I think I need an extra cuppa joe!

Everyone (but me so far) has been sick. 

My whole house.

The flu one dr said. 

They have SOMETHING. 

Not really fevers as much as an irritating cough and runny nose -

and being up all night long. 

I am tired... but blessed and happy to be here taking care of them. 

(still crossing my fingers that I don't catch it though)

(is that mean?)

I did think I was getting sick earlier this week. Thankfully it was just a migraine. 

Thankfully... 

ANYWAY -

Another fun thing is that my computer is acting wackado!

I have tried to log on a few  mornings and NOTHING.

Windows wont load. I had a friend lovingly inform me that Kaspersky 

was acting a little 'persky' and messed up her computer.

She let me know to NEVER get it. The new version wasn't working well with the version of Windows she had or something like that.  Well, I had already installed

it a week or two prior to her email. I told my husband and hoped for the best. 

A few months later... and here we go. I am not sure if Kaspersky is the 'K'ulpret,

but that's all I have to go on right now... sigh... been backing up files and saving things

'computer willing'.

Another thing that happened was that I was unalbe to get my Fussy and Fancy card

to my sweet friend Sheryl in time to have her add it to their post today. 

I did have it made earlier this week! PROMISE! Just my comptuer and sick

people had me all flustered and limited ... so please forgive me for that. The FnF team 

has created some AMAZING projects for their current challenge RIBBON and SNOWFLAKES

Check it out and play along HERE

Here is a card I created for their challenge -

which also works for our FRESHLY BREWED CHALLENGES

December Challenge - Anything Goes as long as it's CHRISTMAS

Images used:

FBD Rubber Stamp: DECORATE IT GIRL

FBD Digital Stamp: MY CHRISTMAS TREE

I used some brads that I have had stashed for YEARS as well as a MFT Grass die cut

to create the snowy feel. I used American Craft papers from the Craft Fair set.

The sheet music paper was from my scrap pile. 

I stamped the image to overlap the tree, then fussy cut and layered them

together to create this soft and fun little home for Christmas scene. 

Next up is another card featuring the same digi:

MY CHRISTMAS TREE

I paired it this time with one of everyone's favorite FBD Rubber Stamps:

CAUTION: CONTENTS ARE HOT

Pretty sassy, right?

I used the current Splitcoast Stampers sketch for this card. 

The I love you dp is from paper studio, the snowflakes are from the

pebbles home for christmas stack and the green dots are from my stash.

I colored the ornaments with stickles. I added some heart shaped ribbon

to the tree. I think it makes the perfect garland for this, don't you?

All images were colored using prismacolor and copic markers. 

Thank you for stopping by today!

I do have one more bit of news before you go!

Remember how we are having a fun $1 digi deal at FBD this week?

It seems some of you missed yesterdays due to my being unable to post to my 

personal blog to tell you about it. I am going to keep the $1 digis on sale until the end

of our fun 5 days of Christmas digi deal event. Remember, if you purchase all 5 digis, 

on the 6th day you will get a SURPRISE!

Today's $1 Digi is 

MY CHRISTMAS TREE

Thursday's Deal: PRETTY LITTLE CHRISTMAS TREE

Wednesday's Deal: SANTA-TUDE

Stop by the shop and get your deal's now!

~Have a happy and blessed day~

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Let it Go .. or Let it SNOW!

Good Morning. 

I have a fun card to share with you today.

This card features a few Fresh Brewed Digital stamps

that I put together to create a fun scene for the new challenge 

at A Song in your He{Art}Challenge

that is being sponsored by{me} Fresh Brewed Designs. 

Their song for this challenge is from FROZEN: LET IT GO

Images used:

Dress Up Kids: Little Snowman Dress Up Digital Stamp

Christmas House Digital Stamp

Oh Christmas Tree digital Stamp

I colored and cut this little snowman image out three times. 

I did this last night at midnight after a 6 hour ride in the car with 

two kids, a husband and a dog. So please don't look too closely ;-)

The christmas house and oh christmas tree digis were printed out near

each other. I then took a doodle pen and drew the line of snow to make them 

meet one another. I used a pale jade green to draw the lines across the sky.

I used a sky blue to draw snowflake dots then traced around them with a white gel 

pen to make them look more like snowflakes. The house was also decorated with the 

white gel pen. All of the pretty glitter is from my stickles collection.

This paper is awesome. I so love this stack!

American Craft: Hot Cocoa

 here is another view of the card showing the snowman layers and the pretty shimmer. 

Be sure to stop by their challenge blog and check out all of the

fabulous design team creations!

Have a lovely and blessed day,

                                                Heather

challenges:

Jingle Belles -great outdoors

Holly Jolly - Red Green White

Simon Says Stamp Wed - Stars (on tree)

Christmas stampin all year long - AG

craft room challenge - 3d

creative card crew - christmas joy

Simon Says stamp Mon - Ornaments 

5 days of Christmas Digi Release Day 4

GOOD MORNING!!!

It's THE week you have been waiting for!

 Fresh Brewed Designs (that's me!) releases their NEW Christmas digital stamps

ALL WEEK LONG.

I get to share some SWEET images and projects with you today! 

Here are the newest digis:

SNOW DELICIOUS WINTER CAKE

SNOWMAN CUPCAKE

CHRISTMAS TREE CUPCAKE

And here are a few cards I created with them:

SNOW DELICIOUS WINTER CAKE

materials: prismacolor and copic markers, momenta ds cardstock 12x12 pad, 

martha stewart snowflake embossing border punch, confetti snowflakes, 

spellbinders floral doily motifs die cut

SNOWMAN CUPCAKE and CHRISTMAS TREE CUPCAKE

materials: pebbles home for christmas 6x6 paper pad, copic markers, prismacolor markers

To see all of the wonderful DT cards and have a chance to WIN something from the release, 

check out the challenge blog >>HERE<< 

My Day #1 Post

My Day #2 Post

My Day #3 Post

I hope you have a SWEET day, 

                                                           Heather

Challenges:

Card 1

SCS Color Challenge & SCS Sketch Challenge

Fab n Funky- Christmas

Simon Says Treats

MAWTT - winter is coming

Card 2

SCS way to use it: Favorite (this paper!!!)

Simon Says Wed - AG

4 crafty chicks - anything goes

5 Days of Christmas Digi Release Day 3

GOOD MORNING!!!

It's THE week you have been waiting for!

 Fresh Brewed Designs (that's me!) releases their NEW Christmas digital stamps

ALL WEEK LONG.

Today we get to share Some really fun and festive images with you.

This theme is all about SNOWMEN and CHRISTMAS TREES

Here are the new images:

Frosty Hugs and Kisses

Pretty Little Christmas Tree

Cutie Bug Christmas

All Bundled Up - Kid

Pretty Little Christmas Tree

materials: 

shimmer ds cardstock 

prismacolor markers: pink, blush pink, ballet pink

Copic markers: olive green set

suntan, dark suntan

stickles: crystal,confetti snowflakes, white gel pen

Cutie Bug Christmas

Materials:

All scrap paper, prismacolor markers and copic markers, 

crystal stickles, lacy scalloped circle spellbinders die cut, 

velvety green ribbon, red scrap ribbon, white gel pen

All Bundled Up - Kid

(This card makes me happy)
I had a lot of fun making all of these cards, but this one just makes me
smile most. I fell in love with this paper pad when I saw it at Tuesday Morning (yes, I
have used it a lot this week) but knew that I couldn't afford to get it with all we
have going on right now. I was later surprised by my husband who apparently saw me
put it down. He went back to get it for me later. :-)

Materials:
Pebbles Home for Christmas paper pad, copic markers,
prismacolor markers, crystal stickles, white gel pen.

To see all of the wonderful DT cards and have a chance to WIN something from the release, 

check out the challenge blog >>HERE<<

My Day #1 Post

My Day #2 Post

I hope you have a warm and happy day, 

                                                           Heather

Challenges

Card 1

1 SCS tickled Pink Challenge

2 party time tuesday: AG

3 Creative Romance Pink

Card 2

1 Jingle Belles: Creatures

2 Come and Get it - Recipe 

3 Pile it on - create a scene

Card 3

1 poppy card sketch #16

2 fab n funky: Christmas

3 paper minutes: Christmas red

4 tip top tuesday: chevrons

tip: to make a CAS card look more interesting, 

use the out of the box technique. you can do this with

diecuts or just carefully cut using your paper trimmer as I did ;)

5 simon says stamp wed - ag

I recently read that some challenge blogs

look down on supporting a release or linking

back to digi shops and personal challenge blogs and such. 

If I have not followed your rules, please politely

let me know in an email and I will remove my card

from your challenge. I always look for challenges 

to use AS my inspiration and truly enjoy entering

and playing along in them. It just happens that most of 

my creations ARE for Fresh Brewed Designs or DT 

work. It is what it is ;)

Thank you 

5 Days of Christmas Digi Release Day COUNTDOWN ... 3

... there are only 3 days left until we release LOTS and LOTS 

of new Christmas themed digital stamps at Fresh Brewed Designs. 

To get us all excited and in the Christmas mood, I am going to do a 

few count down posts! 

This first Christmas card features our sweet little rubber stamp:

Cutie Pie  Ice Skating

and the digital stamp:

Joy Christmas Trees

I was inspired by a few different challenges at SCS

Sketch Challenge #511

and

Ways to Use It #502: Emboss 2 ways (heat and dry)

I used a cuttlebug embossing folder to emboss my blue ice lake. 

I then sponged white pigment ink over the swirls and sprinkled Ranger embossing

powder in seafoam white over that. The edge of the ice is embossed with stampendous frantage shabby white embossing powder. The trim of her clothes was painted with Crystal Stickles. 

I used the JOY CHRISTMAS TREES digital stamp as my background paper. 

I used a pen and extended the line from the digi and added a few doodle circles to mimic

the snow already on the joy image. I then outlined the snow and trees with a light blue marker. 

MORE CHALLENGES

Tis The Season: pastel Christmas

Merry Monday: Non traditional colors

Christmas at Sweet Stampin: Snowflakes
Christmas Stampin all year round: Embellish it

Thank you for stopping by today and I hope to see you for our

NEW DIGI RELEASE starting this Monday, October 27th!

Heather 

Joy - New Digi at Fresh Brewed Designs

Hello 

So happy to have you visiting with me today. 

I am back again today with another card I created for our 

NEW DIGI RELEASE that went live yesterday morning. 

(If you missed all of the DT cards, be sure to go HERE and check them out.)

This card features the new digi:

JOY - Christmas Trees

I kept this card clean and simple. 

I printed the image on Papertrey Inc paper because it is thick 

enough to use and pop without having to add a border around the image. 

I drew little snow dots to mimic those in the image and added stardust stickles to all of the snow. 

The pink paper is from my scrap pile. It is also from papertrey inc. 

The image is colored using prismacolor markers 

Here are all of our NEWEST Digis:

You can get this entire bundle HERE for $15

PLUS each bundle order will receive 3 surprise wintery digital sentiments free!

(you save $12) Deal ends tonight (Tuesday, Dec 2) at midnight (EST)

We have a holiday hoopla event coming up as well as

a DT Call over at Freshly Brewed Challenges. 

Stop by and read more about it HERE

(there is a link up and a chance to win!) 

Challenges: 
Artistic Inspirations - Winter Wonderland 
Crafty Cardmakers - Clean And Simple
CAS on Sunday -Winter Theme
Pile It On -  P is for....  pink2 Sisters -  Anything Goes
Allsorts -    Inspired By Winter Song or Carol (walkin in a winter wonderland) 
A Gem of a Challenge - W - #108  Winter Wonderland