Owl Punch Season of Friendship

I am dedicating the next few weeks to making more cards for Operation Write Home for the troops to send home to their families, this time concentrating on cards for their children.
I used the 1 3/8" punch on Very Vanilla cardstock, various ink colors and paintbrush with water spritzer to do the leaves. Season of Friendship tree in Soft Suede. Sentiment is from Owl Together Now.

A Claus For Christmas

I loved today's SCS sketch and made two more holiday cards. I'll have to flip the sketch, I think it would be really pretty going the other way also.
For my first card I used all Stampin' Up supplies. The owl punch was used for Mr. and Mrs. Claus and the hat is from the retired Cold Play set. Sentiment from Holiday Sampler. Paper is retired, cardstocks used were Old Olive, Real Red, and Very Vanilla.
The second card uses Mark's Finest Papers and the sets Greetings Of The Season and Flourishes and Frames.
Projects 31 qnd 32 toward my Christmas goal.

Christmas Ideas

Some more Christmas ideas using mostly Stampin' Up supplies.
The first one is a fun way to give a little gift of chocolates. A tp roll covered in woodgrain paper (Autumn Harvest?), the "knot hole" is a large oval punch in Early Espresso. The owl punch was made into a Santa owl with the hat from the retired Cold Play. The band was embellished with Polar White Flower Soft, added a pompom to cap. Added some branches using the Two Step bird punch. Filled plastic bag with Christmas chocolate mints and tied with olive taffeta ribbon.
The second used the little fairy from the Little Bit Of Magic set. I added a sparkly Santa hat by Jolee's and some Dazzling Diamonds to wings. Fo the sentiment I used the same sentiment that I used on the third card shown here. It seemed to go so perfectly with the one on the front of the card. This card is much more sparkly in real life.
The third is a tag fold accordion style card in Pacific Point using the retired mini hostess set Snow Buddies from last season.

Owls

Su's owl punch and Greenhouse Gala paper with sentiment from Mark's Finest Papers called Owl Be There.

Halloween Hooter

I used the SU owl punch with some retired Halloween paper and the new sneak peek sentiments from the upcoming Halloween set from Mark's Finest Papers called Broom Rides.