Patricia's Goodbye

On March 2, 2010 was my very first post with TBS and the very new challenge blog and now that it comes to an end I have made some very awesome life time friends. Even tho it's sad that this challenge blog is ending it is not like were saying goodbye forever. We will all still be out there in blogland.  
When I first started making the tear bears it was so hard to find any information out on how to make them. They were a very guarded secret with those who knew how to make them. Then I found Kimm and her awesome Acrylic Paper Piecing Patterns to make them. With a few emails back and fourth with Kimm I was on my way to tear heaven and haven't stopped since. When Kimm and Susan sent out the request for a Design Team and I applied I never thought I would stand a chance and they believed in me and I can't thank them enough for giving me a chance to be on this team. Over the time here my style has been evolving and still is. I have just in the last couple of weeks changed up how I make my Tear Critters to make them more my own and now with the fun I have been having with Kimm's other new adventure with Beary Sweet Designs I can bring my Tear Critters to another whole new level.

For my last post here I have made this cute photo mat set.

Made with....
Acrylic Paper Piecing Pattern
Mulberry Paper
Fabri Tac Glue
Colorbox Ink
Paper from Echo Park Merry Christmas
Misc flowers and stickers from stash


I'm not saying goodbye to my teammates but reflecting on how they have inspired me over the years.


Kimm (Owner)
You never stop amazing me with the new stuff that you come up with, your creative talents with these Tear Critterns and your new stuff with Beary Sweet Designs just keep making me want to create more and more. Thank you for believing in me to be part of this team. I have truly made a life long friend.  


Susan (Team Coordinator)
Susan has been the back bone of this team making sure we all have fun new challenges to bring to you. There is so much work that go's into what she does and I want to Thank you for all your hard work doing this. I also owe you many Thanks for believing in me to be on this team as well. Its been fun seeing how your style has also changed over the years and I have loved looking at all your wonderful work. I look forward to many more chats with you for a very long time and can't thank you enough for you personal help with my other adventures I have taken on. 


Gini 
Gini I don't think I can look at distressing ever without thinking of you. Your cards are just so awe inspiring and I still haven't been able to master distressing like you but I think I will leave that up to you "The Distressing Queen" Thank you for all the fun times here at TBS and I look forward to seeing more of your work. 


Jamie
Jamie, My how have you made me wish I was part of your family and to have gone to all the cool places you have gone to. Your layouts have been so fun to watch over the years and see how your kids have grown. Then to see you come out with some of the project you have and make me think Why didn't I think of that. I loved that you always included a great tutorial with your projects. I look forward to seeing more of you layouts over time and seeing what fun new places you go. 


Lori
Lori even tho you have only been with us a short time on the team and as a fan playing along for a long time your cards have always be wonderful to look at. I love seeing you awesome projects that you have come up with and look forward to seeing more. 

Fans
I have met some really nice people because of this challenge blog that I might not have met without it and talk to now on a daily basis. I have enjoyed seeing everyones entires and have been inspired by many of you.
Thank you for being a part of our family over the last year and a half.


Now make sure you enter our last Beary Scrap Challenge --HERE--


Thanks for looking

~Patricia~

My Beary Best Tag So Far This Month

I have to say that I just love how this tag came out, I was lost as to what to make for a tag for this post, so I posted a contest on my personal facebook fan page asking for ideas and Peg came up with a Santa Bunny. Well I did Mrs Bunny Clause and I love her.

She was made with:

Background paper from My Minds Eye 12 Days of Christmas

Bella Bunny Acrylic Pattern

Mulberry Paper

Hat, glasses and nose from Beary Sweet Designs Mr and Mrs Clause Patterns

Colorbox Ink

Stickles

Fabri Tac Glue

Now lets see your project and enter it ---HERE---

Thanks for looking

~Patricia~

Double, Double, Toil and Trouble. . .

Fillet of a fenny snake,

In the caldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing,—
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.

Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and caldron bubble.

MacBeth Act IV Scene 1

Here I am with my second Double or Nothing post and this week is dedicated to our DT leader Susan (and a guy named William!)-- who inspired me early this week by saying she was waiting to see a Double, Double Toil and Trouble project! I guess I haven't had enough of Halloween because that got me in the mood for a little Shakespeare (I do have an English minor!) and a double dose of Tear Bear Witches.


And so my Double or Nothing project this week is a DOUBLE pair of Halloween birthday days with DOUBLE Tear Bear Witches to wish my two nieces a DOUBLE Halloween birthday! (Yes it's true, these two sisters, turning 8 and 5 this year, share that spooky day a birthday. If you read my Halloween post last year, you might know who else shares that day with them! Hint: There's a reason I like Halloween so much!)


Here's a look at the front of my Halloween birthday cards, the Tear Bears are decorated with all kinds of cute Halloween stickers and bling.

A closeup of one of the cards:

Here they are standing up:
And a look at the inside:

Supplies used:

Bo Bunny Double Dot Cardstock-- Grape, Licorice and Orange
Authentique 6 x 6 paper pad-- Glowing (sold out but check out these Halloween papers)
Teddy Tear Bear Pattern
Beary Creative Tool
Tear Bear Flush Brush
Color Box Fluid Chalk-- Creamy Brown
Color Box Fluid Chalk-- Chestnut Roan
Sakura White pen
Sakura Micron black pen
Mulberry Paper-- Mocha
Mulberry Paper -- White

So, did you figure it out? Yep, it's my birthday too on Halloween, we are a whole freaky family of witches. And what I would love the most for my birthday is for YOU to enter our Double or Nothing challenge so I can visit your blogs and get inspired by your talented projects, so be sure to link up your project by 11:59 EST on Halloween night for your chance to win!

One Tag Double Papers

Have you entered your

"Double or Nothing"

Challenge yet?

I have another tag to share with you made with the papers from Echo Park's very pretty line of papers from there Merry Christmas line. I used two of the differerent designer papers.

I made this cute tag with Tattered Teddy Tear Bear, made with an Acrylic Paper Piecing Pattern and Mulberry Paper. I added Colorbox Ink to the outside of my papers and the whole tag was glued together with Fabri-Tac Glue. I added two Pearls and some other embellishments from my stash. Now time is running out to enter your project, so don't wait and enter your project -HERE- 

Thanks for looking

~Patricia~

Double Trouble

Double Trouble 
 The Beary Scrap's Use 2 Challenge
This tag was so fun to make for our challenge.

Tag recipe:

Penny the Penguin Acrylic Paper Piecing Pattern

Mulberry Paper

Fabri Tac Glue

Colorbox Ink

Stickles - Crystal and Aqua

Paper from the My Minds Eye - 12 Days of Christmas 6x6 Pad

Seam Binding

Misc from stash:

Snow flake buttons

Spellbinders

Lets see your Take 2 challenge and enter your project ---HERE---

Thanks for looking

~Patricia~

The Beary Scrap's New September Sketch Challenge

It's the first of the month and you know what time that is..Time for a new sketch  challenge from 
The Beary Scrap

This was another fun sketch to do and I hope to see your project entered for a chance to win.
Card recipe:
Background paper from Echo Park Country Drive
Monty the Moose made with an Acrylic Paper Piecing Pattern
Mulberry Paper
Fabri Tac Glue
Pearls
Flowers made with the Retro Flower Punch
Stickels & Colorbox Ink
Dollie and Dragonfly from stash
Mats cut with Spellbinders


Now you can enter your project ---HERE---


Thanks for looking

~Patricia~

A little texture from my closet

Well for this week I opened up my closet and all I saw as alway is lots of solid colors so when I went looking for paper I saw the paper from Echo Park, it maybe busy paper but lots of colors so I figured it would be perfect, I also added some thing for texture and that is my Mulberry Puppy Oliver the Dog.

Card Recipe:

Paper: Echo Park 6x6 A Walk In The Park Pad

Oliver the Dog Acrylic Paper Piecing Pattern

Mulberry Paper

Seam Binding

Free Leave Flourish from Beary Sweet Designs

Color Box Ink

Fabri Tac

Retro Flower Punch

Stickles

Pearls

Thanks for looking

~Patricia~

Out of This World

Time is running out to enter in our Sketch Challenge so you better hurry up and get those projects in. For this week I got to play with a new pattern from 
Beary Sweet Designs -- Space Shuttle Bears

Card recipe:

Paper- 6x6 Echo Paper Summer Days Pad

Tear Bear Acrylic Pattern

Mulberry Paper

Fabri-Tac Glue

Colorbox Ink

Spellbinders

From my stash Jet button and ribbon.

Thanks for looking

~Patricia~

The Beary Scrap Sketch + Christmas

It's the first of the month and that means it's time for a new sketch challenge, plus the DT is adding Christmas in July to our theme.

Card recipe:

Card Stock

Bobunny- A Gift of Love

Reindeer Acrylic Pattern

Mulberry Paper

Colorbox Ink

Fabri Tac

Seam Binding

Stickles

Mulberry Paper Roses

Ribbon from my stash.

Here is the Sketch to follow:

Now lets see what you can come up with and enter your card

---HERE---

Thanks for looking

~Patricia~

Happy Birthday America

Do it yourself embellishments with added Red, White and Blue for
The Beary Scrap Challenge Blog
This has been a fun challenge.
Have you seen the new sister store that Kimm has created
Beary Sweet Designs?
Kimm had been creating new files like crazy and I have had the fun of getting to test some of them out, ok all of them and love it!
For this post I used two new files Apron Dress and the boys outfit coming soon to the store.

Project recipe:

Tear Bear Patterns

Mulberry Paper, Inked with Colorbox Ink

Flowers made using an Embossing Tool and sprayed with Glimmer Mist

Seam Binding

Fabri Tac

I won't have another Beary Scrap Post till after the holiday so let me just say I want to wish everyone a very happy and safe

4th of July

Happy Birthday America

and a very special THANK YOU to all the Men and Woman protecting us.

Thanks for looking

~Patricia~

Travelin' Teddy

Hi there crafty friends! Happy Monday to you. Before I chat up this week's project, I want to extend my heartfelt thanks to Guest Designer Brenda, who posted her last project this past Saturday. Sweetie, thank you so much for bringing such fun projects to our challenges. You and I have very different styles yet I learned something new from you almost every week over the last 3 months. It's been amazing to see what you design, and I am completely honest when I say you've taught me to think differently. Thanks Brenda!

This week the design team is continuing with our DIY embellishments to go along with our Do It Yourself Embellishment challenge. We're adding a little extra challenge to include red, white *or* blue, and the best I could come up with was the lovely white mulberry roses. See, Travelin' Teddy here had his own ideas about how this card was going to turn out...

For today's project I decided to make a mulberry paper "Tear Bear" as my DIY. It's been a looong time for me - at least a year! You may not know this, but Tear Bears are what brought me to The Beary Scrap in the first place. I was a novice bear maker and our very own Kimm was incredibly patient while I learned. I peppered her with a million questions and she answered every one of them with kindness. These days the Beary Sweet Designs acrylic patterns make it *so easy* to whip up a Tear Bear, and the written instructions HERE are brilliant.

I used the Tattered Teddy pattern on this card. Since Tattered Teddy came out, I've been playing around with the idea of making him slouch against a dress form die cut on a very shabby chic styled card. It turned out that my dress form die is too small for Teddy, so I went in a different direction with this project. Or rather, Teddy wanted to go in a lot of different directions and become a world traveler! (One day I will do it, but with the Baby Bear pattern instead.)

Here's Travelin' Teddy, working his way around the globe!

Card Recipe

• Paper: Prima 6x6 pad - Botanical; Mulberry paper in "Caramel" and "White"; Bazzill Basics; suitcase printed on textured Canson Mi-Tiente paper
• Medium: Ranger Distress Ink in Vintage Photo
• Embellishments: Beary Sweet Designs Tattered Teddy acrylic pattern; Mulberry Paper 16mm white roses and rose buds; Tim Holtz Filmstrip Ribbon; Kaisercraft pearls; lace, pink flower, charms, ribbon from stash
• Tools: Complete Tear Bear Making Kit; Honey Bee scissors; Scor-Pal; sewing machine
• Adhesives: 1/4" Scor-Tape; Fabri-Tac; 1/8" and 1/16" 3D Dots

Thanks for visiting today! Our DIY Embellishment challenge goes on through Thursday night - come play with us! You could win a $20 gift voucher to The Beary Scrap! Thursday is also the last day for Guest Designer Debbie. *sob* It's been a thrill to have both Debbie and Brenda with us for the last 3 months. I can't believe it's almost over. Ladies, thanks for all your wonderfully inspiring projects!

Cheers,
Susan

Sketch Challenge Take 2

Have you played in our Sketch Challenge at
The Beary Scrap Challenges?
Here is another sample of our sketch challenge this week I got to make and us designers had to add Seam Binding and the Leondro Blue is a perfect match for the Bo Bunny Gabrielle Collection. I used the 6X6 Paper Pad for my card.

I made my Tattered Teddy Paper Piecing Pattern with Mulberry Paper and made it into a Statue of Liberty Bear with a pattern from Treasure Box Designs. My USA mini bottle caps are from my stash and sit on top of some Flowers. I added some Robbins Nest Dew Drops to the side. My papers were Inked with Colorbox Ink and the whole card was glued together with Fabri-Tac Glue. Lets see your project for our Sketch Challenge and enter it ---HERE---

Thanks for looking

~Patricia~

The Beary Scraps Sketch Challenge Plus Embossing

Here is my card for our Sketch Challenge and the added Challenge for the Design Team --Embossing.

I used the new Bo Bunny papers from the Gabrielle Flight and I have to say I think this is my favorite paper by far, I love love love it. If you haven't seen it in person you have to get this. For my embossing I used white card stock with embossed dots and cut out with dies and added Colorbox Ink. I used the Rolling Ball Embosser from EK Sucess to shape my flowers. I also made my Tattered Teddy with an Acrylic Pattern and Mulberry Paper and also highlighted with Colorbox Ink. I put together my tear bear with Fabri-Tac Glue.

Now lets see your sketch and enter your card--HERE--

Thanks for looking.

~Patricia~