Hello Crafty Friends! Laurie here again! I am sharing My Beary Christmas Cards using the Beary Cute Bundle by Stampin’ Up! which includes the Beary Cute Stamp Set and coordinating Beary Cute Punch. This bundle is retiring. So, make sure you get it before it’s too late!

The Details of My Beary Christmas Cards

For my cards, I decided to make a floating element using one of the scenes from the Beary Christmas Designer Series Paper. I had so much fun that I created two different cards with the same elements. For one, I used Misty Moonlight and the other, Balmy Blue card stock bases. A floating element uses acetate or window sheet on which you adhere strips of DSP leaving gaps between the pieces. Then you use dimensionals under the DSP to make it look like the element is floating.

The scene strips were cut at ½” width and lined up in order on my window sheet for placement before adhering them down. I started with the two end pieces and then the centre ones working out to the ends. Tip: use grid paper for an even gap between pieces. Since the DSP was ½ wide, it allowed me to place my dimensionals behind the paper. Thus, hiding them to complete my floating element.

Misty Moonlight Card

I made the Misty Moonlight card portrait and used the largest square from the Stylish Shapes Dies to die cut my square once I had adhered the 5 DSP scene pieces to the Window Sheet.

I stamped snowflakes in Misty Moonlight for a tone-on-tone around my central focal point.

The sentiment was white embossed on some Real Red card stock and then fussy cut with my Paper Snips.

The polar bear was stamped in Misty Moonlight and Real Red for his scarf before it was punched out.

Balmy Blue Card

For my Balmy Blue card, I decided that I wanted to use more of the DSP. So, I made the floating element larger with 6 pieces of DSP and wider gaps. I stamped the Balmy Blue snowflakes at an angle through the centre of the card. This allowed the snowflakes to show through the Window Sheet!

The sentiment was stamped in Real Red and snipped on an angle with my Paper Snips.

For both cards, I used the white snowflakes from the Adhesive-Backed Snowflake Assortment as my embellishments.

Supplies:

Stamps/Bundles/Dies: Beary Cute Bundle (162023), Stylish Shapes Dies (159183)

Inks: Misty Moonlight Classic Stampin’ Pad (153118), VersaMark Ink (102283), Balmy Blue Classic Stampin’ Pad (147105), Real Red Classic Stampin’ Pad (147084)

Paper: Misty Moonlight (153081), Balmy Blue (146982), Window Sheets (142314), Real Red (102482), Basic White (159276), Beary Christmas Designer Series Paper (162015)

Accessories: Adhesive-Backed Snowflake Assortment (162129), Basics Embossing Powder (155554), Embossing Additions Tool Kit (159971), Heat Tool (129053), Paper Snips (103579), Grid Paper (130148), Bone Folder (102300), Stampin’ Dimensionals (104430), Mini Glue Dots (103683), Mulitpurpose Liquid Glue (110755)

Measurements: 

• Misty Moonlight/Balmy Blue:
  • 8 ½” x 5 ½” scored at 4 ¼”
• Window Sheet:
  • 3” x 3” (for Misty Moonlight Card)
  • 3” x 4 1/8” (for Balmy Blue Card)
• Real Red:
  • Scrap
• Basic White: (3 pieces)
  • 2” x 2 ½” (Polar Bears)
  • Scrap (Sentiment)
• Beary Christmas Designer Series Paper:
  • 3” x 2 ½” (for Misty Moonlight Card)
  • 3” x 3” (for Balmy Blue Card)

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