Candi Bears
USA

I would like to thank all the fellow artists and collectors who participated in making this a great competition
and showing.

I am so happy to be a part of the wonderful URSA Awards Competition
and I do feel that every competing
artist is a winner!

Thank you for voting for my entries.

Hugs,
Candi

Bearcrafty

United Kingdom

For you all, the organiser of this show Valerie, my fans, my followers, my friends and family, and anyone else who has voted for my creations a simple MASSIVE THANK YOU.

Words can not explain how I feel.
A big smile from ear to ear and a jump up in the air shouting YES YES YES I'm a winner; the feeling you get when you get the eMail and see the results, honestly goes above everything.

The URSA Awards Competition is a confirmation of my work and is appreciated while there is always that doubt “is it good enough?”
You have proven me it was again 'good enough'.

Thank you all from the bottom of my heart. I send huge virtual hug to all of you.

Catharina

DiBears

USA

I want to thank all the the people that took the time to vote in the URSA Awards Competition this year!

It has been another crazy year, we have been trying to navigate thru. So glad we have the Teddy Bear community to lean on and enjoy.

There were so many lovely entries in each category and so hard to pick one.

I really enjoyed creating all the pieces we had in the URSA's and appreciated each and everyone of your votes.

Every year the creations are just stunning.

Entering and winning is what keeps us creating and keeping the teddy bear world alive.

So to me each of you guys deserve and very heartfelt thank you and a big bear hug!

Wishing a wonderful year ahead for us all.
Hugs, Diana

Jinglebears

New Zealand

I was so excited to learn that I had won an award in the URSA Award Competition this year.

There was an amazing range
of talent in every category and I feel very humbled to have been chosen
by your votes.

Everyone who entered is really a winner as their work has been seen and admired by so many people from all around the world.

I’d like to thank everyone who voted for me and also the team at
Bears&Buds for organizing the competition.

A huge amount of work for them
every year.

Thank you all, Jan

Mo Bear Designs

Canada

I’m very honored to have received awards for both Avalanche and Scout.

A huge thank you to everyone who voted for them in this years coveted URSA Awards Competition.

I have loved creating different styles of bears and critters over the years and it’s even more special and rewarding when I win an award for one, or more, of my creations.
Congratulations to all the amazing winners this year.

And a big thank you to Valerie and her amazing team for all they do for the Teddy Bear World.

Thanks again and big bear hugs to all of you.
Jane

Ashenberry

USA

I am honored to be among the URSA Awards Competition finalists!

Many thanks to the voters and collectors, for without you, this wonderful, fuzzy world would not exist.

My deepest appreciation and thanks goes to Valerie and her crew for all of the time and hard work that went into making this URSA Awards a reality.

Tiny bear hugs!

Judy

Bears From the Boot

Italy

Oh dear! I’m so excited! I just realized I’m one of the winners in the URSA Awards Competition!

I’m very proud as it has been a challenging year for me, and i did work hard, creating different projects and giving a special great care and attention to details to every single creation, with my hands and with my heart! I hope you could feel all of this looking at the soulful expression of my teddy bears!

I wish to thank all of you for having given your preference to my creations with your votes.

And the organizers for all their work in making the URSA Awards Competition a great event!

Big bear hugs from sunny Italy and from all the Bears from the Boot!
Lisa

LuLu Tatum Original Art

USA

I’m so Happy to be known as one of the URSA Award Competitions 2021 winners, because there were so many wonderful competitors, with such outstanding works of art, that I was standing next to!

That makes me feel very honored.

I’m so grateful my little Cameo was able to strut her stuff.

Thank you to ALL of those who voted for me.

Thank you to Valerie, who again put together this 2021 URSA Awards Competition.

So Thank You to all.
LuLu

Madabout Bears

Scotland UK

I was beyond delighted to find out all four of my entries have won an URSA Award this year!

I would sincerely like to thank every single person who took the time to vote.

It’s truly an honour to be recognised amongst so many fabulous International artists.

A big thank you, as always, to Valerie for all the hard work she puts into these awards to make it run so smoothly.

I am one very happy bear artist!

Lynn xxx

Pandora's Box

Austria

Since my first bear purchase, which turned out to be an award winner, I've dreamed of the day to participate as an artist myself.

It was my ultimate goal to enter and win an award one day.

I am very grateful and happy that this dream has come true!

I would like to thank all artist friends who supported me from the beginning and have shared their knowledge with me. You also deserve a large part of my success!

Thanks to my husband who watches me with understanding while I am sewing.

A big thank you also to Valerie, she gave me the confidence to take part this year!

I now know the joy of owning an award-winning bear and being an award-winning artist myself.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart to everyone who voted for my creations. It is the greatest honor to be among the winners of such a world famous competition!
Congratulations to all winners!

Big hugs!
Marlies

Eden and Friends

USA

I am so delighted and honored
to be a winner in the URSA Awards Competition this year.

Thank you to everyone who took the time and voted!

Congratulations to all the artists who participated and who also won.

Thank you to Valerie and the Bears&Buds team for all their hard work in putting this together for us and helping us promote the artist teddy bear industry.

I have to thank my husband and daughter Eden who started me in this art form and support me in doing this, and a special thanks to my friend Diane Goff for being a sounding board for my ideas.

Being part of this talented industry is always an amazing journey.

Hoping my work will bring smiles to your face and heart,

Big Hugs, Michele

Little Bittie Bear

USA

I am very honored to be a part of the URSA Awards Competition.

First, I would like to thank Valerie Rogers who keeps me motivated and energized, I am her biggest procrastinator. In my eyes, she keeps the bear collecting world alive.

I also want to thank Kay Cooper for all the videos she creates for the new artists and for spending many years listening to me and inspiring me to be my best. She believes in me and is one of the reasons I kept sewing.

I want to thank all my collectors.
You are always giving me new ideas and helping me be creative. Hearing from you means everything to me.
Thank you for voting for me.

Lastly, I would like thank husband Andrew who gives me new ideas, names
my creations, and does my videos. He is amazing. And to my kids who watch me while I sit and sew continuously without complaining, they are all my biggest encouragers.

Love you all,
Bear hugs, Michelle.

Natalia Iunina

Fox-in-boX N

Germany

What a wonderful moment to see one of my creation win an URSA Award 2021.
This is my first time of taking part in this wonderful competition.

I’m so very honored to have won, as I was among such extraordinary and talented artists. I am very excited and happy.

My heartfelt thanks go to to all my friends who have voted in support of my dear Baron von Biss. You took time out of your day for us and it’s appreciated so much.

Many thanks to the organizers of the USA Awards Competition and especially Valerie and Bears&Buds for the annual URSA Awards.

Congratulations to all the other URSA Awards 2021 winners and participants on their fantastic creations.

Best wishes and a bear hug,
Natali

Olena Makeienkova Art

Ukraine

It is a great honor for me to take part in such a prestigious competition.

This is a challenge for me, because it is very expensive to become a winner among a huge number of great artists from all over the world.

I am very excited and happy.

Many thanks to the organizers of the competition and especially Valerie and Bears&Buds for the annual URSA Awards.

Many thanks to all collectors, colleagues and friends for their support and your votes.

Congratulations to all URSA Awards winners and participants on their fantastic creations.
Best wishes and a bear hug,

Olena!

305 Denver	402 Victor	802 Nadiezhda
		Cash equivalent going to Olena's PayPal account

A note from Olga:

Hurray! My long-awaited awards from the URSA Awards Competition 2021 have arrived.

To be a winner, and it's a great honor to be three times. I'm in the seventh heaven with happiness.

Big thanks to Valerie Rogers and the whole team for your work!
Thanks to everyone who voted and supported me.

Olga Kravchuk Toys

Russia Federation

I'm infinitely glad, it's just great happiness and emotions overwhelm me!

Thanks to everyone who was rooting for me. I love you all infinitely.

Thank you very much to the organizers, this is a lot of work; you make the world kinder.

I love and hug everyone.
Olga

Love Toys

Belarus

Good day, my dear friends and collectors!

It's a great honor for me to take part in this awesome URSA Awards Competition and get this wonderful award!

Firstly, I want to say a big thanks to my dear collectors, who vote for me!

Your love make me strong and give me a forces to go farther and create new and new teddies!

It's a pity that we can't meet in person, but in moments like this, I know
we are together anyway!

Warmly bear hugs to you all!

And I also want to say a lot of  kind words to my friends and my family your support is very-very important for me! Your are my secure castle!

Love to your all,
Yours, Olga.

The Mountaineers

Germany

This year the URSA Awards Competition was a highlight for me.

So I'm very happy that Valerie makes it possible again and again.

She and her team do an excellent job every time, for which I thank them warmly.

Many thanks also to the teddy bear lovers all over the world for their loyalty.

It is so wonderful that you are still around and that my two MOUNTIs have received so many votes from you to win.

I cannot express how glad you made me.
Bear hugs,
Silke

My Sweet Teddy by Yunia

Ukraine

I would like to thank all teddy bear admirers who create such a wonderful projects: organisers, judges and everyone who voted and love teddy's from all their hearts!

I’m grateful to my family for the support!

It’s a big honour to me to be among such amazing world wide teddy bear artists competing in the URSA Awards Competition.

Yunia

These winning entries were a few votes away from being in the Finals.

Congratulations, it was a close competition!

Cash equivalent paid to Natalia's PayPal account

Our hat's
off to YOU!

401 Gabur
Olga Kravchuk Toys
Olga Kravchuk

402 Victor
Olena Makeienkova Art Olena
Makeienkova

109 Rosebud DiBears
Diana Watts

704 Camile
Little Bittie Bear
Michelle Wilson

509 Bestest Buds Madabout Bears Lynn Bowie

305 Denver

Olena Makeienkova Art Olena Makeienkova

1205 Redmond
DiBears
Diana Watts

803 Avalanche
Mo Bear Designs
Jane Blowes

 Look for the URSA logo on the winner's web pages

and

Spot this lapel pin
on the winner's
jacket too!

Behind the scenes
at the URSA Award Competition headquarters!

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