Hello friends! It’s time for a technique challenge at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown, and it’s a fun and fairly popular one – paper piecing. It’s a great one for using up scraps of designer paper!
It took me a while to get everything planned out in my head for this card, but once it all took shape, the card came together pretty easily. I debated using one of my digital images, but I opted to use traditional stamps instead because I felt that would be simpler to work with all the different parts I wanted to piece. I used two different mostly solid papers for the owl’s body and a striped paper for his scarf. For the beak, I just colored the one I’d stamped on the off-white piece of paper. The sky blue background was splattered with white shimmer paint to look like falling snow. I wasn’t sure if the blue background would alter the color of the tree branch if I stamped directly on the blue, so I stamped the branch on a piece of white paper and (verrrrry carefully) cut it out and glued it to the background. Then I added the sentiment and put the owl into place. The layout for this card is from the current challenge at CAS(E) this Sketch!
The rest of the 52CCT design team and I are looking forward to seeing what paper pieced Christmas or wintry cards you’ll share with us this week! You have until 7:00 p.m. Eastern time Friday, April 1 to link your card to our challenge post. Thanks for stopping by today!
Supplies:
Stamps: Winter Owl (Lawn Fawn); Season of Friendship (Stampin’ Up)
Cardstock: Chocolate Chip, Soft Sky (SU); scraps from Blush and Blitzen collections (Basic Grey)
Ink: Chocolate Chip
Other: Frost White shimmer paint (SU); marker (Copic)
4 Responses to “52 Christmas Card Throwdown – March technique challenge”
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ce que c’est joli Patricia, j’aime beaucoup ces hiboux, biz
Very cute owl! Such a lovely card. Xx
Oh, I love this! Super sweet take on the sketch!
What a beautiful winter card! Love the owl and his paper pieced scarf and that sparkly background is amazing!