Cutting with Punches

One of the easiest ways to add dimension to your cards is with punches.  These little guys can create shapes, cut corners, add holes, and do just about anything but the dishes...



Tools Needed for this project:

• Paper Trimmer
• Scissors
• Adhesive
• Simple Card Base & Envelope
• Patterned paper (cut to 5 1/4 by 4 inches)
• Red Layering cardstock (cut to 1 inch by 5 1/4)
• Smaller piece of white cardstock (around 3x3)
• Even smaller peice of white cardstock (around 3x1)
• Ribbon
• Image Stamp
• Sentiment Stamp
• Black ink
• Markers or other coloring product
• Label and corner punches

Step 1: Adhere your red layering cardstock to the left-hand side of the patterened paper.




Step 2: Now stick the ribbon down on the cardstock - covering up the seam between the red cardstock and the patterened paper.




Step 3: Adhere the paper layers to the base of your card.  It's already pretty, isn't it?




Step 4: Set your carstock layers aside and ink up the stamp image.  This lovely lady is from the Stamping Bella line.  




Step 5: Gently press the inked image onto your piece of 3x3 white cardstock.  

What you can't see from this picture is where I dropped the stamp onto the cardstock, leaving a nice triple-image on the paper.  I just turned the paper over and tried again.  Always keep in mind that there's two sides to paper!




Step 6: Using a corner punch, round the corners of the white cardstock.  If you end up with any little rough edges, you can always use a piece of sandpaper to smooth them down.




Step 7: Color in the image.  I used markers here - I tend to like the look of markers better when I want a vibrant image.



Step 8: Ink up your sentiment with black ink and stamp it gently on the smaller piece of white cardstock.  



Step 9: Push the stamped cardstock through a label punch, similar to this one which is from Stampin' Up!  I promise the punch is not as blurry in person as it appears in this photograph.  



Step 10: Adhere your punched sentiment to the patterned paper. I have a thing for my sentiments being in the lower right-hand corner.  I can't explain why - it just is the way it is.



And here's the final product!  I just love the way the punches add an element of interest to cards - it's so polished looking in my opinion.  A quick and simple way to jazz up your cards.




 

 

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