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!

Featured on Pink By Design - again!

I am very honored and excited to announce I was again featured on The Pink Cricut's Link Up Tuesday!

This is my second time and since I am such a fan of Sarah Hamer and her work - I feel so thankful to have a project featured again!

Thank you Sarah! 

Just wanted to share and to wish all of you a very safe, happy and healthy Thanksgiving!

It Is Almost Thanksgiving!

Hello and Happy Thursday to you!

I have been missing from blog land for the last couple of weeks due to having gall bladder surgery.

I am happy to report I had my follow up appointment with the surgeon and I am doing fine and able to slowly increase my activity level as I see fit!  I was excused from posting projects from the design team while I recovered.

Can you believe we only have TWO WEEKS until it is Thanksgiving Day?  Oh my!

Today's assignment on My Cricut Craftroom was Thanksgiving Table.  I decided to spruce up my

Thanksgiving table with a few new table decor projects.

I started out by making napkin rings.  For this project I used something we all have and use everyday in our homes...empty toilet paper tubes!  Well, I guess most people don't use EMPTY toilet paper tubes daily, but you know that I mean they are easy to be found!

I cut each tube to be 1 1/2 inches wide and covered them with paper from Bo Bunny Apple Cider Collection.  (Is that paper collection NOT THE CUTEST??).

I glued the paper around the tubes after cutting strips of paper to fit the "rings" and then added a leaf to each

for a little more decoration.  The leaves were found on the Artiste Cartridge on page 78 - I cut a variety of sizes so I could mix and match and see what I liked best for the finished project. I ended up using leaves cut at 2 3/4 inches and 3 inches.

I ran them through the Cuttlebug to give them some texture.

 Here are the napkin rings before I added the leaves: 

And here is one of the napkin rings with the leaf added! 

Next, I used the Thanksgiving Seasonal Cartridge to cut place card holders.

I cut both the base the layer to make the place card.

I will add the guests names once my guest list is complete!

For the final piece of my tablescape... I made favor boxes to resemble a piece of Pumpkin Pie!
This way guests can have a little snack for later!

I plan to fill it with either Hershey Kisses or Dark Chocolate Hershey Nuggets.

I added a swirl of tulle to resemble Whipped Cream on top!

I decided to try "Glubbers" and I really was not happy with the results.

Just did not stick as well as I wanted.

Here are a couple more shots of my "ready for Thanksgiving Table"!

I hope this gives you some ideas for decorating your table for the holiday!

Let me know what you think!
Please head over to My Cricut Craftroom and check out the projects my fellow design team

members created for you! 

Sharing this at "Oh so she says..." blog -

http://www.oneshetwoshe.com/2012/11/hello-weekend-past-posts-your-great.html

See some amazing projects there!!  

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