Hail to Benzi, Queen for the Week and the illustrious President of the Punchkateers. Yea! How great to have Brenda honored in this special way. I love her cards, her sweet words of encouragement, her love of Alabama (the state and the school), and her heart. Benzi is the only other Alabama stamper I know, and her love of punchez (along with the other Punchkateers) rubbed off on me until I became totally addicted. So wouldn't you know it, I picked a card to case that has no punching:
but it was just sooooo cute that I had to try it. I decided to use punchez in order to honor her since she is the head of the Punchkateers. I saw this great tutorial on utube by Valita showing how to make side facing birds with the owl punch - here is the link:
and I have been really wanting to try it. It was so easy and I think it came out super cool.
I kept Brenda's layout and use of birds, but I used gold instead of Kraft, punched my birds, and added hardware and a sentiment. I needed to make an Anniversary card for DH - he has put up with me for 4 years now so he deserves something!
Oh, that hardware was an adventure to say the least! I had seen where Faith (Mark's Finest Papers) had used embossing powder to change a silver charm to gold so I thought I would try it and change my silver hardware to gold. I must have been half asleep still because I started heating that embossing powder while I was holding the hardware - totally forgetting the metal gets really hot when you heat it! I dropped it when it got hot and the embossing powder all came off on my floor. I tried it again not holding the hardware and it worked much better. You can see my little mistakes in the bumpy texture of the hardware but I think it gives it more character! LOL!
PT - 13 - 3 different punches
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Registered: June 10, 2007 Location: BC Posts: 44872
Sun, Apr 24, 2011 @ 4:56 PM
Oh so pretty and perfect, Nutzi!!! I see the birds that Benzi loves, the beautiful music paper - we all know she sings in the choir - such a beauty of a card!
Registered: July 18, 2006 Location: Beautiful, British Columbia, Canada Posts: 24229
Sun, Apr 24, 2011 @ 5:59 PM
This is fabulous Love the birds on the branches and the little heart you added between them. Great card.
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Registered: May 18, 2008 Location: Virginia Posts: 24623
Sun, Apr 24, 2011 @ 6:26 PM
Nancy, you keep blowing me away with these creations of yours. Guess what? That's the 1st card Benzi ever sent me and I still have it. We were worried about the little legs falling off in the mail. I cased it when Brenda was FS, so I chose a different one this time. You have more than given justice to our royal queen in the .... - I mean our royal queen. She will fall in love with this and those birds and b/g are AMAZING! Psstt..the metal looks great, but zee fingerz, I dunno - hope you healed up!
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Registered: March 24, 2006 Location: Deep in the Heart of TEXAS Posts: 15980
Mon, Apr 25, 2011 @ 9:33 AM
Nancy, this is a lovely card!! Great job!!
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Registered: February 21, 2007 Location: Bay City, MICHIGAN Posts: 17556
Mon, Apr 25, 2011 @ 1:04 PM
Hey, Nancy!! Leave it to you to bring on the punchez for Benzi the Prez!! Great little card with the cute love birdz zending kizzez to each othe zet to muzic!! Just gotta watch out for thoze hot hardware piecez when embozzing to change the finish!! Great job on the tutorial - Know Benz will LOVE what you've done with it!!
lymi
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Mon, Apr 25, 2011 @ 3:24 PM
What a great card, Nutzi! Those love birds are fantastic, the colors are great and the hardware is just full of character. Sorry about the burns, but you know sometimes love hurts!
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Mon, Apr 25, 2011 @ 3:36 PM
OMGoodness Nancy - this is so perfect!! Love the gold colors, your beautiful and fun love-birdies - they must be singing to each other (too cute)! And I laughed when I read about your embossing - I've done that exact thing!!
Your card is gorgeous and a great CASE for our Benzi!
Registered: July 9, 2008 Location: Stars Fell on Alabama Posts: 74715
Mon, Apr 25, 2011 @ 10:13 PM
OMG, Nancy...you know what I really admire about you? All the techniques you do. Beautiful flowers and now this owl punch thingy. What a wonderful card. You know I love birds and I think the musical bg is awesome...just what it called for.
Now, I knew when I saw what card you cased, Pamzi would be all over it. We got acquainted over that card and those skinny legs.
Sorry to be so late commenting...had a long weekend out of town.
Thank you so much for taking time over your Easter weekend to case one of my cards. I love it and hope your hubby does, too. Go Bama!
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