Twofer Challenge #1 - Feathers

Hello friends.  So happy and excited to be playing in Darnell's very first Twofer Card Challenge today!!  What's a twofer and who's Darnell???  Come on people...have you been living under a rock??  The wonderfully warm and friendly Darnell of djkardkreations coined the phrase "twofer" for when she shows more than one card on her blog posts, ie, if she shows two cards, it's a "twofer" post, if she shows 3 cards, it's a "threefer" post, etc.  So anyway, she decided to start a challenge using the twofer concept, and we are given a prompt and then must create 2 different cards using the same stamp or die and the prompt.  This month it's FEATHER'S.

And here's what I came up with:

I used the same bird (feathers) from Tim Holtz's Bird Crazy for both my birthday card and my Just A Note card (hope that qualifies Darnell?!!)

I kept my cards pretty much the same but just used different color combos for each one.  I started with CP Swoop stencil and Orange Marmalade and Picked Raspberry DOX inks for my background, and then used the same inks (plus Wild Honey) to blend over the bird.  The sentiment is from an older PB set and I added some sequins and heavy baker's twine to finish off the first card.

So same stencil for this card, but used Cracked Pistachio and Salty Ocean DOX inks for the background and the bird too.  Added a leaf die cut from PTI's Songbirds (trying to keep it all in the bird family here!!) that I blended Cracked Pistachio on also, and then added my sentiment strip using PTI's Winter Woods (which is also a bird themed stamp set!).

Pretty happy with the way both of these fun and bright cards turned out and yay for adding one more card to my birthday stash which has become seriously depleted lately, and another card that can be used for just about any occasion!!  The Twofer Card Challenge will be open each month from the 10th - 24th, so come play along with this FUN new challenge!  You can find all the details and see some amazing inspiration from the FABULOUS DT right HERE.

Thanks for stopping by today ... I love it when you do!