Beaver Sending Smiles

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Hi, everyone!  I'm back with another card today!  I made a night-time forest scene featuring a  beaver, and I also included a little bunny, squirrel, and owl.  This card is going to my brother, who has a slight beaver problem near his property.

I stamped the beaver and wood pile from Your Next Stamp Autumn Animals, coloured them with markers, and fussy-cut. I die-cut a tree frame twice, once in kraft and the other in green. I cut off the leaves on the kraft tree and adhered it to the green one so the leaves showed through.  

Using Your Next Stamp Forest Friends Die Set, I die-cut the evergreen trees in green, used a Fiskars wavy crimper to add texture, and then adhered them behind the tree frame.  I adhered the tree frame to a dark-brown woodgrain-embossed background and added a die-cut grass border at the bottom. I die-cut the bunny, squirrel, and owl from Your Next Stamp Forest Friends Die Set and adhered them to the tree or grass, along with the beaver and wood pile.  Lastly I white-heat-embossed a sentiment from Your Next Stamp Woodland Cuties on a dark-brown scrap and adhered with foam tape.  

I was inspired by the following challenges:

Allsorts 667 Spring is in the Air 3/3

Ally's Angels 55 AG 1/3
DL.ART March Linky AG UE
Incy Wincy Nature and/or Scenery 3/5

Jan's Digi Stamps March AG 1/5

Penny's Paper-Crafty 517 AG 1/3

QKR Stampede 440 AG 1/3

The Corrosive 3 March AG 1/4

Through the Craft Room Door AG 1/2

We Love Stamping March Anything Stamped - Spring 3/3
Word Art Wednesday 535-536 AG w Uplifting Sentiment wk1 2/5
Your Next Stamp Challenge 179 In to the Woods 1/3

Thank you for looking at my card!  Wishing you a joyful and carefree day!