Nature notes notebook

Here is a little notebook I made last night.
I wanted a book to write notes on what u saw, where and what month for my photography so I can go back next year looking for similar birds or flowers etc.
I made the cover with patterned paper, the words on my cricut machine but drawn with the cricut gels pens rather than cut, and the birds are stamping up punches. I then laminated the covers and bound the pages using my bind-it-all. The month flower stamps and the lines are also Stampin up.

Stampin 411 - sketch challeng 174 and 175

Another two sketch cards made tonight but also too late to enter....

I have to say I really do not like the newspaper type DSP and really just want to use it up fast!

As for the owl card, this is for a lady at work who is having a birthday and LOVEs pink and fancy dress!

A couple of remakes

Here are a couple of remakes, the first one is the barrel of monkeys card idea. After a challenge with Sharlene to make one of these, she blitz me completely and I ws so impressed with her creation that I have tried this one based on hers... I still had trouble making a barrel though, she made it look easy!
The next is a remake of my wedding owl card as the first was snapped up by a lady at work.... this time I have made the bowtie whiteand givent he owls some beaks..

Wedding birds and wedding owls

And the final creations of the night (it's almost 1am so the night is over officially and my pillow is looking rather apealing!)....

Here are some wedding owls all dressed up for their big day, both the top hat, bow tie and flower hair piece are made from the little heart of the owl punch.....









And some wedding birds with the groom about to kiss the bride!

Owl with moving eyes

Here is my first creation of the weekend...

I watched the original dvd of April Fools Day recently and it had one of those pictures on the wall with moving eyes, so I had a thought of how I could do that with the stampin up owl and here is my creation. When you pull the arrow the eyes move from left to right, it's much better when you see the real thing of course as the photo's don't quite do it justice!

Brayer on cuttlebug embossing

Here are a few of last nights creations, I have embossed the card with my cuttlebug and then brayered ink over the embossed card, then sponged a lighter colour over the remaining white...

The first is on whisper white card the other two on glossy cardstock which really gives a lovely shine and different look....

The owl is sticking out on a 3d sticky... with his feet glued to the branch....

New goodies

Well it's been an exciting day as my stampin up order arrived! I have some ink pads on back order and the watercolour crayon upgrade kit, but other than that everything else arrived! I took a photo but it doesn't do justice to the goodies.... all I need now is time to play!

So I haven't mounted even half of the sets yet but did manage to make three cards..

Of course I had to use the monster first as I have been very excited about the make a monster set....

Next I did a rather quick brayer card trying to resemble a wave.... and added the extreme surfer....

And lastly a take on Sharlene's owl card on her blog.. I didn't have the woodgrain background stamp so have used the cuttlebug wood grain embossing folder......