Holiday Owl

For this week's SCS Inspiration Challenge we're headed to one of my favorite stores ... PIer 1 Imports.  I chose this fun little Holiday Owl Garden Flag to inspired my design.

My original plan was to use my Stampin' Up Owl punch and add a scarf, but when I was looking through my supplies, I saw this awesome texty Big Eyes Owl from Hero Arts, and my design idea wandered off ... I wanted to find a way to turn him into a holiday owl.

I stamped the owl once in green and a second time in blue to pull in the colors from the flag.  I cut out the eyes and nose and paper-pieced them onto my design (using foam tape behind the eyes for a bit of dimension).   Next I made a Santa hat by using scalloped & oval die cuts for the brim & a folded triangle for the hat.  I added a fuzzy pom pom to complete the design.

I used a round Snowflake and pearl to create a holiday ornament to dangle from my tree branch ... and managed to get a red ink smudge at the right side of my card.  I decided to use it as an *embellishment opportunity" by adding the dimension of some punched leaves to cover my *oops* ... and to join the Punches Challenge at Simon Says Stamp.

I used a sketch from Hero Arts for their Holiday Card and Die Cut themes for October.  I finished with a sentiment from Lower Case Greetings ... You could read it as ho ho ho ... or perhaps hoo hoo hoo.

Comments

[Lorraine A]

Gorgeous card Stef :-) I just spotted this on a thumbnail and had to pop over :-) I love how you made this into a Christmas card ,, very creative ! Love the little bauble hanging on the branch ,, lovely touch :-)

thanks for joining us on the Simon Says Stamp Challenge :-)
luv
Lols x x x

[Lin]

LOVE this Stef, so fun! Thanks for playing with us at the Simon Says Stamp challenge this week!