Bikini Clad Welcoming Bear

Can you say “biggie size”? I just love the Treasure Box Designs Tear Bear. Now how cute is this to welcome guests to my home . . . .

RECIPE:

• Treasure Box Designs Tear Bear enlarged to 11.5-inches tall by 7-inches wide using brown Recollection card stock which I layered on top of black cardstock with a hole in the poor teddy's head to hang a ribbon from my stash!
• Treasure Box Designs Outfits (Beach Pals) using green leopard Recollection card stock
• Treasure Box Designs Cool Cat (which had been a "freebie" at one time) sunglasses from the Cool Cat which were glitzed with rhinestones and cut using the green leopard Recollection card stock
• Pearl in center of bikini top from Miriam’s CraftingSupplies
• "Summer Fun" banner made using Make the Cut and Sakura Micron #3 pen to give calligraphy

Hope you enjoyed my welcoming bikini-clad bear!!!

God Bless you and thank you ever sew much for stopping by today! I love reading comments and would love to read yours . . . .

Much love, hugs, and friendship

Lynne

Have a "Fairy" "Beary" Happy Birthday Jean.

Welcome and its my step-daughter, Jean’s, birthday today. I decided to make a shaped card for her using Treasure Box Designs Teddy TearBear along with Teddy Outfit Beary Fairy.

I love to make shaped cards by welding pieces together. Today, I decided to do a step-by-step tutorial today for those who would be interested in making a card similar to mine.

Recipe:

• First separate all the pieces of your paper piecing into what you need to make your card. You do not need the paws, eyes, nose, and muzzle as part of making your card.  
  
  
  
  
  
• Save all of the pieces before the next step that you have the actual size of the item to glue on the front of the card
• Arrange the pieces into the bear shape. I look at the picture that comes with all Treasure Box Design paper piecing to make sure I get in the proper order and making it pleasing.  
  
  
  
  
  
• After all the pieces are arranged, use the “select all feature” and then the “weld” feature to join the piecings. Do NOT use the “join” feature as it leaves openings where otherwise the pieces would be welded.  
  
  
  
  
  
• At this point, I always save the single item that I have something to use for sizing for the clothing and/or features
• Now, to make the card, use the “copy” feature and then “paste in place” to keep the items the exact same size. 
• Separate the two items and select one of them to use the feature “mirror” as you want the card to be an exact copy when welding the two together.   
  
  
  
  
  
• Line-up the two items and overlap them together to make your card.  
  
  
  
  
  
• Use the “select all” feature and “weld” the items together.  
  
  
  
  
  
• You now have a card
• Cut the bear pieces and arrange and glue to front of your card
• I then size the clothing to fit the bear

Supply List:

• Treasure Box Designs Teddy Bear
• Treasure Box Designs Teddy Outfit Beary Fairy
• Black Recollection Card Stock for card
• Brown Recollection  Card Stock for bear
• Scraps for fairy clothing
• Black and White Gelly pen, Dusty Brown Prisma Colored Pencil to make the eyes with eyelashes by Sakura Micro Pen
• My Beary Fairy needed some bling, SEW, I used pearls from Miriam's Crafting Supplies 
• Sentiment, "a fairy beary happy birthday", hand-written using white gelly pen.  
  
  
  

God Bless you and thank you ever sew much for stopping by today! I love reading comments and would love to read yours . . . .

Much love, hugs, and friendship

Lynne

Think Spring

It’s time to start thinking SPRING!!!! I’ve had enuf cold weather, snow, sleet, and did I mention cold weather??? Its time for SPRING!!!!

For my project today, I combined two (2) of Treasure Box Designs and then can you say “Biggie Size” this to 12 – inches tall to hang on our front door!!!!

RECIPE:

• Treasure Box Designs Tear Bear but didn’t use as a tear bear TreasureBox Designs Tear Teddy Outfit (Butterfly)
• Cuttlebug Embossing folder Swirls for wings
• Recollections Floral Embellishments

• On Make the Cut, arranged pieces together and welded for background to make sturdier - I also welded a circle to attach my ribbon through before I added the other pieces to the black Recollections cardstock

• Enlarged pieces to fit on background and separated into colors
• Butterfly body is Recollections polka dots cardstock
• Butterfly shoes and head band are www.coredinationsFoundatins.com
• Butterfly wings, teddy’s eyes, and antennae top circles are Recollections black cardstock
• Butterfly collar and bows are yellow check from Recollections
• Bear is Recollections Brown cardstock
• All edges were chalked with Inkadinkadoo Chalks
• Hi-light around eyes are White, Glitter Green, and Black Gelly Roll Pens
• Eyelashes are Black Avery Gel Works

God Bless you and thank you ever sew much for stopping by today!

Much love, hugs, and friendship

Lynne

This project has been entered in the following challenge:
Chalk 'n Stalk April Challenge 
Scrappy Frog's Challenge Blog: Think Spring
Brown Sugar Challenge #36 Spring