Metalic wings

I was lucky enough to be made the random winner at aurora wings challenges which meant I had $20 to spend in their online shop so although it was a very hard choice I decided to choose some of the fab digi stamps on offer and even that took a lot of work as my short list was over 20+. 

The nice thing though is that Mitzi has her art work there too so it was easy for me to take inspiration from them as to how to colour the images I chose. Now please don't get me wrong I am no where near as talented as Mitzi but I was extremely pleased with the results I achieved and having her art work as reference gave me the courage to choose some images that I wouldn't normally dream of choosing like the one I used here.

I got this fab steam punk owl in a set with a steam punk angel and as you may have guessed stream punk isn't something I've ventured into before mainly as I wasn't really sure what it was or how I could make it work. I am so pleased I chose this image as it makes such a great masculine card and different from the usual male cards of sports , alcohol relaxing in one way or another or eating as so many male cards including those I make do.

I had recently treated myself to some gears dies so timing was meant to be. I cut them out in gold mirri card and used them to accent the card. The base card is kraft and I sprayed with a gold and tawny silver spitz from moonglow, well even boys can have a bit of sparkle.

The owl I coloured with promarkers and then fussy cut it out , I didn't think I'd done a bad job until you look close up in the photos and I can still see bits of white card around the edges ,but of course now its all stuck down its a bit late.

That's it really quite a simple card once all the elements are prepared.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:-

Tuesday throwdown - clean and simple

Timboscrapmania - use some metal

Aurora wings - anything goes/things with wings

The stamping boutique - no designer paper

Simon says - no designer paper

That craft place - mixed media anything goes

Sweet stampin - use non white card base

crafty boots - gold or silver

OLL creations - use kraft

creative card crew - masculine

cardz 4 guys - something beginning with M
(metallic mirri- card)
The male room - autumn /fall
(I chose the colours and that you are more likely to see owls)

Chocolate coffee cards - animals

I love promarkers - masculine