An owl for the wise

I am posting this owl-card for the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge (It's a guy thing). The steampunk owl is from the Chocolate Baroque Punky birds -stamp set.

The image has first been stamped on satin card with Versamark and heat embossed with gold embossing powder. The whole card has been coloured using an ink blender and Distress inks in different shades of brown. Parts of the owl were then bleached with water and a fine brush and some dark brown and grey color added.