I apologize that my circle light swung into the frame and I didn’t know it. These things happen sometimes, but it still makes me feel terrible.

I bought these papers and ephemera because I had purchase the briefcase the bear carries for Finn for Christmas full of Paddington Bear books, and thought it would be fun to send his dad a Paddington Bear card for Father’s Day.

Use 5 x 10″ blue cardstock scored on th 10″ length at 2 1/2″ and 7 1/2″ then turn to the 5″ length and score at 1″. Cut on the 2 1/2″ and 7 1/2″ scores up to the 1″ score and then fold and burnish the three sections where you have cut. I folded the long scores so it becomes a coat..then cut the shoulders out by folding the 1″ score up on the back of the coat and cut it off on the front of the coat..the front is where the opening is. Then angle a cut on the top right about 1/2″ from the top and angled into the top about 1/2″ from the right side. Then bend the card in half so you can make the same angled cut on the other side. Cut the 1″ score straight down from the center so it lines up with the opening of the coat. Then cut an angle straight cut from the opening on the 1″ scored area to where the shoulder cut stops, closest to the center of the coat to create the collar. In the end, I cut this collar off straight across the top of the card and used foam squares under the collar to glue it to the top of the card so it looked better..

For the (sleeves) arms, I cut two strips 4″ long by 1″ and I used Night of Navy ink by Stampin’ Up and inked around the arms, then put foam tape under the strips, and laid the arms about 1/8″ from the edge of the card and once I attach the sleeves, I cut the top of them so they match the shoulder angle. I added two pockets in navy blue that were 1 1/4″ wide by 1 3/4″ tall and inked the edges. I used a thin tear tape 1/8″ wide and put the tear tape on three sides in case I wanted to put something in the pocket once it was attached (which I didn’t.) I should have put the pockets on before the sleeves, but didn’t and had to pick up my sleeves to add the pockets.

I found an image of the bear wearing his hat, so I took a piece of red cardstock and freehand the hat with a black marker then cut it out making sure the marker lines were intact. I retraced the marker lines when I was finished so they made the hat stand out. I cut ot the hat and glued it to the coat on an angle.

I glued a piece of the patterned Paddington bear paper that was 4 3/4″ x ” inside the card then cut the excess off the back at the top once the coat was closed.

I had the word “hello” die cut three times and glued together and glued this to the left pocket, then had some rub ons that I glued to the other pocket.

To make the coat toggles, I drew a toggle shape on a light brown cardstock then cut it out and traced it onto the paper 12 times and cut those out then glued three together, four times to make four toggles. I used a black twine that was way too thick and hard to work with, and wrapped a length around a toggle twice and left a small gap, then wrapped it around another toggle and put a piece of Velcro under both toggles gluing them in place with hot glue. I did this again for the second set of toggles, and hot glued the Velcro to the coat.

I had a Hero Arts stamp/die set called “Happy” that I used to stamp on 2 1/2″ round punched white cardstock in black ink with “Fathers Day” that came in the same stamp set. I put a 3″ scallop circle in red under the white round and glued these to the center of the inside of the card.

I also glued some Paddington bears from the set I bought on Craftstash. The card fits into a 5×7″ envelope, but wouldn’t have if I had glued the hat above the coat.)

Paddington Bear : (I couldn’t find it on the craftstash.us site, only their uk site, fyi)

Paper: https://www.craftstash.co.uk/paddington-8in-x-8in-paper-pack-24-sheets-paddington-collection.html

Ephemera Pack: https://www.craftstash.co.uk/paddington-a6-ephemera-pack-set-of-32-paddington-collection.html

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