Poppy the Owl – Stamper's Blog

Graduating Poppy

Fran

May 14, 2016

Big Shot Large Numbers, Cards, Graduation, Number of Years, Poppy

It’s graduation time and I have a few to send out. Karen Burniston’s Poppy the Owl seemed like the perfect character to grace a graduation card! The numbers are the Stampin Up’s Number of Year stamp set with matching die. One of my graduates had blue and white as their school colors. I used the Schoolhouse Designer Series paper for this one.

Poppy’s cap is made from the bowler hat in Props 1. Karen has a diagram on her blog showing how to cut it to make it a cap. The hassle and diploma are hand cut.

Another graduate’s school colors are red and gray. I simply copied the same design and changed up the colors. These card are large – 4 1/4 x 9 – and will easily accommodate a check 🙂

Here he is in Smoky Slate. He looks so smart! The Number of Years set makes this a easy card to put together. Hugs, Fran

Schoolhouse Designer Series Paper
$11.00

Number Of Years Photopolymer Stamp Set
$27.00

Large Numbers Framelits Dies
$31.00

Karen Burniston Designer Challenge Day 2

Fran

October 13, 2015

Cards, Challenges, Cheepers the Chicken, Chilly, Cocoa the Horse, Halloween, Holiday Mini, Lots of Pops, Poppy, William the Goat

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Characters in Costumes – Day 2 🙂 And which holiday makes us think of costumes more than Halloween? So starting with a 4 1/2 x 8 1/2 card, stamped with this awesome image from Stampin Up’s Six Sayings (hostess set in the Holiday Mini)

And here are the characters! Everyone is dressed up in their costume for Halloween and popping up on a Lots of Pops die. The All Season Tree is in the background. The wagon is hand cut.

Cheepers the Chicken is dressed as a cowboy. Chilly the Penguin is wearing an Owl mask. William the Goat is wearing funny glasses and a bow tie. And Cocoa the Horse is dressed up as bandit.

Hope there’s lots of chocolate involved! Take time to check out all the other Characters in Costumes on Karen’s Facebook Page. Hugs, Fran

Six Sayings Wood-Mount Stamp Set
$15.00

Karen Burniston Designer Challenge Costume Characters Day 1

Fran

October 12, 2015

BYOP, Cards, Challenges, Gift Card Holder, Graduation, Poppy

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This month’s Karen Burniston Designer challenge is to dressed up some characters! I’m starting out with Poppy the Owl dressed up for graduation. I just love how the Pop It Ups Gift Card Holder goes with Stampin Up’s B.Y.O.P stamp set.

I chose a combo of red, white and blue to match one of our local high schools. Working backwards – I’ll now have to find a matching gift card! The border on the card comes with the Gift Card Holder die! That’s easy 🙂

Poppy’s graduation cap is a small square with a Basic Black Candy dot in the center. The tassel cord was cut free-hand and the the red tassel is a small piece of Real Red with some slits cut into it, rolled up. The diploma is a scrap of Whisper White, rolled and tied with Baker’s Twine.

To make the star, punch 3 star. Hold 2 of them together and cut a sliver out of the center of both at the same time. Remove the center and alternate the colors.

Hope over to Karen’s Facebook page to see the other characters decked out in their finest! Hugs, Fran

B.Y.O.P. Photopolymer Stamp Set
$25.00

Pop It Ups Halloween

Fran

August 15, 2015

Halloween, Holiday Mini, Holidays, Mini Catalogs, Pop It Ups, Poppy, Rectangular Pull Card

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Is it too early for Halloween?

1. Cut a piece of black card stock 5 1/2 x 7 1/4 and fold it in half to create your base.

2. Cut 2 pieces of Happy Haunting DSP Halloween paper (Holiday Mini catalog!) 3 3/8 x 5 1/4 and adhere to the inside.

3. Place your Rectangular Pull Card die, matching the alignment tab, and cut out.

4. Die cut and assemble Poppy the Owl making him as cute or scary as you’d like. Die cut 2 All Seasons Trees from black card stock. Cut two 2″ circles from white or vanilla.

5. Trim off most of the branches from the trees (do them at the same time so they match) and adhere one to the front of the card to create a branch. Add the circle as the moon and place Poppy on the branch.

6. Make 5 “bats” from the bow tie die in Props 2. Die cut the bow ties and use a hand held punch to punch the bottom of the wings. Karen also has a little tutorial on creating bats from Cocoa the Horse’s hair!

7. Match up the second branch to the inside left of your card. Adhere a moon to the spinner on the inside and decorate with bats and die cut words using Alphabet 1 or Peel Off stickers!

Cute or scary, it’s fun! Hugs, Fran

Happy Haunting Designer Series Paper
$11.00

Poppy Spiral Birthday

Fran

December 9, 2014

Birthday, Cards, Pictogram Punches, Poppy, Really Good Greetings, Spiral Pull Card, Uncategorized

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My oldest daughter had a special birthday yesterday – 30! This is the card I made her using Karen Burniston’s Spiral Pull Card die, Poppy the Owl character die and lots of star stamps. The sentiment on the front is from Pictogram Punches and Poppy’s little camera is from Project Life Point and Click. I added Crystal Effects to the lens.

Pull cards are so much fun to make and receive! I used the spiral included with the die and added lots of stars! To make Poppy on both sides, I simply copied an idea from Karen Burniston and made two, glued back to back. The inside sentiment is from Really Good Greetings – which is a perfect name for this set.