Peak-a-Bear

• Stamps –
  • Avery Elle: “Hang In There” and “Petals and Stems”
  • Stampers Anonymous “Vintage Text”
• Dies – Avery Elle: “Hang In There” and “Trees”
• Patterned paper – Bella Blvd “Time to Rake”
• Metallic copper paper
• Embossing powder – Personal Stamp Exchange – Copper
• Ranger Perfect Pearls Mist – Perfect Copper
• Ranger Distress Inks – Forest Moss, Crushed Olive, Walnut Stain, and Rusty Hinge
• Recycled Java Jacket (from Starbuck’s Coffee)
• Cardstock – Bazzill Bling

It was fun to create this card with some new supplies I got recently (and some really old supplies!). I customized the tree with a versatile die set. I can make the trunk as skinny or as fat as I want! I die-cut the bear and stamped his face with the matching stamp set. I inked him up, which in reality just made him look grubby! I created my own patterned paper with Distress Inks overstamped with the Vintage Vintage Text stamp and then sprayed with copper Perfect Pearls Mist. From that, I die-cut the leaves for the tree branch. I embossed the leaves on the tree trunk and the sentiment to tie together all of the copper elements. The backdrop within the tree trunk is a recycled Java Jacket from a cup of coffee–a nice, small little piece of lightweight corrugated cardboard. I will post this on Paper Players for the Theme Challenge #326: Going Green. The copper paper and embossing powder have been in my stash for years and years! I’ve had the Petals and Stems stamp set for quite a while also. It is fun to use new and old supplies and see how well everything will fit together. Thanks for visiting.