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Friday, July 24, 2009

From Courtney's Closet #50 - an inspiration challenge

Hello and welcome to this week's edition of From Courtney's Closet, where I make a card inspired by one of my daughter's outfits, and encourage you to do the same. This week I cheated a little - I felt like making an owl card, so I picked Courtney's shirt with owls on it for inspiration! I really love the color combo - it's a good match to the new Stampin' Up In Colors Rich Razzleberry & Soft Suede, paired with Bashful Blue. I wanted to make an owl card because this past week's Cinema Saturday challenge was Harry Potter, and I thought I'd make a Hedwig card. Yes, I do realize Hedwig is supposed to be white. The rule of the challenge was to add an "unexpected element" - nobody expected a brown Hedwig now did they? Ok, maybe that's not exactly what they meant with that rule, oh well. I'm too late anyway, the card was due hours ago. I usually try not to combine my From Courtney's Closet challenge with any other challenges, but I so miss playing along with Cinema Saturday, I had to give it a try. The owl I used for my card is from FireCracker Designs by Pamela's "Yoo HOOO!" set, and this sentiment from "She Dreams" seemed perfect for Harry Potter. The fabric of Courtney's shirt has a bit of a square texture to it, so I used a Cuttlebug folder to add texture to the background of the card. One difficult
thing to see in the photo is that both the owl and the sentiment are covered in a bunch of Stardust gel pen. I'm going to throw in a second photo of Courtney - she was doing "Upside Down Courtney" and it gives a perfect view of her shirt's design. Well, almost perfect - it's upside down! :-) So there you have it. Want to play along this week? C'mon, owl stamps are all the rage these days, I know you have some! If you do play, please be sure to stop back here and leave your link so I can come and find you. Thanks for stopping by today!
  • Stamps: Yoo HOOO! and She Dreams from FireCracker Designs by Pamela
  • Paper: Soft Suede, Bashful Blue, Rich Razzleberry and DP from SU, Georgia-Pacific white
  • Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Copic & SU markers for coloring, Sakura Stardust gel pen, black Glaze pen on the eyes, Chocolate Chip for sponging
  • Accessories: Cuttlebug & embossing folder, Basic Grey designer rhinestone flourish, Soft Suede polka dot ribbon, brads, sponge

14 comments:

  1. Love this card, Libby! Love the colors together and the owl, great job with the challenge!

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  2. Oh you are very creative lady!! This is adorable and I LOVE your Hedwig owl!! This is perfect!! P.S..I get to go see the movie this weekend!! YEAH!! :)

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  3. Wow, I am #1 entry!! yay!
    Very cute outfit and I was SO happy to see it up today!
    Here's my card

    Karen

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  4. Libby, this is a fun card! Love the bling and what a great image! I *cheated* a little on my entry- sheepish smile- but I was able to play this way and I love to play.

    http://kbstamps.blogspot.com/2009/07/swaps-for-convention.html

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  5. This is beautiful Libby! I love the textured background, the colors and that owl! Fantastic take on the challenge! :)

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  6. Well, I finally got back into this challenge, at least for this one, I laughed at Courtney's antics of her upside down posing..too funny...here's my card http://nelliesnest.blogspot.com/2009/07/from-owl-of-usfrom-courtneys-closet-50.html okay how do you all get the link to appear as a link?

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  7. Courtney's beautiful smile and upside down view got me smiling first thing this morning. Would you tell her "thanks" for me, please? This is a great card! I love the owl image and the bling. Someday I'll be caught up enough to play again (in my dreams).

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  8. Another wonderful challenge! Courtney's is so cute. I love your card. Here is mine.

    http://cardsandcoffee.blogspot.com/2009/07/owl.html

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  9. Love the shirt Courtney is wearing! So "trendy" with the owls! :-)

    Courtney's Card

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  10. Woo Hoo!!!! I played, I actually made time to play.

    http://gorillamamagreats.blogspot.com/2009/07/birthday-owl.html

    Hugs
    Nic

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  11. Great card and Courtney's super cute as always! I'm happy to be back.
    http://wahoohaven.blogspot.com/2009/07/you-make-flowers-smile.html

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  12. Gosh LIBS, Courtney is getting sooo big!!!

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  13. Cute stuff for this challenge...it is almost midnight and I have run out of steam...so no FCCC for me this week and prob next week as I will be gone on vacation...this is terrible...hate to go on vacation cuz I miss out of my FCCC fix! LOL
    All the creations this week were lots of fun!

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