Who Loves You?

Here's my card for the current challenge at CAS Colours and Sketches.  I interpreted the layout's round panel as a moon and turned that into a backdrop for the large owl from the Paper Smooches Hooties stamp set.

The owl was colored with Copic markers and cut out with the matching die. The set's paisley patterned tree branch was stamped in brown ink on kraft cardstock. The die set doesn't have a die to match the branch, so I carefully cut the stamped image out by hand.  The moon was created with a die cut yellow circle that I debossed with a dotted embossing folder for a crater-like look.  I positioned the circle at the left side of a blue card base, trimming off the section that extended beyond the edge of the cardfront.  The owl and branch were placed over the circle using foam tape for dimension.  I stamped the set's "who loves you" sentiment to the right of the branch in black ink.  The design was missing something, so I used one of my all-time favorite PS dies, Tiny Hearts, to cut a trio of hearts from a scrap of red cardstock. The hearts were adhered to the right of the image. They were just what the card needed!

Materials Used:
Hooties stamp set, Owl Icons and Tiny Hearts dies (Paper Smooches); Memento Tuxedo Black and Rich Cocoa inks (Tsukineko/IMAGINE Crafts); markers (Copic); Brocade Blue and Crushed Curry cardstock (Stampin' Up!); Kraft cardstock (Papertrey Ink); Red Punch cardstock (Recollections); circle dies (Spellbinders); Polka Dots embossing folder (Lifestyle Crafts); foam tape