Office Bear

Evening everyone and a belated Happy New Year!

I'm a running a bit late today, just realised if you schedule a post it does need to be on the right day for it to publish.... sigh!

My card is part of the midway reminder for the challenge over at Ready Teddy Go where the theme is 

NEW BEGINNINGS

We have a great  prize on offer from Hobby House to tempt you!! Sadly this is going to be the last Ready Teddy challenge for a while but hopefully it may return!

I've used a Gruffies decoupage sheet from Joanna Sheen teamed up with First Edition papers to make quite a CAS good luck card,  just love that big old bear snoring away!!

I'd also like to enter my card in the following challenges:

Oldie but a Goodie - New beginnings (all old stash that I have been hoarding!!)

Through the Craft room door - Anything goes

Crafty Cardmakers - Bear with me

Gruffies and Guests - Anything goes

Yippee - 

I made the top 5 at Crafty Cardmakers and more:

Christmas Jumper Bear

Morning Folks!

Hope everyone is OK? 

I'm here with some mid month inspiration for the challenge over at Ready Teddy Go where our theme is 

CONTEMPORARY CHRISTMAS

so modern cards including a bear/ teddy of course!!

Here's my card, another attempt at CAS. I've used a very cute digi which I discovered at Birdie Brown just before the store sadly closed (talk about coming late to the party!!)

 I've coloured him with promarkers and then paper pieced his jumper and hat. Looks like his Nan might have knitted him a new jumper for Christmas!! I'm thinking he is about to enjoy some cocoa!! Couldn't resist adding a pom pom to his hat:

The papers are a mixture of very old DCWV and First Edition, none of them are actual 'Christmas papers' but I think they work?? The wooden sentiment is by Dovecraft, I coloured it over with a promarker so that it matched better. 

Thanks for visiting today and please pop over to the Ready Teddy Go challenge blog to see the fabulous inspiration from the design team and to check out this lovely prize:

 

Wish I could enter!!

I would like to enter these challenges though:

Natalie & Amy - Cute and cuddly Christmas

CHNC Extra - Christmas

Come and get it challenges - Christmas & blog hop

4 Crafty Chicks - food & drink

Feeling Crafty - Christmas

Cute card Thursday - Christmas catch up (this card is for a blogging friend with a bit of xmas news in!!)

A gem of a challenge - Anything goes

My Mum's Craft Shop - Winter/ Christmas

Stamping Sensations - Free and Easy

Digi Haven - Christmas cards

That craft place - Christmas

Passion for promarkers - Christmas and a sentiment

The stamping Boutique - Paper piecing

Sentimental Sundays - non traditional Christmas colours

Dream valley challenges - Anything goes

Sister Act card challenges - Challenge 37

Wags n Whiskers - Christmas

Oldie but a goodie - Winter (very old DCWV papers on jumper)

Papertake weekly - Christmas creatures

Chocolate, coffee and cards - Happy Holidays

Crafts 4 eternity - Christmas chaos

Totally papercrafts - Christmas with non traditional colours

Polkadoodles - Anything goes

Crafty Catz - Anything goes

James the Bear in Pink!!

Morning Folks!

Thanks for visiting today, can you believe we are halfway through November and rushing towards Christmas at an alarming rate... not going to panic....not going to panic...arrgghh!!

OK, I'm back now to show you my midway reminder for the challenge over at Ready Teddy Go which is 

EMBOSSING

I've made this gift bag for a special little friend of mine, you can probably tell pink is her favourite colour!! This is another kraft gift bag from Hobbycraft, one of my best buys this year!! You can see my House Mouse one here. Not much to say about this, I think the pictures say it all!!

I've used a combination of nesties, Memory box and Cuttlebug dies, glitter papers plus lots of stickles and gems so this is quite sparkly!

My favourite James the bear stamp from LOTV, coloured with promarkers and blinged up with stickles and glamour dust:

Heat embossed sentiment from Stampin Up and cuttlebug swiss dots embossing folder for background:

Hope you can join us at Ready Teddy Go to show off your teddies and embossing, we have a fab prize from Di's Digi Stamps for the lucky winner!!

I'd also like to enter the challenges at:

LOTV Challenge - Pink and White

MAWTT - Furry Friends

C.R.A.F.T.- Gift bag / box

Creative Knockouts - Make it Sparkle

4 Crafty Chicks - Snowflakes

Crafty Little Fairies - Inspired by a song - 'Walking in a winter Wonderland'

Penny's Paper crafting challenges- Add a sentiment

Divas by design _ Something Snowy

Fab n Funky - Anything goes

The Ribbon Girl - LOTV & Sparkle

Crafting by designs - Anything goes with Xmas

Crafty Creations - Dies and Punches

Crafter's Cafe - Embellish like crazy

Papertake Weekly - Snow and Ice

Deep Ocean Challenge - Winter

Bearly Mine - Xmas in Pink

Sentimental Sundays - Warm & cosy

That Craft place - Sentiments

2 sisters - Xmas Sparkle

CHNC- Outdoors

A gem of a challenge - Gems, gems, gems

Sweet Stampin - Christmas is coming

Di's Digi Designs - girly

Stampavie - Die cut Embellishmnets

Sparkles Monthly - Animals

CHNC Extra - Christmas

A little bit crafty - Sparkle and Shine

Sparkles Christmas - Have a Beary Christmas

Stamping Sensations - Christmas

EDITED TO ADD I WAS A LUCKY WINNER AT
A LITTLE BIT CRAFTY!!

READY TEDDY GO BLOG HOP & AUTUMN CHALLENGE

Good Morning folks!

It's an exciting day for the team at Ready Teddy Go, we are celebrating our 2nd Birthday this month and the Birthday blog hop for Team Bear starts today!!

The prize is - Hobby House 'Spring Bringer And Love Me Do' Cardmaking Kit

The Rules Are : You must leave a comment on each stage / DT member of the 'Blog Hop' and you Must Be Or Become A Follower of the Ready Teddy Go Challenge To Qualify For The Prize

Now you should have arrived here from Helen and your next stop is Sue, but if you get lost, the full list is back at Ready Teddy Go and good luck.

Before you dash off to the blog hop, our challenge this month is

Autumn Colours

Remember you must have a bear as the main image on your card to enter the challenge and any card that doesn't meet the criteria will be deleted from the list.

You can enter up to 4 times with different creations.

We are being sponsored this month by the fantastic  Stampfairy who are giving away a $10 voucher to spend in their online shop.

Here's my card using Barry Spooky Bats:

Poor thing, he does look a bit scared hiding behind the tree. All the papers are very old from my stash!!

The little fence is by Memory Box and the Happy Halloween sentiment was 19p from the sale bin at a craft show, it's a foam stamp designed for kids but stamps remarkably well!!! I knew it would come in handy eventually!!

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

My Mum's Craft Shop - Halloween

Crafty Calendar - Halloween

Stamp & Create - Fall or Halloween

Just Inspirational - Pink or Halloween

Card Makin Mamas - trick or treat

Sarah Hurley Challenge - Halloween

Paper Crafting Journey - Halloween Colours

C.R.A.F.T. - Autumn / Halloween / Thanks

MAWTT - Spooktastic Creations

Paper Pretties - Halloween

Digi Haven - Halloween

Polkadoodles - Halloween

Crafty Catz - Halloween

Stampin for the weekend - Anything goes

Sweet Stampin - Halloween

C is for challenge - Halloween

The Crazy Challenge - Halloween

Cards for Men - Halloween

Incy Wincy - Halloween

Lexi's Creations - Halloween

2 sisters - Anything goes

 Papertake Weekly - Halloween Hues

Clear it out - Halloween and orange stash (Bat papers)

Sparkles Monthly Challenge - Halloween or colours

Creative Craft Challenges 2 - Anything goes blogoversary

Passion for promarkers- Spooky

Oldie but a goodie - Spooky (All old papers from stash)

Wild Rose & Summer days

Morning Folks!

A quick post from me this morning, it's my son's birthday today so a bit of a celebration going on here !!

I just wanted to share my card for the midway reminder over at Ready Teddy Go challenge, the theme is 

SUMMER DAYS

Here's my card using a Wild Rose Studio stamp I picked up in a sale - too cute to resist!!

Now I have to confess that I had gone through a spell of making masculine cards just before I made this one, and I think it shows - way more embellished than my normal efforts, perhaps I should have added the kitchen sink too?!

The papers are First edition, sentiment is Craftwork cards and all the die cuts are by Memory Box; the  flowers, ribbon and bling are from my stash.

Here's a closer look:

We are sponsored by 

who are offering a very generous £20 voucher to our lucky winner this month, so get creating and post your summery teddy cards on the main blog!!

Thanks for looking today and for any comments you leave, it's great to know that people have visited!! I'm off to rejoin the birthday celebrations!!

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

Anything goes - In the garden with butterflies

Country View Crafts - Layers

Just Inspirational Monthly - Animals

Stamp and Create - Birthdays

Crafty Calendar - Going on a bear hunt

The Crazy challenge - bingo (flowers, image and ribbon)

Everybody Art - Happy Birthday

Creative card crew - Things with wings

Crafty Sentiments - Anything goes

Tuesday Throwdown - Anything goes

A creative romance - Dies and Punches

Paper crafting Journey - Flowers

Chocolate, coffee and cards - Anything goes

Deep Ocean challenge - Goodbye summer

Penny's paper crafty challenge - Anything goes

Garden Swing

Morning Folks!

My goodness August is whizzing past and it's already time for my second post for Ready Teddy go!

This month our new challenge is 

DIE CUTS & PUNCHES
along with a bear of course!!

I've made a tent card using a very sweet LOTV image which has been cut out and mounted on acetate to make her a bit sturdier. The aperture was cut with a nestie, the other dies are all memory box, except for the Itty Bitty banners Stampin Up die which goes with the sentiment. The papers are a mixture of First edition and a digi paper from Bearly Mine I think (?) 

The roses are from Wild Orchid crafts,  I had forgotten I'd even got them until I was hunting for the acetate and came across them. A stroke of luck really as they are a good match for the papers!!

Thanks for looking today and for any comments you leave!

You can find all the challenge details on the Ready teddy go blog and there is a great prize from our lovely sponsor:

I'd also like to enter the following challenges:

My Mum's craft Shop - Summer sun

Papertake Weekly - Occasion-ally

Bearly Mine - Anything goes

Crafty Sentiments - Dies and punches

Tuesday throwdown - Pastel rainbow

Paperminutes - Pastel colours

Love to create - colour inspired

My time to craft - Apertures

Squirrel and the Fox - Whimsical

One stop - Pastel colours
I love promarkers - Summertime
Lili's little fairies - vintage / Shabby Chic

EDITED TO ADD:

AND

AND

It's time for a picnic...

Morning Folks!

Well I know it's Monday, but I'm in a good mood because the sun is still shining 

AND 

I'm also posting my first card as a member of the design team for Ready Teddy Go - just a bit excited here!!

The challenge this month is called

Flash, Bang, Wallop . . . what a picture!

and we'd like to see you take your inspiration from 

this picture

I've used the colours  and also incorporated the tea set too!!

Here's my card, the stamp is by LOTV, called Teddy Bears Picnic and it's another one that has been neglected for quite a while!

 I've managed to use up a lot of older bits on this card, the papers are magazine freebies, charm & doily from a friend, pearls from ebay, and the very delicate lace has been in my stash for ages, I think it came from the Art of Craft. The ribbon bow is made from a piece of ribbon off a clothing label - Yes I am a hoarder!!

I hope you'll be able to enter the challenge , our very kind sponsor this month is

My Mum's Craft Shop

The very generous prize is a £10 shopping voucher to spend as you wish in the online shop.

Thanks for visiting today and for any comments you might leave ;-) 

I'd also like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Allsorts challenge - Fur and Feathers

Sweet stampin' Challenge - Shabby chic

Crafty friends - Inspired by a song - Teddy bears picnic... if you go down to the woods today...

Crafty ribbons - Anything goes with ribbon

Aud sentiments - Two words

The Crafters Cafe -Anything goes 

Divas by design - Charming

Paperminutes - Anything goes

Papertake weekly - Old (LOTV stamp, lace), new, borrowed (Ribbon from a clothing label!!) or blue

Oldie but a goodie - in the garden (great place for a teddy bears picnic)

Stampin Sensations - Summer colours

Creative card crew - The great outdoors

The cutie Pie challenge - Cute and cuddly

A creative romance - Ribbon or twine

That Craft place - Ribbons and lace

Crafty Calendar - Colour Inspiration

Crafting Musketeers - Ribbon and pearls

Emma's Crafty Challenge - Lace and Pearls

Cute card Thursday - Good Luck charm

Squirrel and the Fox- Use something spooled (lace)

& Lili's little Fairies - Happy Birthday

EDITED TO ADD:

AND

Exciting news!!

Afternoon Folks!!

I've had to keep this secret for a few days but I can know reveal that .....

drum roll please ...

I have been offered a DT position over at Ready Teddy Go!!

Just perfect for a Teddy fanatic like me!!

I've got a big smile on my face and am looking forward to working with all the team on some great Teddy Inspired projects!! 

How's this for a fab new badge and look at my personalized blinkie in the sidebar - woohoo!!

You can meet the rest of the new DT members here & here and the current challenge is here.

I'm off for a celebratory cup of tea!!

Daisy Bears

Afternoon Folks!

Mid week and I have a card to show you - yippee!!

 I coloured this PB image, called Playtime, last week but it has stayed on my desk until last night when I decided it might suit the great sketch over at Sketch Saturday:

I've used some very old flowers from my stash, a sentiment from LOTV along with some new papers from the First Edition Blank canvas collection and my new MB trellis die which I love - just popped through the cuttlebug and came out like a dream!

Here's a closer look at the bears, the second bear in from the left always makes me smile, what has the other one said to give him that slightly shocked / puzzled expression??

They are of course coloured with promarkers - I don't really use anything else lately!!

I'd also like to enter the following challenges:

Ready Teddy Go - Spring has sprung

Charisma Cardz - No digi's allowed

Sentimental Sundays - Clean & Simple

Penny Black & More - Sew special

Penny Black Saturday Challenge - Anything goes

Bearly Mine challenges - Anything goes

Passion for promarkers - Anything goes

I love promarkers - Anything goes