Bye-Bye Baby Bear

Mornin' y'all!  I really need to figure out something better to do for my card photos.  I made two cards yesterday afternoon (you'll see the other one tomorrow) and that second card's photos came out ALL WONKY.  Like, very very blue.  I'll have to try to get a better picture of it today so I can post it tomorrow, I'm actually pretty happy with that card so I want it to look good.

But let's talk about today's card, shall we?

I admit, I have not used Baby Bear very much because I find it a little difficult to work with.  It only took me two tries to get the bear to look okay this time at least (the bow took three).  I mean, the bear IS super cute when all the stamps are lined up juuuuust right, but even though I'm a pro Stamp-a-ma-jigger, this stamp set is still hit or miss for me.  But I do like how the bear looks on here today.

The Inspire. Create. challenge inspired me (teehee) to make a baby card today:

Oh yeah, the inside of the card says "Welcome to the world!" but I didn't photograph it.

Just had to use the Paper Players sketch:

And my colors are from the Color Throwdown:

I used Petal Pink, Soft Suede, Basic Black, and Whisper White.  Well, I did use a wee bit of Blushing Bride to do the two-step stamping on the bear's bow because two layers of Petal Pink just didn't work.  I did use ONLY Soft Suede for the bear.  For the lightest layer, I inked up the stamp with a sponge; for the middle layer, I inked it up with the ink pad like normal, but then I used the sponge to remove a bit of the ink to make it a little lighter than full strength; and for the darkest layer, I just inked up the stamp like normal (and worked very hard to get it to line up right with the first two layers).  Then I cut it out and stuck it on my card :)

Have a great day, peeps.  I'll be taking a stitching project to the Y to work on today since we don't have barre class until the find a new teacher...the last one is 8.5 months pregnant and moving in June anyway :p  I loved her, she was so much fun to take classes from.  Hope we get a good new instructor!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Baby Bear
Ink:  Petal Pink, Blushing Bride, Soft Suede, Memento Tuxedo Black
Paper:  Thick Whisper White, Petal Pink, Twinkle Twinkle DSP
Accessories:  Dimensionals