Saturday, July 12, 2025

SpongeBob Birthday - Stampin' Up!® Punches & Dies

   My card today has no stamping but uses all Stampin' Up! products.  When I have a need for a card and I have no stamps that work for the theme, punch art always comes to the rescue!  My youngest asked for a SpongeBob cake for his birthday.  People, this boy just turned 17.  Whatever. SpongeBob cake was ordered and then I figured I might as well make it a theme for his card too!  I browsed Pinterest for a hot minute for some inspiration then pulled out my Daffodil Delight cardstock and a bunch of punches and got to work!


  I think it turned out pretty good and even my son was impressed so I guess that's a win for mom!  lol.  I started with a Daffodil Delight card base then added a layer of Daffodil Delight embossed with the retired Tasteful Textile embossing folder for that sponge-y texture.  Then I added some small punched circles in Crushed Curry.

  The eyes came together with a bunch of punched and die cut circles.  I had to play around a bit with sizes to see what worked.  The eyelashes are just very thinly cut pieces of Basic Black.  I don't have a white gel pen at the moment (they always crap out on me after using them just a few times!) or I would have added some highlights to his eyes to make them look a bit more finished.

  Next are the cheeks and the mouth; more circles which are sponged around the edges for depth.  The nose is made the same way. The mouth is just a partial circle that I used another circle die to cut a sliver from.  The teeth are just small pieces of Basic White.

  The shirt is a strip of Basic White and the collar is made from a square piece that was cut in half diagonally.  I ran my Basic Black Stampin' Write marker around the points of the collar pieces to make them more defined.  The tie is a strip of Real Red and the tie knot is just hand trimmed.

  I probably won't ever need a SpongeBob card again but if I did I would try to work his brown pants in too to help balance out All. That. Yellow. 

  Thanks for looking!  Did you stamp today?

All of the current products used to make this card can be purchased in my ONLINE STORE.

Stamps: none

Ink: Daffodil Delight, Basic Black marker

Paper: Daffodil Delight, Crushed Curry, Basic White, Basic Black, Azure Afternoon, Real Red

Accessories: various circle punches, various circle dies, Tasteful Textile embossing folder (retired)

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