"...and a partridge in a pear tree" by Anne Thompson

The "Twelve Days of Christmas" has been rattling around in my head as I've been making cards and wrapping presents. So of course I had to get out the LOVELY PARTRIDGE 94806 and the PRETTY PEAR BRANCH 94805 to create today's card.

materials used

top fold A2 note card
green plaid paper cut 4 X 5 1/4 from YULETIDE PLAID PP1031 paper pad
LOVELY PARTRIDGE 94806
PRETTY PEAR BRANCH 94805
watercolor paper
an assortment of brown, greens, yellows, orange, and gray inks applied with fingertip daubers
MERRY CHRISTMAS FOIL BANNERS WHITE TABS ST014
Glue Pen, double-sided tape, dimensional foam dots, black pen (to dot the eye)

to make this card

I started by adhering the plaid paper to the front of the note card.
I die cut all of the images together on one piece of textured watercolor paper.
I used fingertip daubers to add color to all of the images and then glued the various layers together.
I glued the branch down first onto the plaid paper with the end of the branch toward the upper left corner, leaving the leaves unglued.
I added one single-layer pear in the lower right, glued flat to the paper under the stem piece.
I used dimensional foam dots to tuck in the other two layered pears on the left side of the branch.
I also used more dimensional foam dots to place the partridge on the branch.
To finish the card I used double-sided tape to adhere the Merry Christmas banner.

I know the song is really about the twelve days after Christmas, but when you read this post on Monday I have to remind you that there are fewer than twelve days left before Christmas. I'm in a rush to get things wrapped and mailed ASAP to those folks who live away that I won't see before the new year. And I haven't mailed one Christmas card yet! Hope you are doing better than I am with your preparations for however you celebrate this season.

Happy Crafting!