Pink of ears - full heart trimmed
Eyes - small ovals (gray and white), word window
Cheeks - wide ovals
Chin - 1 inch circle
Mouth - 1/2 wide oval - trimmed to narrow on each side
teeth - scrap rectangle
above teeth - curly label hole punched with 3/4 inch circle (see yesterdays lips for photo)
Nose - tip of small oval

Drew two back lines above his nose and one line on his teeth.

You can get almost the same base from punches - see the photo below. Most of the "seams" and all the of the "missing parts" will be covered by other punches.


I was showing Kiddo this project and she made an addition.  (I think she loves the bunny!)

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Happy Accident

I was worried about you.

I was worried that you might be suffering without your daily punch fix.

I decided to give you a tiny punch idea to hold you thru the layout share until punching returns tomorrow.

You would have to suffer without this if I hadn't had a happy accident this morning. 

Happy accident doesn't mean I crashed into a car full of clowns,  it means I spied a shape amongst my punch droppings (sounds disgusting, huh?)

I was punching away - struggling, trying every combination of odd things to create a piece of a character when I stumbled on a shape I think you will like.

Lips!

I know we have passed Valentines, but you can always leave a love note for your kids or sweet thing can't you?

Problem:  If you don't LOVE punches you might not have the curly label punch.  But if you don't love punches, why would you keep reading this blog? - so never-mind, I'm sure you can all make these lips today.


I used the HOLE from the curly label then punched a 1 inch circle around the hole.  1.25 circle looks good too - you get a little wider mouth.  You can get fuller lips by pushing your punch 'in' further.

Easy!  And you never know when you might need to leave a little kiss.

Now go make something cute with lips on it - and come back tomorrow for a new punch project.

Scrap the Art - Scrapping Usher

I am loving Scrapping the Art's challenges.  For one, they are fun.  Two, they are challenging to me.  And three, I am giving myself a tiny bit of art education when I research the featured piece.

The current challenge inspiration at Scrap the Art is Daybreak by Joan Miro - a Spanish artist. I suspect most of the entries will be inspired by the colors - how could they not be?  I followed the links to the first few entries - They are WOW cards! Wow Wow Wow. 

I will, however, stick to trying to use the art to inspire my scrapbooking.  (Sorry punch fans - but you can't have copied EVERYTHING I've shown you - you can live without a punch project today.)

Here's what I came up with:


The yellow in the inspiration piece made me immediately think of this photo from the stage of the NBA All Star game last month. The burst of light around Usher as he takes the stage is even a little reminiscent of the star-burst in the art piece. I also used the colors, the thin black lines, a diagonal feature and the black dots. I decided there was enough red in the photos and that red paper would be distracting from the story I was telling so I didn't add any.

Don't get all jealous - these photos look like we had FANTABULOUS seats - and while our seats were good they weren't on the floor.  These photos are courtesy of Jerry Jone's SIXTY YARD WIDE BIG SCREEN in his fantabulous new football stadium.  I mean that baby is HUGE. 
(Fantabulous = fantastic plus fabulous)

The journaling is in black on the blue paper - hard to read in the photo so here it is if you're interested:

The NBA All-Star game was in town this year – on Valentine’s Day. Randy and Scott decided it was the place to be, so they made it a ‘couples’ evening instead of inviting some of the guys to go with them to the game.


While neither Jan nor I would have picked a basketball game as our Valentine’s entertainment, we had a REALLY fun time- dinner at Mariano’s, of course, and then the game.

All I knew going in were the names of a few of the players that no doubt would be there – and which Mavericks had made the All Star team. No clue about anything else that would go on.

I was thrilled when Usher was the opening entertainment. While I am too old and uptight to “approve” of some of his song lyrics, I am not DEAD. This guy is young and Hot and talented and Hot and energetic and Hot.


And did I mention…? HOT!

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Wrestler

I have lost track of all the emails requesting a punched wrestler.  I know there have been at least four and I didn't offer these ladies much hope - I really didn't expect to ever figure this one out.

I understand the need for wrestling items. College girl went to her high school homecoming with a wrestler during her Senior year - and down here, in the 'Land of Football', homecoming mums for the girls are the size of basketballs and are approximately the same weight as a large dictionary - personalized with names of the couple and their activities.  The boys wear normal size mums on garters on their arms but they still have to have lots of ribbons and 'stuff' dangling down.

I had to create a mum for this kid (a wrestler) and searched high and low for wrestling items to put on it. Wound up focusing on his other interests because marketers have not yet realized the needs of those who love high school wrestlers.

This probably won't help you with your football floral needs, but might help you with scrapbooks and cards...



These parts are almost the same as Spider-man:
Body - full heart with wide oval at shoulders
Arms - large oval, small ovals
Hands - modern label shortened by small oval - slot thumbs
Legs - large oval, small oval
Boot - Full heart trimmed (heck, I cut so much you might as well just free hand them)

Changes to make him a wrestler:
I switched the upper arms to small ovals (high school - not quite as MANLY yet)
made the boots shorter
gave him a shirt - wide oval punched with small oval for neck and arm holes
gave him shorts  - large oval trimmed over the flesh colored large oval
gave him  - two slot thumbs with fist position (no need for spider webs coming out)
gave him - Stefen Brock (male demo) head
(Stefan didn't know what he started when he sent me that photo and request)

If you aren't a regular reader - the Stefen head is the ornament punch, scallop oval trimmed with star point for hair,word window ears, slot eyebrows, standard hole punch eyes, 1/2 circle trimmed nose, word window neck

You can add wrestling headgear if you want accuracy - but I decided he looks better without it.

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Super Stuff

When I think "SUPER" it is usually with "size" and drive-thru and Diet Coke.

But, Chris Riehl, a newer reader, needs a Super Hero for her great nephew. I'm a sucker for little kids plus I love requests that aren't TOO specific.  The Inspiration Fairy works best with a little "wiggle room".

I googled "super heroes" and the Spiderman pose looked the most do-able.  I didn't draw on the web lines but I think the shapes came out pretty accurate.  So here ya go...


EDIT:  Try faux alligator for your "fabric" web lines - see Kris's post HERE
Spidy How To:
Head - wide oval inserted into 1 3/8 circle to snip off just a bit - turn punch upside down - you are inserting just the end of the wide oval through the circle opening and just catching the end in the punch to snip off - attached to body on dimensionals
Eyes - wing from Two Step Bird
Body - full heart with wide oval at shoulders
Arms - large oval, small oval
Hands - modern label shortened by small oval - one hand has slot thumb
Legs - large oval, small oval
Boot - Full heart trimmed (heck, I cut so much you might as well just free hand them)

Notice the hand with the thumb is positioned wrist up - so he can shoot out his web.  I may not read comic books but I saw the movie - I know a few details. 

This is the first hand I have ever been really really happy with.  Modern label may show up as hands in future characters.  I like it!

THEN I realized I could use old spidy as a base for a request I have gotten multiple times.  This is gonna make several ladies happy, but you have to come back for my next post to see what one of my top requested punch art charcters might be.

Monday, March 8, 2010

Wilma! (stretch that out for about 8 seconds)

Remember the end of the Flintstones?  Fred puts the "cat" out and gets locked outside and yells Wilma (3 syllables of Wiii - lllllll - maaaaa!) 


Hee hee, making old Fred has brought back so many memories from that show.  And it reminded me of eating Butter and Jelly sandwiches while I watched.  Actually it was margarine.  And it was Welch's grape jelly.  And it was Mrs. Baird's white bread.  Not exactly nutritious but my favorite early childhood meal. 

Since lots of you commented and emailed that Fred brought back memories I thought I'd give you this easier project. It is almost all circles and ovals - surely you have those?!?


Head - wide oval
Side and top hair - small oval  (I trimmed the side ones straight along her face)
Bangs hair - large oval
Necklace - 1/2 inch circle
Neck - modern label (could just use scrap)
Mouth - tip of small oval in red - piece of standard hole punch in white on top of that.

Draw on your face and hair details following my sample.  Easy!

I'll be sending this to a dear friend - seems like the "Stone Age" since I've seen her.

Sunday, March 7, 2010

Yabba Dabba Doo!

After working on all those lady bowlers on Friday, I was inspired to punch one of America's most famous bowlers.

It might be safe to say this is one of the WORLD'S most famous bowlers, just standing here, admiring his bowling ball...


I really wanted to do Fred's "twinkle- toes" pose but feet are almost as HARD to do as hands.

I have so many memories from the old Flintstones show (1960s).  It used to come on television on Friday nights.  Friday was the night my dad regularly worked late at the bank, so my brother and I got to eat on TV trays in the den and watch black and white TV while we ate!  That was a big treat and I really looked forward to it.

Have a need to make Fred Flintstone?  Here is punch list and a photo:

Head - key tag (retired) can get the same thing from a rectangle rounding the corners (approx 1x2 inches)
Beard area - 1 3/8 circle trimmed flat on one side
Nose - wing from two step bird - trimmed just a tiny bit off the pointed end
Hair - small oval trimmed, part of boho blossom
Eyes - heart to heart, standard hole punch'
Clothing - 2 x 1,75 rectangle snipped with large star point at bottom and sleeve openings
Tie - pieces of small oval, modern label, tip of word window
Spots - snipped triangles - use scissors
Arms - heart to heart, word window
Feet - 5 petal flower (trimmed)
Bowling ball - circle, standard hole punch

I wound up drawing his mouth - I tried punching (see the don't need item in the photo) but never could get it right - so grabbed a marker and took care of business - added his ear and eyebrows this way too.


I'll use "my" Fred on a scrapbook page in my BOM (book of me)

Yabba Dabba Doo!

Saturday, March 6, 2010

Old School Teacher

Teachers love to hear the pitter patter of little feet


... going out to recess.



Did I hear someone say "Amen"?


See Dick Run.

See Jane Run.

See Ellen teach you how to make the teacher.


Head - word window shortened by re-punching
Nose - point of middle arrow My Way
Hair - piece of ornament
Glasses/eye - NON SU oval punch from my stash, scrap strip
Neck - small My Way
collar - small Heart to Heart
top - small oval
sleeves - square punch offset from square hole
skirt - large oval, snipped with scallop square
feet - 5 petal flower trimmed
hand - slot
ruler - scrap strip

Class Dismissed before that mean old teacher whacks me for all the grammatical errors in my posts!


Friday, March 5, 2010

Third Lady Bowler

Just so you'll have a "spare" ...(groan)
So happy to have my beloved ornament punch back in the current punch drawer! 

I'm loving trying punch characters in ACTION poses!

Would you like to know the punches I used to make this big boob bee-hive bowler?

Eh?

What?

I couldn't hear what you said with the noise of pins crashing in the bowling alley.  I'll assume you said "yes"...

Hair - wide oval bee hive, 1.75 circle bangs - cut then snipped with small star
Head band - 1.75 circle offset from 1.75 hole
Head - beloved ornament
Ears - word window
Earrings - standard hole punch around smallest crop-a-dile hole
Eyes - small heart, standard hole punch - make sure white is showing around the black if you want the "surprised" happy look
Nose - standard hole punch
Mouth - small oval offset from large oval hole
Tongue - small oval punched with heart to heart
Neck - word window
Chest - small oval
Shirt - butterfly, wide oval trimmed flat at bottom
Sleeves - small ovals
Her right arm (your left) word window, flower trio (trimmed)
Her left arm (your right) wide heart to heart
Legs - large ovals trimmed flat at bottom
Ankles - medium arrow My Way Arrows
Socks - piece of word window
Shoes - piece of word window, slot punch stripes

And don't worry - there is no 4th Lady Bowler - that would have to have been a "rear" view and while it would be funny, I'm not going there.  Promise.

so tell me...
Which of the bowling ladies did you like best?

A) side view
or
B) semi-self portrait

Bowler B) is a semi-self portrait because it half (semi) looks like me
and
that chest is about the size of a Semi (truck)  - that is definitely the part that DOESN'T look like me.

or
C) front view

I'll have a poll for voting.

Poll results are in:
61% prefer the front view (in pink)
The other two bowlers were tied at 18% each
and one voter doesn't love any of them.
It is that famous lyric... "You can't please everyone so ya got to please yourself"
My fave was the fat lady.  She makes me grin EVERYTIME I look at her.

Lady Bowler "Strikes" Again

Lady Bowler "Strikes" Again!

Couldn't decide if she was a left or right handed bowler.

These photos are funnier than anything I could say.

Lady Bowler

Gail requested a bowler, male or female.  Since so many of my goofy characters are men (are men just naturally goofy?), I thought I'd try a woman bowler. 

The images I googled to see poses were just hysterical.  When I think about it, the pictures I have of me bowling are pretty funny too.
I am not sure I like the pocket I put on her pants - easy to leave off.
Here is a photo so you can see how I did the shoes

The rubber soles are the throw away part from the new Pinking Hearts Border.

The glasses are from the Scallop Trim - a Sale-a-bration punch - I will cry if this punch disappears after SAB because I just discovered it is PERFECT for glasses.  (You had better get it this month, just in case)  I added a little bling to them just because I could.

Head is circle trimmed at face.

See if you can figure out the rest.

Thursday, March 4, 2010

Rest of the Recipes

I am partial to punch art (well, duh) so, of course, my favorite of the recipe swap is from my upline, Jenifer Lange, because she designed these cute cute CUTE punched veggies:

Not exactly "Veggie Tales" but close.  I love them. 
Makes me want to sing "Oh, Where is my Hairbrush?" and "You are his Cheeseburger"

And here are the rest of the yummy recipes: 
(Click on photos to make larger)
Eileen Flannery:

Becky Adams:

Madeline Escareno (still trying to get her to join as a demo):

Sheila Garcia (former demo):

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Art Element

I have shown you my swaps for Hot Swappin Mamas before - and here is another one...

I signed up for the "chipboard" element.  Then I put it off and OOPS! -  I need to mail it today PRIORITY mail to get there on time.  No problem - just go to the catalog (mini catalog) for an idea - see what they did for Totally Tess  (cute frame thing), change the colors and a few details, make 10, hop in the car and head to the post office.  That is why Stampin' Up! calls it an IDEA book and catalog.  When you get stuck grab a catalog and copy an idea - they want you to!  That is why they show such cute stuff!

Of course I had to snap a couple of pictures just for you gals - cause it came out CUTE!

Please note that I used the border punch as intended.  I can do normal (occasionally).

Guest Puncher - Joan Hargrove

I almost used an idea from one of my readers for yesterday's soup  page.  Joan Hargrove sent me several (six to be exact) FABULOUS punch art projects that she says she was inspired to make because of moi.  (BIG GRIN here)

So what did Joan send that I could have used on the tortilla soup recipe? 

A soup pot?  No

A veggie conga line? a dancing tortilla?  No and no!

She send me Pastor Punch!  And she has already confessed that she got the idea during a sermon.

The only reason I didn't use this was that I found that video and KNEW Pastor Tom, of Pastor Tom's Tortilla Soup, didn't look like this.  But Pastor Punch is pretty darn clever.  Thanks Joan!  You did a great job. 

Oh, as long as I'm sharing Joan's cleverness, let me show you this one that goes with it.
Isn't she just fab?
Thanks Joan!

Tune in next time for more from the recipe swap - Ohhhhhh the girls did good this month!

"Tune in next time".... how many decades has it been since anyone (besides me) said that?

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Pastor Tom's Tortilla Soup

I don't personally know Pastor Tom (although he appears to be from Texas) but I L-U-V his soup. 

I stumbled upon this recipe a few years ago and have fixed it many times.  It is YUMMY! 

So, for this month's recipe swap with my upline and sidelines, I decided to use Pastor Tom's Tortilla Soup.


Here is a video I found of Pastor Tom making his soup.

And here is my recipe for making the bowl of soup from punches: 

Soup - small oval
Inside of bowl - large oval
Rim of bowl - oval ring from large oval punched around small oval hole
Bowl base - 1 3/8 circle punch
Soup Spoon- modern label punch angled against edge of paper so you only get 1 bump and a slant.
Steam - swirly stamp from Priceless
Hearts - Heart to Heart Punch

Assemble as follows:
small soup oval on top of the "inside of bowl" oval - matching bottom edges
rim oval on top of that
if using pattern paper you may have the paper's white core showing on the edge - go around with a marker to darken edge
add all this to the bowl base
Stamp "steam"
position soup bowl
top with "spoon"
garnish with 3 hearts

Enjoy!

Monday, March 1, 2010

Still being lazy

I'm still being lazy but at least I punched something this time (not original - a case)...
I cased this punch art from Brenda Ballesteros - just changing from a girl to a boy.  We had a craft sale for retired items this weekend and the local Karate Studio let us use their space.  Since I had spied this punch art last week, I volunteered to make the thank you card - we'll get Eileen (the glitter queen) to bake the cookies to go with it!

Thanks to Brenda for her timely share of her darling Karate Kid!

Lazy Blogger

I am a lazy blogger today -  I have several things in work but nothing finished so I'm just going to point you to some AWESOME punch art that you are going to FLIP over. 

Nicky Foden says seeing some of my stuff made her feel up to the challenge of punching Cinderella and then she was hooked.  Punch art will do that to you!

She doesn't have a blog, but she has shared on Splitcoaststampers.  Here are the links
Cinderella
Jasmine
Belle
Ariel
Sleeping Beauty

EDIT to add
SNOW WHITE

AMAZING huh?

And I know she has Snow White in work - so keep checking her splitcoast gallery.  You can put Snow White with the dwarfs!

Which one is your favorite?  I'm kinda partial to her Jasmine...