Our art corner – Craft Gossip

I created a little art corner/kids table for my son Jakson about six months ago out of some things we had laying around—a wooden step ladder, the top of an old coffee table, leftover peg board for displaying art and a magnetic metal cabinet door from the IKEA “as-is section”.

I’ve been taking it apart little by little-sadly. I hope that there will be room in our next house for a similar corner. It has been perfect for displaying Jakson’s masterpieces and working on “school” activities. All of the kids who eat at our house are banished to the table to eat as well.

It’s good at multitasking (and doesn’t mind a little dirt).

The step ladder before: 100_0974
After a coat of Leaf Green paint: Those ugly green chairs? Perfect size, but hideous. Our eventual plan is take them apart and spray paint the seats some amazing, fun color. Suggestions?

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What goes better together than bears and honey? This cute card from Joy has a stamped bear inside a sticky honeypot and a die cut and stamped sentiment on a foiled honeycomb background. Learn more at the Pink and Main blog.

There are always trends in everything, including card making and paper crafting, whether it’s shapes or images and if you’re paying attention you might notice lots of companies creating products with similar themes. Right now I think it’s bears, I’ve been seeing so many adorable cards created with darling bear stamps and papers that I thought it would be a fun idea for a post. So, today let’s take a look at some Bear-y sweet card ideas.

This sweet digital stamp bear is enjoying a nice beverage in her pink polka dot outfit. The die cut triangles backed with more hot pink dots really helps her to pop on the card. I spotted this idea on the Polkadoodles Instagram page.

Silvia created a fun drippy background using a stencil and ink blending for the base of her adorable design. She also ink blended the die cut jar, adding splatters to both with white and gold inks. The darling little bear is stamped and colored with alcohol markers and there’s a heartfelt sentiment with bees bussing around too. Take a closer look at the Trinity Stamps blog.

With classic Winnie the Pooh now in the public domain everyone’s favorite bear (sorry Paddington) is showing up lots of places. Fun pattern papers and stamps of the whole Pooh and friends gang were used to make these friendship cards that I spotted at the Echo Park Paper Instagram page.

We can’t talk about bears with out mentioning Panda Bears too! This adorable belated birthday card from Joyce uses stamped Pandas and insects nestled among a die cut and stenciled bamboo forest background. I love the puny sentiment! Learn more at the Lawn Fawn blog.

A perfect card for Moms or Dads this heartfelt designs has stamped bear, bunny and cat parents and children a long slimline card. Suzy colored these sweeties using Copic Markers and placed them over an ink blended background adding lots of tiny hearts too. Take a peek at the Simon Says Stamp blog.

Isn’t bear hugs just the right sentiment for a bear card? Laura stamped her bear, colored with Copic Markers onto a shaped edge die cut circle. She stamped, colored and die cut some leaves to tuck in around the circle, creating a simple but effective wreath design. Find all the details at Bagatelas de Papel blog.

Bears are wonderful for baby cards like this sweet design from Sherry. This stamp has the outline and “speckles” on the stamp for a solid design that doesn’t require coloring. Around her bear she die cut some faux stitching and added a sentiment flag too. Find more info on the Stamped Treasures blog.

Spill some tea with your bestie and send them this Let’s Get Together card. The cute stamped bear and cat BFF’s are holding teas and walking through the park with stamped trees and an ink blended ground and sky with stenciled clouds. Learn more at the Clearly Besotted blog.

This cheerful card has bears peeking out to wish some a very Happy Birthday! Shani used bright primary colors of pattern papers, cardstock and colored pencils on the digital stamp for a very festive design. Find out more at the Paperesse blog.

A bear blowing bubbles and an adorable pup are having so much fun on this card from Tonya. There’s a stamped bubble background that she’s colored so realistically and sweet stamped sentiment too. She used a clear stamp set from Whimsy Stamps for this idea.

Hanh designed her bear-y uplifting card to look like a postcard. The stamped bear is helping his friends not get rained on in a bold yellow rain jacket, all colored with Copic Markers. I love how she created her rain with markers and white gel pen! Find more details at the Hahnmade Cards blog.

I hope you’ve been inspired to add some bear-y cute designs on your next handmade card design!

-Heather

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