Christmas Ballerinas

GOOD MORNING and HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

This photo was taken while I was sitting and waiting for my children to 

get out of class at their dance studio a few days ago.

The tree is simple and white with silver and teal decorations all over it. 

That was the inspiration for the cards I created to share with you today. 

These next cards were created using Fresh Brewed Designs

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{Excuse the poor lighting on these cards. It has been raining here the past

few days and I could not get a great photo ... :-( }

I decided to draw a few dance images.

 It is what I have been doing with most of my time after all. :-) 

I was not ever a dancer. 

I was a tom boy. 

I climbed trees and played with bugs. 

However, if I WERE a ballerina, 

I would be one who danced and had my latte in hand the entire time :) tee hee hee. 

This is also true for my daughters dance teacher, Marice. 

She LOVES coffee. 

We get along quite well ;-)

My first card features the new digi

Ballerina 2 with Latte

I tried to get a photo to show off the sparkle, embossed vellum

and the little snowballs, but, again, poor lighting. 

Hope you can see it a little bit ;-)

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My children are also performing in this years Nutcracker ballet

at the new studio. I am so excited. My daughter has a few parts and my 

son was asked to be in the party / battle scene with Fritz and the other party boys.

They get swords and don't really have to do ballet. Of course he was in!

I drew this image in honor of a beloved Christmas tradition for many- 

The Nutcracker - Ballerina

This card has a lot of shine. 

The background paper is shimmery and the paper behind the nutcracker image is a metalic 

silver card stock.  I added crystal stickles to the white flourishes

and to the ballerinas dress. And silver stickles make the nutcracker shine. 

*you will be happy to know that my artistic daughter looked at the first version of

this image and made a crinkly face. She said his face was too round and his

eyes looked mean. When I looked at it, it looked as if he were there to eat

the poor ballerina! HAHAHA!!!

So you get the good one. I will keep the bad one to go and look at from time

to time and laugh :-)

Thank you for stopping by and visiting with us today. 

It is such a lovely day to be spending time with our friends and family and giving 

thanks for all we have. I am so thankful for all the blessings God has given me. 

I could not even begin to list them all. 

Please know that I am so thankful for all of you who visit and who love 

creating with us at Fresh Brewed Designs.

I am also thankful for my very best friends. The ladies on my design team. 

I don't know what I would do without this wonderful support group of beautiful friends.

God truly has blessed me beyond measure.

Have a very happy Thanksgiving!

Card 1:

Jingle Belles - Christmas feast (ballerina with latte :)

                         hope that counts :-)

Crafty Creations: Embossing (card features embossed vellum)

Simon Says Stamp: AG

Clear it out - stash (all scraps - old papers and vellum) snowflake

Card 2

Crafting for all Seasons: tis the season

Fab n Funky - die cuts

Dazzling Diva - AG - but goes with the photo color / metalic theme