Hello there all fans of Bearly Mine Challenges! Hope you are ready for a new challenge cause we sure are. It's that time of the month when we challenge you to use of Donna's sketches. This time it looks like this. Lovely isn't it? To be able to win one of our lovely prices you have to follow the sketch but you may rotate or mirrow it. We need to be able to see the sketch in your design. If you don't follow the rules or in this case our sketch your entry will be deleted. So off you go to find a lovely image and some stunning papers for your card. The design is already made for you. 

Winners

We do have a few winner's and top three from last weeks challenge to present as well. unfortunately there was quite a few entires that wasn't following the rules. The theme set for last weeks challenge was "Girly pink" and then you have to make a pink card for a girl of any size. It isn't any harder than that. Then will a dot of pink don't count as girly pink. Not that hard is it? Ok, there was crafters following the rules as well and from those we have gotten help from Mr Random to pick our prize winners.

 This weeks lucky winners are...

Prize winners

Alota Stamps

The gift voucher from Alota Stamps goes to number # 3, K8

Quixotic Paperie

 The gift voucher from Quixotic Paperie goes to number # 93, Erin F

Top three

# 4 Jane

# 31 Anne Marie

# 53 Louise

Congratulations to all five of you! Prize winners, please contact Donna by clicking the bear to the right. Write winner challenge #79 in the subject line. Also be sure to grab our winner's and top three badges from the tab above.

This weeks Sponsors

One lucky winner will get this set of skin toned markers from Letraset

One lucky winner will get these dies and ribbon 

About Marianne Design

Marianne Design is a Dutch owned craft manufacturer and wholesale supplier to craft retailers around the world. The company was established in 1994 by Marianne Perlot and is based in the Netherlands. For years now, we develop all our products with much care and quality. We have a practical understanding of the needs of crafters, we integrate product development, design and customer service to bring fresh ideas and beautiful products to the craft industry. All to enable the consumer to make beautiful cards, scrapbooks and other projects and enjoy this wonderful hobby. Our products are available in 18 countries around the world. We produce a wide range of products which represent a complete concept of paper crafts. There are different lines of stamps and dies with matching papers and materials to decorate your card or scrap. Products are chosen carefully for mixing and matching and stimulating creativity.

The history of Marianne Design

Marianne was trained as a craft teacher and in 1989 she started writing creative books. Her first book was of making ornamental dolls of fabric and threads. This was a big hit and she sold over 1 million craft books in the years that followed. At first she started to make books and products for other companies, but she wanted to do more and started developing her own products. In 1994 she founded Marianne Design B.V. and started developing new crafts and adequate products to go along with it for the Dutch market. To this day she still coaches authors who write crafts books. Marianne: “It is fantastic to see how creative people are and how crafts can excite them!”.

In recent years Marianne Design has grown to a mature production company which is still on top and in demand. The company has concentrated on supplying customers and consumers with the highest level of products and inspiration. For this Marianne still leads the company herself and she has surrounded herself with a passionate and experienced team. Marianne Design is a much loved brand. Since 2010 Marianne Design started to develop cutting- and embossing stencils to use in different machines. This turned out to be extremely successful and the Marianne Design Creatables dies have reached a cult status in the craft world. The products of Marianne Design are becoming more known and have started settling in other countries beside the Netherlands. The company continues to make beautiful designs and products, there are many ideas and inspiration for the future.

This was all we had for you today. Please visit my teamies and leave them some love. We love comments as much as you do. :)  Take an hour or two and spend it in your crafting area and make a card following our sketch. Who knows, you might be one of our lucky winners or even picked for one of the top three spots. 

Love n hugs

Marie and the B team ladies

Kym

Image - Crafts and Me Rubber Stamp called "Pink Lightning" by Jasmine Becket-Griffith
Papers used are Bearly Mine Designs Happy Hauntings, Gingham and Mini Dots

Jackie

 Image by Saturated Canary. 
 Papers Summer  Light and Micro Dots by BearlyMine Designs.

Nela 

Paper: Bearly Mine Design Paper Lace

Dianne 

Image -SC Daddy's Girl
Paper's -BMD -'Patchwork Party' and 'Gingham Digi paper's 

Marie

Digi set used Paper Lace and image from the Paper Shelter

All these beautiful digi papers you will find on Donna's Bearly Mine Designs

Website and that is Here.

Challenge #79 - "Girly Pink"

Good Morning Crafters, oh wow last weeks Challenge was certainly enjoyed by you all we had over 300 entries and I hope we are as lucky this weeks as its a "Girly Pink" one, Im sorry to say not everyone finds it easy to use this colour but I do hope you will give it a try and take part in it. But before I tell you more about this weeks challenge you will want to know who won last weeks "Anything Goes" one and we were lucky enough to have two sponsors so its two winners we are going to draw, the first from

Crafty Sentiments

for this gorgeous stamp

is

#105 Claudia

and for our second sponsor

Teddy Bo

offering 3 digi's - Teddy Bo Trio

is

#87 Dora

Well done and congratulations to you both now to collect your prizes please click on the Teddy Bear in the top right hand bar and you will be able to contact Donna, please dont forget to add that you are the winner of Challenge #78 in the subject line, and lastly dont forget to collect your Winners Badge from the Top Tab and display it on your blog with pride.

And now for the Top Three that the "B" Team have chosen from all those gorgeous Cards.

#35 - Tamara

#152 - Lulia

#267 - Danielle

Well done and congratulations girls, please collect your Top Three Badge from the Top Tab and display it on your blog with pride.

And now for this weeks "Girly Pink" Challenge and again we have two sponsors and the first is

Alota Stamps

and they are offering a fabulous prize of

and here is what they say about their 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 this week is yet another new one and its Elaine from

Quixotic Paperie

and she is offering a fabulous prize of

Wow two exciting prizes on offer so Im sure you will want to try and find all those gorgeous girlie images in your stash, and now to show you what my Design Team have created for you and first is

Laney

Image - Magnolia - Bearlymine Designs "Floral Breeze" Digi Papers

Tracey

Image - Saturated Canary - Bearlymine Designs "Designer Extreme CD2" Digi Papers

Pauline

Image - Wild Rose - Bearlymine Designs "Floral Fancy" and "Small Dot" Digi Images

Natascha

Image - Forever Friends - Bearlymine Designs "Love Dreams" Digi Papers

Shirley

Image - Alota Digi Image - Bearlymine Designs "Spring Mist" and "Floral Dreams" Digi Papers

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

Website and that is Here.

What stunning cards dont you agree and all that beautiful pink, so now that youve seen them I do hope that it will inspire you to take part in this weeks "Girly Pink" Challenge.

Challenge 78 - Anything goes

Hello there crafting friends! Hope you are fine and ready for a new challenge here at  Bearly Mines. Once again it's time for the ever so popular challenge "Anything Goes". But don't forget to follow the rules that are found in the sidebar, ok? Good!

Winners challenge #77 - Easter

Mr Random Winners

The Paper Shelter

and they are offering a prize of a $20.

The winner of the gift Certificate worth $20 is number # 44 Jo

Here are your random numbers:

44

Timestamp: 2013-03-18 21:32:12 UTC

High Hopes Stamps

The High Hope Gift certificate worth $25 goes to number #86 Sue Bearhouse

Here are your random numbers:

86

Timestamp: 2013-03-18 21:33:17 UTC

Top three (picked by the A team)

# 2 Norma
# 41 Monicas Papirhobby
# 77 Tamara

Congratulations to both our random winners and to the hand picked ones. Please grab your winner's badge from the "badge page" above. Winner's of the gift certificates; please e-mail Donna by clicking the Bear's tummy to the right. Write "winner challenge #77" in the subject line. Donna will help sort out your prize for you. Congrats to you all once again!

This weeks sponsors are 

Crafty Sentiments with this lovely stamp

Teddy Bo 

offering three digis - Teddy Bo trios

Glorious prizes don't you agree? You won't miss out on the chance of winning 

these will you? Wonder if I could sneak in and try to win some myself? LoL My team has 

been busy playing with some fabby sponsor images from Teddy Bo and there is some 

truly amazing creations here for your inspiration. I hope you will enjoy what you see, 

and come and join us for the new challenge. Please visit the B team girls as they work 

hard for you inspiration. You love getting comments, and so do we! ;)

Love n hugs

Marie and the B team girls

Jackie

 Image by Teddy Bo
Papers by Bearly Mine Designs, using Spring Flight, mini dots and gingham. 

Kym

Image called "Scooter Bo" by Teddy Bo and Co
Papers used are Bearly Mine Designs Spring Surprise

Dianne

Paper's-BMD 'Spring Blossoms' and ' Gingham' Image -Teddy Bea 'Hiding Time'

Tiggertastic

Using : -Teddy Bea 'Hiding Time'

Papers : Petunia Parade

Nela

Image: Teddy Bea 'Hiding Time'

Papers: Paper Lace

Marie

Digi sets used: Gingham, sky free bee and Summer light.
 Image Teddy Bea Hiding Time

All these beautiful and stunning papers you will find on Donna's

Bearlymine Designs Website Here

Challenge #77 - "Easter"

Good Morning Crafters I sincerely hope that all you mums had a wonderful day on Sunday, though I am aware that in some countries they dont celebrate Mothers Day at the same time as we do in the UK so I was pleased to see that so many had actually created a special card for last weeks Challenge and the response was brilliant over a 100 entries well done Im sure you kept Marie's Team busy visiting you and commenting. Anyway for this weeks challenge its a "Easter" theme that we want to see and please make sure you point this out on your cards so that the girls can see it plainly as I gather some of you aren't exactly following the theme thats set, so if you dont they will be removed from the link.

But before I show you who our sponsors are for this weeks challenge you will want to know who won the "Mothers Day" Challenge and they are as follows,

Marianne Designs

And the beautiful prize of two beautiful dies

and the lucky winner is

#49 - Mrs A

And the second prize from

Kenny K Designs

and the prize of 5 digi images of winners choice is

#23 - Anne Marie

Well done and congratulations to receive your prize please click on the email Teddy at the top of the right hand bar to contact Donna to receive your prizes, and can you please make sure you put Winners of Challenge #76 as your subject so that she will know which ones you are claiming. And lastly dont forget to collect your Winners Badge from the Top Tab and display it on your blog with pride.

And now for the Top Three Cards that the girls from the B Team have chosen for their gorgeous and stunning cards, and they are

#19 - Catherine

#70 - Pauline

#94 - Liz

Well done and congratulations girls if you like to collect your Top Three badge from
the Top Tab at the top and display it on your blog with pride.

And now for this weeks Challenge we again have two sponsors one new and
one whose is a regular sponsor, so firstly here is

The Paper Shelter

and they are offering a prize of a $20.

and for our second sponsor 

High Hopes Stamps

and they are offering a fabulous prize of $25. and here is what they say about their company.

 High Hopes stamps are unique country, whimsical, all original art created expressly with the crafting stamper in mind. We create our designs with love and smiles!

Well they are two fabulous prizes (and I should know as two of the Team used stamps that were given to us by High Hopes to play with) and I hope that you will want to take advantage of this and take part in this weeks "Easter" Challenge, and here is what my A Team have created for you. And again I want to thank them for all their hard work and I do hope that you will visit them and leave them some love to show how much you also appreciate it to.

Pauline

Image -The Paper Shelter and Bearlymine Designs "Spring Delights" Papers

Tracey

Image - Whimsey Stamps and Bearlymine Designs "Designer Extreme CD 1 and 2" Papers

Laney

Image - Bugaboo and Bearlymine Designs "Spring Delights" Papers

Natascha

Bearlymine Designs "Gingham" and "Spring Delights" Papers

Shirley

Image - High Hopes Stamp and Bearlymine Designs "Spring Flight" and "Spring Delights" Papers

Donna

using High Hopes stamp Easter Bunny Stack and paper from Spring Surprise Digi Set

All these beautiful and stunning papers you will find on Donna's

Bearlymine Designs Website Here

And now that youve seen what the Design Team have created for your inspiration I do hope that you will now take part in this weeks "Easter" Challenge.