Septem-BEAR...Birds and Bees and Falling Leaves!

"Septem-BEAR" is complete and he's got some friends that joined him...two little bumbles and a cute Tweet! Tweet!  September a honey of a month..birds and bees and falling leaves! Almost done...October and November sketches complete just need to add the color and soon all the months will come together in the 2011 Snap, Crackle, Pop Art Mini Calendar!  Now on to October . . . my favorite month and the month I celebrate my b-day!  Wonder if that's why I love October so much or is it the colorful leaves, cool crisp air, trick or treats . . . so many wonderful reasons to love October! Ok...off to work!

The Details...

Teddy Bear Hugs . . . .Mother MAY I?

From a Holly Holiday Design to some Calendar fun with the month of May!  Introducing "Teddy Bear Hugs" With Mother's Day one of the biggest holidays that falls in the month of May and inspired by the idea of the "mama bear"... protective and always there it made perfect sense that it should be two bears! The little cub lovingly looking up at his Mama and  proudly shares a flower (created with the help of April showers)!  His little (rub-on) tattoo shows his love as well for MOM and the buzzing about are those fun little black and yellow insects letting us know that all will BEE alright in the month of MAY!  

The 2011 Pop Art Minis Calendar will be available in my Zazzle store upon completion of the designs for all months.  You can view January through April at the links below.  And now. . . on to JUNE!

January - Snow Pals

February - Purr-fect Sweethearts

March - Paddy's Little Clover Bear

April - Hippity Hop Raindrop

A few of the details . . .

Oh, May you take our breath away!

Happy Mother's Day, May Day. Memorial Day and Cinco de Mayo . . . I'm sure I missed something! :)

BUZZzzz We have a Challenge #1 WINNER! Congrats to Celeste L!

Winning Entry in the

Un-Bee-lieveable Creative Challenge #1 - BUZZzzz!

Celeste received the most votes for her  BUZZzzz Bee inspired journal that was not only created for this challenge, but will be donated to a cancer patient with the hopes of brightening their day!

She has been scrapbooking and making cards for a couple years and participates as a cardmaker for Operation Write Home and journal making for cancer patients.

Check out Celeste's blog

Touched by a Butterfly to view more of her amazing work!  Or you can find her in The Hive too!

As the winning entry Celeste will receive a

Bee Inspired Basket of Scented Goodies

from the  Primitive Cottage Collections Store (valued at $35.00) and a $15.00 Amazon Gift Card. 

PLUS, she will be awarded 1000 Bonus Points from The Hive

(Thanks Melissa! for that sweet spot in the Buzzzz pot)

And as an added bonus there was a 2nd Drawing from all The Hive Members for a $10.00 Amazon Gift Card.  The winner was selected by a random.org drawing. 

Congrats to Terry F. and her #4 Buzzzz Entry

Thanks to all of the amazing artists that entered a design in the Challenge and for all of the voting support of those in The Hive and beyond!

Watch for the next Un-Bee-Lieveable Creative Challenge to bee posted and another chance to win a Sweet Prize Package!

What's All The Buzz About A Place Called The Hive?

A few weeks ago I was on one of my typical google search and find missions and came across this new blogging site called The Hive. With a natural curiosity I started buzzing around and decided that hey, it's FREE why not join. After a couple days of reading posts and throwing out a couple of my own I realized that I could import my blog from my blogger account and with a couple quick clicks wha-la . . . 10 posts imported and all of a sudden the points started racking up...too fun, I thought!

I was hooked . . . a part of the The Hive . . . a true bee-liever. . . one of the working blogger bees! Ok, you get the picture! beehehehehe! (sorry I can't resist the bee-puns)

Creator's Melissa and John Marro (along with some other beehind the scenes creatives) are the geniuses behind creatingthehive.com . . . a social networking community for everyone who enjoys, works, lives, breathes the world of arts, crafts and hobbies! This place called The Hive has become a daily, sometimes hourly, well actually sometimes every few minutes read for me! With so much action you can become quite involved or if you only want to stay in the background and buzz quietly around that's perfectly fine too! It's fun, it's interactive and I can honestly say that I've made some amazing contacts through the site!

So what's so special about this blogging site over some of the others?

There's ALOT of interaction, support and encouragement.

Members take an interest in each other and really seem to care about reading your posts and actually leaving comments. I know that my personal blogger site can go weeks without a comment, but in The Hive you'll see comments and encouraging words daily!

There's also The Points! A definite motivation to keep blogging, commenting, sharing and interacting . . . and as much as I try and not think about it, well I do! LOL

So if you're looking for some good old fashioned fun, alot of interaction and encouragement from some amazingly creative and ingenious people you should check out THE HIVE!
You'll BEE glad you did!