Monday, January 21, 2013

Merry Monday Christmas Card Theme Challenge #46 {For the Birds}

Hello and welcome to another challenge at Merry Monday!! I am happy to report that over 40 stampers made a Christmas card for our challenge last week and now they can celebrate that they have one more Christmas card in their stash for next year!! Hooray!


This week's challenge is a Theme Challenge and one that I am so excited about! I love using bird images on my Christmas cards and while traveling this Christmas, I picked up a new Lawn Fawn stamp that I had to have! It had been on my wishlist all Fall and it did not disappoint when I inked it up!!!  It stamped smoothly and was such fun to colour! I stamped the owl twice, stamping it once onto a post it note and then cut it out. Then I masked the Owl so I could created two owls, snuggling together. I used the fun sketch over at Splitcoast Stampers! I used a "branch" in place of the banner!!! I love being able to mix pattern papers and this week I went to town using papers from Carta Bella, Stampin' Up and Simple Stories!!!


The design team has created such pretty and adorable creations to get you into the birding mood!!! Have fun creating your Christmas card!! A big welcome to our Guest Designer Kim Badelt, who won our challenge last week!! Would you like to be a Guest Designer? Be sure to play along, as our weekly winner is our next Guest Designer!

LeAnne PuglieseBonnie KlassNina Forsyth
Wendy AungstVicki BurdickSue Joyce

Sherry Eckblad
Narelle Farrugia
Kim Badelt (GD)Margaret MoodyAllisa Chilton


20 comments:

~amy~ said...

oh my cute! Love those owlies:)

Sherry Eckblad said...

Lesley, your card is adorable. I can see why that stamp set was on your want list it is just too cute.

Archana Joshi said...

Hi, I am new here and wanted to submit my entry but I couldn't find the linky so please let me know if there is different way to post the entry.
Wonderful challeng - I love birds :-)
Hugs,
Archana

Archana Joshi said...

Hi its me again, Just got the linky so sorry for my earilier message.
thanks,
Archana

My Creative Side said...

Love the owls Lesley!!! Awesome card!!!!

KayM said...

Oh what a fun challenge! I can't wait to start looking for some birds! Your card is just adorable and that is so neat how you masked it to make the pair!

Vicki B. said...

Love your card Lesley, those owls are adorable!!

Shelia said...

Lesley your owl card is so sweet!! I may have to get that image!! Thanks for the fun challenge.

Bonnie said...

How cute, Lesley! Great mix of papers and the owls snuggling together are adorable!

Margaret Moody said...

Your Christmas owls are just too cute, Lesley! Love your colors and a wonderful job of adding color to your images!

LeAnne said...

What a cute little image to use...how clever you were to mask & re-stamp! Sweet!! LOVE this challenge, too!

Narelle Farrugia said...

Too cute Lesley! These two little owls are so sweet and your sentiment is just the best!

Dawn Easton said...

Oh those owls are adorable!!! Sweet card! GREAT theme this week...can't wait to play along! Time to dust off some dies!

Wendy said...

Such an adorable card, Lesley! Love your owls and pretty paper! Thanks for a terrific challenge this week! :)

KimB said...

Very cute owls Lesley and I just love that you stamped them to cuddle up. I enjoyed my chance to play along - thanks.
Kim x

PaulaJ said...

I looked at the rules and it says to be sure to use the sketch but I don't see any sketch - only instructions to use birds...where can I find the sketch?

Notes by Nina said...

Your card is adorable Lesley, the little owls are the sweetest.

Carol L said...

Gosh Lesley, now that I see your card a 2nd time, I'm wondering if that isn't what inspired me to use 2 tilted panels on mine? LOL Those owls are really cute!

Kim Evans said...

Just wanted to say a great big THANK YOU to all of the DT members! It's so wonderful seeing your comments back on our blogs....makes us feel appreciated. Thanks for all you do!!! xoxo

Susan Lankford said...

Hi...I was unable to link....tried 4x and then tried another way and it did not work....have no idea what is wrong...have not had this happen before ...some items showed but none of the images! Here is my URL:http://stampandscrapwithsusan.com/2013/01/christmas-bird/

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