This Week!!!

Oh my is this week flying by in a flash. In honor of our group event "A Card for Every Season" here is my card for this great event. For those of you coming, we will see you on Saturday morning. I am not sure how bright eyed I will be with football the night before but at least we are at home. For those of you that were not able to sign up I will post a few other cards this week.

The Build a Bears, I just can't seem to stay away from them. At the end of the month this little guy & his girlfriend will be climbing on board some candy wrappers for my youngest son's class & my youngest daughter's 16th Birthday party. Be on the look out for those pictures. The cardstock base is tangerine tango. The front has been sent through the Big Shot with the web embossing folders. I just love the embossing folders. I hope we come out with more more more. The black strip is basic black waffle paper. The scallop oval is peach parfait. The words, the bear & all his accessories are stamped in basic black on whisper white. Then colored & cut out. The words are punched with the large oval punch. The bear is popped up with some dimensionals. This little guy is just beary sweet.

Last Pictures of the Build a Bears

Thank you to my wonderful guest at my Build a Bear Event. To my followers I am so sorry I haven't posted anything in over a week. Those Bears were taking up all of my "free" time & some of my family time too. But I did promise to post them all so here are what I believe are the last 3 bear cards. Sometime this week I will post the journals that I made for my customers at the event. Thanks again ladies for the wonderful afternoon.

Sorry the pictures are not that great of quality. I was taking them very quickly when I set up for my guests.

Let's Celebrate - Boys

In our house we definitely celebrate boys (& girls) our family is equally split right down the middle 4 & 4 (including our dog & cat). This little guy reminds me of a paper boy. I might change the punch that holds the "let's celebrate" sign to make it a little less paper boy looking. This wonderful little bear was designed by Teresa Giordano another Stampin' Up Demonstrator. You can view her blog by clicking Here. It is in Spanish but there is a translate option for those that aren't fluent in spanish. Thanks Teresa for letting me use him.




















The base of this card is old olive. The designer paper comes from the Nursery Suite design. The ribbon is chocolate chip satin. The bear body is crumb cake, with soft suede for his hat snout & shoes. The eyes, nose & mouth are basic black. His shirt & pants are made from the In-Color Designer Paper pack that is available as a level 1 hostess item. Then the words are from the Family Phrases stamp set. This is one of my favorite word stamp sets. Tomorrow (yes a little early) the girl Bears will start to appear. A Reminder if you have not signed up for my Build a Bear Workshop - What are you waiting for? Registration ends this Friday so get yours to me ASAP. If you have any questions email or call me. Happy Tuesday. I hope it is not a Monday for any of you.

The 1st Build a Bear Boy - Just Lovely

This boy is ready for his date & wouldn't any girl just love to receive some lovely red roses.




















This card is bashful blue for the base. Then the grass & flower stems are old olive. It is hard to see on this picture but I took my paper snips & cut into the old olive all the way across the top to make it look more like grass. His shoes, eyes & nose are basic black. His pants, jacket & behind the shoes are crumb cake.  His shirt & collar are whisper white. His mouth, tie & roses are real red. The bear body is soft suede with a chocolate chip snout. Watch out next week for his girlfriend. She has a beautiful sparkling white rose for him.

Getting ready for a Fang-tastic Halloween

This card is a combination of a whole bunch of my favorite things from the new Holiday Mini Catalog. I love the fang-tasic stamp set & especially the web impressions folder.

The card base is tangerine tango, then the basic black was run through the Big Shot machine with the Spider Web Impressions folder. Then I took white craft ink & just lightly ran it across the raised image of the spider web. Then I stamped the boy & the words in basic black ink on whisper white cardstock. Colored the boy with basic black, blush blossom, elegant eggplant & tangerine tango markers, then I cut him out & attached him with dimensionals to a 1 3/8" punch circle of tangerine tango that was glued to a 2 3/4" scallop punch of elegant eggplant. The words are a 1 1/4" circle punch that I trimmed the bottom of so that it was even with the basic black cardstock. Be on the look out for his witch friend this weekend. Along with the start of the Boy Bears from my Build a Bear Workshop Event. If you are not yet signed up for this event you have only until September 10th.