These are two of my favorite tear bears that I have made, it's easy and fun, so if you have any questions feel free to ask or email me, you can contact me at my website listed above 'Fun with Ur Pictures'
*Please read first before starting* You will need the following:
Mulberry Paper (you can use Cardstock as well, no brushing included) Cup of water Small kids paint brush Craft glue or a glue stick Fine point black marker / pen Toothbrush Pattern of a tear bear, legs, arms, head, ears etc - - This pattern included you can make your bear standing or sitting.
*NOTE: Do One Section at a Time. Example draw on the entire pattern but only paint around one section, tear it out, fluff it, place it down to dry etc
1. Take the tear bear pattern and get it transferred onto the back of your mulberry paper, whether you do freehand, tracing, cut out the shapes and pin them on. *USE A PENCIL* also print on the back of each piece, so you can tell what is what after. Example: Head, Leg, Arm..
2. Take your small paint brush, dip it into the water and then start outlining your tracings or patterns on the back of your mulberry paper. *DO NOT paint the water right on top of your pencil markings or exactly right on the edge of your pattern pieces. Go out about a
1/4 of an inch from the outline.
3. After your tracing is nice and wet, lay down your paint brush, pick up your paper, and then begin tearing where you just wet the paper.
Tear away from you, pulling out on the paper to tear out your shape.
After you have your shape torn out, take your tooth brush and just brush easily the fibres that are wet, brush them out straight, or just nicely. Lay down piece and then do the same for the rest. *Should take approx 1 hour to dry*
4. Now take your toothbrush again and fluff up the edges a bit, just by quickly brushing the edges.
Now you are ready to glue your little tear bear friend together.
Get all your pieces together after they are dried and fluffed. Situation them where you may think would be the best way to glue him/her together.
Take the HEAD and the 2 EARSplace a dab of Glue on FRONT- BOTTOM section of the EAR. Then glue it in place on the BACK of the head. Repeat with the other ear.
Take the MUZZEL section, place some glue on the back of that and place it on the FRONT-BOTTOM-CENTRE on the Head Glue your eyes and nose on your face. (YOU CAN SAVE UNTIL THE LAST IF YOU WISH) Then put some glue on the BACK-BOTTOM of the Head, and glue to the FRONT-TOP of the BODY.
Now take your Arm and place a dab of glue at the top of the arm and place it on the body.
And repeat on the other side. Do the same with the legs.
*For the Legs and arm, it's up to you whether you want the legs to go in front of or behind the Body, try them in different places before you decide. So if you want the leg to go behind the body, place the glue on the front of the leg. If you want the leg to go on the front of the body, put the glue on the back of the leg.
Now you have your first little tear bear. If it was like mine he turned out looking like a puppy. I never had any instructions to go by though, so hopefully I explained how to stick him together easy enough for you to understand.
Now after the glue has dried, take your toothbrush and fluff him/her up a little bit, and add a little bow or whatever decoration you want to, or just leave it like it is.
Now you need your eyes, nose and a black pen or fine tipped marker that won't spread when you mark on the mulberry paper. You should try your pen or marker out on a piece of mulberry scrap paper first before you mark on your tear bear to make sure it doesn't spread.
OK there are a few ways to get the eyes made. I have made some eyes that you can copy, save and print.
TO SAVE THE PICTURE...RIGHT CLICK on the picture, choose Save Picture As and save it somewhere on your computer.
Saving to the Desktop would probably be easiest.
With your black pen, you can draw on your eyelashes, start in by the eye and go out, and you can draw on your little bear mouth and freckly things.
If you think your ruined your bear you can turn him/her into a PEEK A BOO BEAR.
Anyone wanting to copy the instructions you don't have to ask, go ahead and print them out. You can find Mulberry paper on Ebay, or maybe at the closest Dollarstore, that is where i found my first batch, but the ebay stuff is better, but if you are just starting off Dollar store is great ...you can do these bears on cardstock as well, no fluffing needed...
» left by kathy somers walsh from canada (188 days 14 hours ago.)
Hi, I am responding to my own comment. The two bears at the top of the article I made myself, the tear bear at the bottom of the page, the doctor one, I also made that myself. The rest of the bears were made by other people.
» left by Sherry from U.S. (142 days 15 hours ago.)
Hey Kathy Somers Walsh (who I like to call Katie)...........this is so cute! I just came upon this and was enthralled with these bears. Really a sweet idea! Thanks for giving your usual thorough directions. You are so great at explaining what to do! Great job!
Thanks Leah....I was playing on Twitter today for a bit, that thing is a little weird and scary don't you find?...you can follow anyone and vise versa..and ewwwwww
I made a Winnie the boo tear bear and a pink bear lol, such great fun. I had the kids doing it too. They really are adorable, you should make them to order, frame them and sell them for huge sums ;)
Did you use Mulberry Paper? Or Cardstock? I would love to see them, I bet you did a wonderful job...you have my email address, take a pic of them and let me see pleeeease....I am so excited that you did them :)
I have tons of Mulberry Paper here if you need some...
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These are two of my favorite tear bears that I have made, it's easy and fun, so if you have any questions feel free to ask or email me, you can contact me at my website listed above 'Fun with Ur Pictures'
Get all your pieces together after they are dried and fluffed. Situation them where you may think would be the best way to glue him/her together.
Now you need your eyes, nose and a black pen or fine tipped marker that won't spread when you mark on the mulberry paper. You should try your pen or marker out on a piece of mulberry scrap paper first before you mark on your tear bear to make sure it doesn't spread.
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