Owl Birthday Card

Hi! Here's a demonstration on making an owl birthday card with an origami owl.

1. Cut a 15 cm by 18 cm rectangle from craft card stock.

2. Score at the middle (@9 cm) and fold in half to make a 9 cm by 15cm card

3. To emboss diagonal stripes on the card with white glue, you will need a ruler, white glue and cover other side of the card with paper.

4. Place the ruler on the card diagonally. I am using a right triangle ruler to make life easier, but you don't have to. Slowly squeeze glue along the edge of the ruler. Then, carefully LIFT the ruler up, don't slide it or glue will get everywhere. You can measure where the next line goes, but I just eyeball it since it's easier. My lines are about 1.2 cm apart.

5. Let the glue dry and it should look like this. It's not perfect and it doesn't have to be, it's a handmade card after all. :)

6. I folded an origami owl from Peter Engel's book, Origami Odyssey. Of course you can use different owls, not origami or origami.

7. Adhere the owl to the left side of the card . I left the ears, wings, and feet not glued to the card.

8. Tear a piece of brown tissue paper.

9. Form the branches by crunching, then twisting.

10. Place the branch under the feet and over the wings. Glue between the feet branch and card.

11. At the edge of the card, glue the branch down. Then, trim off the extra length.

12. Glue the tip of the branch down.

13. Make a smaller branch and attach it to the bigger branch and card.

14. Use a toothpick with a drop of glue to secure at small areas.

15. I printed out part of the sentiment, a thousand times wiser, using the font Harrington at size 19.

 I cut the sentiment in to about 1 cm wide paper. At the left end, I cut a triangle to make it look like a flag.

16. Using an empty pen, I wrote over the printed words for an embossed, finished look.

17. Glue the sentiment and trim the excess paper.

18. Cut a strip of yellow pastel paper that is about 0.6 cm wide.

19. Hand write the rest of the sentiment, one year older..., and glue it above the printed sentiment. And you're finished!