Trucks are not Girly, Right?

Happy Friday everyone! Here is my attempt at something "not girly"-- I agree with Lori, I love to put flowers, bling, ribbon and lace on everything-- it is hard to come up with something not girly. But I think my masculine birthday card based on our current sketch came out pretty well-



While trying to decide what to do I had a sudden flash of this green pickup that I had seen on the Country Drive from Echo Park stickers and knew that would be the focus of my card. There are a lot of colors in this paper line but I stuck with just red, green and blue for my boy colors.

I popped up my pickup truck with some foam squares and then filled up the back with "Happy Birthday" strips. I couldn't resist putting just a little Stickles glitter glue on it for some detail and a few green hearts off the same sticker page as the pickup. (Hearts can be on a guy card, right?)

Supplies used:
Echo Park Country Drive designer papers and stickers
Bazzill cardstock
Foam Squares
Stickles-- Diamond and Black Diamond

Have a great weekend and be sure to enter our sketch challenge for your chance to win!

BSC #31: August Sketch Winners!

We want to extend a huge "Thank You!" to everyone who played along with our August Sketch challenge! We absolutely loved visiting your blogs. Thanks so much for your support!

Our winner of the $20 gift voucher to The Beary Scrap is...

#4:  Lis-M

Congratulations Lis-M! Please email Kimm and she'll set you up with a voucher to go shoppin'!

We would also like to congratulate our Beary Sweet Top 3:

#1 Carefreeless
#2 Gosia
#4 Lis-M

Ladies - thank you so much for joining us! Please take our Top 3 badge from our sidebar for your fabulous blogs!

We hope everyone checks out our Beary Sweet Sketch Challenge #32! You could win a $20 Gift Voucher to The Beary Scrap just like Lis-M. Come check it out!

Cheers,
The Beary Sweet Design Team

Sweet Little Puppy

Here is my take 2 of our sketch challenge this week at The Beary Scrap Challenges

This cute little card was requested by a customer and this weeks sketch was so fun to make last week that I knew that I wanted to do if for this card.

Card Recipe:

Papers- Echo Park Country Drive

Pearls

Rhinestones

Colorbox Ink

Stickles

Mulberry Flowers from stash.

Leave flourish from Beary Sweet Designs

Bobunny Ribbon

Fabri Tac Glue

Now lets see what you can do with our sketch challenge and enter your card

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Thanks for looking

~Patricia~

Just Buzzing By!

Hello hello, and a hearty "Happy Monday" to everyone! This week the design team is sharing more samples and hopefully a little inspiration on ways to use our Beary Sweet sketch in our current challenge. It goes on through Midnight, Sunday the 14th. I hope you find time to join us!

For my project this week, I've revisited my old friend, the easel card. I adore this style and can't believe its been months. As you can tell, I've been buzzz-y with the new Echo Park Country Drive papers.

Card Recipe

• Stamp: Magnolia 
• Paper: Echo Park "Country Drive" Leafy Tree Top - this 12x12 paper has smaller versions of some designs on the flip side; Bazzill Basics
• Wet Medium: Copic for skin and cheeks; Prismacolor Pencils blended with with OMS; Stickles Star Dust, Diamond; Ranger Distress Ink in Vintage Photo; Glossy Accents on the honey jar
• Embellishments: Prima Trellis Rose in Lemon Creme; Prima Fairytale Roses in Buttercup; Mulberry paper roses - 16mm white; handmade bee charm stick pin; rhinestones from stash
• Adhesives: 1/4" Scor-Tape; Fabri-Tac

Thanks for visiting today, and see you at the Beary Sweet sketch challenge!

Cheers,
Susan

The Beary Scrap's New Sketch Challenge

It's the beginning of August and that means it's time for a new Sketch challenge.
For this challenge I had to play again with one of the new patterns from 
Beary Sweet Designs.

Card recipe:

Cow from Beary Sweet Designs

Papers from Echo Park-Country Drive

Stickles

Colorbox Ink

Pearls

Fabri Tac Glue

Ribbon and flowers from stash

Here is the sketch you have to follow this month:

 Now lets see what you can do and enter your card ---HERE---

Thanks for looking

~Patricia~

Beary Sweet Challenge #31: August Sketch

Scroll down to see Susan's project made with this new sketch!

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Welcome to our Beary Sweet Challenge #31 

The design team sends out HUGE thanks to everyone who joined us for our Beary Sweet "Closet Inspiration" challenge! We'll announce all the winners on Thursday, August 4th. Thank you for your support!

It's the 1st of the month, which means it's SKETCH Challenge time!

This challenge runs through August 14th at 11:59pm EST. The $20 gift voucher winner will be chosen by random.org and will be announced along with our "Beary Sweet Top 3" on Thursday, August 4th.

Here are the simple, standard "rules" to play - PLEASE READ:

• Become a follower if you aren't already (don't forget this one - it's disqualified a few folks already!);
• Link your challenge entry post (not your blog "home page") or your online gallery submission with our Inlinkz frog below.
• Link back to this challenge post (not just our blog "home page") on your blog
• Only one (1) entry per person. In fairness to all players, if you enter this challenge more than once all second, third, etc. entries will be deleted without notice. Project re-posts and links to projects posted before August 1st will be deleted.

Additional information:

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

Thanks for playing along with our challenges - we really appreciate you!

Cheers,

Susan, Gini, Patricia, Jamie, Lori and Kimm

A Fairy Great Sketch

Hello Hello! It's Monday *and* the first of the month so I have loads to share with you. In this post you'll find my August sketch-inspired project. The post above is our official Beary Sweet Sketch challenge - check it out and come play with us!

I used the lovely and fun Echo Park Country Drive papers and the Belles 'n Whistles "Fairy Flight" stamp. Isn't she adorable? I used both a 12x12 solid pink design and a smaller 6x6 floral design found on a 12x12 "Sundress" sheet.  The white layer behind the sweet fairy is from the 12x12 "Journaling Cards" sheet.

Card Recipe

• Stamp: Belles 'n Whistles "Fairy Flight"
• Paper: Echo Park Country Drive: Sundress, Petunia Raspberry and Journaling Cards
• Medium: Copic markers for skin tones; Stickles Star Dust and Fruit Punch (my new favorite color!); Faber-Castell watercolor pencils
• Embellishments: White Mulberry paper roses; From stash: all other flowers, lace, pink ribbon, laser cuts 
• Adhesives and Tools: Brush2O Water Barrel Pen (used with watercolor pencils); 1/4" Scor-Tape; 3D Dots - 1/8" and 1/16"; Fabri-Tac; silicone

Thanks for visiting today! Please check out the challenge and enter by Midnight, August 14th. You could win a $20 gift voucher from The Beary Scrap - good luck!

Cheers,
Susan