A blog devoted to the cards I make in my tiny upstairs space. When my sister stays there, she calls it an "artist's garret". I'm not an artist, but am an enthusiastic cardmaker - hence the title "Cardmaker's Garret".
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Thursday 26 January 2023

One Tree and a Recycled Owl

Christmas Cards All Year Round wants one of something or a tree.  I decided to do one tree.

I inked up the tree stamp with green Distress mini inkpads, spritzed lightly with water, and stamped on watercolour paper. When dry, I stamped the stars and sentiment. I popped that panel up on fun foam on gold shimmer cs and added that to a red shimmer card base.

My second card is one I made to welcome home one of my closest friends who has been away for two months.  She gets back January 31st - can't wait to see her!  It times perfectly with the Inkspirational challenge "Welcome".  My friend loves owls and she is also really adamant about recycling and reusing as much as possible.  I received the most beautiful owl card at Christmas so decided I'd recycle it into this card for her.  The card also has stars on it and my friend runs Southlands Therapeutic Riding Society, more commonly known as STARS, the program where I volunteer a few days a week, so an owl plus stars just couldn't be passed up!


I used a square die to cut out the main image of the owl and to cut out a piece of silver mirror cs that matches the shiny silver leaves and stars in the image. I also die cut some tiny silver stars from the same cs.

I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment on the bottom of the card, attached the mirror cs at an angle, layered the owl image over it, and glued on the silver stars in random places around the edge.

p.s. Cards with mirror cs on them are so hard to photograph - apologies for the reflections in the angled silver sections!

Christmas Cards All Year Round - "A Partridge in a Pear Tree - use one of something or a tree"

Inkspirational Challenge - "New and / or Welcome"







Supplies for Card 1:
Stamps - Art Impressions tree, PTI sentiment, SU star cluster
Ink - Distress Iced Spruce and Evergreen Bough, Delicata Golden Glitz, Memento Rhubarb Stalk
Paper - watercolour paper, gold and red shimmer cs
Size - A2
Accessories - fun foam

Supplies for Card 2:
Stamps - SSS sentiment
Ink - ColorBox silver
Paper - white cs, silver mirror cs
Size - 4.75" square
Accessories - commercial Christmas card, Spellbinders square dies, silver detail embossing powder, tiny star die


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4 comments:

  1. Christine Alexander26 January 2023 at 21:08

    two great cards, your Christmas tree is so festive with it's gold and red layers and I love your recycled owl. That's too beautiful to thow away.

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  2. Loll26 January 2023 at 23:03

    Two beautiful cards Susan. Love the watercoloured Christmas tree with all the stars in the sky. And your upcycled owl is gorgeous. I can see why you wanted to pass this amazing image onto someone special to enjoy. xx

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  3. Julia Aston27 January 2023 at 08:35

    Two lovely designs Susan! The tree is so wonderfully soft in the water colors surrounded by all the stars! Your owl is beautiful - what a great way to reuse a lovely image - a wonderful welcome home card for your friend! thanks for sharing with us at Inkspirational! Julia xx

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  4. Bonnie28 January 2023 at 16:23

    I LOVE that watery tree, Susan! You got the most perfect impression! And the recycled owl card is fantastic! Sounds like it's perfect for your friend!

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