The tree is a Leane Creatief and comes in a set called Deer and Trees. No 45.8930 I turned it the over after die cutting as I wanted the taller branch to be on the left hand side of the card so that the pile of squirrels stealing the nuts would fit in. I haven't actually seen them resorting to such tactics in our garden but they have broken two bird feeders in the past week trying to get the nuts out of the tube! I stamped all of the individual pieces out on white card stock and coloured in with my Promarkers. We do have those birds depicted come and visit in our garden. After colouring I carefully fussy cut them all out. It took some considerable time. I managed not to cut any tails or paws off but drew the line at the squirrels whiskers so a few of them had to have a quick shave!!
The sentiment is a Britannia Die cut which I cut in dark green card. The base is white cardstock but I went round the edge with a black marker (after I had adhered the green cardstock to the front of the card and decided it looked too stark) and used a fine tip marker pen to do the wavy frame round the edge. I used snippets of white card for the squirrels and brown for the tree so I'm off to the playground. Hope I don't meet any squirrels along the way!.
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Crafter's Castle #17 Anything goes with optional show what you colour with.
Love To Scrap #121 Anything goes.
Pattie's Creations #158 Birthdays.
Stamping Sensations # In an English Country Garden. (Certainly what goes on in our garden!!)
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I Think we can safely say that Fluff is now owned by 4 cats. Kellog has finally managed to infiltrate after kipping down in the garage for the past 5 months and eats his food in the kitchen with the others!
I don't think they can afford to move ever again as each time they do a cat acquires them.!!!
Laughing at those cheeky squirrels.........what a fun card bet it was much appreciated.....love it Valery. Xxxx
ReplyDeleteIt's a real fun card with all those Squirrels Valery and could certainly be a scene from our garden as we have a good few of them (or Sam the Squibble as youngest Granddaughter calls them). Perfect for our 'English Country garden' theme at Stamping Sensations challenge as so pleased you joined us there, thank you.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your visit the other day as well, yes we have a good crop of Red Hot Pokers this year, despite how hard we cut them back they still produce a good show and the birds love feeding on them - still trying to grab a photo of that.
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A fantastic card Valery Anne. I love the stamp you've used, it does remind me that there are an awful lot of squirrels around here but luckily enough they don't seem to get into our garden (no trees for them to run up quickly).
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What a fabulous creation Mrs A., I love the scene!
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Super cute card design Valery. Love the cat picture.
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Belated birthday wishes for the Doc.
ReplyDeleteYou made him a wonderful card. Love it!
xxx Margreet
Fun and fabulous, love those cheeky squirrels and the little scene you've created...the doodled border looks great too.
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Hello Valery, I hope Doc had a super Birthday, and I'm sure he loved this fabulous card. The squirrel images are brilliant and such a great garden scene, such a fun card. Beautiful cat, looks so peaceful lying there, Kate x x
ReplyDeleteBeautiful card with all the little animals.
ReplyDeleteThank you for joining at Stamping Sensations this month.
What a fun card for Doc's birthday card...fantastic job putting it together Mrs. A and tfs
ReplyDeleteWhat a fabulous and fun card for Doc's birthday. Wish him a belated happy birthday for me.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful and funny card, Valery!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteThat is a perfect snapshot of my garden too! Those pesky squirrels do such acrobatics, and we've lost a fair few feeding tubes too! Such a fun card, belated birthday wishes to the Doc xxx
ReplyDeleteHi Mrs A this is a stunning card. Those stamps are gorgeous. I love it. Cute cat. Have a great day take care. Hugs Jackie
ReplyDeleteFun and brilliant card, and surely Doc has loved it! :)
ReplyDeleteYou are so lucky to have both birds and squirrels in your garden!! I would pay to have a lot of squirrels jumping on my trees :) But I have too much cats, so it isn't a good idea, poor squirrels :/
Love the last Fluff's cat! It seems so sweet! I have 6 (yes, six!) :D
This is such a great card - the Doc will love this. Lovely pic of the cat - Michelle x
ReplyDeleteOh my--settled in for sure & what a pretty cat, too! Your card made me laugh--just darling! The squirrels drive poor puppydog, Fritz, crazy! Lately they haven't been around our bird feeders, thankfully. Actually, neither have the birds, so that's been kind of a bummer.
ReplyDeleteJust made me smile Mrs A! And such patience to fussy cut those images! Thanks for sharing at Stamping Sensations. x
ReplyDeletefunny card Valerie, and the cat is lovely ( i adore the cats) , are great company and best friend
ReplyDeletehugs and have a great week
Happy belated birthday to the Doc and I love the super fun card you made him with those squirrels xx
ReplyDeleteHi Mrs A such a lovely card ,love the colour,beautiful work my friend xx
ReplyDeleteFantastic fun card, love those squirrels. Sounds like us with the cats, my old gal loves to find waifs and strays, for the last 4mths we've been nursing a very old man who seems to have found a new lease of life. Emmax
ReplyDeleteWhat a brilliant creation this is Mrs A I love how you have stamped out the images it looks great
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lorraine x
Oh my gosh, this is so funny with those squirrels stacked up on each other! What a great card. I love the little birds and that top one is really eyeing the squirrels. Happy belated birthday to Doc.
ReplyDeleteSuper cute card (and kitty cat). Thank you so much for entering our challenge at Crafter's Castle this month....good luck :)
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Great card - love the squirrels making a ladder! We don't have them here. Loads of snippets and also loads of work for sure. So cute!
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Di x
Thanks for the laugh. Such cheeky squirrels and I can see them doing exactly that. At least one of them is thoughtful enough to bring a cupcake...though he is probably going to find a way to stash it for himself instead of delivering it! Right now we've got a family of four baby squirrels stuck in our walls until the mama can call the out...long story that resulted in a $750 bill! ;)
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for entering your project into our latest challenge over at Pattie's Creations. Good luck in the draw.
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