Owl Be Home For Christmas Blog Hop

Hello Friends!  Welcome to the Owl Be Home For Christmas Blog Hop!

After taking a brief break from blogging, it is wonderful to be back and what a wonderful way to come back by joining my sweet friend Heather for her hop!

We are so happy you are here! Please be sure to start at the beginning at Heather Lynn's blog   http://heathernovinger.blogspot.com/ so you don't miss out on a thing!  We have all made some super cute owl themed projects to share with you today! You will not only get some inspiration~ but you could win prizes, too! Heather Lynn is offering one hopper a really fun prize. You must FOLLOW and COMMENT at all of the stops to have a chance to win the Grand Prize! There will be lots of other candy offered along the way! Please take your time and visit all of the blogs! You have all weekend to do so. Please be sure to let us know at the last stop (at Pinque Peacock) that you followed the rules to be included in the random drawing for the Grand Prize!

I also have some Blog Candy for one lucky hopper this weekend!

I'll be giving away this cute Inkadinkadoo Clear Stamp set

called Patterned Birds and Bugs by random drawing to one person is is a follower of

my blog and leaves a comment!

Now, On to my Project!

I created a Banner of Owls all ready for winter! These Cute Owls are hanging on the  bathroom mirror in my daughter's bathroom to welcome her home from college.

I always do something to welcome her home, usually something on her bedroom door.

The banner turned out to be too large for that, so I hung it on her mirror! I apologize, it is not easy to photograph things on mirrors without getting in the picture yourself!

To create my banner, I used MANY Cricut Cartridges. 

I started by looking through all my cartridges to see how many different owls I could find and picked out my favorites!

I ended up using Storybook, Winter Frolic and Create A Critter 2 (TWO DIFFERENT OWLS FROM CAC2!!) for the owls.

My daughter's room is decorated in a green, orange and brown, so I selected colors that would blend in with her decor.

Let me "introduce" you to each owl as they were prior to adding to my banner:

(click on any image for a larger view)

"Scarfee Owl"       and                         "Party Owl"         

"Emmanuel Owl"

"Lovey Owl" and "Santa Owl"

You can see, some are embossed, some have pom pom's on their hats, some have foam layering tape.

I then used the Birthday Bash Cricut Cartridge to create the two layers of my banner. This banner can be found on page

62 of the cartridge handbook.
Foam layering tape seperates the layers and adds dimension.

I felt the owls needed a little something to let them stand out from the banner background, so I cut a decorative piece from the Accent Essentials Cricut Cartridge (page 45)
I layered that behind each owl.

Using gold ribbon, I threaded the ribbon through the holes in the banner and hung it up!
I apologize for the cluttered background - but you see what is reflected in the mirror as well as the banner!

You can see my cat Oliver had to be my assistant when I hung up the banner! He's eager for my daughter to get home too!

Now my banner is all ready to Welcome home my Daughter from school- and I am so excited to see her!

She'll only have ONE MORE Semester at school and then she will

GRADUATE!

Thank you so much for stopping by! Please head to my very talented friend

Jenn to see what amazing projects she has created!

http://scraphappensembellishit.blogspot.com/

Here is the wonderful line up we have for you this weekend!

Heather Lynn-http://heathernovinger.blogspot.com

Teresa-http://www.createenjoyshare.blogspot.com/ (You are HERE!)

Jenn-http://scraphappensembellishit.blogspot.com/ (Please go here NEXT!)

Jessica Esch~ http://chick-n-scrap.blogspot.com

Ashley - http://thebloghopprincess.blogspot.com

Lisa - http://indymermaid.blogspot.com

Melissa Kelsey - http://kelseymel.blogspot.com

An'Jenic Gibson - http://anjenicgibson.blogspot.com/

Cindy- http://www.cindys-greencricut.blogspot.com/

Julie- http://jk-littlebitofbling.blogspot.com/

Joe- http://scrapbookjoeblog.blogspot.com/

Christina Capps - http://cema1cema.blogspot.com

Janet R -http://janetscreativeworld.blogspot.com/

Paula http://scrapyourworld1.blogspot.com

Tara-http://www.craftindesertdivas.blogspot.com/

Heather D.-http://joemamainks.blogspot.com/

Norma-http://lilhoneybeestudios.blogspot.com/

Pinque Peacock-http://pinquepeacock.blogspot.com/

Thanks so much for joining us!! We really appreciate each and everyone of you!