The Lady Bugs Are Here

Have I said I love our Wings Challenge! There are so many idea's you can play with for wings. So I had to color up my new Magnoila Stamp with Copics. I had to try and put in some of the lessons I learned from Suzanne Dean in my Copic class I took with her and one of the lessons was making the pleats in the cloths and I think that I did pretty good on her dress. 

My card recipe:

Papers from My Minds Eye - Fine and Dandy and also from Echo Park - Little Boy

My Magnolia Stamp was colored with Copic's and Stickles

Mulberry Flowers

Lady Bugs and Vine from K and Company

Lace and Ribbon from my stash

Pearls

You only have a few days left to enter you project ---HERE--- I would love to see what you make.

Thanks so much for looking.

~Patricia~

Believe You Can Fly

Hi, it's Gini - I hope you had a wonderful Easter weekend! I had an extra day off, so a little extra time to craft! This week we will be wrapping up our things with wings challenge at the Beary Scrap. You have until April 30th to get your entry in.

This has been such a fun challenge! Today, I used the lovely Butterfly Garden from Pink Paislee. Even the wooden dragonfly is from this line. Now, I did do quite I bit of altering on it! I used Stickles, Glimmer Mist, Smooch - and then sanded it all to distress it a bit. I also used some of the yummy seam binding that Kimm just got in the store. I am really going to be stocking up on that stuff - it just makes a project look so great! My sentiment is from Unity Stamps.

I hope you have a great week!

It's Wings & Insects Week!

Hello crafty friends! I hope you had a beautiful weekend. We're in the final week for our Beary Sweet Challenge using a "Wings" theme.  We have some great entries and hope to see yours, too. You could win a $20 gift voucher from The Beary Scrap!

This week the design team is adding an insect to our winged projects. This ought to be fun!

I've made another tag - oh how I love working on this small "canvas"! The Basic Grey Capella line is quite delicious, and I've chosen this vine design as my "jumping off point". This design is sold out but you can find a similar one with BG's Figaro paper - check it out!

Even though this tag isn't a "busy" one, it's full of technique. The bird and cage were cut with Tim Holtz "Caged Bird" die using grungepaper. I colored the paper with Vintage Photo Distress Stain - if you don't have that one hand you can use brown Bazzill card stock!

My next step was to stamp all over the cage with the text stamp from My Mind's Eye/Portobello Road "Boy" stamp set. I used Memento Tuxedo Black ink and stamped a couple of times to cover the cage. Once that was done I covered all the cage "wires" with Glossy Accents and set aside to dry.

While that dried I looked through my BG Cappella stash for a good bird paper. I decided this one worked well with the little flower "eye" and the swoosh would make a great wing. I used a Kaisercraft black pearl for the eye and gussied up the wing and eye with Star Dust Stickles. Oh, and I layered a little Vintage Photo and Weathered Wood Distress Ink on the edges.

I used the FABULOUS Empressor tool to round my bird's edges and give him a little volume. All you have to do is lay the item (bird, flower, etc) on a piece of foam and make little circles with the Empressor all along the edges so they curl up. It works great with flowers "right side up" and I turned my bird upside down to make his little body stick out. I used to use vintage glass swizzle sticks and paint brush handles and find this tool so much smoother. It's a must-have!

The rose vine is made of Mulberry Paper Roses and leaves from my stash. I inked them with Tattered Rose and used the same color Stickles. Once dry I jus would them around the outside edge of the cage. I love how this vine mimics the vine-y pattern on the tag background.

My insect is a little bumble bee on a homemade stick pin. The seam binding (now in stock!) is Latte and oh-so-luscious. I can't wait to get my crafty little hands on all the wonderful colors!

Card Recipe

• Paper: Basic Grey Cappella
• Medium: Distress Ink in Vintage Photo, Tattered Rose and Weathered Wood; Glossy Accents; Memento Tuxedo Black ink; Stickles in Star Dust; Distress Stickles in Tattered Rose
• Embellishments: Mulberry Paper Roses; Seam Binding in Latte; Kaisercraft Pearl in black; all others from stash
• Tools: Tim Holtz Alterations Tag & Bookplate die; My Mind's Eye/Lost and Found/Portobello Road "Boy" stamp set; Journaling Genie Empressor tool
• Adhesives: Fabri-Tac on the vine side of the cage and bird wing; 1/8" Scor-Tape on the right side of cage; silicone under the bird for the 3D effect

Thanks so much for visiting today. We all really hope to see your entries on our "Wings" challenge, going on now through Saturday night!

Cheers,

Susan

An Echo Park Combination

Happy weekend to you all! My layout today combines two of my favorite lines from Echo Park: For the Record and the new Playground. Both lines are so wonderfully vibrant and versatile. I can't wait to use Playground on some layouts about me and my husband.

My daughter, Harper, turned one last weekend and I took this picture the day before her birthday. I wanted to capture her on her last day of officially being an infant (although she's been "toddling" since ten months). I have been blessed with a well-behaved, smart, loving, and silly little girl, so I thought it would be nice to document the things I love about her right now.

I cut out the doilies from the Apron Strings paper from For the Record and adhered them in different clusters around the page, one with a fun feather behind it. I wanted to accent a few of the doilies so I added some My Mind's Eye brads, one from the Lost and Found collection. Then I added a chipboard bird from My Mind's Eye Fine and Dandy.

For the title, I drew inspiration from the Playground Double Dutch paper and colored in the word "love" with a white pen. I also cut the number 5 from the Playground "Hopscotch" patterned paper. Then I used the alphas that come in the Playground for "I" and "Reasons."

Lastly, for the numbers on the journalling, I used My Little Shoebox Mini Alphas in Turquoise.

Thank you so much for looking. I look forward to seeing your projects in our wings-themed challenge. Please make sure to link up your projects to the original challenge post by April 30th! Have a wonderful weekend!

Add a Feather

Happy Friday to you! I've been so excited to see all of the beautiful creations you have entered in our Things with Wings challenge-- keep up the entries, you have until April 30 at 11:59 EST to enter for your chance to win a voucher to The Beary Scrap.

Here is my second creation for Things with Wings -- this time adding a feather! I used the Prima 6x6 paper pads-- Madeline for my card and love all the papers that come in this little book. This one is sold out but check out all the other gorgeous combinations -- 48 sheets of paper for only $4.00!



I cut around the scrolls of this paper then distressed it with my Zutter Distress-it-All and added Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Walnut Stain. Then I just had a blast adding all those fun embellishments-- mulberry paper roses, hand crocheted flower, rhinestones, lace, net and sequin trim and, of course, feathers!

Supplies used:
Bazzill cardstock (light teal and dark brown)
Prima paper pad
Kraft tag
Mulberry paper roses
Hand crocheted flower
Brown lace trim
Net and pink sequin trim
Brown feathers
Pink rhinestones
Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Walnut Stain and Peeled Paint

Have a lovely weekend and take some time to create something beautiful!

Time For You ...

Hello all and welcome to another fabby week here at The Beary Scrap Challenge Blog!   This week our theme is 'Wings' with an added feature of using a 'Feather'.  I had the prettiest butterfly from Prima in one of my treasure baskets that was made with lots of bling and pink feathers and knew it would be the perfect inspiration for my project this week!

I added some pretty blue rhinestones to continue the bling factor in my design!

And some delicious flowers to coordinate with these beautiful papers!!

So soft, so pretty ... so spring-y!  I hope you enjoyed peeking in today :)

Goodies I used in my design from The Beary Scrap Paper Crafting Boutique:

Butterfly Garden - Botanical Gardens from Pink Paislee

Butterfly Garden - Nature Sanctuary from Pink Paislee

Light Blue Rhinestones from KaiserCraft

Green Sheer Woven Rosettes trim from May Arts

20 mm White mulberry paper roses

Pink Calla Lily paper flowers

I can't wait to see what you'll create for our 'Wings' challenge this week :)

Hugs,

Debbie

xoxoxoxxo

Wings and Feathers

I just love this challenge "Wings" I just love butterflies and this challenge is so much fun. The design teams added challenge is feathers and I have added a little bit of a feather to my background.

My little Tattered Teddy looks like he just climbed out of the book. My papers are from Graphic 45's Once Upon A Springtime Collection. My Tattered Teddy was made with an Acrylic Paper Piecing Pattern and Mulberry Paper. My butterfly is a Wood Shape from Pinkpaislee and Kimm has more on order she sold out of these awesome wooden embellishments. I colored it with Colorbox Ink and added Stickles and Pearls.

Now lets see what you can make with wings and enter your card---HERE---

Thanks so much for looking.

~Patricia~

Wings and Feathers

For the rest of April, our challenge is to use something with wings. The DT was also challenged to use a feather on our card. I used the gorgeous new Cosmo Cricket paper - Social Club. Now, one of the designs does have a peacock feather on it - and I thought about letting that count as my feather, but I decided why not add a real peacock feather? The stamp is a new image from Belles n Whistles Fairy Friends collection - Lily Pad Dreams. I colored her with Copics and added Stickles to her wings for some shine.

So we would love to have a great project fly to us from your blog! There are so many possibilities - birds, butterflies, fairies - even some great Steampunk designs! So get creative and join the fun!

~Gini

Butterfly Garden

Hey there crafty folks! I hope you had a great weekend. Can you believe it's Monday already? *sheesh* This week the design team is fluttering around with a "Wings" theme. As you know, our Beary Sweet challenge is going on right now with the very same "Wings" theme! What a coincidence... :)

Last week Patricia used Colorbox chalk ink on her Pink Paislee butterfly wood shape with great success. For my project today I decided to get out the acrylic paints and see what would happen.

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Hee hee, I can't say I totally love it, but it's not bad.  I painted the russet color then used a dry brush to swish the lighter, orange-y color on the center parts. The swirls are made from Ranger's Liquid Pearls and a not-so-steady hand. Honestly, I can't draw a stick figure standing straight. *sigh*

The paper is Pink Paislee's Butterfly Garden 12x12 sheet of "Flower Blooms". I cut is specifically to show the bumble bee and clock along the right edge. One of the things I really like about these decorated 12x12's is how I can pick and choose what section to use. The inside layers are also from the same sheet, but different sections and different 'scenes'. I'll add photos of the inside once it's completed. As the card came together I ended up putting the seam binding/calendar grouping on the right instead of the planned left corner. It covered the bumble bee but made more sense with the other elements.

The Beary Scrap will have loads of seam binding on the shelves soon - I can't wait for all the yummy colors!  It's all wrapped up with a button from My Mind's Eye/Lost & Found/Madison Avenue. The pin is made from my supplies. I spritzed some of the mulberry roses with Vanilla Breeze Glimmer Mist. The grungeboard swirls were colored with distress stain and then spritzed with the same Glimmer Mist.

The calendar is a digital print and interchangeable with other months - I didn't attach it because I'm not sure how it will be used. I'm partial to May, though, since I celebrate my birthday all month.

You think I'm kidding, don't you?

I wanted to show you the layering that can be done with Distress inks and a Ranger Blending Tool. Here's a photo of the three blending stages:

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Ok, maybe it's really only two stages! First I used green Peeled Paint on the edge and toward the middle a little, then used Vintage Photo on the edge only. Adding the Vintage Photo gives it a little more depth and a  vintage feel!

Card Recipe

Paper: Pink Paislee Butterfly Garden 12x12 - Flower Blooms and Botanical Gardens (pink middle layer); Bazzill Basics
Medium: Distress Inks in Peeled Paint, Vintage Photo, Tattered Rose; Glimmer Mist Vanilla Breeze; Distress Stickles in Peeled Paint; Stickles Star Dust; acrylic paint; Distress Stain Vintage Photo
Embellishments: Button from MME Madison Avenue; Mulberry Paper Roses; seam binding (in the store soon!); Kaisercraft Pearls
Adhesives: 1/4" Scor-Tape; Fabri-Tac
Tools: Scor-Pal; Ranger Blending Tool; Honey Bee Scissors

That's it for me. Thanks for visiting today, and remember to enter your "Wings" project in our challenge HERE by April 30th. Good luck!

Cheers,
Susan