I Give A Hoot

Sherry Schauble’s fun-ky owl really gives a hoot! 

Love the bright colors and sparkle of the background paper and the floral eyes.  On the back Sherry fibered and micro beaded the whole thing.

Hugs, Suzanne

Take Only Memories

This pretty owl was created by Lisa Perez:

Baby bottle caps with teal micro beads make for beadi-ful eyes!  And the flowers folded over to create the back feathers are just too cute!

Hugs, Suzanne

Fun and Funky Hooter

Kelli Green included so many creative elements it’s hard to keep track of them all!

Layers and layers of papers have been decoupaged onto the chipboard base to create a fun background.

A small clothespin separated into two pieces is stamped and placed as eyebrows.  Buttons are layered for eyes and an upside down heart shaped button is the beak.  Cute little mushroom’s are placed inside tiny bottle caps for the feet and a micro bead strip around the belly just adds to all the texture.

On the back layer Kelli has foil embossed (MORE texture!) an owl with amazing detail!

Hugs, Suzanne

Love Your Hooters

This take on the Pennywise Arts “What A Hoot” fat book swap by Kathy Fabre was quite clever and unexpected!The front sports a sassy gal reminding you to “Love your Hooters”, on the back is a reminder to “Feel Them Often” with a breast cancer ribbon.  The pink rat tail cord finishes off the edges so nicely.

Look closely and you can see inside her blouse, where Kathy has cleverly placed a unique hand shaped charm.  Ü

 

What a fun take on the theme, and a very important reminder!

Hugs, Suzanne

Fly Away With Me

The second player in the Pennywise Arts “What A Hoot” fat book swap is Kathi Hall:

The base layer of Kathi’s owl is that fabulous brown honeycomb paper sometimes used as packing material.  It really makes the perfect owl feathers!

Layered papers (some mounted on foam tape) give the eyes a real lift.  The micro bead eyebrows are super cute and simple!

Hugs, Suzanne

What A Hoot!

Over on the Pennywise Arts Yahoo community we just finished up a fun owl shaped fat book swap and what a “hoot” it has been!

First up is Karen Slusher’s  fanciful owl:

Sporting layered flowers with gems for eyes, beaded trim “feet”, a heart shaped micro beaded beak and heart shaped micro beaded wings. 

While the wings are really clever and adorable, the pink feathered ears are really my favorite feature!  Ü

Hugs, Suzanne

Another Dose Of Pity

I’m throwing in another dose of pity for those that can’t join us for the annual Pennywise Arts retreat.  This is my project for the Pity Party swap hosted on the PWA Yahoo Group.

Sometimes when I have too much time to ponder a project, I end up getting in much deeper than I would if I had waited until the last minute.  This was one of those times.

From bottom to top the layers are brown cardstock, olive cardstock, a distressed file folder inked with a music stamped background (unknown company – unmounted stamp).

The brown daisy shaped doily is an SVG file that my dear hubby created for me just for this purpose.  (I’ll gladly share the file in SVG or SCAL if you email me!)  I covered the doilies with mixed brown and black embossing power.  While the embossing powder was still warm and melty I sprinkled on a mixture of yellow, brown and  gold micro beads. Then a little more gentle heat was added to set them.

The nests and the eggs took the longest to fabricate.  The nests were made from two different fibers wound together around my fingers and kinda lassoed together.  The brown fibers were very hairy so the nests all had haircuts.  Ü  The eggs are little bits of polymer clay, baked and speckled with blue and brown acrylic paints.  Each nest was glued to a branch and then layered onto the card.

The final touch was the momma bird, the leafy ribbon from May Arts and some paper flowers that came in a jar.

Using all of the same supplies and inspiration I created a variation of this card for the retreat exclusive Flight of Fancy atc swap.   My retreat shoebox project uses all the same items and has a third dimension to it.  Can’t reveal that for 24 more days!  Ü

Hugs, Suzanne

* The bird stamp is from Stampers Anonymous and the sentiment is from Studio G.