I've been published!

I have just been notified that 2 (yeah, 2) of my cards are going to be published in the July 17 edition of the online magazine  'SNR'.   Yes, I am very excited!

The  cards are 'Maui Dreaming' and 'Pretty Petals' .  Both have been removed from my blog until the required 30 days from publication has passed.

Both cards feature stamp sets from 'Our Craft Lounge'.  (Yeah Cammie!)

Isn't it cool!



Just another Frantic Friday!

(For those who notice, yes-I posted on the wrong date.  Oh well, early is better than late!  LOL)
It's Friday again and here I am,  posting my card for Fresh Brewed Designs.  This is going up as a pre-scheduled post through blogger (crossing my fingers that it works this week) since I have to work an extra 12 in the ER today.  (How exciting for me - read sarcasm here!  LOL)

Anyway, the image I used on my card here is one of my favorite from Heather at Fresh Brewed Designs.  She has an amazing assortment of digital images and rubber stamps.  Lots of them directly related to caffeine, like this one!

This card is posted on The Latte Lounge for a challenge.  Isn't is wonderful!

It is called 'Fresh Brewed Flowers' and you can find it here.

I printed and coloried the image several times, cut the flower box and the coffee blooms

out.  Using dimensionals, put on the flower box and flowers at a raised level.

I scored some white cardstock and rubbed it with my memento cocoa ink pad for the house siding. 

I colored everything with copic markers. 

Then, I added some stickles to the dots on the curtains and on the window box.

The ribbon is from Michaels.  I pleated it and then cut the sentiment out using a Spellbinder and

again used dimensionals to raise it also.

Whole thing was attached to a teal colored card and it's ready to go!

Go visit the FBD challenge blog and check out whats happening now.

This card may be entered in the following challenges:

Dream Valley Challenges:  Summer

The Crafty Pad:  Lots of Texture

Creative Stamp Friends:  Summer

The Crazy Challenge:  Summertime

Kaboodle Doodles Challenge:  Use those scissors

Tuesday Throwdown:  Fun in the Sum

Paper Minutes:  Paper Houses

Playing with Paper:  Summertime

Fresh Brewed Designs Blog Hop

Welcome to the Fresh Brewed Designs New Digi Blog Hop for July!!!

If you are just arriving, please go back to the start of the hop at Kelly's blog.

If you are arriving here from Kelly's blog then you are right on track!

What is this hop all about you ask???

Sweet Talking!!!



Rich, creamy, chocolaty, fruity, thick, airy, light, sweet and delicious! Desert. Something we all LOVE and crave. Summer time is the perfect time to try new ice cream flavors, add fresh fruits to our favorite cakes, pies and cold drinks. You know what I am talking about... and I know your mouth is watering already :).

Fresh Brewed Designs has their own special recipe for SWEET things and added a few new ingredients to their already darling Angel Cakes for this image release. Angel Cake loves summer and ice cream and hanging out with her new best friend Huckleberry Pie.


Along this hop you will see Angel, Huck, and some too sweet for words images that have been added to the Fresh Brewed Designs shop.

For my cards I am featuring the images Huckleberry Pie fishing

Deets: 
Image:  Fresh Brewed Designs
Coloring:  Copic markers, Memento Inks
DP:  Create with TLC
Sentiment:  Wink, Wink, Ink
Twine:  Jillibean
All else from my stash.

and So Sweet Waffle Cone

Deets:
Image:  Fresh Brewed Designs
Coloring:  Copic markers
DP:  Create with TLC
Sentiment:  Create with TLC
BorderPunch:  EK Success
Whipped Cream:  Liquid Applique by Marvy (Isn't it cool!)

Want a chance to win these images plus more? You will want to hop in full leaving comments on ALL of the blogs in the hop. There is ONE special secret hop stop that is giving away 5 digis of choice.

This hop ends tonight at Midnight, so don't wait!!! HOP NOW!!


Thank you for your visit. It is time for you to move on to the next sweet stop.
Please hop on over to Linda's blog and see what delightfully delicious creations she has to share with you today.

Sending you HUGS and SMILES and lots of FRESH BREWED CREATIVITY!

If you get lost, here is the complete hop order:


Kelly: http://sandcastlestamper.blogspot.com/

Gale: http://galevarland.blogspot.com/

Linda: http://stamperstouch.blogspot.com/

Stacie: http://hestiashelper.blogspot.com/

Sheryl: (Guest) http://butterflykisscards.blogspot.com/

Heather: http://joemamainks.blogspot.com/

It's all about the sparkle!

GingerLoft Challenges wants to see you shine!  Or, at least your project. 

"Make it Sparkle"

This is a  nice, long, easy challenge so get your craft on.  Then add some glitter, some stickles or anything else that you have that sparkles and join on in.

We are taking a summer hiatus here at GingerLoft and won't be back until August 20th!  That means you can take your time and really put all the sparkle and shine you want into this project!

I did a center step card using Tami's image 'Star Gazer'

She is printed on copic express blend paper (love this stuff!) and colored with copic markers.

The card base is kraft covered in a pale blue mirror paper.  There is glitter on the star, moon and some of the background swoops (or whatever they are called!  LOL)

The fine line glittering in the hair andon the hat are done with a Gelly Roll clear star pen.  There are

Glossy Accents on the eyes and tears of the mask.

The fabric ribbon and the really cool paper ribbon (music strip) are a Kanban product.  I won a bunch of their products from 'Moving Along with the Times' in a challenge a couple weeks ago.

The bling along the right side is from Recollections and the die cut was made with a Spellbinders.

This card may be entered in  the following challenges:

GingerLoft Challenges:: Make it Sparkle (DT card)
Deep Ocean Challenge:  Make a card
Digital Tuesday Challenge:  Bling it up with a Digi
Frosted Designs:  Recipe- I used ribbon and a pearl
OSAAT:  Anything goes
Bearly Mine:  Anything goes

Sunbathing Granny - No, it's not me!

Sunbathing Granny has definitely got style!

Freshly Brewed Designs has their month long challenge up and running!

2 Patterned Papers

2 Embellishments

2 Shapes

Grab an image/stamp and get busy!

Isn't she awesome!  The papers are all from my scrap drawer, including the polka dot that I paper pieced on granny (my first attempt at paper piecing!)  The flourish (shape 1) is a Marianne die and the ovals (shape 2) are Spellbinders.  The flowers are handmade using fiskar punches.  The image is colored with copic markers and the sponging is done with memento inks.  Finished off with some ribbon and liquid pearls on the sentiment and in the centers of the flowers. 

I hope I can pull this off, this well, when I become a 'granny'.  LOL

This card may be entered in the following challenges:

Freshly Brewed Designs:  2PP, 2 shapes, 2 embellishments (DT card)
Pile it On:  Time to Relax
The Crazy Challenge:  On the Beach
Creative Belli:  Make your own Embellishments
Stamp Insanity:  Anything Goes

Cowboy Up!

Cowboy Up girlfriend!

Playing with a new digi and, well, it went country on me!  LOL

Isn't this too cool!  Just love the image, the papers, even the colors! 

The card is 6x6.  Really big for me, fun to have all that room!

The main image is from GingerLoft Designs.  The sentiment is a John Wayne quote.  Fits perfectly with the image, doesn't it?! 

The DPs are from Color Blok (pink paisley) and Creative Imaginations (cowboy boots).

The coloring is done with copic markers, the sponging around the sentiments is Memento inks.

The twine is from Jillibean.  The borders are done with an EK success punch and the die

cut is Spellbinders.  The saddle and the cactus are both up on dimensionals.

This card may be entered in the following challenges:

Sentimental Sundays:  Anything Goes

KB Cute Monday:  Anything Goes

Craft Your Passion:  Anything Goes

Little Claire's Designs:  Pink and Brown

Card and Scrap:  Die cut and punch

Divas by Design:  Die cut and punch

Mocha Manic Monday

It's the first Monday of the month and it's Mocha Manic Monday time!  Go to the store at Fresh Brewed Designs and pick up Heather's freebie (only available today) and play with us!

Today she had a beautiful fairy out for a stroll.........

Isn't she beautiful!  She is colored with copics.  Glittered up with Stickles and a gelly roll clear star pen.  Perfect pearls for a necklace, some MS butterflies and ribbon from my stash.  The background paper is a digi that I printed in watermark to lighten it up. (If anyone knows who made it let me know in comments).

The ribbon came from a garage sale.  I scrunched it up on the wires and pulled the wire in the part I made into a bow.  Some sticky back rhinestones finished it off.

This card may be entered in the following challenges:

Fresh Brewed Designs:  MMM freebie challenge (DT card)
Dream Valley Challenges:  Ribbon
Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge:  Colors of Summer

A party, a sale and a hop!

Well, it is really busy over at Fresh Brewed Designs!  There is a new challenge up.  We want to see your 'birthday or party theme' projects.  I have a beautiful card for a fiesta!  Blogger finally decided to let me post this AM!   YEAH!  Check out my Fiesta here and go to the challenge blog and check out all the other DT eye candy.  While you are there, go by the store, pick up a FBD image and join us in this weeks challenge.

....................Secondly......................

we are having a SALE!!

ALL digis in the kids section are 40% off

All handmade embellishments are 40% off

All unmounted rubber stamps are 30% off

Sale ends July 5 ~ midnight EST


...................Third......................

Don't forget the Fresh Brewed Designs Blog hop!  It starts and ends July 11th.  A one day trip through the new designs from Heather's mind!  I can't wait for you to see the deliciousness that she has come up with this time!

This card may be entered in the following challenges:

Fresh Brewed Designs:  Birthday or party (DT card)
The Crafty Pad:  Bold brights or Soft pastels
Scrapbook Sisters:  Summer Fun
Bee Crafty:  Summertime

Beads, beads, well, maybe pearls...

Add some beads, any kind will do!  (I used pearls).  GingerLoft Challenges is asking you to use those beads!  Tami has lots of images for free and for purchase.  Come and visit the store, get out your goodies and play along.

This image is called 'Flowering tree'.  Isn't it gorgeous! 

Pearls, ribbon and paper are from my stash. (pearls on the edges are liquid pearls!)

The coloring is copics.

Die cuts are spellbinders.

Border punch is fiskars.

Sentiment is from Create with TLC. 

This card may be entered in the following challenges:

GingerLoft Challenges:  Use your beads (DT card)
Stampavie and More:  Butterflies
Amber's Crafts and Stuff:  Summer Time
Delightful Challenges:  Fun in the Sun
Wags 'n Whiskers:  Summer Time

Ain't No Sunshine when you're Gone............

This project is a winner at 'Moving Along with the Times!
Sorry this is late, had to go out of town unexpectedly but,  I'M BACK!!! 

Fresh Brewed Designs is looking for song inspirations!  I had this song stuck in my head for days after making this card set!  LOL.   Oh no.......I'm hearing it again!

Yah, a little on the bright side but it's what came together when I did the FBD image.  All of the coloring is with copic markers.

Rainy Day Butterfly is just too cute!

Then it needed a box.  Some measuring, a little cutting, a little scoring and TADA!

The amazingly bright green matches the color of the flower stem and leaf on the cards.

Next came a band to hold the whole thing together.  This was punched with a MS border punch on both sides of an inch and a half strip of paper.  The ribbon is from my stash (JoAnne's I think).  The emblem on the front is a spellbinder die, folded in half.  The front tip slips under the border on the bottom of the box to help keep it shut. (actually stays shut without the band, I just liked it!)

The border on the bottom and the folded sides is another MS border punch.

The button, bling and papers are from my stash, makers unknown :(

Makes for a great 'I miss you' card set.

This project may be entered in the following challenges:
Fresh Brewed Designs:  Inspired by a song (DT)
Totally Stampalicious:  Anything goes
Lollipoo Crafts:  Inspired by a song
A Spoon Full of Sugar:  Splish-splash
Flutterby Wednesdays:  Orange, green and pink
Stampavie:  Butterflies
Hannah and Friends:  In the garden
Moving Along with the Times:  Inspired and named for a song
Southern Girls:  Anything goes

A babies butt

There is just something to cute about a babies butt.   can remember my boy running around the house, bare ass naked and making me laugh til I cried!  Wearing mommy's and daddy's shoes is another right of passage.  These wonderful stamps by DigiDoodle.  I won these stamps from a challenge that Digidoodle was sponsering! 

Anyway, both of my neighbors son's (twins) had babies (well, their wives had the babies!) in the last 3 months and I thought that the baby girl image was so appropriate for what they are going to be seeing and going through in the near future.  And, since I am doing the baby girl digi, I had to do the baby boy one also! 

The coloring is all copics an the papers are from Creative Memories.  Not only did I win the stamps, I won a "romance" pack of papers and sentiments from CM at an all day crop that I went to in May!  Too much fun.

The flowers and shirred ribbon are from my stash. 

This image is also colored with copics.  All the paper and goodies are from my stash.  The sentiment is from Ginger's House.  Made me laugh.  Definitely not one of the excuses that my boy's used but only because they didn't think of it!  I made this card to enter in the StampTV challenge last week for texture.

All die cuts are nesties and the sponging is memento inks.

These cards are entered in the following challenges:

CR84FN:  Light pink, medium green, neutrals as main colors  (See girl card)

Aly's Sunday Challenge:  All about kids

The Shabby Tea Room:  Pink, green, neutrals and flowers (See girl card)

Cupcake Craft Challenges:  Boy, oh boy, oh boy (please see the baby boy butt!)

Charisma Cardz:  Pink and green (see girl card)

Card Makin' Mamas:  With a child (both)

New Release-Blog Hop-It's Fresh Brewed Designs!

Heather at Fresh Brewed Designs is on a roll!  She has a new release that we are show casing in a special blog hop - just for you.  First, the boring stuff (rules, ugh!)

 We are doing things differently this month.

We are having a one (well 2) stop hop every day this week starting today and ending on Saturday, June 11.

On Saturday all of the images will be in the shop and there will be a special post for you to comment on. If you participate every day and follow the rules, you will have a chance to win all 4 digis that are being released!  You must comment on the blog and EACH  DT presenter, each day to be in the running for the prize on Saturday.

Each day, go to the FBD blog, check out what Heather has to say and then follow the link to the DT member who is doing the showcase for that day.  If you come to us in the middle of the week, no problems!  Just go to Tuesday's post and start there.  As long as all the comments are in by Saturday at midnight, you are still eligible for Heathers wonderful giveaway!

Now, for the fun stuff.  Did you see the wonderful card that Linda did yesterday.  Gave me the 'shivers'!  LOL

Who knew how cute a bunch of elephants could be?  Heather did!  She gave each of us a new digi (they will be in the store on Saturday) to work with.  Amazingly cute and talented elephants, just waiting to grace your cards, scrapbook layouts and 3D projects!  If you have checked out my blog, you know that I love, love, love the ocean.  Heather gave me the perfect image!

Isn't she adorable!  Her name is Babie Ellie Hula Dancer.  She looks like she is out for a fun day on the beach!  Just for a note, the ice cream cone and the palm tree are both rubber stamps for the FBD store. 

 (So many of these stamps work together!) 

Remember to go the to FBD blog tomorrow to check out the next step in our hop and see you all at the blog on Saturday to get in your final comment to become eligible to WIN!

Deets:

Images:  Baby Ellie, ice cream cone, palm tree -  Fresh Brewed Designs.

                Crab and sentiment:  OCL

Colors:  Stamped in Memento Ink Tuxedo black.

               Sponged with Memento Inks-multiple colors

               Coloring with copics

Paper:    Neenah Solar White

               DCWV photo stack

Diecut:  Nestibilities

Other:   Flamingo and tree brads by Recollections

              Gelly roll clear star glitter pen (sorry you can't see the shine in the photo)

               Glossy Accents

Mocha Manic Monday

Fresh Brewed Designs is have Mocha Manic Monday again.  On the first Monday of each month, Heather posts a freebie in the store, available only on that day.  Use it to enter on of the several challenges that FBD runs each month.  Heather's images are so versatile (and cute!) you can find a way to make most of them work in one of her challenges.  While there, shop around, pick up some wonderful digi's or, if you are a rubber lover (almost sounds obscene, sorry) check out her rubber stamps.  Come and play with us this month!

And inside, the ages old saying...........

Images and sentiment from the mind of Heather at FBD.  Colored with copics on Neenah solar white cardstock.  Memento ink sponging on edges.  Scallop border with an EK success punch.

Ribbon from my stash, a gelly-roll clear-star glitter pen for sparkle, and Smooch spritz in vanilla shimmer to add the ice look to the ice cream!

The smaller cones are part of a 'beach accessory pack' available here.  Between the ice cream cone, the full beach bag and the sand castle, you can add the finishing touches to all your cards, projects and scrapbook pages!

Also, there is a great write up about Heather and Fresh Brewed Designs in the just published online edition of  ReadySetCreate!  Awesome!

This card may be entered in the following challenges:

Don't argue with the Wife!

Have you ever been in an arguement and known that no matter what you say, you aren't going to win or change the other persons mind?  Not happening?  Check this card out.....

and the perfect inside sentiment.....

Both the image and the sentiment are from 'Disguised as a Grown-up'

Marlene has an amazing, twisted, snarky sense of humor that I   LOVE !!!!

I go to her site every day, just on the chance that she has posted a freebie that will make me laugh out loud and inspire my next card.  Rarely does she miss a day.  Brilliant woman!

DP, ribbon and brads are from my scrapbasket.  Coloring is copics.  The flowers are handmade. 

 Humor is all Marlene.

The lightbulb is just a hand cut and color piece.

This card may be entered in the following challenges:
Lexi's Creations:  For a man
My Time to Craft Challenge:  Very Funny
Tuesday Throwdown:  Make your own Embellishments (hand made flowers)
Stamp Man Challenge:  One for a guy  (advice given!  LOL)

Fresh Brew - It's a Guy Thing

This is my first post for Fresh Brewed Designs.  I am a guest DT for the summer months and

I AM EXCITED!  LOL.

Heather has a wonderful challenge blog (Fresh Brewed Challenges) with different challenges being posted all month long.  Today we are starting June off with "It's a Guy Thing".  Make a card or project for a guy and enter at Fresh Brewed Challenges.  You don't have to use a FBD image but we would love to see one (and it is worth a second entry)!

Go to the FBD store, do a little shopping and then get creative!  I made a gift card holder, just perfect for a

guy! 

The Fresh Brewed Design digital stamp that I chose is called 'It's all Good".  Isn't that the truth!

The background is silver mirror card run through my diamond plate CB embossing folder.  Looks just like the metal on the tool box in the back of those work trucks that you see! 

The whipped cream even has liquid applique stuff that puffs when you heat it.  Looks pretty real!

The "embellishments" in the lower left corner are some kind of washer  (I call them sprockets) from my local hardware store.  I can't make a card without some embellishment.  Ribbon and flowers didn't seem right!  hehe  The images are coloring with copic markers and layered onto a glossy black "table" top.

Inside has the same embossed mirror cardstock except for behind the gift card pocket.  That is left plain kraft card stock so there is somewhere to write.  The sentiment is from Create with TLC.  It is cut out with Spellbinders and placed on a glossy black matt.  Just add a coffee shop gift card and TaDa, you have a perfect gift for that hard to buy for guy. (They all love coffee!)

This card may be entered in the following challenges:

Fresh Brewed Designs:  It's a Guy Thing (DT card)

Sparkles Forum:  Something Metal

Lexi's creations:  Father's day or for a guy

Craft Your Passion:  What a Guy!

Claudia & Co.:  Fancy Folds

Cards for Men:  No designer paper

Do It with Digis:  Male theme, must use a digi

Prairie Fairy Fridays:  More than one Fold (gift-card holder built into the inside of the card)

Craft Your Days Away:  Father's day or for a special man

CES Challenge:  Embossing