I’ve been having so much fun today making bears!! The other night when I was working I came up with an idea that I thought was very clever. Do you ever have one of those days where you just keep smiling cause you came up with something and it just makes you happy? Today I’ve been playing again and I just have to smile ’cause I’m tickled pink with this idea. So are you just dying to know what it is……..well the Top Note Die is the perfect size to making sleeping bags for the Build-A-Bears! Look at this……
Look at all my bears in their little sleeping bags!! Here is a close up of a boy and a girl bear.
I cut two Top Note dies from the Pawsitively Prints Designer Series Paper and scored one of them and folded it down. What I did to score was line up the center points on the 1″ line and score carefully. Then fold that over. I used snail on the sides and bottom to put the sleeping bags together. I added buttons (from the sizzlet die) or ribbon to each one. I stamped one of the greetings on the bottom – I decided to use “I ‘heart’ YOU BEARY MUCH!” and I cut a heart using the Beary Girl Sizzlets die and popped it up with a tiny piece of a Stampin’ Dimensional. I did trim the points off of the sides of the sleeping bag. Maybe I should have done it on the bottom too – that is the only thing my boys thought was weird because their sleeping bags never had points on them…..oh well.
The bears are cut from the Bear die using Chocolate Chip, Close to Cocoa, and Creamy Carmel card stock. I punched a 1-1/4″ circle out of Basic Black card stock and glued it with a 2-way glue pen to the back of each bear head for the facial features (this is much easier that dealing with the tiny little piece from the die). I glued on the muzzle from a different color of card stock.
The clothes are cut from the Beary Essentials die using the Pawsitively Prints Designer Series Paper and I just mixed up the different pants and shirts. On some of the girls I cut the bottoms of the pants off at the perforated line to make them look more liked cropped pjs. The girls also got bows in their hair – it is on the Beary Girl Sizzlits die. I glued on all the clothes – a few of them I added the cuffs for the shirt. I also added the hearts on the outside of their shirts. Then the bears were tucked into their sleeping bags.
The card is run through the Big Shot with the new Perfect Details texture plate (just the front) to give it a little texture – it looked too plain without it to me. The card base is Old Olive since that is one of the accent colors in the designer series paper.
So I’m thinking about sending this idea in to Stampin’ Up! for one of the monthly contests. What do you think?
I was going to plan a scrapbook page with the bears in their sleeping bags – Ryan whenever he went to visit my parents when he was little always took all of his Build-a-Bears and had a “sleep-over”. I know I have pictures somewhere…..I just haven’t figured out where that is yet. So my dilemma (is that spelled right?) was what to send in for the contest – a scrapbook page or a card?
These are my swaps for the STARZ group meeting tonight.
Have a BEARY FUN WEEKEND!!
This is just darling!! I love it! I have a feeling this will be cased a lot!! Amazing job Monika! Heather Wachtman. Creationsbyheather.com
OH MY what a cute idea! I have yet to really play with mine, maybe later today, now that I am inspired! thanks for the great ideas!
HOW ADORABLE! What a really great idea. They are just tooo cute!
These are adorable! Thanks for sharing.
Too cute! These are adorable! Great idea.
These are adorable! My daughter is having a sleepover for her birthday next month and I had been thinking of making the invites look like little sleeping bags. Now I have exactly the idea that I needed. Thanks…………………….oh yeah, I would send both ideas into SU!
Boy, you have been busy. These are great. Can we make them for the class? I would turn both ideas, the card and the scrapbook page. It’s really a unique idea. Very cute!
You are so cleaver.
Adorabe! I think you should send it the card and the scrapbook page. What a darling idea!
I love these! They are too cute! I’d send them both in–who knows, they might pick both :O) Good luck!
Sandy
Absolutely stunning! Great idea, I will be CASEing this, for sure!
Beary, beary cute!
Wow, amazing, these guys are just sooooo cute!
GENIOUS!
Oh my gosh, this is awesome and amazing! YES you have to send one in to SU! Love the sleeping bag idea. Man, I bet that took you some time, even with the awesome Big Shot doing most of the cutting for you. You are making me consider this whole build-a-bear line!
DEFINITELY send in BOTH ideas!!!
These are sooo cute!!! I had seen the bear die cut and was trying to decide how I would use it. I don’t have any grandkids and didn’t think I needed to buy it. But after seeing your idea, I was very tempted to purchase the bears, since I already have the top note die cut. They should give you a cut of the profits, because I think there will be a lot of other people tempted, too.
Great idea.
Great Idea.. So cute!! They would make cute invitations for a girls slumber party too..
Those are so cute- great idea!
FABuLOUS!!!!!
These are adorable. What a great idea. I’m going to have to case them ….
Monika,
These are awsome! I’m doing a Girl Scout event on the Sept. 20th and I’m going case your idea. I think the girls will love it. Trying to figure out how to tuck a BIt-O-Honey candy into the project. Send both the card and scrapbook page to SU! You’re a winner in my book!
What a fantastic idea!
Perfect for a sleepover birthday party invitation.
Oh how sweet!!!!!!!! These make me smile too, they are absolutely adorable. 🙂
Oh wow – this is FANTASTIC!! Good on you for thinking of something so lovely and unique! I’d be smiling too if I were you – GREAT JOB!!
Luv Karen
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They definetly are very clever. Well done…
Oh my gosh, this is the cutest thing I’ve seen done with those bears! So clever!!
Holy cow, Monika! Someone sent me the link for me to see what you did. Really cute!! Linda Heller
I wanted to be the first the other day to leave a comment but could not find out where to post 🙁
These are fantabulous!!!! You are so creative. Oh my gosh are you talented. Thanks for sharing your whimsy work.
Stay well,
AnnMarie
Monika,
I loved these so much that we used them for my Daughter’s Birthday invites. If you want to see what you inspired, you can see them on my blog at http://weekendstamper.blogspot.com/2009/09/katies-build-bear-birthday-invites.html
Thanks for sharing your creation!
Kelly
These are really great. Thanks so much for sharing. I am sure you would win the contest at SU with this. Its Demonstrators like you that make SU what it is. Thanks again
So So Cute!! Thanks for sharing! Great sleep over invites
These are soooooo cute. I have Jody Nakashima’s Build-A-Bear dies and I’m going to make several of these. Know at least 5 ladies who are having babies. Thank you for blessing my day!
Hi, I wanted to know what “snail” was that you referred to putting the sleeping bags together? Thank you! I love your bears!
Snail is the double-sided adhesive that Stampin’ Up! sells. I guess I should have said Adhesive in my post.