What is your favorite season?

This week we want to see a card featuring

your FAVORITE season. 

I don't really have a FAVORITE season. I have something 

I love about them all. I love most things about winter. 

Hot cocoa, coffee, scarves, boots... but I don't like it when it's 

TOOOO COLD like it has been the past few days (in the 30's.. I'm a baby)

For this card I used the Fresh Brewed Designs

Hot Cocoa Rubber Stamp

I, once again, used the Splitcoast Stampers TWISTED CARD Technique. 

Such a fun card fold, don't you think?

Come play along with us this week HERE

Have a happy and blessed day!

Heather 

Pretty Pink Snowman

Happy Wednesday. 

This is my post number 2 for the day. 

To see my elegant black and teal Christmas card featuring a

Word Art Wednesday Sentiment and a beautiful Simon Says Stamp Wafer Die, go HERE

I am back today to remind you to come play along in our FRESHLY BREWED CHALLENGE. 

We are celebrating with an ANYTHING GOES CHRISTMAS theme for the

entire month!!! WOOOO HOO!!!

I created some fun and simple Christmas cards for my mom's

Chemo nurses at MUSC. She had her LAST CHEMO last Thursday (Dec 3) 

and I am SO HAPPY that she is done!!! PARTY TIME!

This card features the FBD Digital Stamp: STRIPED SNOWMAN 

I made each nurse the same card and paired it with a bit of 

smelly goodness. Who doesn't love BBW Lotions? 

I hope it made them smile. There isn't anything that can be done to 

express to them how thankful I am for them. They were always so caring, 

loving, attentive and so much more. One couldn't have asked for better doctors

and nurses! I thank God every day for taking care of my mom the way he did

through all of this!

Be sure to stop by Freshly Brewed Challenges and play along in our

ANYTHING GOES Christmas Challenge.

Challenge ends December 29th!

Have a very happy and blessed day.

Heather

Build Me A Snowman

Let's get ready for some FUN!

This week's Freshly Brewed Challenge is
one of my favorites. I LOVE snowmen and creating winter themed cards!

SO why don't you
BUILD ME A SNOWMAN?

Come play along with us HERE

Here are a few cards I created for this challenge.

Digital Stamp: LET IT SNOW SNOWMAN

This was a super fun card to make!
I used the SCS Twisted Card tutorial for this one.
It was a little confusing, but not really.
Probably because I havent made anything other than a standard A2 card in
well... FOREVER!!!

Top view:

Inside:
(has a pocket to hold a gift card or whatever your creative mind
can think of to add to it! :)

Let's talk about LEFT OVERS!!!

This card is a GREAT way to use scrap papers! I did not keep cutting papers out

the way the tutorial instructed. I cut out a template out of card stock and was able to use 

the pieces of scraps to create the panels for these types of cards. 

Maybe a little more time consuming, maybe, just a tad, but

was worth it (for me) to be able to use the bits and pieces. 

Still have more, mind you. These cuts leave you lots of little acute triangles. Just sayin!

But it is oh so fun!!!

This card is being entered into the JINGLE BELLES holiday left overs challenge 

and

Always Playing With Paper: Christmas Cards Challenge

Digital Stamp: SNOW WHAT FUN

 I LOVE snowmen.

 This image was a fun one to draw and color. 

They just make me happy. 

I kept the base a simple one layer and added little white snowballs (one by one) to the card front.

 I used double sided tape to create the gold glitter stripes

This card is being entered into the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp: AG

Hope to see you play along with us in our challenge. 

Have a beautiful and blessed day!

Heather D. 

Fussy and Fancy Christmas

That sure doesn't describe the kids of Christmas we have here,

but it describes the style of card I created to share with you today.

Fussy and Fancy challenge blog is hosting a 

RIBBONS AND SNOWFLAKES challenge and 

FRESH BREWED DESIGNS is their sponsor!

Woot woot!!!

I used the digi 

LITTLE SNOWFLAKE 

for my sponsorship card. 

I cut the petals from several prima flowers and glued them around the 

diecut image. I then painted on lots of stardust stickles glitter. 

The edges of the card were sprinkled with a chunky white glitter

bu Martha Stewart. 

This image was colored using copic and prismacolor markers.

My papers: PTI Kraft cardstock,  DP  from  stash. 

This card also works with our ANYTHING GOES as long as it;s CHRISTMAS

challenge at Freshly Brewed Challenges. There are still a few days to play in 

that fun challenge... so go link up HERE

Have a beautiful and blessed day ...

for those of you traveling today and still celebrating Christmas, 

(like us)

be blessed, enjoy every minute, stay safe, and have a very wonderful time! 

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!

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 

a very Merry Christmas

Happy Saturday!

I am spending another Saturday with my kids at nucracker rehearsal. 

I can not wait to see them perform in this show!

This is the first time they have done anything at this new studio

and the first time they have been in a ballet. 

My daughter has a few lead parts and my son was asked to join 

in the party scene where the little boys sword fight and dance around with 

Fritz. I know they are excited. They have worked their butts off in preparation. 

Every Saturday since September has been spent at the dance studio. 

All of that leads to this little wintery card I created. 

This card features the Fresh Brewed Designs Digital Stamps:

LET IT SNOW SNOWMAN

Very Merry Christmas Sentiment 

I am bursting with Christmas this year. Well, 

I have kept it inside, but I feel like I am bursting with it. 

Not necessarily the decorating and such but the feeling of it. I love the LOVE

that Christmas brings. All because of a baby who was born on this day

who brought love into the world with him. When I hear the word love

I immediately think JESUS. He loves us so much!!!

Ok, back to the card :-)

Here is a photo of all of the sparkle. 

To create the snow, I spread out some freshly fallen snow paint

over the white cardstock then sprinkled it while wet with martha stewart glitter: snow and carrara marble. The snowflakes were cut with a cricut cartridge: accent essentials, dabbed with tacky glue and then coated in the carrara marble glitter as well. 

I used the SCS Sketch 513 for this card

Thank you for stopping by and visiting with me. 

I hope you have a very lovely weekend. 

Heather

other challenges:

ABC Christmas - very merry christmas

jingle belles - great outdoors

christmas stampin all year long - ag

Winter wonderland - frosty the snowman

5 Days of Christmas Digi Release DAY 5

GOOD MORNING!!!

It's THE week you have been waiting for!

 Fresh Brewed Designs (that's me!) 

has been releasing their NEW Christmas digital stamps

ALL WEEK LONG.

And today is the LAST Day!!!

We have some SWEET and SASSY images to share with you on 

this last day of our release. 

Here are the newest digis:

And here are the ones I created using for today's release!

PRETTY LITTLE REINDEER

with Jingle Jangle Jingle sentiment

MRS. CLAUSE

PRETTY LATTE CHRISTMAS

and Java Merry Little Christmas Sentiment

SASSY SNOWGIRL

and warm and cozy Christmas sentiment 

SNOWFLAKE MERMAID WITH BABY

and Winter Wonderland Sentiment 

WHEW!!! That was a lot of pics!!!

Thank you for stopping by. I have a SUPER BUSY day today, but will be

back later to edit and add materials and things like that. 

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

My Day #4 Post

Have a happy day!

Heather

a few challenges

Card 1

Jingle Belles: Creatures

poppy card sketch #16

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 ;)

Card2

fab n funky: Christmas

Simon Says Monday - treats

Card 3

paper minutes: Christmas red

Card 4

simon says stamp wed - ag

southern girls - get wordy

Card 5

Fusion card sketch

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