Playing with Punches and Cutters

The weather outside may be frightful, but I am scrapping with Spring and Summer colors. I've been using my punches and cutting tools quite a bit lately and thought I would share a few projects.

Here is a card I made using my hexagon punch, some paper scraps, and some stamps from Heartfelt Creations.

I used the a Christmas corner punch from Kreaxions to make the corners on this card for my sister's birthday.

Here is a scrapbook page I made with our summer vacation photos. I used the same Christmas corner punch from Kreaxions to make the green doily. I also used my circle cutter.Look at the silly expression on my husband and son in the lower photo, scrapping these vacation photos makes me happy.

Here is another vacation page using my circle cutter and punches, using a sketch from Stuck?! 

Thanks for looking!

Over the Rainbow

We stayed at a remote location in the rainforest in Suriname. After an amazing stay, we took this little plane from the grass airstrip to the capital city of Paramribo. We saw breathtaking views from the plane windows, but I was surprised to see a rainbow and then a double rainbow out the airplane window.

I made the dot rainbow using modeling paste, a Tim Holtz template, and assorted mist to color the paste. I used this sketch from Let's Scrap and this is my entry into December challenge at Scrap and Play (red, green, and trees).

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Hanukkah Cards

I only make a few Hannukah cards each year since I only send them to immediate family. Sometimes I give them Hebrew school teachers also. Here's the first one I made this year:

 I used this sketch from Sketch-n-Scrap, the fall trees from the Cozy fall mood board at SWAT, and linking back to paper issues.

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Rainforest Birds

We saw many unique birds in the rainforest or Suriname, especially the Toucan. It's a wonder how they fly with those big beaks. Here's a page with the Toucan and a few other birds we saw along the Kabalebo River:

This is for the Turkey challenge at SWAT (T= Tropicana collection, U = Umber round letter stickers, R = red flowers, K = Kanban crafts stamps, E = Egret, Y=yellow beak on the toucan) and the Birds of a Feather link party at Paper Issues.

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Macaws

Some of the highlights of visiting the Amazon rainforest in Suriname were the birds, especially the Macaws. We saw them several times, but were only able to get these great photos of them on the last day, when we took one final boat ride up the Kabalebo River.

This is a lift of Jody Rogers for challenge 14 at Scrap & Play and I'm linking to Birds of a Feather at Paper Issues. 

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Seattle Space Needle

My husband recently had a business trip to Seattle and our younger son got to join join him and do a little sightseeing. Here is a page with photos from their visit to the Space Needle. I used this sketch from Stuck?! sketches.

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Jodensavanne

Jodensavanne was the site of the original Jewish community in Suriname. It dates back to the early 1600's and is located about 50 km south of the capital city of Paramaribo.  Most of the Jewish community had left this site and moved to Paramaribo by the beginning of the 19th century. I believe this is the oldest continually existing Jewish community in the Americas. For a bit on our journey to get to Jodensavanne, look at this post.

I used this sketch from Sketch-n-Scrap. This is also my entry in the Thankful challenge at Scrap & Play (T= tags, h=heartfelt creations paper, a = adhesive, n= numbers, k = kids (in photo), f= fussy cutting, u=uppercase letters, l= lowercase letters).

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