Hoo's in the Window?

The cute owl from Unity Stamp Company, that's who. I combined a whole bunch of challenges to create this fun, monochromatic card, including today's Ways to Use it Challenge on SCS to use a bird image, the weekly project in the Unity Stamp Company SCS Member Company Forum to make a window on your project, and the challenge from Our Creative Corner to use at least one button and one brad on a card.

I stamped the owl image on white cardstock and colored it with Copic markers. The image is set inside a window I made with a rectangle Nestabilities die. For the window's "frame," I used a pair of Nestabilities dies, nested together to make a rectangle with an open center. I added a small pink taffeta bow in the upper right corner of the frame and a scalloped strip along the right edge to embellish it a bit.

The sentiment is stamped in Regal Rose Craft ink directly on the patterned paper. The pigment ink really stands out against the softer pink color. I accented the "o" in "loves" with a small pink heart brad.

I continued the heart and love theme with the owl image. I used a glue dot to attach a pink heart-shaped button to the owl. I set the image on a pink mat using dimensionals and centered the mat inside the card, under the window opening. I stamped the branch image from the kit in Regal Rose craft ink on the pink mat to ground the owl.

To finish the card off, I used the My Way punch to make a layered arrow. I set the arrow on the frame with a dimensional, pointing right at the owl image.

I'll have a project to share tomorrow morning for the weekly blogger challenge group I participate in. I'm not quite sure what it will be yet, but I promise there will be something . . .

Materials Used:

Owl Always Love You kit (Unity Stamp Company); Regal Rose Craft ink, Regal Rose and Pretty in Pink cardstock, Pretty in Pink Prints Series designer paper, pink taffeta ribbon, My Way punch, glue dots, dimensionals (Stampin' Up!); rectangle dies (Nestabilities); heart brad (Making Memories); heart button (Walmart); white cardstock (Xerox); marker (Copic Ciao); threaded water punch(Fiskars)