Partridge and pear

 

 I don't know how many millions of times I've heard "a partridge in a pear tree," but I had no idea what a partridge looked like until starting this card. They are an interesting and colorful bird, based on the photos in Google image. I took cues from a couple of photos when coloring this partridge, but they tend to be brown and a blueish-gray, sometimes have a black and white band around the neck, and sometimes have colorful feathers on their head.

The image I used is a digi from The Alley Way Stamps.  The sentiment came with it, but I cut it into two sections for a more interesting layout. The images are colored with pencils, with a little wink of Stella on the pears. The image and sentiment were stamped on a white snippet, cut with a Sizzix die, and mounted on a red snippet. The sentiment panels are mounted on more of that same red snippet. The tiny die-cut pear on the sentiment (from the Frantic Stamper) was cut from a ridiculously small snippet, that was essentially a bit I of paper that I had left on my desk rather than cleaning up.

 

This card is for these challenges:

ABC Christmas -- A is for anything Christmas

Christmas Crafts All Year Round -- a partridge in a pear tree

Christmas Craft Creations -- January theme Snippets

Rudolph Days for January -- Christmas

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday -- anything goes

Pammie's Inky Pinkies #230 -- anything goes

Word Art Wednesday #579 -- anything goes