Wednesday 4 July 2012

Tawny Owl

Here's my latest stamp crush!  It's by Indigo Blu and is mahoosive and great fun to colour, which I've done with my usual Promarkers, adding highlights to the eyes and beak with Anita's 3D Gloss.  After colouring, I went in with Distress Ink in Old paper, Antique Linen and Pumice Stone.  I printed off a photo of a tawny owl to help me get the colours right and I have to say that I'm quite pleased with the result.
The papers are Papermania Capsule Collection in Lincoln Linen, teamed with kraft and dark brown cardstock.
The leaves were made with a Cuttlebug die and I finished off with some knotted raffia and Card Candi.
The card is for my brother-in-law who loves clean lines so I had to resist the urge to get busy with my distressing tool round the edges!

I'm entering this card in the following challenges -
Creative Craft - tweet tweets
Dream Valley - #35 - things with wings
One Stop Craft - #189 - coffee and cream
Papertake - anything goes with option of highlighting (I used 3D Gloss)
Sassy Cheryl's - #122 - anything goes

23 comments:

  1. WOW! This really is stunning Wendy. I love the image and your colouring is perfect. You have really captured the feathery effect. The papers and embellishments all coordinate beautifully

    Hugs Sue

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  2. Hi Wendy this is gorgeous the owl is coloured perfectly and the layout is fantastic. Caroline xxx

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  3. Hi Wendy, What a lovely stamp and l can see why your like it so much its just so gorgeous! lovely backing papers and you have coloured the image beautifully and the layout is stunning too:)x

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  4. Beautiful card Wendy, I so love your colouring & card design, Jx

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  5. What a fab image Wendy, you have done a brilliant job at colouring him in. Tinaxx

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  6. WOW! This is stunning Wendy, I love the gorgeous image and you've coloured him beautifully and I love the fab layout too :)
    Kelly.x

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  7. Absolutely stunning image Wendy.

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  8. Hi, Wendy! What a beautiful bird--you've done amazing coloring there! :)

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  9. Oh my goodness - this is just so lovely. The best of the best so far - just love it.

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  10. Your colouring of the owl is just stunning Wendy.

    B x

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  11. This is absolutely gorgeous Wendy! Really beautiful image and coloring. Thank you for playing along with us at Papertake Weekly and good luck!

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  12. so stunning wendy.really gorgeous image and design and your colours are fab :D

    xx coops xx

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  13. What a stunning stamp and layout too, Luv Sam x

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  14. OMGosh! The coloring on that owl is simply AMAZING!!!!!!!!! Wow, wow, wow! It's gorgeous.
    Thanks for playing along in the Anything Goes challenge this week at Sassy Cheryl's.

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  15. lovely card thank you for joining us at Creative Craft Challenges this time
    Love Jan
    xx

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  16. Beautiful card, I love the soft natural colours and the image is beautiful too.


    Thanks for joining us in Sassy Cheryl's challenge!

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  17. OMW this is stunning.. your colouring is amazing pam

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  18. OMW, your colouring is amazing! what a fab card.

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  19. WOW!! Super card hunny ... Thank you for joining in with the Creative Craft Challenge Tweet Tweet... Annette (DT CCC)xxx

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  20. Oh Wendy , this is beautiful. You have an amazing talent of creating something different each time.

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  21. This card is absolutely gorgeous Wendy. Such a beautiful image and great colours.
    Have a lovely Sunday, Heike xx

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  22. Stunning card, you've coloured the owl beautifully,
    Anne x

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