Owl's That?

Continuing with my little honeycomb shapes expose......

I'm not sure if he's cute or a bit spooky.  I think his eyes might be a bit large and maybe too low!   But he was really easy to make.  The trick with this one is to punch out about 18 shapes and cut the ears and feet off all except 2 or 3 of them.   You start with a piece that has the ears attached, then layer all the ones without ears, and finally finish with a piece that has the ears.   Then when you fan out the shape you'll have ears on both sides of the head....funny eh?!

I did a bit of sponging in More Mustard and Early Espresso but it's hard to see in the pic.   The branch is from the Two Step Bird Punch & the large vanilla eyes are from the Owl punch.  I drew the centres with black marker and added a bit of light with a white gel pen.

Happy mid week!   Hope you are enjoying this spring-like weather.
Cheers
Karen

Up, Up & Away

Here's a balloon made using the honeycomb technique.  This one uses the 1 1/4" circle punch.  Like yesterday's, it's a lot of punching and uses around 18 - 20 circles.

The trick with these is to make sure you use lightweight paper - our DSP is perfect, but you could also use tissue paper or that fabulous brown packing paper that comes in our Stampin' Up! deliveries!

Happy Tuesday!
Karen

Honeycomb Shapes

Darling Stamp & Scrap club's technique demo this month was honeycomb shapes.

This is a technique that I've used before for Christmas ornaments, but usually I've only made them with 3 or 4 punched pieces.

These use a lot of layers - the apple is around 20 -25 punches, but it's so gorgeous it was worth the effort.   The punch I used is called the Full Heart.   You snip off about 5mm from the bottom of each one before you stick them together.  So cute!

I'll pop back later with a couple more, and you can also find another sample on my facebook page.

Hope your week is off to a good start!