Emma the Caroler / Caroling Angel & Challenge & Blog HOP!

Hark the Harold Angels Sing!.......

The Christmas images are finally coming together!  wee!!!!  First up we have..

Emma the Caroling Angel

AND....

Emma the Caroler!

FYI, there ARE Pre-coloured versions in the works... very soon!

Also I am sponsoring the CREATIVE CARD CREW... and the theme is GET THIS!....BLOOMIN' MARVELOUS!  Can it get any better than that, people?!  Heehee.  Please go check it out and the gorgeous flowery blooming cards their DT have made!  ... and there's a $20 GC to my Store up for grabs!

Also Fred She Said is having a BLOG HOP!!!! Yes a BLOG HOP on Thursday September 30th!  Woo hoo.  The DT are working up some fine projects and I asked them to use anything and show off their style!  So come on out Thursday   and please tell your friends :)

Have a great day,
:)* Fred

New Things :)

 If you are looking for the BLOG HOP it's HERE!

I am adding new designs to the Store :)

Emma Blowing Bubbles

- there is also a Pre-coloured Set

Monarch Butterfly - DIGI outlines & NEW! SVG Cutting Files

This next set is REALLY LATE in coming.  I introduced the Digi of Emma & The Butterfly a year ago and I decided to colour it :)

Emma & The Butterfly COL SET

I am not done!!!  I will have The Wheelbarrow and Emma in the Strawberry Patch coloured by the end of this weekend.  I still have some new designs up my sleeve.. but we will see how much I can get accomplished for the time being LOL!  

Have a great day,

:)* Fred

Emma in the Strawberry Patch Digi Set

There is a new Emma in the store ;)  Emma in the Strawberry Patch   It comes with another strawberries image as well.

Was this card "fun" LOL  I coloured with copics & neopikos... I am still figuring out the bleed problem.. need better CS BUT that wasn't my real problem.  I tried running the image through the cuttle bug with the nesties taped to the CS with painters tape.. I felt the tape... it didn't feel very sticky... well after I shredded the outer layer of paper trying to get the tape off... I tried rescuing the image with a coating of modge podge... LOL... it kind of worked.  anyhoo  the blossoms were made using a flower I drew and cut in the cricut ( Fred got a new Cricut! .... more info later ;) ), a stamen punch and then I cut up a punched flower to make the strawberries.  The leaves were a free SVG I found on the web.  If I find it, I'll edit this to include the link.  Everything ( except Emma ) was coloured with distress inks and stickles.


Have a great day! 
:)* Fred

New Designs in the Store!

 If you are looking for the BLOG HOP it starts HERE!

Here are the new designs at the Fred She Said Store :)

Favourite Flowers Digi's!!!!

Here is one of my favourite flowers... Pansies! .... in a tea cup... even better! ;)  Tea Cup Pansies:

 

 

There is also a Line of Pansies - this one have 7 images in it and a sheet FULL of pansies for "popping up" on your projects. 

  

I love this Corner Rose,  another favourite flower of Fred's!

 

Here is one of Darsie's favourite flowers!  Lily of the Valley:

Here is Carol L.'s favourite flower, the Carnation!  This one comes with the flower upright and laying down AND with 5 sentiments:

And there is a new EMMA!  Emma with a Sign Digi Set:

Emma comes with 3 sentiments " You are a Blessing!", "Happy Birthday to You!", "I Love You So Much!" and a blank sign.  She has a front and back and each sheet of Emma's has half the sheet FULL of flowers! Just print and GO :)  If you purchase this one, I will gladly make you up a custom sentiment for the sign if you email me and request it.  (Please 1 or 2 requests per customer and it must be short enough to fit the sign)

I hope you enjoy my new designs.  I had so much fun making them!  There will be PRE-COLOURED floral versions by next weekend and then Emma will get a colour treatment as well.  If you want you can request what colours you would like Emma with a sign in and I will go with the most popular LOL!

Have a great day!
:)*  Fred

CARD Smelling the Cherry Blossoms

Hi! I decided to try and make an easel card. I found the instructions on Splitcoast Stampers. The Cherry Blossoms Paper was printed on matte photo paper and I glue pen embossed an outline around some of the flowers with a gold embossing powder with glitter in it. It just makes the paper look so rich almost like real washi paper. I coloured the girl and blossoms with alcohol markers ( copic and neopiko) and did some highlighting on hair, etc with white pencil and added a shadow with a cream pencil. I used Waterfall Stickles on the sash and flowers. The butterfly is from MS butterfly stamp combo punch. There are 3 green gems ( that didn't photograph well so you can't see them) keeping the card propped up.

I've attached the sentiments in case you would like to use them :)




Have a great day! ... and don't forget to hop around the Blog Hop and get the chance to win some new designs!

:)* Fred

Coloured Snow Angel & Christmas Rosey!

Available in the STORE! ( Great for those need a quick card moments LOL)

Christmas Rosey - this set includes both Digi outlines AND Precoloured versions, cute sentiment, and Ready-to-Print decoupage sheets.


Emma The Snow Angel Precoloured


I think I have come to the conclusion of my Christmas designing escapades! And nearly last minute too yikes! Little Rosey is not in the Christmas spirit at the moment... she just started antibiotics for a bladder infection and she is not agreeing with it. She is a drooly sweaty mess! I am in contact with the on call weekend vet and hope this yucky feeling of hers passes... she looks nauseated like dizzy me blech ! LOL.

:)* Fred

New stuff in the STORE

FYI Gift Certificates are now available via email order. See STORE for details. Give the Gift of Fred ;) (Sorry I just had to say that ROFL)

New things on the STORE! heehee -


Emma the Snow Angel Digi



Emma with Her Frills On- Digi



PreColoured - Fall Flowers & Paper Pricking Template Sheet

Ok the flowers nearly did me in... sorry no PNGs as erasing clean around all those flowery bits ... the thought made my brain do weird spins LOL!

Happy Thanksgiving to all my American Friends. Oh how I would love to get in on another turkey dinner.. ours is in October. num num. God Bless!

:)* Fred

I interrupt the holidays with some...

Girly frills! .. and PINK!!! LOL Sometimes I don't know what I will come up with when I start doodling. This one is unabashedly girly, almost to the point of looking like a bridesmaid's dress gone wrong LOL. But it is what it is... cute! " Emma with her Frills On". I decided on 2 versions. One has her holding a bouquet of flowers and the other is Emma with empty hands and then there is a set of coordinating tiny Fred's Flowers to make a posey for her to hold :D Like in the card below.


For this card I used a digital paper I have recently made using a lacey brush I doodled. How fast can you say FREEBIE?? heehee hint.. click freebie! I printed a second Emma onto the printed paper and then paper pieced the dress and hat, the hands are hidden behind the flowers. I shaded the dress with a dark pink pencil. All colouring is with with pencils/OMS as well as the green background paper.... I roughly cross-hatched some greens and blended the pencil markings where it would show with OMS... great way to get a coordinating DP for your coloured images! The shadow around Emma is Caledon Green... I love this colour and it is one of the greens in my background. All glitter is Diamond Stickles on the lace, hat trim and scalloped border - I used flatbacked sticky pearls and a pink gem for the posey. .. and a whole whack of foam tape LOL.

"Emma with her Frills On" and another new wintery Emma will be available as digi's ASAP as well as a coloured Fall Flowers set. There will be a delay on coloured Emma versions. I am attempting to get over a sinus/allergy attack that started Sat. and basically laid me flat for a day or two.

NEWS!


PCP FRED SHE SAID GROUP

I will be posting about this again soon, but I would like to draw your attention to a new group at Paper Craft Planet. I have created the all new Fred She Said group! Yahoo! I hope to make this grand central station for all things Fred. We are currently getting set up and I hope to plan something fun for December! I also have some other things planned that I am sure you will not want to miss ;) If you would like to join now, that would be awesome! Paper Craft Planet is a great place to showcase your cards, find out neat things, learn about new products and companies, see other peoples lovely projects, and meet new people. If you post a project using anything Fred, please add the tags FSS or Fred_She_Said to your image :) There is a lovely comment wall on the main FSS group page where you can pop in and say hi, or ask a question, or attach a card for us to see! If you have a card you have made and are not sure how to post it and want to add it to my customer FSS album, please email it to me and I will upload it for you along with your name. This applies to new emails starting today! So if you have emailed me a card recently, please send it again so I have your permission to upload. More info later.
You can get to the new group HERE:
PCP FRED SHE SAID GROUP

Have a great day!
:)* Fred

Winter Emma & The Chickadee & Freebies!!!!!

Here is a new Emma! Emma & The Chickadee. She is available as a Digital Stamp and a Set of 5 coloured versions. There are also some lovely coordinating Christmas Papers!

Deets: The 2 above cards used the digital coloured versions. The papers are from the Christmas Paper pack. I added Sakura StarDust Pen and Diamond Stickles here and there. The flower center is handmade using a "Flower Center" paper punch,walnut stain inkpad, stickles and a dewdrop. I so love making these so you will see more! The flower on the red card is digital that I cut out... see below's freebie!

OK so I am looking at my blog and as of writing I am literally 50 hits away from 150,000! Wow! So in honour, here is a little freebie. The flower coordinates with the Burgundy Emma and Papers. I am experimenting with making PNG Flower masks. You will see them in the near future :) The snowy papers I painted in Painter. Just click on the image below to get to the freebies!

Drive-By: Christmas Card 2

Here is the other quick christmas card I made. I used Emma the Hugger coloured version. The scalloped circle is painted with gold lumiere paint... but it didn't have a tinsel-ly enough feel so I added diamond stickles all over it and also added stickles to the image and the flakes in the embossed paper, which has broken china distress ink applied with the blending tool. This card just has this tinselly glow... I love tinsel... but not with puppies... our Molly liked to eat tinsel :O So we will keep tinsel off the tree this year so Rosey won't eat it.

:)* Fred

Emma in the Leaves Coloured

By request, Emma in the Leaves Coloured version... in the store. :)




















I hope to get more up tonight, if not tomorrow. I have a card or two to post. So I will be back LOL.

:)* Fred

Emma's & Flowers & Doodledallions OH MY

I have just uploaded several goodies at the Store :D

First up is Emma in the Leaves!


Some of my Design Team have been playing and made some lovelies!

Erin played with Emma using an awesome blue and chocolate theme. You rocked the paper piecing, Erin!




Carol L. made a lovely fall themed card using "Emma in the Leaves" digi and her own leafy background digital paper, she also coloured Emma in Photoshop:

Carol also made a gorgeous Yellow Blossom card using the Lovely Blossom & Butterfly Decoupage set, I added to the store earlier this week:


Maria also made a beauty using the Blossoms set in Blue:



Next is a set very dear to me - Fall Flowers & Paper Pricking Frame Digi Set.

This set includes Sunflower, Black-eyed Susan, Asters, and Chrysanthemum digi-images.

Also inluded is this lovely coordinating paper pricking frame:


Carol H made this sunflower beauty with the paper pricking frame.. love the colours!


Maria created this whole awesome set! She used one of my blog paper freebies for backing paper:


Lisa P. used the Chrysanthemum and 3d paper toled the front and painted with twinkling H2O's... gorgeous!


Third up is the Flowering Hearts Doodledallions Digi Set:



Here are some of cards I made using the set. I didn't use the scalloped image for the pink one... it was a prototype LOL and cut with a Spellbinders scalloped die.




I tweaked the design and made multiple versions for a Christmas Flower Doodledallions Set!


No samples yet for this one, but the weekend of fun is NOT over! I hope to have more goodies plus a freebie. We will also see if more of my DT will come out and play! LOL

The Doodledallions, for my colouring challenged peeps LOL, are in the process of being coloured. Stayed tuned for more info later!

Have a great day!
:)* Fred

NEW RELEASES

Hi peeps! It's Happy Multi-Posting Day for little ol' me! First things first, I have FOUR new releases for you!

Some "Dancing Daises" ( one will be familiar to some of you ;) but it needed a home and had to complete this set:


Some " Flutterbies for Your Flowers":

Here is a sample:

This one introduces a new background paper stamp tool I will be showing you how to use soon.

New Fred's Flowers: "A Lovely Blossom & Butterfly":

These are so beautiful, I have more planned for these and have a few DT's jumping at the bit to show it to you LOL!

And last but not least is "Little Miss Bitty"!

Oh she is so cute, I just wanna eat her up! There are 14 versions of Miss Bitty, some as a bug, some as a fairy and some as a sweet girl. I call her "quick change" Bitty LOL!

**All the releases have single PNG stamps and ready-to-print sheets so you can get rolling right away.

**In the flower and butterfly products, I've been messing with different PNG versions so, for some, you can layer them on coloured backgrounds while the image stays white for colouring later.

I recruited the DT's to show us some eye candy using the new designs. I let them choose what they wanted to use so I have no idea what they have up their talented sleeves, let's see shall we?! We'd be oh so happy if you would check them out:

Donna
Erin
Jen
Lora
Lisa C.
Maria
Michelle
True
Carol L.

Please check out the next posting, Fred's Freebie Challenge for a fun challenge, a digi-freebie, and prizes!!!! woohoo.

:)* Fred

Emma the Mermaid Coloured Set

After a few more gray hairs and panic attacks, I have finally finished Emma the Mermaid & Friends in all their technocolour glory! I am so sorry for the delay ( like really sorry!)... I will just say this, this one was a struggle for me but I think it all came together in the end so nicely :)

You can find them HERE.

Now I am working on more flowery and fluttery things and a couple of sets I am long overdue in completing.

:)* Fred

Emma and Flowers Card

I made this card for my mom, for her birthday, I hope she's not looking! The image and flowers were coloured with prismacolor pencils and OMS. I also used a bit of blue distress stickles and waterfall stickles.

I apologize for the lack of posts and freebies I posted about. I've been a bit out of sorts, really tired... not sure if its allergies or stress. Don't take much to mess me up LOL! :P I hope to get some freebies out next week.

I will be sponsoring the Digital Tuesday Challenge this Tuesday :D. Please check it out on Tuesday, May 19th for a great fun challenge using your digital images!

Tomorrow I will post about the Nolan, his mother's day card and some things he has done.

Later Gator...

:)*
Fred

Emma & the Butterfly

Announcing Emma & the Butterfly digital stamp :) At the STORE.



This is a little older more lady-like Emma. She is growing up too fast before my eyes! She still has the same free spirit and looks ready to twirl or make a get-away just like the butterfly she is admiring LOL!

Card Details:
Emma and the flower/leaves are coloured with pencils and OMS ( actually Emma is coloured with Goo Gone. It has a lemony smell that reminds you to colour in a ventilated place! LOL - yes OMS has nasty fumes... you just can't smell them ;) ). I was miserly and made the blue matte by cutting white CS to size and colouring the edges with the same denim blue pencil I used on the dress sash and blended with Goo Gone, I love the effect. Another miserly trick is that I took the cuttings made from trimming my bow and tucked them behind my flower ;) The background was made by doodling with pastel pencils ( blue, green, yellow) all over white paper then gently smudging with a tissue but trying not to blend the colours together.

Have a great day!

:)*
Fred