Hugs4theHeart Designs

Hello dear sweet friends - hope you are doing well and happy!! Boy do I feel out of loop in the creative department.  It feels so great to be back in full swing.  The past two weeks  have been busy with hospital visits and errands (for family members).  Fortunately everyone is doing better and that's what counts. This week's challenge with Tuesday Alchemy is "Anything but a Card or Tag."  We have two wonderful sponsors this week: Robyn's Fetish - 5 Digital Images Jesseas Designs - 4 Digital Stamps For this weeks challenge I decided to alter this old beat up wood wine bottle container I found at a yard sale about a year ago.  It holds two bottles of wine.   Of course I wanted it to have a Paris theme and a slight Shabby Chic look to it.  This was actually a pretty quick project and I love how it turned out.   I planned on keeping this one for myself and was even going to add more embellishments to the front of i...

Hello again my dear friends -  As you may have noticed already I have two posts today.  The first one is for "Breast Cancer Awareness" and the second is our weekly Tuesday Alchemy Challenge. I am also super excited because I  have won my first blog candy from  Anything But A Card  and I placed in the Top 3 with  Challenges 4 Everybody .     It was definitely a great way to start the week.   We have two great sponsors this week.  They are Robyn's Fetish - 5 Digital Images Scrapper's Delights - 3 Digital Stamps It's time for this weeks challenge at Tuesday Alchemy.  It is our Color Challenge - "Brown, Mustard & Navy".  You can use one, two or all three of them.  The only other colors you are welcome to use are neutrals such as black, ivory, tan and white. Marion who is one of our design team members has created some beautiful patterned digital papers you can use for this challenge. ...

Hello Dear Sweet and Talented Friends I sure hope you are doing well and getting ready for this weeks challenge with us at Tuesday Alchemy.  Wow - did we have a lot of amazing and gorgeous creations submitted last week for CH30.  Everyone did such an amazing job and it was so wonderful to have some young girls join in the challenge as well.   This weeks challenge is Peace Love & Happiness.  September 21st is International Peace Day we thought this would be a fun way to celebrate and stretch our creative muscles.  We have some great sponsors this week: We are have two lovely sponsors this week, so two projects will be picked to win a fantastic prize: Sassy Studio Designs - 4 Digital Stam ps and  LEJ Designs - 3 Digital Images Sure hope you will jump in and join us this week.  We can't wait to see what you create and who knows you just might be one of this weeks winners. Our spotlight artist is  Natalia Mity...

HAPPY HAPPY TUESDAY DEAR FRIENDS!!! How was your three day weekend?  Does today seem like Monday to you like it does me??  I don't know about you but I am in need of some creative play time.  And hopefully there will be a lot of that this week.  And it all begins with this weeks challenge which is my favorite - "Anything Goes."   I truly hope you will join in with us this week and I can't wait to see what you create!  We have two great sponsors this week and they are: Fabric.com - $50 Gift Certificate Broken Box Designs - Holiday Digi Stamp Toodle Set " Broken Box Stock is a fun, imaginative and unique clipart shop featuring hand-drawn stock illustrations and one-of-a-kind designs by Wendy Sefcik." Join in the challenge at:   Tuesday Alchemy Anything Goes Challenge Our design team and guest design team members have some amazing projects this week so please be sure to check out their blogs for some great inspiratio...

Happy happy Thursday!  I am finally feeling better - got knocked down by something and it wasn't fun spending so much time in bed.  I was wanting to create but all I could do was "nothing".  I must confess though I do feel a little more rested.   Even though I wasn't able (due to illness) to participate in this weeks Tuesday Alchemy challenge I still wanted to use one of the images from Birdie Brown one of our sponsors this week.  I just love her images and couldn't wait to play with this adorable bee.  Here is the link to her Etsy shop:   Birdie Brown   I hope you will check out her shop and take a look at all her cute and whimsical digital images. I made this card yesterday.  I promised myself I would use one of my Nestabilities and it was so much fun.  I haven't used any of them in such a long time.   Its hard to tell from this background but I used black cardstock for the base of the card and added the yellow...

Happy Tuesday sweet friends - I can't believe it's time for all the kiddo's to go back to school.  I took Hercules outside yesterday morning and saw all the kids walking to school.  I was kind of stunned and wondering how time passed so quickly.   This week not only are we having our weekly challenge we are also having a blog hop.  Our theme this week is "Learn with Joy" and the photo below is some inspiration for you.   I just love blog hops and I hope you do too and will join us this week.  All the link to the DT blogs are listed a little further down which shows you where to start in the blog hop.  It's important to follow the chain of blogs and you will find lots of great ideas and designs from our design team and guest designers.   We have three amazing sponsors this week and please visit their websites and look at all the wonderful items they offer to us creative types.  They are: Who is giving one lucky lady a CD fu...

Hello sweet friends Today I am going in a different direction.  I have spent a lot of time today giving Hercules his new look.  His fur was so fluffy and long and with it being 109 degrees outside it was time to give him a short cut. I thought it would be fun to share before and after photos.  He is such a happy furry sweetheart and of course it warms my heart to see him so happy.  I hope he makes you smile too!! I wonder how much Hercules weighs now.  He was just under five pounds before his haircut.  I think I will have to weigh him.   I found a new website called Cornish Heritage Farms.  In honor of Hercules I decided to enter this weeks challenge on their blog.  It's all about animals.  I just had to buy this digital image so I could make a new wall hook to hang Herc's leash on.  Check their website and you will see all the adorable digital images & rubber stamps they have.    And maybe enter the...

Hello dear ladies - are you ready for another challenge?  I sure am and since the weather hasn't cooled down yet, it gives me another reason to stay inside and make a few projects.  So I hope you will join us this week and I can't wait to see what you create.   Our color challenge is using three colors - Sea foam green, pink and brown.  You can use all three colors, two or just one.  The only other colors you can use are black, white or beige.   For this challenge I used a flower digital image from LEJ Designs.  I cut the flowers out, used pop dots between the two flowers to give some dimension.  Added a really pretty pearl button in the center.  I finally used one of my Sizzix die cuts to make the flourish.  I punched out two butterfly shapes and added a small pop up dot in the center of the two for extra dimension.  And of course - no card is complete without some extra bling.   Post settings We have th...

Happy Happy Day dear sweet friends  - right now there is a glorious breeze flowing through the front door and it feels incredibly refreshing.  I am savoring the moment because it will be changing very soon.  It's going to be one of those stay inside with the air conditioner days.    Our challenge this week is BINGO!!!!  I have never played actual bingo.  I do remember as a child walking through a bingo parlor with my grandma and seeing all different types of things sitting in front of each player.  Troll dolls, stuffed animals of all shapes and sizes and lots of other small trinkets in.  Grandma told me those were good luck charms for each player hoping to win a prize.  It was fun hearing one of them yell "BINGO" (especially when my grandma won). So this weeks challenge is all about bingo.  All you need in front of you are your craft supplies and your imagination to see what you can create to make your own entry into this ...

UPDATE:  Blog Candy Give Away (8/7/2012) I am so happy to announce the winners - Karon Hughes  Eileen Nig Congratulations ladies - I will be sending your prizes soon.   Thanks to everyone for your wonderful comments and joining in this week's challenge and candy giveaway. ****************************************************************************************** Happy Tuesday Dear Ladies - It's going to be in the triple digits today - way to much heat for me.  I do know one thing - when it's hot outside I love ice cream (Ben and Jerry's Cherry Garcia) is my favorite.  Just thinking about it makes me want to make a quick trip to the store to stock up the freezer.   So this weeks challenge is called "Ice Cream Social" and I sure hope you are going to join us.  I just love these images and wanted to make something a little different this week.  I made a CD holder, covered it in cardstock, added the embellishments, used Word ...