I like Mr. M.B. Hedgeh-Owl

Hello and thank you for stopping by!! Here fall/autumn is just arround the corner and so a lil fellow came into my mind the other day. My hands started working and created this little guy:

After long time thinking and discussion with a few friends I named him Mr. M.B. Hedgeh-owl.
The name should give it away that  did him with me lovely SU Owl-punch. I think he is just so cute :)
So here are written instructions on how I made him.
1. I cut out his body out of beige/cream cardstock and snipped of his ears and made a small nodge on the tophead.
2. I cut out a second body but only the down-half of it to have his feet and a little space above it. Then i cut little arms on this feet on both sides.
3. I punched out a beige/cream heart and a pair of eyes for the little guy and a black nose with a simple whole punch.
4. I inked arround the edges of the body , arms and the heart with brown ink and a sponge dauber.
5. Then I started to glue the whole body together starting with the heart, which will be the nose of Mr. Hedgehowl and then added the black spot for his nose and his eyes.
6. Then I glued the arms on the back of his body.
7. Next step was to cut out his spikes with  zig-zag-silhouette-scissors, while using his body as template.
8. As last step glue the body on the spikes and voila...he is finished!!!!!!!

If this instructions are to complicated to understand for you...I appologize...but in that case I have a little goodie for you today.....my first ever official online crafting Video-tutorial. Please bear with me as it´s my really first video-tutorial for a blog. I hope you will like it a little bit....sooo here it is:



If you have any questions or comments just leave them down below and I will get back to you as soon as I can. Thank you so much for stopping by and following my blog. I really do appreciate it.

I also made a fall card with this little fellow that will be sent to one of my biggest craftidols soon    

                                        

What do you think?
I hope everyone is going having  a great weekend . See you all soon :)
HAPPY CRAFTING :)
Maria :)

I like skype-craft-sessions

Hello and Thank you for stopping by!!! A lot of things happened in my life during the last months and because of that I didn´t got to craft and blog . I´m sorry my dear followers. I will stop making promises when I will blog next, as its hard for me to keep with this promises, sorry.

Yesterday night I was able to have a skype-craft-session with my amazingly talented friend Petra from South Africa.  Or lets say she beared to craft with me. We decided to try a technique that we both never did before. We came to the conclusion to do step-fold-cards for eachother.
So while my friend Petra got her card for me done in no time, I struggeled with putting my pieces on the right spot and needed about 4 times more time than she did. Yes I´m a slow crafter at the moment. As Petra loves pink, flowers and butterflies I tried to put all of these elements on her card.
I used my Stampin-up flower petal punch and a fitting stampset I got from an amazing friend for my birthday to make the flowers on the card. The butterfly-doily was made using my new spellbinder die (which I love). The ornament in the back was made using my new Martha-Steward-punches :) nice, huh?
Inked everything with pink ink as Petra loves pink lol.
So to not let you wait any longer, here is what I came up with:
My Step-fold-card for Petra

complete step-fold-card front-view

front and middle layer

Close-up of the flower in the middle

Bacllayer with a punch ornament and more flowers for Petra

Stepcard from the side

What do you think?
I hope everyone is going having  a great week . See you all soon :)
HAPPY CRAFTING :)
Maria :)

I like easter-crafting

Hello and thank you for stopping by!!!! As easter is only a couple of days away I want to share with you the eastercards I made this year and that I sent out to all my wonderful friends all arround the world.
The main characters of my eastercards are an Owl-punch-bunny and an owl-punch chick.

I found the idea for them on Michelles blog here. I thought they are so cute and perfect for some eastercards. I made some card basics in Egg-shape and embossed them using my cuttlebug. After embossing I used my spongedaubers and Ink-pads and colored all of the backgrounds. To give the bunnies and chicks a better spot of attention i layered them a color-fitting oval that i cut out with my nestabilities and popped it up with some foam-pads. As last step I used my Word-window-punch and cut out a strip and hand-wrote my sentiment on it.
So what do you think? I hope these cute little fellows will bring some joy and springfeeling to my wonderful friends around the world, even if some of them will arrive after easter, due to late sending out ;)
I want to wish everyone a very HAPPY EASTER!!!! Might the Easterbunny be kind and generous to you :)

I hope everyone is having a great week and a greater Easter-weekend.See you all soon :)
HAPPY CRAFTING :)
Maria :)

SORRY for being MIA/ I like my giraffe

Hello and thank you for stopping by!!!! Happy new Year everyone and I am so sorry that I have been MIA for the last couple of months....I´m a really bad blogger, huh? Maybe I should stop blogging??? What do you think?
Well its a new year and so here is a new Blog-post. Before I start with the new project I want to share with you today I want to tell all the new Followers a warm Welcome and also want to thank them to follow my Blog. I´m only 2 follower away from 25...wooohoooooo LOL I know not the biggest milestone ;) I´m thankful for every follower and I appreciate that you take the time out of your day to read my blogposts.
Ok enough of that, now back to the creative things :)
A few days after christmas I created this card.

I made this giraffe out of yellow cardstock and punched out the head, horns,eyes and nostrils, body, feet and tail with my Owl-punch.

The legs were long strips of yellow cardstock and all body parts have been colored with the giraffe pattern by using my spongedauber, brown ink and a little piece my sewing thread was on.
The wholes on it were perfect to shape-ink all the dots on the giraffe. All parts were also distressed on their edges with brown ink and my dauber.
The little hat was a cut-piece from a stash of christmaspaper I bought at the craftfair last year.
As final part the giraffe got a scarf out of blue fluffy ribbon my friend Christi sent me.
To keep the wintertheme of the card I punched a few snowflakes out of embossed vellumpaper and put a selfadhesive pearl in the middle of each. The sentiment I used is from Lili of the Valley and it just fit the card.
Tell me what you think about this card. I would love to read your comments. I made a few other new animals with my owl-punch and will try to share them with you during the next weeks and months, but can´t promise to post as regular as I wish I could.
I hope everyone is having a great week and a greater weekend.See you all soon :)
HAPPY CRAFTING :)
Maria :)

I like the halloween allstars

Hello and thank you for stopping by!! Sorry for being so quiet for the last few weeks and months. Work and Thankgiving and Christmascards kept me very very busy and so I did not really had time to post anything. My craftingfriend Mel ( Hi Mel lol) asked me to post some of the halloween allstar cards I made including more than one of the halloween Owl characters on one card. So here they are.



I hope you will like them and tell me what you think about them and which one is your favorite. As its the last week before christmas I will also try to post one or two of the cards I made including another project with my lovely OWL punch. (so watch out for them) ;)
I hope everyone is having a wonderful week and a blessed christmastime.
Merry Christmas to all of you and your family

Happy Crafting!!!!

I love the mummyowl

Hello and thank you for stopping by. Halloween is getting nearer and I want to show you today another Halloween character I made with the StampinUP Owl-punch .
Meet the Mummyowl.

This one is one of my favorites as he was a little challenge for me. I didn´t wanted to make the gaze out of paper, but real material. So I took some white fabric I had left over and teared them with my hands in stripes. Then I punched out a white owl body and a pair of black and white eyes. I adhered the eyes and then turned the owlbody to put some sticky-tape on it. then I tool one of the fabricstripes and started to put it arround the owl-body. I cut off the ends after adhere it to the sticky tape and made another round arround the Owlbody, but overlaped the first strip a bit with the next one.I made this step a few times until I came to the eyes-section where I tried to hide the eyes only a little under the fabric so that they would still show though. I ripped a thinner piece of fabric for the top of the mummyowl and turned it arround the ears of the owl and over the eyes. Isn´t he cute :)
Here are two cards I made with him.
Tell me what you think about them :)
I hope everyone is having a great week.
HAPPY CRAFTING :)
Maria :)

I would like to enter him in the following challenges:
thecraftypad.blogspot.com Halloween
gingerloftchallenge.blogspot.com Halloween
paperprettiesblog.blogspot.com Black/Orange/Purple/Green
pollycraftchallengeblog.blogspot.com Spooky Goings On

I like Mr.Drac-owl-a

Hello and thank you for stopping by. A new day, a new halloween creation. I saw all the ideas that I´m showing you this week on some blogs, but unfortunately I can´t remember where exactly.( just that you know that I didn´t invent any of them myself)This time it´s getting bloody...or maybe not. Today I want to present you my little friend Mr.Drac-owl-a.
He has a little more steps to do till he is finished then the Ghouls or the bats. To create him you need to punch out 2 bodies in Black and one in red. You also need to punch out his breast out of some patternpaper and also a pair of eyes ( all with the StampinUP Owl-punch ). For his sharp teeth you just take a piece of white scrapping paper and just cut out 2 small triangles.
To put his cape together u cut off the bottom part of the owl and cut it in half vertically. they you put the red part of his cape on the black one and glue it down. Try to let the black show under the red so you can see both colors of the cape.(Works best when you cut the bottom and the vertical edge of the red part a little smaller than the black one). Adhere both parts of the coat behind the body of Dracowla. Glue on the body his breat part, on top of that the teeth and then the eyes over them.Istead of the eyeball/light-point, you can also use small rhinestones to make him look more scary.
And there he is, ready to get some bloooooood LOL


Here are some cards I made with my Dracowla :)

Tell me what you think about them :)
I hope everyone is having a great week.
HAPPY CRAFTING :)

Maria :)

I would like to enter these creations into the following challenges:
craftyourdaysaway.blogspot.com Halloween Colours
dreamvalleychallenges.blogspot.com Halloween
sentimentalsundays.blogspot.com Halloween

I loke this Gh-owls :)

Hello and thank you for stopping by. Today I want to show you another halloween creation I made with my StampinUp Owlpunch. Scary little Ghosts.

To make them you punch out an owl-body in white or creme cardstock and snip of its little feet ( sorry little owl). The you turn the whole body upside down and Voila, you can see the shape of a little ghost :)
give him some black eyes with white lightpoints and he is able to spooke arround. To give hime the chance to yell also you can draw a little black mouth by hand or stamp one ( like I did it with my peachykeen stamps).I made these cards with my new ghosty friends and didn´t let them spooke alone, but in a group of three :)
Here are a few of the halloweencards I made with my Ghost owls--short =Ghowls ;)

Tell me what you think about them :)

I hope everyone is having a great week.
HAPPY CRAFTING :)

Maria :)

I like this bats

Hello and thank you for stopping by. I know I haven´t blogged in about two weeks. Sorry Work kept me busy and I had some projects to work on. One of the projects is a stash of Halloweencards for my american and canadian friends. I will try to show you this week a few of them. I made a bunch of them with my favorite tool I´m using A LOT lately : My stampin Up OWL punch :)
As I haven´t blogged in 2 weeks you get more cards today. Some batty Halloween cards with my Owlpunch.

They are really supereasy to make (if you have an owlpunch)All you have to do is to punch out the owl body in black and add a pair of bat wings. These wings can be made with a scallop-punch or a bat punch or diecut. Add some eyes and he is ready to fly.When you have your OWL-bat finished you just need a good place where it can rest or fly along :)

These are my BAT-OWL cards!!! Tell me what you think!!
I hope everyone will have a great week.
HAPPY CRAFTING :)

Maria :)

I would like to enter these cards in the following challenge:
Kreative Stempelfreunde: Challenge 36 Halloween

I like this cute turkey

Hello and thank you for stopping by. Here in Germany we don´t celebrate Thanksgiving the way it´s done in the USA and in Canada. But as I have lots of friends in these countries I made a few cards so send to my friends. Last year arround this time on of my crafting-rolemodels Kim Burmeister made cute tablesettings with punched little turkeys. This video on her Ustreamchannel inspired me to do my own version of these turkeys. And guess what I used for it? Yes right my Owl-punch (hehehehehe).

I used it for the body and for the colorful little feathers I used for the first card

a simple scallopcircle, like Kim did and for the others my new Nellie Snellen Multi-Frame-Die that I bought on the craftfair last weekend. This Die has small cuts under the scallops that you can fold and give it a fancy look with it. I think they turned out pretty with that. Here are a few cards I made with this turkey :)



Tell me what you think about him and the cards (Which one is your favorite?) and I hope I was able to inspire you with these turkeys as well, (as Kim inspird me). Maybe you can do your own version of them too :)
I hope everyone will have a great week.
HAPPY CRAFTING :)

Maria :)