Today I’m sharing the second Make & Take from the March Candy Hearts team meeting.  Click here to see the first one.

Papa Bear is all dressed up in his Night of Navy slacks, his Tip Top Taupe/Whisper White striped shirt, his necktie, and his belt.

The card base is Tip Top Taupe card stock with a layer of Night of Navy CS and a smaller layer of Tip Top Taupe.

The top most layer is Very Vanilla CS. We stamped the sentiments from the Guy Greetings stamp set in Night of Navy ink directly onto the Very Vanilla layer.

We stamped the bear from the Bear Hugs stamp set in Basic Black onto Tip Top Taupe CS, and cut him out with the Bear Hugs Framelits. We glued him to the card front.

We used the same Framelit to cut the striped piece of Cherry On Top Designer Series Paper and a piece of Night of Navy CS. We cut the shirt and Whisper White collar just like the ones on Mama Bear from yesterday. We glued that onto the bear.

For the pants, we cut off the feet. Then we cut off the top part, just below the arm pits, with the 2-1/2″ Circle Punch, to make a curved waist line.

For the belt we cut a piece of Basic Black CS twice with the 2-1/2″ Circle Punch to make an arc. We lined it up along the top of the pants, glued it down, then trimmed the extra off the sides. We drew on a buckle with a White Signo Uni-ball Gel Pen. We glued the pants onto the bear over the shirt tail.

We used Paper Snips to fussy cut the necktie from a 1/4″ x 1″ piece of paper, them glued it onto the shirt, tucking the top under the collar (you could also glue on the necktie before adding the collar.) For the tie on this sample, I used English Garden DSP, and used a Crumb Cake Stampin’ Write Marker to draw a tiny line where the knot would be. At the meeting we used Night of Navy CS, since it shows up better.

This card could be used for Father’s Day, or for Dad’s birthday, or really any occasion when you want to send a special greeting to a father. Or you could use one of the other stamps in the Guy Greetings stamp set to send it to the world’s greatest, brother, uncle, or grandpa.

I have one more Bear Hugs card to share with you tomorrow, so be sure to check back!

Here’s what we used today:

Thanks for stopping by today, and Sweet Stamping!