I had this idea for this To The Point Punch Spring Card and I’m happy with the way it turned out! I’ve made other cards like this one with punches which fill the card front like a background, so I thought I would try it out with the To The Point Punch in the Stampin’ Up! Spring Mini Catalog.
To make this card design, I used a Basic White piece of cardstock underneath the punched pieces. It is cut at 4″ x 5 1/4″ so I could have a colored card base and not white. The card base is Berry Burst cardstock.
I punched out several pieces out of the Beautiful Bokeh 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper. The colors are Calypso Coral, Daffodil Delight, Berry Burst, and Balmy Blue. I liked the soft colors of that paper with the subtle bokeh look. I just punched out a bunch and then played around with arranging them on the white cardstock. Just lay them out how you like them, allowing the edges of DSP to extend out over the edge of the white cardstock. After you have them glued down to the Basic White cardstock (or whatever color you are using), you can trim off the excess edges with scissors or your Paper Trimmer. If you think ahead a little bit, on the pieces that hang off you can try to avoid putting glue where you don’t need it so it doesn’t get your scissors messy with glue! Don’t ask me how I know! The picture below is not how my pieces ended up being arranged but it’s the way I did it.
When you have all the punched pieces adhered, you can glue this piece to the card base. For the greeting, I used the banner in the Mixed Labels Stamp Set. I couldn’t find the right words I wanted to stamp on the banner, but I found ones I liked in the Choose Happy Stamp Set. The banner is stamped in black Memento Ink but the words are stamped in Berry Burst ink. I popped it up with Stampin’ Dimensionals across the middle of the card.
I thought that would be it except for maybe some embellishments, but I got the idea to stamp one of the cute images in the Choose Happy Stamp Set on the punched labels. It was a risk of ruining the whole card at this point, but I took a chance and it worked! I stamped the images in the same color as the bokeh paper. The center punched piece was a challenge, but I found the little flowers in the Bright Borders Stamp Set that worked perfectly. Then to finish off the card, I added two purple sequins in the Purple Adhesive-Backed Sequins on the banner. These sequins were available during Sale-A-Bration so you may have them or just use something you have.
All in all, this card was easy to make and was a fun idea to try with the To The Point Punch.
