Flamingo Valentine

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    our love

    was born

    outside

    the walls, 

    in the wind, 

    in the night,

    in the earth,

    and that's why

    the clay

    the flower,

    the mud and

    the roots

    know your

    name.

     

    - Pablo Neruda

     

    Sometimes my creative mind is a playful kitten. A kitten who likes to play with words and unexpected imagery. I knew I wanted to do a love bird card this year but I didn't know it was going to take me to the tropics. I literally woke up one morning a couple weeks ago and said  "FLAMINGOS!" Picture a disheveled, puffy-eyed me sitting up in bed with a huge kitten grin and a lightbulb emoji over my head. It happened yesterday. 40 hand-drawn, cut, glued, and lettered flamingo cards happened. Guys, I am tired. But look...

     
     
     

    1. Collect your paper palette. You could hand paint your flamingo paper but I chose to pick some sheets out of my pink and coral scrapbook paper stash.  2. Sketch out a simplified flamingo shape. Make the arch of the necks look like two sides of one heart.  3. Trace your template on your colored paper.  4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 for your little heart wings and your palm fronds.  5. Glue your flamingos onto your card stock.  6. Add your heart wings.  7. Add your palm frond.  8. Take a bright pink jelly pen and add your love note inside.  9. Draw a white heart shape on your flamingos' faces with a white paint pen or a white chalk marker.  10. Add black to the beak with a Sharpie.  11. Take a fine point black pen and add a simple eye shape.  12. You could add some details to your flamingo with pink and peach jelly pens or leave your peachy bird as is.

     
     
     
     
     
     
     


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