Post-Christmas Card - Lawn Fawn Winter Owl

Hi Everyone! Hope you all enjoyed my video yesterday. I don't plan on making too many videos but I think it will be fun especially for haul videos. I just made another Two Peas purchase before Christmas which should get here next week. Planning on making a video to show my goodies :)

As you saw in my video, I have LOTS of stuff and I keep buying. I do plan on buying a few more things and then stopping after the New Year. I made a pact with my husband to stop buying after October 1st? I don't remember the exact month :)
As you can see that has not been working out.
I really want to focus on my house in 2013 and finish off some of the rooms we have not finished remodeling such as my husband's office and the part of the upstairs.
I feel bad sometimes since I have my woman cave but my poor hubby's office is still our junk room :)

Well onto this weeks project. As I showed in my video, there was a Lawn Fawn stamp set called Winter Owl that I bought since it was so cute but did not use. I actually wanted to make a Christmas card for my niece who attends Rice University (The owl is their mascot) but I never got around to making one - sorry Carolina :(

Anyway, the owl is really cute and I mentioned in my video that I would probably use it to make a card.

Yesterday, the Two Peas Blog had their last card challenge for 2012 by Kimber McGray. The sketch she came up with looked easy. It also had more of a patchwork look, so I wanted to participate so that I could also use my sewing machine. I thought that I could sew around all the edges to make it look more like a quilt.

Here is look at her card sketch challenge:

I wanted to use some of the scraps of paper I had left from my Christmas card making. So only used the left over papers from Echo Park's Holly Jolly collection. It has the traditional red and green but also has some chocolate brown and fuchsia in the mix.

Here is the picture of my card creation:

I think it came out so cute! I had to use markers to color in the owl. I don't have nice markers like Copics but have a basic Martha Stewart marker set which works just fine. I really don't want to get into coloring stamps as that is a whole other monster. Money monster that is :)

The card is a standard A2 size (4.25 x 5.5) and this time I used my woodgrain embossed cardstock I purchased from Studio Calico in white. I also used a piece of scrap cardstock to stamp my sentiment and stick my owl. The scarf was paper pieced meaning I stamped the owl onto patterned card stock and then cut out the scarf to be glued onto the actual image.

I took this picture so that you can see the actual stitching up close. This was my actual 2nd try :) The first card was a big mess and had to practice on getting it straight. Love how it came out though.

My card does not have as much embellishments like Kimber's but I wanted to keep it simple.


I hope you enjoyed this week's project. Thanks for stopping by and hope you all have a great week!!

I started P&P Creations blog in May 2012 and very excited for more crafting in 2013! I will continue to make my weekly projects for P&P Creations. I do have a busy year coming up so as much as I would like to increase my blog posts, I don't think that is going to be a possibility. Of course once in a while I probably will have more than 1 post a week.

Thank you to all my viewers/subscribers for their support and wonderful comments every week!

Wishing you all a wonderful and prosperous NEW YEAR!!!

XOXO