Chuck chuck, good luck

It's another Friday, and we have a new task over at the Alphabet challenge for you: show us your feathered creatures, because we're looking forward to seeing "birds" this fortnight. I've created a rather simple masculine card for my DT inspiration, featuring a busy woodpecker.

The photo is from an old calendar, I've once cut it to size and enhanced it with a layer of white cardboard. However, I didn't quite figure out how to use it, so it eventually disappeared in my stash. Now, I cut away the white border and opted for a black background instead. I then took this wonderful wooden background paper which I've purchased a couple of years ago in Pardubice. Why Pardubice? Because I love the Czech Republic and Prague in particular, but I also like to explore new places and the city was recommended in one of the Honest Guide episodes. 

After spending a beautiful summer day there with my sister, a shop for crafting supplies has caught my eyes, and long story short: when we returned to Prague, my bag contained not only gingerbread the city is famous for, but also a bunch of colourful papers and other crafting supplies. Also, I now know that "crafting supplies" means "výtvarné potřeby" in Czech, which makes looking for this kind of stuff so much easier :) 

Anyways, once the diligent woodpecker found its home among tons and tons of wood, I still felt like something was missing. Due to the prominent background pattern I found it hard to add a suitable embellishment, but in the end I opted for another thing from my stash. 

I remembered my box of half-finished decorations, which among others hides a couple of stickers that are placed on colourful cardboard, and are waiting to be used some day. 

I picked a red cardboard triangle with a golden sticker on it, and it seemed perfect for some extra bling on the card. However, I decided to partially cover it up in order to keep the main focus on the bird. And suddenly, I didn't feel like changing anything else on my project.

challenges: 
- krafty chicks: all occasions

- 613 avenue create: ATG
- a bit more time to craft: ATG

- always fun challenges: ATG

- C.R.A.F.T.: recycled (old calendar)

- classicdesignchallenge: ATG DT

- crafty catz: ATG with optional twist "all creatures great and small"

- crafty sentiments: ATG
- craftyhazelnutspatternedpaper

- creative crafty uncles: fathers day (masculine)
- creative moments: ATG

- friendship challenge: ATG

- love to craft: ATG 

- moving along with the times: animals/birds
- pennys papertake: ATG

- male room: wood
- through the craftroom door: ATG
- unicorn challengeblog: animals

- wortartwednesday: ATG
- worldwide open design team challenge: ATG