Sending a smile your way with Baby Bear......

Hi there!

Yes back again with some more cards featuring the ever adorable Baby Bear. Yet again I drew inspiration from Pinterest and the lovely Dawn's cards. Click HERE to see Dawn's cards.

 The cards are again 10x10". Each bear was stamped in soft suede, crumb cake and sahara sand and then cut out. I was not going to be caught out again with over inking around the edges of the stamped image. 

The backgrounds were sponged with coloured ink.  Gorgeous Grunge splodges were stamped with crumb cake ink over the sponging. I did flick my Wink of Stella over the top, but no amount of my inept photography was going to pick that up lol!

Here is marina mist sponging and the sentiment from the new Love and Affection stamp set from SU also stamped in marina mist ink.

Melon mambo sponging and inked sentiment.

Calypso coral sponging and inked sentiment.

Wisteria wonder sponging and inked sentiment.

Which is your favourite? I have to say calypso coral is my new fave at the moment,! As if you hadn't guessed from the last post. See HERE if you missed it.

That's it for today. I still have more Baby Bear cards to show, so do pop back and see.

Cheers Donna :)

Baby Bear

Hi there!

Here is a set of  4 lovely 10 by 10" thank you cards.

I am quite besotted with the Baby Bear stamp from Stampin Up at the moment. So much so I have made a heap of cards that I will show you over the next few posts. I have seen so many cards on Pinterest with this stamp set and was inspired by Carolyn's card. Click HERE to see the card that inspired mine..

 I was going to stamp the image directly onto the thick white  card, which is what I did. Unfortunately in my zest to ensure the image was completely stamped, I applied a little too much pressure when applying the ink and then stamping the image. So much so that I  got a nasty over inking around the edge of the stamped image. These images were to good to waste, so I cut out  3 of the bears. Only one image had stamped perfectly. Hence 3 of the bears are popped up onto dimensionals. Which you can just see from the photo below. 

 I stamped the bears with soft suede, crumb cake and sahara sand ink. The greeting was stamped in calypso coral, with calypso coral thick bakers twine wrapped around the spine of the card.

So what do you think? Cute right? 

Don't forget to come back to see more cards featuring Baby Bear.

Cheers Donna :)

A Colour Challenge

I have made two cards today for a colour challenge over at Pootles. The colours to play with are smoky slate, so saffron, pool party and pink pirouette. I have never done a colour challenge before.

Luckily for me the challenge stated that you could use all of the colours or some of the colours. I went with some of the colours, and added three more colours ( soft suede, crumb cake & sahara sand) for the beautiful baby bear image, I do hope that is OK and within the parameters of the challenge. I am thinking it's not but at least it got me fired up, thinking and creating instead of cruising pinterest and other peoples blogs lol!

Anywhoo......

The base of each card is smoky slate CS, (yes a bit hard to see in the photos but it is there) then layered with either pool party or pink pirouette, then a whisper white layer that the bear was stamped onto directly. I added the so saffron in the little flags/bunting. I punched  the flags out of some retired colour stacks dsp  with the small banner punch. They were popped up with dimensionals and some linen thread is behind them.

Here are full shots of both cards.

And one more photo of them together.

I hope you like my cards.

 Have a lovely weekend. Cheers Donna :)