Copics Creations' One Stop Papertake weekly Cardvaarks' Paperplay with Prairie Fairie for Colour Create and Cute Card Thursday!

Okay - so I've gone a bit mad entering eight challenges for this card but what's a girl to do when she makes a card that just happens to meet the requirements of so many.   I stopped short of entering into an animal challenge even though, in my mind, teddy bears are animals too!

The card started out with Colour Create who have a fab colour combo this week of "hot pink, warm orange and saffron" and I made a "birthday card" which was the only requirement for Cardvaarks. 

I wanted to use my Copics to colour the teddies so I checked out Copics Creations where they have a theme of "summer reading" and a whole raft of fabulous images to choose from by the very talented Elizabeth O Dulemba.
So I just had to make a book mark to go with the card and used two of Elizabeth's lovely images; a mouse for the front and a bear for the back.  I coloured these with Copics, added some punched flowers, laminated the bookmark and added a tassel.

I wrote a litte ditty about forgetting work, snuggling down with some teddies (the recipient of this card has quite a number of teddies) and relaxing with a coffee and a book. The use of "text" met the challenge at Cute Card Thursday.  In order to incorporate the bookmark on the face of the card, I needed to pick a "sketch" with a tall design paper panel and Papertake Weekly came up trumps!  One Stop Card Challenge wanted to see "patterns" and I used pink patterned paper from Basic Grey Green at Heart, little saffron flowers on white from Stampin Up and a bold pattern of yellows, saffron and orange from Wild Rose Studios.   In order to insert my bookmark I had to "3d" the paper panel which met the challenge at Prairie Fairie and I also decoupaged and glazed the balloons which are digital images from Black Leaf.  Finally Paperplay had an "anything goes" theme and it seemed churlish not to enter!

I added Prima flowers and a pearl-brad, a gem string on the bottom right and finished with a little teddy charm.  I used my own teddies as models for the picture on the front of the card.  I had to take their clothes off first and then position them individually to draw them how I wanted them.  Hubby thought I'd gone mad and if I had checked out Copics Creations first then I could have found lovely teds and simply printed them out!