I have several of these little ornament albums hanging in my tree. Just slide the lid up the string to reveal the photo album inside. I add a little tag with the year, jounaling and some photos of some of the year's highlights. They're fun to look at each Christmas.
I also make a pink or blue version as a gift for "Baby's first Christmas. You can download the instructions here
This was my first chance to play with my sweet treat cups. To make the gingerbread man I traced the shape from a cookie cutter. The card ended up being a little top heavy so I made some 3D cardstock gifts at the bottom of the card for support. Next time I'll fold my card at the top instead of the side.
My Little Piggy card was made with SU punches and some Designer Series Paper.
I've seen a lot of requests lately for easy Christmas tree patterns. One of my favorites is the origami trees pictured on page 161 in the Stampin' Up cataloque. Here's a tutorial for an Origami Tree
Below are a couple more easy trees made with the pop up Tree die. For the first tree I used just the 2 largest pieces and tied on some elastic cord after stringing it with 1/2" circles. The other tree is made using the large tree shape from the die as a pattern. Trace 4 trees, fold them in half and glue them together.
This was another card made with the table setting die.I folded the napkin ring in half to form the card. For the skirt I punched out 10 scallop ovals and attached them to the front and back so the card would stand up. The collar is made with the scallop circle and the 1" punch. On the inside I used the tag from the table setting die folded in half to hide the edges of the scallop ovals.
Here are my punch poodles. I used Tempting Turquoise, White Naturals cardstock and Flock Together DSP.
I used faux snow made with SU products for the fur (Watch for a tutorial in the near future).
Punches: head fur-scallop oval, ears-small oval, face-full heart, nose & eyes-crop-o-dile, neck-word window, collar-1/2" & 3/4" circle, body-scallop circle, legs-modern label,leg fluff-trio flower, baby-heart to heart & trio flower, bone-modern label (trimmed), bowl-wide oval & small oval.
I've always liked the cards with a half cut shape. Now with the Mover's and Shapers die I can make my own. You can find the tutorial here
I just realized I never posted the instructions for this quick and easy card box. Cut a piece of DSP 10" wide x 12" high. Score length wise @ 2" & 8". Score width wise @ 5" & 7". Cut the two horizontal score lines up to the vertical score lines and fold your box up to assemble. To make the flap, score a 6" x 6" piece of cardstock @ 1" & 3". Attach the 1" piece to the back of your card box.
Here's a sample I made with some old sale-a-bration paper. I cut the swirl shape on the lid free hand. I ran the lid through my big shot using the polk-a-dot texture plate before attaching it to the box.
Here's another punch art card. I couldn't resist adding the Little Mrs.
I used Many Mower and Doodle This stamp sets, my coluzzle and some punches; wide oval, large oval, scallop oval, hearts, 5 petal, boho blossoms, photo corners, 1 1/4" circle, word window, scallop circle and scallop edge.
This is an old project I made last year with the Loonies for Littles kit. There's 5x5 on board journal and an explosion box. One of my customers asked for the pattern for the explosion box so here's the link.
http://jackietopa.typepad.com/Loonies.pdf
Here is an Easter Side Step Card made with the Sale-a-bration paper and ribbon bundle. See the photo below for a side view. It opens like a regular card so you can stamp your sentiment on the inside. It's pretty easy to make. Here is the tutorial.
Punch Bunny
Ears-small & large ovals (cross them at top and cut tips where they meet)
Head & Body-1-3/4” circle
Eyes-small oval, ½” circle, ¼” circle
Cheeks-3/4” circle
Nose-heart to heart
Hands-large oval (folded and trimmed on top)
Feet-large oval (trimmed flat on bottom)
Eggs-wide oval
Stamp Sets: A Good Egg
SAB Ribbon and DSP
CS: Celery, Whisper White, Pretty in Pink
