Beary Happy Holidays

Here's my card for December's Mix It Up challenge at SugarPea Designs.  I paired the sketch with elements from the inspiration photo (cute critter, colors, and bold stripes) for this holiday design featuring one of the bears from SPD's Hey Winter stamp set.

I did a little masking to stamp the hat on the bear's head and gift in the bear's hands.  Once I'd gotten the image stamped, I colored it with Copic markers.  It's hard to see in the photo, but I added some texture to the design by filling in the pom poms on the hat with white flock.  I used foam tape to position the bear on a red and white striped panel with a shimmery white snow bank at the bottom.   A trio of silver sequin "snowflakes" were arranged around the bear image as a fun accent.

For the sentiment, I stamped the set's "happy holidays" sentiment on a white Stitched Flags die cut.  After matting the sentiment on a slightly larger black Stitched Flag piece, I adhered it to the top right side of the card.  I matted the panel on contrasting black cardstock, then adhered it to a red card base.

Materials Used:
Hey Winter stamp set, Stitched Flags dies (SugarPea Designs); Memento Tuxedo Black ink (Tsukineko/IMAGINE Crafts); markers (Copic); Real Red and Basic Black cardstock (Stampin' Up!); Crystal Stardream cardstock (The Paper Cut); Pure Poppy patterned paper (Papertrey Ink); Landscape Trio dies (Mama Elephant); white flock (Stampendous); silver sequins; foam tape