First Ever Bearly Mine Blog Hop!!

Hi there, you on the Bearly Mine Designs Blog Hop are you?

Oh, you say you just came here from your Dashboard, sorry, what was that? you just happened to stumble by here? Ah, right, I see... Well if you'd like to go back to Donna's blog and start from there, you'll get to see some cracking cards by my teamies, including Donna herself! However, if you got here from Nicola's Blog, you're on the right track ...

Today the Bearly Mine Design Team are showcasing Papers and Inserts from Donna's newest release - Designer Extreme Vol. III :D This disc is jam packed with papers for all occasions including Christmas, Easter, Valentines not to mention every day occasions such as floral, vintage, spots and stripes (I cant list em all but there are lots!!).

I'm hoping you have so far enjoyed the hop, there are a couple more teamies to see and lots more cards!

Speaking of cards, I've made four with the papers that Donna sent us all prior to release. Once I got my disc I added inserts to some of them :D

Here I have created a lovely Christmas card in traditional colours. Using Herb from the WoJ Winter collection, a tree charm and a SeeDs greeting stamp I think it looks pretty nifty! The Insert is fab, and matches the paper I used on the front of the card :D

Here we have a lovely summery card with the lovely Sarah Kay sprinkling some love :D I love the flower paper with the green, orange, reds and blues - its such a pretty design. I also LOVE this insert! I think the little butterfly and the bow are lovely and the design is so simple and versatile :D Image coloured with PrismaColours.

I created this next card for my Nephew who will be One in November (He is a Leo). This is another WoJ image from the new Animals Collection. I used a blue and brown spotted back ground and a lovely squared light blue one for contrast. I carried this blue squared one inside, you cant see it but it has a nestie in the centre ready for a message. I think I will have a play with this card and add a Number 1 somewhere, and also try and fit his name in too! Image coloured with Prisma Colours.

Its my last card, and nearly time for you to leave :(

I know its only August, but October will soon be here! I asked Donna if I could have some Halloween papers so I could have a play with colours I wouldn't normally use. These papers are so bright and so fitting for Halloween. I love the ghost insert. I used little Tilda for this card and coloured her in purple with my Copics. The sentiment, web, spider and the little ghostie in the corner of the insert are from Penny Black.

I've really enjoyed making these cards. The best thing about having Donna's Discs is you can precolour your images and then find perfect backing papers for them. It also means that you have lots of colours to chose from and if your stuck for ideas on colouring your images you can choose your papers in advance and match your images to them!

Right - enough of my banter - off you go to Marcea as she is next on the HOP! Don't forget to leave comments on every ones blogs, I'm sure you've already read, but Donna is offering up some lovely candies :D

Donna is having a SALE for this weekend only - So be sure you visit the Bearly Mine Designs Creations to see what offers there are!

Thank you for hoppin by Y

Bearly Mine Blog Hop!!! Coming Soon!

Hi Everyone.. Got some more exciting news!!

Over at Bearly Mine Designs - Donna has finished Disc Three! Whoop Whoop!! Which means that it will be going on sale very soon!

To celebrate the release date, Donna is hosting a Blog Hop! So if you want to take part be sure to tune in on Saturday 15th August! There is a Surprise Candy too! You will see some gorgeous creations by the team, showing you new papers and inserts from the disc... OOoooo Exciting - I cant wait!

See you on Saturday!!

Birthday card and Bearly Mine DT

Hello again - Tis only me :oD

I made this card for a lovely man called Alan - If you don't know, my good friend Donna has a hubby called Alan, and he's the author of the fabulous stories you can find here of three cute elves (Elvin, Egbert and Trump) and a little girl named Donna.

The Eye of Grundwell is the second installment into the Adventures of Lumos Thorn.

Here is a little close up of Elvin

This is the inside using Bearly Mine Designs - Designer Extreme Inserts Disc

Recipe

Stamps : Lumos Thorn Elf - Elvin (from Bearly Mine Designs), Papermania Sentiment

Paper/Card : All papers from Bearly Mine Designs - Designer Extreme Vol II disc and insert from Designer Extreme Inserts Disc

Tools : Retro Punch

Embellies : Brad from stash

Medium : Memento Black Ink, Prismacolour pencils, Inkssentials pen

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Before I go -

Janet is offering 6 lovely Pink Gem Designs Stamps as a fabulous candy on her blog! Go check it out for your chance to win some lovely stamps of your choosing!

Bearly Mine Design Team Project Part II!!!

As you may have seen at the beginning of the month I did a box using Bearly Mine Papers! If you missed the first post - please check here!

Well - as promised I have finished the cards for this box and here they are!

Using ONLY papers from Bearly Mine Designs - Designer Extreme Vol I and II, I have printed off these fabulous and very pretty papers and put them all together to make these (even if I do say so myself) FABULOUS CARDS!

They all fit in the box nicely and will make a fantastic gift for one of my Friends!

Here is the collection!

All cards made with the papers printed from both discs and all images coloured with Copics, I have included info on what stamp and which embellies :oD

Gorjuss Girl from Set 2 - Papermania Crystal Adhesive Gems!

Magnolias Summer Tilda with Ice-lolly, Make Me Flower Border, Fred She Said Flower

Sugar Nellie / Stampavie Lola with Present, Papermania Crystal Adhesive Gems, Make Me Flower Border Punch, Papermania Flower with Ribbon.

Sugar Nellie - Reflection, Gems from stash, Papermania Pearl Adhesive Gems.

Bearly Mine Designs - Designer Inserts Disc - All of the cards have this insert with a Spellbinders Nestabilities Label 2 in the large size for messages!

Thank you for popping by and for leaving any comments that you do, I appreciate each and everyone!

Also - Keep an eye out over on Bearly Mine Crafts blog or over at Bearly Mine Designs for updates on the new and up coming disc, which Donna is working on at this very moment!

Happy Crafting all!

Y

Fred She Said - Freebie Challenge!

Tracey who runs the Fred She Said Store is having a little bit of fun over at her blog. She has kindly offered a Freebie Image for everyone to create a card with, for a chance to win ALL of her NEW release Digi Stamps which went on sale on Monday!

The sets are :

Dancing Daisies

Flutterbies fro your Flowers

A Lovely Blossom and Butterfly

Little Miss Bitty

One lucky winner will win all of these plus a $25 gift voucher to spend in the store! How cool is that. Tracey is also going to pick out two second runners up to pick two of the new releases as a prize too! So cool and very generous!

So - Not to miss out, I've made this little red and brown card with the Freebie Digi and this is what I've come up with!

I printed off some papers from Donna's Disc - Designer Extreme Vol I and chose papers from the brown and neutral collection and then from the red collection. They print really well, only I think my inks are running a little low, so I will have to get some new cartridges for the trusty old printer

I coloured the image in with copics and went for vibrant reds and greens. I really wanted the plant and flowers to stand out. you cant really tell on the photo but the shading is actually better when you hold the card, than in the picture, some of the leaves and petals looks like block colours but I swear they arent!

Here are a few more pictures close up and at a different angle to show my decoupaging!

For the inside I used another of Donna's Discs, only this time its the Designer Extreme Inserts one. Each insert can co-ordinate with the papers from BOTH Designer Extreme Discs Vols I and II!

Thanks for looking

Y

Week 7 - 70's week at Stampin' for the Weekend!!

Welcome to Week Seven.

WOW - What a turn out for week 6, so many wonderful cards, it was really hard for Donna and I to make a decision for a winner, but we did. if you'd like to know who won, head on over to 'Stampin' for the Weekend'

We've gone back to the 70's this week at Stampin' for the Weekend and like last month, Donna has chosen 3 songs for you all to take inspiration from!

Myself and the team have had such good fun thinking up cards for this challenge - so don't forget to pay them some love too!

ALSO - We have two new designers joining us this week - Nancy and Sheila - so go pay them an extra special visit and congratulate them on joining us!

This weeks fabulous sponsor is Tracey from Fred She Said, who is offering one lucky winner a $25 gift voucher.

If you've never been to the Fred She Said Store, you are missing out! They have loads of fabulous downloads for you to print off and add to your cards and scrapbooking pages. From flowers to fabulous images! Head on over and have a look!

The songs that Donna and I would like you to draw inspiration from are :

Three Times a Lady ~ The Commodores

Tangled up in Blue ~ Bob Dylan

Seasons in the Sun - Terry Jacks

Please only take inspiration from the song title, please dont go downloading music, or raiding your cd collection (or your parents if you werent around in the 70's).

As you can probably guess, I've gone with Seasons in the Sun! I went for a nice summer card, with lemons and oranges for inspiration.

I bought Set 3 of the Gorjuss Girls on release day, and I havent really had a chance to ink them up as I didn't have any EZ Mount, this was quickly remedied and I have now got all my new stamps mounted!

So here she is, and I think she looks very sweet, ready for a dip in a pool!

Papers are from Designer Extreme Vol II and Papermanias Core'dinations textured card stock.

Here is a close up of this little girly...

For the inside, I have used an insert from the Designer Extreme Inserts Disc by Donna, from Bearly Mine. All the Inserts on this disc co-ordinate with Designer Extreme vols I and II. (Shhhh, I'l tell you a secret - Donna is currently working on a third disk! Watch this space!)

Recipe

Stamps: Sugar Nellie Gorguss Girl Set 3

Papers: Core'dinations textured card stock, Designer Extreme Vol II by Bearly Mine, Designer Extreme Inserts

Tools: Woodware corner rounder punch, L-Em punch for leaves, MakeMe Flower border and emboss punch

Embellies: Fred She Said printable flowers (polka dot variety)

Thank you for popping by :o)

Bearly Mine Designs News!

As you may have seen, Donna over at Bearly Mine Designs, the wonderful lady who creates those fantastic backing paper discs and insert discs has added to the lovely design team I am part of! I'd like to introduce to you my new Bearly Mine Teamies!

Amy

Marcea

Nicola

Sheila

Amy, Marcea, Nicola and Sheila will be joining Claire, Donna and Myself to bring you gorgeous creations using Donna's backing papers and inserts, which at the click of a button, come spilling out of your printer, ready for you to have a play with and make gorgeous cards yourself.

If you don't own any of Donna's Discs, head on over and have a peek at Bearly Mine Designs, or at her craft blog - Bearly Mine Crafts and see for yourself, what gorgeous papers you could be playing with!

ALSO - I'm not sure if I will be told off, but Donna is currently tucked away, at her pc, under the stairs, with a chain clamped around her ankle designing a NEW DISC! So watch out, as I would predict it will be launched some time soon!!! (thats is if Alan keeps her fed and watered!)

So have a looksie over at the Bearly Mine Teamies blogs and see what creations they come up with in the near furture!

Kimmi x