PaperFections: DDA Challenge: Who-Hoo June Calendar

DDA Challenge: Who-Hoo June Calendar

The 20th of the month brings another Splitcoast Dirty Dozen Design Team/Alumni Challenge. This month's challenge was this:

Challenge Focus: Owls. If you don't have an owl image you may use any flighted fowl to play.
Required Element: Texture. You may interpret this any way you like
Restricted Element: No crystals/rhinestones or dew drop type embellishments.

Since I hadn't inked this darling Pretty Birds set by Kim Hughes for Cornish Heritage Farms yet, this was the perfect opportunity to use her sweet little owl from this set for my monthly calendar 6x6 page:

Printed paper is from BasicGrey's Sugared 6x6 pad. I had cut the Spellbinders Nestabilities Petite Scalloped Circle from the sheet for this project and loved the pattern so much, I hated for the whole sheet to go to waste so I used the negative space and layered another negative cut of Prism Razzleberry Light behind it for a mat. The corners of the paper were cut with Stampin' Up's Ticket Corner punch. These are layered onto a base of Stampin' Up's Old Olive cardstock.

Sweet little owl was stamped onto Cryogen White shimmer cardstock with Ranger's Adirondack Espresso ink and colored with these Copic markers:

Owl is popped up on dimensional foam tape. The vertical leaved tree limb is a separate piece from the curled limb -- I just cut it out from another piece of cardstock, blended it into the nubb that was already on the curled limb and extended it up onto the calendar. The leaves are colored with Copic's Melon Spica Glitter Pen. You can tell my owl is a girl by her pink eyelids, beak and toenails!

As a reminder, my calendar pieces are approximately 3.5" x 2.5" and are available for download from this blog entry.

I made faux sugared brads for the calendar corner embellishments by running a piece of pink cardstock thru my Xyron sticker maker and covering it with transparent ultrafine glitter, then punching out 1/4" circles. They are popped up a little bit with tiny glue dots. These, along with the beautiful Papertrey Ink Spring Moss satin ribbon, are my texture elements.

If you'd like to check out the other design team members' projects, you can visit this SplitcoastStampers gallery. Thanks for visiting today!