Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Polar Bear Weather


I bought this cute Wild Rose Studio stamp just before the holidays, and made a couple cards to share with you. They're so appropriate for our bitter cold temperatures today that are at a nice round number of ZERO!!

I stamped the image on navy cardstock and embossed with white, adding googlie eyes and paper piecing the red scarf on the smaller bear. The background was embossed with a CB snowflake ef, and I added a punched red snowflake, along with a thin metallic snowflake attached with a metallic red mini brad. I added some tiny metallic GEO sparkler and snowflake stickers to the background snow, and finished this with a TSG sentiment.

This card is for the Shopping Our Stash #133 to use something new. The stamp and googlie eyes are both new items for me.


Here's a 2nd one I made without red accents. This time the scarf was paper pieced with white cardstock and I omitted the sentiment, but it's pretty much the same design.

Thanks for stopping by today and I wish you all a warm and wonderful week!

Carol

9 comments:

Benzi said...

How cute these cards are, Carol. I love the white embossing against that dark blue background. And, those googlie eyes are the cutest.

We are at 5 degrees this morning. That's really bad for a girl who likes her temps at about 95. Ha

Desire Fourie said...

Both gorgeous cards. Love the variation in colouring and the embossing.
Hugs
Desíre
{Doing Life – my personal blog}

jimlynn said...

How CUTE!!!! What a great stamp and you just brought it to life! Love the navy background and the paper piecing is super. Precious!!!!

Brrrrrrr........I can't even image temps that low! Stay warm.
Lynn

Barbara Godden said...

Both cards are fabulous, great job with the paper piecing of the scarves. I love the white embossing on the dark background. Thanks for playing along with us at SOS for the "use something new" challenge.

Princess Judy Palmer said...

Awww! I love the googlie eyes on the polar bear. Usually googlie eyes make things look whimsical but they didn't here. I like the red pieced version better as it has more pop. Shopping our stash.... sometimes when you go poking around in there it is like Christmas! So many interesting things to be found.

JD/ Jill said...

These are so cute! And so appropriate for today! LOL...as I sit at my computer with three layers on and using my Christmas present from my hubby ( my little space heater!) Keep warm, Carol...

Donna said...

Super cute cards! The bear images are so cute and I love that embossing folder! Thanks for joining us at Shopping Our Stash!

Mary Anne / MA54K said...

I just love this embossed in white, Carol! Adorable!

Donna Hanley said...

Carol, what a great find with this stamp. Very appropriate for today with these temps. The embossing look so nice as a back drop for these darling bears. Have a good day. Talk soon.