My Beary Best Card

Can you believe that Christmas is almost here.  The music is starting to play on the radio, all the stores are decked out and I'm creating Christmas cards.  The card was created using My Mind's Eye new holidays series / 12 Days of Christmas.  I love the retro feel of the paper...it's so fun and poppy. 

I hope you have been playing along with our current challenge...it SUPER EASY!!  Show us your Beary Best...ANYTHING!!!  You might just win a $30 shopping spree for showing us your beautiful creations.  See you next Thursday for Gobble, Gobble day. 

Hugs,

Tis The Season

Can you believe, it's really time for Tis the Season? The whole Christmas season is one of my favorite times of the year - so I hope you enjoy this card!

I have really enjoyed using the 12 Days of Christmas papers from My Mind's Eye, this year. It's bright and fun with a fun retro twist to it. To make my dimensional wreath, I used the Boxwood Vine Wreath die from Cottage Cutz. (I also used the Holiday Doily die from them as well).

I cut my dies using white cardstock, but then colored them using Creative Inspirations Paints, before a punched them away from the paper. For the bottom layer of the wreath, I used Emerald, for my shadows, and for the top layers, I used the lighter Evergreen. For my reds, I used used Garnet and Rustic Red.

Don't forget, you have all month to play along with the Beary Scrap's Beary Best Challenge (and you can enter as many times as you like!)

My "Beary Best" Tags

I just love making tags now and get ready to be inspired this month with some great inspiration for some cute holiday tags.
This whole month at
The Beary Sweet Challenge Blog
were mixing it up a bit with a whole month long challenge of you showing us your
"Beary Best"
and evey better you can enter as many times as you want and the prize this month is $30.00 shopping spree at
The Beary Scrap Store.
Now here is my tag I made for you

Tag recipe:

Right now you can get this cute snowman file FREE from Beary Sweet Designs this week ---HERE--- don't wait to long because there will be a new freebie on Friday.

Tear Bear Peeker made with an Acrylic Paper Piecing Pattern and Mulberry Paper. All edges were inked with Colorbox Ink and I added Stickles. The background paper is from My Minds Eye-12 Days of Christmas. I used the ribbon and snowflake button from my stash. Now lets see what your "Beary Best" is and enter it ---HERE---

Thanks for looking

~Patricia~

Tilda Has A Crush!

Hiya crafty friends! Hope your weekend was spectacular. I know a couple of us on the design team got hit with snow. Ack! Luckily, I only had rain and howling winds. Appropriate for today's festivities, right?

Many folks are observing the High Holy Day of Chocolate, otherwise known as Halloween. The sad thing about all of this is no matter what costume you wear, all those gooey, drippy, melty, crunchy calories will still find your hips!

For my last Double or Nothing challenge project, I decided to use two Magnolia stamps. Poor Edwin is so caught up in his lights that he doesn't suspect Tildas ambush behind the tree! She's sweet on him. Aww...

The tree is made from a lot of single punches of a Martha Stewart branch punch. It's been a few years since I've made this type of tree and forgot how much I love the dimension. Neat, huh? The papers are from the My Mind's Eye 12 Days of Christmas 6x6 pad. I colored our little friends with Prismacolor pencils and Stickles... loads of Stickles! I used Waterfall, Candy Cane, Yellow, Crystal, Star Dust and Lavender.

Thanks so much for visiting today! There's still a wee bit of time to enterour challenge. You could win a $20 gift voucher to The Beary Scrap. Good luck!

By the way, have you seen the gorgeous new Tim Holtz Seasonal Distress Inks?

The Beary Scrap will soon have this 3-pack of Fall colors *and* the Winter pack. We don't know the colors for the Winter pack yet, but I'll bet they will be beautiful! There's a limited supply, so be sure to keep an eye out!

Cheers,
Susan

Seeing Double

Are you still seeing double at the Beary Scrap? That's because our Double or Nothing Challenge is still going on! I've got a whimsical Christmas Card to share with you today. Don't you think the 12 Days of Christmas papers from My Mind's Eye need to be used for this kind of holiday fun? My adorable Santa 's Truck with Tree die is from the very newest release from Cottage Cutz Dies. It was so fun to add some of the patterned papers to my truck's piecing. And with a little ingenuity, I used the Holiday Doily die to add a border to my circle. Finally, a "borrowed" the sentiment stamp from the Boxwood Vine Wreath set, so I could wish you Merry Christmas!

Double or Nothing with The Beary Scrap

Please scroll down to see the winners of our Beary Sweet "Free For (f)All" Challenge!

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We've got our new challenge at the Beary Scrap - and the theme is Double or Nothing (use two of something on your design - no more, no less).

For my "double" I used two designer papers - both from the MME 12 Days of Christmas Collection. Although it's Christmas paper, there are many designs in this collection that can be used any time of the year. For my image, I die cut the shape using a Spellbinders label, then sprinkled Ultrafine Art Glitter over the area, and let it dry. Then I stamped a design from Flourishes over the top. I painted the roses with watercolors. To finish everything off, I added some Kaisercraft pearls and Seam Binding Ribbon.

We hope that you will take your chances and play along with us!