Time for Wordy Wednesday

Hi and welcome to our weekly look at quotes and sayings. Following on from Claire’s smashing Mojo Monday article, I thought I would take a look at the weather, especially winter and snow!

Brrrr!!!!!!!

Where does the white go when the snow melts? ~Hugh Kieffer

A snowflake is one of God's most fragile creations, but look what they can do when they stick together! ~Author Unknown

When it snows, you have two choices: shovel or make snow angels. ~Author Unknown

There's one good thing about snow, it makes your lawn look as nice as your neighbour's. ~Clyde Moore

There's no such thing as bad weather, only unsuitable clothing. ~Alfred Wainwright

The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found? ~J.B. Priestley

When snow falls, nature listens. ~Antoinette van Kleeff

The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it. ~Patrick Young

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water. ~Carl Reiner

O, wind,

If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

~Percy Bysshe Shelley

In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy. ~William Blake

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home. ~Edith Sitwell

One kind word can warm three winter months. ~Japanese Proverb

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. ~John Ruskin

Hope they don't make you feel too chilly?

Thank you for joining us again this week and I hope you find some inspiration and something to ponder amongst the quotes I've chosen.

Edna x

Teddy Bo Tuesday - A White Christmas

Good morning to you all from a VERY wet and windy Scotland!!!  We've had torrential rain and wind here since Friday.....the vegetable patch is getting flooded so the vegetable schnapps is under threat!!!  OH BOY.....things might turn ugly here soon!!!

It gives me great pleasure to tell you that our overall winner this week was:

 

Jayne A

and our two runners up are

Kitty (Kirsty-Anne)

Sonia

 

Ladies, congratulations on winning and please contact Gayle via the main website to arrange your prizes...x

We also would like to introduce one of our youngest entrants...THEO is 7 years old and oh my goodness can he make great cards.......!!!  Theo, if you can ask your mummy to contact me at the normal email address then I'll make sure that you get a wee prize too...xxxx

NOW.......what's our NEW Challenge....well.....let's just say it seemed a good idea at the time!!!!Lol

We're still on the theme of Christmas for those of us that haven't finished their cards yet...but this time it's a wee bit different.

"A WHITE CHRISTMAS"

so....what does that make you think of?!?!  Snow, Icicles, Christmas Cake?!

Once again our TOP prize is the

 You have until Sunday 11th of December at Midnight UK time to enter....so get your thinking caps on...x 
 

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SO....what's new this week?!

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Now let's take at this week's fabulous creations from the DT and 2 of our GUEST DESIGNERS for the month.

Clairebears x

Did you light your Advent Candle on Sunday!?!  Are you all ready for Thursday with your Advent Calendars?!?!  Are you organised?!?!  I hope that if you're making all your cards and gifts this year that people appreciate the time that you've taken.  It's so wonderful to receive an item that has been lovingly made but sadly sometimes not everyone feels the same way about it.

SO......onto our Challenge winners.  It never ceases to amaze me how many wonderful creations are submitted to our challenges....the talent in Blogland is quite amazing.  I hope that you enjoy our little challenges and that you are inspired when you see what beautiful things other people make too.

For my card I have used Pergamano paper and traced TeddyBea_172 with white pen, I have then used my embossing tool to emboss sections. I then punched out lots of snowflakes in different white papers and added just a few silver ones too. Inside the card I have added a foam snowflake with the following poem on it - Snow is falling to the ground, A crystal chill is all around, Frosty clouds are in the air with snowflakes drifting everywhere.

I love the simplicity of the card but found it a real challenge to use only white!

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Edna

Following the lovely Jill's tut, I made a book card for this challenge.

FairyD Santa

Prisma pencils - French Grey

Martha Stewart edge punch

Festive greenery strip die (Tim Holtz)

Asst. Sizzix and Marianne design dies

Spellbinder Holiday tags die

Inkwell stamp

Vintage Shabby papers (Tim Holtz)

SeeD sentiment

Pumice stone distress ink

Like Claire I found it hard to keep to a total white theme but I tried to keep all the embellies white. Hope that counts!

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AJ (Guest Designer)

"Hi everyone I'm Aj. I live on the most remote inhabited place in the UK.. The tiny island of Fair Isle up in the Shetland islands, with the other half, our 2 youngest girls, some cows, lots of sheep, 2 shetland ponies, an Icelandic horse, 3 cats, 2 dogs and a puckle hens.

I have the envious position of crafts being my work so spend my days immersed in making various inky and sticky messes while cosied up in my studio surrounded by lots of papers, ribbons and all other crafty ingrediants.

I love playing with Teddy Bo & Bea, for me these loveable bears are my downtime, I pull out the pencils and blending sticks and gone are the stresses of life, forgotton are the Force 11 gales currently battling with the remainder of my vegetable patch, its just me.. the bears.. some good fiddle music... hot chocolate (its not me its Bea !! she has to have marshmellows in it too.. piggy bear..)"

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Debbie

I've used white TEDDYBEA_003 and layered her onto embossed core'dinations and silver mirri card. I liked it so much I changed the embossing folders and made several more using the different coloured images and card to layer them onto

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Colette

Image - TEDDYBO_157 Coloured in Photoshop

Hat borrowed from TEDDYBO_158 and made to fit with a bit of photoshop jiggery- pokery

Blue card base - Nitwits Frost'n'flakes

Ribbon - MeiFlower

Card shape - GoKreate die

LaRue Flourish - Memory Box die

Embossing folder - Papermania - Snowflakes

Lots of Glamour Dust

PS- don't forget to check out my blog in case you're a winner in the Teddy Bo Tombola, and also to get your entry in for this week.

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Kelly (Guest Designer)

My card is coloured using Copics.  I decided to go for the white theme, using the bear as the colour.  The white background card is Kanban embossed snowflake card.  The snowflake is a wooden embellishment glittered and dotted with white pearl paint.  The ribbon is from Crafty Ribbons.  The sentiment is computer generated.

"My name is Kelly, i am 29 and a married mum to 3. I started cardmaking about 18 months ago, some say it is a hobby, i say it is a passion! I love to colour and use Promarkers, Spectrum Noirs, Copics and pencils. I can sit for hours colouring!! My favourite style of card is cute and girly although i do like to try different techniques. If you would like to follow me please do so here at http://kelsmakes.blogspot.com/ I look forward to visiting some wonderful new blogs."

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Maritha

TeddyBo_158

TeddyBea_172

Embossed the white papers and the "things" on the side =)

Ms-punches on the sides

It´s a little christmas poem in the books!

Hugs Maritha

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Jill

Painted a tag white

used the new released image FAIRYD_TB_PICKLES_002 (Will be in the store very soon)

Coloured with Copics, added glossy and snow marker

I have glued a old bookpage with Glue'n'seal on the bottom of the tag

Used a white paper doilie and some big snowflakes, a feather

and the numbers 24 painted white

All the embellishments comes from my stash, a little from here and a little from there :)

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Nicole

I´ve played with the cute image TeddyBo_158

colouring with Prismas

picture frame from the big furniture store with the Elk

for the passepartout I've used a swirl stamp by Vilda Stamps

Memento Ink pad * Desert Sand *

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Wonderful aren't they!?!??!  :O)

You have until Sunday 11th December Midnight GMT to get your entries in, we look forward to seeing what you come up with.

Hope you've enjoyed all the cards..x

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

Mojo Monday - Snow

Its that time of the week again for a little inspiration.

This week I have chosen Snow because with the lead up to Christmas I hope we might get some - I am a BIG kid and love nothing more than going out and playing in it!!!

Wikipedia 

Snow is a form of precipitation within the Earth's atmosphere in the form of crystalline water ice, consisting of a multitude of snowflakes that fall from clouds. Since snow is composed of small ice particles, it is a granular material. It has an open and therefore soft structure, unless packed by external pressure. Snowflakes come in a variety of sizes and shapes. Types which fall in the form of a ball due to melting and refreezing, rather than a flake, are known as graupel, ice pellets or snow grains. Snowfall amount and its related liquid equivalent precipitation amount are determined using a variety of different rain gauges

Some snow photos

Snow Quotes

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.  ~John Ruskin

When snow falls, nature listens.  ~Antoinette van Kleeff
Snowflakes are winters butterflies

and my favourite is 

Snowflakes are kisses from heaven.  ~Author Unknown

Here's a card Jill from the DT has made to inspire you too - its beautiful

Gate fold card with the lovely hardworking TEDDYBO_149

Papers from Poppy design and Bazzill

Die cut fence from Magnolia, snowflakes from stash

The Seasons greetings is a rub on from MF and the text at the front

 is a norwegian sentiment from North Star Stamps.

Hope you like it

Hugs, Jill

My card to hopefully inspire you too

I hope that has inspired you a little :0)

Love Clairebears x   

Sunday Spotlight

Hello my lovely Teddy Bo friends

It´s time for another Sunday Spotlight *Yeaaah*. Today we showcase the adorable creations of Sally

That is what Sally tell us about herself and her creativity

I started making cards about 6 years ago after a friend bought me a card making kit which included a book Quick and Easy cards by Julie Hickey. I thought I would give it a go and maybe buy a few bits and bobs and see how I got on.......well I think I am an addict now like many of you reading this and could probably set up a small shop with the amount of stuff that I have accumulated. I find crafting so relaxing and spend as much of my spare time as possible in my craft room.
I started a blog a couple of years ago and this opened up a whole new world including challenge blogs, Design Teams and some great friends. I never thought I would get into stamping as I didn't see the point of spending all that time colouring in an image! Quite laughable now as if I haven't coloured in the image on the card I feel like I have cheated. I got hooked when I saw someone demonstrating how to colour with Copics at the NEC Hobbycrafts show and it looked so effective and relatively quick. So I started with a few Copics and then invested in a few more. I have since added some Promarkers to the collection. Earlier this year i bought some Polychromos and Prisma pencils to see if I could get the hang of colouring with pencils. I still have a lot to learn and each time I colour an image I try some thing different but I love the softness that you can get from the pencils especially when they are blended.
One of my favourite characters to colour is the adorable Teddy Bo and Teddy Bea.

On this gorgeous card Sally used
TeddyBea_011 *Sweet little angel* ...

... for this adorable card she used
TeddyBoBea_007 *First kiss, no longer a miss* ...

... on this wonderful card Sally used
TeddyBo Bea_Tabs_001 *Three in a row* ...

 ... and for this fantastic card she used
TeddyBoBea_035 *Little ´ickle elefunt*

More of the gorgeous work of Sally you can admire on her blog

http://sallyastill.blogspot.com/

Many thanks to you Sally for letting us showcase your lovely creations. It was a great pleasure for us!

Thanks so much for stopping by and I wish you all a beary creative week ;0)

Saturday's Sneak Peeks....

Well I promised I wouldn't be late this

week so here they are on time :P

Enjoy and have a wonderful week-end!

Kathy



Teddy Bo Top Tips Thursday

Today we have another treat for you and our teacher this week is the wonderful Nicole.

We're going to be paper piecing with digi stamps.

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What do you need???

  You need an image which you print out once for coloring with your favorite medium and once on the design paper of your choice. Please make sure that they are both the same size or it won't work at all well ;c)

I've used TEDDYBEA_162 here

  Here you can see I have coloured everything on the image with Prismas apart from the dress which is what I am going to paper piece.

  The next picture show you that I´ve cut out the dress exactly on all the lines. Now rub the back with glue and stick it on matching it exactly to Beas white bits. 

  On my last picture you can see the completely finished image. I think that Bea looks very sweet in her dress.  What do you think?

I hope it will be helpful ;0)

Hugs Nicole

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Now that's quite a straightforward one for you all to join in with and we here at the Towers know that Bo is rather partial to a flowery sweater lol!

As always if you use our tutorial this week and link up your project using one of the bears or their friends you will receive a new little friend for free.

How about Bea in a nice pink snowflake patterned dress? Then you can enter our current challenge of Christmas with no red or green which runs until Sunday.

Have a fantastic week

Hugs

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It's time for some more quotes and sayings folks.

It’s getting closer and closer so I thought it was time to look at some quotations and sayings about the festive season – Christmas here we come!

There has been only one Christmas - the rest are anniversaries. ~W.J. Cameron

Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves. ~Eric Sevareid

May Peace be your gift at Christmas and your blessing all year through! ~Author Unknown

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. ~Charles Dickens

At Christmas, all roads lead home. ~Marjorie Holmes

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love! ~Hamilton Wright Mabie

Christmas is forever, not for just one day,

for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away

like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf.

The good you do for others is good you do yourself...

~Norman Wesley Brooks, "Let Every Day Be Christmas," 1976

Christmas is the day that holds all time together. ~Alexander Smith

Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts. ~Janice Maeditere

As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is. ~Eric Sevareid

May the spirit of Christmas bring you peace,

The gladness of Christmas give you hope,

The warmth of Christmas grant you love.

~Author Unknown

It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when its mighty Founder was a child Himself. ~Charles Dickens

'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house

Not a creature was stirring, - not even a mouse:

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,

In hopes that St Nicholas soon would be there....

~Clement Clarke Moore

Love came down at Christmas,

Love all lovely, Love Divine;

Love was born at Christmas;

Star and angels gave the sign.

~Christina Rossetti

It was difficult to stick to just a few quotes, I could have filled a book and I'm sure there are many more you could add to my list. :)

Thank you for joining us today at Wordy Wednesday. Don't forget there's a new tutorial tomorrow - time to have a go with your favourite Teddybo image and receive a Teddybo image of your choice just for entering!

Edna x

Teddy Bo Tuesday (Christmas Mid challenge reminder)

Gooooood Morning everyone in Blogland.  Who can believe we're now counting 'sleeps' before Christmas?!??!  I hope you're all enjoying the peace and quiet before the storm?!  For all of our wonderful friends in America I hope that your Thanksgiving Day is a wonderful one and that you all enjoy your time with your family and friends...x


It's been very busy here at Teddy Bo Towers......we had Edna's birthday yesterday.....oh boy....that was a wild party......!!!  Poor Kathy's had to fly home as she's got folks over for Thanksgiving......lucky girl.....she managed to book her flight for early yesterday morning so that she didn't have to tidy up!!!!!!!  I tell you, she better have some fabulous cards made for when she comes back!!!! ;O)


SO....what's new this week?!

So....have the DT girlies managed to make any cards this week?!?!  Well......goodness only knows how they found the time but they did and oh my....they are just wonderful...x

Tammy

"  Not sure why its called a magic card though.  Seen these around blog land so thought I'd give it a go. Totally loving it, so different from a standard square card and a little elegant looking too. "

" Coloured TEDDYBOBEA_087 with pro-markers.
I have used a mixture of DCWV - LINEN CLOSET and FIRST EDITION - ISABELLE.

Both are my favorite papers and colour combinations.

SO LUSH!

 MARTHA STEWART punch been used at the edge of the card.

 Small snow flakes are buttons - got these from HOBBY CRAFT. 

Strange me not having flowers but the card didn't really need any - plain but looks sweet."

Tammy as placed a link on her blog for this tutorial.

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Hazel

I have chosen to play with TEDDYBO_156
Coloured with a mixture of copic's and prisma's.  The gold velum papers are Papermania Signature A Christmas Carol.  The bow is satin edged organza tied in a double bow from my local craft shop and finished with a flower spacer bought from a craft show.
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Maritha

TeddyBoBea_087 Ollifant! Just the name makes you happy...=)

Haven´t done the inside of the card all set ,don´t know if it´s a birthdaycard or something else yet!

BoBunny papers

Martha Stewart punch on the book sides

I have embossed the "thing" that closes the book,and it stays together with a tiny magnet! =)

Hugs Maritha

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Liz

Christmas but no red or green to be seen.
So I have used the other Christmas favourites - pink and grey!


TeddyBo 155
NitWit papers
Martha Stewart Punch
Narrow Silver Ribbon and Brads


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Jill

Image is the gorgeous sweet TEDDYBOBEA_088

coloured with Copics

Papers from Poppy design

MS punch, snowflake and magnolia swirl

Text from pc

The snow falling is liquid pearls, stickles on the ground

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Nicole

I´ve played with the cute image  TeddyBo_155

colored with Prismas
sentiment Whiff of Joy

cardstock from Bazzill

design paper from First Edition Paper
border punch Martha Stewart

I´ve decorated with buttons

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Nela

Hi ladies,
here a Tag for the Challenge but red and green must not be seen

I´ve used
Choralling Bea
the Template for the Tag you can find here.


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Claire

My card for Tuesday. I love these two, and I am going to use them

 for my Mum and Dad's card this year. The papers are from the ClipArt Fairy.

 I added just a little ribbon says Happy Christmas and of course a button!

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Renee

 I had to use this image TeddyBea _169, and remembered I had this cute paper with umbrellas that would be perfect for it!!Its called "its raining , its pouring". I added the sentiment from the paper kit, Rain or Shine, You're a Friend of Mine! 3 buttons, and a bow! I colored the image with promarkers. After I coloured it I clear embossed the rain coat and hat and boots.  Then I added some glossy accents to the puddle for a bit of dimension!

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Maritha

The text says "Thanks"

TeddyBo_156

I have embossed his belly with White foam embossing powder

...a simple card,no time for a lot of fancy stuff!! =)

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Colette

Image - TEDDYBEA_170 coloured in Photoshop

All papers - Frost N Flakes- Nitwits

Snowflake - Memory Box Die.

Ribbon, button and brads - stash

Image - TEDDYBEA_165 Coloured in Photoshop

Papers - Various Nitwit Kits

Snowflake die - Marianne Creatables

Ribbon and Gems-MeiFlower

Beads and tassel - stash

PS- don't forget to check out my blog in case you're a winner in the Teddy Bo Tombola, and also to get your entry in for this week.

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Remember ladies and gents, we're half way through our current challenge so please join in the fun and get your entries in before Sunday 27th..x

Catch you all soon....Gayle and the Gang...xxxx