Gullfriends

Happy Monday everyone!! Can you believe it? This is the last week of summer. Geez louise!! Where did it go? I had an awesome summer, full of trips to the beach and day trips with the husband. I have no complaints. This was my first summer free after spending the last seven in school.

Inky Paws  is hosting a sketch challenge this week. I knew I had to make it summery. 

This fun sketch is just begging for a little scene. Newton's Nook's "Gull friends" was the perfect stamp to use. As I pulled this set out, I was thinking about the sea gulls I saw at the beach at Fenwick Island, Delaware. They were very calm and sweet compared to the aggressive and nasty gulls at the shore in NJ. I used these sweet birds as inspiration for my card.

This guy was just hanging out. To complete my card I used from Newton's Nook, the sea borders dies,  sunscape stencil, and frames and flag die set. 

Head on over to Inky Paws and join in our scenic looking 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 this Friday, September 6, 2019 at MN CST. The winners will be announced on the following Monday at Inky Paws.

Monster Mash

My husband and boss are rockers, guitarists, and total music lovers. I have been collecting lots of music related stamps and this set from Your Next Stamp is one of my go to sets.

I decided to spend some early morning time in my studio before the 94 degree heat set in and play along at AAA Cards, AAA Birthday and Addicted to CAS. 

This card involved a bit of masking. Now this is something that normally I never do. It just seems like to much work. But I will tell you it was so worth it. 

Head over to AAA Cards, AAA Birthday, and Addicted to CAS and play along too.

Give thanks

I am here with a reminder that there is still time to play along at Inky Paw's fun color challenge. Yellow, teal, orange, and brown. Fall leaves just seemed to call for these colors. 

My card today uses Newton Nook's Shades of Autumn. 

 

Head on over to Inky Paws and join in our vintagey color 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 this Friday, August 23, 2019 at MN CST. The winners will be announced on the following Monday at Inky Paws.

"Tea" is for tiger

It's been a few weeks since I have played along with a challenge. I was at the beach for ten days and had the best time. This is the first summer that I have had free in 7 years, because of school. It has been a jam packed time. But now it is nearing its end and soon I will be back in a routine.Which includes early mornings in my studio with a cup of tea and Pandora playing quietly.

I am a tea drinker.  Don't get me wrong, I like coffee, but it has to be a foo-foo flavored latte type beverage. Tea though is what gets my heart started in the morning. I grew up having tea and toast for breakfast everyday. Once in a blue moon we had cereal and that was like dessert for breakfast. I drink it the English way with milk. My husband drinks tea too, but he drinks all these fancy teas, that require timing, certain temps, and boiling points. Why over complicate a good cup of tea. Lipton is just fine for me. 

That is why I had to play along at The Library Challenge. The book to inspire us is The Tiger who came to Tea. This is a classic children's story.

This tea-riffic card uses Newton Nook's "Newton loves coffee" set. Added the sentiment and Newton is having a cup of tea to get his tail in motion. 

Head over to The Library Challenge and join in the fun.

Boo!! Never to soon

Hey everyone! Geez! Where is the summer going? It has flown by. Before you know it ,kids will be back in and school and I will be stuck behind school buses on the way to work. The leaves will be changing, weather will be cooling and Halloween will be here. BOO!! That's quite frightful!! Why does time have to speed by like this! Anyway- It is time to think about your Halloween cards. You don't want to get stuck behind the pumpkin at the last minute scrambling to make them.

This week Inky Paws will be having a color challenge- yellow, teal, orange, and brown. How fun. these colors inspired a vintage Halloween feel for me. Tell me does cute and whimsical go with vintage?

For my card today, I kept it basic and let the colors sing. I used Newton's Nook's "Newton’s Boo-tiful night", and Newton"s Nook's  "speech bubbles dies".

Head on over to Inky Paws and join in our vintagey color 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 this Friday, August 23, 2019 at MN CST. The winners will be announced on the following Monday at Inky Paws.

Lost at the lake

When I was growing up, we never went down the shore for vacations, we headed to Pocono Mountains and the many lakes that are there. While I love the beach, my heart still heads to the mountains and the lake.

One of my best crafting buddies has a house in the Poconos. My crafting tribe head up there a couple times a year for a crafting weekend.

You put a bunch of crafty girls together with a bunch of stamps, dies, ink, and  paper and agood time is gonna be had by all!

This is why when the "summer theme" challenge at Inky Paws came up, I thought of the Locust Lake in the Poconos.
 

Of course the perfect stamp set for this super challenge was "Winston's Lake House from Newton's Nook. 

I also used these dies from Newton's Nook- "frames and flags" and "sea border" set.

Head on over to Inky Paws and join in our summer 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 this Friday, August 9, 2019 at MN CST. The winners will be announced on the following Monday at Inky Paws.

Purple passion

It's the first of the month and that means another color challenge at The Rainbow Card Challenge". This month we are "passionate about purple".

I have a confession to make. Purple is my least favorite color. But hey I get it, people who love purple, truly are passionate about it and generally have tons of purple everything.

I have to say though, I do love this purple card and I really think it would not be as effective in any other color. What do you think? Well, maybe pink, it might work with pink. Isn't this adorable unicorn from the Waffle Flower the "be her" set is awesome!

Today's musical inspiration is from Prince- what else but "Purple Rain"!!

Are you passionate about purple then join us at The Rainbow Card Challenge for this purple challenge!!

 You have the month of August to create your most purely purple cards!!