Bird Punch Halloween Ghosts

Here is my Halloween card that I made ghosts using the bird punch! The large ghosts use the body from the bird and the baby ghost uses the wing from the bird punch. The background of the card is made by lining up the punched bats out of black card stock on Pumpkin Pie card stock.

Owl Card Challenge Winner!

The winner of the Owl Card Challenge is Dawn Pritchard from The Inkedstamper blog!

She made this great Halloween banner using the template for the Owl Purse & Cards Tutorial.
I love how she is thinking outside of the box and so creative. Check out her blog HERE and leave her a comment on her great projects!
Dawn, let me know which tutorial you would like for FREE and I will also credit you back the cost of the Owls Tutorial! Congratulations!
Also, thank you to everyone else who participated in the challenge. All of the projects were great, it was a tough choice!
You can see all of the other entries HERE!

Owl Cards Addition

Here is my Owl Cards Addition Class!

This project has the same card template as the Owl Purse & Cards (except no template for the purse) with all new outfits!
This tutorial includes templates for all of the outfits shown here as well as templates to make the baby owls that I have previously posted pictures of on my site!
These would be great invitations for a Halloween party or for scrapbooking the photos afterwards. I thought the cheerleader would be perfect during football season as an invite to a watch game or for a Superbowl party! You can change up the outfit for any team!
( My husband is a Jets fan, can you tell?)

To see more details or purchase the tutorial
CLICK HERE!

Last Day to get the French Foliage Card Kit!

Today is the last day that I will be offering the French Foliage Card Class as a kit! After this you will still be able to get the tutorial but not the full kit with all of the pieces.

CLICK HERE for all the details!

Scallop Circle Roses

I saw how to make these little roses on the Creating Cards with Andrea blog and I loved them! She said she used the scallop circle punch to do hers so I tried it with all the sizes of scallop circles that SU has. They came out so great!

I used the small Scallop circle punch with the 1" circle punch for the middle, the new larger scallop circle punch and just cut out the center circle and then also the Scallop Circle die and #2 die for the Big Shot(where I also cut out the center circles by hand). They all come out different size roses and work so well together! I glued them all on scrap paper and then cut the bottoms once they were dry.

I used Pink Pirouette card stock and Regal Rose ink to sponge the edges for the roses. I used Wild Wasabi card stock for the leaves using the 5 Petal Punch and sponged the edges with Old Olive.

This is how my frame started out. I got it at the dollar store! I ripped out the back and took the butterfly board off so I could move it over.

Here is the scallop circle with the center gone being rolled up and then glued on the 1/2" punched circle. I cut the center out of the 5 petal punch to make the leaves and wrapped it around the base.

Here is one of the completed flowers and the inside of the frame after I finished with it. I used Very Vanilla card stock to cover the frame pieces and sponged them with Crumb Cake ink to age them. I printed the picture and ripped the edges and sponged them also.

I love these little flowers, they are gorgeous!

Ice Cream Cone Card

Here is the ice cream cone card that we made as a make-n-take at out last GMS Meeting. As promised, here are the directions to make it!

The cone for this card is made out of the scallop square die for the Big Shot cut out of Crumb Cake card stock. We put it through the lattice embossing folder inking one side with Espresso ink to get the pattern on it. If you look at the picture on the right you will see that it is folded from the bottom corner and up at an angle to the fourth scallop in on the top side. Do this to both sides. You will just have to measure the angle to see what size your white paper should be. The ice cream scoops are the new large scallop circle punch put through the embossing folder to get the pattern. The scoops are put on with Dimensionals.

I made this card as a make-n-take at a stamping meeting but it was originally from some one else's blog. If this was your creation, let me know and I will give you credit!

Halloween Decoration Banner!

I just had to post this great project that Dawn Pritchard did using my Owl Purse & Card Template! I love this! Each one of these guys is the full purse size using the template for the owl purse, so about 8" tall each!
So great, I love the bat really big and can't wait to make some with my kids!!

This is the original picture for the project.
CLICK HERE to find out more details about this project!

Honey Pot & Cookie Jar Cards

I just wanted to share the photo that Christiane Boyer sent me. She used my Honey Pot & Cookie Jar template to make this card. But check out what she did for the envelope!! I love it! Thanks so much for sharing with me Christiane, I love when you guys send me photos of what you have done with my tutorials. They always get better and better!

CLICK HERE to see the details for this tutorial!

September Green Mtn. Stampers Meeting

We had another great Green Mountain Stamper's meeting this past Saturday under my upline Jennifer Heffernan in Addison, Vermont. We have swaps and demonstrations and some of the ladies bring in samples of their work to share. Jen also so wonderfully prepares 3 make-n-takes for us to do each meeting that are always great! Everyone brings some sort of good snack to eat so we have a table of snacks and drinks too.

This is a great group to be a part of! If you are interested in becoming a demonstrator and joining this great group, CLICK HERE for all of the details! You do not need to live close by! You can still participate by doing a long distance swap and Jen sends out an email after the meetings giving us a rundown of what went on and everything that was demonstrated!

I do have to say that this is a group of GREAT ladies!

Here are only some of the swaps that I got... there are too many to show them all so I try to rotate people each month!

Swap by: Gwen Landis

Swap by: Jennifer Heffernan


Swap by: Heather Seeley


Swap by: Sharon Tisdale


Swap by: Tonya Ditzler
(I will be doing a post on this soon to give directions!)


These are the three make-n-takes that we did:



(I will be doing a post on this soon to give directions!)





And here are the demonstrations that we saw:
( I will also be doing posts on these this week to give directions!)
Demo by Carmen Jochum


Demo by Jennifer Heffernan

Thanks again ladies for another great meeting!

FREE Downline Gifts This Month!

I just thought I would share what I'm sending out to my downline this month!

I made each of them a color coach except I used real paper so the colors will match exactly. All the papers are labeled and sorted by color family! This is a great tool when you are designing a card so you can see what colors go good together before you start!

They are also getting the tutorial and all the cut, scored and punched pieces of cardstock and all the accessories they need to make my French Foliage Class! Thats all the materials for all three cards and the box!

Would you like to get a full FREE card kit each month as well as another FREE tutorial of your choice?
Join my team and you get both every month plus extra gifts!

CLICK HERE for all of the details!

If you join this month you also get this bag for free!

Santa Claus Owl Punch

Here is my Santa Claus Owl card!
The hat and the stockings on the fireplace are from the Jolly Bingo Bits stamp set and the sentiment is from the Just Believe stamp set. The logs are made with the word window punch using Crumb Cake and Chocolate Chip paper, the grate is cut by hand. The firepalce is made from Crumb Cake and Cajun Craze card stock sponged with Crumb Cake ink.

Don't forget enter your own Owl Cards into the challenge to win TWO FREE templates!
CLICK HERE for the details!
You only have 5 days left to enter!

Halloween Punch Three Card Class

Here is my Halloween Punch Three Card Class! Hope you like my cute spooky bats and surprised skeleton!

CLICK HERE
for more details and to purchase this tutorial!

The skeleton card also fits in my Coffin Box Project!

CLICK HERE
for more details for this project!

Owl Farmer - Loads of Love Card

Here is my Farmer Owl card! My sentiment is from the Loads of Love stamp set and I used the Decorative, Curly and Modern Label Punches to highlight it. The white is punched out of the curly label and the then I taped it to blue paper and just cut the border around it with scissors.
I made the hat and boots the same way I did my SHERIFF OWL and the overalls I just cut freehand.

Don't forget enter your own Owl Cards into the challenge to win TWO FREE templates!
CLICK HERE for the details!