Teddy Bea And Her Knitting

Good Afternoon

Here I am again, back with another challenge card featuring my favourite bear. I just had to have this image, so sweet. Here is Teddy Bea doing her knitting.

The Challenge over at Teddy Bo is 'Punch It Out'.

Well, as luck would have it, I got a gorgeous new Martha Stewart PATP set for Mother's Day, this one is called Swirling Lace, and they couldn't have picked a better one. I've seen this on a few blogs and really like it, so I'm delighted!

I cut a couple of squares of card from some pearlescent cardstock and punched out the four corners. I then added a little pearl (from Joanna Sheen)to each of the corners. The backing paper is from Making Cards magazine, designed by Nancy Watt, which again got the punched corner treatment. I then punched a border from a strip of left over paper. The flowers are die-cut using a Marianne die and little buttons added to the centre with ribbon threaded through (I figured if she was knitting, she'd probably need buttons!).

I then knitted a few rows and made up a mini ball of wool, used a couple of pins for knitting needles, with the sharp ends cut off and a little glue gel applied for safety. This is a close up of her knitting.

I had stamped Teddy Bea onto some watercolour paper, but this time decided to colour her with coloured pencils. I thought that the grain in the paper would make her fur look more textured. I applied a little glossy accents to her glasses.

She was then added to the card using glue gel so she didn't look 'flat'.

I thoroughly enjoyed making this card and am also entering it in the Papertake Weekly Challenge Anything Goes with the option of using something new (my punch and the image).

I am also entering this card in the Craft Your Passion Challenge Anything Goes.

Thanks for visiting.

Jo x