Have a HOOT at Christmas

Me again, with another Mulberry wood creation!

This time I’ve looked at how to create a lovely night sky for the owls, using my faithful Spectrum Noir Pens of course!  The very talented Lis Murphy has a done a similar effect over on the Spectrum Noir Blog, check it out.

I’m going to try a new technique of step by steps for you and put the text under the photo so you don’t gave to scroll for 3 miles to see the tutorial! – let’s see if it works 🙂

Each image should have information under for each step.  If you want to see it bigger click on the image – Ouh it’s exciting!

I’ve coloured the owls with my Spectrum Noir Pens, ready for my night sky. I am using BGR1, 2, 3, and BGR4.

Using BGR1, colour all around the image and out to the edges for the first layer of colour.

Using BGR2, colour around the owls and out, but not as far as you went with BGR1, don’t worry about the line between colours, this will be fixed later.

Using BGR3, repeat the step but not as far out as BGR2

Blend out between colours. Use BGR1 to blend BGR1 and 2 together. Use BGR2 to blend BGR2 and 3 together.

Use BGR4 to add detailed shade around the owls, tree and stockings.

A lovely night sky ….. add in the yell streaks for the star again using GB4, CT4 and CT2. Touch up the stars if necessary.

Fluffy stuff on the snow, hat and stockings adds a nice bit of dimension and contrast. If you don’t have fluffy stuff use dries white glue and glitter.

Glitter glue on the star and in streaks, makes for an appropriate looking shooting star I think 🙂

The finished image, ready for a card.

The front of the card, all f inished.

Inside the card

OK, so once the topper is coloured, I’ve die-cut and layered it up.  I wanted to keep the night feel going so I’ve used some old grey coloured papers I had lying around, and matted them onto the Old Rose from our Core’dination’s Dark’s pack.

The Circle layers, have been cut on my eCraft, even the sentiment and its matt, I love it, because I can cut perfect matts and layers in unusual shapes, with perfect ease.

A tiny bit of my special grey velvet ribbon and lace trim adds a touch of class to the corner of the topper.

The front of the card, all f inished.

As you no doubt know by now.  I like to decorate inside my card’s.  I really do think it changes your project from an ordinary card, to a really special one, and if you are selling them, you will be able to sell them for more!

So, using Old Rose again and matching grey papers, this time with a star pattern to match the shooting star theme.  I’ve matted and layered the inside of the card.  the circle, for writing your greeting, as again been cut using the eCraft.  A bit of ribbon add’s finishing touch.

Inside the card

I think this is a perfect masculine Christmas Card.  Hope you enjoyed the tutorial.

See you soon

Lx