Category Archives: owl

A badger and an owl card

badger, card, owl

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A few weeks ago I was asked to make a badger and an owl card for a good friend of mine. I used a photo for the front of the badger card and a stamped image (kindly sent by Rachel) for the back of the card and as it was a man’s card I didn’t add blooms and swirls but just a tiny bit of bling on the corners.

Inks: versamark with silver embossing powder
Card: black, silver and blue card, photo
Stamp: Michael Strong’s Mosaic frame
Other: pearls

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For the owl card I kept to natural colours, used a photo of some bark (taken at Aviemore a few weeks ago) and a real feather which I hope is an owls. The background paper is hand made from recycled cotton T-shirts and the ribbon has leaves printed on it.

Inks: Moonshadow ink Burnt umber, Archival ink Coffee
Card: White card, hand made paper, brown card, photo
Stamps: owl stamp free from craft stamper mag
Other: peel-off leaves coloured and stuck to hand made paper, ribbon, hand made re-cycled paper, clear domes on eyes, copper brads, feather

July CBC ATC swap

ATC, CBC, dragonflies, July swap, owl

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Here are my ATCs for the CBC swap for July. We had to use a stamp in this swap rather than a particular theme so I used a couple of the free stamps from the craft stamper magazine (and a background stamp for the piece of vellum).

ATC 1
Inks: black document ink, copic pens to colour the owl
Card: white card, Bo Bunny paper back to backs; a gift of love and my darling motion
Stamp: free owl stamp designed by sugar nellie
Other: orange organza ribbon, small green ric-rac ribbon, googly eyes, Boo rub-on from Hambly screen prints Halloween, Hobby craft dome sticker flowers 2

ATC2
Inks: Adirondack alcohol inks; clover, hazelnut, citrus, mountain rose, watermelon and sunshine yellow, white stazon, silver pilot pen, white signo pen
Card: glossy white, white vellum
Stamps: background on vellum from Aspects of design Daisy daydreams, free dragonfly stamp designed by Kay Carley
Other: tiny gems, Hobby craft dome sticker flowers 2, wire for legs, distress stickles peeled paint, yellow stickles

Whit a scunner tae be a hunner card

Bo-Bunny, card, CBC challenge, craft stamper, owl
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I WON!

Here is my entry into the CBC crew challenge CBC00100. The them is one hundred as this will be the hundredth challenge. The lorgnettes are made to look like the number 100 and ‘a hunner’ is Scots for ‘one hundred’. The prize is a couple of templates kindly donated by WS Designs. (the telephone box and DL envelope templates). Thank you everyone who voted for my card.

Inks: Archival coffee, watercolour pencils to colour image
Card: White, green textured, orange vellum, Bo-Bunny Beau jardin poppy
Stamps: free Sugar Nellie owl stamp with Craft stamper magazine
Other: googly eyes, hand made lorgnettes, sketched on branch and walking stick, flowers, white highlighting pen, computer generated text

t’wit t’woo guess who’s 2

card, CBC challenge, owl, two

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Noah will be two on Friday. Clare’s CBC challenge is to make something childish so I made Noah’s card for this challenge.

Inks: black document ink
Stamps: Woodware clear stamps Nature fun owl, Cute companions Patchwork numbers
Card: white card stock and coloured card (unknown)
Colour: pencils and neon pink pen
Other: eyes, computer generated wording