Challenge #71 - "Hearts Galore"

Good Morning Crafters, well I hope your beginning to recover from the snow, though I gather that there are still area's that are still suffering so I hope it wont be for very much longer. As we are now creeping very quickly towards "Valentines Day" we decided that we would start the ball rolling by having a "Hearts Galore" Challenge this week so now you can get your crafty goodies out and start creating.
But before I tell you about our brand new sponsors I am sure you will want to know who won last weeks "Tic, Tac, Toe" Challenge and we have three prizes to give out so we have three winners to pick and here they are:-

A Gift Voucher of £10. goes to #84 Lisa Lynn

A gorgeous prize of this Stamp

Goes to #31 Kanda

And lastly a prize of a Gift Voucher of $35. goes to #77 Soma

Well done and congratulations and to collect your prizes you need to click on the email bear at the top of the right hand bar please can you add which prize you are claiming, and also dont forget to pick up your winners badge from the top tab and display it on your blog with pride.

And now for the Top Three winning Cards that the Girls picked are:-

#1 - Chris

#42 - Pauline

#83 - Jill

Well done and congratulations Girls, dont forget to pick up your Top Three Badge from the top tab and display it on your blog with pride.

Weve been very lucky to have several new sponsors joining us at Bearlymine Designs all chosen by Donna and here are just two of them and the brilliant prizes they are offering you:-

"Alota Rubber Stamps"

and they are offering a fabulous prize of a

and here is what they say about there company:-

Alota Rubber Stamps is know for "The cutest little bugs in Town"

Search our web site for cute and whimsical rubber stamps. We also feature background scenes in full size and miniature and we have a large selection of tea bag folding stamps. For great inspiration be sure to visit our card gallery!

And our second Sponsor is "Noor"

and they are offering a brilliant prize of a

Marie and I want to thank Donna for all the hard work she has put into finding such brilliant prizes and sponsors for these Challenges and Im sure you also would like to join us in thanking her to. And now I want to show you what my girls have been creating for you I do hope you enjoy what you see.

Chanelle

 Tilda Image - Bearlymine Designs "Love Dreams" Digi Papers

Pauline

 Bearlymine Designs "Designer Extreme" Cd

Laney

Tilda Image - Bearlymine Designs "Designer Extreme" Cd.2

Natascha

 Bearlymine Designs "Love Dreams" Digi Papers

Tracey

 Tilda Image - Bearlymine Designs "Petunia Parade" Digi Papers

Shirley

 Heartfelt Image - Bearlymine Designs "Love Dreams" Digi Papers

And all these beautiful papers can be found at Donna's Bearlymine Website Here.

Wow there are some stunning cards there dont you think, I want to thank the girls so much for all there hard work and to apologise for being such a hard task master, I do hope that you will now be inspired to take part in this "Hearts Galore" Challenge. 

Challenge 70 Tic-Tac-Toe

Hi and welcome back to the Bearly Mine Challenges. Our "Anything goes" challenge has come to an end for this time and now it's time to play TIC TAC TOE. "Four it a row" is what we call it here in Sweden where I live. So this is what we are going to do with this week, playing Donna's board game. It should not cause any problems filling a row either  horizontally, vertically or diagonally. This is what you have to play with. It's a really easy on and don't forget to check out all the lovely prizes that can be won this week. Even more motivating, right? 

Before I move on to the winners we have some changes to the team. Our lovely and wonderful teamie Lorraine has left us. I, we for sure will miss you sweetie and I hope things turn around for you, really really soon. You will be missed and we hope to see you around, if not today maybe tomorrow? Thanks for everything you have done for the Bearly Mine Challenges.  As one of the spots of my team needed to be filled, who do we turn to? Yepp! You guest it! Jackie is now officially a part of the team so no more guest designers, for a while at least. 

As always we need to have some winner's from last weeks challenge and a top three as we know you all love that too. It's not easy to pick when there is so many lovely entries to choose from. Over two hundred! Thanks so much for playing along with us each week. Here comes this weeks talented ladies and the ones with some luck too. :)

We start with the Mr Random winners and here are the lucky ones. Don't forget to pick up your winner's badge from our badge page above. Congratulations! 

Winners

A gift voucher to spend in Natalie and Amy's store is won by #39 Marlies

And our second sponsor is Kenny K

 offering 5 Digi Stamps of Winners Choice 

This has been won by #206 Kakichka

And then we have our Top Three

#  69 Nelly's Handmade

#  143 Nanda
#  176 Lexie's cards

Congratulations to you all! Please grab the top three badge on from our badge page above. Wear it with proud!

This weeks sponsors are

The prize is a gift voucher worth £10

Their prize is this lovely stamp called 

 Henry with Balloon

A gift voucher worth $35 to spend in their store

That is a great bunch of prizes isn't it? I wouldn't mind getting one of those myself that's for sure. Now after this long post, here comes my teamies and mine inspiration for this weeks challenge. I hope that you find our cards inspiring and that they fill you with crafting energy so that you join us this week as well! 
See you around!

Love n hugs

Marie and the B team girls

Kym

Using Bearly Mine Designs Patchwork Party, Summer's Lace Dreams and The Boys Zone

I have used the third horizontal row of swirls, digi image, ribbon and die-cuts

Image:  Sweet Pea Stamps digital image "Fanciful Notions" by Meredith Dillman

Dianne 

Paper-BMD 'Spring Digi'  Image-Wild Rose Studio stamp
Used last row from top to bottom-Fancy corner's-Lace-Die Cuts-Doily

Jackie 

 

Papers Bearly Mine, Micro dots,  Ginghams, and Spring Blossom.

Image by Saturated Canary.

Used 3rd Row down, horizontal . Swirls, Digi Image, ribbon and die cuts. 

Nela

Papers Bearly Mine, Mini dots.

I have used the second horizontal row: Lots of layers, Pearls, Stamped Image, Lace.

Marie

Using Floral Breeze, image Magnolia

Row used: Second one horizontal starting with Lots of layers

Tiggertastic

Using : Petunia Parade

Tic-Tac-Toe :Fancy corner's-Lace-Die Cuts-Doily

Please do drop by the Bearly Mine store and find yourself some useful digi paper packs. Lots of goodies to be found!

Challenge #69 - "Anything Goes"

Good Morning Crafters, well its certainly cold here in the UK and lots of us have had our first layer of snow so I really envy those of you who live in warmer countries just wish I was there with you to. Anyway this weeks Challenge is a "Anything Goes" one and I know its a real favourite with you all so Im really looking forward to seeing what you come up with. 

But before I start you will want to know who were the lucky winners for last weeks "Monthly Sketch" Challenge and the first is for the $20 Gift Voucher from "The Paper Shelter" is:-

#8 - LindaS

And the second winner for the "Little Darlings" Rubber Stamp is:-

#14 - Irene

Well done and congratulations Girls Im sure you will enjoy your prizes but dont forget to contact Donna by clicking on the email bear at the top on the right hand side to collect them and also picking up your Winners Badge from the Tab Top.

And before I show you the sponsors for this weeks Challenge here are the

Top Three

#12 - Monica

#15 - Papersniffer

#19 - Tinie

 Well done and congratulations Girls dont forget to collection your Top Three Winners Badge from the Top Tap and display it on your Blog.

And again we have two fabulous prizes this week to give away and the first sponsors are 

"Natalie and Amy"

and they are offering a prize of

And our second sponsor is "Kenny K"

and they are offering 5 Digi Stamps of Winners Choice

What fabulous prizes who wouldnt want to win at least one of them, thats the problem with being on the Design Team we are not allowed to take part but you at least have a chance to win them. And now I want to show you what my Design Team have been creating for you.

Chanelle 

Kenny K Image - Bearlymine Designs "Rose" Digi Papers

Pauline

Kenny K image - Bearlymine Designs "Boys Zone" Digi Papers

Laney

Kenny K Image - Bearlymine Designs "Yummy Delights" Digi Papers

Natascha

Kenny K Image - Bearlymine Designs "Love Dreams" and "Halloween 

Hauntings" Digi Papers

Shirley

Kenny K Image - Bearlymine Designs "Spring Flight" Digi Papers

Donna

All these beautiful papers you will find on Donna's Bearlymine Designs Website

and you will find them here

Im sure you love what the girls have created for your inspiration and hopefully now you will want to take part in this "Anything Goes" Challenge.

Challenge #68 Monthly sketch

Hello there all wonderful crafters! Hope your week has been blessed and filled with crafting. It's now time for a new routine here at the Bearly Mine Challenges. Todays challenge theme is one that will returning about once a month, and as it says in the heading it's a sketch. Donna has been busy creating it for us all to use so now I hope to see many of you come and join us. 

This is what you will be working with and I am so looking forward to see what you will come up with. My dear teamies has been busy making some lovely samples for you to see. And before I continue with all the other stuff; I just want to wish Gina speedy recovery and say welcome back to Jackie who will fill in for Gina while she is busy healing. Wish you all the best! And thank you Jackie for filling in!

As always we need to have some winner's from last weeks challenge and a top three as we know you all love that too. Here comes this weeks talented ladies and the ones with some luck too. :)

We start with the Mr Random winners and here are the lucky ones. Don't forget to pick up your winner's badge from our badge page above. Congratulations!

Winners

A lovely die and stamp from Marianne Design goes to - # 125 Eret

A set of Aqua markers from Letraset goes to - # 18 Artsy-Art

And then we have our
TOP THREE
# 12 Karen O
# 42 Jenny H
# 106 Wendy K

Congratulations to you all! Please grab the top three badge on from our badge page above. Wear it with proud!

This weeks sponsors are

The Paper Shelter which is giving away a gift certificate worth $20 to spend in their store


Little Darlings Rubber Stamps who is giving one lucky winner a rubber stamp of winners choice

That is a great bunch of prizes isn't it? I wouldn't mind getting one of those myself that's for sure. Now after this long post, here comes my teamies and mine inspiration for this weeks challenge. I hope you will enjoy it as much as we did. See you around!

Love n hugs
Marie and the B team girls

Jackie
Our guest designer covering for Gina

Papers BMD Simply Dots and Freebie.

Kym

Using Bearly Mine Designs Floral Dreams, Mini Dots and Freebie Flowers

Image by Meljen's Designs

DIANNE 

Paper-BMD 'Rose's Dream'-Image-LOTV stamp

Nela

Paper BMD Pastel Christmas

Tiggertastic

Using : Floral Breeze

Lorraine

Papers used are from the Damask set and Vintage set.

Marie

Using Summer's Roses, Shabby Vintage and Floral Fantasy

Don't forget to take a browse around the Bearly Mine Store. Plenty of lovely digi sets to chose from.