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I recently participated in a Holiday Mini Catalog Swap with some other demonstrators.  Here are two of the cards I designed when trying to figure out what I was going to make.  I wound up switching the layout completely because at the time I thought these were too crowded.  Looking at them now, I really like them.  Sign up for my newsletter in the right sidebar to see the less cramped card I decided on.

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A New Twist on the Owl Punch

This card may look familiar to you.  I just switched out the bat punch on the spinner for an owl punch.  Punch an owl from white, cut the feet off and you've got a ghost!

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Muffin Tins for Stamping?

For those of you who have been to an auction, you might know what this is like.  The item I really wanted to bid on was up next.  But the box of junk they were trying to sell right before wasn't getting bids so they lumped it all together.  So in addition to getting that "just have to have item" (I don't even remember what it was) I got a lot of junk too.  Who knew that in my box of junk would be 3 muffin tins and how handy they would be?  I have used them for school projects and now for stamping! 

The owl punch punches multiple pieces, and for best results you need to switch up the colors.  So instead of wasting unused pieces, I started collecting them in this tin.  Now I have pieces I can just pull out and start experimenting. 

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Scrapbook Club

Tonight is the first night of a new round of scrapbook club, and this is the sample layout I have created.  Club members can copy this, tweak it or change it to meet their needs.  It is interesting to see the starting point and see how individual everyone's pages ends up.  Though it was not my intention when I started, it looks like this owl from stamp club.  I wanted to create a page with Fall colors, but I think it's the chevron pattern on that sheet of Greenhouse Gala Designer Series Paper that I am drawn to.  I used one of the punches from the Itty Bitty Shapes punch pack to create the faux brads.   

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Whoo Whoo Needs a Background Stamp?

This is one of our stamp club projects tonight. After resisting the owl punch when the catalog came out, I finally broke down and bought it. I loved all the cute cards I was seeing with non-traditional color combinations and especially like seeing Designer Series Papers used with it. I don't have that fabulous woodgrain background stamp so I just ran my Soft Suede stamp pad up and down a piece of Crumb Cake to create a faux woodgrain. Then with the new extra-large 2 1/2 inch circle punch, I made a hole in my "tree" and perched my owl on a branch from the Two-Step Bird punch.

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