Beaufer and Starlet are in such a whirl
As the limos wheels start to rumble and twirl.
They are looking for flowers – roses preferred
The party is a surprise . . . shhhhhh, donÂ’t say a word!
Miss Eula loves her parrot and Star loves her back
But if you give Starlet a carrot, she gets all off track.
So its roses and parrots that we plan to bring
(Oh gosh, oh golly do you think Starlet will sing?)
Starlet and Beaufer have two very dear friends
They are Scarlet Macaws (much prettier than last weekÂ’s hens!)
Molly and Morton Macaw have flown from Brazil
Carrying 42,000 roses they hope not to spill.
The only problem these two Ara Macaos can see
Is that Starlet and Beaufer forgot to tell them where to be.
So they flew to St. Lucia to join the surprise
To discover it was Philadelphia (for cheese steaks and fries?)
So now itÂ’s off to Philly, PA for these two rose toting birds
Who want to be able to say a few words.
On to Miss EulaÂ’s party hoping not to be late
After all itÂ’s not often you turn 108!
I really wanted something with both parrots and roses, so in looking online for a bit of inspiration I found this poster of an old vintage post card that was a birthday greeting – here: http://www.allposters.com/-sp/Birthd..._i6076192_.htm
The parrots are from one of the online coloring books printed out and then colored with copics and highlighted with a white gel pen. The roses are the old PSX Hybrid Roses stamp, which I masked and stamped several times with tuxedo black Mementos ink. I colored then with copics and then added a little Elmer’s 3D glitter glue to some of the petals. I “fussy cut” the parrots and the roses and layered them onto designer paper (DCWV) that had lots of colorful flowers and a little glitter. That was layered onto coral CS. Sentiment is from Inkadinkado’s Garden Flower set.
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Mon, Aug 30, 2010 @ 9:02 PM
Oh.My.Goodness! This is absolutely over the top! Your roses are just gorgeous, the parrots so colorful and wonderfully colored. And then there's your poetry... you are a rhymester extraordinaire! LOVE it!
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Mon, Aug 30, 2010 @ 9:03 PM
WOW! this is awesome, what a beautiful scene! I love it!
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Tue, Aug 31, 2010 @ 12:00 AM
OK so first I'm going to go off on the prose. That is amazing. In fact I was so bowled over by the words I forgot I was supposed to be looking at your card. How perfect is that, 2 parrots and roses. Well done.
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Tue, Aug 31, 2010 @ 5:27 AM
Sqwauk! Molly and Morton! Lost in Flight! Pretty rose! Up Your Nose! Sqwauk!
Sorry Gale, don't mind that Starlet! She is wound up! Looking for carrots with no luck has got her in a quite the mood! Giggle!
This is so awesome Gale! I love it! I love that you found that poster/post card as inspiration and I love your poetic poem story! You have made quite the special Eula 108 birthday card here and she will just cherish it! The birds and the flowers are an awesome combination and so Eula! I don't know my birds, maybe I did a McCaw and didn't even know it! Yikes! I think you need to put the poem in the card! She would get a kick out of it for sure!
You rocked this challenge.... I love your card! Woot!