Happy Father Day!

Hey Friends! This week is in celebration of our dad's!  Yayyy!  Oh gosh, and you know how much I adore my dad!!!!  He's a very inspiring person in my life, teaching me the most important things ... such as "Enjoy life everyday."  He's such a wonderful person, he has not a single unkind thing to say and he sees the beautiful things in life ... always.

The last time my parents came out here to visit us in May, he told my little 3 year old, "Ohhhh it's such a BEAUTIFUL day!  Look at the trees, and the grass, the flowers, the sun ... aren't we so lucky to see such beauty?!"  And my little one LOVES his Grandpa and readily agreed.

Now even a month later, my little boy will say, "Oh mommy, it's such a BEAUTIFUL day!  The trees, the flowers, the grass ... it's beautiful!"  And the first thing that comes to my mind is, "I love you dad .. for teaching my son to voice the sweet simple, yet extraordinary things in life."

So this card goes to my special one of a kind dad:

The Fun Stuff:

Image:  Whiff of Joy (Elisabeth Bell)

Papers:  K&Co

Medium:  Prisma Colored Pencils

Other:  Martha Stewart Punches, Distress Ink, Robin's Nest Dew Drops (I can't get enough of these .. love em!)

Hope you're all having a lovely week so far!  Thank you so much for visiting me and I'll see ya soon!  Don't forget to take part in our Beary Sweet Challenge #3 ... which is a lovely sketch by our own wonderful Susan!!!

Hugs,

Elise

Father's Day Week

Hello hello! Happy day to everyone. I hope you had a good weekend. Due to our East Coast humidity, we hid inside for most of it. Wow is it hot these days; and it's not even summer yet! As I write this Sunday evening, we're under a tornado watch here on the eastern shore of Maryland. Y'know, I thought we left all that when Ohio was in our rear view mirror for the last time! *sheesh*

So, have *you* entered our Beary Sweet sketch challenge yet? You have until the end of day June 14th to get it linked - you could win a gift voucher from The Beary Scrap!

In honor of dear old dad, we're celebrating Father's Day here at the Beary Scrap. Go dad!

I'm on a bit of a vintage kick these days and decided to put a sketch challenge and my love of vintage images  together. The end result has all the hallmarks of my inner quirkiness, and I love it!

Ok, so I'm really excited to tell you about my moon. It's a vintage image from The Graphics Fairy that I sized to about 3"x3" and printed. Do you remember my crackle glass tutorial from way back in March? Well, that old technique has been tossed out the window for an easier and more effective one-step process. Yes! I said "one step"! I also said "process", and I'm not sure if one step can be a process... but I digress.

Have you seen Tim Holtz's Distress Crackle Paint? It is fabulous. Really. I used the clear paint on Mr. Moon and allowed him to dry. As this paint dries it makes these tiny crackles that look truly vintage. All the work is done for you! Check out this close-up:

Once dry I mounted him to a thick piece of bristol board for stability and popped him up on the card.  Cool, no?

I used a mix of new and old embellishements - the gold 3d leaf thingy is from my stash, and the three gems are vintage jewels from Grandma's stash. Oh, and one more thing - you might remember that Kimm walked me through the variety of clear Stickles after I whined about my Star Dust rut. I used the Stickles Diamond around the Happy Father's Day tag - it's like it has little flecks of 24 carat gold!

Card Recipe

• Image - The Graphics Fairy
• Paper - Bazzill Basics Mud Pie and French Vanilla; My Mind's Eye Laundry Line (lush papers on sale right now!)
• Medium - Tim Holtz Distress Crackle Paint in Clear; Color Box Fluid Chalk in Chestnut Roan; Stickles in Diamond; Distress Stickles in Frayed Burlap around the moon
• Embellishments - Bazzill Tulle in French Vanilla (3 layers thick); others from stash
• Tools & Adhesives - Spellbinders Shapeabilities Fancy Tags; Scor-Pal (love this fun new tool!); Scor Tape in 1/4"; sewing machine

Thanks so much for stopping in! We'll see you all week for great Father's Day projects from the whole design team.

Cheers,

Susan

Come play along with our sketch challenge!

The Beary Scrappy Gals have enjoyed sharing with you our takes on the sketch for our latest challenge. I am so excited to show you my card - I really love how it turned out! I want to invite you to play along for your chance to win a $20 gift voucher from the Beary Scrap. It's an awesome sketch, so what are you waiting for?

Card Recipe:
Stamp: Magnolia Ballerina Tilda
Paper: Basic Grey Nook and Pantry (on sale now!), Bazzill, Core'Dinations, glitter paper
Medium: Copics, Diamond Stickles, Distress Ink - Tattered Rose, Glimmer Mist, Smooch
Tools: MS punch, Cricut ( Love Struck), Cuttlebug embossing folder, sewing machine
Embellishments: Mulberry flower (Watch for these soon!), lace, tulle, key, Basic Grey bling, glitter brads

It's Sketch Week

It's a Sketch Week at The Beary Scrap

Susan did an awesome job on this sketch, I can't say that enough.

My card recipe:

Basic Grey paper

Magnolia-Ballerina Tilda and Mini Tilda

colored with Copics and Stickles.

Miscellaneous card stock.

Ribbons and pearls.

Colorbox ink.

Hand stitched.

Mulberry flowers. Coming soon to The Beary Scrap

Martha Stewart punch and Spellbinders.

Thanks for looking and be sure to play along with us in our

Beary Sweet Challenge

You can win yourself a $20.00 gift voucher.

~Patricia~

A Slam Dunk of a Sketch

I hope you have enjoyed seeing the takes on our sketch this week and are working on your own project based on our sketch to enter in our Challenge #3-- sketches are such a great way to jumpstart my creativity, I just love them! So take the challenge and join us, I can't wait to see your projects!

I used the sketch to make a 12 x 12 layout instead of a card-- one of the great things about sketches is how versatile they are-- enlarge it, shrink it, flip it, sub one element for another-- there are so many ways to do it! Here is my basketball themed page based on the sketch:


I started my page with some cream colored Bazzill cardstock and spritzed it with Walnut ink. Any type of spray ink, including Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist, would work for this. Make sure to let it dry thoroughly! Then I used basketball patterned paper from Moxxie for the 3 layers of the sketch (I added an extra layer of Bazzill cardstock around one of the patterned papers to help separate the black backgrounds). I love the colors of these papers! Also make sure to check out baseball and softball papers from the same company!

I used black ribbon and a Karen Foster mini license plate for the stripe across the lengthwise layer of the sketch. These license plates are so cute!


Then I replaced the flowers on the sketch with basketball rubons that I adhered to cardstock, cut out, added Black Diamond Stickles glitter glue to the edges, and popped up on my page with foam dots to add dimension. Around the top basketball, I added my title in chipboard letters.



Finally I added some random star stickers, star brads and some basketball brads from The Eyelet Outlet.



What a fun sketch! I love using a sketch to get me started and then just let my imagination take over from there, adjusting it so it fits my style and the pictures I want to include. I challenge you all to try this sketch and let it jump start your creative process this week!

Make sure to check back tomorrow for some more ways to use our Beary Sweet Sketch!

BSC #2 Winners!

Hello friends! We want to extend a huge

Thank You

to everyone who played along with our Beary Sweet Challenge #2 - Fancy Folds. We had a blast visiting your blogs, and I definitely found a few new folds to try! Thanks for your great ideas, everyone!

Without further delay... Our Random.org winner of the fabulous Scor-Pal is lucky #2

Congratulations to Mary Lou from Mary Lou's Corner!

Sweetie, please contact Kimm with your mailing address and she'll send it right out!

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We also want to send our congratulations to our Top 3 entries (in no particular order 'cause you're all fabulous to us):

Belinda Lewis

hellerlittle

Mary Lou

Ladies - please feel free to use this Top 3 badge on your blog. Thanks so much!

We hope everyone will join our current Beary Sweet Challenge - "Get Sketchy With Us". See you there!

Cheers,

Susan

Have a Sweet Day!

Hey Friends!  Well it's time again for another Beary Scrap Challenge!  Whew!  Where does the time go?!  This week we were given a beautiful sketch by our very own  Susan!!!!  Thank you Susan!  It was so much fun to play with!

I'm getting so happy playing with Magnolia stamps ... they're so ...what the word I'm searching for?  Wonderful, Fun, Beautiful, Playful ... All of the above?!!!  lol!  I've cut and layered this Tilda and surrounded her with a bunch of flowers that I love.  Gotta love the flowers .. they're springing up EVERYWHERE!  Yayyy!

I imagine this Tilda as sitting outside on a little bench, enjoying her sweet lollipop ... swinging her legs back and forth while enjoying the sunshine and flowers!  ahhhhh the lovely days of summer!

The Fun Stuff:

Image:  Magnolia

Papers:  DCWV

Medium:  Prisma Colored Pencils

Other:  Prima Flowers, Kaisercraft Pearls, MS Punch, Stickles Glitter Glue, Spellbinders, Distress Ink

I hope you'll join us in our sketch challenge!  Come on .. I know you want to!  :)  Thank you so much for visiting us and hope you'll have a lovely rest of the week!

Hugs to You ... Elise

Beary Sweet Challenge #3: Get Sketchy With Us!

Welcome to our Beary Sweet Challenge #3

Our challenge this week is a sketch:

Show us your *new* project that follows this sketch. It can be any type of project you wish, as long as you include all the elements of the sketch - feel free to rotate as needed! Throughout this week our design team will show you samples of this theme and hopefully give you a little inspiration, too!

This challenge runs through June 14th at 11:59pm EDT. The prize winner will be chosen by random.org and will be announced along with our "Beary Sweet Top 3" on June 17th. What's the prize, you ask? 

Whoo hoo! You could go on a Beary Sweet shopping spree that includes FREE SHIPPING! 

Here are the "rules" to play:

• Become a follower if you aren't already;
• Link your blog post (not your blog "home page") or your online gallery submission with our Inlinkz frog below. Mention in your blog post you are entering your project in the Beary Sweet Challenge; tag your online gallery post with BSC#3;
• Please, only one (1) entry per person. Links to projects/cards posted before June 1st will not be eligible for the prize draw.

Additional information:

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

Thanks for playing along!

Cheers,

Susan

It's Sketch Challenge Week!

Hello hello dear friends! I hope everyone is having a wonderful extended weekend. Here in the States it's Memorial Day, where we gather with family and friends and honor fallen soldiers. Of course, there are pounds of burgers, hot dogs and potato salad consumed, too. :) Best wishes for a happy and safe Memorial Day to each of you.

So it's Monday, which means I get to ring in a new week for the Beary Scrappy Girls and introduce our next design team challenge. This week we have a sketch challenge, designed by little ol' me. It's my first sketch and I think it turned out OK (if I do say so myself!).

"Hello, my name is Susan, and I'm a Basic Grey Kioshi addict."  Or so it seems, anyway! I can't get enough of the delightful patterns in this line of papers. Here I've used the larger 12 x 12 patterned paper for the background as well as the smaller 6 x 6 pattern paper. I love those itty bitty paper pads!

This little sweetheart is Bubbling Tilda, from Magnolia's Fairytale collection. I've layered her and cut out her bubbles. Her dress is lightly colored with cranberry and very pale yellow Prismacolor pencils. Her wings are colored with the same pencils and enhanced with Stickles. I used a Copic Spica pen to highlight random strands of her hair. Even though the sparkle is visible when I view this photo in Photoshop, it's washed out once uploaded to blogger. *sigh* That's what imagination is for, right?

The big flower is hand made with a strip of chiffon and Fabri-Tac. Cool, huh?

Card Recipe

• Stamp - Magnolia's Bubbling Tilda
• Paper - Bazzill Basics in truffle and avalanche; Basic Grey Kioshi; Neenah for Tilda
• Medium - Prismacolor pencils with OMS; Stickles Star Dust and Tattered Rose; Glimmer Mist Pearl
• Embellishments - Homemade chiffon flower; Mulberry flowers (coming soon to the store!); lace and miscellaneous from stash

Thanks for stopping in! Tomorrow we will have our next Beary Sweet Challenge, so be sure to come back for all the details.  Don't forget that today is the last day to enter your project into our current challenge - Fancy Folds. You could win a Scor-Pal!

Oh, and if you're a blog candy kinda gal, today is the last day to enter my birthday blog candy. Good luck!

Cheers,

Susan