THIS is the Owl Card

Did you read my last post "Create more that Cupcakes" ?  In that post I mentioned on of my favorite cards, and it was inspired by an idea my husband had!  This is the story of that  card...

You can see how the card opens in the middle, the top flap opens up and the bottom flap opens down.  My downline Patty and I were very pleased with this card and so we showed my husband, see how cool it is and how it opens....

My husband says, You should make it so the owl stays on the inside of the card.  Well, as with the popcorn card, we were irritated, how does he always take our good ideas and think of something better!?  After that passed, we had to figure out how to do it.  So, here is the owl card, with the "Bill twist"...

What we did is, punch a whole in the Chocolate Chip Oval with the 1-3/4" circle punch.  Lay that down on the card where you want it to be when the card is complete, trace the circle with a pencil.  Pick up the brown oval, punch out the traced half circle from each side of the card front flaps.  You will want to punch it a hair bigger that what you traced so that no blue is showing.  Then you glue down your oval and frame, playing close attention to glue the oval only to the bottom half of the card and the frame only to the top half of the card.  Next, take your owl, mounted to a black circle.  With glue on the back, place it in the opening on the front of your card, to ensure perfect placement.  Now add your embellishments.  

I call it a Split Oval Window Card!  What do you think?  Pretty clever, I better keep DH around the stamp room for his good ideas!!! 

RECIPE:

Stamps: Teeny Tiny Wishes, Woodgrain Background stamp

Ink: Marina Mist, Cherry Cobbler, Chocolate Chip

Paper: Marina Mist CS, Cherry Cobbler CS, Chocolate Chip CS, Crumb Cake CS, Basic Black CS, Pear Pizzaz DSP (hostess pack)

Tools: Big Shot, Scallop Oval Frame Die, Punches: Word Window, Modern Label, 1-3/4 circle punch, Boho Blossom PUnch, Two-Step Owl XL Punch

Accesssories: Basic Pearls, My homemade cloud stencil, sponge (you can see we added sponged clouds to the second version of this card.)  Email me if you want a printable version of my cloud stencil at: [email protected]

Stay tuned tomorrow, I will be showcasing 1 project a day from my demonstration as last nights Stampadelicious creative group meeting!

Happy  Stampin'

Carrie

Comments

[Sally S]

Love the idea. Very clever Cute card
Sally S

[Sharon Graham]

Oh my word, this is super cute and the flipping component is genius! I'm going to have to study it and figure out how to do this.