I live for the APPLAUSE!!!

Hello everyone.

I am here today with a somewhat personal post and a big ol'

WOOHOO shout out for my daughter. 

My daughter is a part of a dance troupe who competed last weekend.

My little girl and one other had competed last year with a larger group, 

but the other girls in her class were first timers. 

They scored very high winning a platinum award.

They were all amazing, I was (am) so proud of them.

Of course my daughter knocked my socks off. 

She amazes me every time I get to watch her dance. 

Blown away. 

(photo below. My daughter is the one in the middle doing a tilt)

I wanted to do something special for the girls in this troupe, 

but nothing too cheesy since they are all tweens and everything 

that an adult does is cheesy ;). 

I decided to draw them in their costume and make them all a 

personalized card. I do hope they like it and my daughter isn't 

embarrassed by my giving them out. We shall see ;)

Here they are:

JR. TROUPE ~ APPLAUSE

I used an OLD stack of 12x12 papers for these.

MME Garden Vignettes gitter cardstock. 

The other black and white cardstock base is from Papertrey Inc.

I colored the images using copic markers and added some black diamond stickles

to resemble the sequins on their outfits.

Thank you for stopping by today and listening to me brag on my little miss.

Please stop back by Monday for our NEW DIGI RELEASE BLOG HOP!

You won't regret it! ;) 

Custom Design * Special Orders

I know you all know I am the owner and designer of my own rubber stamp

and digi shop called Fresh Brewed Designs. 

What you don't know is that I have another secret identity.

I am the card lady! lol 

At least that is what  a few kids at dance call me. 

I  decided to show you a few behind the scenes designs I have created.

Every once in a while someone will come to me and ask me for a special design

or card order. These images I draw can not be sold in the shop because they are personalized

or ... well... just because ;) There is a sweet little lady (9 year old girl) and her beautiful mother

who are always asking about and for designs. Her mom recently came to me asking about

Valentines. Her daughter and I sat and discussed designs for the longest time.

It was interesting to hear what she had planned for her cards. She KNEW she wanted a

Mickey Mouse theme. So, after carefully listening to her ideas and getting an idea of what she

wanted to relay to her friends (not too cute, not too romantic) I suggested this.. and she loved it.

So here is one of my special, hand drawn designs ... 

and believe me, it was really intimidating to draw such an ionic character!!! WHEW!!!... 

Mickey and Minnie Mouse Valentines:

{30 cards in all}

Sometime in October 2013 

I was asked by this same lady to make her daughter a special 

Birthday Card. Her daughter is also in love with Steamboat Willie

so her mom knew she wanted it to have him on it...

Here is my interpretation of a Steamboat Willie Birthday Card: 

And last but not least,

Here is the last creation she asked for,

A  Jack Daniels birthday card for a 70 year old man. 

She wanted it to have plenty of space for her family to all sign it, 

so I made it fold out in a different sort of way. 

She loved it, I hope you do too! :)

SOO there you have it. 

A little behind the scenes peek at a few of my 'special order' designs.

While sometimes intimidating creating something SPECIAL for someone,

it is a lot of fun seeing the end result and seeing how much they love it!

Thank you for stopping by today!