Beary Merry Christmas

I am so excited about this year’s Holiday catalog! There are some amazing new items in it. Let me know if you need a copy and I’ll get one to you. (Of course, if you already have a demonstrator, please get it from them. Thanks!)

For today’s card, I used the new Cookie Cutter Christmas bundle: Cookie Cutter Christmas Stamp set and Cookie Cutter Builder Punch. Aren’t these teddy bears just too cute?

Here’s how I did it:

The card base is Crumb Cake with a Whisper White layer, and a layer of Candy Cane Lane Designer Series Paper on top of that. Then there’s an Early Espresso layer with another piece of the DSP on top. These two pieces of the DSP are the same pattern but with different background colors. Can you see the tiny trees in the pattern?

I stamped the banner from the Banners for You stamp set in Early Espresso ink onto Whisper White card stock, the stamped the sentiment in Real Red ink inside the banner. (The photopolymer stamps are easy to curve into the shape of the banner!) I cut it out with the coordinating die from the Bunch of Banners Framelits. I adhered it to the card with Stampin’ Dimensionals.

I stamped the two teddy bears in Soft Suede ink onto Crumb Cake card stock. I stamped their faces in Black Memento ink. Then I cut them out with the Cookie Cutter Builder Punch. Be sure not to stamp them too close together, because the punch has multiple shapes that it cuts out all at once, and you don’t want to cut out one bear only to realize you cut a circle out of the next one.

I colored the smallest Pearl Basic Jewels with a black Sharpie marker and put those over the eyes to make them pop a bit more. I tied Real Red twine around their necks and adhered them to the card with Stampin’ Dimensionals.

I’m not sure you can see it in the photo, but there’s something about the Soft Suede ink on the Crumb Cake card stock that makes everyone want to touch it. It looks like felt or velvet or something textured like that. But it’s just ink on card stock.