Saturday, 7 March 2009

Flower Gift bear

This week's PBSC is a recipe, 3 brads, 2 ribbons and 1 flower. I decided to think a little out of the box for me and came up with this.

I was given this large flower as part of a RAK, and have struggled to use it as it is quite big!! I cut the bear out using my nesties and watercoloured him. The edge is distress in plum ink. I have kept it all quite simple (I am loving doing more simple cards at the mo, saves on stash and is much quicker to do!!), and just used a copulpe of papers. I love how the brown organza has changed colour slightly over that pink spotty paper.

Well we are off on a dump and run trip to my Mum's - the girls are staying there overnight while we go to visit friends. Beth is under the weather again - but its not going to be my problem for 24 hours!!!!

Have a great weekend, and see ya all tomorrow.
Recipe:
Stamp(s): Penny Black Gift Bear
Colouring Media: Distress inks
Papers: MME Magnolia
Embellishments: brads, flower and ribbon from stash

26 comments:

Allison said...

lovely card Cathy , love the colour combo
AllisonX

Tasha said...

Super cute love the colour and bow
love tasha xx

Kimberley said...

Lovely cute card - well done.

Larissa said...

So cute! Love that you out the image in the kiddle of the flower. Good idea!

Hugs,
Larissa

Powerful Search Engine said...

Love how you have used the flower great card Cathy, hugs Pascale :)

Anonymous said...

Love the card. Makes me see my gift bear stamp through new eyes. Very creative use of the big flower.

Lynne in NI said...

Aww, so cute! I love how you used the bear as the flower centre!

Moxie said...

Great card Cathy...I tend to do simple cards but they do need something central for impact and the flower has done the trick. K

Kath Stewart said...

wow Cathy this is gorgeous..what a great idea using the image as the centre of your flower....thanks for joining in the fun this week at PBSC...enjoy the rest of your weekend
Hugs Kath xxxxx

Bex said...

Great card - I agree sometimes less is more!
Love Bex x

Jenny said...

eine richtig süße Karte und tolle Farben.

cats whiskers said...

Fabulpous card hun love the colours and that fbulous flower frames the image perfectly
Thanks for joining us this week
Hugs Jacqui x

Sandra Korten said...

love what you did with that cute little bear in the heart of the flower!! It's a lovely card! :-)

Bev said...

What a fab card Cathy, love those colours together. Fab layout too x

Linanna DESIGNS said...

A gorgeous card CAthy and the card below is fabulous too. Hugs Linda x

Beth said...

Oh this is so cute! Pretty colour scheme too! Thanks for joining the PB challenge this week!
Beth xx

Joy said...

Great how you stamped your bear and used him as the flower centre xx

LISA said...

Lovely card and a great idea for the flower centre xx

tracie said...

Oh wow I love this card hun, the cute image on the flowers is fabulous ~ hope your well.
Thanks for joining us this week at PBSC
Have a great week
Hugs
Tracie :)x

Macpurp said...

beautiful card! I love the big bloom!!
Hope you have a lovely time away and the wee one feels better soon.

much love tina xx

CraftyC said...

lovely card Cathy, hugs for beth!
Clairex

Pauline C said...

Great card Cathy - cute image and fab use of the big flower. Thanks for joining in the PBSC this week
Pauline x

Becky said...

What a gorgeous card Cathy, love the idea of having the image in the centre of the flower!! Hope the 'Dump and run' went well lol!!!
Love Becky xx

Lorraine A said...

another fabby card Cathy, this is just lovely :-)

Thanks for joining my blog candy with a twist, I hope you like what I'm making !! :-/
don't forget to post it on your blog, and you can put my name on your list too !!!! ha ha
hugs
Lorraine x

Helen said...

Cute card! Love the teddy in the flower!
Helen x

Nicola said...

Super card Cathy. I love your flower and sweet teddy.-x-