Harvest Blessings

Well speaking of blessings, I am on the homestretch to Capstone. My poster is done, my abstract is done and my thesis is in the final stages of editing. I have had some time to play here and there.

 The challenge this week at Inky Paws is to use twine or burlap on your cards. This week I decided to use twine. I stamped and colored Autumn Newton.  I attached the image to my die cut card base with some foam tape. The twine wrapped around my framework die base perfectly.

Did you notice the burlappy kinda bow on the wheat sheath?

Head on over to Inky Paws and join in this fun theme challenge. We will chose a RANDOM entry to win a $20.00 Newton's Nook store gift certificate. Our favorite entries from each challenge will be highlighted the following Monday, so all entries have a chance to be featured on the blog.

The deadline to enter today's challenge is Friday November 9, 2018, at MN CST. The winners will be announced on the following Monday at Inky Paws.

Her Peaceful Garden blog hop

I am on the homestretch of my Master's thesis and have a bit of time here and there to play in my studio. I ran across this great blog hop for cat lovers. Janis at Her Peaceful Garden has been hosting this hop for several years, but this is my first time coming across it. Newton's Nook gave me the heads up.

Well everyone who knows me, knows my old gal Pinkie is my heart. At 19 years she is still going strong despite some bad hips and being totally deaf (ain't nothing wrong with her eyes or nose!!).

As you can see Pinks loves spending time in our studio. Must be because I got her when she wandered into my local stamp store when she was about four weeks old.

My card for the hop uses an older Avery Elle stamp set. Of course it had to be a pink card. This is going to Miss Pinkie's favorite guy- my DH George.

Check out Janis blog hop and play along. She has some great sponsors and lots of give aways!!

Newton takes a ride

Today I am sharing another Halloween card with you. My inspiration is the awesome sketch challenge going on at Inky Paws.

I love making Halloween cards, almost as much as I love Christmas/Holiday cards. Jennifer over at Newton's Nook has outdone herself with some really fun 'weener stamps. My card today uses "Newton's Boo-tiful Night" and the "trick or treat" die from Halloween trio stamp set.

Head on over to Inky Paws and join in this fun sketch challenge. We will chose a RANDOM entry to win a $20.00 Newton's Nook store gift certificate. Our favorite entries from each challenge will be highlighted the following Monday, so all entries have a chance to be featured on the blog.

The deadline to enter today's challenge is Friday October 26, 2018, at MN CST. The winners will be announced on the following Monday at Inky Paws.

Is candy corn a free food?

I just love this stamp set from Newton's Nook!

I have been a lifetime member of Weight Watchers for the last year. And anyone who is familiar with the WW knows that with corn is now a free food in the freestyle program. My question is does candy corn count as a vegie? A free vegie? How I wish!!

  If I can't eat the corn I can at least have some fun stamping them!! Today Inky Paws is having a sketch challenge.

As I have said, I am really enjoying the sketch challenges. This one made me think outside my CAS box and I mixed up papers, stamps and dies. Quit a bit of coloring happened on this card. I stamped all the corn on a white card stock circle and I colored the corn in and colored the black background. The dark background really made the candy corn pop. Then just because I like glitter I glittered all the corn. When you look at the corn up close you can see I was a bit over zealous with the glitter. LOL!!!

Along with the candy corn set, I used the "trick or treat" die from Halloween trio stamp set. 

Head on over to Inky Paws and join in this fun sketch challenge. We will chose a RANDOM entry to win a $20.00 Newton's Nook store gift certificate. Our favorite entries from each challenge will be highlighted the following Monday, so all entries have a chance to be featured on the blog.

The deadline to enter today's challenge is Friday October 26, 2018, at MN CST. The winners will be announced on the following Monday at Inky Paws.

Spooky Street

Hey there everyone!! Hope you all had a great weekend! I did, if you count banging away at my thesis fun. It's not that bad, I am moving along and am about 1/3 to 1/2 done. Working on the hard part, the nursing theory. Anyone out there an expert at the Theory of Integral Nursing? It is pretty deep.

This is week 2 over at Inky Paws. They are having a color challenge. Lime green, yellow, orange and purple. Definately weener colors.

So I needed a bit of fun, so I got out my color bursts and played around. The color bursts have the BEST purple out of the 10 or so water color sets I have. Just look at the panel, isn't that the best purple you ever saw?

For todays card I used Newton's Perfect Pumpkin and Spooky Street. I colored evrything in with copics and put it all together.

Head onto over to Inky Paws and join in this fun sketch challenge. We will chose a RANDOM entry to win a $20.00 Newton's Nook store gift certificate. Our favorite entries from each challenge will be highlighted the following Monday, so all entries have a chance to be featured on the blog.

The deadline to enter today's challenge is Friday October 12, 2018, at MN CST. The winners will be announced on the following Monday at Inky Paws.

That's a wrap..... back to integral theories.

 

Twofer

Happy October all!! Geez! Where is the time going? Do you live your life by deadlines, like I do? I go from one deadline to the next. I have to have this card done by this date, I have to have my blog posted by this date, my outline is due by this date, I have to bake a cake by this date. you get the idea. Tell me I am not alone here!

The new challenge at Inky Paws is a very in keeping with the October- a color challenge!

To me these colors just said Halloween. It gave me a chance to play with some new stamps from Newton's Nook. For my card today I used the "Halloween trio stamp set and matching die set which came with this awesome "trick or treat" die that I am using like crazy. I die cut about a gazillion "trick or treats" from a piece of black cardstock and adhere them to a black card base die cut from "Frameworks"die set. I stamped, colored, and diecut the trio of Halloweeners. The "boo" card they are each holding were stamped separately and cut, colored, and popped up. 

When I was done and cleaning up, I noticed the piece of cardstock that I cut all the trick or treats from. I couldn't throw it away. it was just too cool. So I used it as a background for another card.

The moral of this story, is never throw anything away!!

So head onto over to Inky Paws and join in this fun sketch challenge. We will chose a RANDOM entry to win a $20.00 Newton's Nook store gift certificate. Our favorite entries from each challenge will be highlighted the following Monday, so all entries have a chance to be featured on the blog.

The deadline to enter today's challenge is Friday October 12, 2018, at MN CST. The winners will be announced on the following Monday at Inky Paws.