Snowflakes and Ribbon at Fussy and Fancy Challenges

Good Morning!

I am SO LATE getting this post up.

I don't know where the time goes anymore.

Friday was our first day of craft class in over a month.

It was nice getting together with everyone. 

The kids were still out of school so we had a house full!

We also had our (late) Santa / Scrooge gift exchange. 

That was fun! 

I think perrhaps it was even more fun since Christmas 

craziness had already passed. Don't get me wrong...

I LOOOOVE Christmas and am SOOOO sad that it is over 

but had we had class during all of the other things we were doing, 

I don't think we would have enjoyed it or each other quite as much. 

Fresh Brewed Designs is sponsoring Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenges this month.

Their challenge is a fun one. 

Ribbons and Snowflakes. 

I hope we see a FEW snowflakes this year but NO ICE PLEASE!!!

Last year was crazy...

Back to the project.... :-)

I created a card using the FBD Digital Stamp 

SNOW

(isn't she just lovely?!?)

I know this isn't your typical Valentine's day card...

but I thought it worked. February is still cold and sometimes snowy ...

and she looks pretty and romantic with the soft brushed ribbon and the 

lacy diecut edges. Right? At least I hope it works, hehehe!

Here is a side view of the layers. 

Be sure to stop by and play along in Fussy and Fancy's Challenge. 

(there are 4 more days to play!)

And while your at it, come by and play along at our FAVORITES 

challenge at Freshly Brewed Challenge. 

My favorites is this ribbon I have been hoarding and the colors. I love purple and yellow together!

Thank you for stopping by.

Wishing you a very happy and blessed Sunday!

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! 

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 

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 

5 Days of Christmas Digi Release Day 2

GOOD MORNING!!!

It's THE day you have been waiting for!

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

I had a LATTE fun drawing these three digis.

tee hee hee.

Latte Fun!!!

You guessed it! The new digis today are COFFEE THEMED!

You KNEW I would have to have at least one day dedicated to coffee...

Here they are:

Santa's Latte

Christmas Tree  Latte

Candy Cane Latte

(I put all three on the one card)

and a new digital sentiment: Java Merry Little Christmas

materials:

American Craft Hot Cocoa Paper pad

Copic markers. gold smooch, red glitter gel pen

martha stewart extra fine black glitter

Here are the watermarked images for release day 2

If you missed yesterday's post, then you missed seeing this little sweetie:

Ready to Decorate - girl

and the digital sentiment:if kisses were snowflakes

materials: DCWV foiled paper stack
cuttlebug snowflake embossing folder
spellbinders floral doily motifs die cut
photo paper (the embossed paper is actually photo printer paper ;)
confetti snowflakes
copic markers, champagne smooch, gold smooch, creative inspirations fairy dust paint 
glittered snowflake embellishment from paper pad ???

The challenge at Merry Monday is neutrals and snowflakes, so I couldn't 

resist coloring her up and playing along!

Now if you missed DIGI RELEASE DAY 1

Please stop by our challenge blog and check it out >>HERE

If you are here for DIGI RELEASE DAY 2

then hop on over and see what your FBD DT has prepared for you >>HERE

JAVA VERY HAPPY DAY!

                                                 Heather

Challenges: Card 1

Cupcake Inspirations: 284 COLOR 

Completely Christmas: add a Sentiment

Simon Says Monday - treats

Christmas Stamping all year long: photo insp

Challenges: Card 2

Merry Monday - neutrals and snowflakes

Holly Jolly Christmas: Bingo: ribbon texture glitter

Daring Cardmakers: sentiment and using new tech. (embossed photo paper)

Sweet Stampin : Snowflakes