Owl Together Now Archives - Inkspired Treasures

Today's Bloggers Challenge theme is graduation cards or projects. It is hard to believe the kids around here will be out of school next week. Of course, high school graduation was last week. We only had a couple grads in the family this year, and NO parties since they live some distance away! I think this is the first year in AGES we haven't had at least ONE graduation party!

Well, originally I had another grad project done and ready to go for this week. Do you think I can find it now to photograph it? I don't know WHERE I put it! I cleaned up all the scraps in my work area, and it must have been placed somewhere "safe". When I find it, I'll share it with you…so frustrating! I'm also in the midst of changing out my paper racks and redoing all my cardstock based on the new colors coming in. It is there somewhere.

I think Owl Together Now works well for a non-traditional graduation card! I got this set free for something…can't remember what now. Although I haven't used this set a LOT, I definitely like some of the greetings in it, so it is another that will stay on my shelf. Sometimes you just need those whimsical sayings! Of course, I had to line up the owls on the branch stamped on Whisper White. I watercolored them with Stampin' Write Markers and my AquaPainter, then cut them out and placed them. I added a balloon that was cut out, too. I wanted a little more greenery, so I stamped another branch and cut it out to place below the stamped one. I used the My Way Punch and Chocolate Chip Corduroy Button (BOTH retiring accessories!) I added some Linen Thread in the Corduroy Button to finish it off.

The base card is Certainly Celery cardstock and I used some of my retiring Flock Together Designer Paper in the background. I added three strips of Not Quite Navy cardstock along the one side. I didn't want to use a bow or ribbon since I wanted a more masculine feel to the card. The Whisper White element was layered on Chocolate Chip cardstock. Finally, I stamped Congrats from Fundamental Phrases in Not Quite Navy in the lower corner.

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My Technique Class made this card last week using the Cut & Fold Technique. Pretty simple…can you see where the wings of the owls have been cut and gently folded upward to give them some dimension? This technique would work with flower petals, butterflies, dragonflies…anything that could use a little lift.

I’ve had this set, Owl Together Now, for several months. I got it free from my upline, but never mounted it! Many years ago, I used to collect owls…I’m sure I have a box of them around somewhere! Funny to see how they are back in style!

The base of the card is the NEW Dusty Durango In Color! I layered that with Sahara Sand…it is hard to see, but the Sahara Sand has the Paisley Texturz Background embossed on it. Then I used a scrap of To The Nines Designer Specialty paper (it is printed cardstock weight!) and mounted it on Chocolate Chip cardstock. The Owls are stamped with Basic Brown and colored with Watercolor Pencils and smoothed out with the Blender Pen. Then I did the Cut and Fold on their wings. When you mount it on another color, in this case, Chocolate Chip, you can see the color beneath the cut pieces.

I used a couple punches (of course!) on this card. The NEW Modern Label Punch I cut in half and placed under the focal element with a gold mini brad. I stamped Hoot Hoot Hooray in Basic Brown and punched with the 1-1/4 circle, then layered it on the Curly Label punched from Dusty Durango cardstock. It is popped up with dimensionals!

I think it is a FUN card!

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