#CTC229 Favourite Retiring Punch

What's your favourite retiring punch?

Sadly for me it will be the Bunny Builder Punch... I love the set this punch co-ordinates with Best Bunny - they have some super cute expressions. I'd look forward to seeing you create a card with a retiring punch and add it to our Facebook page using the link over on the right.

I started in one direction and ended up in another! I found in my stash a Happy Birthday die which had been cut twice, once in Blushing Bride and once in Basic Gray, mounted together slightly offset then covered in Dazzling Diamonds, and I needed to use it. That meant I needed to alter the piece I had started with as my greeting no longer fitted in the space I'd intended it to go in.

I began with a piece of Twinkle Twinkle DSP and used another retiring punch - the 1 1/4" circle punch - to cut three circles. I stamped 3 bunnies in Soft Suede onto Whisper White cardstock, coloured their ears and chest with Stampin' Blends then punched them out with the matching punch.  I adhered the bunnies in place and mounted them onto Coastal Cabana cardstock which was added to a base of thick Whisper White cardstock. I trimmed my Stampin' Dimensionals to add to the back of the diecut and placed it onto the front of the card. 

It did make it a hard one to photograph but looks fab in real life.

That left me still looking at my original piece of Wood Textures DSP which I am super sad to see retire. It already had 3 circles punched out of it, so I created another card as above using Fresh Fig for the mat. The greeting is from Best Bunny - stamped in Soft Suede, punched out with the Darling Label punch, popped onto Stampin' Dimensionals with added Rose Metallic Thread and stuck to the card.

Thanks for stopping by - please hop on over to see what Monique's favourite punch is:

#CTC225 - Easter

I trust you are enjoying a relaxing long weekend whilst remembering the reason for the season. This week the crew are CASEing anything Easter.

I have gone with the bunny theme Easter often represents but as I look at it again it - it could be a farmer's worst nightmare, especially where we are currently holidaying in the beautiful Central Otago area where these critters are notoriously unpopular.

I have used the stamp sets Best Bunny and Perfectly Paired and the masking technique. I used my Stamparatus and Early Espresso marker to get the boat and cabin in position on Whisper White card, with Bermuda Bay for the waves, then masked the boat to add the bunnies.

Stampin' Blends for colouring and a couple of clouds fussy cut and popped up with dimensionals. I used a scrap of Pool Party and Labeller Alphabet for 'Easter' with 'happy' die cut from Well Written thinlits and Early Espresso cardstock. This was attached to a mat of Early Espresso onto a Pool Party base.

Have you made an Easter card and would like to join the challenge?  Post it to our Facebook page using the link over to the right. Now please go visit my lovely friend Julia and her stunning project

#CTC186 - Birthday

Hello again, here we are CASEing the Birthday section, pages 66-79

I happened to have been playing with the Best Bunny bundle on page 36 recently, and had a little fellow just waiting for a card to hop onto. I found it on page 77:

I went with a card base of Blackberry Bliss (loved this colour when it was last here and pleased to welcome it back!). The Detailed Floral thinlits provided the cutouts of my Whisper white layer, which I've wrapped with Silver Baker's Twine adding a bow, and popped onto the base with Stampin' Dimensionals. In lieu of a scalloped circle, I've used a Mint Macaroon shape cut from the Foliage Frame framelits. I've cut a Whisper White circle with the Layering Circles framelits, and used Pineapple Punch to sponge the colour behind my featured Best Bunny. This is a co-ordinating Punch and stamp set, and he has 3 delightful expressions to choose from. I've stamped this guy in Gray Granite and used the (retired) Pink Pirouette Stampin' Blends to colour with.  The greeting is stamped in Blackberry Bliss and comes from the set Happy Birthday Gorgeous, with a little banner punched at each end.  A few iridescent sequins to finish.

Hope you feel inspired to play along and post using the link over on the right. Meanwhile, please pop in and see what Rachel has created for us this week: