Holiday Owls

Hi!

This is Anja again. I'm slowly starting to make my Christmas cards. Today I was inspired by a beautiful card from Nichole Spohr. I much prefer dies over stamps so I decided to do winter scene with cute little owls, which can be made with one of the new Christmas dies.

I used:
- Cottage Cutz die Holiday Owls,
- Distress Oxides (Vintage Photo, Black Soot, Wild Honey, Peeled Paint, Fired Brick, Lucky Clover, Pumice Stone, Walnut Stain, Frayed Burlap),
- Brusho paints (black, ultramarine, purple, turquoise),
- white texture paste,
- white pigment ink pad,
- black pen,
- white card base (11x15 cm),
- watercolor paper (10,5x14,5 cm),
- white card stock for die cuts,
- roughly ground salt,
- snowflake stencil,
- heat gun,
- double sided adhesive tape,
- paper glue.

 As always I die cut all the parts and colored them first. I used Distress Oxides. I used thin black pen to color the eyes of the owls.

Then I made quite a mess when I was working on my background. I sprayed water all over my watercolor paper. Then I put different Brusho powders on top and some more water. I let it mixed a bit and then I also used a brush to cover the whole paper. 

When I was satisfied with the color I sprinkled quite a bit of roughly grounded salt on top of it and dried the whole thing with a heat gun.

As a result I got an interesting pattern.

 Then I used a stencil and a texture paste and put some snow on top of my night sky.

I dried it with a heat gun. This texture paste dries nicely when I use the gun.

I put some white pigment ink around the edges.

And then I just glued the background on the card base, using double sided adhesive tape. I glued the owls on top of it and my card is done!

Have a fun filled Sunday and see you again soon. 

Anja Z. 

Cottage Cutz product I used: