Fresh Brewed Designs Digi Deal #5 (LAST DAY!)

Today is the LAST DAY to score 5 fun digis for just

$1 each! Tomorrow is THE DAY that the prizes will be sent out. 

Everyone who purchased each of these 5 special digis will

receive a 'little extra' in their inbox. 

Are you going to be one of those LUCKY ones?

Here is today's digi deal:

CHRISTMAS HOLLY

I used prismacolor, copic, and bic markers to color this image.

The holly and merry christmas papers are by the paper studio.

The green dots are from my scrap pile. 

The little trees were hand cut and added to the corner. 

The heart ribbon is also from my stash. I am thinking the shop

I purchsed it from is now closed, but am sure that someone out there 

sells it. That was not very helpful was it? ;)

This card was inspired by this weeks SWEET SKETCH WEDNESDAY sketch. 

You can find this digi in the shop HERE

Saturday's Deal: SANTA'S LITTLE HELPER

Friday's Deal: MY CHRISTMAS TREE

Thursday's Deal: PRETTY LITTLE CHRISTMAS TREE

Wednesday's Deal: SANTA-TUDE

Have a very happy and blessed day!

Sweet Little Ballerina

My children are participating in this years Nutcracker Ballet production

at their dance studio. This is their first year at this studio and it has been absolutely WONDERFUL

aside from the fact that they have made us broke, lol ;-)

The kids truly enjoy all of their classes and teachers and classmates.
This is the FIRSTyear that I have ever been able to say that about any dance studio
we have been a part of.

Anyway, my daughter is the lead maid, the lead lemon-drop, and dances in the Russian dance
 part of the production. My son was asked if he wanted to be in as one of the boys
 in the party scene. He doesn't take ballet, but once he knew it would not be girly dancing
and they got to pretend sword fight it was all good! :-)
Here is a photo of my sweet ones in one of their costumes:

Aren't they just too adorable?!?

I can't wait to see this on stage!

They have worked SO HARD giving up EVERY SATURDAY to practice. 

My daughter is also a part of their competitive troupe. 

She was assigned a 'little sister' to encourage and help out throughout the dance year

and look out for while at competitions. 

 She asked me if I would make a set of cards for her. I told her she could

make them herself but she insisted and said she would make something next time. 

She chose my newest digi: LITTLE CHRISTMAS BALLERINA

to set the stage so to speak. 

Here is the set of 4 cards I created little Caroline. 

These cards were pretty simple to make. I carefully colored them all

to look as close to the same as possible.
I then used  my cuttlebug and spellbinders lable 4 die to cut her out 
I let the die extend over the paper so I would have a clean straight edge for the embellishment
that I added to the base. I added little bits of sparkle to the nutcracker using a gelly roll pen.
I also added sparkle to her dress and hair bow using crystal stickles. 

The finishing touch to the image was a white gel pen. I added dots to her cheeks, 

highlights on her tights, on the nutcracker, and dots on the holly. I also drew little white

circles around the image to represent snow. It is hard to see in the photos, but

is visible when you hold and tilt the card to the light. 

Thank you for stopping by and visiting with me today.

I hope you have a very happy and blessed day,

challenges:

City Crafter One Word Sentiment

Cuttlebug Mania_ Girly 

4 crafty chics - sparkle

in the pink- sweet simple

Winter Wishes

OK, Ok... I know some of you are saying 

"AHHH!!! WHAT IS SHE THINKING? CHRISTMAS - for real?!?!"

While I am thinking "I am so happy to be getting some Christmas cards made. I am usually SO behind!"

Well, that and it is actually making me happy.  I LOVE Christmas time. The true meaning of Christmas though. Celebrating Christs' birth with my family. Baking and smelling cinnamon. Making hot chocolate. The good stuff. :))

Today I have a card to share with you featuring the NEWEST digi Christmas Holly. 

I can't tell you how much fun I actually had drawing her. 

If I could be one of my Christmas designs IRL it would be Holly :))

Christmas Holly Digital Stamp 

This card was created using olive green bazzil cardstock, patterned paper by momenta (could not find a name on it??), papertrey inc cardstock in white and red, vellum, a snag em stamps sentiment, prismacolor and copic markers, star dust stickles, and spellbinders lacy circles die and a spellbinders floral dioly motifs die.  

Challenges for this card include:  

Merry Monday: sketch ,  ABC Christmas Challenge -  Anything goes, Just Keep on Creating - Christmas, Die Cuttin' Divas - Shimmer Glimmer Gloss,  Stampin' Sisters in Christ - peace or calm Word Art Wednesday: AG

Thank you for stopping by today! 

Have a very wonderful and blessed day!

Heather