URSA Awards 2015

10th Annual
Competition

"Reach Beyond The Stars"

Category 8

Fairies & Princesses - 2 or more pieces, all materials, all sizes.

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8.1

8.1

Princess Haley is 17" tall and created from a golden color faux fur. Fully jointed. Hand blown glass eyes. She wears a sparkly crown and carries her favorite wand to greet her subjects. Her frilly skirt of lavender netting is trimmed with ribbons, flowers, and crystals.

Serieta Harrell - Sersha Bears
California, USA

 

8.2

8.2

Annabelle is 5½" (13.9cm) tall mini fairy bear made from faux fur. Glass eyes and has long eyelashes. Arms and legs jointed with string while head is jointed with cotter pin and a disk. Clay nose. Hand sewn OOAK and weighted with bbs.

Michelle Nunnery - Little Bittie Bears

Florida, USA

 

8.3


8.3

Midsummers Nights Dream comes Tatania who is 23.5" (60cm) tall and made from imported mohair. Glass eyes and a hand made clay nose. Disc jointed. She wears a diamanté crown, a long flowing silk dress adorned with hand made flowers. Cape is shaded lace and she dons a pair of imported wings.

Kay Cooper - Cooper Bears
Kemlscott, West Australia

 

8.4

8.4

Primrose is a 9" traditional style teddy bear made from mohair with felt paws and stuffed with cotton an wood wool with glass and steel balls. Antique boot button eyes. Airbrushed and needle sculpted features. 5-way cotter pin jointed. She is wearing a fairy dress made with antique lace and her skirt has over a hundred petals made from different fabrics. Large embroidered butterfly wings with a flower head dress. Round her neck she is wearing her magical fairy dust.

Dawn James - Hugs Unlimited
West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

 

8.5

8.5

Armillaria the Mushroom Queen is a 14” tall mohair bear with glass eyes and faux suede paw pads. 5-way jointed with armature in the neck and wired arms. Nose is embroidered with perle floss. Bear is dressed in antique silk from an up-cycled antique dress with an overlay of yarn lace. She wears a headpiece of greenery, a bird nest and mushrooms. The base is wood with driftwood, greenery and mushroom accents. She carries a hand made mushroom book and her staff is a contorted willow branch

Martha Burch - Martha's Bears
Wisconsin, USA

 

8.6


8.6

Mashmallow is 12” tall and made with German mohair. Fully jointed and filled with poly-fil and beads. Ultra-suede paw pads. Glass eyes and an embroidered nose with needle-felted eye shadow. She is a fairy in the Kingdom of Candies and Cookies. Her dress, wings and hair are needle felt in mashmallow color and decorated with glass beads.

Angela Yip - Purplebean Bear
Hong Kong

 

8.7

8.7

The Princess of Siam is a OOAK, 6" cat that is made from XXlong pile fabric. 5-way jointed and filled with sheeps wool and steel pellets for weight. Sculpted paw pads and hand painted details. As a real palace cat she wears her crown and sits on her brocade cushion decorated with a brooch atop a treasure trunk.


Heidi Schaefer - Edebaeren
Dreleich, Germany

 

8.8

8.8

Spring Fairy Aria is a OOAK, 8" (20.5cm) tall and made from viscose. Hand painted English glass eyes. Filling is poly-fil and glass pellets. Bear is fully jointed with cotter pins and disks while head on waggle joint. Dress is sewn from cotton. Tiara is decorated with pearls and crystals, silk ribbons, paper roses. Nose is sculpted from epoxy clay. Tinted with oil paints. Bear stands with wings made from cardboard and decorated with lace and painted with acrylic paints.

Ina Smirnova - Bears and Roses
Vilniaus Apskritis, Lithuania

At a Glance - All Entries in Category 9


8.1

Princess Haley


8.2

Annabella


8.3

Tatania

8.4
Primrose

8.5
Armillaria

8.6
Marshmallow

8.7
Princess of Siam

8.8
Spring Fairy Aria

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  1 - Wee Little Bare Bears-Bud - 5" & Under (6)     Contact the Contestants
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  3 - Medium Bare Bears-Bud - 6-12" (16)     See the Awards & Prizes
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  7 - Huge Hugs - 21" or greater (6)     Home
  8 - Fairies & Princesses - All sizes (8)      
  9 - Friends & Pairs Vignettes - All sizes (14)      
  10 - Fairytale Characters-Childhood Memories (6)     Contact
  11 - Polar Bears - All sizes  (9)    

 

  12 - Panda Bears - All sizes (8)     Statistics: 
  14 - What Does The Fox Say? - All sizes (5)     65 Artist competing from 21 Countries
  15 - Hippity-Hop Bunnies - All sizes (10)      Total of 138  Entries
  16 - Furry Pals - Cats & Dogs - All sizes (11)        18 - Vintage Style Bears  (Canceled)
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