Hello Creative Friends,
Awhile back I shared a gable box by altering the Sizzix Box #2 Die for the Big Shot Die Cutting Machine just a little.  Basically, I added a second lid/flap and adhered it to make both the front and back of the box match.  

Today I’m sharing another box done the same way.  Actually this was the first one that I did.  I just have had it set aside for awhile till it got closer to Christmas.  I used the Stampin’ Up! punches to turn this into a gingerbread house. 

Punches Used:
Scallop Circle Punch (Bushes)
1 Inch Circle (Roof)
Wide Oval (Door)
1/8 Handheld (Lights Across Roof-line)
1/8 Handheld & 1/2 Inch Circle (Wreath–Punch center out first with smaller punch)

The windows are 3/4 inch squares.  I sponged the edges of all the pieces with White Craft Ink and the little “lights” along the roof have Crystal Effects over top of them to give them a shinny look.  The details on everything are just drawn on with a white gel pen (uniball Signo).

You can see I decorated all the way around the box.  Below you can tell how I just wrapped the bushes on around the little house by overlapping them.  I used approximately 48 punch cut-outs for the roof.  It all depends though how much you overlap the rows and how close each row is.  I found that mine weren’t exact.  If you end up with roof ”shingles” hanging over the sides, just cut them off with scissors.

I used Jumbo Eyelets on each flap to put my ribbon through.    This  makes a great little box to hide a gingerbread treat inside.

See more Sizzix Box #2 Die Cut Projects.
See all of my Punch Art Projects here.

Have a creative day,


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Hello Creative Friends,
Hope you’ve had a good weekend.   I will be sharing a few different themed Christmas tree ideas leading up to Christmas.  

Today I’m sharing a Fruit of the Spirit tree with ornaments made from just ribbon, card stock, and a little stamping on some.  For those of you who will be placing a Christmas tree in your church or a Sunday School Class, this is a great theme to use on your tree.

First, I’ve made fruit jar ornaments and placed the Fruit of the Spirit on them from Galatians 5:22, 23. 

 ”But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering,gentleness, goodness, faith,  Meekness, temperance:against such there is no law.”

The jar pattern can be found here!  I printed off the “fruit” wording from my computer printer onto white card stock.  Use your favorite font.  You may need a practice run to make sure your longest fruit wording fits inside of your punch cut-out.  Be sure to give good spacing so that you have plenty of room to punch out your words.  You could also write them on free-hand with an ink marker if you prefer.

By the way, I used Black Jack Font at 20 pnt. on my fruit “labels”.  Black Jack is my favorite font lately to do personal projects with.  You can download it for free here.

The jars themselves are just cut out of various colors of card stock with the pattern.  I punched out the “labels” from the Scallop Oval Punch and layered it on a Wide Oval Punch cut-out.   The hearts I added are punched from the Heart to Heart Punch.   For the hanger, punch 1/8 holes into the top corners of the “jar”.   I used silver cording.

The edges of each piece of card stock is sponged with ink to give definition.  Then I used the Silver Shimmer Paint on the top of the jar and around the sides and bottom.  (Right now the Shimmer Paint from Stampin’ Up!  is out of stock but should be available on November 9th.)  It is from the Mini Holiday Catalog.

For the “fruit” ornaments I used 2 x 3 pieces of card stock (Creamy Caramel) and ran them through the Crimper, rounding the corners with my Corner Rounder Punch.   I then stamped some images from the Tart & Tangy stamp set and layered them on scallop circles (Scallop Circle Punch).    Again, all the edges are sponged with ink for definition.  Just add ribbon to decorate, punch a hole (1/8)  and make a hanger (I used white crochet thread). 

Tips:

• These ornaments are a quick and simple way to do any of the smaller stamp images.
• This is a great project to use your ribbon and card stock scraps.
• Find other “fruit” pieces to fully dress your fruit themed tree.  Usually there’s a lot of apples and pear ornaments available during the holiday season in all colors.  You could also add “fake” grape clusters, etc.  Use your imagination:)
• The Fruit of the Spirit jars would also be great to use for a church bulletin board.  Just make them without the hanger and line them up as on a “shelf”.

 See my related pages:
“Provisions” Fruit of the Spirit Devotional.
Fruit of the Spirit  Women’s Ministry Theme.

Have a creative day,


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Hello Creative Friends,
Today I’m sharing another punch art project.  This one is a turkey which I’ve placed on a tent card. 

Tent cards are easy to make and are fun for dressing up tables and you can add candy bags inside of them to make a take home favor.    Just cut your card stock to 11 1/2 x 3 1/2  measurements, scoring at 1 1/2, then 5 1/2, and 9 1/2.  Fold at the score lines and overlap the bottom folds and adhere with Sticky Strip.

Stampin’ Up! Punches Used:
Scallop Circle Punch  (Underbelly and Wings)
Scallop Oval Punch  (Feathers)
1 3/4 Inch Circle Punch (Belly)
Small Oval Punch   (Head)
Three Heart Punch   (Heart for Waddle)
Five Petal Punch   (Tip for Beak)
Flower Trio   ( Feet)

I did sponge around the edges with Creamy Caramel ink on all the pieces just to give it some definition.  The eyes are dotted on with a black ink marker.  I placed the feathers on the back of the tent card and the body on the front.

You can see by the side view that I placed in a cello bag of candy corn.  The wording is from the Gifts of the Earth stamp set from the Holiday Mini Catalog and all of the punches used are found on pages 186-187 of the current Idea Book & Catalog.

See all of my Punch Art Projects here.

Have a creative day,


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