When I heard about the AMuseAPalooza contest this week to use punches, I started searching for my stash of A Muse stamps . . . I hadn't seen them since moving back in September! When I found this adorable little princess, I decided to make my youngest daughter's 5th birthday card and be ahead of the game for July.
I stamped her in black StazOn on SU's shimmer white cardstock and watercolored her with Stampin' Up's Aqua Painter and dye reinkers: orange, yoyo yellow, pink passion & gray. I punched her out with the Marvy Mega Oval and then matted her with a yoyo yellow Giga Scalloped oval punch. Then I punched holes in the scallops with a paper piercing tool and outlined the holes with Signo White Gel pen. A pink MM crystal brad was added to the top of the oval for some bling (you girls love their bling at ANY age!). She is mounted with dimensionals to the pink passion card base.
Patterned paper is Making Memories Maddi Paisley (from Eclectic Paperie) and has all my daughter's favorite colors: yellow, orange & pink! I scalloped the bottom edge of the paper using a small corner rounder punch (SU) with the corner guard taken off and then punched holes in each of the scallops with the Crop-A-Dile's 1/8" circle punch. The centers of those holes were highlighted with a white gel pen dot.
TIP: When making scallops, start in the center of your length of paper and work to one end. Come back and punch from the center to the other end -- that way, your last scallops end up the same size & shape.
The A Muse sentiment was also stamped in black StazOn and cut to 3/8". Then I put just one end thru Stampin' Up's Word Window punch and rounded the right side. The left side is faux zig-zag stitched using SU's paper piercing template, pad & tool and pink passion Stampin' Write Marker.
A bit of white May Arts dotted organdy ribbon finishes off the card.
