Monday 11 April 2016

A Squirrel Card

Whilst photographing the Squirrels last week (see previous post), I remembered that Dora had borrowed my photos from a previous visit to draw some digis. She very kindly let me have them, so I had a lovely half hour colouring and making this card. If you fancy it, you can purchase the digi from Dora's digi shop.
I coloured it using Be creative markers. For the squirrel I used natural oak, light orange and yellow ochre. Mixing the light orange and yellow ochre produced the lighter shade. I used some Be Creative paper too. The little die cut leaves are a Joy crafts die that I absolutely love. The brown card and the gold paper are oth snippets so I am off to Miss Di's snippet playground with this. 
The house is feeling rather empty as Meg returned to uni on Sunday and I still have a week of holiday. I am thinking I will take a trip to a craft shop to take my mind off it, lol! I particularly need some of the lovely whimsical flower stamps from the woodware range. One of them has my name on it, quite literally! Thanks for looking! 

11 comments:

brenda said...

A great card from Dora's artwork Sally.

B x

Sue's Crafty Corner said...

A gorgeous card and a fantastic digi stamp too.

Sue xx

Barb said...

It's a beautiful card and what a lovely image. Your colouring is great. Barbxx

Sarn said...

Lovely squirrel card Sally.

Hugs, Sarn xxx

Doreen said...

This is gorgeous,fab image and colours.xxx

Di said...

Such a sweet squirrel Sally - and a beautiful card with the addition of the leaves.

I showed Len you squirrel photos and he loved them!

Great to see you in the Playground.

Hugs

Di xx

Sandma's Handmade Cards said...

This is a lovely card Sally and you've coloured it beautifully. Dora is a very talented artist to have created such a lovely stamp and you've really done it justice. Your photographs from Scotland are fabulous and it's so lovely to see red Squirrels. A trip to a craft shop is always great therapy so you enjoy your visit and I'll look forward to seeing what you make with your new stamps :) X

Dora said...

Hello Sally,
Thank you so much for your mail.
This is so beautiful done. I like the bush behind the squirrel too. Great addition.
I put this card on my blog too!

cuilliesocks said...

Hi Sally, fabulous card, the image and your nature dies are wonderful. Photographing the squirrels has really inspired you.
Needing to go to the craft shop to take your mind off things, well if it works go for it, me.... I never need an excuse, have fun, Kate x

Helen J said...

Really cute, and your colouring is excellent.

Karen Petitt said...

Beautiful card, your colouring is stunning Karen x