Hello friends! I hope you are finding time to join our month-long November challenge. We want to see Your Beary Best!

Today I have a card to share using Authentique's "Wonder" 6x6 paper pad. I got a Beary Scrap package last Thursday and immediately had to dig into this paper. Love the colors and the vintage feel!

All of the patterned paper is from the pad. In addition, I used green and french vanilla Bazzill card stocks. The sparkle comes from Stickles in Star Dust and Candy Cane, and I added Kaisercraft yellow pearls to the flower. The seam binding is Sage and Ivory - I color-distressed the ivory seam binding by dabbing it onto Bundled Sage and Vintage Photo Distress Ink. The center piece was cut from a cool postcard-themed sheet and painted with Rock Candy Distress Crackle Paint.

Thanks for visiting today! Please join our "Your Beary Best" challenge - you could win a $30 gift voucher from The Beary Scrap!

Cheers,
Susan

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

Double Christmas Wishes

Hello hello crafty friends! It's another Monday here and my first post with our new "Double or Nothing" challenge. I'm really hoping to see a "double, double, toil and trouble" entry... I'll leave that to you, though. I've moved on to Christmas! I have loads of Halloween under my belt this year and am past ready for the red and green. :)

I've used the My Mind's Eye Lost & Found Christmas - both the 12x12 collection pack and the 6x6 paper pad. I was able to double up three times - so cool! I used two types of ribbon - crochet and velvet ric-rac; two different cardstock die-cuts from the 12x12 collection pack; and, two layers of Santa, and two beaded pins from my own collection. Fun!

I really wanted to showcase this wonderfully traditional Santa on this page from the 6x6 pad. I used one full page and cut his second layer from the second page in the pack. His beard is colored in with Frosted Lace Stickles, coat and hat trim covered with a snowy effect from the craft store, and his belt and boots are painted with Glossy Accents.

Edges are inked with Vintage Photo Distress Ink and sewn with my trusty Singer. The Santa layer and die-cuts are raised up a bit with Glue Dots. Pearls are Kaisercraft Latte.

Thanks for visiting today! Our current "Double or Nothing" Challenge goes on through October 31st. All the details are HERE - you could win a $20 gift voucher from The Beary Scrap!

Cheers,
Susan

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~

Oh Christmas Tree

We have has so many wonderful entries for our
Free for All Challenge at
The Beary Scrap
For my card this week I used the Echo Park Merry Christmas Paper Line

Card recipe:

Echo Park - Merry Christmas

Stickles

Pearls

Fabri Tac Glue

Mulberry Flowers from stash.

There are so many pretty papers in this line I can't wait to make more cards and tags.

Let's see what you have made and show us ---HERE---

Thanks for looking

~Patricia~

Tag Fall Is It

Now that Fall is here I can't wait to see all the pretty colors that come with Fall. I can say I am not looking forward to the cold weather tho. Today I made a cute little tag using Fall colors and themes. The added Design Team challenge was to add Glitter.

Card recipe:

Background Paper from Summer Days 6x6 Paper Pad

Colorbox Ink

Stickles

Baby Tear Bear Acrylic Pattern

Mulberry Paper

Fabri Tac Glue

Seam Binding

From stash:

Flowers

Pumpkin Sticker

Spellbinder Dies

Leaves

Have you made your

Happy Fall Y'All

project yet?

Enter your project ---HERE--- at

The Beary Sweet Challenges

Thanks for looking

~Patricia~

She's Batty!

Hello and happy Monday! I hope you had a great weekend. The Husband and I went to a crab feast Sunday. Love love love the taste of Maryland blue crab but don't feel the same about crab picking.

This week the design team is showing a few more samples for our current "Happy Fall Y'All" challenge. This has been a fun one for us! In this final stretch, the DT's extra "challenge" is to add glitter to our projects. Oh yea, this is a stretch! Haha - just kidding! Really, the challenge should have been to abstain from the glitter.... hmm... that gives me an idea for future challenges. *grin*

I'm still on my Halloween kick. This week I pulled out the My Mind's Eye Haunted papers with the delicious velvety texture.

The bat lady illustration is from the magical internet. I truly appreciate sites like The Graphics Fairy which share vintage and antique images. The flocked background is MME's "Harlequin" paper and the while swirl layer is found on the B-side of "Halloween Checklist". [Yes, I'm showing my age...]. Other layers are made from Bazzill Basics.

The bat background was stamped with Distress Ink in Black Soot, then each bat was covered with Rock Candy Stickles. This is one of those cards that looks much better in person - the bats are pretty cool if I do say so myself! *ahem* I used a blend of Dusty Concord and Black Soot Distress Inks on the edges, then sewed them together. All embellishments are from my stash, including really cool web ribbon that Patricia sent as a RAK last year. I've been hoarding it with 12" left for the next project!

Thanks for visiting today! You still have a ton of time to enter your fall-themed project in our challenge. You could win $20 from The Beary Scrap!

Cheers,
Susan

My Creepy Sketch Challenge

It's time for another look at our sketch challenge for
The Beary Scrap
This one I had a lot of fun with and I really like how it came out, OK I personally love how it came out. The challenge for the design team is to make it not Girly, well other than the flower I think its more creepy than Girly atleast thats what Im going with, lol.

Card recipe:

Paper from My Minds Eye Haunted (2010)

Stickles

Pearls

Colorbox Ink

Fabri-Tac

Other Items from stash

3D Spider, Wings, Dollie, Spellbinders Die, Stampin Up Die, Martha Stewart Punch.

Now you only have just a few hours to still enter our challenge and enter your card ---HERE---

Thanks for looking

~Patricia~

A Sketch and A Snake-Oil Salesman (Updated!)

Hi folks! Happy Monday to you. I hope you had a nice weekend. Husband and I took a train up to NewYork to see a Broadway show. I love New York and all the hustle and bustle. I'm not going to take up your crafty time talking about the 9/11 anniversary, but I want to share one little experience with you.

As we sat in Penn Station to come home Sunday morning we could hear a pipe and drum band marching by outside. It was 8:35am and up until that moment the Amtrak station was full of the normal buzz. One by one, I could see the recognition of that sound dawn on my fellow travelers. I don't believe there is a sound more profound than a bagpipe, and a band can tear at the fibers of your heart while celebrating life, love and liberty. (Ok, I'm Scottish... can you tell?) The train station fell silent for a bit as we listened. It was a rare, truly poignant moment.

So this week the design team is wrapping up our September sketch challenge and late in the week Lori and Jamie will ring in an oh-so-timely theme challenge. As a way to spice up our final sketch samples Gini, Patricia and I are including our favorite embellishments. How easy is that?

 

Update: I added swirls of the Prima Say it in Crystals black rhinestones - love the effect!

I've used 3 favorites on today's card: lace, sewing and decorative pins! Haha - why chose just one when there are so many? The papers are from Authentique's "Glowing" 6x6 pad, and the image is one of my favorite vintage finds. The skeleton is a bit of a snake-oil salesman, isn't he? I have a whole collection of these Antikamnia Chemical Company calendar images (in full-color; black & white seemed perfect for this card, though). They really are quite amazing!

Card Recipe

• Image - vintage Antikamnia Calendar skeleton printed twice and layered
• Paper - Authentique's Glowing 6x6 pad; Bazzill Basics in orange and black; Canson Mi-Tiente white
• Medium - Ranger Distress Ink in Rusty Hinge and Vintage Photo; Ranger Stickles in Black Diamond
• Embellishments - Prima Say It In Crystals Borders Black (the 3 rhinestones in the upper right corner); handmade decorative pin set; lace and flowers from stash
• Tools/Adhesives -border punch; corner punch; Scor-Pal; Scor-Tape; Fabri-Tac

Thanks so much for visiting today! There is still plenty of time to get your September sketch challenge project entered (by midnight EDT Wednesday) - you might win a $20 gift voucher to The Beary Scrap!

Cheers,
Susan

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!

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~

Spooky September Sketch

Hello hello my pretties... It's Monday and time for another project from me! Happy Labor Day to all my US friends. I hope you can relax today!

This week the design team is continuing with samples --and perhaps a little inspiration! -- for our brand spankin' new Beary Sweet sketch challenge. I got a little witchy with Authentique's "Glowing" 6x6 pad.

I used 4 different designs from the pack, including the polka dot spider. I stamped the sentiment onto scraps created by one of the layers. The stamps are individual letters that I laid out askew for a fun, messy effect. Actually, that's a lot about this that's distressing, including the chewed edges, sewing lines all over the place and pulled edges of the lace and tulle.

I have to give big props to Lori for inspiring me to make my own rosette for the very first time! Her card last week featured a rosette and I whined a bit about not having a rosette die. She pshaw'd me and showed me the way with a strip of paper and a handy dandy Scor-Pal. We don't need no stinkin' rosette dies! Thanks, Lori! We'll share a tutorial on it soon. :)

I was thinking of just using "tea party" and reveling in the double entendre, but decided to steer it in a less *ahem* political direction. The off-white threads behind the top text is a bit of cheese cloth.

Inside includes a ton of space for a spooky sentiment as well as more lace and a fun diamond pattern design from the stack. 

Card Recipe

• Image: vintage image found online and spiced up for a lush print
• Paper: Authentique "Glowing" 6x6 paper pad; vintage witches printed on ivory Canson Mi-Tiente paper (I love the texture for vintage images); Bazzill basics in black and orange; Rosette is made from a random strip of paper found in my stash
• Medium: Stickles Diamond on spider; Ranger Distress Ink in black and vintage photo on edges
• Embellishments: Hand made rosette; Kaisercraft black pearls; lace, cheese cloth and mirrored bird from stash
• Adhesives: Scor-Tape and Fabri-Tac 

Thanks so much for visiting today! We'd love to see what you can create using our September sketch - you could win a $20 gift voucher from The Beary Scrap!

Cheers,
Susan

Last Call for Tic Tac Toe at The Beary Scrap Challenges

It's last call for our Tic Tac Toe Challenge at

The Beary Scrap

This has been a fun challenge and you just have a few more hours to enter your project. For my card this week I played with one of the new patterns from 

Beary Sweet Designs

I used the Girl Devil from the Little Spooks Collection.

Card recipe: 

Paper from Echo Park - Happy Halloween 

Tear Bear parts made with an Acrylic Pattern 

Mulberry Paper

Colorbox Ink

Tim Holtz Distress Ink

Pearls

Stickles 

Retro Flower Punch

Glue Dots

Fabri Tac Glue

Spellbinders

Misc from stash red lace and spider button

Now hurry and enter your card --HERE--

Thanks for looking

~Patricia~

Silly Ice Cream

We hope that you have had fun playing along with the Beary Scrap Gals with our Tic Tac Toe challenge. It's about to wind down (you have until the 31st to get your entry in, if you haven't yet!)

I've got a layout to share with you today, that uses one of my all time favorite papers from Echo Park - For the Record. It is just a great collection for vintage projects. And although there are plenty of sweet girly prints, this works great for boy layouts too. Just add a little distressing and you are good to go! I stamped the ice cream cone border with a design from Unity, and then added Stickles to the cones.

We will have a new challenge for you on the first, but in the mean time, get those entries in!

Halloween Tic Tac Toe

Im so excited that I get to play again with our super fun

Tic Tac Toe Challenge at

The Beary Scrap

If you haven't had a chance yet to check out what Kimm has been making over at Beary Sweet Designs your going to want to check it out. I think Kimm has giving up sleep, she has so many new cute files coming out. I used just one of the new Halloween files Dracula's Doom.

Card recipe:

Dracula's Doom from Beary Sweet Designs

Echo Park Happy Halloween Paper

Stickles

Fabri-Tac Glue

Colorbox Ink

Retro Flower Punch

Now make sure you enter your card ---HERE--- this challenge has already had lots of awesome entries and your next!!

Thanks for looking

~Patricia~

Tic Tac Toe ( I win )

Time for a new challenge at
The Beary Scrap
This is such a fun challenge and I couldn't wait to play Tic Tac Toe.

I decided to make a tag this week. They are so fun and quick to make.

Card recipe:

Birthday Bear with Balloons and Leave vines from Beary Sweet Designs

My whole tag was Inked with Colorbox Ink

I added Stickles Glitter Glue to the edges of the tag and to my Bear's party hat.

I also added Pearls and used Seam Binding for the top of the tag.

All my designer paper is from Echo Park the Country Drive line.

I glued every thing together with Fabri Tac Glue.

Now lets see what you make with our Tic Tac Toe Board and enter your card or project ---HERE---  

Thanks for looking

~Patricia~

Fluttering Butterflies

Hello crafty folks! It's Monday and that means I get to share another project with you. A new challenge starts today (see post above) where we all get to play tic-tac-toe and choose three in a row!

 
I've made a tag (oh how I love tags!) using the Tim Holtz Tag & Bookplate die. The beautiful paper is Pink Paislee's Butterfly Garden, and my challenge row is "lace-distress-glitter". I wanted to showcase the birdcage and bird on the paper, so I built around them. There is a bit of distressed lace on the bottom (spritzed with Glimmer Mist). I age-distressed the edges of my tag with Vintage Photo ink and the flowers and butterfly spots are glittered with Stickles Star Dust.  The Prima vine is tinged with Tattered Rose Distress ink and touched with Stickles Star Dust. The butterflies are cut from one of the PP Butterfly Garden pages, and the hanger is made from apricot seam binding.

Click to make me bigger!

 Thanks for visiting today! I hope you can be inspired with all our projects this week to challenge yourself to a game of Tic-Tac-Toe. You could win a $20 voucher from The Beary Scrap!

Cheers,
Susan

Are you a . . . .

BRAVE GIRL?

Well, sometimes I am and sometimes I'm not, just depending on what it is. But I know one thing for sure, I was nowhere near as brave when I was a little girl as my 7 year old daughter is. She'll try anything and shows no fear (and yes, I definitely realize this may not always be a good thing!) She is up for adventure of any kind and I have spent many moments this summer cringing as she rides her bike down hills, does front flips off the high dive at the city pool, being pulled on a tube behind a boat on the lake and her new love-- waterskiing-- which is the subject of my layout this week.


I am pretty sure I was at least 12 years old before I attempted to waterski, but not my daughter-- she outshone her older brother and several cousins by learning this summer and her usual comment was "Go faster." What a girl!


I stuck to the basic sketch for this layout but wanted to mix it up just a little from last week and so I tilted the sketch a different direction and then added three smaller pictures to the side of my main image. I used the fabulous new collection from Echo Park called Splash-- you have got to check it out! Kimm just got it in the store this week and it is perfect for summer activities of many kinds. I just love the bright colors. I did add some hot pink in the mat for my main photo and the letter stickers to make it a little more "girly." I used Element Stickers from the Splash collection pack to accent my page instead of the flowers on the original sketch and added Stickles for a little shine to my wave.

Supplies Used:
Echo Park Splash Collection Designer Papers and Element Stickers
Echo Park Summer Days Collection Designer papers (hot pink)
Stickles-- Turquoise
Glue dots
Misc. letter stickers
Misc. buttons

So go on, be a brave girl and do something a little adventurous this weekend! Or just spend a little time crafting and enter your take on our sketch in our current Beary Sweet Challenge.

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

---HERE---

Thanks for looking

~Patricia~

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~