Heart Punch Shamrocks on March Art Journal Calendar

Artful-Adventures-Kristie-Sloan-Heart-Punch-ShamrocksI always love it when I can show you something and get a project done at the same time!  Today, I’ve got yet another way to use a heart punch or die cut.  We are almost to March this year, and St. Patrick’s Day brings Irish inspired design to many things during the month of March.

These were made from vellum so that they did not completely cover up the background layers.

For this March art journal calendar scrapbook page:

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  • Used a green piece of 12×12″ card stock for the foundation piece.
  • Die cut “March” from a printed paper, and inked the edges of the letters
  • Arranged the vintage greetings and adhered them.
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  • Toned down the greetings with a bit of white craft ink.
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  • Punched hearts from heavy vellum card stock
  • Inked the edges of the hearts
  • Arrange the hearts into shamrocks
  • Adhered just the points with a bit of glitter glue
  • Topped off the center of each shamrock with a bit of Crystal Effects, to make sure they adhered securely.
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  • Drew stems on the shamrocks with a marker.
  • Numbered the petals of the shamrocks to be used as a tiny journal spot for each day.

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Don’t forget to join us over at the Artful Adventures Facebook Group and share your completed items!  There will be “lucky” prizes drawn in March for those who have uploaded something they have created. You never know when those drawings will be held!

Heart Punch Couple

Heart Punch Couple Kristie Sloan

Dress was embossed before cutting heart.

You can make this cute couple with either a heart punch or die cut!

The black heart for the man’s jacket has been cut partially down the center and then folded out from the center to make lapels.  A white heart makes his shirt, and a ribbon with a knot at one edge makes a tie.  A dot of Crystal Effects makes his button.  (As I am writing this and looking at this photo, I see that I didn’t get his tie on right!  It will actually look neater if you get it on with the snipped off part turned on the bottom!)

To give the dress some texture, the paper was embossed before the heart was cut.  A little ink sponged over the embossing gives it more dimension.  It was also cut deeper in the center to give it more of a plunging neck line.  Rhinestones were set around the edge for more sparkle.  Her body was made from a light pink paper heart, with a little ink to give some depth to her body.

The hearts for this couple were cut from a set of Framelits, as I wanted them larger to go on a scrapbook page.

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Heart Punch Balloons!

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Patterned Paper from Stampin’Up!

Today’s post is short and sweet.  I was working on a scrapbook page and used the heart punch to quickly make some balloons!  Hearts are an easy shape to make, but you can quickly use a punch or die cut to make several and be done in a snap.  I used patterned paper for these and inked the edges to give a little more depth and definition.  I just used a fine black pen to make the bottom of balloon look like it had a string tied around it, and then just pulled the line down for the rest of the string!  How easy!

You can use balloons like this in a variety of ways, whether you are scrapping, stamping, cardmaking, art journaling, or even doing some mixed media!  I how you will share your projects with us over at the facebook group!  Come on over, let’s talk!

Here are some supplies you can pick up over at my Stampin’Up! store.

Heart Punch – #119883

Be sure to also check out the “Clearance Rack” to find great bargains on patterned paper!

Heart Punch Cupcake

Heart-Punch-Cupcake_KristieSloanIt’s my birthday and here is a no calorie cupcake just for you! Plus I wanted to show you this nifty way to use a heart punch or die cut.  Who knew you could make cupcake frosting out of hearts?

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At least 3 punched or die cut hearts, 1 square.

Take your hearts and flip them with points at the top instead of the bottom and layer at least three of them.  The number you use will depend on how big your hearts are.

I sponged a pink colored ink onto the bottom of the hearts, starting outside the heart and dragging it to the inside. That way it gave more definition around the outer edges.  I liked it best with the sponge having less ink and being more dry.  I was able to better able to control the depth of the color, by layering it.

Heart-Punch-Cupcake-Kristie Sloan_1I layered and arranged the hearts and glued them to each other. I then used a 2-way glue pen and ran glue around the bottom edges of my “frosting” layers, and applied glitter.

I ran paper through the Big Shot in an embossing folder before I cut it into a 2″x2″ square, so that it had vertical lines to resemble a cupcake paper.  You could just as easily score lines for a similar effect.  Then I used the same sponging technique on this piece.

Simply adhere your square cupcake paper, and then your frosting hearts!

Next, I punched a small red circle and adhered it to the top of my frosting, and used Crystal Effects to give my “cherry” a shiny finish!Heart-Punch-Cupcake_KristieSloan_3

Black cardstock with white sponged and distressed edges, and a white ink message finish off this card! This is an easy way to make a cute cupcake for any card!

Please come share with us over at our Artful Adventures Facebook Group!

Here are some supplies you can pick up over at my Stampin’Up! store.

Heart Punch – #119883

Stripes Embossing Folder – #123128

Assorted Card Stock Pack – #12094

Stamp Sponges – #101610

Ink Pads

Basic Black – #126980

Melon Mambo – #126948

Anywhere Glue Stick – #104045

Dazzling Diamonds Glitter – #102023

Crystal Effects – #101055

Big Shot Die-Cutting Machine – #113439

 

Heart Punch Art Journal Calendar

February-Heart-Punch-Art-Calendar_KristieSloan.comKeeping an open mind to what you can use a punch for, made quick work in creating my February Art Journal calendar in a bit of both scrapbook and art journal style.  Making things more artful isn’t hard!

Here is how this went together:

  • I found a piece of red with white dot paper for the background.
  • Used coordinating paper and cut letter out.
  • Found the letters not only coordinated, they just blended in and faded away.
  • Outlined the die cut letters with marker to make them stand out!  Much better!  Adhered the February title.
  • Hand cut 3 hearts in different shapes from paper that looked like book text.  I didn’t want to use book text, because I wanted to make sure the paper was archival safe for this project.

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  • Added definition to the text hearts by using pastels on the edges with both a gray and red color. (Use what you have on hand for this step, inking will be just fine – just rub it on.) Note that this was purposefully not done neatly.

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  • More definition was added by just loosely outlining around and partially on the hearts, with a thin black marker
  • Punched smaller hearts out of a white vellum card stock, and arranged them on page.
  • Attached the vellum hearts in the corners with a glue dot.  Normally you want to be careful what you use to adhere vellum, because it can show through.  I used that to my advantage, and used it as the tiny spot to write my numbers for the days of the month.  Also, I decided that I would attach the hearts only in a single spot, in case I want to write under the heart.  That way, I have several options for journalling and can actually double my writing space if I need to!

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  • I outlined a couple of special days during the month, which are a holiday and a family birthday!

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  • I went in a put a dot of Crystal Effects on the upper left edge of each punched heart to give it a little more stability.  Those dots weren’t dry when I took the photos, so they really don’t show up.  It will be a nice little shiny accent for each day!
  • Done!  Although I realized I forgot to put the year.  However, don’t you think if it is sandwiched in with a bunch of other months from the same year it will be okay?  I may add the year, I may not.  Oh, maybe I’ll just use a date stamp!

If you make a calendar page, please come share it with us over at our Artful Adventures Facebook Group!

Here are some supplies you can pick up over at my Stampin’Up! store.

Heart Punch – #119883

First Edition Specialty Paper – #121878  (Also used on this project)

White Vellum Cardstock – #101856

Glue Dots  – #103683

Stamp Sponges – #101610

Ink Pads

Basic Gray – #126979

Real Red – #126949

White uni-ball Signo Gell Pen – #105021

Crystal Effects – #101055

Typeset Alphabet Bigz Die Set – #127553

Big Shot Die-Cutting Machine – #113439