Owl Love You - Stamped Tag and Mini Book

Its my Birthday today and I wanted to share a favorite tutorial of mine from when my Owl Stamps first came out. Enjoy!

How to Make a Plush Owl with Fairfield

 Hi everyone!
I love to sew and I love anything to do with owls, so when I received a very special fun filled box from Fairfield, celebrating their 80th Birthday, I knew just what I wanted to make! -

a Owl of course!

I have even created a free printable pattern for you to follow along and make your own plush owl!

Here we go.....

Here is what you need to make a this plush owl:

• Poly-fil® from Fairfield World
• Pewter Luxe-Cuddle fabric
• Pink fabric of choice
• Yellow and Fushia Felt
• Sulky Poly Star Thread
• Sulky Metallic Gold Thread
• Assorted buttons
• Pinking shears Sewing machine
• Sewing needle

Instructions:

• Download and print the following patterns- 
  Plush Owl Body - Top half & Bottom half 
  - I made the patterns to fit a standard 8 ½" x 11" piece of paper,
  so make sure you select 'fit to printable area' when printing the pattern. 
• You'll need to print 1 pattern that has the eyes, beak and feathers.
  Then 2 of the other pattern with the crown. 
• Lay down the 1st pattern onto the 2nd pattern as shown below and secure with tape.

• For the owl body, you'll need to trace and cut 1 piece from the Luxe fabric and 1 piece from the other fabric.

• Since the Luxe fabric is furry, place it face down and stitch all the way around, ¼" in.
  This will help keep the stray 'fluff' to minimum as you sew. 

 

• Place the 2 fabric together and stitch a  ¼" allowance all the way around.
   Leave a 2" opening at the bottom. 

• The Poly-fil® will come with a stuffing tool, use this to push out the corners when you turn the body inside out. 

Using the pinking shears, trace and cut the following:

• 2 eyes from the yellow felt
• 1 beak from the yellow felt
• 4 feathers from the fushia felt
• 4 (slightly smaller) feathers from the Luxe fabric.

• Use a zig zag and straight stitch to attach the Luxe fabric onto the felt.
  Alternate between the Poly Star and metallic threads.
   (Take time to clean any 'fluff' out of the machine as you sew)

• Use the Poly Star thread to create a starburst design on the felt eyes. 

• Hand stitch the buttons onto the felt circles. 

• Use your sewing machine to attach the owl beak felt piece to the top of the owl body.
  
• Flip over and stitch a line across. (see pattern for reference.)

• Start pushing in some Poly-fil® in the opening of the owl body, pushing up to the stitched line and towards the corners. Use the stuffing tool as needed. 
• Hand stitch the opening closed. 

• Fold over the owls head at the stitched line and hand stitch the beak to the body. 
• Attach the eyes in the same manner.

• Next, hand stitch 2 wings to each side of the owl body.

For the crown:

Use the provided pattern to trace and cut from the the yellow and fushia felt. 

Stitch the two together using your favorite threads. 

Add a couple of buttons or other sparkly embellishments. 

Make it fabulous!

I hope you liked my project and if you do make a owl or two on your own,
please let me know, I'd love to see it!

See more Fairfield creations here!

Disclosure: I received compensation and/or products in exchange for my crafting services. The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely the my own.

Halloween Party Favors

With Halloween being my all time favorite holiday, I couldn't pass up the chance to make these oh so  spooky party favors! They are easy to make up and fun to fill.
I'll be making these to give to the kids in my neighborhood all through October, as a early Halloween treat!

To make party favors like these, you will need the following:

1. Owls, Nothing but Owls- Rubber Stamps by Michelle Frae Cummings

2. Halloween on a Shelf -Rubber Stamps

3. Halloween party fillers

4. Washi tape

5. Strong double stick tape

6. Stapler

7. Scissors

8. Crepe paper

9. Colored paper

10. Black ink for stamping

11. Assorted markers and glitter gel pens

For the party favors with pencils in them, I cut my paper to be 6 ½" x 11".

The smaller treat tubes measured to be 5" x 6 ½"

Use the black ink to randomly stamp all over the papers.

Have a little fun coloring in your stamped images!

To make the tube, tightly roll your paper first, to get its shape. Add a strip of double stick tape along one side and press the rolled end into the tape.

Gently press down one end of your tube and insert some crepe paper. Staple this shut. 

Add some washi tape to this end, covering the staples. Use your scissors to cut slits in the crepe paper to make a 'fringe'. 

Fill your tube with Halloween toys or candy. 

Turn the tube and close the opposite end as you did before. 

You can also fill these with money, gift cards, and other fun things! 

Happy Halloween!

~Michelle

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Owl Note Cards

I was playing around with my Nothing but Owls, rubber stamps and came up with these adorable "Peek-a-Boo Owl note cards! 

You can see the full tutorial here. 

Enjoy!

Valentines Day Owls - Fan Art

Here's a simple card you can make, just in time for Valentines Day! 

Supplies Used:

•   Owls, Nothing but Owls stamp set
•  Assorted card stock
•  Embellishments
•  Die cut tag
• Alcohol markers

See the full tutorial here!

Owl Love You - Fan Art

I'm loving how cute my Owl stamp looks on this card!

Supplies Used:

• Owls, Nothing but Owls stamp set
•   craft paper
•   card stock
•   paper doily
•   embellishments
•   gold thread
•   alcohol markers
•   die for background
•   ink
•   white embossing powder

See the full tutorial here! 

Owl Wisdom- Fan Art

Something about owls will always invoke wisdom....



Supplies Used:

• Leaves by Terri Sproul
• Owls by Michelle Frae Cummings
• Lindy's Embossing Powder Desert Moon Copper Pine
• Clear Embossing Powder
• Watercolor Paper
• Adhesive
• Watercolor Pencils
• Ranger Distress Inks
• Versamark inkpad
• Brown StazOn ink pad
• Ranger Distress Markers

See the full tutorial here!

Sugar Skull Artist Trading Cards

Welcome to day 12 of our Day of the Dead Art - Celebration!

Today's featured artist is yours truly!

I created these ATC's (artist trading cards) to keep on hand for friends want to swap. 

As you can see, I'm not afraid to use color when I create and I definitely used a lot of it!

I even used my ATC stamps on the backs of the cards!

You can see the full tutorial here!

Dandelion Burst stamp set

 Artist Trading Card stamp set

Sugar Skull stamp set

Glittery Owl Thank You Card

Hi Everyone!
This is my first post of the year for Blank Page Muse, formerly Sin City Stamps.
Every month on the 10th, all the Inspiration team members will participate in group blog hop.
Each month, the hop has a theme.
The theme for this months hop is Turquoise, silver and sparkle!

For my project, I made up this glittery, shimmery owl card.
Enjoy!

Supplies:

• Blank Page Muse Stamps- Nothing But Owls  (My stamps!)
• Blank Page Muse Stamps-  Medallions  (My stamps!)
• Blank Page Muse Stamps-  Thank You 

 

• Blank card plus white cardstock cut to size of card.
• Ink pads- Turquoise, Pink, Purple and Black
• Make-up sponges
• Inka Gold- Turquoise, Violet and Silver
• Tsukinko Champagne mist ink
• Glue pen and water brush
• Glitter and bling
• Black pen

1. Ink the cardstock square using the make up sponge and turquoise ink. 

2. Ink the card edges.

3. Use the sponge to add pink onto one side of the card, follow up with the purple ink.

4. Use the sponge to ink the card edges in some purple.
5. Use the water color brush to add the turquoise and violet inka gold to the card.

6. Stamp the Medallion with each color ink onto the card. 

* To create the 'fading' effect, once I stamped the image with fresh ink, I stamped again elsewhere on the card with what ever ink was still on the stamp, this created a 'faded' effect.*

7. Repeat the same process with the Thank You stamp. 

8. Use the black ink pad to stamp your Owl and Branch.

9. Accent Owl and Medallions with the silver inka gold.

10. Refresh some outlines with the black pen if desired.

11. Adhere the painted card to the front of your blank card. 

12. Accent the border of the card with champagne mist ink.

13. Finish your card with glitter and bling!

Don't like glitter? Here's another version of the same card!

Thanks for coming by, comments welcome!
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