Fall Blessings

 

Autumn arrived last week and the leaves are starting to change with some cooler weather moving in here in Pennsylvania. Time to put away all my summery and springy stamps and pull out fall and winter sets. 

Today starts a new challenge at Inky Paws. The theme is Autumn. All those wonderful oranges, reds, yellows and browns. Yay!!

Today I am doing a bit of coloring blocking with fall colors and Newton's Nook's "Fall Roundabout stamp and their circle frames set.

I hope you join us for our autumn theme challenge at Inky Paws! You have two weeks to play along at Inky Paws!  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 9, 2020 at MN CST. The winners will be announced on the following Monday at Inky Paws.

 

Star!

 

My husband and I are not big sports people, occasionally baseball or maybe football if the Eagles are in the playoffs. But who can resist a cute teddy on top of a soccer ball. I am sure my husband wont be able to since he loves a good teddy card!

Today starts a new challenge at Cupcake Inspirations. The theme is SPORTS.

Today's card features "Star" from Penny Black and "Stop, Drop, Party" by Simon Says Stamp- a go to sentiment stamp set these days.

You have two weeks to share your sporty theme creation with us at Cupcake Inspirations! I can't wait to see what you come up with!

Boo

 

I love making Halloween cards, almost as much as I like making Christmas cards. This year my unplanned theme seems to be booooooo- ghosts.  Most of the cards I have made have ghosts in them.

Today's card is reminder that you have till Friday to play along with our sketch challenge at Inky Paws.

My card features the "Ghosts stencil" from Newton's Nook and the sentiment die from the "Halloween Trio" stamp set also from NN. To add interest to this card I drew in the faces on each of the ghostswith a black sharpie.

I hope you join us for our sketch challenge at Inky Paws! You have one more week to play along at Inky Paws!  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 September 25, 2020 at MN CST. The winners will be announced on the following Monday at Inky Paws.

 

The nost beautiful colors in the world!

Wow, we went from summer to winter in 60 seconds over the weekend and if the weather is accurate we will be returning to summer again at the end of the week. Just crazy.

Today I am reminding you about my favorite color challenge at Cupcake Inspirations.

The best colors in the world, lime, pink, and green.

My card uses my new favorite flower stamp set: "Modern layered florals" by Pink Fresh. 

 

You have one more  weeks to play along with my favorite color challenge at Cupcake Inspirations. I can't wait to see what you come up with!!

Happy Brirthday Elena!

 

 

 Today is my teamie, Elena's  at The Rainbow Card Challenge's 80th birthday!! Woohoo!!!  What a milestone Elena!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

 The Rainbow Card Challenge is holding a blog hop to send Elena a bushel and a barrel of birthday wishes.

 Here are a list of the participants for the this big celebration.

 

Rainbow Card Challenge

 

Em 

Izzy

 

Katy

 

Nandini

 

Sue N

 

YOU ARE HERE Sue T 

 

Elena  

 

 

 Please be sure to head over to Elena's blog : https://elenasinkspot.blogspot.com/2020/09/rainbow-card-challenge.html and leave a birthday message for her!

1,2, 3, go

 

Thank goodness for Friday. After the week I had at work, I am ready for some R,R, and S. Rest, relaxation and stamping!! If you are up for some R, R,and S, CAS on Friday has a new challenge sure to inspire you. Our theme is:

NUMBERS

Isn't that a cool challenge? So many ways you could go.

Today's card features an unknown number die set and one of my go to birthday stamp sets from Simon Says Stamp, "Birthday Palooza". 

 

 You have two weeks to play along with our number challenge at CAS on Friday.

So now- 1,2, 3, go and create!!

Polar critters

 

14 weeks till Christmas! I hope you all have been playing along with us at Christmas 24. If you have been, you have a great start on your holiday cards.

Today at Christmas 24 we have an easy sketch to inspire you. You can make it as simple or as complicated as possible. Me for some reason I went complicated and cluttered.

For some reason I decided to try and put as many critters on this card as I can. My BFF gave me this stamp set after she decided to get rid of it when she downsizing her Christmas stamps. I absolutely loved it and couldn't wait to play with it. Unfortunately it seem s to be a retired set. If you look there are a few small craft stores that have it still.

You have till Oct 1 to play along at Christmas 24's easy peasey sketch challenge. I can't wait to see what you come up with!

Give thanks

 

Good morning all! It's time for another challenge at Inky Paws. The weather inspired this fall card. It's cooler here and the leaves are started to change and the light in general is more muted. Bring on the sweaters and long pants!

 The design team at Inky Paws is asking you to create a card based on this sketch. You have quite a bit of room for interpreting this sketch. I went rather literally.

My card today uses the stencil from Newton's Nook- "Pumpkin Patch" and the sentiment is from NN's "Fall Roundabout" stamp set. 

I hope you join us for our sketch challenge at Inky Paws! You have two weeks to play along at Inky Paws!  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 September 25, 2020 at MN CST. The winners will be announced on the following Monday at Inky Paws.

 

It's always flip flop weather!

 

The weather is starting to cool off here in southeastern Pennsylvania. We have had such a beastly hot summer that these cooler days are a welcome change. Cooler weather doesn't mean you have to stop wearing your flip flops though does it? 

I actually never wear flip flops. It's the between the toe thing. It really irritates me. I think you are either a toe thong person or you are not. But I just might invest in a pair though. Weight Watchers has started meetings again. My first meeting back after Covid, I found out you have to leave your shoes on to get weighed in. Of course I have my heavy clunky sneakers on! They added at least two pounds!! I need to get a light weight pair of flip flops to get weighed in with!!  My life would be much better in flip flops, not to mention my weight!!

Today starts a new challenge at Cupcake Inspiration. Today we have a color challenge for you. We want you to use green, pink, and lime on your creations.

My colorful flip flops are from Lawn Fawn's the "Celebrate Summer" stamp set and the sentiment is from Newton's Nook's "Flip flop Life". 

You have two weeks to play along with this fun color challenge at Cupcake Inspirations. I can't wait to see what you come up with!!

Witching Time

 

Summer is slowly fading into autumn. That means Halloween will be fast approaching. Halloween is one of my favorite holidays to make cards for.  So many fun images to choose from.

The color challenge at  Inky Paws lends itself to Halloween cards. Turquoise, purple, orange, and white.  If you were having trouble with these colors- go weeney- you won't go wrong.

My card today features "Witchy Newton" from Newton's Nook and the "Flying Bats" stencil also from NN.

I hope you join us for our Halloweeny color challenge at Inky Paws! You have one more week to play along at Inky Paws!  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 September 11, 2020 at MN CST. The winners will be announced on the following Monday at Inky Paws.

 

Hogs and Kisses

 

Happy Labor Day! That means summer is over and we are heading into autumn and all the big holidays. It's never to soon to think about Valentine's or even anniversary cards. I will be saving this card for George's Valentine's card. One down and 5 to go!!

This week is a reminder week that you have one more week to play along with our "On the Farm" theme at Cupcake Inspirations.

My card today uses Timmy's "Funny Farm" stamp set. It is full of fun. whimsical critters with punny sentiments!

You have one more week to play along with our "on the Farm" challenge at Cupcake Inspirations.