Snowy Bear - Stampin' Up! Christmas Friends

   I'm playing along with the As You See It Challenge today.  They have a great color combo with Azure Afternoon, Granny Apple Green and Shaded Spruce.  At first I was going to try for a masculine card but then veered away from that and ended up doing a Christmas card!  The Christmas Friends bundle seemed like it was a good match for a snowy scene using these colors.

  I used an Azure Afternoon card base and then stamped the Falling Snow background stamp in white craft ink onto the front.  A slightly smaller panel of Basic White is first die cut with big circle in the Christmas Friends die set and then die cut again with the "snow" die from the Peaceful Evergreen die set.

 The chubby bear is stamped in Memento black and then colored with Stampin' Blends.  He's popped up on dimensionals at the bottom of the circle.  

I cut several layers of greenery in the 2 challenge greens and then layered them with mini dimensionals and adhered them to the top of the circle.

Two snowflakes in Azure Afternoon (one stamped off) from the Iconic Imagery stamp set are added because I thought that the bear needed something to look at lol!  The word 'joy' is stamped in Shaded Spruce and trimmed to fit the snowflake.

  A bit of retired Azure Afternoon ribbon is tied in a fork bow and added to the greenery.  A faceted gem is added to the second snowflake and Wink of Stella adds some shimmer to the wreath bow.

  This was a fun card to pull together using bits from different Christmas sets.  I might have to try a polar bear next!

  Thanks for looking!  Did you stamp today?

  All of the current supplies used to make this card can be purchased in my ONLINE STORE.

Stamps: Christmas Friends, Iconic Imagery (Online Exclusive)

Ink: Memento Black, Azure Afternoon

Blends: Pecan Pie light & dark, Shaded Spruce dark, Granny Apple Green light & dark, Azure Afternoon light & dark

Paper: Azure Afternoon, Basic White, Shaded Spruce, Granny Apple Green

Accessories: Christmas Friends dies, Peaceful Evergreens dies, Iconic Imagery dies (Online Exclusive), dimensionals, Wink of Stella, clear faceted gem (retired), Azure Afternoon ribbon (retired)