duck... duck... GOOSE!

we're celebrating our fine feathered friends this week at shopping our stash by making projects with a bird or with a feather on them. and no, it doesn't have to be a duck or a goose, but isn't that a fab title? i'm pretty sure you're expecting to see a flamingo card from me --and goodness knows i was verrrrrrrry tempted-- but after i saw the current curtain call inspiration, i changed tack entirely and made this:

beautiful, funky bird fussy-cut from a piece of 1980's wall paper and outlined with faber-castell's pitt artist pen (XS/.1mm); floral layering stamps and inks: hero arts; patterned papers: pion design, basic grey + a bit of vintage dictionary paper; pearl flourishes: prima; velvet florals: petaloo; scalloped muslin trim: pink paislee; leafy ribbon: may arts; adhesives: elmers brand gluetape, 3m foam tape, gluedots, sewing machine

before i tell you more about it, i s'pose i should really show you the curtain call challenge graphic so you'll know why i wanted to use it:

factor into this equation the fact that i was lucky enough to have the lovely miss june here for art camp last week, and she brought along some gorgeous floral hero arts layering stamps and inks in exactly the right colors. since i was already longing to use those, it wasn't hard to make this strikingly lovely bouquet my starting point. i reallllllly wish i had taken a photo of the floral collage BEFORE i attached the vintage-wallpaper bird, because it's quite beautiful; a fact that you cannot see AT ALL because the bird hides most of it. the biggest occupational hazard of collage is that sometimes the really cool stuff in the bottom layer gets covered up.

something which can never be covered up or diluted is the brilliance of my SOS dt sisters. they're all birds of a feather, with gorgeous cards to show you... why not treat yourself to an eyeful of their inspiration right now, darlings?! ♥