It's a Hoot!

Good morning!

This is Practical Scrapper Becci here to share with you this sweet owl themed baby shower banner to share with you this morning. I knew that I wanted to go with fall colors - also very "boy" like orange, and blue. I added a primary color of grey, knowing that the nursery will be grey and blue and owl themed.

When I create a custom banner, I think about the theme of the party or room, the colors that might go with it - usually my own choice of what I feel for the person. I round up the papers and think of the general idea then I set to work. I treat each banner panel as though it is it's own creation. For each of the letters of the baby's name, I cut them out of cream card stock and watercolored each one.

For this banner panel I sewed the punched circles (from the next banner panel over) together into a string and attached them - I love a little banner within a banner.

Here I stamped and embossed a little owl in two of the circles, peeking out.

Here I wove strips of the patterned paper together for the background, and also added dots and star sequins.

Here I used a star stamp (from my 6 year old daughter's craft bin), and I embossed it with white Zing powder.

For this last panel, I wanted to use the EXACT owl as the stamp. So I drew it in Illustrator, imported each part of the owl (eyes, belly, nose) into Silhouette and cut each piece. He's so cute.

And as a bonus, I also made an owl taggie blanket to go with this gift:

For this little guy, I made my own patter for him. the face details are all hand sewn.

Thanks for coming over today to check out my owl-licious creations, it was a hoot!

Friday's Patterned Paper Projects

Amanda used a red striped patterned paper for the icing on the cupcake and another patterned paper on the border along the bottom wrapper of her cupcake. The bear digi is one of her own and you can snag it for free on her blog.

Caroline used 5 different patterened papers all of which were scraps to create this layout.

Lisa B used patterened paper and stickers from K & Company to complete this two page layout.

Julie's patterned paper was used as background, making the photo pop, and embellishing the page.

Carolina used patterned paper for her background, and embellished the photo with 4 patterned paper semicircles below it. This layout is based on a Julie Bonner sketch.

One of Heidi's favorite supplies is patterned paper. It is a challenge for her not to use patterned paper! For this layout, she used 6 different patterned papers. She stretches her stash by using double sided patterned paper and likes to make embellishment from the paper, like the paper beads border, framed circles and fringe border seen here.

Tuesday's Patterned Paper Projects

Christine changed her striped patterned paper by adding in blue stripes of cardstock. This brought more color to the layout and brought out the colors from the picture.

Christine was inspired by Deanne's approach to her card yesterday and wanted to try something similar. She punched flowers out of the same patterned paper and applied them in the appropriate locations to match up the paper.

Jessica used a variety of coordinating My Mind's Eye patterned paper and a pre-colored digi stamp from our May sponsor, Wink Wink Ink.

Robin used hot off the press patterned papers to create this layout. She used 4 different patterns and cut in 2" strips. Next she cut each strip into 2" blocks. She randomly placed the squares on a white background.

Sara used fun new paper from the "72 and Sunny" Collection by We R Memory Keepers to create her bright background squares. She also used the same paper collection and punched circles and pop-dotted them on top of the squares.

Sandra used the "To The Nines Specialty" double sided patterned cardstock from Stampin' Up! for her card.

Sue used several patterned papers in the same hue. She added more patterned paper along the edge of the photo with curled paper strips and word strips to frame the photo. She also added pink flower vellum stickers to the background page to add more pattern and punched out circles from a scrap sheet of word paper.

Lisa S. used patterned paper to add the look of scales to her paper pieced alligators.