Care Bears

Hello...

If you checked out my blog yesterday you will have seen the 1^st of the cards I did for the last minute card order I was given

This is the other card

I was told it was for a lady who is crazy over Care Bears

Have to admit its not the kind of thing I have done before and didn't really know where to start

I had printed off a sheet of lovely pink gingham paper for a card I planned to make but seeing it against the decoupage sheets I decided to use it

I folded the lovely deep blue sparkly card in half – then decided the card would work better as a stepper card – so started again and left wide outer panels and just narrow centre steps

The side panels were covered with the pink gingham and edged with silver peel offs.

I added a small piece of the paper to the bottom front of the card and again edged with the peel offs.

I cut out 2 different sheets of care bears and built the decoupage on both

I attached one bear to each side of the panels and then I was stuck!

Suddenly it occurred to me that Care Bears always had a rainbow on set – in fact I believe they slide off the rainbow.

So I found a bright colourful rainbow which I printed twice and stuck back to back – I did add light weight card to the middle to stiffen it a touch.

So with the rainbow ready to be used – where could it go?

So I used a sharp craft knife and made a split on the fold of he step and slipped the rainbow in so it was approx 1cm in – I used strong double sided tape to attached the ends of the rainbow to the card base.

The centre steps were covered with a pearlescent pink paper and a small fabric butterfly added to the steps with silicone glue

I found a nice Happy Birthday sentiment so punched a couple of holes using my crop-o-dile then used a few jump rings to create small chains – punched a hole in the rainbow and dangled the sentiment!!

I added a Happy Birthday Daughter which fitted between the bears nicely.

And finally I used a lovely pale blue stamped and heat embossed flower with punched green leaf on the bottom of the steps.

A quickie glue pen was used to highlight sections of the bears then covered with glamour dust to finish

Its a really lovely card which I am sure will be loved by the lady I made it for as well as her daughter in Australia she is sending it to!

See you next time

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