Beary Good Birthday

The theme for the current My Favorite Things Birthday Project challenge is bears.  I used one of the images from MFT's Beary Special Birthday set for my birthday themed bear design.

The bear was colored up with Copic markers, then cut out with the matching die.  I used foam tape to adhere the image to an aqua dotted panel that I'd cut with a Pierced Rectangle STAX die to give it a decorative edge.  After matting the aqua panel on a shiny silver cardstock panel, I adhered the image panel to an aqua card base.  The "have a beary good birthday" sentiment from the Polar Bear Hugs stamp set was stamped in black ink (VersaFine Clair Nocturne--my new favorite sentiment ink) on a red fishtail flag strip.  I adhered the sentiment strip to the card, tucking the straight end underneath the raised image, to complete the design.

Materials Used:
Beary Special Birthday and Polar Bear Hugs stamp sets, Die-namics Beary Special Birthday, Pierced Rectangle STAX, and Fishtail Flag STAX dies (My Favorite Things); Memento Tuxedo Black and VersaFine Clair Nocturne inks (Tsukineko/IMAGINE Crafts); markers (Copic); Aqua Mist cardstock, Aqua Mist patterned paper (Papertrey Ink); Real Red cardstock (Stampin' Up!); Recollections Silver cardstock (Michaels); foam tape