Owl Birthday

Good morning friends!

Today's share is a card I made for the Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge.

This week's challenge is a photo challenge - below is the inspiration photo ...

 

 ... and the card that was inspired by it.

Of course I made a Pop it Ups card  - this one is already on it's way to a friend who is celebrating a birthday next week.

I have some new Paper Smooches goodies, and used them here ... the 'Quoteables' dies are going to be SO much fun. The one without the speech 'point' makes a great little hill....

The owl is completely adorable ... I paper pieced her and the little branch.  For the Pop-up, I used the Lots of Pops die by Karen Burniston for Elizabeth Craft Designs.

Finally I decided the owl needed to be a little more festive and I didn't want to add a balloon and hide the pretty banner background paper. So I stamped a Lawn Fawn party hat, fussy cut and added it to her head. A Wink of Stella pen gave it a bit of shimmer and shine.

I can't believe I waited so long to add these stamps to my collection. I'm going to have lots of fun with them!

Supplies used:
Card size: 4-1/2" square
Lots of Pops - Pop it Ups, Karen Burniston (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Hooties stamp set - Paper Smooches
Quotables die - Paper Smooches
Patterned paper - Stampin' Up
Happy Birthday stamp - Stampin' Up 
Hat stamp - Lawn Fawn
Tombow Markers
White gel pen
Wink of Stella
White card stock
Pink seam binding

Thanks for stopping by today.

3-d Congratulations Card

Last year, our son not only won the Dean's award in his apprentice program, he also won Apprentice of the Year (in his field).  There was a big awards ceremony in Edmonton which we drove up for and this is the card I made for him. I'm posting it today for my Masculine Card Monday.

I used my Cricut and the 'Beyond Birthday's cartridge to cut the CONGRATULATIONS. The black layer was attached to the shadow with foam tape. There is lots of foam tape on this card, since I was going to be hand delivering it.

The card stock (except the black & white) is lovely textured stuff, that I got from the Stampin' Up clearance rack. I love that stuff.

The word stamps are by Verve and they were stamped in teal ink.

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