Woodland Beary Christmas! by Janet

Hey everyone. I'm loving the new sets that are out right now. I've used one here on my card today. It's called 5954-Woodland Bears Set. It's another of the Woodland series and it doesn't disappoint! There are so many adorable images in it. Of course it features bears and I've used just one of the those images on this card. The presents, cart, evergreen, and the sentiment and the snowflakes are all include. So very cute!!

To make this card, I started by stamping and coloring the images I had chosen, knowing I was going to put them in a frame like this one. I decided to add a bit of texture and something a little different for me by using printed paper from the new 5963 - Winter Woodand PP to piece the bear's sweater. I used additional patterns from the papers behind the frames. To give a little more shading to the sweater, I added some light gray marker shadows which is very subtle but I think makes a difference. I also used some white and glitter embossing powder on the hats of the bear and bird. It doesn't photograph that great but in person it's a neat look. There's a fabulous little evergreen in this set so I decided to stamp that using a glue pad and then I sprinkled fine green glitter on it. Once it dried, I tucked it behind the packages in the cart. It looks super that way. I could see creating a small forest of these trees. It makes me happy and I know that tree is going to come in handy for many cards in my future!

Once I cut everything out with the included dies, I arranged the images and added some additional bling. In one of the windows I stamped the sentiment and snowflakes and heat embossed them in white. 

I sure had fun working on this card. I hope I gave you some inspiration to try it too. Thanks so much for joining me here at the blog today. As always, please visit the Ai store for the products I used and all the things you need for your card, journal, and tag making projects. Happy creating!

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