Teddy Bo Tuesday

Good Morning to you...and welcome to another Teddy Bo Tuesday....and WOW, it's February already!!!  Where did January go!?  I was discussing with a friend just last week that she had spotted Easter eggs in one of the shops...and that's even before Valenetine's Day!!!!!!

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

Well, Teddy Bo Threads has opened.  We're adding new stuff to the store every day, so why don't you pop over and visit us.  We can even print your favourite photographs or your child's artwork onto mugs, t-shirts and even umbrellas!!!  Our 25% off opening sale ends on Friday 8th Feb.

and what's NEW at www.teddybo.com

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Our wonderful Design Team has also been busy making some fabulous cards

Maritha

TeddyBo_242 TeddyBea_256

Maja design papers

La-La Land text

Magnolia leafs

Rox die key hole

Magnolia swirl

Coloured with Copics

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Clairebears x

I have used TeddyBo_242 I have coloured him with Water Colour Pencils and the sentiment is from Hobby Craft. I have made a bag using Craft Artist using papers from Sassy Designs called Heart Felt and just finished it off with a little red ribbon. I'm going to add some chocolates for Valentines Day - but if I put them in now they won't be there come the 14th lol!

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Krafty Karen

Using TeddyBea_256.

Hugs & HaPPy Crafting!

Karen.xx

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Wendy

Image - TeddyBo_242

Promarkers - Lipstick Red & Cardinal Red

Fur - Putty & Tan - Coral for cheeks

Grass - Pear Green & Moss

Paper - from Stash

Border Punch - Martha Stewart

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Debbie

Image: TEDDYBO_242

Paper: Dovecraft Back to Basics III

Silhouette Cameo to cut holder

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Colette

Image - TEDDYBO_243

Digital Papers - Sweet Morning - LorieM at Pickleberry Pop

Keep Calm Poster - Pink Gem Designs

Buttons - Stash

Metallic cord - Meiflower

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Lau W

TeddyBea_257

Papers : My Mind's Eye (bohemia)

Die corners : Nellie Snellen

Lace, rose, strass, Stickles, Promarkers.

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SONIA

Image ~ TEDDYBEA_257
Medium ~ Copics & Prisma Pencils
Paper ~ Stampin UP!
Tools ~ MS Border punch, SU! pricking tool
Punches ~ Woodware Daisy punch, EK Flower 
Greeting ~ Cuddly Buddly
Embellishments ~ Bow & Card Candi

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Donna

 

I have used image TEDDYBO_242

Medium ~ Polychromos pencils

Recycled cardstock ~ Woodware

Wellington papers ~ Docrafts

Flowers ~ WOC

Flower shaped pearls ~ The Ribbon Girl

Sentiment ~ Cuddly Buddly

Heart border punch ~ XCut 

Beaded scalloped oval & circle ~ Spellbinders Nestibilities

 

I have paper pieced Bo's hat, jumper & love letters.

 

Big hugs

Donna x~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

And January's challenge has also ended...and we're delighted to announce that our overall winner is:

 

Anna

with the runners up being:

 

Liselot

and:

 

Sandy How

Please contact Gayle via the website.

 

And so with the end of January's challenge we move swiftly onto February's challenge.  We are sticking with the 'Anything Goes' theme...but with Valentine's Day being this month then we'd love to see some of those cards too.  Please remember you must use a Teddy Bo & Co image though to enter.

Fairytale Friday & Teddy Bo Threads

Yeh...we're open!! (Kind of)
Slowly adding things to the store.....which of course means you have to keep coming back to see what new things we've got!!www.teddybothreads.com

There's also 25% off for the first week!!!  Woooohoooo!!!!

With Teddy Bo Threads opening today, this last week has been crazy in Teddy Bo Towers.

First up came the t-shirt designs. The girls, beautiful women one and all, decided that it would be up to them to model the new designs, as they all wanted to get their faces on the website (and to update their CV’s and Facebook pages with their modelling contract !!). There was a lovely t-shirt with Teddy Bo’s face on it, but the problem was that it’s a tight fitting t-shirt, and because Gayle tried it on first, it left two big 'boobie' imprints in the t-shirt, and no matter how much stretching and ironing, those marks couldn’t be removed.

The girls tried to draw straws to see who would be the model. When everyone disagreed with the results (except the winner), they tried dice, then Jenga, then finally when the fists were about to start flying, Gayle suggested a compromise. They’d buy a shop mannequin, and Glenda’s the mannequin you’ll see on our clothing webpage. Not sure if she’s set herself up with her own Facebook page yet or not.

 Claire had discovered Gayle's secret stash of rhinestones. She found a big tub of glue, and a plain t-shirt and went at it. She spent hours and hours individually sticking down rhinestones, not realising that everyone else had finished for the evening, but the little light there was, reflected of her t-shirt and made her little work area it feel like a sunny morning. In fact by the time she finished, bleary eyed and hungry, the t-shirt was covered in little rhinestones. At Gayle's suggestion, it was wrapped around a football, and will be used as a glitterball at the next design team party.

Next on the agreed product range came the new line of mugs. The girls spent all Wednesday furiously making design after design, trying to perfect the end product. Donna designed a lovely Teddy Bo footballer mug, but then Wendy decided she could do better, and added goals and a couple of players in the background. Then Colette added some advertising boards and a referee. Gayle had to step in when Lau started to add a 50,000 crowd into the background. Gayle was very worried that there’d be no rhinestones left if she carried on.

 In the end , they settled on some simpler designs, and these can be found on the Teddy Bo Threads webpage. Please let us know what you think about these new products.

 Goodness knows how the girls managed to get any cards made this week.......but they're just SO good they pulled it out of the bag again...xxxxx



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Debbie


Image: Fairydoodler
Paper: Me to You
Heart Mount: Silhouette Store
Tickets and Die: Whimsy Stamps
Spotty Hearts: Woodware Punch
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Maritha

Snowies_001-009
BoBunny papers
The big snowstar and the red "berry thingys" are from Ica Maxi a food store in Sweden(yes you can find craft supplies almost anywhere....hi hi)

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Image TeddyBo_232
Promarkers - Tan/Cinnamon/Lipstick Red/Cardinal Red
Cool Aqua / Ice Grey 1
Papers from Scrap Stash
Sentiment made on PC

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TeddyBoBea_147
Paper : Bo Bunny
Black lace
Ric rac ribbon
Paper doily
Rose, hearts stickers, promarkers.
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Claire




TeddyBea_003 -When you wish upon a star (My Favourite lol!)
coloured with a mixture of Promarkers and pencils.
I have added her to a plain scalloped card and added faux stitching.
I've also used flowers from the Glitter Girls plus a feather.


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Teddy Bo Tuesday

Good Morning to you.........how cold is it at your house?!?! No snow here at Teddy Bo Towers but it's mighty 'nippy' on the old fingers and toes!!!  Keep safe out there if your snow is bad.

No release this week (the release next week will be the coloured versions of last week's release) but Colette made a gorgeous card that we thought would cheer everyone up as it's got SPRING 'written' all over it!  Isn't it wonderful?!  Not long now until the weather turns and the nights start getting longer again!!!! ;O)

Quick update on the Blog Hop.......I managed to confuse things (happens a LOT) so the blog hop will finish this FRIDAY (18th) January at UK midnight time....so pop along here to start the blog hop to be in with a chance of winning £20 worth of digi stamps from Teddy Bo & Co.

We've also got a new and exciting adventure starting out for Teddy Bo & Co...it's called

'Teddy Bo Threads'

this is the place you'll find all manner of Teddy Bo & Co 'merchandise'.....why don't you pop along and 'like' our Facebook page so that you are kept up-to-date with what's going on........We'll have a Launch Competition with great prizes to be won.

Remember also that our Card challenge now lasts for a whole month...so you've still got plenty of time to get your card made for that...x
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Colette

Image - TEDDYBEA_252 - coloured using Photoshop

Digital papers - So Egg-cited - Crazy4monograms

Border punch - EK Success Arch Scallop Edger

X-Cut Nesting Dies - Scalloped Rectangles

X-Cut - Corner Rounder punch - lsmall

Tonic mini Boot punches - Flower and Daisy

Tonic regular boot punch - Flower Head

Poppy Stamps Die - Gentle leaf

Marianne Creatables - LR0163 Rolled Roses

Ribbons, Gems and Pearls - Meiflower

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Catch you soon...Gayle and the Girls..xxxxx

Teddy Bo Tuesday

Happy Happy 2013 to you all!!!

 

This is our first Teddy Bo Tuesday of the year and it's a belter!!
Lots to see and read....news of a Birthday Blog Hop later this week and of course wonderful inspiration from the Design Team.

We hope that you had a wonderful Christmas and relaxing holiday period and that you're raring to go for 2013....I know we all are at Teddy Bo Towers....the girls are going mad decorating the Great Hall for our Birthday Bash on Friday...I'm sure you'll read something about it on Fairytale Friday this week!!!

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

 

 

We've also got a STOCK CLEARANCE and we've got £10 and £15 lucky bags in the store.....guaranteed bargains....need to get rid of the stock so that we can get the mugs in the towers (MR TeddyBo won't let them in otherwise) so that you can have a Teddy Bo mug for your morning coffee!!! ;O)

 

 

 

 

Now...as we're going fortnightly with our releases (once a month for line-art followed two weeks later with the coloured versions) both of our teams decided to join together for this release to showcase their wonderful cards...x
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Wendy

Digi Stamp - TeddyBo_237

Fur coloured with Promarkers - Satin & Tan

Hat top - Burnt Sienna

Bag - Lipstick Red & Crimson

Papers - Stampin up

Jumper paper pieced

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Clairebears x  

I have used TeddyBo_237 for this card, I have coloured him with pencils and used bits and pieces from my scrapbox. I have also added a few buttons too - the Happy Birthday Stamp have stamped on a bit of the blue paper and layered it up onto a black circle which I have just put a few dots around for interest.

 I have used TeddyBea_251 for this card, I have coloured her with pencils and once again used bits and pieces from my scrapbox too. I have added a few pearls and a gorgeous gold and red button in the corner. Once again I have used scraps for the Happy Birthday Stamp.

I have used TeddyBea_252 and TeddyBo_252)_Fence (both are PNG files) I have imported them into Craft Artist 2 and using the Painted Backyard Digi Kit from Daisy Trail, and a free calender download I got with one of my magazines I have made this gorgeous calender for January. I have coloured Bea and the fence in with my pencils. I love it and cant wait to have it on my desk at work!

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Elaine

Ingredients :

Image - TeddyBea_252

Image - TeddyBea_252_fence

Medium -Spectrum Noirs

Papers - Boho Collection

Buttons - From Stash

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 Maritha

TeddyBea_252

Magnolia papers

String from Colette and pearls too

Coloured with Copics

Memorybox flower die

Text from TLC

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Louise

 

TEDDYBO_238 (png) merged with TEDDYBEA_252_fence (png)

Coloured with Promarkers

Kaisercraft paper

Sticky lace from stash

Papermania "Wellington" sentiments

Stampin' Up! twine

TEDDYBEA_252 (png) merged with TEDDYBEA_252_fence (png)

Coloured with Promarkers

Dovecraft paper (pink) & paper free with magazine (blue)

Crochet flowers from The Range

Pearls from stash

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Lau W

 

TeddyBea_251

Die tree Mariane Design

Embossing Folder Cuttlebug

Words on computer

ribbon, strass, promarkers.

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Donna

I have used image TEDDYBO_237

Medium ~ Polychromos pencils

Cream card ~ Woodware

Papers ~ NitWit Collections "Petal Fresh" ~ LOTV

Doily, lace & 25mm ribbon ~ The Ribbon Girl

Flowers ~ WOC

Doily edger punch ~ Martha Stewart

Sentiment ~ Cuddly Buddly

Big hugs

Donna x

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Colette

TEDDYBO_236

Papermania embossing folder - Birthday

Papers - My Birthday Boy - Just So Scrappy

Ribbon and charm - Meiflower

 

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Trudie

TeddyBea_251 PNG image

Merged with
Rose Garden from Make It Crafty
Papers from Magnolia
Red card from stash
White distress Crackle paint
Dragonfly chipboard from MIC
Flower from stash
Leaves and Image coloured with Copics

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Karen

TeddyBea_250

Copics
Black Centura |Pearlescent
Black Fine Finer
White Opaque Pen
(And a whole lotta love!) :0) xx

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Debbie

Image: TEDDYBO_236

Paper: First Edition

Punch: EK Success

Gems: Meiflower

Sentiment: Whimsy Stamps

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Seriously, how wonderful were they!!?!?!?  Did you notice the 'Bo Marker' on Debbie's Calendar!?!  Genius!!!!!!

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Okay, so now I think we have a wee matter of announcing our last challenge winners.......Christmas seemed to get in the way and I kept forgetting to update the blog....so, without further ado I'd like to tell you all that our overall winner was:

Karen O



with our runner's up being

Sharon


and

Donna (BMC)



Ladies, please get in touch with Gayle via the website to claim your prize...xxx


SO.....here we are in 2013......a New Year...a New Challenge......!!

It's our 2nd Birthday on Friday 11th January (remember to pop back for our Blog Hop)..so we want our new challenge to be

"BIRTHDAYS"

Easypeasy, lemon squeezy!!  After all the Christmas and New Year cards you've probably been making recently this should come as light relief!!!!  The challenges will now run for a whole month, so plenty of time to get your cards in!!!!  And of course you can enter more than once....but you can only win once!!!!


So....find the link to submit your entries at the top of the Challenge blog page at the right hand side....!!

The prize, is as always,



for the overall winner with a free graphic for the runners up!!!
The challenge will close on Sunday 3rd February!!

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We finally got our first newsletter out on Friday night.......it was just a basic one as it was a 'first go'....but we intend to get make them even more interesting as we go along.....so remember to sign up (see the right hand side column of the blog) to make sure you get the news FIRST right to your inbox!!

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As I've already said it's our 2nd Birthday on Friday....so remember to pop back as we have a BLOG HOP happening........!!


Catch you soon......Gayle and ALL of the girls.....xxxxxxxx