Grey and owls...

The Craft Barn November challenge is out, and the prompt words are grey and owls! After stressing with last minute takes on the October pages, I decided to start November with these -one down, two to go! Besides I have different options for owls, so the situation looks fine. There is no calendar grid for this one yet, because I will draw it behind the December page once I do that. The October calendar has been updated with it's grid (that is behind this one). Sorry for the bad light in the pictures, I'm working to find a solution, there's a long winter ahead!

I chose to start with a Gorjuss stamp and Grey Brusho. After getting the brusho on the card I picked out the orange background (there are orange specks in the brusho) and coloured the girl orange too. I'm loving the cheerful combination. I stamped a text stamp with grey Archival and heat embossed the sentiment in white and noticed that the circle thingy on the same Paperartsy stampset (ESN15) had a central image that resembles the motive on the background cardstock... so I had to stamp that too, and heat embossed with clear embossing powder. I wanted to add something to tie the "photo" to the background, so I sprinkled chunky embossing enamel around. Since it wasn't bonded to anything, I heated from underneath.

The girl was coloured with Inktense pencils and a waterbrush. I used an embossing pen to add dots on the hem of her skirt, embossing with the chunky white. She was mounted on low foam tape.

You can find the previous pages of this scrappy calendar here:

January 

February

March

April 

May

June

July

August

September

October