TLC199 Tag Punch Snowflake

I actually made this card for a craft for the ladies luncheon at my Church about a week ago, and when I woke up this morning the challenge was to make a tag punch star/snowflake, so I thought this would be the perfect time to post this card to my blog!

You can find a tutorial on how to make these wonderful stars on SCS here. For my card, I used brushed silver card stock from SU or the star frame, and plain velum for the center. I then punched a snow burst snowflake for the center of my star, added a crystal brad from my SU pretties kit, and added some drops of stickles on the edges of the snow burst punch.

For the panel behind the star, I layered a divine swirls embossed whisper white panel on top of some more brushed silver paper (which I totally LOVE this silver paper from SU, by the way!).

I finished it off with the sentiment which came from SU's Cardinal Christmas set, punched out with the large oval and then layered over a designer label punched out in Baja breeze.

If you have never made one of these before, I recommend that you try...they look difficult to do, but really they are quite easy...just ask the ladies at my church, who had doubts to begin with, but loved the outcome when they were all done! LOL!!

Card Details:

Images: A Cardinal Christmas (for the sentiment)

Paper: Brushed Silver, Whisper White, Baja Breeze

Ink: Baja Breeze

Accessories: Large and Small tag punches, crystal brad, stickles, snow burst punch, large oval punch, designer label punch

TLC196 - Pop Up Gift Card and Tag Punch Star!!

I made this for TLC196 - Pop Up Gift Card, and I also combined it with a Tag Punch Star. To see how to make a Tag Punch Star, you can go here.

To make a Pop up Gift Card all you need is the following: 4 X 12 Piece of patterned paper, 4-1/4 X 4-1/4 Square piece of coordinating card stock (used as mat for mounting the interior of gift card), Stamps, Ink, Bone Folder, Craft Knife, Adhesive.

Take your 4 X 12 piece and score it 4" from one end (horizontal orientation) - flip to the other end and score 4" from that end. This will give you a piece divided into 3- 4" squares. Burnish all score lines with your bone folder. Take the middle square and fold it in half, creating the Pop Up portion of this card in a "hill" -^-. Using your gift card as a guide, cut a slit in the center of middle of your folded piece large enough for your gift card to slide into. Adhere the back side of your pop up portion to your 4-1/4" square piece of card stock, and embellish as desired.

For this gift card holder I use some Holiday Treasures DSP for both the holder itself, and the inside portion of the tag punch star. For the center of the star I layered a snow blossom punch, a 1" circle punch and a bling brad. To finish off the card I then added some chocolate satin ribbon and the sentiment with some silver hodgepodge hardware.

I have done a similar pop up gift card before, but this one is just a little bit bigger and gives you some extra space for embellishing! :)

Card Details:

Image: Fancy Flexible Phrases for Sentiment

Paper: Riding Hood Red, Chocolate Chip, Holiday Treasures DSP

Ink: Craft White

Accessories: Tag Punches, 1" circle punch, snow blossom punch, chocolate chip satin ribbon, bling brad, HPH, brads