URSA Awards 2014

9th Annual
Competition

"Reach Beyond The Stars"

Category 3

Medium Bare Bear or Bud - 6" to 11" -  Undressed. Any materials.


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3.1

3.1

Arabella is an OOAK made from hand-dyed teal and green with white mohair bear. 6” tall. Velvet paw pads and glass eyes. 5-way jointed and stuffed with poly-cotton and steel shot. Arabella’s nose is stitched with Perle cotton and she is gently shaded and she wears a beaded crystal heart necklace.

Carolyn Robbins

Warm Heart Bears - United States


 

3.2

3.2

Guardian is made with sparse mohair and is weighted in her feet so she can stand. 5-way disc jointed. 12" tall with a trimmed muzzle, shading and glass eyes. She has real feather wings and a vine halo.

Kay Cooper

Cooper Bears - Australia

 


3.3

3.3

Shilo is 11" tall and is made from mohair. She has hand painted glass eyes and a stitched nose and mouth. Her face has been needle sculpted, scissor sculpted and shaded.

 

Terrie Kalaputas

Terries Bears - Canada

 

3.4

3.4

Clementine is a OOAK bear made from a pure white synthetic plush. 10” tall. 5-way jointed and designed as a sitting bear. Hand-painted metallic silver glass eyes with needle-felted details on her eyelids, nose and paw pads in pale pink Merino wool. Firmly stuffed and weighted. Clementine wears a pale pink crinkle ribbon.

Kayleigh Forster

Bungalow - United Kingdom

 

3.5

3.5

Hope is a OOAK bear that is 9" tall. Made from pale pink mohair. Pale pink Ultra-suede paw pads. Scissor sculpted and a hand sewn pink perle cotton nose. Purple sparkle, hand painted glass eyes. She wears a silver hope charm around her and a pink bow with a flower in her ear.  5-way jointed and stuffed with Poly-fil.

 

Jane Blowes

Mo Bear Designs - Canada

 


3.6

3.6

Pickles is a 7" tall 'Lion Head' rabbit who has been created by hand using needle felting a combination of Merino wool and Alpaca fibres to achieve the tufted ruffle appearance. Pickles has a little pink needle felted nose and pink needle felted inner ears. Large dark brown hand painted glass eyes. Needle felted feet and a bob tail. Hand shaded facial features.

Hayley Walker

Little Piggies Nursery - United Kingdom

 

3.7

3.7

Desiree  is a 9.4" Hedgehog bear made with Hedgehog Schulte mohair and cream faux fur. Black German glass eyes. 5-way jointed with double cotter pin neck. Brown hand made nose of polymer clay. Paw pads, inner ears are yellow cashmere finished with brown cotton thread. Stuffed with poly-fil, wool and steel balls. She wear a hair band made of daisies.

 

Annalisa Taddei

The Tuscany Bear Maker - Italy

 

3.8

3.8

Koda is hand-sewn from 18mm dense pile taupe alpaca and is 10" standing. Blue eyes on a trimmed muzzle with accents on face, ears and paws. Koda wears a bright blue ruff to match her eyes.

 

Margaret Burke

Nikkel Bears - Australia

 

3.9

3.9

Pan Pan is a 5" tall panda made from medium dense miniature mohair.  Fully jointed, black glass eyes, embroidered and waxed nose. Filled with polyester fibre and weighted with steel shot in his tummy. 

 

Hilda Ng Hang Ngar

Hilda Ng - Hong Kong

 

3.10

3.10

Truffle is 5-way jointed, 6” tall bears created from reclaimed vintage hand spotted mink, in vanilla, caramel and chocolate colors. Vanilla Ultra-suede paws. Black English glass eyes and a handmade dark bark clay nose, sewn in for strength. Filled with Majestic Merino Wool Noil and Poly-fill blend and a little steel shot. Extensively scissor sculpted and his cheeks take many hours to complete.


Helen Gleeson

Bare Cub Designs - Australia

 

 

3.11

3.11

Nanertak  is a 5-way jointed, 12" tall teddy bear. Made from Schulte mohair and Schulte alpaca. His eyes are black glass, nose is needle felted, teeth made with Fimo clay and hand moulded claws. To bring his face to “life”, it has been needle felted certain areas then covered the felted areas by adding mohair strand by stand, taking many hours of work. Needle felting on the paw pads. All hand stitched.


Lynette Kennedy

Fred-i-Bear - South Africa

 

3.12

3.12

Hershey Bear is 6.75" tall and hand sewn from a dense Steiff Mohair-Alpaca fur in dark brown with black tips. The material was completely lined with strong cotton backing and his paw pads are Merino Wool insets. Wobble-jointed neck, and setscrew-and-locknut jointed legs. Stuffed with Poly-fil and weighted with copper-coated steel shot which is enclosed in a mesh pouch. Perle cotton embroidered nose is hand-shaded and sealed with beeswax. Black glass eyes.  Muzzle and facial features have been scissor-sculpted and thread sculpted.

Christie Kotz

The Peach Peddler Bears - United States

 

3.14

3.14

Jingles is 8" tall and 5" sitting. Made with antique gold sparse German mohair and has shaded wool felt paw pads. German glass eyes and a black embroidered nose. 5-way disc jointed and is filled with fiberfill and stone pellets. Jingles is wearing a twine ribbon with 6 rusty bells. OOAK

Erin Roy

Bears*n*Bling - Canada

At a Glance - All Entries in Category 3


3.1
Arabella


3.2
Guardian


3.3
Shilo


3.4

Clementine

3.5
Hope


3.6
Pickles


3.7
Desiree


3.8
Koda


3.9
Pan Pan


3.10

Truffle

3.11
Nanertak

3.12
Hershey Bear

3.14
Jingles

 

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