Corner Heart Punch

Good morning. I have had a little post it note with some information to make a post on the counter for a couple of weeks now and have finally sat down to do it. Funny how life gets in the way of the to-do list.

In any case... I had filled a little box of corner heart punches at Zoo's place before moving East, years ago. I have never used them and as the theme of this year is to use things I have had forever, it was high time to delve in. All the punches were on scrap pieces of paper of varying sizes and colours.

I first used the larger pieces that had a punch in each of the four corners. I used mainly Dollarama 6"x6" paper pads that I have had for years and not used. The two pads I used were the Rainbow Scrapbook and the Flower Scrapbook pads. I hope Zoo will add the name of the company who made the punch. I like how the hearts are not quite cut out and so I could add another layer of paper under the top of each heart to add dimension. The cards are bright and yet not too overpowering. I tend to not use patterned paper but this was a good use of the bolder patterns I had been avoiding. 

Having used up the larger pieces it was time to move onto the more narrow bits that only had two heart punched per piece. I used Zoo's Spellbinder's Curved Border's dies to make one edge more decorative. I was originally going to have a piece of the card slide in and out of the heart punch paper but then decided to just use a big flower instead. I added a coordinating colour under each corner punch to add interest and a small stamp in between. The big flowers are from using a friends dies and Big Shot years ago. I believe the biggest flower is from StampinUp and the smaller ones are from my McGill Petite Petals Punch and my Martha Stewart's Floral Anywhere Punch. A good use of paper I would not normally use

I have more punched corners remaining but ran out of time. I will get to them in the years to come.   Happy November!

Red Bear : )

Embossing Powder on mailing labels

Hello. Long time no see. I have been making cards like crazy these past few weeks. I have lifted Zoo's ban on making cards while she is indisposed. Life has done a serious number on her and her family and during this tragic time I am trying to be creative while being distracted at the same time. So cards have been pouring out.

In keeping with my theme of using up old stuff and things I haven't used, I dug out some things I had made with stickers and embossing powder. Zoo had sent a YouTube video about it and one day last year I decided to give it a go. I must say it was fun but I had only used one of them for my great niece's birthday card (no picture, sorry). So I decided to do up some cards with the rest of the embossed stickers.

Embossing powder and mailing labels video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl7W8VmOIwI&list=LLrPw3KR7TMCTKUPVvRy-_3g&index=42

The premise of the video is to place stickers and things onto the sticky side of a mailing label and then pour embossing powder over the remainder of the sticky space, heat it and then use the decorated label in a card. I used kids letter stickers, cork letter stickers, flower stickers, self adhesive bling designs, old corner stickers and on some I only used the embossing powder on the whole sticky label. The labels I used were from a roll of large mailing labels that I cut in half. Each cut one is about 3" x  2 1/2".

These are some of the finished labels...

The finished cards turned out sweet. I will list the names of the embossing powders used but most of the stickers I have had in my box for ever, so I don't know where I bought them or what brands they are. A lot of the letter ones came from Dollarama. I also used some washi tapes, that was on my list of things to try out.

Stampin Up - Iridescent Ice Powder

Masterpiece Stamping (all of these brands I purchased over 20 years ago) - White       {The embossed background is a botched piece that Zoo and I were experimenting with. We were trying to use embossing powders with embossing folders and it was not working. As I never throw anything out... years later I found a pretty way of using up the mistake, yay!}

Stampin Up - Pewter

Personal Stamp Exchange -Topiary Tapestry     (the little corner stickers used in this piece came from a Dollarama kiddie scrapbook. The stickers would have had to have been glued on, as they were not very sticky but placing them on a sticker worked like a charm. I like the mosaic tile look when done)

Stampin Up - Pewter    (Just a note to say the self adhesive bling stars and things started to melt when I heat embossed the powder. I managed to flatten them out for the most part but thought I should warn you)

Masterpiece Stamping - black

Personal  Stamp Exchange - Claret Tapestry and Bridal, Stampin up - Iridescent Ice

Stampin up - Iridescent Ice, Masterpiece Stamping - Black, Stampin Up - Pewter

Stampin up - Iridescent Ice, Stampin Up - Pewter, Masterpiece Stamping - Gold

Personal Stamp Exchange's - Claret Tapestry, Topiary Tapestry and Cobalt Tapestry

Stampin Up - Pewter, Masterpiece Stamping - Gold, Personal Stamp Exchange - Copper

Personal Stamp Exchange's - Topiary Tapestry and Cobalt Tapestry, and Copper

Well I hope you have enjoyed this post. I will try and get a few more done. It is a nice way to wrap up the end of a card making session and will archive some of the different things I have been working on. I will work on my computer avoidance tendency in order to accomplish this feat : )