Farewell Teddy Stampers

Hi lovely crafting friends, it's a sad day for teddy lovers as Teddy Stampers challenge blog has to close down.

Although I have to confess I had already said I would be leaving the team, I feel sad for the other team members, but family has to come first and we thank Jerusha for all the hard work and time she has put into running the blog and being such a great leader.

It's been such a pleasure working with this wonderful team and friendships to cherish.

Thank you to everyone who has supported our challenges over the last two years.

 It's been wonderful to visit so many of you and see your gorgeous creations.

The last challenge is

Me and My Teddy

There are two great sponsors for our last bash

Digital Delights and Stamp Fairy .com

I couldn't make a card so copying Sharon's lead

 here are a few of my favourite creations for Teddy Stampers.

I won't be putting my teddy stamps away there will be lots of challenges out there to have fun with,

I do hope you will join in with the final challenge.

Thank you for stopping by have a fun weekend.

A big teddy hug and wave

 cherie

Have a beautiful day!

Hi lovely friends, are you ready for a new challenge...

Super entries for our last challenge over at Teddy Stampers thanks to all who took part. Hope you'll be able to join us again for our new challenge which is

EMBOSSING

Dry or heat embossing or both is up to you... but don't forget you need to have a stamped or digi stamp BEAR on your creations to be in the draw for the prize.

You'll want to be in for this fortnights prize as our sponsor is

 Simon Says Stamp

My DT card

My inspiration for this card came from Sue Nelson, Heartprints.net thank you Sue for showcasing this lovely embossing folder by Craft Concepts and available from Cutting Edge Crafts.

Sue's site is well worth a visit!!!

The frame just fits onto an A6 Bazzil card. I gave my beloved Copics the day off and coloured this gorgeous

 Penny Black ted with Promarkers.

Bear ~ Satin, Putty, Tan and Cinnamon

Clothes ~ Azure

Fowers ~ Pear green, Khaki, Pink carnation, Orchid, Buttercup, Pastel pink, Lipstick red, Tulip yellow, Peach, Terracotta, Lavender and Powder blue for the shadow.

I also used black and burnt umber Polychromos pencils for the deeper shadows.

I heat embossed the Personal Impressions sentiment with cosmic shimmer amethyst mist lustre embossing powder.

The button is clear I stuck a piece of the Bazzil paper on the back and the ribbon is a good way to use up all the little ends.

Challenges to share with

Paperplay ~ Embossing

Sarah Hurley ~ embossing

Totally Papercrafts ~ add buttons

Crafty Sentiments ~ animals

Thanks for stopping by have a fun weekend

Hugs cherie

Dance in the Rain

Good morning friends, I hope you've had a good week, i'm still really busy with my home decorating so if I haven't visited you this week I apologise.

Our new challenge over at Teddy Stampers is a

SKETCH

Plus a stamped or digi stamp BEAR on your creation.

Our generous sponsor for this challenge is Deedee's Digis

                

My DT card using Deedee's Rain or Shine bear which comes with 3 sentiments.

         

I've used my Pink Petticoat digi papers again in golden rod, sweetcorn and pebble. I can understand why the lovely Dawny P of Pink Piggy loves using them so much.

Copics used clothes Y00 Y11 Y15 YR12  B32 B05

Bear E41 E43 E44

water B000

Distress inks stormy sky and mustard seed for background.

Glossy accents on his hat boots and water

Xcut border punch and die cut umberellas that are probably Quickcutz... i've had them so long i'm not 

 too sure.

      Some challenges to share with:
Papertake Weekly ~ Anything goes with option of adding something old ( the umberellas)
Try it Tuesday ~ Inspired by a song ( singing in the rain)
Charisma Cardz ~ Four legged friends
2 Sisters ~ Teddy bears

Well thats me done back to the decorating!!!
Thanks for stopping by have a fun weekend.

Love Cherie    //*.*\\

Colour challenge # Teddy Stampers

Good morning sweet friends and welcome to my lovely new followers, looking forward to sharing the journey together.

Many thanks too for  your creations for our last challenge they were all amazing, and so nice to visit you.

We at Teddy Stampers would like to invite you to join us for our new challenge ..... it's a colour combo

 PINK   WHITE  BROWN

We would like to see these colours, and don't forget you need a stamped or digi stamp BEAR on your creation.

Our generous sponsor is Whiff of Joy

My DT card

I'm making cards at the moment for my grandaughters nursery, they're raising money to buy a new camera.

Isn't this a cute shape, when it's closed it fits in to a C6 or 16 1/2 x 11 1/2 cm envelope.

You can see how to make an  A5 version on Leann blog of Crafters Companion.

Although it does say you need 6 A5 pieces of card, you only use 4 and one to cut a square from.

A tip that might help is not to use thick card as it's quite springy to close, especially if matting and layering, light weight card stock is fine..

I've used digi papers again I'm really loving the papers from Pink Petticoat ( blossom and mocha plain ) and matched it beautifully with a paper from Popcorn Bear CD... floral.

The cute ted stamp is Penny Black 'snug' coloured with copics E30 31 YR21 and the background R000

W1 shadow

While visiting Cupcake Craft challenge I hopped over to Shelly she inspired me with her doodle borders well worth a visit, she has some gorgeous creations.

I embossed the front panels with a Cuttlebug border folder and added pearls Hobby House Crafts the ribbon was from Whichcraft uk it might not be on the site but you can order by phone.

The sentiment was written on the computer. I left the other oval empty for a personal message.

Some challenges to join in

Penny Black Saturday ~ pretty in pink

Truly Scrumptious ~ pearls and swirls

Digital Tuesday ~ use a die cut and something digital ( digi papers)

Everybody art ~ 3 papers 3 flowers optional ribbon ( hope the embossed flowers are ok)

Ooh la la ~ for someone special..... and mums are really special!!!

Fairy tale challenge ~ diamond fold card

Thanks for stopping by have a great weekend,

Love cherie  //*.*\\

Celebrations # Teddy Stampers

Hi and Happy New Year, hope you all had a fun Christmas.

Our first challenge of the year at Teddy Stampers is

CELEBRATIONS

So anything you want to celebrate, new baby, anniversary, birthday the choice is yours as long as you have a STAMPED OR DIGI STAMP TEDDY on your creation.

Our generous sponsor Whimsy Stamps gave us some cute images to work with, I chose Chilly Bear,

but as my mojo seems to be taking an extended holiday... sorry it's a Christmas card.

The easel card is made from Nesties Labels 10 with DP from Doodle Bug.

MS snowflake punch

I resized  the bear to make a baby one... having fun with mum or dad not sure!! and finished off with a peel off greeting and some gems from my stash, oh and crystal glitter of course.

Check out the rest of the team,  for some fab inspiration and welcome our new DT members.

Challenges to have fun with:

A spoon full of sugar ~ a Christmas card

ABC christmas ~ A for anything Christmas

Thank you for stopping by have a fun weekend.

Love Cherie   //*.*\\

Get Well Soon

Good Morning crafty friends,

We have a new challenge at Teddy Stampers

                                    A  SKETCH  and a
                   COLOUR COMBO red white and green

You can embellish it or keep it simple use either or both it's up to you. If you use both the sketch and the colour combo you will be entered twice into the prize draw.
 Just remember to be in line to win the prize from our generous sponsor you need to have a stamped or digi stamp TEDDY on your creation.

Our sponsor is Michelle's Scrapbooking and more

my DT card. I used the sketch and the colour combo.

For some wonderful inspiration check out my team members their links are on my side bar.

The sketch

Stamp set by Kanban and coloured with copics, why does the list of colours used, disappear at the last moment!!!
Don't ya just love this teddy!!
 Green DP from Nitwits and Personal Impressions...the gingham
Red pearls from The hobby house

Sorry a quick post today,
 I'm going to my 3yr old grandaughters carol concert at the church, she's going to be mary, bless!!

Have a good day and thanks for stopping by,

Love cherie   //*.*\\

It's our Birthday Blog Hop # Teddy Stampers

Good morning crafty friends,

It's time to celebrate Teddy Stampers is turning ONE! whoohoo!!!
We've been stamping with our teddies for a year and want to celebrate with you, by having a
                                        
                                                BIRTHDAY BASH!


Please come and join us today for a blog hop as the Teddy Stampers design team share ways to say
                                            
                                               HAPPY BIRTHDAY !!!!!

We hope our creations will inspire you to create a birthday project or two of your own.
There are lots of prizes to give away this week so if you want to win you need to participate!

Here's how it works, from the Teddy Stampers blog... hop around to each of the designers blogs   and              LEAVE A COMMENT on each blog... we're not a large team so it won't take you long.
Then hop back to Teddy Stampers and upload a BIRTHDAY CREATION of your own, don't forget you must have a stamped or digi stamp teddy on your project.


You must complete ALL these steps in order to be eligible for a prize.

It would be brilliant if you would like to become a follower but it's not a requirement on my blog... to be in with a chance of  winning my prize.
We have some brilliant sponsors taking part:

Digital Delights by Louby Lou

Dragon Lair Designs

The Cutting Cafe

Doodle Dragon Studios

Deedee's Digis

Simon Says Stamp

That's a lot of chances to win! Plus some of our fabulous team have a prize up for grabs for one lucky hopper too!!!
Here's my prize

That's right not one...not two... not three... but FOUR GORGEOUS BEAR STAMPS from Lili of the Valley.

If you've joined me from ANGELIQUE then you're on the right path if not hop over to the Teddy Stampers blog and start from the begining from me you need to hop to
                                                             COLLEEN

Here's my DT creation

The base card is a die cut scallop concertina step card only available from Whichcraftuk
 Gorgeous Popcorn Bear from the Party Time... Smile... and Birthday Hugs stamp sets.
Popcorn was lying on a parcel which I cut away to use on the gift box and I also cut away the little duck.
All coloured with copics some of the colours I used:
bear E30 31 33 R20  ducks YR12 YR21 Y00 Y21 parcels and balloons G00 G21 Y00 BG93 YR02 YR04 YR21 Y11 YR07 YG11 YG24 R20 R22
DP is Kioshi by Basicgrey
I used sakura stardust pens to add glitter
Sentiment is from Stampin' Up

Other challenge to have fun with:
Pile it on ~ Beary good friends use a bear with a friend
ABC challenge ~ G is for glitter... it is there
Crafty Sentiments ~ make a gift
Cupcake insirations ~ photo i've used the colours
Paperplay Playtime  ~ Use a clock, ticket or tag

The lovely Jerusha asked us if we'd like to do a tutorial for the hop well i've had a go... hope it's ok it's my first one!!!!!
Tutorial for the gift box...

I forgot to mention score on the lines 1/2"  4"  5 3/8" and 8 7/8"

Sorry to all those who work in metric. It's just so much easier to use the Martha Stewart board, for projects like this.
At a later date I hope to start a separate tutorial section but for now it'll have to stay on the post.
Hope i've made it clear enough any questions please feel free to leave a comment and i'll edit it in.

So come on join the fun you might be one of the lucky prize winners.
Have a fun weekend and
HAPPY HOPPING!!!!

love cherie      //*.*\\

BEAR Acrostic

A BIG hi to all my  crafty friends, I hope you're all ok,

Apart from my DT commitments  sadly i've been too busy to visit you, I hope to be round after the weekend.
I had to prepare for a workshop for 22 lovely ladies, with my sister's help... thanks Jac mwah!! we had a fabulous afternoon.
Another treat, is making samples with, the gorgeous new Molly Bloom Christmas stamps,  I will be demoing them  on Saturday at Whichcraft uk,
Come and join Paula and the team for the
                  10 year celebration day click here for details


We have a fun challenge at Teddy Stampers for the next fortnight.
Our lovely teamy Lindsey choose this one,
                                               
                                               Bear Acrostic
I have to confess I didn't know what this meant so if you're like me i'll explain.
You have to take the word BEAR and use the letters for something on your creation.
Could be B- for brads E- for emboss and so on. I'm sure you'll be able to think of a lot more.

Here is my Dt card 
I used
B- Butterflies, borders, bouquet.
E- Embossing on the butterfly, envelope.
A- Anniversary card
R- Roses, ribbon

We'd love you to play along, you must have a stamped or digi stamp bear on your creation,
Our sponsor is Inktegrity

Just Cute Bears challenge want you to use punches

Sorry if my post is a bit rushed, i've still more samples to finish,

Love cherie   //*.*\\

Teddy Stampers # back to school

Hi lovely blogging friends...how ya doing,

Another back to school project this time for our challenge over at Teddy Stampers.
We would love you to join in the fun with our 'back to school' theme.
Don't forget you must have a stamped or digi stamp bear on your project.
For more inspiration check out my lovely team members, links on my sidebar

Our generous sponsor for this challenge is Deedees digis

Other challenges to have fun with:
Just Cute Bears ~ Lets get dotty
A Spoonful of sugar ~ Animal on your project
Tuesday Taggers ~ Books
Crazy 4 Challenges ~ Books

This is my DT creation a bookmark.
The cutie bear is a digi image from Di's digi downlods     ..... check out Di's freebies
 copics used bear, apple and book R00 R20 R22 R24 E30
G20 G21 pencil and book E30 E33 E35 and a white souffle sakura pen for highlights.
Paper is from a 'Love pack' from Papermania and black card and bazzill from my stash.
The cord from Hobbycraft started out beige and I coloured it with R22 copic
Beads and dome stickers are from my stash. I've had them for so long I can't remember where I got them,
The beads were already coloured.

I also made a backpack to match.

You can download the template and tutorial Here cute eh!!
I had a play with shrink plastic, don't ya just love it... great fun!!!!
It didn't work printing a large image on the computer although I had read on someones blog that you can do it. 
The ink was getting onto the copic marker ARRRAH.
So I traced my original image onto frosted shrink plastic with a pen from Stampin' Up and coloured it with pencils, the colour gets stronger when it's heated.
If you leave a small border around your image you can add a hole before you heat it.
Next time I think i'll use thinner card for the backpack as the bazzill's a bit too stiff.

Hope you'll join in the fun, thanks for stopping by.

Love cherie   //*.*\\

Teddy Stampers # Sketch challenge

Hi Friends,

It's time for another challenge over at Teddy Stampers
We have a delish sketch from our lovely Jerusha for you to have fun with for this fortnight.
Our generous sponsor is Die Cut Dreams

This is my DT card

Isn't this 'Bear with Flowers' just so cute it's got such a gorgeous face,
 from Crafty Sentiments
Copics
Bear E000 E00 R20 R00
Basket E35 E51
Green G20 YG95
Roses R20 R22
Shadow BG10
Gold stardust too, then cut it out with nesty labels 4. I cut around  to make a thinner border.
The double sided paper is Morning Meadow by S.E.I and bashful blue cardstock from Stampin' Up.
Sentiment is from the Sincere Salutations also from SU which I stamped in Versafine sepia.
Martha Stewart doyle punch and a border embossing folder.
Taking about embossing folders check out the new ones from Docrafts by Papermania.
Some great christmas ones and a snip at £2.99. The one I got had 4 christmas borders in.
The flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts, and pearls are 3mm 'wedding day' set from 
The Hobbyhouse Crafts.

I won't be around this weekend going to have fun with Captain Croc lol.
 We're taking our grandchildren to Pontins for the bank hol,
will catch up with you all early next week. xx

Thanks for stopping by and for all your fabulous comments
Whatever you are doing this weekend ENJOY!!!

Love cherie    //*.*\\

Oh!! No more trees please.

Hi  friends,

Welcome to my lovely new followers thank you for joining us... looking forward to visiting you, to share some inspiration and love.
You might need a cuppa with his post!!!
 I've missed visiting you, and will catch up with you all this weekend, put the kettle on!!!

Your creations for our last Teddy Stampers Challenge were amazing, thank you so much
 I hope you'll have fun with this one, you won't be able to stop singing!!!!

                                           TEDDY BEARS PICNIC

There you go you're singing already lol...so you can let your imagination run wild (I did)
as long as you have a stamped or digi stamp bear on    and have fun.

Our sponsor for this challenge is Sew Many Cards

As a teddy lover this song has always been a real favourite and I just had to use it in a story book for my delish grandchildren.

Other challenges to join in
Cute card Thursday ~ Tree-mendous .........do you think 28 will be enough, hence my title.
Little Red Wagon ~ Summer Time .......they're on a summer picnic
Crazy Catz ~ Animals
By The Cute and Girly ~ Animals

This is an A5 page mounted onto bazzil card, I used my Bind it All to put it together. I will change the rings I only had 5/8  and think smaller ones would be better.

I  started by stamping images onto copy paper, cut some out and then I played with them and made a black and white story board for each page. I used some of the tree's as masks.

 The  magnolia stamp has 4 trees on it i've stamped straight onto the card stock on every page.

All the images are coloured with copics and a few Promarkers, I used so many colours the list would be endless!!

I was looking for someone in diguise and found this cutie... Teddy Baby from Squigglefly 

He's a digi stamp so i cut him out and sat him on to a Magnolia picnic quilt, that's stamped straight on.

The sky and grass are chalk on every page.

I used Art Impressions stamps for the tufts of grass, stones, flowers with Marvey La Plume markers.

For the title I cut the letters on my Cricut with George cartridge, I really must use it more.

I computer printed the words onto the pages first.

First bears to arrive at the picnic, what a great dad with his three cubby's,

Digi stamp called 'Off We Go' from Phindy's Place, printed on.

 Digi stamps Cuthbet Sweet and Kiki Cakes from Pollycraft these two are cut out.

More cutie bears having fun, playing lots of games, and scrummy food.

These digi stamps are from a Digi download kit from Cuddly Buddly.

You get coloured images as well as line stamped ones, I didn't use any of the coloured ones, apart from

 the paper on the front cover which  is also from this kit. As I said earlier I hand coloured all the images.

I used a white sakura souffle pen to make the dots.

More bears playing hide and seek from the kit, hand coloured and cut out.

The large tree is Magnolia and stamped direct to card stock.

As previous page.

Arh they're tired, last page phew!!

'Teddy bear bedtime story'

This is a digi stamp by LilyBoo designs and available from Cuddly Buddly.

Well thanks for sticking with me or did it put you to sleep too!!!

I'll be back later with another post I have some picys from a workshop I took earlier in the week.

So come on and join in the fun are you still singing?

Thanks for stopping by have a fun weekend hopefully in the sun.

Love cherie    //*.*\\