Vintage Owl Flowers

I was inspired by a card made by LeeAnn that I saw about a year ago to turn the body of the owl punch into a flower, so I remade it with the materials I had and this is how it turned out:

Pretty nice hey? I love those antique brads and the Love Letter designer paper. I'm not sure if you can see on the right hand side, basically I cut a 'v' shape out of the top of the owl body and then folded up each of the bottom sides to make each petal - the flower I made has six such petals with the brad in the centre. Then I added it to a card.

Stamps: Tiny Tags

Ink: Riding Hood Red & Basic Black

Card Stock: Very Vanilla, Riding Hood Red, Love Letter DSP & Basic Black

Accessories: Striped grosgrain ribbon, Victorian Lace, Vintage Trinkets, Jewelry tag punch, 1/16" handheld punch, Circle Scissors Plus, Dimensionals, Big Shot, Textured Impressions Embossing Folder Elegant Lines, Antique brad, SNAIL.

Owl Treat Bag #2

Here's another of the cute Top Note gift bag made using the owl punch & some of this weeks on sale Daffodil Delight satin ribbon to embellish it (normally $16.95, now only $11.87). They are super quick to make and great for packaging all sorts of gifts inside.

Cardstock: Rich Razzleberry, Daffodil Delight, Old Olive, Whisper White, Real Red, Chocolate Chip

Ink: Daffodil Delight

Accessories: Stamping Sponges, Daffodil Delight Satin Ribbon, Owl Punch, Bird Punch, Tombow glue, Large Oval Punch, mini lunch sacks, SNAIL, Big Shot, Polka Dot textured impressions embossing folder.

Who Loves You? Owl Card

I saw a card similar to this here last month and I made it up and then it's taken me over a month to blog it, running just a bit behind! I loved it when I saw it though as it is just one of those cards that uses fairly simple elements of letters, sponging, white gel pen dots and punching, but NO STAMPING!!

Ink: Poppy Parade

Card Stock: Early Expresso, Daffodil Delight, Whisper White, DSP In Color (hostess level 1)

Accessories: Owl punch, paper snips, white gel pen, 2 way glue pen, Dimensionals, Big Shot, Junior Timeless Type alphabet die, Full Heart punch.

Super Owl

Okay so I think I'm obsessed with the new punches.........but the owl is so cute & versatile - I saw one similar to this on a blog, but now I can't find it to credit it! This is the card I made a few months ago for my DH birthday and just found it whilst cleaning up and thought I'd show you another version of the owl......but this time as a superhero! The background of clouds was done with a scallop circle used as a mask for randomly sponging.

Stamps: Look Who's Turning
Ink: Pacific Point
Card Stock: Real Red, Pacific Point, Daffodil Yellow, Whisper White & Crumb Cake
Accessories: Real Red brads (Brights collection), Dimensionals, 2-way glue pen, paper snips, Scallop circle punch, 1/16" circle punch handheld, large oval punch.

Santa Treat Tubes

Well here's yet another quick Christmas project using the owl punch - again! I think I need to move onto something different as I seem to be a bit obsessed with him of late & the skinny treat bags which were perfect for the M&Ms! These were so cute and I made several as little give aways with other gifts at Christmas - the things I assemble whilst watching my sons sporting activities!

I was naughty as the scallop circle behind the owl was from some retired card stock - did I tell you I was cleaning up of late?? but Old Olive or Pear Pizazz would also look awesome! Here's a little close up of him so you can see how he was put together.

Card stock: Garden Green (retired), Real Red, Whisper White, Basic Black & Crumb Cake

Accessories: White gel pen, paper snips, 2 way glue pen or Tombow, Owl punch, Scallop circle punch, two-step bird punch (hat), word window punch (hat).

Secret Santa

Well Christmas hasn't finished yet - or at least my blog posts about it haven't! Below are the Christmas projects I made for our team's Christmas get together. We had a secret Santa swap to do of a handmade item using all Stampin' Up! products. I chose to make a milk carton holder which held four of the super cute & versatile milk cartons. 

I filled each of the milk cartons with ribbon, brads and other bits and pieces and topped each with a mini library clip - they are so cute. The outside of each carton was wrapped in DSP (retired) and embellished with either a punch art reindeer or Santa made from the owl and two-step bird punches (so versatile).

Stamps: Contempo Christmas, Delightful Decorations
Ink: Chocolate Chip, Basic Black, Real Red & Old Olive
Card Stock: Old Olive, Real Red, Basic Black, Cake Crumb, Whisper White, I Wish DSP (retired)
Accessories: Big Shot, Two Step Bird Punch, Ornament Punch, Owl Punch, mini library clips, SNAIL, stampin' sponges, white gel pen, paper snips. Dimensionals, Black Stampin' Write marker, Mistletoe Old Olive ribbon (retired), basic pearls, 2-way glue pen, modern label punch.

Then to finish of the gifting I made each of my team members a skinny treat bag filled with Christmas M&Ms and topped with an ornament from the Delightful Decorations stamp set. I also did similar ones to these for my son's kindergarten class, but they were filled with jelly beans - which the children really enjoyed and saved me writing out lots of Christmas cards for them each & lets face it at 4yo which would you prefer to get a card or jellybeans?

Sick Owl!

Isn't it true that it never rains but it pours? (well in our case we'd love it to pour with rain actually, but you know what I meant!) I knew I would be making a get well card for a relative this month who had a knee operation, but would you know it the same week another relative had a fall and broke his ankle so I needed two get well cards. I should listen to my own advice though, as I always tell class attendees to make two cards in duplicate at a time as one A4 piece of card gives you two card bases - but who listens to their own advice??? Anyway I did a Google for ideas and there were a tonne of cute medical staff made with the two step owl punch and I had to CASE them as they were too cute! 

Stamps: Word Play & Dotted Lines jumbo roller wheel

Ink: Real Red & Basic Black

Card stock: Real Red, Basic Black, Crumb Cake, Whisper White & Baja Breeze

Accessories: Scallop Trim border punch, two step owl punch, Tombow glue, mini library clip, Dimensionals.

Stamps: Word Play & Dotted Lines jumbo roller wheel

Ink: Real Red & Basic Black

Card stock: Real Red, Basic Black, Crumb Cake, Whisper White & Baja Breeze

Accessories: Scallop Trim border punch, two step owl punch, Tombow glue, Spiral border punch

Owl Treat Bag

Here is another of the projects that everyone had fun making at the World Card Making Day event - it had no stamping on it whatsoever!!! It features the exclusive to Stampin' Up! Big Shot Top Note die and the Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder plus it also uses the gorgeous little owl punch which is SO cute! He's got sleepy eyelids here, but you can make him up in so many different ways - too much fun.

There is a little gold paper gift bag inside that you can put some goodies in for someone special. 

Ink: Daffodil Delight & Soft Suede

Card stock: Tangerine Tango, Daffodil Delight, Real Red, Soft Suede & Old Olive

Accessories: Daffodil Delight Striped grosgrain ribbon, Owl punch, Bird Punch, Top Note die, Perfect Polka Dot embossing folder, Large oval punch, Tombow glue, Stampin' sponges, SNAIL

Non SU: gold gift bag