Punch Art

 

This card combines two of my latest favorites - shadow stamps and punches!

 

 

This is something I saw on The Carol Duvall Show. The flowers are given dimension by poking them into an
old eraser or I use Styrofoam, with an embossing tool, just enough to push the petals up.

 

 

This is a variation on the above card.

 

 

With just a few punches, the flower variations are endless!

 

 

I've done several variations on this sunflower. This was made with a mega punch, that punches
out about 5 petals of different sizes at once. In fact, I have to stand on it to punch it, I can't
do it with my hands. The petals are shaded with chalk along the edges, applied with a cotton swab.
It's hard to see in the picture, but I dry embossed the leaves too - with veins.

 

 

Then I started rolling the leaves around the embossing tool, to give them a little dimension.
And I've added a charm, which I think pops it up to another level of fun.

 

 

This is one of the first sunflowers I made - with more petals and no chalk shadowing.

 

A smaller, simpler version.

 

 

The above sunflower is the front of this triple page card. This sunflower is a photograph I took in our backyard.
I love the colors of this card! (The card itself is a dark olive green.)

 

 

This is the back of the card - with another photograph taken in our backyard of black eyed susans.
The photographs are not 100% perfect, but they look pretty good for printed digital photographs taken with a not-high-end camera. The photographs do look a little better in person than they do scanned.

 

 

This is a sympathy card I made.

 

This is a tri-fold card. The circle is cut out on the first page, ringed with navy blue,

allowing you to see the punched flower on the second page.

 

I plan to make more of these - I love the simplicity.

 

 

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