Happy Spring - Challenge 113 LNS - Spring is in the Air

Officially spring arrives on March 21, still too many days away for me.   Challenge 113 with the LNS group here - Spring is in the Air.  We were to use our flower stamps. However, I was thinking tulips as an early spring flower, so I used the Owl Builder punch to make a tulip instead. This card was inspired by one I saw on Pinterest, which after tracing it back through many pins, was originally made by Valida.

Stamp:  Sentiment computer generated
Inks: Tangerine Tango, Always Artichoke
Papers: Tangerine Tango, Sycamore Street DSP (SAB), Whisper White, Pumpkin Pie, Always Artichoke
Accessories: Top Note die, Oval framelits, Mat pack & Paper piercer,  polka dot folder, Owl Builder punch, Decorative Label Punch, 1 3/4 by 7/8" oval punch, 5/8" Always Artichoke seam binding, dimensionals, rhinestones, white gel pen

St. Patrick's Day Pop Up Birthday Card

I had to cancel tonight's card making class due to inclement weather.  We're really getting dumped on with wet snow - which will probably freeze to a dangerous mess come nightfall.  Thus I made the decision to cancel class rather than someone get in an accident. Perhaps everyone will be available tomorrow night.
This is the one of the cards we were going to make tonight.  It's a St. Patrick's Day birthday pop up card using the Owl builder punch

Before starting the card, put together 4 Owls using the owl builder punch and the "Party Hearty" stamp set (for the birthday hats).  Directions below.

Outside:
The front of the card is Gumball Green.
Start by cutting a piece of Early Espresso coordination card stock and emboss it with the Woodgrain embossing folder and sand it.  Cut one side in an irregular manner simulating a tree trunk.  Punch out the peek hole using the Oval punch.
Take one of the birthday owls and insert it half way through the opening and adhere the lower part of the owl to the back of the tree trunk. Then place a piece of Early Espresso card stock big enough to cover the hole and attach it behind the owl and the oval hole.  Attach this unit to the right side of the front of the card.
Stamp with sentiment from "Feeling Sentimental" using Early Espresso ink ont Whisper White card stock. Punch it out using the Oval punch and sponge the edges with Gumball Green ink.
I never like to waste anything, so I placed the oval that was punched out of the tree trunk behind and at right angles to the sentiment.  Attach both to the left hand side of the card. The front of the card is now finished.

Inside:
Fold the Crumb Cake cardstock in half and on the folded edge make pencil marks at 1, 1 1/2, 2 1/2, 3, 4, and 4 1/2"
Measure 1" up from the folded line and draw a line across the card.
Draw lines from your marks on the folded line to the 1" line.
Cut on the pencil lines from the fold to the 1" line.  You will end up with 3 pop ups.

Top half:
Using the shamrock stamp from "Every Little Bit" and Gumball Green ink, stamp the image randoming on the top half of the Crumb Cake card stock.
Take a piece of Gumball Green card stock, scallop one of the long edges with the scallop border punch, and then emboss with the Square lattice embossing folder.
Attach a piece of 7/16" Natural trim ribbon and a bow top the bottom of this Gumball Green strip
Now attach it to the top of the Crumb Cake cardstock about half way between the top and the top of the pop ups.

Bottom half:
Attach a strip of scalloped Gumball Green cardstock to a piece of Tea for Two DSP and attach to the bottom edge.
To make the shamrock, arrange 3 small heart punches together at their tips.  Cut a tiny strip of cardstock for the stem.  Attach just above DSP
The sentiment is from the "Occasional Alphabet" stamp set.  It is stamped with Black Stazon on Whisper White and punched out with the Decorative Label punch.  The edges are inked with Gumball Green ink.  I punched a second Decorative Label in Gumball Green card stock as a mat for the sentiment.  Attach to the lower right side using dimensionals.

Now attach the front half of the card to the inside being careful to keep the pop ups free of adhesive .

Lastly attach the owls to the pop ups.

And your card is done.

Here's a list of the materials:
Card:
Stamps: Every Little Bit, Occasional Alphabet, Feeling Sentimental
Inks: Gumball Green, Black Stazon, Early Espresso
Papers: Gumball Green, Crumb Cake, Whisper White, Early Espresso Coordination card stock, Early Espresso card stock
Accessories: Woodgrain folder, Square Lattice folder, Scallop border punch, Oval punch, Decorative Label punch, Small heart punch, Natural 7/16" trim ribbon, dimensionals

Owls:
Stamp: Party Hearty (retired)
Inks: Black Stazon, Gumball green marker
Papers: Chocolate chip (body), Tea for Two DSP (clothing), Basic black, Whisper White (eyes)
Accessories: Two step owl punch, adhesive

Stamp the image of the party hats.  Color them using the marker.  Then cut out 4 hats using your paper snips, leaving a strip of cardstock on the bottom of the hat.  This will make attaching the hat to the owl's head easier.

Owl Goes Back to School - LNS Challenge 186

Challenge 186 is back to school time.

One of my grandson's is starting kindergarten and the other Grade 1.  I made each of them an Owl card - of course both are different, but the idea is the same.
This card is a CASE from Maria Pane.  I changed a few things but essentially the card is very similar.

Technique:
Owl:  Owl builder punch.  Whisper White was sponged around the outside of the body so the owl could be seen better against the black background.
Books:  Word Window punch.  Lines and word made with Basic Black marker
Apple:  From Fruits & Blossoms stamp set.  Inked with markers and then cut out
Numbers:  Junior Alphabet die.  The bar under the 3 was made from the letter 1; the plus sign from 2 letter I's
Stamp: Fruit And Flower
Ink: SU markers (Basic Black, Chocolate brown, Real Red, Gumball Green, Whisper White
Papers: Basic Black, Whisper White, Early Espresso, Real Red, Tangerine Tango, Gumball Green, Bashful Blue, Very Vanilla, retired designer paper
Accessories: Owl builder punch, Word Window Punch, Junior Alphabet die

Lilac Flower - punch art

This spring everything is so early, so I expect that the lilac's will be early in blooming as well. The warm spell we had recently has thrown Mother Nature for a loop and everything is coming up early. The Lilac is one of my favourite spring flowers.  I will cut a few sprigs of Lilacs to bring into the house and their fragrance fills every room of the house.  Outside, their fragrance can be smelled  a block away.
And what is spring without the lilac.



Making the flower is a bit labor intensive, but once all the flowers are punched out the assembly goes quite quickly.
I punched out flowers using the Boho Blossom punch -in Concord Crush, Perfect Plum and Elegant Eggplant as well as Whisper White which was sponged with Perfect plum. The center of the flowers are the pupils of the eyes from the Owl Punch. I used the white gel pen to highlight the flower centers. The flowers were layered with the various color shades in order to create the shape and depth of  the lilac flower.  The leaves were hand cut in Garden green and sponged with Always Artichoke ink. The entire flower was then spritzed with Vanilla spritz.


Stamp: You're a Gem
Inks: Perfect Plum, Always Artichoke
Papers; Concord Crush, Perfect Plum, Elegant Eggplant,Whisper White,  Concord Crush designer paper
Accessories: Boho blossom punch, Whisper White Taffeta ribbon, Tab punch,  Owl Builder Punch, White gel pen, Scallop border punch, Vanilla spritz.