Dreidel Bears and Hanukkah Blog Candy

Happy Wednesday to you!
Today I have a Hanukkah card to share with you. Isn't this image cute?
It's a digital image from Hambo and you can find it right here.

To embellish my card I added some beautiful two-toned blue ribbon to each corner.
And some jewels around the scalloped edge. I tried a new technique for coloring the main panel. I colored the bears as usual with my Copic markers, but then took a blue Prismacolor pencil and colored a border around each bear. Then I blended it into the background with a blending stump and some odorless mineral spirits. I did the same thing with a black pencil along the bottom of the bears for a shadow effect.

When I had my card all finished, it still needed a little something. I decided to go back to my computer and print up the same image, only this time I enlarged it quite a bit and cropped out everything except the dreidel. I colored it, cut it out and attached it with dimensionals.

Now let's get to the BLOG CANDY part of this post!
I've had to make a few Hanukkah cards for design teams over the last couple of months, but sadly I have no one to give them to. That's where you come in! If you would like to have these three cards, leave me a comment on this post!

(Image by Pink Cat Studio)

(Image by Pink Cat Studio)

(Image by Hambo)

I'll leave this post here for a few days and choose a winner on Saturday!

Pink Cat Digital Release Day!

It's Thursday - the BEST day of the week!
Survivor is on AND a brand new digital release from Pink Cat Studio!! What more could a girl want?
Look at what's available for you to play with today...

I've got lots of cuteness to share with you today.
First up are Lily and Billy holding their hot cocoa.

I decided to make hot cocoa holders.
Here's a close up of Lily...

And here's Billy...

I picked up some Ghirardelli hot chocolate packets for 58 cents each and created a holder for them. The cool thing about these is that it also stands up by itself as a card. A gift and a card all wrapped up as one item - love that!

Don't you think these would be a fun an economical gift to hand out to teachers, librarians, coaches, neighbors, co-workers, etc...?

Next up is cute lil' Billy holding a dreidel and a menorah!

Isn't he just the cutest?!

And here's the best part...

With a few cuts and scores, I was able to make a pop-up dreidel when you open the card!

Ready for some more Hanukkah cuteness?

I squealed when I first saw this image and sentiment! But let's face it....I squeal every time I get a new image from Melissa.

I printed out the image twice and popped up the eyes and the dreidel.

And I most definitely could not leave out Lily...

This image reminds me of the game CandyLand.
Lots of Doodlebug Sugar Coating went on this to make it SPAR-KA-LAY!

Thanks for checking out my goodies today.
Be sure to head on over to the digital store over at PCS to get your hands on these little beauties.
Still looking for inspiration?
Check out what the rest of the design team did -

Alicia Weiman
Emily Leiphart
Inge Groot
Kerry Donovan-Casey
Kristen Catalano
Maria Bell
Suzanne Dean
Tori Hemmingway
Tracey Cuccia
Vicki Garrett

Oh, and did you hear about the fun contest on the PCS blog?
Check it out here <------- Free stamps involved. Need I say more?