Polar Bear Fun!

I love having some time off! It's been very difficult for me to get time to create with my new work schedule. I know, I should make the time, but when I see the dishes and laundry piling up, I figure I should make time for that first!!!  I even had time to go and get a bunch of new trimmer blades...I had been cutting with a dull blade for months now! It used to be that I could just pick up a Fiskars blade from Walmart or Target but my local stores don't carry them anymore. The nearest craft store is somewhat of a trek and it's a trek that's better done on a day off! Anyway, like I said, I love having time off!

I decided to do a bunch of cards which I could use as holiday, New Year's, winter birthdays, and thank you's. I picked the cute Polar Bear Holiday stamp set and the lovely To You and Yours set for the sentiment which I put on the inside using Outdoor Denim ink (some I'm leaving blank on the inside, like for the ones I'm saving for birthdays). The Polar Bear Holiday set has some great sentiments on it already but I really love the font on To You and Yours. The nice thing about the polar bear stamps is that I just needed to add a tiny bit of color with my Sky and Whisper CTMH alcohol markers and some colored pencils since they are white!

I also used the Frosted and Sparkle and Shine paper packs and Crystal Blue cardstock for my card bases because I had a lot of it! I don't know if you can tell from my pictures, but the front of my card is cut a little shorter so you can see the gray houndstooth pattern even while the card is closed and my card is slightly smaller than a standard size. It's about a 4" x 5.5" card with the front flap being 4.25" long. The Bronze Shimmer Trim and the Lagoon Houndstooth Washi Tape made for easy embellishments! I also used 3-D Foam Tape to pop up my sledding bears.

Here's a shot of my supplies. I cut out my circles using my Cuttlebug with Spellbinder dies (both regular and scalloped). I used an embossing plate to give some texture to the blue circles and inked them a little with Heavenly Blue ink (retired). In case you haven't heard, we will have embossing plates in the Spring/Summer 2014 CTMH Idea Book! Yay! We'll also have a bulk pack of sponge daubers!

Just for fun, here are my polar bears, cut out. Wheeeee! They look so happy! It really helps to have a good scissors like your handy dandy CTMH Micro Tip scissors. 

Here's the outside of my final card...

...and a view of the inside!

I'm linking up with 365 Cards for their Anything Goes Challenge. Seeing as how I always seem to be in need of cards, I think I should visit this challenge blog more often and get inspired!

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