Pheasant Feathers

Mornin' y'all!  How is your week going?  I didn't sleep well last night but I'm still in a good mood and ready to tackle the day--I think that getting back in my workout routine has been a real mental boost, I love it.  I'm still having to modify some exercises from where Daphne tried to take me out and I twisted my knee...most of the time I'm fine, but every once in a while I move it the wrong way and it screams at me.  So I try to keep it from screaming.

Anyway, I had a lovely productive afternoon in the warcraft room yesterday (so called because the hubs and the kid use it for playing war games, and I use it for paper crafting), and here's my card for today:

This note is actually not so little, that pheasant image is large enough that I made this card 5x7 instead of the standard size so I could use the Hand-Stamped Sentiments sketch:

Congrats to them on their five hundredth challenge, that's quite an achievement!  I did modify the sketch a little bit by making it a landscape card instead of portrait, and while my ratios aren't exactly the same as the sketch I think you'll see all the pieces are there.  Plus ribbon, because lately I want to use ribbon?  What even is happening.

Anyway, yesterday I saw a gorgeous card on Jan's blog and that's how I found the latest Color Inkspiration challenge featuring a different bird:

I only added Very Vanilla and some touches of gold for accents.  My bird theme was solidified by the As You See It challenge:

Not only does my pheasant have some lovely tail feathers, I used the Fine Feathers stamp set to stamp the Cajun Craze panel with more feathers, just to make sure the feather theme was obvious.  Feather feather feather.  I think I need to ink up my Cajun Craze ink pad though, it's not showing up very well but I promise feathers are present.

Another thing to be happy about?  Two stamp sets will be delivered today, one autumn-themed and the other one (you guessed it) Halloween.  And I took advantage of the Spellbinders sale yesterday and got some witchy dies, as if I don't have more than enough Halloween stuff in my stash as it is.  More stuff to show off for next year's Halloween Hex-Travaganza!

Time to take my bestest girl for a walk, she's giving me puppy dog eyes.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Painted Pheasant, Fine Feathers
Ink:  Pretty Peacock, Cajun Craze, Darling Duckling
Paper:  Pretty Peacock, Cajun Craze, Darling Duckling, Very Vanilla
Accessories:  Textured Notes dies, Ornate Frames dies, Dimensionals, Brushed Metallic Dots, Pretty Peacock & Gold Metallic Ribbon