Baby Bear

Hi Everyone.

Happy Thursday night.  Tomorrow is Friday... yay.... spring is on its way.. the snow is beginning to melt...and we even had a thunderstorm today!  So, old-man winter may well be on his way out!  Not that I'm counting out a few more snow storms before May!

Tonight's card is a change of color for me, and also uses a stamp set I haven't used before - Teddy and Train.  So, still trying to keep up with my new year's resolutions and choose different colors and stamps!

For the card I used Brocade Blue, Brilliant Blue and Bashful Blue... so all BLUE..... so unlike me.  

I had great fun water coloring the teddy bear in various shades of brown and ran my texturz polka dot plate through my big shot

I love the Teddy from this set.. he's just so cuddly... mind you, I guess if I was doing a girl card then it would be she's so cuddly :-)

 

So... of course, I would have water colored the bear to have the shadow on the left side (looking at him) and photographed him with the light coming from that side, so the shadow on the card is on the other side!  you know... sometimes... really... I amaze myself!!!

Anyway, here's what I did:

I ran a piece of Brocade Blue card stock through my Big Shot with the large polka dot texturz plate.  To get the polka dots to stand out - and match with the lighter blue of the DSP - I lightly sanded the dots with my sanding block.  You can see that this takes the top layer of color off and really helps to tie it in with the lighter blue of the stripe DSP.

I adhered the striped DSP to the card stock and cut three layers of matt to go underneath the teddy bear.

One in Brilliant Blue, one in Brocade Blue and the top one in Bashful Blue. 

On the Bashful Blue layer, I stamped the image of the Teddy in Brown StazOn ink.

I then stamped it again on a piece of Whisper White and used this one to color.  I colored the teddy in close to cocoa, chocolate chip and creamy caramel and his ribbon in Brilliant Blue marker

I snipped around the Teddy and adhered him over the stamped image on the Bashful Blue layer.  I used dimensionals to mount him to the Bashful Blue layer.

I stamped the "Bundle of Joy" sentiment in Chocolate Chip on the Bashful Blue layer.

I stamped "hello" and "baby" in Chocolate Chip on Bashful Blue using Tiny Tags and punched them out with the jewelery punch.  A small blue half pearl finished off the two Tiny Tags.

I was really pleased with it.  It's a great boy card, has enough interest in layers, colors, etc. yet still manages to feel "clean".

I hope you all have a fabulous Friday... remember.... only 20 more days left of Sale A Bration!

As always.. thank you to all of you for visiting my little area of the stamping blogosphere!

Hugs

Jaydee

Comments

[Brenda]

Very nice watercoloring my dear. You are quite the artist. It's so fun to see you work with sets and colors that are a little out of your comfort zone.

[Cherie]

Too cute! I like the look of the embossed dots after you sanded them...another technique I've never thought to use. Have a very happy Friday =D

[Lesley]

Oh Jaydee! How cute is this...I almost ordered this set today!!!

Thanks for all your kind comments!!!

Lesley ;)

[Missy]

Adorable! I love teddy bears! This is precious! Thanks for sharing!