A Thank You Note From Teddy Bea

Good Morning

I am in the middle of a batch of Thank You cards for my daughter to send to thank everyone for her 18th birthday presents.  I've had to keep them fairly straight forward but had a bit of a mental block to say the least!  The current challenge at Teddy Bo is Clean and Simple, so I decided to sit and colour my favourite bear to use on one of the cards.

Teddy Bea is coloured with coloursoft pencils and then matted onto some lovely mottled cardstock that I got from Papermill.  The flower and flourishes are cut using Marianne dies and a gem added to the centre of the flower.

My card is for the following challenges:

Teddy Bo Challenge  - Clean and Simple

Saturday Challenge - White plus one other colour (not including the colour of the image)

The Crafty Pad Challenge - Monochromatic

My Time To Craft Challenge - Punches and dies

Creative Inspirations - Monochromatic

Bling It On Challenge - No patterned paper

Pollycraft Monday Challenge  - Girls, girls, girls

Whoopsi Daisy Challenge - Free and Easy

Thanks for visiting my blog today, I'm off to try and finish the rest of the Thank You cards.

Jo x

Teddy Bo and Bea Throughout The Year

Good Morning

There are lots of photos in this post!!

As you have probably noticed, I am very fond of Teddy Bea & Bo.  As the challenge over at Teddy Bo is make anything other than a card, I decided to make myself a desk calendar for 2012, so I'll always have one of my favourite bears on my desk.

All the images were printed onto white card and coloured using coloursoft pencils.  I used lot of various dies, cut into gold mirror board or gold linen board to make the mats for the teddies to sit on.

The calendar tabs were created using a stamp set from Dimension Fourth, and then I coloured around the frame using brushmarker pens in a colour picked out from each of the images.

The frame was made from some very thick white card, with rings through the top to hold the pages in place.

Here are all the photos!

I would like to enter my calendar in the following challenges:

Teddy Bo Challenge - anything but a card.

Crafts and Me Challenge  - favourite image (August, sunflower Bea)

Allsorts Challenge - free and easy

Stampin For The Weekend - Wings and things (December)

Thanks for sticking with me through this long post.

Jo x