7th - Wool Anniversary Card on an Easel

It was recently Tom and Laura's 7th wedding anniversary, which, when I looked it up, found that the traditional gift to give was "wool", so it was a no-brainer that sheep immediately sprang to mind as the theme for a card

Well, it was my intention to make a card, but then I re-found one of the mini blackboard easels that I got ages ago from The Works (99p and still available) and decided to use one instead.

The wooden sheep embellishments are from Trimits, found on eBay.

I coloured them with a white Posca pen, gave them grey ears and feet and then small, black, flat back domes for their eyes and noses, which gave them a completely different character.

For the background, which I stuck onto the easel, I used a heart and knitted design paper, edged with faux stitching using a black fine liner pen.

However, when I added the sheep my thoughtful choice of paper just disappeared into the background,  a lesson you would have thought I'd learned by now  ..........

...... and then even more so when I added the small nail art flowers ........ doh!

So perhaps, in the end, a plain, green grass background would have bought the sheep out more and looked more effective, rather than me getting all clever!

Still I liked the easel .......

......... an idea that I have used in the past, and as I have a few more left I think I might make one or two Christmas ones, perhaps for Bertie and Iris's festive bedrooms as a lasting memory of Christmas 2020, along with whatever else it might bring.