Owl Would You Like to Kiss Me in the Moonlight?*

I was so excited about how this turned out! I was inspired by Gina K's moonlit branches card, so I wanted to try to silhouette the owls in front of a big full moon. This uses my cut Coluzzle technique you've seen me use on other projects.

First I stamped my owls on white CS, colored with markers and Prismas and OMS then cut it out and set aside. (I extended the branch image just a bit) I stamped the owls in white craft ink on the black CS so I could see where I'd need to cut and place my pieced, colored owls.

Next I placed my round Coluzzle template on top and chose the third track in(blue) so my silhouette wouldn't fall out. I inserted the Coluzzle blade and followed the track skipping the stamped parts.

I went back in with my paper snips and cut around the owls.
I went back in with the hobby blade to cut the interior sections I couldn't get to with my snips. It's okay if your cutting is not perfect; err on the side of making it a little bigger than the stamped image if you need to(that will just look like a dark shadow around your colored parts, enlarge the card front above to see areas I may have missed) because you don't want the white CS hanging over the edges and showing on the back, you want that all to be black(as you'll see below on the finished card interior)Inserting the white CS mat inside gives you space to write and the closed card casts a shadow onto the "moon" from the owls image. Last adhere your colored owls to the outside like you are paper piecing. I used my quickie glue pen for all those tiny branches and leaves.

And here is the inside with the greeting from the same set. Isn't that cool how you see their silhouette from the inside? Hopefully the black isn't making you think too much of a Halloween! I just wanted it to be a romantic evening :)

* this is a play on a song from an old Bob Hope movie "The Princess and the Pirate" I saw at my grandparents' when I was a kid, did anybody ever see that? Lee? Weren't you the one that likes old (Doris Day?) movies?