Bear Card

As I said in the previous post, I just finished up a trip to Yosemite with my extended family.  My aunt (who is a brilliant card maker and scrapper) sent me a handmade card saying she had a great time.  I had to respond with a card of my own.  I used the Cricut Circle Weekly Challenge as inspiration for this card.  The Challenge was to use the provided sketch. 



Instead of the flowers, I used the polar bear from Animal Kingdom.  I used the gypsy to blackout the eyes and used the Here Kitty Kitty Peachy Keen stamp for the eyes.  (I covered the mouth and nose with a tissue so I wouldn't get ink on it and therefore could just stamp the eyes.)  A couple of years ago, I was in Yosemite with my aunt and she spotted a bear scaling a cliff.  Whenever I think of Yosemite I think of that bear and how lucky we were that she saw it!  So naturally, the card had to have a bear on it.  :-)  The tag is from my stash of Cricut cuts that I made and didn't end up using from a previous project and the tree border is a punch.  I used Glimmer Mist for the background of the card.