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!

Machine Stitching on Cards

Good Monday morning fellow scrappers! Today we're featuring Cards with machine stitching. I love the added texture that machine sewing adds to a project. I sometimes break out the machine for a layout, but realized that I don't often think to do it for cards.  Whether you choose a straight, zig zag or decorative stitch,it's a simple thing to do, and really makes an impact.

Check out these beautiful examples: 

Practical Scrapper Caz used her sewing machine to sew on all the layers she used in the card

Practical Scrapper Mary Pat Siehl used the sewing machine to sew around the edges of the card and around the heart.

Practical Scrapper Cathy used her sewing machine to add a decorative border stitch on both cards!

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