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Teddy Bear Buddies Card
Rubber Inspiration Designer Challenge

By Becky Lemire
Rubber Roadsters
Intermediate Stamping & Scramping Team Designer

Supplies:
Bears on a Bench and flower border (Rubber Inspirations)
Saying Stamp (TAC Limited Edition Stamp)
Burnt Umber Palette Hybrid Ink Pad (Stewart Superior)
Versamark Ink Pad (Tskukineko)
Ivory Cardstock cut to: (TAC)
    1 piece 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" and fold into a side fold card
    1 piece 2 1/4" x 2"
Scrapbook Background Papers (Roam pack by K & Company)
Gold Cardstock (SU):  cut to 2 1/2" x 2 1/4"
Gold Embossing Powder (Tsukineko)
Chalks (Craf-T Products)
Colored Pencils (Prismacolor)
Blender Pen
Odorless Mineral Spirits
Pink Marker (Marvy)
Flowers (Prima)
Buttons (miscellaneous)
Tacky Glue (Aleene's)
Heat Tool (Marvy)

Instructions:

1.      Cut all cardstock as directed in the supplies.  Pick four coordinating background papers and cut one of them to 2 3/8" x 2 18".  Cut the other four to sizes that will equally cover the front of the card with an 1/8" border all around.

2.      Attach the four pieces to the front of the card.  Ink up the border stamp with Versamark and stamp along the edges where the four pieces meet (see photo).  Cover images with gold embossing powder, shake off excess, heat the powder until melted.

3.      Stamp the bears with brown ink on the small piece of ivory cardstock.  Color in using colored pencils, chalks and marker.  Stamp the saying below the bears.  Swipe the edges of this piece and the card front with brown ink pad.

4.      Attach the image piece to the left over background paper piece and then to the gold piece.  Attach to the left center of the card front. 

5.      Attach a green flower to the upper left corner of the card and then a pink flower on top of that and center the flower with a button.

6.      Attach a larger pink flower to the upper right corner of the image piece.  Cut the petals apart from a green flower and tuck and glue them under the pink petals spaced out evenly.  Glue another button to the center of the flower.

7.       Glue the large button to the bottom right corner of the card.  Cut apart a few pink flower petals and start tucking them under the button edge.  Do a second layer of petals under the first filling the "flower" in.  Repeat the cutting and tucking of another green flower or two under the pink petals.

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