Holiday Special Time on Etsy!

I’m out of the house with The Husband tomorrow morning, so I’m posting all this exciting stuff tonight. Bearchickart.etsy.com has it’s Grand Opening tomorrow. And I thought that was a good time to introduce 6 weeks of FREE shipping in both shops for the Holiday Season! Here’s the scoop:

GRAND OPENING AND HOLIDAY SPECIAL!

Bearchickart.etsy.com
FREE Domestic and Canadian shipping on Artist Trading Cards (unless otherwise stated). Shipping to Everywhere Else is a flat $1.50 (.50 cents more for each additional ATC) on Artist Trading Cards (unless otherwise stated). Here's the fine print: Offer good through December 15. First Class shipping (or equivalent) only, no overnight or priority. All other art pieces are individually priced for shipping.

HOLIDAY SPECIAL!

Bearchick.etsy.com
FREE Domestic and Canadian shipping. Shipping to Everywhere Else is a flat $2.00 ($1 more for each additional item), unless stated otherwise. Here's the fine print: Offer good through December 15. First Class shipping (or equivalent) only, no overnight or priority.

Come see my new line of Charm N Bead necklaces and bracelets.

I’m also running an Exclusive Special for my Blog Readers and Snail Mailing list:


For every item ordered through Etsy from now till December 15, you’ll receive a free pair of earrings.
If you order 5 items, you’ll receive 5 pairs of earrings!
Can you say stocking stuffers?
In the Notes to Sellers section at checkout, just let me know whether you prefer pierced or clip ons.
Offer applies in both shops.

Please stop by and bring your Holiday gift lists!

www.bearchick.etsy.com
www.bearchickart.etsy.com

My Name in Cloth Paper Scissors!

Ok, none of my design work got published but my name is mentioned in the Popping the Question section of the new November/December issue. The question was “What’s Your Favorite Art-Related Book”. So I quickly e-mailed my answer a few months ago and there it is on the glossy page! We have to get our thrills where we can, right? For those of you unfamiliar with Cloth Paper Scissors, it’s a cool magazine devoted to collage and mixed media art. And in case you don’t get to see it, my fave art book is “Artist Trading Card Workshop”. I guess that’s not too much of a stretch for me, huh?

In other Bear Chick news, I’ve got most of the art moved over to Bearchickart.etsy.com. I’ve been working on more of what I’m calling the Charm N Bead series of jewelry. Now I need to do some photographs when I get back from grocery shopping and get those on Etsy, along with a piece of vintage jewelry found while saling (yard saling, that is). I have a few pieces to post, by and by. Here’s a pretty Trifari brooch in fairly good condition:

Otherwise, the day job has been busy and the kitties have been mushy, wanting lots of attention, which I try to give since, well, why have pets if you’re gonna ignore ‘em! The Husband has been working both weekend days through October but that ends this weekend, so we’ll have some daylight together again.

Trying to come up with the best deals I can offer on Etsy… Freebies or free shipping domestically… I’m aiming for the Grand Opening next Saturday of Bearchickart.etsy.com to decide what the holiday deal will be.

Laters!

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Etsy Clean Up and Sale

I’m making a lot of changes on Etsy. In preparation for the Grand Opening of BearchickART.etsy.com, I’m slowly migrating all of the art and ATC’s to the new shop. But I’m also rethinking my original shop. I’m envisioning only jewelry and the occasional vintage item from my thrift store and yard sale travels and some jewelry supply destash--things I had to have then didn’t use. If you’re a crafter/artist, you’ll recognize the sickness.

So, I’m having a big sale right now on all things not jewelry and a few jewelry items destined for the scissors if they’re not bought within the next two weeks. If something doesn’t sell in a year or two, I figure it’s not gonna, so I may as well use the components to make something new and wonderful… Unless it’s something you can’t live without!

Here’s a sampling of what’s on sale:

Sorry about these weird, miniscule pictures...

Meanwhile, I’ve been adding a lot of earrings to Bearchick.etsy.com

Tomorrow, my plan is to start making necklaces and bracelets in the new charm/bead design. I got a huge order of headpins and jump rings from my wholesaler, so I’m ready to create!! Watch for those soon.

Hope the weather is doing what it should in your area. We keep getting promised actual cool, autumn weather by the meteorologists, but Mother Nature obviously didn‘t shake hands on that deal…

PS--You’ve gotta check out www.icanhascheezburger.com (see the link on the left side of this page). If you’re an animal or humor lover, you’ll love this site!

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www.bearchickart.etsy.com

What Bear Chick's Been Up To Lately

I didn't want to post this until my best friend got the card I made for her birthday. But she's got it now and says she's putting it in the box where she saves things... Believe me, she's not a clutter bug, so when she saves something, it's a compliment!

Similar to my Party Dress ATC, I outlined a dress and "colored" it in with molding paste I'd mixed with red acrylic paint. Then added micro beads that I gently squished into the wet paste. I used Pearlescent and iridescent Gold Golden paint splashed on for confetti in the background.

For the wording, I created a swirly font I had fun lettering with a Crayola retractable pencil, which was really soft and easy to use.

My plan is to make more of the dress ATC's and maybe even some cards. Right now I'm doing a couple of cute Halloween ATC's and I'm also working on new necklaces with chain, charms and lots of dangly color. Here's the first one I made of those, which is actually kind of subtle since I've made another that's absolutely loaded...

This necklace was heart-centric, with it's red theme.

But other necklaces will be more freeform and chunky, like this cat themed one (which is MINE, by the way).

I'm on a jewelry jag right now, thinking of and trying new things. You know me, I don't want to do the same things for too long or I'll get bored! Wire seems to be a recent fave material.

Finding the time to be creative and manifest all the ideas in my head (and on dozens of sticky notes and scraps of paper in my purse and around the house), along with doing things around the homefront and working full time is certainly a challenge! Plus, I decided to separate my jewelry from my art on Etsy, so when folks visit my shops, they'll make more sense and look more organized. BearChickART.etsy.com is open softly (meaning it's not looking great yet but there are some things for sale) but will have a Grand Opening at the end of the month.

But the Big News this week is that Bear Chick has finally come into the 21st century with High Speed internet! Etsy's now working wicked fast and uploading pictures like a champ, so expect a lot of new items in the next few weeks. I'm planning to take lots of photos tomorrow in preparation to add to both shops in Etsy over the coming weeks. Think Holiday Shopping!

www.bearchick.etsy.com

www.bearchickart.etsy.com

Heaven Help Me, Now I’m On Shop Handmade!

I guess I’ve been frustrated by Etsy’s picture uploading on my poor old dial up (9 more days to High Speed!) and I saw some chat about this on Etsy’s forum… And when I took a look at it, one of my favorite Etsy artists had already started a shop. So, I came home tonight and decided to see how this thing works.

It works pretty good! I’m just happy to get pictures on more easily. As I told Margie at Artbymar (http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5006877), my heart belongs to Etsy but my mortgage belongs to the bank that wants it’s money every month! So the more venues I’m seen in, the better. And for now, during the Beta period at least, the commission I’ll be paying goes to the Rain Forest.

I’ve put on a few earrings and that’s where my Autumn Encouragement necklace landed, plus another really wild necklace--purple girls, come see!

So check me out at bearchick.shophandmade.com and help the Rain Forest with any purchase of Bear Chick treasures!

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