URSA Awards 2014 9th Annual "Reach Beyond The Stars" |
Category 10
Santa's, Father Christmas, Elves - All materials, all sizes.
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10.1 Frosty is 14" tall and made with a dense, antique white German
mohair and has wool felt paw pads. German glass
eyes and has a waxed and buffed embroidered nose. He has three black jingle
bells as buttons on his tummy. 5-way jointed and is filled with
high loft polyester fiberfill and stone pellets. He is wearing a velour
black top hat secured with a glass beaded
hat pin. He wears a bright red knitted scarf around his neck. His little cardinal
friend is made with red matted German mohair, long wispy red faux fur, black
wool felt, German glass eyes and wire for feet. His head is disc jointed. He is
holding a Christmas decoration that says "Friends are the Best Gift of
All". OOAK. |
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10.2 Candy Cane is 10" tall and is made from mohair and alpaca. Hand painted blue glass eyes and a stitched nose and mouth. Her face has been needle sculpted, scissor sculpted and shaded. She wears a colorful holiday hat with jingle bells. Terrie Kalaputas Terries Bears - Canada |
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10.3 Ampelio is an Elf jester who is 11.4" tall. Made with two kind of Schulte mohair. Blue glass doll eyes with leather eyelids. Muzzle and paw pads are needle felted with Merino wool. Stuffed with wool, poly-fil and steel balls. 5 way-jointed. His jester hat has tiny bells at the tips. Annalisa Taddei The Tuscany Bear Maker - Italy |
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10.4 Patch and Rudolph are OOAKs. Heike Hilkenbach Loppi-Bären - Germany |
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10.5 Alvin Poggle is made of long string, hand dyed, yellow-green and blue mohair. He has matching velvet hand dyed sculpted paw pads and a multi-coloured Pearle cotton stitching with matching eyelids and inner ears. Multi coloured sparkling glass hand painted to match the rest of him. Weighted with steel balls and filled with polyester stuffing. 18" including hat. He is dressed in a checked waistcoat and felt hat with flower and ladybird embellishments. Alvin is an elf who helps Santa Claus at Christmas whilst protecting the forest during the rest of the year.
Kathleen Eltis Bearlytherehugs |
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10.6 Father Christmas is an OOAK created from a recycled autumn haze mink fur coat. 15" tall and stands with assistance. Paw pads are light brown
suede, he has dark amber glass eyes and a hand-embroidered brown Perle cotton
nose. 5-way jointed and stuffed with polyester
fiberfill. He wears a handmade tapestry fabric robe and hat, both trimmed with
fox fur. Two resin wolves accompany him on his journey.
Jane Woodard Heir Bears - United States |
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10.7 Spring Elf is 10" tall and made of German mohair with glass eyes. Three joints to let the bear sit. Needle sculpted and felted face with armature inside the arms. Ribbon embroidery on the body front. In Spring the Elf is busy working to make the leaves green, trees be covered in blossoms and color the butterflies. Completely hand-made including the chiffon and organza flowers. The butterflies made of rayon thread. Silk ribbon sewed creates the leaves and the tree trunk and part of the background are needle felted.
Gloria Chan Gloria Handicraft Studio - Hong Kong |
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10.8 Oh, Christmas Tree was created from a dense, tipped German wool fabric. Fully jointed with wool paw pads, glass eyes, wool eye whites, and a
hand stitched nose with two Swarovski crystals attached. Face has been
shaded and detailed. The costume was created from a hunter green upholstery
fabric and is trimmed with metallic gimp braid, mini Christmas ornaments and
oodles of Swarovski crystals that were randomly hot fixed to the costume. The tree costume can be removed to give the bear a hug.
Vicky Lougher Elegant Creations - United States
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10.9 Elvin is made from German Schulte dense tipped mohair. He has hand blown German glass eyes and is wearing a hand made felt jacket and hat trimmed with blanket stitching, bells and glass beads. Over-stitched large embroidered nose. 8" tall and has Ultra-suede paw pads. He is ready for winter's snow wearing his snow shoes and led by his pet polar bear, a Christmas decoration especially purchased in New Zealand. Jan Cuming Jinglebears - New Zealand |
At a Glance - All Entries in Category 10
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◊ 12 - Panda Bears All sizes (6) | Statistics: | ||
◊ 14 - What Does The Fox Say? - All sizes (8) | 72 Artist competing from 19 Countries | ||
◊ 15 - Animal Kingdom - All sizes (13) | Total of 145 Entries | ||
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