Yesterday I spent the day with one of my best friends, who also has the scrapbooking bug. I had brought with me WAY too much stuff as usual and was missing things I needed that I logically should have (why, oh, why did I forget my new blades for my trimmer?!?). Alas, it was a great day for making doo-dads for my cards. I started by pulling out my retired owl punch from Stampin' Up. This beauty was an eBay find that I was stalking the site to find for a while. A few month back I had run across a pin on Pinterest where someone had used it and immediately fell in love. When I did a further search I found that so many people had come up with some great ways to use it, which only solidified my 'need' for this little wonder. I was a little surprised at the actual finished size as they seemed larger in the pics online, but they are still amazing!
I needed to up my game when it comes to masculine cards so I decided to make some superhero owls that I can use on some boy cards. OMGoodness do they tickle me! I started first with a Spiderman owl. I cut the owl body in both blue and red and then the eye pieces in black and white. I cut off the feet of the blue owl and then cut the red to make the angled top and used the bottom pieces to make new red feet. I used a fine tip pen to draw the spiderweb lines on the suit and then made a small spider symbol on his chest. I was pretty excited with how he turned out. 👍
Next, I decided to try a more complicated one and made a Batman owl. I cut out the body in grey and twice in black. The belly was cut in black and the eyes in white and black. I cut off the feet and top of the grey owl body to make the suit portion. Next, I hand cut a piece of yellow to make the belt. I placed the black belly piece on top and hand cut a yellow oval and drew a bat symbol for the buckle. Using the second black body I cut it in half down the center then used some design scissors to make the wavy bottom. One of the black eye circles was cut in half to make some eyelids to make him look intense.
Next up...the Flash! I began with cutting both a yellow and red body (two), red, white and black eyes, a black and yellow heart and a white eye to be used as the suit symbol. I cut off part of the ears and the feet of the red owl and then added a piece of the yellow behind it. A strip can be cut from the center to make the yellow belt. Using the second red body I once again cut it in half, only this time used it as wings/arms and added the yellow heart (cut in half) to make the arm bands. I put together the eyes and cut the black heart in half to make the angled brows. Finally I drew a lightening bold on the circle and colored it in with a yellow marker. This one is probably my fav. 😁
Last up was Ironman. Ironman began the same as the Flash with a red body. From there I took pieces of the yellow to hand cut the face, arm and leg pieces. The center piece is made using a white eye that has a blue triangle colored with a marker. I once again cut black and white eyes and used one cut in half as eye lids. Finally I cut pieces to make the arms of the owl.
I was super excited to show these to my husband when I got home...only one problem with using a couple of them together. I am apparently 'mixing universes' and combined DC and Marvel characters. Whoops! 😂 I'll figure that out later, for today I'm just ticked with my goofy owls!
