Aloha, all!
A couple of weeks back, I told you how much I used to love playing with paper dolls when I was a little girl, and I shared a card made with some Build-A-Bear Workshop stamps. So when I saw this color challenge from the Diva Coffee Break Design Team, my heart went back to that little girl bear from the Beary Best Friends Stamp Set. So here she is again, with her neatly cut out dress, made from Designer Series Paper. This time I even added the shoes!
The Stampin' Up! 2010 Holiday Mini Catalog is just the best mini catalog of the year. I know, I probably said that about the last couple of minis. But really, when you can get Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and even some Valentine's Day products all in one catalog, how can it get any better?!
Before I start describing what I did to make this cute little card (one of my granddaughters will certainly be the recipient of it!), I should tell you about the color challenge for this week's Diva Coffee Break Design Team. Yup, them's definitely fall colors. I just can't get away from it now that September is not only here but half-way done!
For our little girl Build a Bear stamp from the stamp set, Beary Best Friends, I first decided to use Crumb Cake as her little bear skin color. Not too bad, actually! I think that's the color I'll use for the bears for awhile at least. To bring in the other colors, I chose a basket of fruit that nicely used the other three colors in the challenge. Of course, there was the rest of the card to create. So I layered up with the Wasabi, Cajun, and Peach colors, and added a Taffeta Bow in the Pumpkin Pie color. The taffeta ribbons are really very light renditions of their colors, and I think that the bow accents the Peach Parfait color quite nicely, thank you!
I made the sign using the brand new Oval Medium Punch, also featured in the 2010 Holiday Mini Catalog. To mat it, I traced the punched image and then trimmed just outside of the line that I traced. The central stamped motif is all mounted on a piece of Peach Parfait card stock that I embossed using the Perfect Details Texturz Plate. Perfect, I think!
This is a really nice color challenge this week. I hope you'll visit the Diva blog and add your own creation! If you have any questions about how to do this, please just let me know, either by e-mail or by phone (808.854.6145).
Have fun with it!
Lovely little bear!!