Have a hoot at Christmas...

First of all I need to say thank you for all the lovely comments I received yesterday. There were yet more splashes on the keyboard as I read everyone's kind and thoughtful comments. Thank you all so much for caring.

Today's card is for a friend of mine who is crazy about owls so I just had to use this fab stamp from the Hoot collection by Joanna Sheen. Isn't he cute? I just love the way he perches on the candy cane, but you can remove that if you want him to perch in a tree.

The papers I've used are absolutely gorgeous and I can't tell you the make because they were part of a blog candy I won a little while back (thank you so much Elaine). I think I've stroked them long enough and it's time they saw the light of day especially as the candy canes on the paper are a pretty good match to the theme on the stamp.

Additional materials used:

• Sketch from this week's challenge at Cutie Sunday (where they always have the cutest sketches)
• Promarkers
  
• Dovecraft 2" holly punch
• red card and metallic brads
• white flowersoft on hat
• ultrafine glitter on candy cane

Additional challenges:

• Paper Cutz - using a hand stamped or digi stamped image (mine is hand stamped)