Birthday Bear - SSSC281

Today's Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge (SSSC281)  was super easy so I thought I'd get another birthday card made - August is a busy birthday month for me!

I stamped Fred Bear and the Butterfly (discontinued) onto watercolour paper and had a try with my watercolour pencils.  I clearly need more practice :)  Fred was actually holding a daisy but I masked that off and used the Party Balloons die to make two balloons which I tied on with some bakers twine.  The paper is BoBunny "Surprise" with some Pumpkin Pie and dark blue from my scrap bin.  

Cheerio.....Leslie

Happy Birthday Cousin Philip

My cousin in England can nap anywhere, anytime so I thought using MFT Fred Bear Catches Some Zzz's was the perfect image for him.  It may seem like an odd choice for a birthday card but he loves to nap - what better gift than to be able to nap on your birthday!  It's my first time using a Fred image.  The colouring scared me a bit but I followed Karen's card here and I'm happy with it. 

Fred is stamped in Memento Tuxedo Black ink and coloured with copics (E21, E23, E25, E27, N4, N6).  For Fred's body, I made tiny dots starting with my lightest colour and then added more with each darker colour.  The pattern paper is Basic Gray Life of the Party - which is funny because Fred seems to be sleeping through this party!  I cut two strips of grass from felt using MFT Fresh Cut Grass Die-namic and layered Fred in between.  I paper pieced his pillow and the Zzz's in the bubble are from MFT Say What Die-namic.  The sketch is SC357.  I kept it pretty simple with no embellishments to make it "Canada Post friendly".

Happy Birthday Cousin Philip!  Your card is in the mail - honest! :)

Cheerio.....Leslie