We owl wish

It was my Uncle's birthday a few days ago so I made him this sweet little owl card.

I've love owls for years and have loads of stamps but it seems I am also a little obsessed with the cute little stamps from Woodware (yes it's another one).
This stamp is really nice and really simple. I stamped him onto a piece of white card and coloured him in using Spectrum Noir pens.
The colours I used were:
TN1, TN2,TN3,TN4
JG1, JG2
EB3, EB4
LY3, CT3

I then used a Marianne die (Anja's Squares) to create the fancy square around the image and mounted it onto a lime green card background.

 

The greeting came from another owl stamp set (also from Woodware) and just gave the card that little extra something.

Owl Purse

 This was an idea I came up with after a slow day at work.
The first picture is of a small felt purse, it's very simple to make by following the instructions.

1. Cut  a piece of light brown felt and a piece of dark brown felt in half, then cut about a third from each of these halves.
2. Cut each piece into a point at one end (2/5ths of the way down)
3. Add a press stud fastener to the two points (you can just see this as a small circle on the beak).
4. Sew the pale brown felt down to the body to create the base for the beak.
5. Put the two pieces of felt together, with the sewn beak on the inside. Now sew the two pieces of felt together at the two sides and the bottom, leaving the top 'flap' loose.
6. Finally turn the whole thing the right way round and sew on the eye buttons.

The second picture is a stuffed toy made in the same way as the purse only skip stages 3 and 4. Instead after sewing the body together stuff with wadding and sew across the top. Finally sew the beak down and sew the eyes on.