Free Holiday Gift Tag Printables - Another Facebook Hop!

December is here and so is another wonderful Etsy Digital Designers Facebook Hop! I'm so excited about the freebie I have to offer for this one, and I'm sure that the other designs will be wonderful as well.

My freebie is a set of 8 printable gift tags - both JPEG files and a single PDF sheet. You can find the download link on my Facebook page!

Halloween Facebook Hop

The next Etsy Digital Designers Facebook hop has arrived! Almost 50 designers participated in this one and the freebies are guaranteed to be fabulous!

 You can see the preview of my free download below. Check out my Facebook page to find the download link and to hop along to the next participants. The freebie is located under the "Facebook Hop" tab at the top of my page. (A bonus free download can be found if you click the "Free Download" tab!) If you get lost along the way, just click the "Hop Home" button to find the full list of participants.

 

Have fun! And make sure to leave a comment here or on my Facebook page to let me know what you think.

Halloween Banner Printables

Let's pretend that I haven't been neglecting my blog for the past couple months and celebrate the fact that I have a new freebie for you all!

 

You can download this fun Halloween banner printable for free below. It would look super cute as an added decoration for a festive party! I've included all the letters to spell out Trick Or Treat.

 

Click HERE to download them!

Free Font Friday - Week 5

After a couple weeks off from Free Font Friday, I'm back! Here is week 5 for you guys to check out and download. Let me know what your favorites are!

St. Marie | Seaside Resort | Cartoon East | Jane Austen | LeckerliOne | Londrina Outline | Euphorigenic | Monbijoux | Lavanderia | Eraser

Royal Baby Shower Celebration Hop

Starting today, you can find tons of freebies to download from various designers over at the Etsy Digital Designers team. With so many talented people on the team, you're going to end up with lots of awesome downloads! 

I've also put a bonus freebie to download over on my Facebook Page. If you'd like to check it out, head on over there and click on the Royal Baby Shower Tab at the top of the page.

The full list of participants can be found below! If you get lost along the way just come back here and click through to the next person on the list, or simply choose which sites you want to visit first based on what they have to offer.

Web Hop Participants

Etsy Shop: Lovelytocu Visit Offer Page for: Mini scrapbook kit for new baby plus many more offers!
Etsy Shop: Simply Brenna Visit Offer Page for: Colorful freebies and a bonus coupon code!
Etsy Shop: Two Four Five Designs Visit Offer Page for: DIY monthly onesie sticker printable
Etsy Shop: With Envy Parties Visit Offer Page for: Little Man/Little Lady Printable Baby Shower Party
Etsy Shop: Events You Can Print Visit Offer Page for: Yellow and Grey Baby Shower Printables
Etsy Shop: ToutAimÈe Visit Offer Page for: 2 awesome gifts with your newsletter subscription!
Etsy Shop: ArigigiPixel Visit Offer Page for: Printable monthly onesie circles for boys and girls
Etsy Shop: Sher Hastings Designs Visit Offer Page for: Eleven baby themed clipart images
Etsy Shop: Cherie's Arts 'n Crafts Visit Offer Page for: Create a whimsical mobile for baby with fun animal graphics!
Etsy Shop: Kelly Jane Creative Visit Offer Page for: Free Clipart Set & Enter Drawing for $25 Shop Certificate
Etsy Shop: Jenny Allsorts Design Visit Offer Page for: Sweet Baby Printable for your little one's room
Etsy Shop: PrintableWisdom Visit Offer Page for: Two free nursery art printables, $20 giveaway
Etsy Shop: Paper Gravy Store Visit Offer Page for: Royal baby themed party printable
Etsy Shop: AnnelineSophia Visit Offer Page for: It's a Prince/It's a Princess. Clip art and digital papers
Etsy Shop: Picky Chicken Visit Offer Page for: Printable gift tags
Etsy Shop: DigiBonBons Digital Art Visit Offer Page for: 50% off PLUS a free baby shower set with any purchase

Hop Participants on Facebook

Etsy Shop: Emily Ann Design Studio Visit Offer Page for: Gender Reveal Party Printables
Etsy Shop: InkBite Designs Visit Offer Page for: Free DIY Printable Gift Boxes and Tags
Etsy Shop: BitsyCreations Visit Offer Page for: Free printable baby congratulations or birthday card
Etsy Shop: PaperPrintsDesign Visit Offer Page for: 14 Baby Shower Paper Set + bonus paper inside!
Etsy Shop: DigitalWork-Leska's Digitals Visit Offer Page for: Shower of love, collection of 5 digital papers & 2 frames
Etsy Shop: Lollipop Lime Graphics Visit Offer Page for: Choose any 5 Designs from my Shop Instant Download for $10.00
Etsy Shop: ljcDigitalDesigns Visit Offer Page for: Buy one, get one free in my Etsy shop!

More Offers Available!

Etsy Shop: Twisted Papers Visit Offer Page for: Buy 2 collage sheets select any Christmas collage sheet for free.
Etsy Shop: Chocolate Rabbit Graphics Visit Offer Page for: Christmas in July! Wonderful Winter scrapbook paper set for free.

Make sure you leave a comment and let me know what you think of all the offerings! HAPPY HOPPING! 

Free Font Friday - Week 4

As you may have noticed, I was M.I.A. last week for Free Font Friday. I came down with a cold on Thursday and practically laid in bed for a solid week. Thankfully, I'm feeling much better and am excited to bring you another week of awesome new fonts to download.

Ruthie | Impact Label | Bender | Xiomora | Langdon | AntiHero | StymieStylus | High Tower Text | Black Rose | Traveling Typewriter

Free Font Friday - Week 3

It's Friday again, and that means it's time for 10 more free font links for you all to discover and download! I hope you've been enjoying the Week 1 and Week 2 fonts so far, I'd love to hear which ones you all are loving the most. Leave a comment and let me know which fonts you've downloaded and are using!

And now onto the Week 3 Free Font Friday selection:

At Mahogany Script | Tommaso | MarkerFelt | Revolution | Better Heather | Coming Home | Cursive Standard | Will & Grace | Lane Narrow | Channel

Free Font Friday - Week 2

Hope you all enjoyed last week's fonts, I'm back again to share 10 more with you. If you missed last week's post, you can find the link to get all the free font downloads right here. Check out the new batch of fonts below!

Riesling | Avril | Mission Script | Iron Furnaces | Kingthings Wrote | Oswald | Things We Said | RiotSquad | A Font With Serifs | Pharmacy

Free Font Friday - Week 1

As someone who works in the design community, I have quite the collection of fonts. I'm of the belief that there's no such thing as too many fonts...am I right!? So to spread the font love, I've decided to start a new series for my blog called Free Font Friday. Every Friday I'll post 10 new fonts that I'm loving - along with the links to download them for yourselves. Make sure you check back weekly to see all the fun fonts!

Here's the first 10 fonts for you all!

Pompiere | Afro House | MA Sexy | Birmingham | Honey Script | Max and the Dust | English Essay | Odstemplik | Frenchy | {Skinny} Jeans

Facebook Hop Action

The summer vacation hop is now live! There are 35 fabulous designers participating this time around, so you have plenty of free downloads to grab up. They're all in coordinating colors so you can mix and match for a massive kit!

Click HERE to get started on the hop! Just click the download button to grab your freebie and then click next to hop along to the next participant.

Here's a link to all the designers' Etsy shops and Facebook pages:

Lovelytocu - http://www.facebook.com/it.is.lovelytocu 
Printable Wisdom - www.facebook.com/PrintableWisdom 
Makn the Rounds - www.facebook.com/makntherounds 
Chocolate Rbbit - www.facebook.com/ChocolateRabbitGraphics 
Poppy Hill Creations - www.facebook.com/PoppyHillCreations 
Popuri Design - www.facebook.com/PopuriAlbumDesign 
Sonya DeHart - www.facebook.com/sonyadehartdesign 
Tout Aimee - www.facebook.com/ToutAimee 
White Coffee Designs - www.facebook.com/pages/White-Coffee-Designs 
Simply Brenna - www.facebook.com/SimplyBrenna 
Vivera Design - www.facebook.com/viveradesign 
Inkbite Designs - www.facebook.com/pages/InkBite-Designs 
Arigigi Pixel - www.facebook.com/ArigigiArt 
Jessica Sawyer Designs - www.facebook.com/jessicasawyerdesign 
Candybox Digital - www.facebook.com/pages/Candy-Box-Digital 
Clementine Digitals - www.facebook.com/ClementineDigitals 
MaJo BV Digitals - www.facebook.com/muymajobv 
Lilian Ellaboudy Design - www.facebook.com/LilianEllaboudyDesign 
Wisteria Design Studio - www.facebook.com/WisteriaDesignStudio 
Fancy Dog Studio - www.facebook.com/FancyDogStudio 
The Paper Pegasus - www.facebook.com/ThePaperPegasus 
Sher Hastings Designs - www.facebook.com/sherhastingsdes 
KC Printables - www.facebook.com/KatyClemmans 
Cheries ArtsnCrafts - www.facebook.com/ArtbyCherie 
Jenny Allsorts Design - www.facebook.com/JennyAllsorts 
Luv Ewe Designs - www.facebook.com/luvewedesigns 
Lana Koopman Design - www.facebook.com/LanaKoopmanDesign 
Digi BonBons - www.facebook.com/pages/Digibonbons 
Surface Hug - www.facebook.com/Surfacehug 
Doris and Fred - www.facebook.com/dorisandfreddesigns 
Jennifer Rogers Design - www.facebook.com/JenniferRogersDesign 
Picky Chicken - www.facebook.com/pickychicken 
Mad Mad Graphics - www.facebook.com/MadQueenMother 
Anneline Sophia - www.facebook.com/AnnelineSophiaDesigns 
POP print on paper - www.facebook.com/POPprintonpaper

You can also find a matching file set in my Etsy shop that goes perfectly with my freebies. You can find the listing HERE.

  

Free Social Media Icons & Blog Buttons

 Spice up your blog with these fun, colorful social media icons! The download includes 24 icons in 4 different colors.

Click here to download

If you're new to adding social media icons to your blog, then check out this link for a wonderful step-by-step tutorial: Beautiful Dawn Designs

Let me know if you download these, I'd love to know what you think! You can also like my Facebook page for even more fun updates and freebies.

Thanks, enjoy!

Summer Vacation Facebook Hop Freebies

It's that time again, another Facebook Hop from the wonderful designers over at the Etsy Digital Designers team. This time it's a summer vacation theme with fun, bright colors. Everyone has been hard at work getting things setup for you all to download for free, so make sure you don't miss out on all the action.

You can check back on my Facebook page on June 5th for the download links! Make sure you check out all of the other Facebook pages involved as well so you can get tons of freebies!

Here's a preview of what I'll be posting, let me know what you think!

Valentine's Day Freebies!

This past week I participated in my first ever Facebook Hop! It was such a blast and there were tons of free clip art sets to be found. In case you don't know what a Facebook hop is, it's basically a big link up where you can click around to different Facebook pages. The great ladies over at the Digital Designers team on Etsy hosted it and all contributed a set of graphics for people to download for free. 

It's not too late for you to go check it out and scoop up all the goodies, so get on over to Facebook and have fun with all the fabulous images you can download. They're all matching because we used a specific color set, so you can run wild and mix and match all your new freebies.

My facebook page is right here and all you need to do is like my page and click the "Facebook Hop" tab at the top to find the download.

Here's the full list of all the participants as well as their Etsy Shops and Facebook pages:

Digi BonBons Etsy Shop - Facebook Page
Lovelytocu Etsy Shop - Facebook Page
Wisteria Design Studio Etsy Shop - Facebook Page
Clementine Digitals Etsy Shop - Facebook Page
Sonya DeHart Etsy Shop - Facebook Page
Poppy Hill Creations Etsy Shop - Facebook Page
The Paper Pegasus Etsy Shop - Facebook Page
Inkbite Designs Etsy Shop - Facebook Page
Arigigi Pixel Etsy Shop - Facebook Page
Fancy Dog Studio Etsy Shop - Facebook Page
Printable Wisdom Etsy Shop - Facebook Page
Sher Hastings Designs Etsy Shop - Facebook Page
Digi Scrap Delights Etsy Shop - Facebook Page
Lilian Ellaboudy Desgn Etsy Shop - Facebook Page
Tout Aimee Etsy Shop - Facebook Page
Chocolate Rabbit Etsy Shop - Facebook Page
Simply Brenna Etsy Shop - Facebook Page
Pink Fox Design Etsy Shop - Facebook Page
Cherie's Arts n Crafts Etsy Shop - Facebook Page

Original Nestle Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookies

Today I'm bringing you another cookie recipe, but this time it's a classic. You can't go wrong with these cookies, they are pretty much the perfect chocolate chip cookie. I made half a batch and there were still PLENTY, so if you're baking these for only a few people, I would definitely suggest cutting the recipe down.

Here's what you'll need to get started on these delicious cookies!

 Ingredients:

• 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
• 3/4 cup granulated sugar
• 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 large eggs
• 2 cups (12-oz. pkg.) NESTLÉ TOLL HOUSE Semi-Sweet Chocolate MorselsNESTLÉ® TOLL HOUSE® Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels
• 1 cup chopped nuts (optional)

Combine flour, baking soda and salt in small bowl.

 Beat butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar and vanilla extract in large mixer bowl until creamy.

 Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.

 Gradually beat in flour mixture. 

 Stir in morsels and nuts. 

 Drop by rounded tablespoon onto ungreased baking sheets. 

Bake for 9 to 11 minutes or until golden brown. Cool on baking sheets for 2 minutes; remove to wire rack to cool completely. 

 And you're done! Try not to eat them all at once!

Here's the full ingredients for easier reading:

Directions

PREHEAT oven to 375° F.

COMBINE flour, baking soda and salt in small bowl. Beat butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar and vanilla extract in large mixer bowl until creamy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Gradually beat in flour mixture. Stir in morsels and nuts. Drop by rounded tablespoon onto ungreased baking sheets.

BAKE for 9 to 11 minutes or until golden brown. Cool on baking sheets for 2 minutes; remove to wire racks to cool completely.

 Recipe from here.

Crochet Wrap

I've recently picked up crocheting again after a fairly long hiatus. It's been almost a year since I've done any real crocheting, but I have a lot of spare time these days so I figured crocheting would be the perfect time filler. Since being in Toronto, I've been free of all responsibilities which means I have WAY too much free time. After putting some serious Netflix hours in, I decided I needed to do something else with my time. We headed down to the local Wal-Mart and I picked up a ton of yarn and got to work.

One of my current favorite projects is this crochet wrap by Kimberly McAlindin. I picked up a pound of this beautiful deep magenta color yarn which I thought would look fabulous for this pattern. The pattern is super easy once you get it figured out. The author has some youtube videos up that explain the entire pattern for you in case you get stuck (which I watched and thought were SUPER helpful). Sadly, I ran out of yarn with about 40 more rows to go, so my wrap is not yet complete. Hopefully I can run out and get some more yarn soon so that I can finish it...I can't wait to see how it looks on.

So what are you currently working on...any fun crochet or knitting projects? Or maybe something else crafty? Leave me a comment so I can check it out!