Have a hoot this Christmas and Noor Designs application

The beautiful owl image I used on this card is by Mo Manning, of Mo's Digital Pencil, and I bought it as part of a charity awareness event a while back to highlight digital image theft. I coloured the image using Promarkers and Graphit's pens, this time I tried a dotty shadow in shades of grey and blue/grey.

The image is die cut with Spellbinders Nestabilties dies.

The ribbon is from Crafty Ribbons, owl ribbon sentiments - perfect!

The Designer patterned paper is some that I got in a free goody bag with some beads I ordered, no idea who it is by, but I would love to get some more. This one small square is all I have - so if anyone knows who it is by please tell me.

I matted the paper onto the same dark teal coloured card as the scalloped lable under the image, and added a snowflake brad to each corner. Then I dropped a crystal gem into each eyelet hole and added more to the ice crystal ring and individual flakes. 

I used a Sharpie paper white pen to dot snow over the image too.

To make the snowflake frame I used a Joy Craft die called Ice Crystal Circle, which cuts and embosses this beautiful delicate wreath. I cut the circle carefully in half and arranged it over two corners of the die cut image so that you can't see the cuts, then I cut more snowflakes from another circle, and added them to the remaining corners, with a bigger snowflake cut with Ice Crystal die no. 3, both of these are available from the new Noor Designs shop in the UK, where you can find many Joy products as well as Dutch Doodbadoo, paper pads and the beautiful inspirational Noor magazine.

Noor Designs have a DT call out which ends tomorrow, and I would like to apply to be on the team. I have an active blog as you can see, I also have a Facebook page, and I belong to many media sites including Google plus, Pinterest and Flickr. I also belong to a number of forums, UK scrappers, UK Stampers, and several others. I also run the Quirky Crafts challenge blog.

There should be a visible watermark on my card (I thought I had cracked it) - right across the centre of the image, I am struggling to see it, but I will find a better program to watermark with.

The DT call is on the Noor Craft blog, where I am going to link up my card. 

I am also entering this card in:

Mo's Digital Challenge - Snow with a Mo's image.(Thurs)

Crafty Ribbons - Christmas animals (Thurs)

Winter Wonderland - dies and punches (Fri)

Graph'it markers - two colours (Fri)

Bunny Zoe's - snow (Fri?)

The Stamping Boutique - Sparkle (Fri)

Winter Wonderland - dies and punches (Fri)

Glitter n Sparkle - snow (Sun)

Sparkle Creations Christmas card challenges - anything goes (Sun)

Fussy and Fancy - Happy Holidays (11th Dec)

We Do Doobadoo - get festive (13th Dec)

Pan Pastels - colouring (Sun 14th Dec)

Splatters here, splatters there....

I made this card for the Take it Make it Craft Stamper challenge, sadly I looked at the Inlinkz closing time, and not the date in the post, and the Inlinkz is still open for a few days despite the winners just being announced.

So I thought I would show you it anyway. The multicoloured card is a result of me "painting off" my brush after painting the organiser that I still need to finish. I added splatters to it with some runny rose pink Fresco paint, the other paints used were Fresco by PaperArtsy and some English Cottage Acylics paint by Indigo Blu. The bird is an Indigo Blu stamp called Take Flight coloured with Promarkers and cut out by hand and I tried not to position it so it looked like it was creating the splatters! I die cut my large panel with Spellbinders A2 card creator biggest size rectangle and die cut the fancy lattice to go on top as a frame, this is a tricky one to attach, I wonder if it was Spellbinder's mistake that it cuts out the middle too? When looking at demo's on the card creator dies I see that every presenter shows the lattice dies then quickly puts them down and demo's a different set! If anyone knows of any examples of cards using the lattice dies I would love to know.

You could attach the lattice using brads, or do as I have done and use glue dots but put something over the top to hide them.

I cut out some flowers with a Joy Craft die, from the multicoloured card and decided to use the negative too, it is too good not to.

The burgandy leather effect card is splattered with Alcohol inks, a couple of colours of mixative, copper and pearl.

I added some teal ribbon, and some Card Candi by Craftwork Cards. Hoping someone will love this card.

I have entered the following challenges:

Allsorts challenge blog - anything but Christmas (Saturdays)

Artful Times - Die cuts or punches. (also max 5 challenges allowed)

Pan Pastels - anything goes (Sundays)

Stamping Sensations - free and easy (December)

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenges - make your own background