Keepin' It Weird

I should probably tell you a little about the town I live in before I show you today's card, lest you think I either went crazy or was coloring in the dark! Austin is a very artsy community where individuality is celebrated,where people prefer funky, family owned businesses to chains, and where, after living here for 17 years, I don't even blink when I see a car covered with hundreds of plastic dinosaurs going down the road! (I just smile and think, "There it is again!) These are just a few of the reasons why Austin's slogan is "Keep Austin Weird". In keeping with what every 10th or so house in my neighborhood looks like(but not ours), I just had to make a card with "Home Tweet Home" to let anyone moving in around here what they are really in for!! This was so much fun to color!! All Copics, my favorite picket being, you guessed it, the "cow" print! I just happened to have some DCWV All Dressed Up DP that went smashingly with it, and then I needed to grab some orange for my base and turquoise for my tag to really finish it off! With a card like this, you really have to "go BIG or go home", so to speak, or people might not really "get it", LOL!

I was so excited to find this perfect rainbow fiber for an old SU! Bold Bright fiber pack, it really reminds me of how some of the houses look on 37th street at Christmas in particular (if you have time to check it out! a very short block a couple miles from here where the whole street gets in on the act, and connects their houses to each other with lights, the most over -the top actually covers their entire house with black paper and adheres whole packs of lights to the side of their house, checkerboard style in a kind of Mondrian fashion, it's just amazing!! you can find articles about it online)

So what do you think?? Fun, huh?? Are you ready to go repaint your house??? :)