Paper Roses

Isn't that a Marie Osmond song?
These roses are made from card stock and the owl punch, the scallop circle punch or the Fancy Flower punch.  The roses have a coating or two of Crystal Effects.

The two roses that you can see on the box are the Fancy Flower Roses(the one in the back is the owl rose)
Instructions for the Fancy Flower rose is here:
http://simistamper.blogspot.com/2010/02/instructions-for-paper-rose.html

The red rose is made with the owl punch and the scallop punch. I added a brooch pin to the back of it.

The owl rose is here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcP_VJrvs0U

The Roses are fun to make, so I hope you take the time to try them.

Tag- Punch Art

I decided that this year for neighbor gifts instead of the package of baked goodies (don't we always get to many of those anyway?) I would make packages of tags. Maybe with a saying like- When tagging gifts we fight great friends like you come to mind.  This is one of the tags that will be in the package.

• I used the Big Shot and the Two Tags Die.
• The tag is Wild Wasabi(I am using scraps so I have done other greens including some retired colors)
• I punched the face with the owl punch in Soft Suede, cutting the feet off with scissors.
• The antlers are Early Espresso using the Northern Frost Decorative strip from the Holiday mini, just snipping what I needed for the antlers.
• The eyes and nose are from the owl punch but for Rudolph I used the red glitter from Fine Galaxy.
• The mouth is hand drawn.
• The To: and From: are on the back.

Thanks for stopping by and please let me know what you think of my tag and the idea of giving them as neighbor gifts.

CASEing the Owl!

I made this page to show case the owl punch for my club.

A big shout out to Ellen Kempler http://blinkthinkink.blogspot.com/  she has so many using the punch that I haven't even been able to get to, her people (babies, detectives, etc) from an owl are amazing!, Lynn Pratt http://stampndesign.blogspot.com/2010/08/pirate-owls.html, Kim Colarusso, Lynda Lee http://stampingdoc.blogspot.com/, Jackie Topa http://www.jackietopa.typepad.com/, and Chris Kolly http://www.rubberroomramblings.com/2010/09/pixie-stick-wonder.html, I even came up with a couple on my own!  On Stampin' Connection a site for demo's only, there are 36 pages of cards and things made with this punch, 20 images to a page!

I hope you enjoy the ideas and if you haven't bought the owl punch you might want to invest in it, let me know if I can help you with that :).