Welcome Stamping Friends!
I wanted to show you the CUTE dinosaur card I made for a little 4 year old boys birthday. I got the idea from Sam Post, she had a very similar punched dinosaur which inspired me to make this card...
He is so cute, huh! I thought a 4 year old dinosaur needed a Jumbo cupcake for his birthday! I also used the Build a Cupcake punch #121807 for the clouds! It really is a great punch! The hills are just textured Old Olive cardstock that is torn and sponged. I used the Texture Plates #4 #114531 kit to give the dinosaur it's textured skin. Once the shapes were punched I ran the Pumpkin Pie inkpad over the Pumpkin Pie Card stock to add some color, giving it a little more dimension.
I like making punch art cards for boys birthdays since I do not have a lot of boy stamps, have 2 girls I do not buy that many boy sets, but I sure do put my punches to work! Here is the cards I made for the same boy last year! I just can't live with out my punches!
RECIPE:
Stamps: Teeny Tiny Wishes
Ink: Chocolate Chip, Pumpkin Pie, Daffodil Delight
Paper: Bashful Blue, Old Olive, Whisper White, Chocolate Chip, Pumpkin Pie, Daffodil Delight
Tools:
Oval Extra Large Punch - dino body and tail (after punching I just cut my tail to be the shape I wanted)
Oval Large Punch (1-3/4" x 7/8") - head
Oval Large Punch (1-3/8" x 5/8") - legs (punch two and cut them in half to make 4 legs)
Boho Blossom Punch - end of tail and scales along back
1/4" Circle Punch (retired, but you could use the largest circle that the Crop-a-Dile punches) - toes and one for behind the wiggly eye.
Build-a-Cupcake punch - for cupcake and clouds
Sponge - for edge of hills, all other inking was done directly with the stamp pad on the dinosaur's body and on the edge of the Daffodil Delight scales.
Accessories: Wiggly eyes, Dimensionals
PS - Tomorrow I will show you the COOL Owl project that I demonstrated at Stampin' Up!s Regional Conference in Boise!!!
Oh my gosh!! That is soooo stinkin cute!! I love my punches too, but I sure wish my brain would do stuff like this with them!
Posted by: Deb B (Debadoo) | August 29, 2011 at 03:50 PM