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Merry Christmas - Owl in Silhouette card -  Day 355 of my 365 day challenge Hi Craft addicts! I thought I would make a slightly different (non festive) Christmas card for day 355 of my challenge - this time using an image I cut out using my Brother Scan n Cut on a hand coloured background. How I made this card:- I found this image of an owl (not sure where I found it) and imported it into my Brother Scan n Cut Canvas Workspace and resized it to the one I wanted (approx 3.5" x 3") and then moved it to my machine and cut it out in black card. I coloured a piece of white linen effect with Orange, Yellow and Red dye based/distress inks to create a sunrise/sunset background. I then trimmed it to 4.5" x 5" and glued it to a slightly larger black piece of card. I cut a strip of Orange and White spotty paper (approximately 1" wide and 7" wide) and glued it to a slightly wider piece of black card. I then glued it to the centre of a 7...

Christmas Bells & Christmas Owls square cards -  Day 346 of my 365 day challenge Hi Craft addicts! Less than 2 weeks to go now until Christmas, I thought I would show how to make these two cards which are easy to make. How I made these cards:- Christmas Bells -  I first of all painted the orange background using Kuretake Gansai Tambi water colour paints and cut it out using a Tattered Lace square die once it was dry. I then cut the Christmas Bells (again a Tattered Lace die) out of black card. Before adding the background layer, I stamped the snowflake image in various places on a 6" white scalloped edge card using Tuxedo Black ink and again on the orange background using Versamark and Pure White embossing powder which I heat set. I attached the background layer on to the front of the card using PVA glue and then added the Christmas Bells with the same glue. The Happy Christmas sentiment is one from a Tonic Studios Stamp collection and I stamped it out ...