shake your tail-feather for CAS-ual Fridays.

There was an old Nelly song back in the day (i'm so old) and the whole song and video was all about shaking your tail-feather (and obviously, many close-to-naked women obliged.)

Just in case you were wondering about the background of my card... inspiration is a funny thing sometimes!

I used lawn fawn's "quinn's abcs" for the letters (and had a mask a few for them to fit the right way....)  The feather, from "lovestruck," was stamped once near the "it's your birthday" sentiment, and then without re-inking, stamped a few more times so it looks like the feather was floating down... you know, a stray plume came loose from one of those floozy video girls costumes... hee hee.  I stamped another feather onto a separate sheet of white cardstock, and colored & cut it out.

I also added a bit of shimmer to the bottom:

I adhered a strip of double-sided tape, and dumped glitter on top.    Instant bling.

I'm entering my card into this week's CAS-ual Fridays challenge: using pastels with black.

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belated anniversary wishes.

My hubs and I celebrated 9 years married on February 22nd - but we hardly said 2 words on the matter that day... the whole family was sick, and he was headed off to Toronto for a few days, so we decided to keep the lovey-dovey-ness for another day...

Now that we're good and celebrated (!), I thought I'd share the card I made for the love of my life.

My favorite thing about this card is the card-base.  I stared out with a white folded card, and stamped the feather image from "lovestruck" all over.  I then stamped the hero arts "envelope pattern" background over the entire thing, and went to work with some distress inks.  To highlight the feathers, I went back in with an aquapainter and fresh snow ink and painted each feather.  It is so soft and pretty!  Just in case you wonder, the sentiment is computer-generated...

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