Some non-traditional uses for punches

Tonight I thought I'd feature some cards that used punches in non-traditional ways.

This one uses the Ornament Punch that was available in the Holiday mini-catalog. I don't know if this punch can still be ordered, but I'll bet it will be in the Idea Book and Catalog that gets released in July.

How could they NOT include it? It's such an adapable punch.

You may recall I used it to make angels and choir people in this post.

The designer simply cut off the bottom of the punch and now it looks like a vase! Clever, eh?


This vase was made using the large oval punch. Again, a small part of the bottom was cut off square, and then a small chunk of the top was lopped off.

This is another of those simple cards that always appeal to me.




And here's a very non-traditional use of punches!

Isn't he cute?

His face is the heart punch, wit the tip cut off, then turned upside down!

Circle punches form his ears, his eye spot, and his dog tags. And his collar is a scrap of Real Red punched with the 1/8" punch.







Hope you enjoyed these card shares. If you ever have questions about how something's been made, be sure to leave me a comment, along with your email address, and I'll be happy to try and answer it.

Thanks for stopping by!

Ornament Angels

The other day I was blog-hopping and found the cutest little angel ornaments on Sandi MacIver's blog!

She made them out of the Ornament punch, and I thought - these are just perfect for my Stamp Club ladies! They seem to like it when I show them new ways to use their punches.

And I was looking for something new for them to do. So, they made them and loved them!

One of the gals put on her thinking cap and turned her angel into a choir person!

Look!
Here' s the front - she even gave her a hymnal!


















And here's the back, just so you can see how she attached the skirt:


















I was so glad I'd taken a photo of hers, because, truthfully, I had to look at this photo a number of times in order to duplicate what she'd done later that night.

Here's a photo of the choir person I made. You'll notice I wasn't able to exactly duplicate what Linda had done, but I'm happy with it!


















And, finally, a photo of my whole choir:














The wings are made from vellum which was gold embossed with the Sassy Sparkles jumbo wheel from the Holiday mini-catalog. Some of the bodies were made using pieces punched from paper that used the Petals A Plenty embossing folder, other were just punched from regular CS. They look good both ways, doncha think?

Hope you enjoyed these little angels - do they make you want to try some for yourself?