Owl Punch Art

I think the owl punch from SU is the most versatile punch they sell.  You can dress the owl up - a pirate, a mate, a bride, a groom, party girls, santa, your imagination is your only limit and when you run out of ideas, ask your kids, or grandchildren.  This punch makes an excellent present for all ages, so long as you can use the punch.

These are a sample of different ideas for dressing up the owl...

There is everything from Party Girl owls to Dr and Nurse, Bride and Groom, Pirate and first Mate, Santa and SUPER OWL, LOL all inspired or cased from other people all over the place.

The owl is not only an owl, cut off the owl's feet and you have a tulip or add  second owl, split in two (no feet)  and shadow on the back of the first to make a lovely tulip. I have more cards on my blog.  Click here to see more tulips.

Cut off the feet and you have a head...a head for a range of animals.  Colour is your friend here and adds to making the animal faces come to life; pink for pig, orange for cat, and so on.

This is only a small sample of different animals I have made with the Owl punch.  Google Owl Punch and you will not believe what you will see.

To confirm realism I got my 3yr Old and hubby to verify the animals - hubby failed the cow, so left to right, top to bottom, Ginger cat, bat, pig, sheep, alien, lion, penguin, ghost, cow, reindeer 1, hippo, reindeer 2.

I love this owl punch, I hope you do too, especially when you can see all of the wonderful animals and dress ups you can create with this very versatile punch.  So get out your punch (or give me a call and ask me to order you one) and sit with your children or grandchildren and share with me what you create, it is a tonne of fun.

Enjoy your punch art!

Top Note Die - Cards

I wanted to make something a little bit fancy LOL, always a challenge for me.  I follow a blog Stamp with Tam and she had this sketch up from "try stampin on Tuesdays #56,

so I played along as I wanted a few card samples using our fabulous top note die.
This is what I made - nice and simpleManhatton Rose with the rose highlighted by using the SU marker on its side to enable the colour to bleed onto the raised sections of the card.

Then I fancied it up a little...

114517 Manhatton Rose Embossing Folder on confetti white, coloured with a real red marker. Base card is real red to match.

Then I started to play....

I used 119277 Elegant Lines embossing folder on Lucky Limade and Cajuan Craze.  The flower and butterfly are Embosslit Dies from SU 114515 Flower Burst and 118138 Beautiful Wings

 Then I started to surf and found this on Lyn Pratt's blog - how cool is this!

Cream Confetti and one of our current in colours Poppy Parade is the cardstock featured in this card along with the stamp set 124976 (WM) Field Flowers

Then something OLD, (old being old DSP). I made this several months ago, using the Top Note die and scraps of paper.  The flower is a combination of stacking two flowers from 121812 Fun flowers and 115971 Blossom Party.   The brad from our sale-a-bration brad and ribbon pack.

Whisper White, Lucky Limeade, Vintage Wall Paper EF, Fun Flowers Big Shot Die and Blossom Party Big Shot Die, Curly Cute

So you see there is a lot you can do with the top note die card wise, I hope these ideas inspire you to purchase and use this wonderful, versatile die.

Enjoy your craft, hope to see you again soon.