Mojo Perches

 Hi friends!  It's Monday already (where did the weekend go?) and time for another sketch over at Mojo Monday.  This week's sketch was based on this fun little card I made a little while back.  I loved how it came together and decided to turn it into this week's sketch.

For my sample Mojo 183 card today, I flipped the sketch and turned it into a square card to accommodate this early little sneak peek of the Hope Perches Plain Jane that will be releasing from Verve this Friday night.  Yep, it's release week, and we've got some fun sets and dies to show off starting on Wednesday with 3 days of Spotlight Hops.  Be sure to tune in then! 

Anyhow, this poem by Emily Dickinson has always been a favorite, so I just had to have a stamp with at least part of it! 

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops  at all,

And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.

I've heard it in the chilliest land
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.

And ever since I designed the stamp, I've had this little bird image from the Swan Song set in the back of my head, so I pulled it out and went for a soft shabby spring look.  The bird is trimmed out by hand and softly colored with Copic markers, then I added a little pink glass glitter to the branches.  Beneath him is a bit of twine rolled up in a circle and I added a little SU! glass glitter  to it, too.


Enabler's List:
Stamps: Hope Perches Plain Jane (releases Friday night, 3/25), Swan Song (Verve Stamps)
Paper: Stella and Rose - Hazel Collection (My Mind's Eye), Basic Gray, Cream
Ink: Smoky Gray (Versafine), Pumice Stone (Ranger Distress), Copic Markers
Accessories: Floral Doily Accents (Spellbinders), shabby wrinkled ribbon (Prairie Bird Boutique), twine, pink Glitzy glass glitter (TCP), silver glass glitter (SU!), liquid pearls, Sizzix embossing folder