Sneak Peeks for January 3rd 2012

Joy

Good morning everybody!

I hope you all are great and having a great holiday.

Just popping by today to show you one of the latest card I have made with an Old Teddy Bea image.

I have used the lovely Teddy Bea as a kitten, and I think she is fantastic!
Gabriella, my three year old saw this image on Chrissy's  challengecard and she started to cry when I said I didn't have that image..But mom, I love it she cryed...
Sooo like the kind mother I am, I asked the lovely Teddy Bo boss herself if she please could help me out! Of course bloglands best boss did that and the monster fell alsleep with the grapics in her hand.. She has made a lot of "cards" with this image and today it was my turn :)
This is what I did

Image is TEDDYBEA_103

Coloured with Copics

Papers from MME, lost and found (I love these papers!)

Fancyful Flourish from Cheery Lynn Design

The white flowers comes from Kort og Godt and the blue/green one i have made with a die from Marianne design.

Old bookpage from a book I got as a gift from my mother

Wishing you all a fantastic day and I would take the opportunity to wish you all a happy, healthy and crafty new year.

Thanks for all the beautiful work you have showed us in 2011 and we can't wait to see what you will create with Teddy Bo and Bea in 2012

Warm Christmas hugs

Jill

Merry Christmas to one and all.....x

Merry Christmas to all our friends....I hope you have had a special day with your family and loved ones however you chose to spend it.  I asked our DT for their favourite Teddy Bo & Co Christmas cards and here they are below....x

Catch you soon...Gayle and the Gang...x

Hazel

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Helle

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Tammy-Louise

This is my favorite card

This is my favorite non card Christmas image

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Maritha

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Colette

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Claire

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Edna

 but this one is a close second

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Debbie

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Tammy

 The first two just had to be the magazine cards.

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Jill

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Renee

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It's Thursday it's time for Teddy bo Top Tips

It's been a bit quiet here at the towers with a lot of us having sneaked off for a Christmas free of camels, haggis and Various versions of Veggie Vodka so we don't have a new tutorial for you this week.

We do know that some of you will still be playing with your bears over the holidays so you can spend it doing some revision of our lessons.

 

The next tutorial will be on 5th January when hopefully if you've all been good the fat man in the red suit will have left you lots of lovely new things to play with.

Have a fantastic Christmas

P.S. Don't forget about Darcy's Diaries and your chance to win a £15 voucher to spend in store.

See this post for details and you still have time to enter the Birthstone challenge too!

Wordy Wednesday

Well guys and gals it’s nearly here. We are about to take the plunge into the calorie maelstrom that is part and parcel of the Christmas celebrations. I hate to put a damper on things but you know what it’s like someone has to say it, so today, just to keep things in perspective, here are a few pithy sayings about ssshhhhh! –Dieting!

People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year, but they really should be worried about what they eat between the New Year and Christmas. ~Author Unknown

The cardiologist's diet: If it tastes good, spit it out. ~Author Unknown

Albert Einstein, who discovered that a tiny amount of mass is equal to a huge amount of energy, which explains why, as Einstein himself so eloquently put it in a famous 1939 speech to the Physics Department at Princeton, "You have to exercise for a week to work off the thigh fat from a single Snickers." ~Dave Barry, Dave Barry Turns 50

Avoid any diet that discourages the use of hot fudge. ~Don Kardong

If nature had intended our skeletons to be visible it would have put them on the outside of our bodies. ~Elmer Rice

I keep trying to lose weight... but it keeps finding me! ~Author Unknown

I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond. ~Mae West

Rich, fatty foods are like destiny: they too, shape our ends. ~Author Unknown

If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush. ~Dawn French

A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand. ~Author Unknown

I'm in shape. Round is a shape... isn't it? ~Author Unknown

Don't go out of your weigh to please anyone but yourself. ~Author Unknown

OK enough said!

Have a wonderful Christmas and a Happy and Healthy New Year!!
Edna x

Teddy Bo Tuesday - Birthstone Colours mid challenge reminder

Good Morning Ladies and Gentlemen to the last release of 2011!!  WOW...what an exciting year we've had.  I would like to thank all of our customers FRIENDS who have taken Teddy Bo and Bea to their hearts and have made the most WONDERFUL creations over the past year.  It fills me with immense joy to see my little doodles transformed into such gorgeous pieces of art....thank you....x
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With most of the DT gone home from Teddy Bo Towers it might be quite quiet over the holiday period on the blogs, but please be assured that we will pick back up just after New Year with as much fun and hilarity as before!!  I've also got some exciting news about a NEW CHARACTER who will debut in January 2012.....I think you might be able to tell that the Teddy Bo DT enjoyed playing with her!!!!!! ;O)
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So...what's new this week!?!?!

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We have a mixed bag of oldies and new ones for our DT Inspiration this week...x




Maritha

TeddyBea_175

Maja design papers

I have used crackle paint on the christmas hangings

Flower is Magnolia die(that die has worked hard this x-mas) =)

Hugs Maritha

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TeddyBo 160
Prisma Pencils
Forever Friends 'Santa's on his Way' Papers
Ribbon, Wooden Snowflake, Twine
One of my favourite, stroke only, buttons, from my 'best buttons' box!
PC generated sentiment - eat your heart out SuBo!
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Nicole

My birthstone colour is Garnet

I´ve colored Bo and Bea in their bauble with Prismas
for the base I´ve used kraft cardstock from Bazzill
dark red cardstock from CreaMotion
design paper from Maja Design

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Edna

Card Ingredients:

Centura Pearl cardstock

TeddyboBea 093 Happy New Year coloured

My Mind's Eye 'Darling Dear' papers

Spellbinder labels 14 die

Big Shot Pro Envelope, A6 Horizontal Pocket and Insert die

Sizzix Sizzlet mistletoe die

Fancy Pants trim

Glitter and 5mm pearls
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Nela

a magnetic bookmark 

I've used Bo in the christmas wreath.


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Tammy Louise

Nestabilities

Notables die and sentiment

snowflake ornament

Teddy Bea 175

Copic and Ranger Distress 

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AJ (Guest Designer)

TEDDYBO_163

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Renee

This baby wall hanging was made by doing a modeling paste transfer onto material. I then sewed my material around the square with the image, and added some padding and sewed the back with matching fabric. Then i machine quilted with the swirls and then sewed around the edges. I added prima flowers some buttons and rhinestones and some polka dotted ribbon. This is the new release image Teddybeabo_094.

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AND NOW.........please let me introduce you to

www.darcysdiaries.com

OPENS THURSDAY 12th JANURY 2012

Post this on your blog with a link back to the D'Arcy's Diaries blog for a chance to win a £15 voucher to be spent in either Teddy Bo & Co, The FairyD store, Wonderland Stamps or D'Arcy's Diaries.

and now for some D'Arcy's Diaries inspiration from the Teddy Bo DT

Hazel

I've gone with one of the gorgeous new girl images DARCYSDIARIES_002

I've coloured her with copic's and added clear glitter pen on her heart and a touch of glamour dust on her wings.

The banner is from TEDDYBOBEA_091_SWAG. A little bit of glamour dust was added to the swag.

The trellis punch is by Martha Stewart, papers by Bo Bunny Enchanted collection, and card candi by Craftwork cards.

The inside of the card read's

"with love from your little angel"

Not sure I was ever a little angel, but it just fitted the image perfectly.  I simply love stripy clothes so its as if this image was made just for me

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Maritha

May's birthstone is Emerald(green)

I have made a birthday bag for my fiancé's daughter

Lovely new stamp DARCYSDIARIES_001

masked it with a Magnolia stamp(the wall)

Washitape on the bottom and

Charms is from PyHobby!

Paper is from Panduro

Jill

I have used my birthstone colour which is peridot,

and made a tag for a gift to my sister for Christmas.

Image: DARCYSDIARIES_004

Coloured with Copics

Papers from Poppy design and notesheet from MF

Flowers from Kort og Godt, and WOC

Charm from Whimsy Stamps

A bit of a cinnamon stick.

All my textstamps from NSS

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Colette 

Image - DARCYSDIARIES_003 coloured digitally

Papers - Sweet Candy - Clipart Fairy

Heart Die - X Cut Die-licious Dies

Heart and Key Die - Spellbinders

Ribbon and pearls - MeiFlower

Image - DARCYSDIARIES_003 coloured digitally

Papers - Sweet Candy - Clipart Fairy

Die - Nellie Snellen

Charms, gems, ribbon, silver cord - MeiFlower

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Debbie

I've used DARCYSDIARIES_002 and coloured her with a combination of Promarkers and Flexmarkers.

The papers are Wonderland Stamps layered onto distressed Core'dinations.

The sentiment is a Hero Arts stamp.

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Clairebears x 

I have used DARCYSDIARIES-001 for both of these cards. They have both been coloured in with Promarkers. The top card was made with a digi kit which I played around in Photoshop (ooooo get me!) the second card is made using scrap bit of papers and the most gorgeous button ever! I wanted to show that by using the same image but coloured with such different colours it really changes the image itself.

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Nicole

I´ve played with the cute DARCYSDIARIES_002 colouring as always with Prismas and Polys

cardstock from Bazzill and SU

design paper from First Edition Paper

embellies rhinestones and for the heart and wings I´ve used glitter

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Helle

DARCYSDIARIES_001

Colorured with Prisma Color Pencils

A white paperbag

Martha Stewart puncher for the star border

Stamps from Stempelglede

Flowers from Storyteller and WOC

Purple "berries" from Magnolia

Feathers from my partner Freddy's tail

or maybe it was from Panduro

-Helle-

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Edna

DARCYSDIARIES_001

She's coloured with Prisma pencils and I've teamed her up with K & co.

 Watercolour Bouquet papers.

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Renee

I made this 7.5 x 10 journal for my first DARCYSDIARIES_002 image! I mod podged some pretty rose paper on the journal front and a rose color to the back. I then spread white paint to them with a scraper and put on a thin layer for a shabby chic look. Added some rose lace ribbon  to the edge.  The image is colored with promarkers, I added the heart and wings in a 3D fashion , and added some gold stickles to the wings and pink distress stickles to the heart.  Gold glitter dotting the edge.  I tied the jounal with some sheer green ribbon. And MY HEART JOURNAL and fun print to the front!

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I hope you've enjoyed the inspiration from our wonderful Design Team.  Remember you have until January 8th to enter our latest challenge which is BIRTHSTONE COLOURS.

We are also celebrating our First Anniversary on January 11th for Teddy Bo & Co........we will have a super dooooooper CANDY for our Blogiversary!!! Woohoo!!

Have a wonderful Christmas and New Year and I hope that 2012 brings everything you hope....x

Lots of love and furry hugs from Gayle and the Gang (Tammy, Colette, Debbie, Claire, Edna, Jill, Maritha, Liz, Helle, Tammy-Louise, Renee, Nicole, Nela, Hazel)  and thank you so much to Kathy for the last 8 months or so on our DT.......her creativity has been inspiring....xxxxxxx

HAVE A VERY FURRY HUGGING DAY.....XXX

Teddy Bo & Co....Making the world smile, one furry hug at a time......xxx