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Hexagon Punch and It’s My Party

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Here are two things which are retiring in a couple of weeks – the hexagon punch and the It’s My Party DSP stack. Both, as of this morning, are still available. The punch is extremely useful for cutting the ends of banners or, as in this case, for using up scraps.

Stampin' Up! Hexagon Punch and It's My Party DSP

The DSP scraps are all from the It’s My Party DSP, a very happy stack. I punched out about 10 in various scraps as well as a couple in crushed curry. I stamped the sentiment on one of these also in crushed curry ink. I’d tell you where the sentiment is from, but I can’t find it – I’ve sorted out my sets into current, retired but I’m keeping and retired and a quick look through this morning hasn’t helped. It is a very similar sentiment to one in the Sale-a-bration set, Party Pants. I eventually will locate the set and I’ll update this. Edit: I located the stamp set – it’s Sunburst Sayings.

Then comes the fun piece – take a piece of whisper white and start arranging the hexagons. For this arrangement I decided that I wanted them falling down the page. Once I had them laid out, I started at the bottom right and worked up one. Then I started at the top left – hoping I’d got my placement pretty close – and worked down. I’ve noted before that the hexagon isn’t totally perfect so I like to pop up at least one of the hexagons to disguise this. I did this again today, popping up the sentiment one. Here’s a better view of that.

Stampin' Up! Hexagon Punch and It's My Party DSP

And that’s it – a quick and easy card which uses up scraps. What more could you ask for?

See you tomorrow (at 8am because it’s a Thursday and I align my posting with the challenge thread),

Liz

Paper Pumpkin March 2016 Alternate 3

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Firstly I’d like to thank Hannelie for choosing my card as an honourable mention at CASology. With 74 other cards to choose from, I’m very grateful that she chose mine.

Today I’m playing with the Paper Pumpkin March 2016 set again, Pocketful of Cheer. I’ve been using bermuda bay quite a bit over the last few days to make up for some neglect but I wanted to demonstrate that the kit also has a fair bit of cucumber crush in it. Here’s my card using leftovers from one of the cards that I didn’t make as per the kit.

Stampin' Up! Paper Pumpkin March 2016 Pocketful of Cheer

I cannibalized one of the envelopes for an earlier card and I still had the flaps left, so I used the hexagon punch to cut out a few shapes. I then used one of the gift card holders (which obviously now wasn’t going to be going on the envelope) and got two hexagons out of that too. I then stamped a sentiment from the set in cucumber crush onto some cucumber crush card and cut that out (it’s easier to stamp and then punch) and punched out another cucumber crush hexagon for good measure. Then came the slow part of the card as I played with the placement (whilst talking to my brother at the same time, so very efficient multi-tasking) until I got the effect I wanted. I glued the hexagons down using the multipurpose glue with some of the shapes intentionally going over the edge. It was very easy to trim these with the paper snips since I could use the piece of whisper white as the guide. I then mounted this piece onto a card base of cucumber crush and finally added the hexagon with the sentiment which I popped up. It’s easier to put your card together, including gluing everything onto the card base before popping anything up so that you can get good pressure to ensure everything is stuck well.

We’re down to the last 6 days of Sale-a-bration so if there are any of the SAB sets that you want, you need to act quickly. It’s also a good time to stock up on basics since you can get freebies for buying things that you’d buy anyway throughout the year. I have a good stash of whisper white and very vanilla card now as well as matching envelopes. This also means that the sale on Paper Pumpkin is ending next week – and you don’t want to miss April’s kit because there’s a bonus free stamp set in it.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Hexagon Punch for CC&S

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I don’t know about you, but mostly what I’ve used my hexagon punch for is the end of banners. I decided to actually use it for its true purpose and at the same time use the colours from this week’s challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches.

Stampin' Up! Hexagon Punch and Rose Wonder

Here’s the colour banner for this week:

I went to the regals and subtles DSP stacks for night of navy and marina mist and cut out hexagons. I also used one of the retired backgrounds DSP stack in night of navy. There were of course many more hexagons cut than appear on this card – I’ll probably make another out of the surplus. First I stamped the sentiment from Rose Wonder in watermelon wonder and then placed my hexagons. I noticed that they don’t perfectly tessellate (how often do you get to use that word?!) because if I started at one side with an edge of a hexagon parallel to the card, when I got to the other side, that hexagon wasn’t parallel. And it should be. To get over that issue I started from the edges moving in and then popped up the middle hexagon so that it wouldn’t notice that it’s very slightly off!

Stampin' Up! Hexagon Punch and Rose Wonder

The envelope is lined with watermelon wonder from the DSP stack, cut out with the envelope liners.

I hope that you’ll check out the rest of the inspiration from the design team and have a go yourself with these colours. I found them really hard to start with, but in the end, I made two cards. I’ll share the other one tomorrow.

See you tomorrow,

Liz