As well as SU's Happy Camper set I do have Fred Bear goes Camping, but I thought that using the hiking Fred Bear would still work perfectly for this week's TPT challenge (no golf stamps in my collection) and would also tie in very well with the Scripture I chose to use.
5 3/4" square base, sponged round the edges with Spiced Marmalade and stamped with CAC Craquelure in Versafine Olympia Green.
TPT card:
Image panel is watercolour paper: Happy Camper trees, inked with Versafine Olympia Green, brown marker.
MFT's Fred Bear Takes a Hike, masked, coloured with distress inks ~ vintage photo, brushed corduroy, gathered twigs, crushed olive. Then the foreground and sky were sponged in with peeled paint, tea dye and tumbled glass.
Verse from ODBD's Scripture Collection 6 stamped with black, compass and boot prints are from the MFT set.
I remembered a camp-out story I could tell. Way back when we first got married DH lost his job and we were pretty broke for a few years. When he did get a job with a company car, we couldn't afford to head to the sun, but we met friends who had been camping down in the south-west with their family, and borrowed their smaller tent. Never set it up before - first night was dark and windy. Well, we did get it up, but when we moved on the next day and set it up properly by daylight it was about twice the size . You'd think we'd have learned...no. Fast forward a few years and we borrowed a chalet tent from the same friends and took it to France. Did we try setting it up while we were staying with friends there. No...we left their house and headed south-ish and there we were, hot, grumpy, bad-tempered, me with a sick stomach and trying to set up a complex tent.
After that we DID learn, last time we camped we set the tent up here first .
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Tue, Apr 16, 2013 @ 5:26 PM
Sabrina, your lil hiker is adorable with his sidekick Snail holding tight onto the backpack! Love you lil scene.....especially those boot prints and beautiful scripture verse~
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Tue, Apr 16, 2013 @ 7:54 PM
Darling scene you have created! Love the sky and trees and of course the sweet little hiking bear! The footprints are a wonderful touch too! Plus a beautiful verse!
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Wed, Apr 17, 2013 @ 12:08 PM
Sabrina, you are always so creative - and seem to have just the right item for the occasion! Fred Bear is adorable with his cute back pack - and the footsteps are another great touch. I also think I need to take another look at those Scripture stamps.
------------------------------ Phyllis Young at heart, slightly older in other parts. We really never grow up, we just learn how to act in public!! What if you woke up today with only what you had thanked God for yesterday??
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Thu, Apr 18, 2013 @ 8:25 AM
Oh Sabrina!! What a perfect image to go with your Scripture verse - I am sure David will get lots of comfort from this verse, thinking about all the hiking and following the Lord in his life.
Love how you coupled the trees from Happy Camper and the bear image with the tracks and compass - the story you shared bought a smile to my face too - been there -done that - as well as backing up a truck to park a boat, right to the edge of an embankment in the dark!
Love this card and how well it fits this week's teaparty!!
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Registered: January 8, 2011 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 40445
Sat, Apr 20, 2013 @ 4:48 AM
Wow, this is a wonderful card, Sabrina, I love Fred Bear off hiking - all so beautifully coloured and sponged and love the Spiced Marmalade crackle bg!! Great camping story, too, perhaps that is why I am not into camping HAHA!
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Registered: October 13, 2010 Location: South Carolina Posts: 1167
Sat, Apr 20, 2013 @ 3:53 PM
I used the same Fred Bear stamp, love Fred Bear!! I like that you added trees and used some of the other stamps with the set. What great camping stories.
The first time the DH and I went camping, 4th of July weekend with our new puppy. It was hot and he panted ALL night in our faces. We packed up and went home the next day....lol