Making Butterflies

Today I thought I would show you a fun way to make a butterfly for a card or tag. For my project, I used Graphic 45's Once Upon a Springtime. The diecut is from Donna Salazar/Spellbinders. I also added a bunch of layers of UTEE on my tag and stamped into it using a Tim Holtz stamp.

Step 1) Use score tape to cover a piece of cardstock and cut this out with your die.

Step 2) Since this is kind of thick, your center cuts won't pop out as easy. This is good, because we don't want them to at this point.

Step 3) Glue your die cut to a second piece of cardstock

Step 4) Peel away the design elements for your first color of glitter.


Step 5) Add your first glitter color and make sure it covers the areas you like.

Step 6) Add your next color (after removing the paper backing from the Scor-tape)

Step 7) Add your final color of glitter. Use a glue pen to add glue to any missing spots and reapply glitter.

Wings and Feathers

I just love this challenge "Wings" I just love butterflies and this challenge is so much fun. The design teams added challenge is feathers and I have added a little bit of a feather to my background.

My little Tattered Teddy looks like he just climbed out of the book. My papers are from Graphic 45's Once Upon A Springtime Collection. My Tattered Teddy was made with an Acrylic Paper Piecing Pattern and Mulberry Paper. My butterfly is a Wood Shape from Pinkpaislee and Kimm has more on order she sold out of these awesome wooden embellishments. I colored it with Colorbox Ink and added Stickles and Pearls.

Now lets see what you can make with wings and enter your card---HERE---

Thanks so much for looking.

~Patricia~

A Little Spin On Our New Sketch Challenge

We have a new sketch challenge at

The Beary Scrap

I went on a Scrapbook Bus tour on Sunday and that involves 4 scrapbook stores and they all have a coach bus that rotates around all the stores and was so much fun I walked of the bus like a bag lady I had so many new goodies and I even won 2 prizes. At one of the stores I saw a tiny little shadow box and it was actually a kit by Darcie Crafts and I thought I can make that with Spellbinders. So I made up my template and started cutting out my pieces to make my own shadow box, I used just about every food box I have in my kitchen to make enough pieces to make my little box thick enough to put in my Baby Tear Bear. It was funny my husband didn't even know what I was doing till he went into the kitchen and saw bags of cereal and crackers and other yummys sitting on the counter without the boxes. 



Now I couldn't even tell you how many layers my box is I never counted I just kept adding till my Baby Bear fit. I used the very pretty papers from the 6x6 Prima Fairy Flora Pad and my 12x12 paper is from Graphic 45's Once Upon A Springtime Collection. I also blinged this up with Stickles, German Glass Glitter and Dew Drops. My flowers were punched out with EK Sucess Retro Flower Punch and the butterflies were punched with a Martha Stewart punch and they both were inked with Colorbox Inks. My Baby Bear was made with an Acrylic Pattern and Mulberry Paper. My leaves is Sizzix Branch w/ Leaves Die.  I tryed to take pictures from different angles to show that my shadow box spins in the center. This has 4 small photo boxes made with Spellbinders.

Now lets see what you can make with our sketch.

Enter your project

---HERE---

Thanks for looking.

~Patricia~

Our New Beary Sweet Sketch & Challenge

Welcome to April and our brand new Sketch Challenge! I am so excited to be able to be the first to show you my take on the sketch (I have never been the first one up before!)-- this was such a fun and simple sketch, I just let my imagination go and this is what I came up with:



I used the "Once Upon a Springtime Line" from Graphic 45-- these papers are absolutely beautiful! I used several different sheets of the patterned paper plus some of the diecuts. I used one of the ready made framesto highlight my large photo of my daughter after she had lost a tooth and then cut up some of the other pages to add flowers and a fairy to my tooth fairy page.



I popped up the images I cut out with foam squares and then added lots of Stickles for some shine!

Supplies used:

Graphic 45 Once Upon a Springtime Paper Pad
Lime Green Stickles
Diamond Stickles
May Arts Sheer Woven Rosettes Green
Mini Alphabet Stickers from My Little Shoebox
Bazzill cardstock
Corner punch
Colorbox Liquid Chalk Creamy Brown
Adhesives-- foam squares, glue dots

It was wonderful to see all the great entries for our March challenges, I hope to see lots for April too so be sure to enter your take on the sketch before April 14 at 11:50 EST. Good Luck!

Spring Fairy Tag

Hi there and happy spring! Depending on where you live you might have gotten a surprise spring snow over the weekend. What was up with that? Sunday morning we woke up to a couple of inches of the fluffy white stuff, but it was all gone by the afternoon.

This week the design team is showing more projects using our current Spring challenge theme. We've added ribbons to our projects for a little extra oomph. At the end of the week Senior DT Jamie and Brenda, our very first Guest Designer will introduce our April sketch challenge. Yay!

I made a quick tag using our new Tim Holtz dies: Tag & Bookplates and Tattered Florals, and Graphic 45's "Once Upon A Springtime".

This really was a quick project - it took just about 2 hours, which is record time for me! The flower was made by cutting the Tattered Floral shapes twice and offsetting each size so the space between the petals doesn't show. I cut the largest flower down by about a half-inch. The petals are rounded with the awesome Empressor tool. To the edges I randomly added a combination of Star Dust and Crystal Stickles with my fingertip.

The little fairy tag was pulled from the Once Upon A Springtime "Tags" die-cut 12x12 page - loads of cool embellishments on that sheet! I cut an extra wing and added a little Stickles to the wing, crown and sceptre for a little bling.

Card Recipe

• Paper: Graphic 45 Once Upon A Springtime
• Medium: Ranger Distress Ink in Walnut Stain, Tattered Rose, Bundled Sage; Glimmer Mist in Pearl; Stickles in Diamond, Star Dust and Crystal
• Embellishments: G45 Springtime Tag; Kaisercraft Pearls in snow; May Arts lace; seam binding ribbon and pearly branch from stash
• Tools: Tim Holtz Alterations Tag & Bookplate die and Tattered Florals die, Journaling Genie Empressor; Sizzix branch die from stash
• Adhesive: Fabri-Tac

Thanks for visiting today. There's still plenty of time to join our Beary Sweet Spring Challenge and Birthday Bash. It's going on until March 31 - you could win one of 5 fabulous birthday prizes!

Cheers,
Susan

It's Spring Time at The Beary Scrap

Now that we changed our clocks it's a sign that Spring is just around the corner now and I can't wait for warm weather and and to see the sun again.

Our new theme at

The Beary Scrap is

Spring

What's a better way to know that Spring is here but when you see the bees. Luckly my bee won't sting you but she will make you smile.

My Card Recipe:

Acrylic Tear Bear Pattern

Mulberry Paper

Colorbox Ink

Pearls

Graphic 45 -Once Upon a Springtime

Calla Lily Flowers

Martha Stewart Butterfly Punch

Spellbinders Grand Nestabilites-Labels Four
German Glass Glitter on the antena's.

Bee outfit from Treasure Box Designs

Now enter your Spring Project ---HERE---

at The Beary Scrap Challenge Blog

Thanks for Looking.

~Patricia~

Chasing Away The Winter Blues With Flowers

I can tell you that I have the Winter Blues especially after getting more snow Sunday night into Monday luckly we only got about 2", but every day is one day closer to Spring and I can't wait. What do you get with spring? Flowers!!

I just love flowers and now that I have learned to make these flowers by the awesome and tallented Anna from More Paper Than Shoe's in her Ustream Classes it's chasing the Winter Blues away.
When I made my first flower with her a couple of Saturday night's ago I knew I needed to come up with a really cool project to show them off and I came up with this 8x8 shadow box.

Here is my picture with out the box.

Have you had a chance to use some of the German Glass Glitter? I really wish the pictures showed just how pretty this is but that's part of the Winter Blues is lack of sun. But I took some plain white hat pins and dipped them in some of the Craft Tac Glue from Meyers the makers for the German Glass Glitter and rolled then in the Glitter and made them really sparkley. Watch out I don't think anything will be safe now it's all getting Glittered.

I added lots of pretty Pearls to my Sizzix Branch with Leaves Die and to my Butterfly Punch from Martha Stewart.

These flowers are just so pretty and a big thanks again to Anna for being a great teacher. You must go stalk her on her BLOG and see all her awesome flowers. My big flower is made with paper from Graphic 45 from there Springtime Collection as well as all my background paper. My flowers were made with the Tattered Florals Die from Tim Holtz and all the flowers and my mat were Inked with Colorbox Ink.

Who else do you see stuck in the flowers is a Tear Bear made with an Acrylic Paper Piecing Pattern and made with some of the Super Thick White Mulberry Paper. My pretty little corner flourishes are from Recollections. One of my background mats are cut out with one of the new Grand Nestabilities, Grand Labels One from Spellbinders.

Now you only have about a week to enter our Winter Blues Challenge so lets see what you can make and enter your card ---HERE---

Don't forget about our

Guest DT Call

You still have time to enter and get all the details on our store blog ---HERE---

Make sure you go like us on Facebook

we have lots of fun over there with sneak peeks, fun contests and giveaways and don't forget us Beary Scrap Girls me and Kimm are there all the time bouncing around and the other girls like to pop over there to.

Thanks so much for looking.

~Patricia~

Shimmer and Shine those Winter Blues Away

Hi, it Gini here ready to share another way to beat thoseIwinter blues! Flowers and springtime colors and lots of sparkle- yay!

I made a never-ending card (which is so fun- it just keeps opening, and opening and opening!) If you have never made one of these, there is a great video tutorial at Creations by Christie. I used the Graphic 45 Once Upon A Springtime paper, tons of vintage German Glass Glitter, and stamps from Heartfelt Creations - all things that I love!

Here is what the front of the card looks like...



And then you open it and see this view....




And then this view...


And finally this one - after this is goes back to the beginning.


This card would have been pretty, but when I added all of the German Glass Glitter, it became a wow card!

I know some of you are wondering what adhesive to use with this glitter.... You can use all kinds of different things, but, you will get different effects. I experimented a little with some of the glues that I had around the studio and thought I would share what I found.

Fabri-tac glue: one of my favorite glues - It will work with this glitter, but doesn't give you much control. That could be good if you wanted a random type effect.



Flower Soft glue (or Aleene's tacky glue): This gives you a rather 3-d effect as the glue dries without spreading out. You can't really get fine detail effects, but if you want chunky, with lots of dimension, this is great.


Scor-tape: This is easy and quick with no drying time. Perfect if you want very uniform borders. You can also get sheets of Scor-tape, and cut with your die-cut machines to make a very glittery embellishment.


Art Glitter Glue Dries Clear (there is also a dries white version) with the fine metal tip applicator: This is a much runnier glue, which allows you to use the metal tip that will dispense the finest lines of glue that you can imagine. This will let you take a stamped image , and trace around the areas that you would like to highlight and add your glitter.


Another great thing that I've found when using this glitter is that it's not as messy - there is no static cling to the glass, so it goes right back in it's container when I'm finished. And the sparkle does not even compare to your normal plastic glitter. Once you try this, you will end up wanting it in every color (I think I have almost all of them now!)

Remember, you still have about a week and a half to get your entries in for our Guest Designers!

Fairy Wings

Hello hello! I hope you had a great weekend and have a lovely Monday. It's February 14th, and a TV ad says Valentine's Day is a "day to celebrate us". I'd like to take a minute to celebrate *you*, our readers and challenge participants and Beary Scrap store customers. Thanks so much for visiting us everyday to have a peek at our newest challenge inspiration. Thank you for playing in our challenges and shopping in "our" store. Kimm, Gini, Patricia, Jamie and I dearly love being on this team and creating for you. We appreciate every comment here and the lively discussions at our Facebook page. Really, you are very much a part of us. Let's celebrate! ::happy dance::

{big virtual hugs}

Speaking of us, have you seen our Guest Designer call? It's going on through March 5; we are looking for 4 Guest Designers - come check it out!

On to my sketch sample. Today is the last day to enter the sketch challenge. Yes, I am the caboose!

This is made almost entirely from Graphic 45's Once Upon A Springtime. I edged the layers with Distress Walnut Stain ink using the Ranger Blending Tool. I added Stickles to edges, the center image and the flower centers. Kaisercraft pearls are up in the corner and finish off the flower centers. I cut the pink flowers from a sheet found in the 8x8 paper pad (the leftovers from the layer between the solid card stock and the green flower design).

I used the same edge rounding technique found in a tutorial here; this time the rounding is done mostly on the front of the image instead of  the back. 

Here you can see the Stickles on the fairy and butterfly wings, as well as the flowers and egg. For the wings, I just swept the Stickles applicator out to create delicate lines. It's OK if you put too much on - just wipe of *quickly* and try again. 

I really like the versatility of this paper - there are pages with postcard designs like I've used above as well as a 12x12 sheet chock full of card stock embellishments. The papers, both in full-size and an 8x8 pad are stunning. I'm sure I'll be cutting and layering fairies and butterflies (and even a frog prince!) on another card soon.

Card Recipe

• Paper: Graphic 45 Once Upon A Springtime 8x8 paper pad; Bazzill Basics in Ivy
• Medium: Distress Ink in Walnut Stain; Stickles in Star Dust, Lime Green and Frosted Lace (on the egg)
• Embellishments: Flowers cut from Graphic 45 paper; Kaisercraft Pearls in Snow; ribbon and pearl sprigs from stash
• Adhesives: Scor-Tape; Glue Dots; Fabri-Tac
• Tools: Scor-Pal; Cutterbee scissors

Thanks for visiting today! There's still a wee bit of time to get crafty with our sketch challenge. Gini will be here tomorrow with a sample for our new challenge which will also be announced tomorrow.  Come check out our Guest Designer call - we are looking for all talent levels!

Cheers,
Susan

The Beary Scrap's Sketch Challenge and GDT Call

With all this snow we have been having my crafting time is real limited but I always find time to get my design team projects done and this week we continue with our Sketch Challenge plus the design team has to add fabric to our projects. Now I know what I wanted to do but it was just how, now don't ask me how I did this because it took me over and hour just to make my fabric dress for my Tear Bear but I really like how it came out. I used Graphic 45 for my background paper.

I used an Acrylic Tear Bear Pattern and Mulberry Paper to make my bear and Inked the edges with Colorbox Ink. Added some Pearls and Mulberry Flowers. I also used some miscellaneous buttons and lace from my stash.

I added some Stickles to her dress.

Here is a reminder of our Sketch Challenge. You can enter ---HERE---

Don't forget you have till March 5th to enter to be one of 4 Guest Designers for The Beary Scrap. All you have to do is follow this Sketch below and enter it on our Store Blog ---HERE---

Thanks so much for looking.
~Patricia~

The Beary Scrap New Sketch Challenge

It's time for a new Sketch Challenge at

The Beary Scrap Challenge Blog

Now what to crafters do when they hook up on facebook? Get silly!

I had posted on my personal facebook page I was making a card for this post and asked what Beary Scrap Critter they wanted to see on my card? Well I was challenged to a Groundhog. Well at the moment there is not a Groundhog in the store yet so I looked for a clip are picture and used some of the pieces from Sidney the Skunk, Tear Bear, and Monty the Moose to make him out of Mulberry Paper.

My paper is from Graphic 45 and I just love this paper. I Inked all my edges with Distress Ink - Vintage Photo I cut my litte tag out with Spellbinders and also Inked with Distress Ink

Here is our Sketch to follow:

Now when I was challenged little did I know that Kimm was also taking on the challenge and if you want to see how Kimm's came out head on over to
 The Beary Scrap's Facebook Fan Page
to see. Your going to want to be a fan to because we have lots of fun coming that way.

Do you want to be a Guest Beary Scrap Designer?
Watch The Beary Scrap Blog for details coming soon.
Thanks for looking.
~Patricia~

A little more Love from The Beary Scrap

Have you had a chance to play in our Beary Sweet Challenge? We have had a lot of really nice entries and would love more. Our challenge is

Friendship or Love

and for the Design Team we added a Heart.

When Kimm got this new Graphic 45 paper in the store it looked very pretty on the computer but in person it's ever more pretty. I can see so much that can be done with this paper so you better not wait and go buy some before I get back online to the store and buy it up, lol.

My cute little bride digi is from Lisa of Precious Piecings and she has it free at the moment but if you like it don't wait cause it won't be free for long. You can get her ---HERE--- . I printed her on X-Press It Paper thats currently sold out at the store but watch for it soon to be back in stock and colored her with Copics and added Stickles to her flowers. My hearts were cut out with Spellbinders and all my paper is from Graphic 45. I hand stitched around the edges and added some pearls. I added some miscellaneous ribbon from my stash and a Mulberry Flower.
Now you only have a few days left to enter our Beary Sweet Challenge and you can enter you card ---HERE---.

Now if you haven't peeked at the store for a bit Kimm now has the German Glitter Glass from Meyers that has been all over blog land and she has it ready to ship. Check it out I have just got mine from Kimm and watch for this very pretty glitter to be on some of my up and coming projects.

Thanks for looking.
~Patricia~