Thursday Craft 'n Chat - Using Martha Stewart Punches

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Welcome to today's Craft and Chat. Today I am using 3

Martha Stewart punches shown here.

The square one is new and doesn't come within a set, but I loved how it

made my card look.

I started with a 5" X 5" black square.

Then I cut the square into a circle.

The circle is 4 3/4" in diameter. From there I 

folded the circle in half to find the center then laid it

back on my measuring grid.

Here you can see that I have drawn 6 lines for an even spacing.

This is where the fun comes in. Using my corner punch on  a

circle can be tricky. Since your not using the wings on your corner punch

you have to slide your paper in OVER the top of the wings. So, at each

line that I drew I centered it on the punch and cut. As you can see I got my spacing

off just alittle but nothing that can't be hidden. :) So this is what the finished 

circle looks like. Now here's what I did next.

To make my doily I cut the left over circle off. Love this effect.

It takes a little time but I think it is worth it. This corner punch is from my

set of Lacy punches. Now for the center which is a totally different design

I punched out the center with the square punch. I just love it.

I used my border punch for make my lace strip

You can really do allot with this punch and then I

took the flower punch and punched it twice, once with yellow 

and once with white.

You'll see that floral piece in just a minute. I found this really spring fun paper and placed

my lattice lace punch along the side.

So here is the finished card. I off set the lace flower so you could see the

yellow since they are both the same size. Placed my thank you on top. To finish

it off, I had a spare swirl that I layed down before placing my new lacy doily.

And topped it off with a beautiful butterfly. With this technique you will never have to 

buy a doily again.

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Pam