Owl Canvas & Little Yellow Bicycle Giveaway

If you've followed my blog, you may have noticed that I have a soft spot for owls.  They are whimsical and fun and I can't help but be drawn to them. 

When Little Yellow Bicycle sent me the Cycling Team box for the Fern and Forest Boy collection, I immediately thought of owls and wanted to make an altered project. 

I started this project with a scene paper from Fern and Forest Boy.  The clouds and woodgrain were the perfect backdrop. 

Next, I played around with paper-piecing an pair of owls.  It took a couple tries to get the scale right. I drew  the owls on paper first. As you can see, in my first attempt, the mama owl was too big. 

I scaled down the mama owl, then added a paper-pieced baby owl.  I stitched each part separately, then pop dotted pieces for dimension. 

Once I had my owls ready, I filled in the rest of the scene and added a wood frame. 

I used pieces from Little Yellow Bicycle's Naturals, including the burlap sticker here and the cork butterfly and stick pin, to fill the empty spots. 

Here's the finished canvas: 

Giveaway: Little Yellow Bicycle was so generous to me that I wanted to share this collection with one of my blog readers. This giveaway will include 12 sheets of 6x6 Fern and Forest paper, two coordinating sticker sheets, a mix of stick pins and a flower kit. 

To enter the giveaway, please follow my blog and leave a comment below. Comments are open until midnight on April 22.  I'll announce the winner by random draw next Tuesday, April 23. 

You can see this project and other projects with Fern and Forest Boy and Fern and Forest Girl on the Little Yellow Bicycle blog.  Thank you so much for stopping by. 

At The Patch: Paper Pieced Pumpkins

Some of my favorite photos each year are from our visits to the local pumpkin patch.  Even though we often have a long Indian Summer here in the South, it seems like it's officially Fall once the pumpkins are out.

Bella Blvd's Thankful line, which was included in the My Creative Scrapbook kit, was perfect for scrapbooking our pumpkin patch visit.  The collection has this fun paper that features a variety of trees with pumpkins sitting underneath. Cuteness! 

Pumpkins embellishments are really easy to make. I went old-school here and paper pieced them. I started by roughly sketching two pumpkins - one tall, one fat - on kraft paper to use as my base. I cut out the kraft shapes then traced them onto patterned paper.

I added a little machine stitching around the edges, then embellished the pumpkins with stickers, button and twine.

To curl the twine, I used glue to wet it, then wrapped the twine around a straw to dry.  Once dry, I uncurled the twine from the straw. The twine "remembers" the shape and springs back into a curlicue.  I used Trendy Twine here in Holly. I have a tutorial on how to curl twine here.

For more information on the monthy kits at My Creative Scrapbook, please visit the homepage.  Thanks so much for stopping by.  I'll be back on Thursday with a Halloween treat.