Bird punching

Having recently attended some card making classes in Ash run by Cate I have been getting into the world of Stampin up products.  I would love to have a home party and get some of my friends into card making, but if I'm realistic it's probably best I stick to making and selling them cards instead as they all tell me they aren't very creative etc etc.

Anyway, my first lot of purchases included a two step bird punch, which I have been playing with to my hearts content, coming up with allsort of ideas, some of which I have to admit to having cased from the internet. 

My favourite has to be the card that I made for a friend to give to his wife for their anniversary.

I saw something similar whilst searching through the internet for ideas but it turned out to be quite hard to get all the leaves intertwined together in a heart shape. 

It turns out this is also ideal for my first ever entry into a card making challenge The Fuzzy Wuzzy challenge - 'get punchy'.

The bird punch can be used to create allsorts of other things, not just the basic shapes in their raw form.  More ideas to follow another day... I'm off to search for more challenges I can enter ;).

More challenges I have entered:

The Poodles Parlour - 'birds eye view'
My time to craft - 'bird watcher'

Stampsruschallengers - 'through the garden gate'
Pollycraft - 'the great outdoors'
The Paper Shelter - 'for the birds'
Paperpretties - 'animals'
Simon Says - 'anything goes'