Be A Donkey

Howdy - MichelleO here today -

If you can't love on a real donkey then next best thing is coloring and making a card with a Donkey image! Right?  For today's High Hopes Stamps card I pulled out the fabulous "Be a Donkey" image! 

 

I started to color this sweet little donkey grey... but I had just come in from loving on one of my pregnant donkeys, Lacey, and she is a beautiful red brown color. So I thought in honor of the Momma to be I would do this one like her! I colored with my Copics (colors below) and then set off to find some pattern papers to use. I normally do this step first off, but I was excited to color the donkey and totally forgot to pick papers first. Ha. But in my digging on my shelf I found a small paper pad from Carta Bella "Giddy Up" collection. I haven't seen it in a long time, and have always loved the cowgirl country feel. Pink Brown and Turquoise Paisleys - so perfect. I layered the papers up and sewed them all together with both straight and zig zag stitching. 

For my sentiment I went with High Hopes "Happy Birthday Script" it is always a favorite sentiment to use and I LOVE sending donkey birthday cards! I matted the sentiment with a piece of paper punched with an EK Success punch, then dotted the scallops with some white Nuvo paper paint. Now they are a little hard to see in the photo, but I had found some old rhinestone hearts the other day, and I knew this was the card I wanted to use them on. Hearts, Donkeys, Pink and Brown Country... OH MY! 

Copic colors used -

I was tired and well... a bit cranky when I started coloring my card. And after done felt happy and ready to color more donkeys! To find this image and SO MANY more wonderful images make sure to pop over to the High Hopes Stamps web store HERE and fall in love! 

Some Days....

 The vault has been opened and the Furry & Friends release is now available. The barn doors have opened! Pigs and cows, and dogs and the bull - oh my! 

I grew up in a small town but most of friends lived on farms. I grew up spending most of my summer vacations doing things on the farm from stone picking to feeding the animals. I learned to work hard and this is where my love of horses came from - most of them had horses too. 

There was nothing better than tending to the pigs and cows if it meant I could go for a ride......even just one ride - that was my happy place. 

This release doesn't have a horse in it but it does have a super cute donkey that just makes me smile! Meet Be A Donkey from High Hopes - how cute is he!?! I wonder what these three have planned!?!

I stamped this cutie, coloured him with my Copic markers and cut him out using a rounded corner with piercing marks die. I found some wood patterned paper that I thought worked perfectly and added some matching purple gingham to the mix. After stamping the sentiment I cut it size and added it directly under my coloured image.  Some corner dies, cotton ribbon and matte enamel dots to finish it off.

Card Recipe 

Stamp: Be A Donkey - High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Sentiments: Somedays - High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Patterned Paper - Weathered Woods and Crystals - Asuka Studio, Tiny Checks - MFT

Tuxedo Black Memento ink, Hammermill 100lb digital cover stock, corner dies (retired) Whimsy Stamps, cotton ribbon, matte enamel dots, rounded corner with piercing marks die - Your Next Stamp

 Copic Markers:

Bag - E30 E31 E43

Hooves - C1 C2 C4 C5

Chicken - C1 C2 C4 R24 R27 R37 R59 Y11 Y15 Y17

Flowers - Y 11 Y15 Y17 R81 R85 Y11 Y08 V22 V25

Body - W1 W3 W5 R00 R12 W1

Grass - G05 G07

Butterfly - Y11 Y08 W3 W5

Thanks for stopping by! Have a super fantastic day!