I’ve always loved the illustrations of Big Bear & Bird and am delighted that Waffle Flower continue to release new designs in the series such as this cute Therefore I Am set. I think these cuties would bring a smile to anyone’s face! I’ve linked all supplies at the end of this post. Compensated affiliate links used where possible at no cost to you.
BAKING BIG BEAR & BIRD
I stamped a range of the images from the Therefore I Am set in Gina K Whisper ink and die cut with their matching dies. I then set about watercolouring. My favourite colour combination for critters is to mix Ultramarine Blue with Burnt Sienna to give a lovely complex grey perfect for the fur of critters. For the chef’s apron, I went with Indrathrone Blue with a touch of Indigo to deepen the colour. The leaves were Undersea Green, the berries Rose Of Ultramarine, Bird was Quinacridone Gold and the ‘made with love’ banner and ‘thank you’ speech bubble were a mix of Quinacridone Coral and Quinacridone Gold. I also used Quinacridone Coral for the rosy cheeks and the hearts too.
For the background, I loosely watercoloured and splattered with Cerulean Blue Chromium and added white gouache splatter too and then when dry used the Lacy Layers dies to cut the panel. I used the same die set to cut a Fog panel also. I stamped sentiments from the Therefore I Am set onto the banner and speech bubble with Versafine Onyx Black Ink. Then it was just a case of mounting all the elements onto an Ivory card base with foam adhesive.
I added Glossy Accents to the hearts and berries, white gel pen details to the cheeks and stripes for the chef’s apron and touches of sparkle pen over the leaves, cheeks etc.
To create more definition, I finished this card by adding details with Faber Castell pencils.
SUPPLIES
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PIN ME
Summary of the project which gives all the views of the card in one photo :D I’d love if you pinned and called by on Pinterest :D
Oh my gosh Debby this is cute! What a perfect set for me who likes to bake a lot, I love the bear.
I absolutely adore this card! You combined so many wonderful elements, it really came together perfectly!
Gorgeous cards, love the bear with the bird on top. The card showes, like all your cards, that it realy is made with love, as the sentiment says. Thank you so much for sharing.
Such a great card and cute bear. I’ve never seen this bear before but will look out for more.
So adorable!! I love bears so much and struggle to color them. Thank you for sharing so much detail on how you colored the bear. It gives me some great ideas to try out!
I love it. You are such a talented artist and colourist. I hope when day I will be as good as you