Happy Halloween

I am here to share a Halloween project with you ... 

A little late in the game...

but better late than never, right?

My friend, Lori, made an adorable tag this week

and I decided to try and make one myself. 

I CASed hers... check hers out HERE

I used the Fresh Brewed Designs Digital Stamp

BOO!  Cupcake

My mom and her friends always met for what they called craft circle for as long

as I can remember. They would meet while we were in school and make neat projects. 

I remember them being up to their elbows in stiffy bow baskets, 

decopauge, making pine cone baskets and more. 

I now get to also participate in the fun. 

We meet on Fridays for a few hours at my moms house. 

My kids are homeschooled, so they also get to get in on the fun.

The only difference is that we bring our own projects we are working on. 

I haven't had the chance to drag all my stuff over there. It is too complicated

for someone as indecisive as me to take card making things, lol. 

I end up just talking and eating. :D

But I love spending time there. 

Since it is Halloween. I decided to make some treats for the kids

and ladies there. There was even enough for them to take some home for their

family if they wanted. 

Thank you for stopping by!

I hope you have a fabulous evening!

Smiles, 

Heather

COME BACK MONDAY FOR A NEW DIGI RELEASE

THAT'S ALL ABOUT FALL!!!

Challenges

Simon Says Monday treats
Simon Says Wed.  AG

Chocolate, Coffee & Cards  Halloween
Crafting By Designs - - Halloween
Crafting for all Seasons -  Tag

Who loves SWEET TREATS?!? Who loves BLOG CANDY?!?

Good Morning!

I am here to stop in and let you know that I ( Fresh  Brewed Designs) am sponsoring

Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenges this week.

They have a super fun CHOCOLATE challenge for you and if that isn't sweet enough, 

we are offing up blog candy as part of their prize!

for one very lucky winner!
3 Digital stamps from the Fresh Brewed Designs shop
A 7 1/2" X 5 1/4" plastic stamp case,
 Pre folded peach cards and envelopes
Peach ruffled ribbon, chevron ribbon and twine.
White lace, pearls, corner embellishment and buttons.
A clothespin, 4 white brads, and some lovely coordinating embellishments!

 

Check it all out HERE

Here is the card I created for their challenge:

La Dolce Vita (the sweet life) Rubber Stamp

All of the cardstock (4 - white, dk brown, peach, and kraft)

are by papertrey inc. The ribbon was tied around a  wash cloth set .. I saved it :)

The fabric alpha stickers are by Making Memories: Je t'Adore

The rest of the C(hocolate) was printed from my computer using word document.

I colored our lovely latte lady using prismacolor and copic markers. 

 I even put a little fabric cticker heart on the inside.

I have a friend at dance (our daughters dance, not us, lol!)

who LOVES chocolate. I think this will be a part of her Christmas gift :)

Such yummy fun!

Speaking of CANDY!

Don't forget about our

BIG BLOG CANDY GIVEAWAY going on HERE

You can win THIS STAMPIN UP PRIZE PACK

What are you waiting for?

Stop by and play along to enter both challenges for a chance to win!

Have a happy and sweet day!

challenges:
4 Crafty Chicks  Food and Drink
Ribbon Carousel Challenge  Anything Goes
Through The Craft Room Door  Always Anything Goes
Cutie Pie Challenge -Cute Card for a Special Friend Pile it on: P is for -pink, peach, polka dots

Sweet Not Spooky!

This week at Freshly Brewed Challenges we are asking to see your 

SWEET NOT SPOOKY Halloween creations.

For my card I chose to use the 

Candy Corn Spooked Digi

I used the sketch found at Unscripted Sketches  for this CAS little card.

Please stop by the FBChallenges blog to see a list of the blog hop winners

 and to play along in our new challenge this week!

Have a wonderful day!

Heather

To Sweet to Spook

GOOD MORNING!

I created a fun little card with one of my FIRST ever digital stamps. 

This one was created WAY BACK ;) in 2009 before rubber and before the website -

We were just getting started then. 

 

 I was so happy to get out this little candy corn bat and color him up. 

My kids cant have very many candies due to their food allergies. 

We found a single pack of Jelly Belly candy corn  - peanut free!!!

(MAN THESE THINGS ARE HARD TO FIND and they are $$$!)

 and they kids got to try it for the first time. 

They LOVED it, lol!!! So I am on a hunt for more.

 IF you spot any - let me know who what when and where :D 

 

EEK! The Candy Corn Bat 

I think this may actually be my first (or second - I hate to end up a liar) Halloweenish 

card of the year. We do not celebrate Halloween here. (trick or treating and dressing up) We did last year, but decided we were not anymore.  We will make little treats or watch some semi-scary movies (like on Disney channel - very mild like Monster House :D) This year I will NOT make colored pasta! They make themselves sick and cant eat it. One year it was worms and one year it was brains and eyeballs... and they ate none of it. They inherited their mamas vivid imagination - lol!!! 

I found this cute little border punch at Marshalls over the last weekend for $5! I snagged it up and really was excited to use it. I (forgot) I had the pumpkin border. (both by Martha Stewart). I punched out the pumpkin border and laid it over the fence die. It did not look right, so I cut off the little embossed pumpkns and glued them along the fence. Then I made it pop a bit by adding the white doodle lines. EEK! was colored using prismacolor markers and bic markers. The patterned paper is by Bo Bunny Boo Crew Here's Lookin At You and Boo Crew Dot double sided paper.

 

**SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT!!!**

Don't forget our October Rubber Stamp Release and Blog Hop starts THIS SATURDAY!

Hope to see you there! And there is still time to get your FREEBIE digi. Go HERE to read more

 

 this card is being entered into the following challenges:

Die Cut Divas: Pumpkins

Creative Card Crew: Birds

Mojo Monday Sketch

Love to Create- Trick or Treat

Paper Playtime: Boo! 

Simon Says: orange Black + 1

Papercraft Star: pumpkins

 

 

Christmas Is Coming!!!

Good Morning everyone!

My kids are slow moving this morning .. and I guess I am too. 

Who's ready for MONDAY?!?! lol!

I do have something fun to share with you today. 

I have had this card ready for over a week, but have been out of tape ... so it sat in puzzle pieces on

my table until this morning when I was able to break open the tape I got to purchase Saturday. 

I was so happy to see it come togehter. 

Christmas House

 This sketch is the October sketch for i{heart}2stamp. 

I thought this was a fun little sketch... you will be seeing it again this weekend for one of my hop cards:))

I LOVE the red and white bg paper. It was RAKed to me a long time ago, so I really did not want to hide it with the other panel the sketch required. SO I decided to use vellum. I love the look of the embossed vellum over the dots. It looks much prettier IRL. I hope you can see it with the additional photos I attached.

The green paper is gorgeous thick Papertrey inc cardstock. It is heavenly :)!!!

I love to use it for distressing too. It get so soft and fluffy looking. 

This is the FREE digi you we are giving away this month for our pre-blog hop challenge / party. 

You can  get yours by going HERE and reading the post. I know it says it is a facebook challenge. You don't HAVE to have a facebook to play along, we are just hosting a fun events page there and if you are a member, we would love to have you join in on the fun!!! 

Don't forget our blog hop is this weekend!

Be sure to snag the badge if you haven't already, tell your friends and 

get ready for some FBD fun!

Thanks for stopping by -

Have a wonderful day!

Heather

 

challenges

i{heart}2stamp: October Sketch

 

2 Sisters -Anything Goes
 Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas -  Snowflakes
Simon Says Stamp and Show: Favorite AG (My favorite is CHRISTMAS ) 

Happy Birthday Baby!

Today is my sweet little girls birthday. 

She has hit the double digits.... and I am wondering how it got here so fast. 

I am actually writing this post late this night and having it ready for tomorrows posting...

and as I sit here I think of my sweet baby girl. The one I prayed so long for. The one I would cherish every moment I felt her kick, her painful but wonderful stretch inside me, how terrified but excited I was to get to go to the hospital to welcome her to the world. The moment I found out I had to have a C-section (UGH!) and the first time I heard her sweet cry. The first time I got to look into her precious little eyes... yes, you know it, I am bawling now. She is halfway to adult hood. She is half the age I was when I got married. Sigh. BUT this is not a sad time, this is a super happy time. It is her 10th birthday and while I will reminisce, I will also celebrate what a wonderful, beautiful, silly, happy, talented little lady she is.

I created this image for my princess. This is simply called Birthday Girl. I kept hte colors fun and funky because she is 10 after all and 10 year olds are not really about the sweet pastels and soft colors ... lol.  I am liking these colors better together than when I was making it. I Was thinking... this is going to be one bright and gaudy card!!! hehehehe!! but I do love it all together. They are just happy and bright and do not clash as much as I thought they would. I went all out with tons of pop dots, big bold trim and fun epoxy stickers I have been saving for a few years. She got it all!!!

 This digi is NOT available in the shop today. 

She is FREE with any purchase until March 31. 

  
                                                                                                                                                               

Here is a little secret... my birthday is also coming up and I will  be having birthday blog candy... so if you want to get an extra chance to win  my blog candy starting in April, you will have to have her (or another FBD image) to create with!!!

*challenges for this card include:
Eat Sleep Stamp sketch, Stampin' Sisters in Christ - The opposite of a CAS, Hotshot Crafts - , Ribbon, Crafty Ribbons - Birthday, Waste Not Wednesday -always "use your forgotten stuff", Crafty Creations -  Photo Insp*, City Crafter: Spring Fling Color, Digital Tuesday: Favorite Color (my secret is I have no favorite.I love them all!!!) Party Time Tuesday> Anything Goes, Ribbon Carousel: AGoes, Shopping our stash: Dots,

Don't Forget!!!

We are  having a SALE this week at Fresh Brewed Designs!!!

Sale ends March 31
Get 35% off your RUBBER STAMP PURCHASE by using the code
happyday

((you can also use code on digis as long as you order rubber too!)) 

if you get her, create with her! there will be a fun prezzie for one lucky player who does :)) 

There's Java at the end of the Rainbow???

Good Morning!
It is Monday ... and finally started off feeling enough like spring here to open the windows ((58 degrees)).
((It was almost 90 degrees here by lunch time yesterday!)) I hope you have all had a wonderful weekend and are ready to start the week ahead with a smile and of course your secret weapon....  coffee :). And I will be having seconds!!! hahahah!!!

I found this really fun challenge at Paper craft Planet for a 3d treat dispenser box card. SO FUN! yet so confusing! :) I loved it enough to make two. We will see the other in a bit :D .....
It was really fun to make, but a little confusing for a gal like me ... (not sure what that means)... but I was confused. For this card I chose to make it a double slider. The slider goes all of the way through the box ... so there are no guessing... just lots of space to fill LOL :D (this is a 5.5 x 6 size card)

 

Now back to the theme of my title for this post ... and how it came to be.  While on the computer yesterday morning I needed a java update and while I sat there watching the little green line feel and I become inpatient, the thought just came to me! HAHAHA!!! I literally do RUN ON JAVA!!!

 ((notice the first were taken when a cloud passed by..... these last when the sun came out. the first are more true to the real color ;) ))
Stamps for this card include:
Caution Contents are Hot Rubber Stamp
Latte Love Digital Stamp

Now on to my second treat dispenser card

This was my first... and I had to figure out the slider.... and had a mess... hahaha!!!! I was not able to follow the directions for that piece too well, many blonde moments followed by a MOM get me this or that, so I was also distracted. but I tried my best.... here goes....

 

 TASTE THE RAINBOW!!!

Don't you just love it?!?! :) hehehe!!! and now crave some skittles?!?! 

My evil plan... to get you to drink lots of caffeine and eat sugar! 

HAPPY MONDAY!!!!!!! :))

We are having a SALE this week at Fresh Brewed Designs!!!

Sale ends March 31

Challenges for these cards: 
 Java

• Fashionable Stamping Challenges  Spring Is In The AirSentimental Sundays -  Easter or SpringStampin' Sisters in Christ - The opposite of a CAS - toss on the embellishments and/or different papers, texturesDrunken Stampers - 2W - 1stW #85 I'll Drink to ThatSweet Stampin - 2E, must Stamp - Anything GoesChocolate, Coffee & Cards - 3E, 2W - Week 1, Fancy FoldsPaper Crafting Journey - 2W - (2nd week) Pretty PastelsPaper Play - 2E - Spring coloursPaper Lovin Gals photo insp

Rainbow

• Chocolate, Coffee & Cards - 3E, 2W - Week 1, Fancy Folds Card Crafter's Circle - 3E, C5 - Tic Tac Toe*  Cute Card Thursday - C5 - Anything goes  Paper Crafting Journey - 2W - (2nd week) Pretty Pastels Eat Sleep Stamp     Paper Play - 2E - Spring colours Scrapalicious - C5, F, 1E - special cut Can You Digi It - 2W- #5  Over The Rainbow* Paper Take Weekly - Bingo