New FBD Challenge and a Country Girl Birthday!

Hello to all of my very crafty and talented friends!

We have a fun sketch challenge at 

Freshly Brewed Challenges

this week!

I had a lot of fun creating my card 

using the sketch and 

 Fresh Brewed Designs

Country Girl Birthday 

digi image

and here is the sketch

I was a little bit of a rebel and I put the 

fun sketch design inside my square card!

As you can see, I had fun paper piecing her skirt!

Recipe

Fresh Brewed Designs  Country Girl Birthday digi

Colored with copics and paper pieced with scrap paper.

Stampin up Cardstock

My Minds Eye quite contrary Jack and Jill  DP

All of my circles and scalloped circles were done 

with Stampin Up Die cuts and punches

I stamped my Happy Birthday on a scrap from

My Minds Eye Fine and Dandy Girl DP

The corner embellishments are from Wild Orchid Crafts

The fun gingham ribbon and the bling are all from my stash

There is always a lot of excitement going on 

at Freshly Brewed Challenges

and Heather is always popping brand 

new rubber stamps and digi images into

her shop!

If you use a Fresh Brewed Designs

stamp or digi you just may have your

card featured on our Challenge Blog
and get to choose 3 FREE DIGI'S!

IN CELEBRATION OF THE NEW SHOW CRAFT WARS ON TLC WE ARE GIVING EVERYONE A CHANCE TO SAVE ON SOME CRAFTY GOODNESS!

USE THE CODE craftwar AT CHECKOUT TO RECEIVE 25% OFF YOUR TOTAL ORDER!

Don't forget to mention that Sheryl sent you in the comment section!

When the sale is over, you can still use my code Sfbd3 to get 10% off your order!

When you pop on over to our 

challenge blog

you are sure to smile when you see all of the 

wonderful inspiration that my very talented 

design Team Friends have created!

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges
Anything Goes   Polka Dot with a birthday theme
The Ribbon Carousel Blog  Paper Piecing with Laurel Seabrook
Tuesday Throwdown   Gingham
Love To Create challenge Blog   Anything Goes
Sir Stamp A Lot Challenge   Bingo Turquoise, Polka Dots, Brown
The Corrosive challenge   Summertime Girls

On a personal note

It's been really lousy and rainy weather so far this week!

My garden is starting to look like a jungle!

The good news is that they are forecasting beautiful and sunny

weather all the way through the weekend starting Thursday!

This is really good news for me!  I really need to get outside

with all of the children who come here!

I just invested in a brand new water table and we are

all anxious to bring it outside and try it out!

Splish Splash!

The children helped me put it all together 

yesterday.  They were all so proud to be big helpers!

It was lots of fun to play with it empty.  They had a blast 

making all of the little figures go down the slides.

 They can only imagine how much 

fun it will be when we actually

fill it up with water!  ;-)

Today we are all celebrating 

the birthday of one of the little girls who comes

here.  She is going to be graduating to 

Kindergarten and she is turning 5 yrs. old!

Where has all the time gone?

Today, I only want to focus on her special day and not

feel too sad about her leaving.

Her favorite color is yellow and she is very much a 

girly girl!   I bought her a pretty

yellow summer dress! She loves dresses and 

she has hinted several times that if I happen to see a dress

it's alright if I buy one for her birthday!  LOL!

I made her a very special card using a Fresh Brewed Designs

digi that looks JUST LIKE HER!  I will post her

birthday card here on Friday!

Well, I had better go and hang the,"Happy Birthday" banner

and get things ready for the party!

I apologize for not visiting your blogs for the past two days.

I promise to catch up on all of your lovely 

crafty cards and projects as soon as I can.

Shamefully, I have been opting for sleep and

going to bed early.

Thank you for visiting!

I appreciate all of your lovely comments!

Warmest Hugs, Sheryl