Birdie Brown Amigurumi Bear

Birdie Brown has a challenge this month to use this fabulous image Amigurumi Bear which she has kindly given away as a freebie. As the challenge ends on the last day of the month I am cutting it a bit fine to say the least…….

I do love working with Torico’s images and have a number of freebies that I obtained from her old blog and have loved using them. I like the cute little characters and the clean lines to the images.

I coloured this little cutie with my Promarkers and Flexmarkers adding lots of texture to the fur by blending colours and adding lighter colours to the ‘fur’ until I was happy with it. I kept to a red & black colour scheme as I knew I wanted to use the paper at the bottom of the card which is a wrapping paper from Paperchase. The red is flocked so it has a lovely soft texture. Take a Tip from me and if you have a Paperchase store or concession near you have a look at their papers. You get a massive sheet which is equivalent to 8 pieces of A4 paper and they are usually only a few pounds, fabtastic value for money compared to the average paper pad costs.

I have used sketch 3 from I [Heart} Sketches at Delightful Inspiration. If you don’t already do this new weekly sketch then do yourself a favour and pop over there. If you enter you get a $1 dollar voucher which is valid for 3 months to spend in the store at From The Heart. The great thing is that you can save them up and get some of Faith’s gorgeous images for free!! This is an absolute no brainer people so get in on it J

The Spotty and heart papers came from a Me To You pad that came free with a magazine, perfect small pattern to follow the sketch but give the focus to the image and the lovely paper on the bottom. Finally I used a sentiment from my stash but just added a think white border around it so the black didn’t get lost in the paper.

So this will be my final card for January. I cannot believe we are already one month into 2013, I’ve got a feeling it’s going to quickly again this year…..

Materials Used in this card are as follows:-

Card Size – 6” Square

Image – Amigurumi Bear from Birdie Brown

Papers – Flocked heart wrapping paper from Paperchase, spotty & heart Me To You freebie from magazine

Sentiment – from Stash

Tools - Letraset Promarkers & Flexmarkers, small ink pad
Techniques - Distressing

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order):-

• A & T Challenge - #21 Polka Dots
• Avadares Challenge - #7 Valentines Day or Love
• Birdie Brown – January Challenge
• CDAC Seasonal Fun – Valentine’s Day (or Lovey dovey day as I call it)
• Craft Us Crazy - #35 Love or Red
• Creative Inspirations Paint – Anything Goes
• DL Art Thankful Thursday – Use Red
• Gingerloft - #56 Love Is In The Air
• Going Grey With Scrap Creations - Valentines
• I {Heart} Card Sketches – Sketch 003
• Jen’s Digi Stamps – Love
• Mayzyart Challenge – #9 Romance
• Outlawz Monday Card – GCC0128 Hearts
• Paper Makeup Digi Makeover – #73 Hearts
• Pink Elephant  - #184 Hearts
• Scrapper’s Delight – Love With Red & Pink
• Stampavie & More - #186 Love
• Sweet Pea Stampers – CAS without embellishments
• The Stamping Chef – Love
• Twisted Tuesday - #2TC42 Free For All