Night Owl

I love the new owl punch - it's really easy to put together a cute card.  Different colour combinations combined with different patterns of paper can give you a variety of 'characters'.

Here he is on a full sized card using Soft Suede and Baja Breeze.  By giving him a background of a Top Note, he is a picture of elegance.

Stamps:  none
Card:  Soft Suede, Baja Breeze, Whisper White, Old Olive, Elegant Soiree DSP
Ink:  none
Tools:  Two-Step Owl Punch, Big Shot, Two-Step Bird Punch

Soft Suede

Soft Suede, one of the new colours teams with Engraved Greetings to create a simple card.

Stamps:  Engraved Greetings
Card:  Soft Suede, Whisper White
Ink:  Soft Suede
Accessories:  Dimensionals, Soft Suede Polka Dot ribbon (retired, though I don't know why!)

Medallion and Soft Suede - a great couple

Soft Suede is a beautiful new colour - from some angles it has a gold sheen to it and it suits masculine and feminine cards. 

Love the medallion stamp - even part of it looks good.  Use it as a background or the main feature.

Stamps:  Medallion

Card:  Whisper White, Soft Suede, Elegant Soiree DSP

Ink:  Soft Suede

Tools:  Word Window punch

Elegant Lines

The Elegant Lines Textured Impressions Embossing Folder co-ordinates with Elegant Soiree DSP and both, as their names suggest, are very elegant! 

Add some of Stampin' Up!s Basic Pearls and you have a beautiful combination.

Stamps:  None!

Card:  Crumb Cake, Elegant Soiree DSP

Tools:  Big Shot, Elegant Lines Textured Impressions Folder

Accessories:  Basic Pearls, Kraft Taffeta Ribbon (retired)

Regionals

On Saturday I attended Regional Training at the Convention Centre.  I think they said there were over 200 demonstrators attending.  It was a great day to swap ideas with other demonstrators, hear talks on running your SU! business and seeing fantastic demonstrations of creativity.  The Make and Takes were so beautiful and creative.  I'll post those another day.

Remember my penguin swaps?  This is what I got in return.

Lots of great ideas!


Donna Griffith, one of the presenters from America gave every one of us a cute little pin.  She and her husband made hundreds of these!

All up, it was a fantastic day...to which guests are also invited.  Perhaps you'd like to come next year.

Anna

Regionals Tomorrow

Regional Training in Brisbane tomorrow.  It's a fun day where we learn new techniques and business ideas and catch up with other demonstrators.  One of the fun things to do is to prepare a whole bunch of swaps.  Make twenty swaps, you get twenty back.  Make 30 swaps, you get 30 back.  Make 100 swaps - you've got too much time on your hands!

I made a simple swap to show another use for the new owl punch.

Here is the owl as we know and love him.

He is perched on the branch from the Two-Step Bird Punch.

Here he is after a visit to the cosmetic surgeon.

Just a nip here and a tuck here and he becomes a penguin.  His trimmed off ears can become cute little wings or a tail.

Isn't he cute?