Happy Thanksgiving!

I have to apologize to all my Canadian friends, followers and readers out there. Unfortunately, at the time of our Canadian Thanksgiving (Oct. 14), my hubby and I were frantically trying to get ready to go and visit our family in London, ON, and I just didn't have the opportunity to get a paper done at that time.

So Happy Belated Thanksgiving to all my fellow Canadians. I'm still trying to catch up from the five days we were away but managed to squeak out a paper just in time for the American Thanksgiving (today).

Check out the preview...

This digital paper is 3600 x 3600 pixels, in jpg format and published at 300 dpi. I've used resources from: Blessedgrafik (TheHungryJPEG), Melo Vrijhof (Pixel Scrapper) and The Coffee Shop Blog. Full credits in the file. To grab it, click the download button to be taken to a download location. In the zip folder you will find a copy of the paper, its preview sheet, the full credit information and my terms of use which are standard to all my folders.

Whether you live in a country that celebrates Thanksgiving or not, there is lots in each of our lives to be thankful for!

If you do happen to live in the States, enjoy the time with your families and of course your feast. Like I ask every year, I'd love for someone to have a great big slice of apple pie and let me know how good it was. For everyone else around the world, happy Thursday!

Well that is it for this one! See you again soon!

Until next time,

Happy Thanksgiving America!

Hello and happy Thanksgiving to all my American friends, followers and readers! We had our Thanksgiving up here in Canada back in October, so now it is our southern neighbour's turn.

This paper, like the one I made for the Canadian Thanksgiving (you can find it HERE), should be versatile enough for any fall related project. Take a peek...

 

This digital paper is 3600 x 3600 pixels, in jpg format and published at 300 dpi. I've used resources from:  Public Domain Pictures (Pixabay), The Coffee Shop Blog, Creative Tacos and Sheila Reid (Pixel Scrapper). Full credits in the file. To grab it, click the download button to be taken to a download location. In the zip folder you will find a copy of the paper, its preview sheet, the full credit information and my terms of use which are standard to all my folders.

So, if you do happen to live in the States, enjoy your feast today. Like I ask every year, I'd love for someone to have a great big slice of apple pie and let me know how good it was. For everyone else around the world, happy Thursday!

Well that is it for this one! See you again soon!

Until next time,

Happy Thanksgiving Canada!

Hello everyone! I am popping in today to wish all of my fellow Canadians a very happy Thanksgiving! I hope that you've all had a wonderful weekend surrounded by family and friends. I created a free paper in celebration of this great holiday.

This digital paper is 3600 x 3600 pixels, in jpg format and published at 300 dpi. This paper will be part of a future set called, Fall Into Fall. I've used resources from Catharina77 (via Pixabay), Redfield Plugins, KrystalDesignsCo (via Inky Deals), Creative Tacos and The CoffeeShop Blog. Full credits in the file. To grab it, click the download button to be taken to a download location. In the zip folder you will find a copy of the paper, its preview sheet, the full credit information and my terms of use which are standard to all my folders.Given that it is midnight, I hope I haven't made any errors. :)

Well that is it for this one! My day today will be spent with the person I am most thankful for--my hubby! See you again soon!

Until next time,

Happy Thanksgiving America!

Hello and happy Thanksgiving to all my American friends, followers and readers! We had our Thanksgiving up here in Canada back in October, so now it is our southern neighbour's turn.

This paper, like the one I made for the Canadian Thanksgiving (you can find it HERE), is versatile enough for any fall related project. Take a peek...

This digital paper is 3600 x 3600 pixels, in jpg format and published at 300 dpi. I've used resources from HG Designs. Full credits in the file. To grab it, click the download button to be taken to a download location. In the zip folder you will find a copy of the paper, its preview sheet, the full credit information and my terms of use which are standard to all my folders. 

So, if you do happen to live in the States, enjoy your feast today. I'd love for someone to have a great big slice of apple pie and let me know how good it was. For everyone else around the world, happy Thursday! 

Well that is it for this one! See you again soon!

Until next time,

Happy Thanksgiving Canada!

Hello everyone! I am popping in today to wish all of my fellow Canadians a very happy Thanksgiving! I hope that you've all had a wonderful weekend surrounded by family and friends. I created a free paper in celebration of this great holiday.

This digital paper is 3600 x 3600 pixels, in jpg format and published at 300 dpi. I've used resources from HG Designs. Full credits in the file. To grab it, click the download button to be taken to a download location. In the zip folder you will find a copy of the paper, its preview sheet, the full credit information and my terms of use which are standard to all my folders. 

Well that is it for this one! See you again soon!

Until next time,

Happy Thanksgiving America!

Oh my goodness.  I am sorry that I am posting this so late in the day.  I was hoping to get it done last night but have had to deal with some unexpected computer issues.  SOMEONE living in this house who shall remain nameless, decided to download a game onto MY laptop.  HE knows better because he never reads carefully when he is downloading stuff.  As a result I ended up with this 'palikan search' engine which I couldn't get rid of.  After some investigation I found out that it spies on your web browsing history and delivers ads and promoted links that match your browsing history but that it can also be used to hijack your system.  So then the quest for trying to remove it started.

I checked a couple sites and downloaded three different programs geared at locating spybots and adware.  The odd thing is that each program found something different.  There was quite a bit of adware that I wasn't aware of on the laptop.  At least two of the programs allowed a fix option for free.  Of course the third program which found other stuff has to be purchased and at approx. $60 for six months, that is a bit too steep for our budget.  Obviously the programs I currently use aren't picking these things up at all so now I'm going to have to start running a bunch of different scans everyday to try and catch these things.  Now the one program located palikan and apparently deleted it but it still showed up in my Firefox when I rebooted.  I've set the browser back to its default and hopefully have taken care of the issue.  SOMEONE has been banned from using my laptop.  I lost all last night to trying to deal with the issue and over two hours today as well.  As such I didn't get a chance to create my freebie in honour of the American Thanksgiving until just now.  

Of course, then I ran into a glitch when I wanted to start working on the paper.  When I made the one in honour of the Canadian Thanksgiving, I had come across a cute pilgrim clip art image over at Pixabay and thought I'd use it for today's paper.  I'm starting to think my biorhythm is in the toilet because when I typed Pixabay into my search engine, an 'authentication required' box is popping up asking for my user name and password?  Huh??!!  I was just there last night for Pete's sake!  What is going on now?  Hopefully tomorrow it will be back to normal but for now that left me in a lurch.  Thankfully however, I did find an alternate pilgrim's hat from a different company so that I at least was able to come up with something.

Long story but there it is.  That is why I'm so late!  So here is what I came up with.  Hopefully you be able to use it on next year's Thanksgiving projects.

This paper is 3600 x 3600 pixels and in jpg format and published at 300 dpi. Credits include:  Free PSD Files and Rita from the The Coffee Shop Blog.  To grab today's offering, click the download button to be taken to a download location.  In the zip folder you will find a copy of the paper, the preview sheet, the full credit information and my terms of use which are standard to all my folders. 

I hope that those of you celebrating Thanksgiving today in the US, have a wonderful day surrounded by family and/or friends.  These same wishes go out to all my readers, followers and friends of course, no matter where you may live in the world.  Now if you do happen to live in the States, enjoy your feast today.  I'd love for someone to have a great big slice of any kind of pie (as long as there are no nuts) and let me know how good it was.  Or a bite of stuffing....ooh, then there are all those mashed potatoes out there too...yum!

I'm hoping to also get my creation for the Deedee's Digis progressive challenge done this evening so I might just see you all again a bit later.

Until then,

Happy Thanksgiving Canada!

Hello everyone!  I am popping in today to wish all of my fellow Canadians a very happy Thanksgiving!  I hope that you've all had a wonderful weekend surrounded by family and friends.  I created a free paper in celebration of this great holiday.

This digital paper is 3600 x 3600 pixels, in jpg format and published at 300 dpi. I've used resources from Pixabay.  Full credits in the file.  To grab it, click the download button to be taken to a download location.  In the zip folder you will find a copy of the paper, its preview sheet, the full credit information and my terms of use which are standard to all my folders.
 

Well that is it for this one!  It is time to go and spend some time with my poor neglected love!

Until next time,

 

Happy Thanksgiving America!

Hello and happy Thanksgiving to all my American friends, followers and readers!  We had our Thanksgiving up here in Canada back in October, so now it is your turn.

Here is a paper that you will be hopefully be able to use on next year's fall projects.

 

This digital paper is in 3600 x 3600 pixels, in jpg format and published at 300 ppi. To grab it, click the download button to be taken to a download location.  In the zip folder you will find a copy of the paper, its preview sheet, the credit information and my terms of use which are standard to all my folders.

So, if you do happen to live in the States, enjoy your feast today.  I'd love for someone to have a great big slice of apple pie and let me know how good it was.

For everyone else around the world, have a great day too!  I am hoping to be back again either later today or tomorrow with a DT creation and then of course, I still have to get two of my progressive posts done by Sunday.  However, first it is time to get our team invites out to The 12 Months of Christmas DT Team.  We'll be announcing who made it, on the new blog on Monday so I hope you'll join us over there then.

Well, that is it for this one.  See you all again real soon!

Until next time,

Promotional Post: November New Releases at Fresh Brewed Designs

The pumpkin patch has been very busy this fall and so has our wonderful designer Heather.  In case you missed it on November 3rd, several new images were added to the Fresh Brewed Designs store.  Check them out...

Such a wonderful selection of fall themed images that presents oodles of ideas.  So, for those of you wishing to send out fall greetings to any of your family and friends or if you still have a Thanksgiving card or two to create, be sure to head over to the store and check out not only all the new fun fall images, but the great selection of older images as well.  You can find them all in the Pumpkin section.  Clicking HERE will take you to that area of the store. 

 

At Fresh Brewed Designs we always have a fresh pot of creativity brewing. So stop by and join us for a cuppa whenever you want!

Have a great weekend everyone.  Until next time,

Card Design: FBD Pumpkin Patch Challenge Reminder

Hello and happy Wednesday my friends!  It is time to bring you all some freshly brewed inspiration to perk up the middle of your week.  Today starts the second week of our latest challenge going on over at Fresh Brewed Designs.  Right now we are halfway through our Pumpkin Patch Challenge which means you have one more week to get your entries in.  It is the perfect time to be creating for this challenge.  With the fall season in full bloom in most parts of North America and Hallowe'en and the American Thanksgiving coming up at the end of November, there are lots of opportunities to be making cards with pumpkins on them.  So get those pumpkin projects done during the next week and then make sure that you enter our challenge with one for a chance to win!!!

YOU HAVE TO FOLLOW ALL THE RULES TO WIN!

1. This challenge ends Tuesday, October 28th.
2. You can enter up to 5 times with your NEW creations (no back linking please).
3. If you use an FBD image, please add FBD to the end of your name.

We will be awarding one overall monthly lucky winner a future guest designer spot as well as awarding one winner in each challenge, 3 Digital Stamps.  Plus a US resident will be chosen to win a small blog candy.  For all the challenge details including the link up, please click HERE.  

Here is a card that I have created to help inspire you... 

FRONT

Digital Image Details:

• The Great Pumpkin:  This image is currently available in the FBD store.  You can find it by clicking on the image watermark below.  It was coloured with Copic markers. 
  
  

Embellishments:

• The buttons are from a selection purchased at the Dollar Tree.
• The ribbon is Crafts brand purchased at Dollarama.
• The pennant shapes were made from some fall papers I created.  Link below.

INSIDE

Digital Sentiment:

• Once again I have found the perfect sentiment from my fabulous selection of sentiments from Create with TLC.  Click HERE to go to Paulette's blog and HERE to go to the store.

OVERALL

Paper Products: 

• Card, image and sentiment base:  Michael's Recollection's Cardstock, white.

Digital Paper Products:  

• I've used three of my own digital papers for this card.  Two in the pennants mentioned above and the third is the leaf paper used on the front and inside.  It is one of my favourites because it almost looks like an oil painting.  You can find each of these papers still available as freebies, plus two others in the same post, by clicking HERE.

Challenges I hope to enter...

• http://open-mindedcraftingfun.blogspot.ca/ -- Pumpkins and Jack-o-Lanterns
• http://craftcreatoins.blogspot.ca/p/new-challenge.html -- Anything Goes
• http://scribbleandscrapcrafts.blogspot.co.uk/ -- Anything Goes
• http://www.wordartwednesday.blogspot.ca/ -- Anything Goes
• http://ladybugcrafts.blogspot.ca/ -- Autumn and/or Hallowe'en
• http://justinspirationalchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ -- Fall
• http://lovetocreatechallenge.blogspot.ca/ -- Anything Goes/Fall Colours
• http://squigglefly.blogspot.ca/ -- Hallowe'en or Fall
• http://stampandcreateblog.blogspot.ca/ -- Fall/Autumn
• http://pumpkinspiceblog.blogspot.co.uk/ -- Harvest or Hallowe'en

Thanks for stopping by and taking a look.  I hope you have the chance to go and check out The Great Pumkin image I used, along with all the other great images available in the store.

Oh and please note that we are having a special 5 Days of Christmas release starting next Monday.

If you are looking for more fresh brewed inspiration, be sure to pop by again next Wednesday when I'll be back to showcase a card made with a fabulous new Christmas image.

At Fresh Brewed Designs we always have a fresh pot of creativity brewing. So stop by and join us for a cuppa whenever you want!

 

Until next time,

Happy Thanksgiving Canada!

First up, I want to say a big thank you for all your well wishes during this past couple weeks.  It has been rather difficult but I am definitely on the mend.

The specific reason for my post today is that I wanted to pop in and wish all of my fellow Canadians a very happy Thanksgiving!  I hope that you've all had a wonderful weekend surrounded by family and friends.  I created a free paper in celebration of this great holiday.

I was hoping to get this ready so it would be available earlier in the day but unfortunately, while the laptop is finally back it is not acting properly and I still wasn't finished at midnight; so, I had to finish it up this afternoon.  

This paper is approximately 3600 x 3600 pixels, in jpg format and published at 300 dpi. To grab it, click HERE or on the preview above to be taken to a download location. In the zip folder you will find a copy of the paper, its preview sheet, the credit information and my terms of use which are standard to all my folders. 

Wishing everyone out there a fabulous Monday (or Tuesday if you are on the other side of the world) and a great week ahead.  

Until next time,

Card Design: Fresh Brewed Fall Flashback

The Fresh Brewed Designs store is filled with so many awesome images that we thought it would be nice to take a stroll down memory lane.  With the Canadian Thanksgiving and Hallowe'en around the corner, it is a good time to reacquaint yourself with (or if you are new to FBD, come meet) the outstanding collection of fall themed images already available in the store.  Whether you are looking for something whimsical, joyful, reverent or just plain fun, Fresh Brewed Designs has it all! 

Today, for this Fresh Brewed Fall Flashback I bring you Gourd Birdhouse.  Such a unique image and perfect for the card I decided to create.  Our Canadian Thanksgiving is on October 13th so now is the perfect time for me to get the cards done that I need.  Clicking on the watermark should bring you straight to its location in the FBD store.

Here are my card and details, I hope I haven't forgotten anything...

General Information:

• Here is another attempt at clean and simple.  I really do want to make more CAS cards but I always seem to feel that they are underdone for some reason.  Hopefully, it is a feeling that I'll grow out of as I get more practice in.
• This is also the first time I have ever used washi tape.  I have been purchasing some different ones over the last two years and finally I'm using it.  I really like it and just saw another card that used it in a unique way while doing some DT duties yesterday.  Hopefully, I'll start finding ways to incorporate more of it.  I actually just finished creating 12 digital washi tapes for a Hallowe'en kit for an upcoming challenge I'm sponsoring over at 613 Ave. Create.  I'll be revealing it on Oct. 5th.  It was as fun creating the tapes as it was to use them but now I'm digressing.  Back to the card...

FRONT

Digital Image Details: 

• Gourd Birdhouse:  This image is currently available in the FBD store.  You can find it by clicking on the image watermark above.
• I coloured it in with Copics and grounded it with chalk.  Bird:  R11, R14.  Beak: Y35, Y38. Leaves: YG61, YG63.  Sunflower: Y32, Y35, Y38.  Gourd:  YR21, YR23, YR24.  Okay so on hindsight, I should have used different colours for the gourd.  I didn't realize it would be so close to the sunflower.

Embellishments: 

• Green and white checkered washi tape is Elmer brand and was purchased at Dollarama.

INSIDE

Digital Sentiment:

• This is another great sentiment created by Paulette from Create with TLC.  Click HERE to go to Paulette's blog and HERE to go to the store.

Paper Products:

• Dark green cardstock used as matting is from Michael's open stock scrapbook paper.  
  

Digital Paper Products:

• This paper is mine and still available for free.  It was given out for the September Kit last year.  You can find it, plus two of the same design in two other colours, along with a pumpkin paper and a leaves background paper by clicking HERE. 

OVERALL

Paper Products:

• Card and sentiment base: Michael's Recollection's Cardstock, white.

Challenges I am hoping to enter:

• http://simplycreatetoo.blogspot.ca/ -- Fall or Autumn
• http://eclecticpaperie.blogspot.ca/2014/09/september-eplay-challenge-fall.html -- Fall
• http://carabbiemomentsofcraft.blogspot.co.uk/ -- Anything Goes/Fall Colours
• http://avenue613.blogspot.com/ -- Anything Goes
• http://cagichallenge.blogspot.ca/ -- Use a Digi with an Autumn Theme
• http://delightfulsketches.blogspot.ca/ -- Simple Times (clean and simple design)
• http://simplylessismoore.blogspot.ca/ -- One Layer Challenge

Thanks for joining me today for our Fresh Brewed Flashback.  I love when we have a flashback as it is a wonderful excuse for showing you some more of my favourite FBD images.  I hope you have the chance to go and check out Gourd Birdhouse along with all the other great images in the store. I'll be back on September 24th with another FBD creation to show you. 

At Fresh Brewed Designs we always have a fresh pot of creativity brewing. So stop by and join us for a cuppa whenever you want!

Until next time,

Follower Freebies 11 - 19: Offering Up Some Thanks

In honour of the American Thanksgiving tomorrow, and because I wasn't on Blogger yet when we celebrated our Canadian Thanksgiving, I offer up some 'thanks' for my readers.  These will also qualify as freebie followers.

Follower Freebie #11:    In honour of 'Michele from MS' who became a follower on Oct. 30th. 

Font:  Janda Happy Day-PUO

Follower Freebie #12:    In honour of 'Suze' who became a follower on Oct. 30th.

Font:  Impact-FW* & Leafyshade-CU

Follower Freebie #13:    In honour of 'SiskiyouSue' who became a follower on Oct. 31st. 

Font:  Autumn Gifts-CU

Follower Freebie #14:    In honour of 'Sharon Kotchkowski' who became a follower on Oct. 31st.

Font:  Rebecca-CU

Follower Freebie #15:    In honour of 'sunshine_ honeybee20' who became a follower on Oct. 31st.
 

Font:  Algeria-CU

Follower Freebie #16:    In honour of 'Suzanne' who became a follower on Oct. 31st.

Fonts: Fleur Corner Caps-PUO & Bodini MT-FW*

Follower Freebie #17:    In honour of 'Mary Van Skiver' who became a follower on Oct. 31st.

Fonts: Impact Label Reversed-CU & Impact Label-CU

Follower Freebie #18:    In honour of 'Sandy Lewis' who became a follower on Oct. 31st.

Font:  Algeria

Follower Freebie #19:    In honour of 'crystaldolphins' who became a follower on Oct. 31st.

Font:  Don't Panic-CU

If you click on the font name in the caption, it will take you to the download location.  I have indicated beside the font name whether they are for personal use only (PU) or for commercial use (CU).  I have also included my usual caveats below.

Don't forget to stop by tomorrow for another treat.

Until next time,

 
*This font is condsidered freeware on the site.  However, they do not expand on what the term really means.  Use caution when using this font.

If you haven't already, please become familiar with my terms of use found in the copyright tab at the top of this page.  I have included a quick summary below.   If you are not sure how to copy the image, check out the download instructions page.  
  
Quick summary of Terms of Use:

• Do not claim the image as your own.
• Credit 'Decosse's Dynamite Doodles' somewhere on your creation
• Do not share my images with family, friends, etc.  Additionally, do not post any images to file sharing services like Pinterest®, 4-Shared®, etc.  Instead, please direct people to my blog so they can grab the image for themselves.
• If I have signed an image, do not delete my signature.
• Leave a comment on my blog.  It is currently the only way for me to know if any of my freebies are being nabbed.  Additionally, it will help to inspire me to continue to create and offer future freebies.