Tuesday 5 March 2019

Beary Merry Christmas

I made this card for the Christmas Kickstart Challenge 'Have a Very Bear-y Christmas' challenge.  I'm also entering the Christmas with the Cuties 'Beginning with B' challenge (I have chosen bear, brown & blue), the Cuttlebug Mania 'We are not Blue' challenge (my four different blues are James' hat and scarf, the pale blue snowflake paper, the dark blue strip of paper and the blue pearlescent card) and Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge 'Anything Christmas Goes'.


6" x 6" white matt card blank
Lili of the Valley 'James Bear in Snow' Mini Masterpiece image
Spellbinders Nestabilities 'Labels One' and 'Decorative Labels One'
Kars tan embossing mat
Lili of the Valley 'Frosty Christmas' papers
Dark blue pearlescent card
White Fun Flock
Diamond Stickles

I trimmed a square of dark blue card so it was slightly smaller than the card blank and attached two pieces of pale blue snowflake paper at the top and bottom with a strip of darker blue paper across the centre to hide the join.  I die cut and embossed the precoloured image before layering it onto a die cut and embossed Decorative Label that had been cut from dark blue card.  This panel was then attached to the centre of the card.  To finish I added Fun Flock to James' hat and Diamond Stickles to the snowflakes.

Kath x

13 comments:

Sue said...

Hi Kath, Such a cute image and a lovely card.

Hope you have a relaxing evening. Sue

meg said...

James looks super in blue, love the die cut he is mounted on and the great papers

Carol S. said...

I love James the Bear, he is so cute. A gorgeous card. Hugs, Carol S.xx

Marianne's Craftroom said...

Love James and lovely blue and white design

Pat said...

I love your sweet LOTV James Bear, and the dark blue ornate frame looks great with James' blue hat and scarf and the complementary pretty blue papers. x

Sue's Crafty Corner said...

Such a beautiful card Kath.

Sue xx

Chrissy said...

Gorgeous card Kath, little James is the cutest of Bears..

Luv CHRISSYxx

Dotty Jo said...

Your card is gorgeous, Kath. I really do love LOTV James and your colour combo is so pretty. Thanks for playing along at The Christmas Kickstart Challenge< Jo x

Susan Renshaw said...

Such a cute image!
Thank you for sharing with Crafty Hazelnut's Weekly Christmas Challenge!
Susan
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Lynne in NI said...

Awww what a cutie!

Lisa xx said...

This is gorgeous....what a sweet James image and you have definitely chosen some Beautiful "B's" to fit our theme

Thank you for joining us at Christmas with the Cuties....hope you will be back soon

Lynne said...

A gorgeous card for our challenge this month. Thank you for joining in at Christmas with the Cuties x

Sue Nicholson said...

Smashing card, thanks for joining us at Christmas with the cuties cheers Sue N x