I can see clearly now.......

..the rain is gone.....  Sorry - I had to do that!!  LOL!!!!

I was determined to get to stamp a card today.  d.e.t.e.r.m.i.n.e.d.!!  I have been doing a lot of scrappin' lately, but not making cards so much.  I really have missed making them....so today was the day I was going to stamp one.  So I pulled out the mojo monday sketch for today and immediately I saw an owl.  SERIOUSLY - I wouldn't lie about that!  Do you want to see the sketch??

Don't you see it??? 

Really - you don't??


But - I saw it right away!  You guys just don't give it a chance.......hmmm........

Well, I will show you what I did anyway.  (even though you don't see it!)

Do you see it now?  lol!! 
I was going to use my very LOVED owl punch and put a cute little guy in the bottom right hand square and I was looking at my shelf....ALL RIGHT!......shelves.....for a sentiment that might inspire me and I saw my very neglected, bought on my very first order of many from the new catalog, not even mounted let alone seen ink yet, Aviary.  I totally adore the cages and those birds are absolutely marvelous!!  So, I thought....I will put a bird cage in that spot!  But I really wanted to texture that background piece......and see the texture through the cage.......

Do you see where my mind takes me??  WINDOW SHEETS BABY!!!  Oh yeah - that's what I am talking about! 
Let's take a closer look at my caged feathered friend's abode....

too fun, huh?

I stamped the cage onto a window sheet with black staz on ink.   (staz on VERY important - regular classic ink will not dry on window sheets....)  I set it aside and stamped the owl onto a piece of very vanilla card stock and cut it out and then adhered it to the very vanilla layer.  Then I cut out the cage and adhered it to the upper square with a very vanilla brad from the neutrals brads and then rolled up a mini glue dot and adhered the bottom of the cage to the card hiding the glue dot under the cage base.

Come on....do I deserve kudos or what???  Probably - "or what??"  lol!!

Naturally I couldn't stop at the card front.......

Seriously, I couldn't stop!!

Here are the goodies I used to put this baby together:
stamps: Aviary
ink: black staz on, pumpkin pie, rose red
card stock: very vanilla, rose red, pumpkin pie, basic black
accessories: big shot, polka dot embossing folder, itty bitty punch pack, 1 1/4 square punch, 1 3/8 square punch, neutrals brads, paper piercer, mat pack, mini glue dots, black satin ribbon, brights designer buttons, crochet thread

give a girl some love....what do you think?