I wanted to try out my new Blossom Place 'n' Punch Maker from Creative Memories and this is the layout I came up with. I punched the blossom on the upper corners of my blue base card stock and then cut out the flowers from some patterned paper and placed them under the 'window'. The punch works well but I had a bit of trouble figuring out how to align the second blossom in the matching location on the opposite side. I ended up holding the paper and punch together up to my lights so I could see where the cut would be but then trying to set it down without the paper moving, and getting the top part of the punch on it exactly, was tricky. The magnets are so strong on the punch that the two pieces really snap together, and that can move the paper. It's possible to shimmy the card stock back to its place but overall I think it would just be easier to make more randomly placed punches rather than try to line everything up perfectly. I think I could do a lot of cool things with this punch (as well as the postage stamp one), I just have to spend a bit of time experimenting with it.
I cut a large scalloped background using the cut on the Stamping Cricut cartridge (it's a frame but I just hid the centre cut using my Gypsy). I also cut the title 'Lucky Day' from the same cartridge - twice, so I could off-set the two and make a shadow effect. I cut the tag for a
journal box from the Tags, Bags, Boxes & More cart and then used the Blossom punch again on the bottom corner to add a flower underneath.
Happy first day of summer!!
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