Fuzzy Polar Bear

Evening All,

Several years ago the main road on which our BP petrol station is situated, was flooded. It wasn't just a little flood, the road was closed for several weeks. In fact a local scaffolding firm even built us a bridge across the worst of it, so that people could still come to shop.

Of course with the road closed we weren't getting deliveries, so the shelves gradually emptied as things were either sold, or went out of date. The shelves looked very bare, and that is what it is starting to look like at the moment....................thankfully without the flooded road.

We are suffering from the severe nationwide shortage of delivery drivers, and as a consequence the stock for them to deliver to us. Thankfully my parcel of goodies from Creative Expressions didn't suffer the same fate, so here is another card made using one of Jane's new Festive Fuzzies. They have been winging their way to stockists over the last few days.

I love this cute Polar Bear, although some of my very creative team mates have turned him into a brown bear. And I think like that he would work very well for a birthday card.

I stamped and embossed him in white on to kraft card and then coloured him with white watercolour paint. I masked an area around him and added a skyline and some snow. 

I have to be up at really stupid o'clock tomorrow, so I think a very early night is in order.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Kimx

Mr Tomte

Evening All,

I'm looking forward to a weekend with the littlest Grandkids which always lifts my spirits, even if Jack is being a little challenging at the moment. He has certainly hit the 'Terrible Twos' with a vengeance.

Of course I won't be able to get any crafting done, but I guess that's like the "firebreaks" that we are getting with our deliveries at work - a day off from orders, to give the deliveries a chance to catch up a little. I'm rather hoping that the same strategy will work with my crafting. A couple of days off to allow my brain time to relax, so that I can catch up a little. A chance to recharge my creative batteries.

I start the day off with grand intentions for what I will get done. I even sort out in my head all that I plan to do when I get back from work, and then by the time it actually happens I'm too cream crackered to do anything about any of it lol.

Thankfully I was feeling a lot more creative in April when I was making the samples for Jane's new Christmas stamps that launch today.

They are called 'Festive Fuzzies' and this one is called Mr Tomte JGS786.

I coloured him using Cosmic Shimmer Watercolour inks in various colours and then fussy cut him out.

The background was made with the leftover ink and I stamped and embossed the sentiment from the stamp set down the right hand side and then added a faux stitched border.

I added some glossy accents to the tree and a few gems to the background.

I do wish that writing about Christmas cards would cool the weather down a little, but unfortunately that is only in my dreams.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs Kimx