As promised yesterday, I took some time away from cleaning (yes, we’re still not completely vaporised chicken free!) to play with the blossom builder punch which is on sale this week.

I even went one further and used the metallic enamel shapes which are also 25% off through Wednesday. So, what have we got here? I started with melon mambo (a surprise, I know) and stamped the outline of the petal full strength, then the partial petal stamped off once and the full petal stamped off twice. I punched all of them out and then used my bone folder to get some curl – you know, the way that you make curling ribbon really curl with scissors. The centre is a piece of melon mambo card stock just punched out with the blossom builder punch. It’s a fun punch, there are 5 parts to it:

Next was the stalk with is stamped in old olive using the stamp that doesn’t have the watercolour look and then the sentiment. All of the stamping is from the Bunch of Blossoms set which coordinates with the blossom builder punch. Normally they are $35 as a bundle, if you take advantage of the 25% savings and buy them individually, it’s $34.50. But if you previously bought the stamp set and decided you didn’t need the punch, now is the time to get it!

To make the flower, I put a couple of mini glue dots onto the card and started building – I added another glue dot along the way. Then I glued on the little piece of melon mambo card. Here you can see how much 3D effect you can get curling the petals, so much more fun than just stamped flat on the page.

I added three of the silver metallic enamel shapes – just picking them up with my paper snips and putting them down gently until I had all three out and could get them where I wanted them before pressing them down to adhere. I used old olive for my mat and put that onto a melon mambo card base.

I’m glad that the punch is on sale this week and thus pushed me to use it. I had a lot of fun. I may come up with something else for tomorrow using it as well.

See you tomorrow,

Liz