Last Week’s Card & Cuppa – Easter Fun

April 21, 2025April 15, 2025 ~ Karen Young

At last week’s Card & Cuppa class we made this fun Easter card.

The cute critters are the stars of the show in spring colours.

Both the bunny and sentiment are from the Choose Happy Stamp Set. With the tiny chick from the Cutest Cows Stamp Set and the grass from the Darling Dinos Stamp Set.

Two out of three of these sets are on the Last Chance Products list. Make sure you grab them while you still can.

To create this project, the rabbit was stamped in Pecan Pie, the chick in Crushed Curry and the grass in Old Olive.

These made the background piece and the animals were coloured using Watercolor Pencils and a Blender Pen.

Once everything had been coloured and ‘set’ with a Blender Pen, the project was given a grassy hue using a Blending Brush and Lemon Lime Twist ink.

Lemon Lime Twist was again used for the sentiment that was layered onto punched Circles. These punches can be found in the Online Exclusives range.

A few chicks were stamped onto the sentiment piece too.

Lengths of Basic White Baker’s Twine from the Essentials Pack were stuck across the centre with the sentiment raised above this on Dimensionals.

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Happy crafting

Karen Young HIPPOFROG Designs

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Last Week’s Card & (Your) Cuppa – Easter Bunny Punch Art

March 29, 2021March 28, 2021 ~ Karen Young

Last week’s Card & (Your) Cuppa project was this cute Easter Bunny Punch Art card.

Easter Bunny Punch Art. Project designed by Karen at HIPPOFROG Designs But, this card is also perfect for any rabbit fan too, not just Easter.

The return of a punch with ovals in the January-June Mini Catalogue was brilliantly timed for this project!

My colour combination is Crumb Cake for the main rabbit, with Blushing Bride and White accents. These sit on a background of Seaside Spray and Pear Pizzazz.

Circle Punches and the Double Oval Punch make the main shapes. Just one shape cut out using the Small Bloom Punch creates the area on the face. Tiny hearts for the nose and pads are from the Dog Builder Punch.

By just popping the ears behind the head, and the feet in front of the body, it comes together very quickly.

Easter Bunny Punch Art. Project designed by Karen at HIPPOFROG Designs

The most complicated bit is the face, with lengths of Twine from the Snail Mail Twine Combo Pack creating the whiskers.

Finally, the nose is attached with a glue dot and the Matte Black Enamel Dots eyes area added.

There are so many different options for this design, beginning with the shape of the grass for the background. You can either cut make it curvy as I’ve done here, or create a more 3D effect similar to this project.

Easter Bunny Punch Art. Project designed by Karen at HIPPOFROG Designs

With the rabbit, this can either be the front, as I’ve shown. Or, the back of the rabbit, using the Small Bloom Punch shape for the tail, instead of on the face. Another option is to just create the face and pop it looking out through the grass.

I’d love to see what you decide to make.

Some of the punches I used on this project are now on the Retiring List. Items on the list are available while stocks last.

I’ve used Whisper White in my project, which has now been replaced with Basic White. See this post for full details while I work through my supply.

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Happy crafting

Karen Young HIPPOFROG Designs

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Punch Art Easter Eggs

April 11, 2020April 9, 2020 ~ Karen Young

Here is the second project from my Children’s Easter Card Making Kits. Today it is punch art Easter eggs, to go with the Easter lamb I shared the other day.

As we can’t hold face-to-face Children’s Card & Cuppa sessions during the school holidays at the moment, I put together this Children’s Card Making Kit with an Easter theme instead.

These cheerful (calorie-free) Easter eggs begin life as balloons from the Balloon Bouquet Punch and are then decorated. The eggs can be decorated in a number of different ways, using lots of different mediums. You can let your imagination run wild.

As you can see, I chose to use punched shapes. I’ve used the 1/2″ Circle Punch and Classic Label Punch for my spots and stripes, in a range of colours from the Brights Collection.

I’ve put together a craft-along video to accompany this project kit. Grab your kit, click on this video link and have some fun.

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Happy crafting

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Punch Art Easter Lamb

April 9, 2020April 8, 2020 ~ Karen Young

How cute is this punch art Easter lamb? It’s one of the projects from my Children’s Card Making Kits.

I designed two Easter cards for the kit and this is the first. These Children’s Card Making Kits are part of my Social Isolation Classes offering, currently replacing my regular face-to-face Card & Cuppa for Children Classes I would have been holding during the Easter holidays.

Although the project is designed with children in mind, it’s a perfect project for anyone to create!

Balmy Blue Sky, Garden Green Grass and a Daffodil Delight sun are joined by a Basic Black and Whisper White lamb.

Quite a collection of punches are used from Circle to Layering Circles Dies, there’s even Balloon Bouquet and Elephant Builder Punches used too. You’ll notice that it also uses the Small Bloom Punch from SAB that isn’t currently available. But, fingers crossed it will be making an appearance in the Catalogue again soon.

The project has an accompanying craft-along video that you can join in with too, where I take you through all the steps to make this punch art Easter lamb.

I hope you enjoy the project. Pop back soon to see the other card from this Easter Kit.

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Happy crafting

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Last Week’s Card & Cuppa – Easter Punch Art

April 15, 2019April 14, 2019 ~ Karen Young

At last week’s Card & Cuppa sessions, the attendees made these cute Easter Punch Art projects.

Easter Punch Art project using Stampin' Up! products. Designed by Karen at HIPPOFROG Designs

The rabbit uses the Bunny Builder Punch, and the eggs are from the Balloon Bouquet Punch, with the ‘tie’ cut off.

To create the grass, we used a texture from the Touches of Texture Stamp Set and stamped in Pear Pizzazz. This was a combination of lots of generations of stamping, along with turning the stamp to create the effect.

The bunny and its cute tail have the edges softened using a Sponge Dauber.

My inspiration for the eggs was of course mini eggs. Each one is stamped tone on tone using a different pattern.

We have Soft Sea Foam ‘splats’ from the Swirly Bird Stamp Set, So Saffron stripes from the Playful Backgrounds Stamp Set and Jar of Love provides the Blushing Bride dots.

These are all mounted on the Soft Sea Foam base and So Saffron layer. Finally, the bunny is added using Dimensionals.

Card & Cuppa has a slightly amended schedule for the next month due to Bank Holidays etc. Please refer to my Class Timetable for more details and remember to book your place by 18:00 the day before.

Happy crafting

Karen Young HIPPOFROG Designs

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Touches Of Texture Clear-Mount Stamp Set

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Last Week’s Card & Cuppa – Punch Art card for Easter or Spring

April 17, 2017April 13, 2017 ~ Karen Young

I hope you’re enjoying the Easter Bank Holiday Weekend.

At last week’s Card & Cuppa classes, we made this bright punch art card for Easter or Spring.

Falling Flowers Daffodil Punch Art Stampin' Up!

I’d seen other punch art daffodils on Pinterest but they were made with 5 petal punches. As daffodils have 6 petals these versions were bothering me, so I had to find a 6 petal flower instead.

In my Annual Catalogue I found the pointed petal flower in the fabulous Falling Flowers Stamp Set which has 6 petals. The trumpet is from the Blossom Builder Punch.

Of course, using Daffodil Delight ink onto Daffodil Delight card is a must for making daffodils. The attendees had the choice of making white, yellow, or a combination, plus a choice of trumpet colours too. We cut out the flowers by hand, but you could use the matching May Flower Framelits if you prefer.

The jar from the Jar of Love Stamp Set and retiring Cucumber Crush Thick Baker’s Twine to coordinate with the stems add the finishing touches.

Here is a better view of the trumpets.

Falling Flowers Daffodil Punch Art Stampin' Up!

Due to the Bank Holidays and other commitments, Card & Cuppa classes are on a different schedule for the next few weeks. Monday classes will return on Monday 8th May. Thursday classes will run on 20th April and then 4th May.

Please make sure you have booked your place by 18:00 the night before.

Happy crafting

Karen Young - HIPPOFROG Designs