Reminder: Digis for Debbie Fundraiser Blog Hop.

Hello Everyone ...

Card size 5 x 7

SUPPLIES

Digi image from Heather Dennis, Fresh Brewed Designs

Prisma Color pencils

Smooch metallic paints

Card stock from The Paper Studio

Rhinestones from Stampin Up!

Die: Labels Collection from Stampin Up!

EF: Smitten by Cuttlebug

Sentiment from Craftsmart

Just sharing another awesome image from Fresh Brewed Designs for the Digis for Debbie Fundraiser Blog Hop. Proceeds will benefit Mrs. Debbie Lynch, the beautiful and loving mother of Heather Dennis, owner of Fresh Brewed Designs, who was recently diagnosed with a rare form of uterine cancer.  As most of you may know, cancer related medical costs can be quite expensive, and Mrs. Debbie currently has no medical insurance, which makes the cost significantly higher.  Therefore, we have decided to help raise enough money to cover these medical expenses, as well as aftercare expenses, by creating a digi shop.  All the proceeds of the Digis for Debbie Fundraiser Shop and the Fresh Brewed Designs Store will go directly to Mrs. Debbie to fund her lifesaving surgery and the aftercare necessary to bring her back to wellness.  Furthermore, Heather has created a Give Forward account to assist her mother.  If you would like to help, please stop by the Digis for Debbie Fundraiser Shop, the Fresh Brewed Designs Store, and/or the Give Forward Account.  For those of you who are not able to contribute monetarily, we would love for you to add Mrs. Debbie to your prayer list.  If there is one thing we know, prayers can work miracles that money cannot and healing and wellness is what we are praying to receive.

The hop ends Tuesday, July 28^th at 11:59 PM Eastern Time.  All participants can be found in the linkies section HERE on the Fresh Brewed Designs Challenge Blog, and we would love to have you join us!  We do ask that you use a digi from the Digis for Debbie Fundraiser Shop or the Fresh Brewed Designs Store, and the theme is Anything Goes, and you can enter as often as you would like.  Two prize packages will be awarded, one prize for a digi purchaser and one prize for a blog hop participant.  Winners will be chosen on Saturday, August 1^st.  The prizes will consist of stamps, papers, ribbon, embellishments, etc.; plus, some random prizes will be offered by some generous blog hop participants along the hop.

·       Heather Dennis Personal Blog

·       Fresh Brewed Designs Store

·       Digis for Debbie Fundraiser Shop

·       Give Forward Account

And don't forget to stop by Through the Craft Room Door! Click HERE to check out the great cards from some of our Design Team, leave a comment for a chance to win a one year subscription to our bi-monthly magazine! 

Thanks for stopping by!

Cara

Digis for Debbie Fundraiser Blog Hop!

The beckoning Hands

Of God's hopeful Smile

Will, without fail, one day greet

The fruitful cries

Of man's prayerful heart.

~Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames

Good morning and welcome to the Digis for Debbie Fundraiser Blog Hop.  Recently, we learned that Mrs. Debbie Lynch, the beautiful and loving mother of Heather Dennis, owner of Fresh Brewed Designs, was diagnosed with a rare form of uterine cancer.  As most of you may know, cancer related medical costs can be quite expensive, and Mrs. Debbie currently has no medical insurance, which makes the cost significantly higher.  Therefore, we have decided to help raise enough money to cover these medical expenses, as well as aftercare expenses, by creating a digi shop.  All the proceeds of the Digis for Debbie Fundraiser Shop and the Fresh Brewed Designs Store will go directly to Mrs. Debbie to fund her lifesaving surgery and the aftercare necessary to bring her back to wellness.  Furthermore, Heather has created a Give Forward account to assist her mother.  If you would like to help, please stop by the Digis for Debbie Fundraiser Shop, the Fresh Brewed Designs Store, and/or the Give Forward Account.  For those of you who are not able to contribute monetarily, we would love for you to add Mrs. Debbie to your prayer list.  If there is one thing we know, prayers can work miracles that money cannot and healing and wellness is what we are praying to receive.

The hop launches today, Tuesday, July 14^th on the Fresh Brewed Designs Challenge Blog, and will run until Tuesday, July 28^th @ 11:59 PM Eastern Time.  All participants can be found in the linkies section HERE on the Fresh Brewed Designs Challenge Blog, and we would love to have you join us!  We do ask that you use a digi from the Digis for Debbie Fundraiser Shop or the Fresh Brewed Designs Store, and the theme is Anything Goes, and you can enter as often as you would like.  Two prize packages will be awarded, one prize for a digi purchaser and one prize for a blog hop participant.  Winners will be chosen on Saturday, August 1^st.  The prizes will consist of stamps, papers, ribbon, embellishments, etc.; plus, some random prizes will be offered by some generous blog hop participants along the hop.

Thank you for dropping by and for helping us with our fundraising efforts; and again, we ask that you keep Mrs. Debbie in your prayers.  Have a wonderful Tuesday, crafty friends!  We look forward to admiring your creations! :) 

 Heather Dennis Personal Blog

Fresh Brewed Designs Store

Digis for Debbie Fundraiser Shop

Give Forward Account

Here is my card made with the adorable bunny Trio from the Set designed by Heather.

Card size is 5 x 7

Digi image from Heather Dennis and colored with prisma color pencils

Card base, unknown

Card stock from Stampin up!

Design Paper from The Angel Company (I think)

Sentiment from Stampin Up! (Set unknown)

Aleens Paper Glaze (on the flowers)

White flocking from the Oriental Trading Company (on the bunny fluffs)

Thanks so much for stopping by! Please make sure you check all the other blogs playing along. Leave lots of love and buy some awesome images from Fresh Brewed Designs!

(Hugs) Cara

Click HERE to be taken back to Fresh Brewed Designs!

Blog Hop Preview for Fresh Brewed Designs

Hello my crafty peeps!

This post is an advance notice of an upcoming blog hop being done by Fresh Brewed Design.

The purpose of the event is to raise funds to offset the medical cost of Heather's mom who is currently battling a rare form of uterine cancer called "uterine papillary serous carcinoma".

There are quite a few awesome digi images up for sale in the "STORE". Please check them out For this post, I used this great image from Carolyn Bounds called "Contemplation".

The card size is 5.5  x 5.5

Supply List

Image "Contemplations" by Carolyn Bounds for Fresh Brewed Designs

Image colored with Prisma Color Pencils and Copics

Cardstock from The Paper Studio and Stampin Up!

Ink from Stampin Up

Sentiment by Hampton Art "You Said it" stamp set

Frame 4 die from Spellbinders
Cloud stencil from Stampin Up!

Clouds from "Sunny Days" by Spellbinders

Crop-a-dile Corner Chomper from We R Memory Keepers

Butterfly punch from Target $1 bin

Thanks for stopping by! Come back on Tuesday, July 14th for another card and blog hop information!

(Hugs) Cara

Think Pink ... Pumpkins!

When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something’s suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful. ~Barbara Bloom

Good morning 

I'm sure everyone knows that October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, but how many of you have heard of pink pumpkins?

And I'm not talking about using a can of spray paint on a orange pumpkin ... 

A guest DT for the Outlawz, NanaConnie, told us about them and they are quite interesting to see.

I went a-google-ing to see what I could find out and apparently, "pumpkin" is a general term for a a type of squash and they come in colors ranging from the orange we all know and love to vibrant reds ... who knew?

The Pink Pumpkin Patch Foundation oversees donations from pumpkin growers that have promised a percentage of their proceeds from the sale of each pink pumpkin sold to organizations involved in breast cancer research.

If you are interested in their mission statement, the growers involved and other interesting facts, please click on this link

Pink Pumpkin Patch Foundation

The Clean and Simple Challenge this week at The Outlawz is to create a card for a cancer survivor. Several of us were so fascinated with the pink pumpkins that we decided to make our cards using them ... 

My card is in honor of NanaConnie and all the other women out there who have or are battling this atrocious disease. My thoughts are prayers go out to all of you and yours.
Stay strong and hold fast to your faith.

Supplies:

Card stock from Bazzill, The Paper Studio & Stampin Up!

Ink from Stampin Up!

DP are from my scrap bin

Sequins are from my stash

Sentiment from "Fight Like A Girl" by A-muse Studios

Pumpkin Die #2 from Sizzix

Embossing folder "Tide" from Lifestyle Crafts

Border punch from Fiskars
Based on layout of THIS card

Thanks for stopping by my blog.

Please remember to check out the Pink Pumpkin Patch and the Clean and Simple Challenge at The Outlawz

Cara

CHALLENGES ENTERED

HIDING IN MY CRAFT ROOM
#169 Super Scrap Saturday

SISTER ACT CARD CHALLENGE
#78 Anything goes

THE STAMPING CHEF --- ***WINNER***
#50 Anything Goes

CREATIVE FINGERS CHALLENGE BLOG
#52 Anything Goes

LOVE TO CREATE CHALLENGE BLOG
#136 2 dies and sparkle

Lots of Love for Lauryn Card Drive

Isn't this little girl just precious? Let me introduce you....
Lauryn was diagnosed with Leukemia on March 27, 2014. She is currently hospitalized in the DC area undergoing chemotherapy to fight this terrible disease.  Lauryn is Linda Payne's granddaughter...many of you in the stamping community probably already know Linda from all her beautiful cards.

Please create cards to share your love and encouragement for Lauryn and her family. Lauryn's parents are Josh and Elizabeth and she has two older siblings: Lily and Logan. We thank the Lord for this dear family and need to pray for them as they are seeking to glorify the Lord throughout this trial. 

Cards can be mailed to:

Children's National
Hematology/ Oncology RM 437
Lauryn Newsome
111 Michigan Ave NW
Washington DC 20010

You can find updates on Lauryn via a Facebook page that has been set up by some family. It is Fight on Little Lauryn. They have shared how encouraging it is receive a simple "like" on a Facebook status or words of love and encouragement that is posted.

On my right sidebar is a donate button and this LINK will take you to the blog set up for Lauryn. This is where the card drive starts. Please check out all the wonderful cards made for Lauryn and her family.

Here is the card I will be sending!

Size: A2

SUPPLIES

Card stock from Stampin Up!

DP from DCWV (I think)

Sentiment from The Angel Company "Trendy Greetings"

Ribbon from my stash
Cuttlebug EF "Swiss Dots"