- Beary Birthday -

I made another card for the MFT stamps annual Card Design Superstar contest

This time my card is for the category "Innovation Master": 

From the outside the card looks like an ordinary card: The polar bear is skating on the pond, wishing a beary good birthday:

When you open it, three more polar bears appear waving hi:

I stamped the bears and the bucket with the fishes on watercolor paper and coloured them with ZIG clean color real brush markers. Then I used the matching dies for the cutting out.The icea floe is stamped directly onto the inner card base and is slightly colored with a pale blue. Then I stamped the sentiments onto the floe and added the little hearts. They were punched from watercolor paper and colored with a ZIG marker in the same red as the scarf of the bear in the middle. For the clouds I used a distress oxide ink.

For this card I used the stamp sets "Polar Bear Pals" and "Cool Day" for the images as well as the sentiments stamped in the clouds. The sentiments on the ice floe are from the set "Bitty Bears". The clouds are made with the stencil "Mini Cloud Edges" and the little punched hearts are from the Die-namics "LLD Bundle of Baby Clothes". To make the three bears "pop up" I used the die-namics "Pop-up elements narrow" and attached the bears to them.

Once the card was finished, I gave the "icy areas", i.e. the pond on the front and the ice floes a "frosty and icy" look by painting with Wink of Stella Clear over those parts.

I kept the card rather simple, i.e. no additional embellishments, because I want to put the main focus on the "beary scene".