Paddle away

Happy Friday everyone.AS much as I love going to the beach, as a kid we always headed to the mountains for our family vacations. The Poconos in Pennsylvania hold a special place in my heart. 

    One of my crafting tribe has a house in the Poconos on a lake. A few time a year the whole tribe gets together for a stamping weekend in the Nos. We craft, hike, eat and have a all together great time. 

Today's theme at CAS on Friday spoke to all those great time in the Nos.

NATURE

I used two stamp sets for this card. Avery Elle's "Happy Camper" which is no longer available and one of my go to Newton Nook stamp sets, "Winston's Lake House.

My only worry about this card is that it might not be the most CAS.  I might be sent to my room without my ink pads and copic markers for this!! Yikes.

You have two weeks to share with us your clean and simple nature cards at CAS on Friday.

Winston takes off

Good day everyone! I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving. I had an awesome holiday, but it is time to move on to the next holiday. before I have one after another holiday card to show you, I figured I sneak in a birthday card that I made for George. His birthday was last Sunday and he is all about bears. I used this awesome sketch from Inky Paws as my inspiration for the card.

For my card I grabbed "Winston takes flight" and colored and die cut Winston. I used the sky border die to create my clouds and layered it all on the frameworks die base. 

 

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 December 7, 2018, at MN CST. The winners will be announced on the following Monday at Inky Paws.

Just chillin'

This is what I plan to be doing this week- provided the weather cooperates!! 😆 Tuesday right after work, I am driving to Bethany Beach in Delaware, where my brother and his wife have a house. I am planning on spending the week with them. I was there in May and it rained 24-7 for the whole five days (check out this post if you are interested in my sad tale). 

So today's card is to spur on the sun gods to come out and shine on my vacation. Like Winston here, I plan on spending the bulk of my week seating on the beach with a cold beverage and a good book  (presently reading The Outsider by Stephen King).

Today's challenge at Inky Paws is one of my favs- a sketch challenge!! Check out this fun sketch!!

I used a variety of Newton's Nook supplies for today's card. I just love mixing and matching sets!! The sunscape stencil, Winston's Lake House and the sentiments are from Cocktail Mixer. I orginally had the everything mounted on a plain white card base, but it just didn't work for me. I pulled out a cloud folder, used that on the base and voila it was perfect. 

Its all in the tiny details that card are perfected. Such as using crystal stickles on the sun instead of just my glitter pen. I wanted the glitter to be up front in my hot and shining sun! Also, you won't probably notice in the photo, but the ice cubes in Winston's drink have a coating of glossy accents to make them shine. 

Are you ready to get your paws inky with us and play along at this great challenge to win a prize? We will chose a RANDOM entry to win a $20 store credit to our Newton's Nook Design online shop! We will also highlight our favorites from each challenge the following Monday so all entries have a chance to be featured on this blog! 

 Deadline to enter is Friday, August 3, 2018 at Midnight CST. The winners will be announced on the NND blog the following Monday.