I am Owl Inspired....

Hi there!

Hope you had a lovely weekend. It has been a cold and very wet weekend here! The weather is supposed to brighten up later in the week, so here's hoping! Our backyard was under water today!

This weekend we celebrated my niece and nephew's birthdays. I gave my niece a handmade pressie (which I will share in another post) and wanted to create a matching card. You know how I love to be all matchy matchy!

I thought I may as well search for a challenge to combine with, as I am on a mission to challenge it up more often! I came across the perfect sketch over at 'Card Patterns Weekly Sketch Blog'.

The pressie in question was a handmade felt owl, so an owl card was definitely in order. I matched the colours in the owl as my colour palette for the card. I have used Whisper White, Bashful Blue and So Saffron, combined with some Twitterpatted DSP.

I loved the sketch and pretty much stayed true to it, only adding the doily peeking out of the top and the sentiment banner. The doily cut out behind the owl was made using some white felt and the Perfect Pennants SU! Big Shot Die.

I added a Bashful Blue Taffeta Ribbon Bow, some Linen Thread and some pretty little flowers.  The bottom edge of the Twitterpatted DSP was run through the Big Shot with one of the Edgelit dies.

The Owl was made using some SU! Circle Punches for the body, the Large Oval Punch for the tummy and the Owl Punch for the beak and the feet.

 The sentiment banner was made using the petal cone die, which I then stamped on and folded to give some dimension.

Since changing over to my MacBook Air, (which I love!) I no longer have Photoshop. I used to edit all of my photos in Photoshop, so when switching to Mac I had to find an alternative. I had been using iPhoto which I was happy with as far as editing goes, but I could not add a watermark, not that I know how to anyway! So I have started using an online editing web site called PicMonkey. I love it, it has so many cool features! I can add a watermark, but I don't seem to be able to save it and use it again, so I have to start from scratch when adding it to each photo! So the search may need to continue........we will see. If anyone has any ideas on this, please feel free to leave me a comment and let me know your ideas.

The cool thing is that you can make collages on PicMonkey also. It even has a template that fits the new Facebook cover photo on Timeline. Must try that one!

Anyway, I have added a collage of the photos in this post just for fun.

Thanks for stopping by today!

S xx

Girly - Girl

Hi there!
Today I have a girly, girl card for the latest A La Card Monkey Challenge. Here is the brief:

Just think "girly-girl" and sit down to create something that's full of sugar and spice and everything nice.

Here is the sketch. For my card I turned the sketch on its side, to fit with my image. This card is for a sweet little friend who is about to turn four. I hope she loves it!

I made this ruffled ribbon by adhering double sided tape to the back of the satin ribbon. I then ruffled and stuck down white seam binding on each side of the satin ribbon. Here is a close up of the ribbon detail.

I have used the Create a Cupcake stamp set and the Build a Cupcake punch to make my cupcake. I have used some champagne shimmer mist on the top of the white icing and the pink flowers, not sure if it shows up in the photo.

 

Materials:
(All SU unless otherwise stated)
Stamp sets: Create a Cupcake, Occasional Quotes

Cardstock/ DSP: Whisper White, Pretty in Pink, Pink Pirrouette, Regal Rose

Inks: Regal Rose, Blushing Bride

Markers:

Accessories: Build a Cupcake Punch, Vintage Wallpaper Embossing Folder, Seam Binding, Clear Rhinestone Brad, Satin Ribbon, Itty Bitty Flower Punch, Pink Rhinestones (own stash), Doily Die (own stash)

Please contact me if you require any info and feel free to leave me a comment, I love reading them!

Thanks for stopping by!