School Days

We {{barely}} survived our first day of school.
Anyone else out there heard of or use Connections Academy?
We tried it this year, but I am still not sure it was the best decision.
It is in fact driving me insane!!! I just knew I could not afford the $500 - 600 it cost in books again this year. 

ANYWAY - We will keep trucking on and see how it goes.
No major decisions yet; just still getting a feel for it. We spent close to 7 hours having school today.
Mostly going back and forth from work books to computers to little tutorial videos to workbooks and so on. I will be working all day tomorrow planning our books and lessons for next week. Maybe if I get everything printed out and ready, we will not be doing so much hopping.

Enough of my rambling. I do have something cute to share with you today. 

This card set was created using the digi Big Apple Book Worm. 

This was another digi drawn by request, but for someone I know in 'real life' lol. 

This digi was for a lady at my daughters dance school. She requested it for a summer reading program or something like that before the summer started. 

This is a card set I created for my sister to give out. I kept them really plain and simple. I used an older paper stack - MME Asparagus Stack for these cards. I printed the digi, colored them with sharpie and prismacolor markers,  cut them with the next to largest size lacy scalloped spellbinders die and voila! there you have it, a little gift for someone special. 

I hope you all are having a wonderful weekend. Thank you for stopping by! 

Big smiles, 

Heather

this card set is for the following challenges
pin{spirational} back to school photo

Fussy and Fancy -  Week 1, Back to School
  Raise The Bar – Back to School 
Simply Create Too - Back to School   
Inspired By  - Photo Inspiration  

Altered Notebook Featuring Cutie Pie

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Hi everyone! I am back tonight to share another altered notebook I created with one of the newly released Cutie Pie images. This one is called Cutie Pie Holding Heart. She can be found in the Fresh Brewed Designs shop for $3 under kids / Cutie Pies.

The I created this using Bazzil cardstock and Colorbok Patterned paper. I colored the image with prismacolor markers and paper pieced her wings and heart. The satin ribbon is some from an old stash. I am not sure of the brand. The flowers are a mixture from gifts I have received. The buttons are just some from my stash.
To create the pen holder I punched a hole in the left side and attached a binder ring through it. I then stitched a ribbon up the middle and tied to the binder ring to hold the pen.

This card fits the following challenges:
Paper Craft Planet Sketch
Stamping Sisters in Christ
Stamp Scrap Doodle anything goes
Flutterby Challenges: anything with a butterfly or wings
pile it on; anything goes

Not only does Fresh Brewed Designs have lots of new Valentine and coffee themed digital images, we are now selling our rubber stamps unmounted! Go check out all the new things in the shop here > Fresh Brewed Designs