Birds, backgrounds and feelings---

---oh my! I have been doing very light backgrounds lately. The sun is not really fully out yet, there are days when one can feel the spring, but more often it just feels like a never-ending winter, grey and cold.

So often these days I make four identical backgrounds. Well, strictly not identical, but using the same ingredients. These are cut from a pizza box, have a coat of white gesso, then pink and yellow stenciling, some b&w tissue tape and narrow washi tape. Sentiments are from 7 Dots Studio (love that kraft paper look!).

I built two different groups. First, meet the Sweet & Positive Birdies:

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Look out world

You fill my life

I'm entering these into:
Eclectic Ellapu: Flora and Fauna
Lunagirl: Flowers and Birds
Berry71bleu: March challenge (moodboard colors)

Then  I made another group with the same backgrounds. It's about Adoration. I don't know what this caressing a chin is all about - I have three Victorian postcards with the same theme. Perhaps it was the closest you could get to a lady, an intimate gesture at a time when kissing and hugging in public was unseemly and frowned upon. To me the gentleman clearly looks to be worshiping the lady. (She looks less pleased, though.)

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From the point of view of the lady:

She had never seen such a deep adoration in anybody's eyes.

He says to her:

- Would you like me to get you a kitten?

- of course, thereby reducing her and comparing her to a kitten. (Or have I read too many feminist theories lately?)...

Simon Says: make your own background