Birthday Bears Box Card

I have something a little different to share today...it's a box card, made using a Gemini/Crafter's Companion stamp and die set called 'Birthday Bears Box Card', that I picked up in a charity shop last weekend. I started by stamping all of the little bears and other images onto snippets of watercolour paper, then used their co-ordinating dies to cut them out, before colouring them using watercolour pencils. There were paper templates in the set for cutting all of the pieces of the box card, and I decided to cut the main card parts from light blue card, and the little strips for the images to 'stand' on from light green card. I added a piece of cloudy sky paper (from a magazine freebie pad called 'Let's Fly Away') to the back panel, then assembled the card. On the inside of the front flap, I added a snippet of lilac card, then the die cut from the 'window', with a stamped sentiment, using a stamp from the 'Sending Sunshine' set by Simon Says Stamp.

Here's a close-up of the 'Birthday Bears':

They look to me, like they're throwing a surprise party, so I used my Paper Smooches 'Gaffiti Alphabet' stamps to stamp 'Surprise' onto a snippet of the blue card, then added it on top of a piece of lilac card embossed using an old Cuttlebug embossing folder:

Challenges for this card:

• Allsorts - Anything Goes
• Can You Handle the Pressure - Anything Goes Using an Embossing Folder
• Love to Scrap - Anything Goes
• Seize the Birthday - Optional 'Square Card & Non-white Base'
• Simon Says Stamp (Wednesdays) - Anything Goes

Snowflake Bauble

Today's card features some items I picked up from a charity shop recently...a die set that was not in its original packaging, but which Google tells me is called 'Snowflake Bauble' by Gemini, and a 3D embossing folder by Craft Tonic called 'Winter's Veil - Baroque Snowflake'. I started by cutting the solid bauble shape from a snippet of silver mirror card, then used the snowflake part to cut out its centre. I cut a second solid bauble from a snippet of teal card, then added a heat embossed sentiment using one of the sentiments from the 'Winter Blessings' set by Crafter's Companion and some metallic silver embossing powder from WOW. I layered the silver snowflake bauble over the top, then added a 'string' using a sliver of silver mirror card. For the background, I used the embossing folder to emboss a snippet of aqua card, matted that onto some more silver mirror card before adding the bauble on top and placing it all onto a white A5 card blank.

Challenges for this card:

• Allsorts - Something Beginning with B (Bauble)
• Can You Handle the Pressure? - Anything Goes
• Cut It Up - Anything Goes
• Rudolph Days - Anything Christmas Goes
• The Holly & the Ivy - Anything Christmas Goes