New England Stamper

Bird Cards with Scraps

Oh where oh where have I been?  Not to London to see the Queen!  I've just been busy with other projects.

Here are some more cards make with scraps.  I'm making great inroads into my collection of card stock scraps.  These cards are made with the same colors as the card in the previous post - tempting turquoise, so saffron and old olive with kraft as the base. 

I love this new bird punch or the 'Extra Large 2-step Bird' to give its official name.  What I don't love is using brads for the eyes - I think they look creepy.  I prefer the small black pearl in the final card - what do you think?

Hope you are all having a splendid week!

More Scraps

I'm still working on that pile of scraps!  Today's Splitcoast CAS challenge is to use patterned or designer paper in a clean and simple card.  So out came my scraps again and my 1" circle punch.  The paper I chose is called Flock Together and is on page 162 the current Idea Book & Catalog. 

The finished card measures 4.75" x 4.75" and the vanilla panel measures 4.5" x 4.5".  To line up the circles, I found the center of the vanilla panel by drawing lines from corner to corner.  I placed the turquoise circle in the center and eyeballed it from there. 

This would be a great layout to using up both card stock and patterned paper scraps.  You could use a larger circle punch and make the overall card bigger - it has lots of possibilities.

I love these colors together, they look so fresh!  I'll be posting a few more cards using this combo in the coming days.

Thanks for visiting,

Supplies:

• Stamps: Tiny Tags
• Paper: Kraft, Vanilla, So Saffron & Old Olive c/stock, Flock Together designer paper
• Ink: Tempting Turquoise
• Accessories: Linen Thread, 1/4" Tempting Turquoise grosgrain ribbon
• Tools: Jewelry Tag & 1" circle punch, 1/16" hole punch

All supplies can be purchased here.

Scrap-tastic

I did promise you some cards using up those scraps I just organized, so here you go:  two cards using heart punches.

The first uses up some retired card stock (Baja Breeze) and ribbon (Riding Hood Red) because that's one of my goals this year - start using my supplies and stop hoarding them.  I ran a piece of white c/stock through the Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder before punching out the hearts.  The adorable tag is from the new set Tiny Tags plus the Jewelry Tag punch - love them!

The second card uses the same large heart punch with one of the three hearts from the Heart to Heart punch layered on top.  Before punching them, I stamped the c/stock with the new mini background stamp - Fine Flourish.  The sentiment is from the new Well Scripted set in the Occasions Mini Catalog.

I hope you have a great weekend!

Supplies (card one):

• Stamps: Tiny Tags, Polka Dot b/ground
• Ink: Riding Hood Red & Baja Breeze
• Paper: Baja Breeze & Whisper White c/stock
• Accessories: Riding Hood Red Taffeta Ribbon, crochet thread
• Tools: Big Shot, Polka Dot embossing folder, large heart punch, Jewelry Tag punch

Supplies (card two):

• Stamps: Well Scripted, Fine Flourish
• Ink: Pretty in Pink, Rose Red, Regal Rose
• Paper: Whisper White, Pretty in Pink, Rose Red, Regal Rose c/stock
• Tools: Mat Pack, Large Heart punch, Heart to Heart punch, dimensionals