Happy 2nd Birthday Baby Bear

I played some more with the Baby Bear stamp, and still now happy with the way I'm lining the images up, but I'm getting better.  For this birthday card, I used only 2 colours:  Crumb Cake and Soft Suede (stamped off once).  I used those colours because those are the colours of the teddy bear I got for my 10th birthday.  Unfortunately I couldn't find it, but when I do I will take a picture and put it on my blog post.

• Base card is Pacific Point, layered with Whisper White
• I just love the Timeless Texture stamp set and used it to create a background for the baby bear. Then this image piece was matted with Pacific Point cardstock and adhered to the card front.
• The hand cut out baby bear had its edges sponged with Soft Suede, the eyes and nose darkened with a black marker, and then adhered to the background using dimensionals. 
• A Pacific Point bow was cut out and adhered to the top of the bear's head.
• The balloons were stamped using the Balloon Celebration stamp set, and punched out using the coordinating Balloon Builder punch. A line was drawn down from the balloons to the bear's paw using the fine end of black marker.
• Wink of Stella glimmer brush applied clear gitter to the balloons, the eyes and nose
• Using the junior alphabet die, the number "2" was die cut using diamond glimmer cardstock and adhered to the bear's tummy.

Supplies Used:
Stamps: Baby Bear, Balloon Celebration, Timeless Texture
Inks: Crumb Cake, Soft Suede, Pacific Point
Papers: Pacific Point, Whisper White, Diamond Glimmer paper
Accessories:Balloon Builder punch, dimensionals, Wink of Stella clear glimmer brush.

Flower shop Happy Birthday - Create with Connie & Mary #401

Where is Spring?  Oh, where is Spring?  We had a few nice days, the snow melted, and then I wake up in the morning and there's a foot of snow on my car!  I hear more is on the way.

This cool weather is not going to stop me from stamping flowers, hopefully to infuse a bit of spring spirit into my blog.

I made this card for the sketch challenge with Create with Connie & Mary  and I'm quite happy with the way its turned out.

On a 2 1/2 by 2 1/2" piece of Very Vanilla cardstock with rounded corners, 3 flowers were attached.  These flowers were stamped from the Flower Shop stamp set, with Calypso Coral ink and punched with the Pansy punch.  A small snip was made between the petals and the petals curled back using a bone folder.  The center was stamped using the flower center stamp from Butterfly Basics.  It was first stamped in Black Memento and then Calypso coral.  This center was punched using the 1/2" circle punch, and attached to the center of the flower using a small dimensional.

Before adhering the flowers, 2 leaf stems were die cut in Basic Black using the XL Bouquet die. 

They were attached first, and the flowers adhered around them using dimensionals. 

A 3 by 3 1/4" of Calypso Coral (Pretty Petals DSP) was adhered to the Very Vanilla card front.  The corners were also rounded using the corner rounder punch.

Behind the Very Vanilla piece, a piece of Black polka dot DSP (Pretty Petals) was punched at both end using the Triple Punch.  At one end a 1/4" piece of a different pattern of the Pretty Petals DSP was added.

The sentiment was from "Balloon Celebrations"

To finish up the card, some Wink of Stella clear glitter was brushed on the flower petals and center, and the leaves.

Supplies Used:

Stamps: Flower Shop, Balloon Celebration,Butterfly Basics

Inks:Calypso Coral, Basic Black, 

Papers: Calypso Coral, Very Vanilla, Pretty Petals DSP pack, Basic Black

Accessories: Pansy Punch, 1/2" circle punch, XL Bouquet die, Triple Punch, dimensionals, Wink of Stella clear glitter brush, corner rounder punch.