My Thanks to You

Well, my dear crafty friends, the day has come that I've been dreading for awhile and it still makes me a little teary to think of the end of our DT. I couldn't say it better than it has already been said this week-- these wonderful ladies have inspired me, encouraged me, made me laugh and truly blessed my life. I will forever be grateful for the cyber-friendships we have created by working together-- Kimm, Susan, Gini, Patricia, and Lori (as well as our past DT Elise), I LOVE YOU ALL and want you to know you all hold a very special place in my heart.

But more especially, I want to thank YOU, our followers whose support has given us the opportunity to share our ideas with you each week. Wherever you are, across the county and even through the world, I have felt connected to you each time you left a lovely comment or entered a project in our challenges giving me the chance to visit your blogs and view your talents. I am truly in awe of the vast community of creative women out there-- you are all amazing! One of the things I love best about scrapbooking and paper crafting is the connection it creates between crafters; it doesn't matter where we live, our age, job, education, family life or anything else-- creating something beautiful and sharing it with each us other gives us a special bond. And that is what I will miss more than anything. I hope I will continue to see your projects and comment back and forth out there in blogland.




My farewell project had to be a Tear Bear and so I created this Thank You card to go out to all of you! Thank you sincerely for all your support and best wishes to you all!!!

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~

Another Beary Best Tag

Wow have you seen all the entries in our
Beary Best Challenge?
They are awesome. I have another tag to show you this week with another new pattern from Beary Sweet Designs

I used one of the new pattern Mrs Clause Bear, I just love the new patterns from Beary Sweet Designs. I made mine into a Tear Bear using one of the Acrylic Paper Piecing Patterns and Mulberry Paper everything was glued together with Fabri Tac Glue. All edges were inked with Colorbox Ink and I added some Stickles to my little tag and Pearls. My background paper is from Echo Park's Merry Christmas line.

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

Here are some of the other new pattern from Beary Sweet Designs that I have been making.

Thanks for looking

~Patricia~

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~

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~

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~

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~

New Challenge Sketch

Hi folks! Susan here, jumping in on Lori's post to share some fantastic news. Lori has agreed to join on the family as our newest Senior Designer. We're all so happy to have you, sweetie!

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Happy September Everybody...can you believe it's already here?  Wow does time fly.  With it being the start of the month a new challenge is here.  Our newest challenge is a sketch and you'll love your finished project with it for sure.

This week I wanted to give the Tear Bears a shot.  Granted I'm not Patricia...who so totally rocks out Tear Bears, but I think I did a good job with my little Elephant.  I used the Springtime Echo Park paper wanting that last little bit of poppy colors before the fall colors move in.

Recipe : Emma Elephant Tear Bear Pattern,

Mulberry Paper,

Scor-Pal Tape,

 Echo Park 12 x 12 Kit  

Look forward to seeing you next week and remember to join in our new challenge and you might just win...

Hugs,

 

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~

Tic-Tac-Toe . . . .and a Tear Bear

Oh! I just love this new challenge and it's been fabulous looking at the entries you all have entered so far! Keep up the great work!

For my tic-tac-toe project, I chose paper piecing, pearl and button to make this baby card for my neighbors who just had a new little girl:


To start I paper pieced a Baby Tear Bear-- this is the first time I have made one of these tiny little guys and they are oh so cute! Just as easy as the original Tear Bears to make and the perfect size for a baby card.




I used My Mind's Eye Alphabet Soup Girl papers to make my easel card-- I love these colors for a baby girl-- I'm not a big fan of pink so to mix it up with a little blue and even green was perfect!

Then I added my pearls and my buttons are actually stick pins with pastel buttons on the ends.

Supplies used:
My Mind's Eye Alphabet Soup Girl papers
Bazzill cardstock -- cream
Mulberry paper-- mocha and white
Baby Tear Bear pattern
Tear Bear Tools
Colorbox Fluid Chalk-- Creamy Brown
Kaisercraft Pearls-- Latte
Prima flowers-- Original Sprites, Blue dotted
Seam Binding-- white

So, if you haven't done it yet, pick your three squares on our Tic Tac Toe board and enter your project in our current Beary Sweet Challenge and good luck!

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

Tag Your It

Have you been inspired by what the girls have shown you so far in our challenge? Make your own embellishments. This has been a fun week and I have a Tag for you this week.

For my handmade embellishments I made a cute little peeker Tattered Teddy Tear Bear and added some punched out balloons. Everything was cut out with Spellbinders and Inked with Colorbox Ink. I added some Stickles to the balloons and to the the little To/From Tag. My little Tear bear was made with an Acrylic Paper Piecing Pattern and made with Mulberry Paper and Inked with Colorbox Ink. This whole tag was put together with Fabri-Tac Glue. I used some Seam Binding for the hanger at the top. My background paper is a 6x6 Paper Pad from Echo Park Summer Days. I have a cute little Pearl at the bottom to hold down the balloon strings that are dental floss.

Now lets see what you can make and enter it

---HERE---

On the Beary Scrap  Challenge Blog

Thanks for looking

~Patricia~

Make It Your Own

We have a really fun new challenge of you and I couldn't wait to do this one.
Make your own Embellishments.
 For this one I thought outside the box and not make a card. I have made a few of these cute fences over the weekend and I knew what I wanted to do for this new challenge. Plus I'm having so much fun altering items.

My paper in the picture frame is from the 6X6 Paper Pads from Bo Bunny the Gabrielle Collection. The fence and picture frame are from my stash.

My purple roses were made the the Retro Flower Punches. They were Inked with Colorbox Ink and sprayed with Glimmer Mist. I also added some Mulberry Flowers. My vines were made from a die from Sizzix Vine w/Leaves and sprayed with Glimmer Mist.

My Butterfly at the top of my picture frame is a punch from Martha Stewart and the bottom one is from my stash and sprayed with Glimmer Mist. I have some pretty Robbin's Nest Dew Drops added. This whole project was put together with Fabric Tac Glue.

Here is a close-up of my stick pin I made. I made this with the Baby Bear Tear Bear Acrylic Paper Piecing Pattern. I inked the edges of my Mulberry Paper with Colorbox Ink.

Let's see your own handmade Embellishments and enter your project

---HERE---

Thanks for looking

~Patricia~