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   //*.*\\

Big Bear Hug

Morning friends hope you're having a fun weekend, welcome to my lovely new followers

looking forward to visiting you... thanks for joining us.

The challenge over at Just Cute Bears this week is
Monochrome     one colour or shades of one colour
This is my Guest Designer card

other challenges i'm entering:
Craftalicious ~ monotone
Sassy Cheryl's ~ make your own flowers
Sir Stampalot monthly ~ punch it

Isn't this just the cutest image, I took inspiration from it's creator Cheryl of Sassy Cheryl's Designs,
and left the bear white.
Copics: bear C1 C3 R20 R22 dress R20 22 24 skin E0000 E000 hair E00 E02 Shadow R20 + 0
The easel card is made of 3 die cut circles from Whichcraftuk there's a link on my side bar.
Dp is magnolia from the Once upon a Time collection with Bazzil bling.
The punched flowers I made with help from the woj tutorial and inspiration blog
and added pearl brads from my stash. I did spritz them with shimmerz baby's breath but it's not that noticable.
Sentiment was done on the computer.

 HELP!!!! just a note to say ooooh I really wish I hadn't tried the new blogging templates the pink one wasn't working properly, so i'm sorry if I switch about a bit till I find another one I like. I can't find a way to switch it off.!!!!

Happy Father's Day hope your day is special,

Love cherie  //*.*\\

Here comes summer

Good morning friends, hope you're having a good weekend

It's time for another challenge at Just cute bears, where I am a guest designer for this month.
                                             Here Comes Summer
You might want to put your sun glasses on for my card BRIGHT or what!!!!
Some other challenges:
Creative cottage ~ Pink
Pollycraft ~ Ribbons and Bling
A Spoonful of Sugar ~ Floral Delights

For my summer theme i've used the gorgeous ted's on a see- saw stamp by Elzybells.
if I knew how to do video I could show you they really do go up and down.
with Summer background stamp from Magnolia and coloured with copics
Dp are from Doodle Bug
 The sentiment is a free digi from  Create with TLC if you've not already been there
check  it out there's an amazing amount of word art and images.
Bling is from Papermania and ribbon from stash.

I'll be back later with a sneek -peek at some of the cards that's kept me busy all week.

Thanks for stopping by
Love Cherie   //*.*\\

Dad & Me

Good morning friends,

Hope you're having a brilliant weekend.
 We have had some gorgeous days here, not sure about today it's a little cloudy at the moment.

I'm so thrilled to be a Guest Designer for the Just Cute Bears Challenge this month.
Thank you Alison for inviting me.
The challenge this week is    ~  Father's Day ~  which is on the 20th June.

My card covers these challenge:
Little Red Waggon ~ altered embelishment ..... I coloured the charm with a copic marker.
Stamp Something ~  Digi day.  A new challenge 1 friday in the month to use a digi image.

I've made an easel card again oooow! don't ya just love em.
The gorgeous teds are from Di's Digi Downloads called Quality Time.
Coloured with copics  sorry i've so much going on at the mo i've lost my colours!!!
I did have a play with my new toy an air brush for copics.... but had to go back to chalk for the background.... need more practice..... the bears looked like they were fishing in blue paint!!!
The DP is a kit, papers, stickers, brads by Bo Bunny and the green is Bazzil Bling
Sentiment from Tiny Phrases by Woodware
I used last weeks sketch from Papertake by the lovely talented Dawny P

Have a wonderful day and what ever you're doing ENJOY x

Love Cherie   //*.*\\

Happy Bearday

Hi friends, how ya doing, ok I hope,

My card today is for the following challenges:

Just Cute Bears ~ I followed their sketch, and they have a DT call
Penny Black Saturday ~ Lots of Dots
Rosie D's ~ Easel card
Little Red Waggon ~ Birthday
Sir Stampalot Monthly ~ Butterflies and Blossoms

I didn't want to wait till the morning and used a daylight lamp so the photo is a bit brighter, but hey ho that's what you get when you're impatient.
I'll make it quick as it's really late.
The gorgeous ted is from the teddy and company stamp set, and I used the flowers on the base from
the Wonderful set both by Penny Black.
Copics ~ E30 31 33 B63 BG10 G03 G21 Y21 YR23 and chalk for the background.
Base cardstock celery and ribbon from SU
DP hopscotch by K&Co
Embossed from stash.
Sentiment from the sincere salutations set by SU from Victoria

Thanks for stopping by and for your lovely comments,

Love Cherie  //*.*\\

lili of the valley # 51 Sketch

HI happy weekend, and a BIG HELLO to a new follower Shannon, thank you so much for joining us.

The challenge over at Lili of the Valley is a gorgeous sketch.

I thought it would make a nice tent card there's a tutorial here
Other challenges I am entering:
Just Cute Bears: Flowers
Cute Card Thursday: Touchy Feely

Pee Po thought you might like to see the inside.

From the side view.

The image is by Lily of the Valley don't forget there's a brilliant tutorial for colouring this image on their blog here

 Double sided paper by Little Yellow Bicycle the back is called "green bird."

Flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts and Craftwork cards I put these through the ribbler

Copic colours:

Bear E30 E31 E33 +Blender

Green YG03  YG06       G21 for green in flowers and envelope

flowers V000 V12 V15 RV10 RV21 RV23

E93 for daisies

Y15 YR23 for centers

W1 for shadows

 Thanks for stopping by have a great weekend

Love Cherie  //*.*\\

Teddy Stampers Challenge # Spring

What's more beautiful than a spring day, bright yellow daffodils bathed in sunshine, that was my inspiration for my DT card.

So the  new challenge for you today over at Teddy Stampers, is a creation with spring in mind.

Just a reminder you must have a stamped or digi TEDDY BEAR image on your creation.

My fellow DT members have some gorgeous inspiration for you.

I'm entering my card into the Just Cute Bears challenge too.
 It was the turn of the lovely Annie to choose the challenge, which is a colour combo of yellow and green gorgeous spring colours.




I love making easel cards, but they are a bit difficult to photograph. the base is always in the shadow and so the colour comes out darker. If anyone has any tips i'd be very greatful.
My image is Popcorn Bear Someone Special stamp set by Crafter's Companion.
 I'ts a lovely large image but as you can see at the top you can use a portion of it.

As promised the copic and Promarker colours are:
bear: E30 31 33 34 and E08 on his foot
daffodils: Y11 15 YR23
greens: G14 promarker pear green
duck: Y11 promarker honeycomb
shading around bear: C1 + blender
background: I used chalk.

The DT papers are by Brenda Walton from my stash
Martha Stewart picket fence punch
I tried in vain to get paper daffodils, had to settle for these silk ones. There were lots of Easter goodies reduced at Hobbycraft in store last Saturday. I got 2 Easter punches by Martha Stewart for £8.99 each!!!
I put pearl brads in the center of the flowers, from  the Hobby House
 and a punch by McGill for the leaves.
 ribbon Hobbycraft
sentiment by Stamping Up

Thanks for stopping by have a great weekend.
Love Cherie    //*.*\\