Six Fiskars Punches. One Halloween Layout.
- posted by: Wendy Jo
- posted in: Uncategorized, Challenges, Tools, Projects, Inspiration
- on: October 3, 2008
As you all know, Lead Fisk-a-teers occasionally teach classes and make appearances at local scrapbook stores throughout the states. When we go to these stores, the projects that we present are usually ones that we have created ourselves.
Since I usually travel to stores and locations within a short drive of my home, I occasionally find some Fisk-a-groupies following me around to each location. (Yes, I do feel like a Rockstar at times. And who knows, someday I just might have my own tour bus to totally rock things out! LOL!) When this occurs, to keep things new an exciting, I find myself creating different make-and-takes for each location or each day of the event.
I’m often asked, “Who (or what) inspires You?” For me, some of the places I find inspiration are magazines, books, boxes of food on the grocery store shelves and… the projects right here in the Fisk-a-teer gallery. This summer I stumbled across a layout in our Fisk-a-teer gallery created by Robindiane #2953. What caught my eye in this layout was how she used various sizes of rectangles and how they simply overlapped each other.
I love this community for the inspiration and support that we give and receive to our Fisk-a-friends. Each of us come here not only to share our own talents, but see the talents of others. So, with Robindianne’s permission, I have “Fisk-a-lifted” parts of the basic sketch of her layout for a quick make-and-take project I created for an appearance this weekend. In my layout, I left room for the make-and-take participants to add their own title and journaling if they so desire. I used Heidi Grace Jeepers Creepers papers, all four of the new Halloween Squeeze Punches (love them!), a border corner punch and the popular Threading Water Border Punch. That’s right… six Fiskars punches in one Halloween layout.
This Sunday, October 5th I’ll be at Great Scraps in Millersville, MD. Customers who stop by will have the opportunity to create this layout as a FREE make-and-take during their Fiskars Demo Day. So if you are in the area, be sure to stop by and say hello! And if you are not in the area, I have a challenge for you. I hope my layout inspires you to go punch crazy and create a new layout using six different punches. Share your layout in the gallery and include the link here in your comments listing the six different punches you used before October 13th. Now remember, you can only use six punches in this challenge, no more, no less.
I picked up one extra Halloween Squeeze Punch at a local store when I bought mine last week and if you follow all of the steps of this challenge listed here, I’ll pick one random challenge participant and send them my extra punch! Happy punching!
***edit*** a winner has been selected for this challenge. Congratulations to Christina S. #4635. Please send me your mailing address so I can get your package out in the mail.
Lene says:
October 3rd, 2008 at 11:10 amWhat if we don’t have six different punches? I might (I never did count them), I’m just saying… for those who don’t…
Merlene says:
October 3rd, 2008 at 11:22 amGood use of lots of Fiskars punches. Nice make & take.
Lorraine says:
October 3rd, 2008 at 12:08 pmDoes it have to be Halloween punches.
melita says:
October 3rd, 2008 at 12:16 pmHmm…i’m pretty sure I have 6…gotta check.
VickiF says:
October 3rd, 2008 at 1:19 pmFun!!
Wendy Jo says:
October 3rd, 2008 at 1:23 pmYou can use ANY six Fiskars punches… squeeze punches, hole punches, border punches, corner punches, and old cassette punches just to name a few. They don’t have to be the new Halloween punches or scallop punches, becasue they are so hard to find. But, if you have found them, you can use them too. Different shapes and sizes are counted as their own individual punch. Does that make sense?
Michelle 3624 says:
October 3rd, 2008 at 1:23 pmNope I only have four punches wondering if I will visit someone with more punches this weekend!
Wendy Jo says:
October 3rd, 2008 at 1:26 pm…and for those who don’t have six punches, I want to make it fair for everyone…so…how about adding decorative edge scissors into the mix? Just use as many punches you have up to the six and use the decorative edge scissors as a subsitute.
Lene says:
October 3rd, 2008 at 1:33 pmOK, good deal! (as someone around the age of 4 says in this house)
Michelle 3624 says:
October 3rd, 2008 at 3:38 pmNope no decorative scissors either I bet your wonder what I have now! . . . Don’t worry be happy! :0)
Marla #3291 says:
October 3rd, 2008 at 4:16 pmSorry to say that I HAVE way to MANY PUNCHES - a couple of drawers full - a slight addiction I believe. Here is my layout using: threading water, corner/border punch, funky love, star, circle, and may flowers punch.
http://www.fiskateers.com/community/photo/27885/
Groovy Deborah says:
October 3rd, 2008 at 5:28 pmCool! I’m on it
Thanks Wendy Jo (and Robindiane).
Deborah
Lorraine says:
October 3rd, 2008 at 6:45 pmhttp://www.fiskateers.com/community/photo/27896/
Whew that was hard work coming up with something that makes a bit of sense.
Anyways I used the small tippy toes, rope, lace, extra large oopsie daisy, dancing daisy circle punch and the 4-1 Joy of Spring embossing punch. Is that 6?
RobinV #4844 says:
October 3rd, 2008 at 6:48 pmCute layout. Come out to my area and do a make-n-take at our LSS. I am in socal so the weather will be beautiful for you.
RitaS says:
October 3rd, 2008 at 11:54 pmwhat a fun challenge!
debby says:
October 4th, 2008 at 5:52 pmUsed six punches and no more for a really fun layout. I could not resist when I found these old old stickers.
http://www.fiskateers.com/community/photo/27939/
I also posted a photo of all the punches I used.
Christina Solloway says:
October 4th, 2008 at 11:14 pmThis is my version of the 6 punch challenge.
http://www.fiskateers.com/community/photo/27964/
Michelle 3624 says:
October 6th, 2008 at 3:14 pmI got mine done this weekend and I used Threading water, lacy day of summer, 2″ circle, 1 !/2 circle, 1″ square and Scaredy cat punches.
You can find it here:
http://www.fiskateers.com/community/photo/28077/
Karin #4472 says:
October 6th, 2008 at 6:03 pmI’ve just uploaded mine to the gallery…. http://www.fiskateers.com/community/photo/28079/
Jennifer #3008 says:
October 8th, 2008 at 1:28 amHere is mine layout with six fiskars punches. I used a horse punch, the daisy scallop with embossing border punch, a circle lace punch, a rope border punch, a corner punch with embossing and the threading water border punch. I used a halloween picture of my children for the theme.
http://www.fiskateers.com/community/photo/28134/
debby 2852 says:
October 10th, 2008 at 9:59 amI was amiss by not posting the names of all 6 of my Fiskars punches that I used on my layout. So here goes:
Squeeze Punches
One Way XL
Twinkle, Twinkle XL and L
Furry Friend L
Circle Punch
Heart of Hearts
Boarder Punch
Threading Water
That’s six!!
Wendy Jo says:
October 12th, 2008 at 8:13 pmA winner has been selected for this challenge. Please don’t let that stop you in participating in this challenge. You never know what might happen if you do
Groovy Deborah says:
October 13th, 2008 at 8:49 pmI had trouble uploading my lo but am going to try right now even though you already chose your winner
Groovy Deborah says:
October 13th, 2008 at 9:32 pmhttp://www.fiskateers.com/community/photo/28442/
Wendy Jo here is the lo I did for your challenge. Sorry I could not load it earlier but was having “issues”.
Deborah