Bear Hug Bunch for Day 1

Hi again! We’re down to the last countdown day before the MFT December Release goes live and I’m sharing a card with a cute little scene featuring the critters from the whimsical Bear Hug Bunch stamp set.

There’s nothing fancy about this card… I started by partially stamping just the bear’s left arm (rotating it upwards), because I wanted him to be reaching for a star. Then I did some simple stamping and masking to create the pile of critters.

Simple card with a bear, fox, owl and moose.

Once all of them were masked, I was able to ink the background with four colors of Distress Ink (Black Soot, Chipped Saphire, Broken China and Tumbled Glass). Next, to get a distressed look, I spritzed some water on it. Once the panel was dry again, I die cut it with the second largest die from the A2 Stitched Rectangle STAX Set 1 Die-namics.

I actually messed up the masking on the antlers of the moose, but instead of starting over, I simply colored them with a 3D snow marker and they turned out great. The rest of the critters were colored with Copic markers and Prismacolor pencils.

Close up of the bear bunch card for MFT.

My intention was to add a banner with the sentiment, but since it was quite large, I just stamped it directly onto the panel with Extreme Black Hybrid Ink. As a last touch, I added drops of Glossy Accents to the eyes, noses and beak of the critters.