Owl Halloween Card

This card was totally CASED from Splitcoast Stampers.

The owl and pumpkin are SU thinlette images.  I used Creepy font for the word "boo".

It seemed like such a simple idea...

Even I find it hard to believe that I spent over 3 hours getting this card laid out and completed.  It seemed like such a simple idea.  Then it took me forever to find, trace, print and cut, then color the owls and the branch.  There are hundreds of MTC and Silhouette files on my computer and no simple tree branch or cutesy owl among them.

Once I found a clip art image that I liked of the owl, it didn't take too long to get it replicated in Silhouette software, traced, and do a print and cut.

A search of clip art images yielded several branches that would have worked but I could never get a decent traced image.  They all had double cut lines and I just couldn't get them eliminated.  If I used the shadow option, the detail on the leaves was lost since the branch is so small.

In desperation, I went to the Silhouette store and bought the branch file.  Then realized- after messing around with it in the Silhouette software for about 30 minutes - that I really, really don't like to cut things with that program.  So, I did a trace in MTC and got them cut the correct size.

Granted, part of the 3 hours was spent walking back and forth to the kitchen and snacking on sausage balls I made.  The house smelled so good, I couldn't stay out of them!

In the end, I'm satisfied with the way this card turned out.  It will work well for Valentine's Day, an anniversary or an I love you card any time of the year.

Owls With Harvest Moon

I'm seeing a pattern here this week.  Seems as if owls have been really catching my eye for fall themed cards.

For this card, the fence is an SVG cut, the moon is a 3 1/2" circle, the owls are Stampin' Up owl builder punch, the hearts are a Martha Stewart punch.  The sentiment was computer printed using Hallmark Card Studio software.

Owl Always Love You Card

The owl is from Create A Critter 2 cartridge, the branch is from Hoot 'n Holler cartridge.  I eliminated some of the layers of each design to simplify cutting and did some pen work.

Would you believe it took me over 3 hours to get 8 of these done?  It's been so long since I've dealt with Cricut images with multiple layers that it took a long time to decide which ones to cut and which could be eliminated. 

Hoot 'n Holler Card

Using my Cameo and Make the Cut software, I cut the owl from the Hoot 'n Holler cartridge for this.  The sentiment was printed with my computer.

Owl Punch Card

This card was shown by a Stampin' Up demo named Krista Oldham.  Chocolate Chip cardstock was used for the background; the bamboo printed paper is some I had on hand; the branches and owls were done with SU punches and the sentiment is from a set of SU stamps.

The holes the owls are peeking out of were done with an 1 1/4" round punch and the sentiment was punched with the Word Window punch.

These little owls are cute but sure have a lot of tiny pieces to assemble.  But, I think the finished product was worth the extra work.  I'm doing a dozen of these cards so I've got owls everywhere on my table top!

Owl Card by Renee Wayland

Renee Wayland has the cutest owl card on her blog:   http://www.paperrenee.com/

She had posted it on Facebook so I sent her a comment and told her I'd be scraplifting it for sure since I had the same paper she'd used.  Of course, when I looked for the owl printed paper, it's nowhere to be found! 

So, I took her concept and used my SU owl punch to make my interpretation of her card.

The brown ric-rack shape that I used for the branch was done with a SU scalloped edge punch using a technique I saw on Youtube.  It's super simple to do, once you get the hang of it!

Thanks, Renee for sharing your card layout!  Keep them coming, I need inspiration!  LOL!