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Friday, 25 May 2012

Fairytale Friday




After the antics of last week, the girls are let out from prison for good behaviour. Apparently they spent their time redecorating the interior of their jail cells when they got bored.

The whole area was covered in home made paper chains. The police chief was extremely happy with all of the work he saw until he saw what Tammy had done to her cell. Unfortunately Tammy couldn't get her hands on any paper, but she did had a long leather coat and a number of interesting implements. When Tammy was released, she had to be dragged out of her cell as she appeared to have turned it into an illicit dungeon.

The Police Chief has agreed to allow the cells to remain decorated. There is another girls night out on Saturday night, and it's expected the girls will be back in jail. They might as well keep the cells looking homely.

Meanwhile back at Teddy Bo Towers, Gayle decided to get some decorating done while the girls were locked up. She employed some decorators to renovate the girls rooms. Unfortunately no matter how much Gayle begged them to stay, the decorators ran off.  Apparently the tales of Edna's 'kidnappings' earlier in the year have spread further than juts the local village!!

Gayle was left with no option but to shut down the rooms until the girls can get a chance to redecorate. So Gayle has brought a caravan onto Teddy Bo Towers grounds. It's only a 4 berth caravan, so space will be tight, but I'm sure the girls will survive though I'm not too sure about the caravan.

Tune in next week to see if the caravan's still in one piece, and if the girls can manage to stay out of jail.
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Thankfully some of the girls managed to make some cards this week!!!


Image: TEDDYBO_196
Preprinted striped card blank
Alphabet cut with Sizzix Girls are Weird Alphabet
Star Xmas table decoration


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Kirsty-Anne


Teddybo_195
For my nephew Miles Birthday ;0)
Nitwits Off to the park papers 
prismacolor pencils
Cricut essentials & alphabet die cuts
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Colette


Image - FariyD_Glamour Puss 003 Coloured in Photoshop
Papers - Black polka dot - Shery K - Love in Paris
Red Polka dot - Shery K - Red
Sentiment - computer generated
Scalloped circle dies - Spellbinders and Go Kreate
Polka dot ribbon, pearls and charm - Meiflower


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Jill




Image is: TEDDYBO_182

Coloured with Copics

Papers from Maja design

Wonderful swirl from MB i think (thanks Maritha!!)

Flowers from WOC

Mini postage stamps from Whimsy stamps
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Claire



Image Used: FAIRYD_TB_017



Image Used: TEDDYBEA_204
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Helle


Image Used: DARCYSDIARIES_034

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Maritha




GP_001

Magnoila swirl/leaf?

Tim Holtz clock(finally MINE....loooove it)

The middle flower is from K-A

Pyntebär(can´t translate that),is from JillBill

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Thank you for visiting us today and we hope you can join us tomorrow for some "Right Royal" Sneak Peeks!!!!!


Gayle and the Girls....xxxx

Wednesday, 23 May 2012

Wordy Wednesday


CLOUDS

A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale.
Benoit Mandelbrot


Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.
Susanna Moodie

Astronomers are greatly disappointed when, having traveled halfway around the world to see an eclipse, clouds prevent a sight of it; and yet a sense of relief accompanies the disappointment.
Simon Newcomb

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
Lord Byron

Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it.there.
Barbara Walters

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
Rabindranath Tagore

I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.
William Butler Yeats

 

I remember just lying in the grass, staring at the clouds, wondering where they drifted off to after they floated over Texas. I never would have imagined that one day I would follow one of those clouds and find myself in Hollywood.
Renee Zellweger

I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds.
Mike Tyson

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.
Henry David Thoreau

A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed... It feels an impulsion... this is the place to go now.  But the sky knows the reasons and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons.  
Richard Bach

Far clouds of feathery gold,
Shaded with deepest purple, gleam
Like islands on a dark blue sea.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Clouds are like boogers hanging on the nostrils of the moon.  
Robin Williams

Tuesday, 22 May 2012

Teddy Bo Tuesday...mid challenge reminder



Good Morning to you all and welcome to another Teddy Bo Tuesday.  As we're 'mid-challenge' we'd like to remind you that not only is this a fantastic challenge with a brilliant sketch by Tammy, but we also have a DT call on at the moment.....so let us see your cards!!!

As it's not a 'Teddy Bo' release day I've let my pen try out a few new things.....and as the CAT was so popular amongst the DT girlies and some of you lovely people we've also got a new one of him!!

And of course, as you know, when we have new releases our DT get to play!!!

Tammy




Image used: FAIRYD_TB_CAT_02 ~ Coloured with Pro-Markers.

Printed on to Letraset Cartridge Paper.

Papers used DOVECRAFT - Princess Fairytale.

Sentiment - Docrafts - Hot Diggity Dog.

Ribbon from stash.

Gems and Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts.

Small Butterfly Punch - Tonic Studio.



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Nicole






Image used: TEDDYBEA_205

I´ve colored *Dance with me* with Prismas

cardstock by Bazzill

design paper by Laura Ashley

I´ve decorated with punched hearts and rhinestones in heart shape

Wishing you all a sunny day :0)))



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Gayle




Image Used: FAIRYD_GLAMOURPUSS_003

Flowers, Wild Orchid Craft

Printed sentiment

Coloured with Pro-markers

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Kirsty-Anne




Image used: FAIRY_TB_FAIRY_04
prismacolor pencils, liquid pearls,glamour dust,Distress Inks
Kaisercraft Charlotte's Dream paperpad , Pearls & Lace
Kaisercraft Bonjour butterfly stamps & Ranger embossing powder
Cricut flower shop & Cindy Loo Cartridge cuts
WOC brads


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 Liz


Image used: TeddyBea204
Copics
BoBunny Papers 'Alora'
Flower & Tag Punches
Twine,Buttons,Stickers

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So ladies......and gents too....let's see your wonderful creations and Good Luck....xx

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












Monday, 21 May 2012

Mojo Monday

Its Monday again and for my little bit of inspiration for you I thought I'd share some of my favouite flowers - 
DANDELIONS 

I love these flowers as I love how hardy they are, they grow everywhere and they always look so bright and cheerful. But my most favourite part ever is when they turn into seed heads and the wind catches them, they float through the sky as if they are fairys floating on the wind. So silent and light, and just so dainty.

Wikipedia

Dandelions/Taraxacum (play /təˈræksəkʉm/) is a large genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. They are native to Eurasia and North America, and two species, T. officinale and T. erythrospermum, are found as weeds worldwide.[1] Both species are edible in their entirety.[2] The common name dandelion (/ˈdændɨl.ən/ DAN-di-ly-ən, from French dent-de-lion, meaning lion's tooth) is given to members of the genus, and like other members of the Asteraceae family, they have very small flowers collected together into a composite flower head. Each single flower in a head is called a floret. Many Taraxacum species produce seeds asexually by apomixis, where the seeds are produced without pollination, resulting in offspring that are genetically identical to the parent plant.

All the pictures are from Pinterest.

Quotes 

It gives one a sudden start in going down a barren, stony street, to see upon a narrow strip of grass, just within the iron fence, the radiant dandelion, shining in the grass, like a spark dropped from the sun.
Henry Ward Beecher

Spotting a dandelion in the grass always meant to me as a child, that summer had arrived! And they make great little bouquets to take into Mom. At least she displayed them happily on the kitchen table in a little tea cup full of water!

You cannot forget if you would those golden kisses all over the cheeks of the meadow, queerly called dandelions.
Henry Ward Beecher

I hope this has inspired you a little.

Love Clairebears x 

Friday, 18 May 2012

Fairytale Friday



This week was the village fair, and they organised a ladies versus men's hockey match on the village green to raise money for the local hospital.

The game started well, the men went 2-0 up in the first 5 minutes before Tammy took her hockey stick to a young male player and had to be held back by her team. The young man had to be taken to hospital and received 15 stitches in his head. He later apologised and said he should never have scored a goal in the first place.

The game got to half time before it was abandoned. The girls went 3-2 up after demanding they get 3 goals because they were clearly better than the men. The men decided they couldn't win and went to the pub.

The girls victory celebration got out of hand when Colette, bottle of blue label vodka in hand danced half naked through the Women's Institute coffee stall. There were a lot of upset older women demanding that she leave their stall, but with a sudden surge of male customers waiting to be served, they promptly changed their mind and set up a banner stating "Strip Show". The ladies were ecstatic when it was announced that their stall made the most money that day. It may be due to the fact that Doris Brown of Maple Terrace increased the prices of coffee from £1.00 up to £4.50 because of the entertainment on show.

Then Tammy decided to have a shot at throwing a wet sponge the local minister which cost 50 pence per throw. Unfortunately, this minister was the one that married her and her husband so instead of throwing a sponge, she used half a brick. The damage on the ministers forehead was significant, and his service on Sunday will be performed by Edna. It should prove to be an interesting sermon.

The day was brought to a close when the ladies were lured into a small tent by the offer of free vodka. While helping themselves to fresh glasses, the guy ropes for the tent were cut, and the men dragged the ladies inside the tent to the local police station where they were locked up overnight in a cell.

Hopefully they will be better behaved next week, though highly unlikely.

Goodness only knows how they managed to make ANY cards this week!!!

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I've kind of cannibalised the sketch but it's just about there - Boo is my tall child's nickname so expect she'll snaffle this.
Image: TEDDYBO_191
Paper: DCVW not sure which one
Kraft Card: Little Claire.

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Colette


Image TB_204 - Coloured in Photoshop
Patterned paper - Kay Miller Designs - Light of my life
Plate stand die 2 - Joy Crafts
Grand Circles - Spellbinders
Rolled roses and foliage and Butterfly Dies - Marianne Designs
Sentiment - Create with TLC freebie - Coloured in Photoshop to match the ladybird.
Ribbon, pearls, diamante buckle - Meiflower


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Jill
Image is an old, but very gorgeous one :)
TeddyBea_062
Coloured with Copics
Papers from Maja design and some leftover from papirdesign
Cheery Lynn swirl die found here
Flowers from WOC
Fantastic crystals from Prima

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Kirsty-Anne

Teddybea_204
Prismacolor pencils & Glamour Dust
My Minds Eye Love Me Paperpad
Cricut Pennants.
Raffia & Blossoms from WOC
Ribbon & Lace from ebay
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Claire
I've had another play this afternoon and cheated a little and used the pre coloured Jolly for this card - I soooo love Jolly lol!
I've tried to use the sketch but I think it doesnt really look to much like it!
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Maritha
TeddyBo_195
Papers fr PyHobby(Wellington)
CheeryLynn swirl
Coloured with Promakers
text from Magnolia

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Renee

TB_205
ribbon
colored with prima markers
gelly roll star dust pen
rhinestones
inkadinkado sentiment and flourish stamps
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Catch you soon....Gayle and the Girls...xxx