Just For You... and a FREE DIGI

Hello Blogging Buddies!  Believe it or not, today I actually have a card to share with you.  We all know that doesn't happen to often - LOL.  After all the snow days we had this past week, the kids were home from school all but 1 and 1/2 days.  You can imagine by the end of the week I was pulling my hair out.  Mamma needed some serious down time :).  With more snow in the forecast next week, I may find myself finally scrapbooking too.

Over at The Beary Sweet Challenge, our theme is "Friendship or Love".  I have been dying to play with Echo Park's "Be Mine" Collection.  I just love the colors and the prints.  This is such a great line.  The prints are so versatile and can be used year round.

 

I used a sketch over at my dear friend Kellie's Tickled Pink Stamp Challenge.  The sketch was perfect for layering all these gorgeous papers.  I used Cherri with Rose stamp from Tickled Pink Stamps.  You will be seeing these cutie's coming to our store in the very near future too.  

Cherrie has been colored with Copic Markers.  I'm not thrilled with my coloring, but since I haven't picked up a marker since October 2010, I don't think I did too bad of a job. I applied stickles to the rose.  Of course the entire card is distressed and inked up with Chestnut Roan fluid chalk.  I've added lots of ribbon and lace from my stash.

The sentiment is one that I created.  I printed it out, colored the heart in with copic markers and applied some red stickles to the surface. 

I'm happy to share my sentiment digi it with you.  Simply click on the image to enlarge.  Right click on the image and save it to your computer.  The image is a high quality .jpg created at 300dpi.  You can easily load it into word or photo software to resize and print.  I left the inside of the heart blank so that you can color it in to match your project.

And now for that "technical stuff"...

Beary Sweet Digis on this blog are for personal use only and may not be reproduced for resale or reproduction. You may not edit or redesign the image in any way. You may use the images for any of your handmade paper crafting projects. All rights are the sole property of yours truly. You may use the image(s) on projects you create for challenges, contests, submissions, or handmade items you create to sell. I simply ask that you give credit where credit is due and link back to this post so others may know where it came from. ~ Thank You. 

This card has been entered into the Tickled Pink Challenge 3

I'm glad you stopped by!

♥ Hugs ♥

Merry Little Christmas Angel Tilda - BSC #13

Hello fellow bloggers!  Happy Thursday to you all!  I hope you have been having a wonderful week thus far.  The weather here in PA has been mighty cold.  I'm beginning to think mother nature forget Autumn???  It's way to cold for me to be outside raking leaves.

• News about our Local Boutique can be found here.  The days are winding down fast.  The new location (although no longer public) is coming along nicely.  Hubby has put in the most incredible lighting and Chris primered the walls yesterday.  Today we will be getting a fresh coat of "latte" paint with the help of my loving Father-in-Law.  So warm and inviting!  Hopefully the new flooring will be installed this weekend.  Sad, but exciting at the same time.  We are ahead of schedule... even though we all seem to work better under pressure - LOL.  

• thebearyscrap.com News:  I began restoring some products on the website, but some that I am trying to keep off are squeaking by me.  After November 13, all product will be restored on the site.  New inventory is being added daily!

Surprisingly, I managed to make a card using Susan's awesome sketch for our BSC #13 which can be found HERE.  Even with all the chaos of moving the store back home and remodeling my studio to accommodate both me and the store, I did it.  I'm so darn proud of myself!  Never mind that I have 8 bins packed with my personal supplies - and that doesn't include all the paper I've managed to hoard over the years.  I left the essential within reach... like ink and stickles - LOL.

I used Bazzill Cardstock to mat my designer papers from Basic Grey Eskimo Kisses collection.  This is such a beautiful line of papers to work with for my designer papers.  My stamp is Angel  Tilda Magnolia from the new Merry Little Christmas Collection.  She is also available for pre-order in our store.  She's been colored in with Copics ( Dress R81, R83, R85;  Skin Tone E000, E00, E01, E11;  Wings BG0000 topped with Stickles;  Aura BG10 and Colorless Blender;  Hair YR23, Y23, E35)  The flower was handmade by me with lots of patience and love.  Lisa has a fabulous tutorial on how to make these beautiful blooms HERE.  Since most of my punches are packed away, I used my scalloped Spellbinders Circle Dies.  A spritz of Glimmer Mist in Pearl, a few dabs of fluid chalk, a dash of stickles and vuala!  Of course, I had to ink up the edges of the designer papers, add lots of Stardust Stickles and a few Kaisercraft pearls.

I hope you've enjoyed my little creation.  There is still plenty of time to enter the sketch challenge HERE.  If you have any questions, you can use our new "Ask the Designers" feature and we will all be happy to help you.

Now it's off to see what other challenges I can enter this sweetheart into.  Any suggestions, please let me know.

Don't forget to join us on FACEBOOK!

♥ Hugs ♥

Beary Sweet Challenge 11 ---> Sketch with Tilda

Happy Thursday Friends!  Today is day 2 of "my weekend" and it will be spent grocery shopping and running errands.  I'll finish up the housework that I didn't get to yesterday too.  There are always things on my list that I don't get a chance to get to, but it will wait until Monday when I'm off again.  If I'm lucky, dear hubby might have a spare moment to pitch in on the real weekend.  Well, it's a day in the life of this girl.

Well, lets get to the good stuff.  Can you believe three posts this week!  That is unheard of my in world.  Not only is that practically unheard of, I actually created a card to play along with our Design Team Girls for the Beary Sweet Challenge #11 that will launch on Friday.

This week we all worked with a sketch that we'll use as our next Beary Sweet Challenge on Friday. Be sure to check back on Friday for the start of our Sketch Challenge.  Susan created an awesome sketch for us to play with.

Tilda With Broom meets My Little Yellow Bicycle

 

For this card I chose to use some of our remaining Frightful papers by My Little Yellow Bicycle.  We still have a few of these left in the store if you want to grab some.  As usual, I roughed up my edges with a distressing tool and then inked them up with some charcoal colorbox fluid chalk.  I had some swirls left on a half used sheet of Smoky Say it in Crystals by Prima so I thought it would add a nice touch.  I layered a Prima flower from  my stash with one of Leslie's beautiful crochet blossoms that we have in the store. (I'm waiting for her to make us some more so I can get them online for you too).  The brad center is actually from Pink Paislee's Bayberry Cottage Collection.  The green was a perfect addition to the color combination.  I came across the fall leaves when I was sorting out my Prima Flowers in my home studio.  I've had these for years - LOL.  It wouldn't be me if I didn't have some sparkling goodness added somewhere.  All of the edges and the flowers got a nice coat of STARDUST STICKLES GLITTER GLUE.  I first used Black Diamond on the image, but I really don't like the way it turned out.  Oh, I almost forgot, I used Snow Kaiser Craft Pearls and colored them with an YR Copic Marker.

As for Tilda, she was colored with my Copics, and I be darned that I didn't right down what colors I used when I colored her.  I'm sorry :(.  I stamped her with tuxedo black on Neenah Cardstock.  I'm pretty sure I shipped our very last Tilda with Broom out earlier this week.  She was actually from the Hoppy Easter Collection, but you would never have known it.

I am very excited that I got to play along with the girls this week, but I'm even happier that you decided to drop by for a visit today.  Hope you have a wonderful day!

♥ Hugs ♥

Challenge Entry for Pat R.

Hello Friends,

Sorry for not posting much lately.  I've been so busy with the kids these past few days that I can bearly find any time for myself to get caught up on anything, including the laundry.

Today I have a beautiful layout created by Pat R. for our Beary Sweet Challenge #6 which is a sketch.

I love the colors of Pat's layout, and they work so perfectly with the picture of her beautiful daughter.

Until next time.

♥ Hugs ♥

Beary Sweet Challenge #3: Sketch!

The new challenge is posted on the DT Blog. 

Our challenge this time is a sketch designed by our very own Susan:

Show us your *new* project that follows this sketch. It can be any type of project you wish, as long as you include all the elements of the sketch - feel free to rotate as needed! Throughout this week our design team will show you samples of this theme and hopefully give you a little inspiration, too!

This challenge runs through June 14th at 11:59pm EDT. The prize winner will be chosen by random.org and will be announced along with our "Beary Sweet Top 3" on June 17th. What's the prize, you ask? The prize for this challenge is a $20.00 gift voucher to The Beary Scrap!

Whoo hoo! You could go on a Beary Sweet shopping spree that includes FREE SHIPPING!

Here are the requirements to be eligible to win:

• Become a follower if you aren't already;
• Link your blog post (not your blog "home page") or your online gallery submission with our Inlinkz frog below and leave a comment. Mention in your post you are entering your project in the Beary Sweet Challenge and/or tag your online gallery post with BSC#3;
• Please, only one (1) entry per person. Links to projects/cards posted before June 1st will not be eligible for the prize draw.

Additional information:

• Feel free to combine with other challenges;
• All NEW project types are welcome as long as they follow our challenge technique (cards, scrapbook layouts, etc.);  No back dating is permitted.
• International crafters can play, too!

So what are you waiting for... get out your paper and start cutting.  This sketch is great for layouts too.  Entries are accepted only on our DT Blog.

♥ Hugs ♥

The Beary Sweet Challenge #2 - Fancy Folds

It's time for Challenge #2 on our Design Team/Challenge Blog.  Click HERE to view all the details and submit your entry.

This second half of this month is a Technique Challenge.  Are you up for it?

Fancy Folds!

Show us your *new* project that has more than just the same ol' center fold. It can be any type of project you wish, as long as it uses a multiple fold technique. Throughout this week our design team will show you samples of this theme and hopefully give you a little inspiration, too!

This challenge runs through May 31st at 11:59pm EDT. The prize winner will be chosen by random.org and will be announced along with our "Beary Sweet Top 3" on June 3rd. What's the prize, you ask? It's a fabulous surprise and definitely something fun from The Beary Scrap shelves.

Here are the "rules" to play:

• Become a follower if you aren't already,
• Link your blog post (not your blog "home page") or your online gallery submission with our Inlinkz frog below and leave a comment. Mention in your post you are entering your project in the Beary Sweet Challenge and/or tag your online gallery post with BSC#2.  Email me if you would like to submit your entry at the store or if you do not have a blog.  kimm@thebearyscrap.com
• Please, only one (1) entry per person. Links to projects/cards posted before May 15th will not be eligible for the prize drawing.

Additional information:

• Feel free to combine with other challenges.
• All NEW project types are welcome as long as they follow our challenge technique (cards, scrapbook layouts, etc.)
• International crafters can play, too!

Thanks for playing along!

♥ Hugs ♥

Charlotte's entry to The Beary Sweet Challenge #1

Hi Everyone!  Charlotte brought in an adorable layout of her granddaughter to enter in The Beary Sweet Challenge.  She doesn't have a blog, so I'm posting for her.

Thank you Charlotte for your entry in our Beary Sweet Challenge!

♥ Hugs ♥

The Beary Sweet Challenge - May Flowers

Happy Tuesday Friends!  Thank you for stopping by.  I hope you all had a wonderful weekend.  I spent my weekend at the store recovering from a root canal on Friday.  Drinking coffee was an interesting experience to say the least.  Thank goodness we had a full house of PMS Scrappy Croppers on Saturday night and not Friday.  I can honestly say that today is the first day I haven't been in pain in some time.  Thanks Dr. Scott Watkins!

Today I am sharing with you my inspirational piece for our Beary Sweet Challenge taking place right now on our Desingers Blog.  Yesterday, Susan displayed some gorgeous flowers she made for her card.  Swing over there and check them out if you get the chance.  They are really easy to make.

So, what do May Flowers bring?  BZZZZ! That's right, pesky bees.  Can you tell I'm not a fan of bees?  Let me rephrase that...  I despise bugs!  If it has more than four legs, chances are it's going to get squashed!  Even so, bees are what makes our flowers bloom and our gardens grow.  Our world could not sustain without bees.  As long as they keep away from me, it's all good here.   I love what they do for our planet. 

My card today was inspired by this adorable Magnolia Honey Bee Tilda Stamp.  When I decided to use this stamp, the first line of paper that jumped out at me is the new Queen Bee Collection by Pink Paislee.  Oh, I love the colors and the prints.  It was hard to decide which papers to use.

I used a few of our new Beary Sweet Floral rose flowers in white and inked them up with some color box fluid chalks.  Our new floral line is in test production at this time and will be available as soon as we work out all of the bugs (no pun intended *wink*).  I love using white flowers because you can easily create the color you need for your project.  I had a few little flowers in my stash that I used to fill in the gaps a bit.  Then I tucked in a few leaf sprays to fill it out.  Lastly, I applied a bit of Stardust Stickles Glitter Glue for some sparkle.

Recipe:

• Paper:  Pink Paislee Queen Bee Collection, Bazzill Cardstock, Neenah 110lb Cover Weight Cardstock
• Medium:  Magnolia Stamp, Prisma colored pencils with OMS, Stickles Glitter Glue, Color box fluid chalks.
• Embellishments:  Prima Say it in Crystals Centers, KaiserCraft Pearls, Beary Sweet Florals (coming soon)

I hope you've enjoyed by card today.  I was very excited to find the time to play along with the girls this week.  If you would like to take The Beary Sweet Challenge, click HERE for the details and enter your project for a chance to win a $20.00 gift certificate to The Beary Scrap!  We are really enjoying all the beautiful entries we've received so far.  Keep them coming!  You are all so inspiring!!!

Don't forget, our Blog Candy  is open until Wednesday, May 5.  You still have time to enter.

Be sure to come back tomorrow when Elise makes her debut with our Beary Creative Girls.  You will adore what she has to share with you!

♥ Hugs ♥

The "Beary Sweet" Challenge begins May 1st!

There has been so many cool and new things going on at The Beary Scrap this year.  I am bubbling with excitement!

I'm very excited introduce you to the latest episode in our "Beary Sweet" journey.  The designers from Team 1 and I are pleased to welcome you to our "Beary Sweet Challenges"! Twice monthly you can play along with us for your chance to win great prizes.

The Beary Sweet challenge will take place on our Design Team's Blog on the 1st and 15th of each month. You will have 2 weeks to create a new project based on our challenge theme. Entries close at 11:59pm EDT the day before a new challenge begins. We will announce the Random.org winner and our "Beary Sweet Top 3" on the 3rd and 17th of each month (this gives us a couple of days to review all your fabulous entries). The prize goes to our random winner, and we'll have a fun badge to honor our three favorite projects.

Here are the "rules" to play:

• Become a follower of our Design Team Blog, if you aren't already.
• Mention in your blog post that you are entering your project at The Beary Scrap's Beary Sweet Challenge, with a direct link back our design team's blog.
• Link to your blog post (not your blog "home page") with our Inlinkz frog on the challenge post *and* leave a comment
• Kindly enter only once, with a new project (nothing posted before our challenge date).

Additional information:

• Feel free to combine with other challenges.
• All project types are welcome as long as they follow our challenge theme (cards, scrapbook layouts, themes, elements, etc.)
• International crafters can play, too!

We'll see you May 1st for our first challenge!