Oh happy day

Even in a Covid world you can have a happy day and I have had a few happy days. Nothing special, just time in my studio, binge watching "Money Heist" with my guy and hearing from a old friend. Sometimes it is the simple things.

Today starts a new challenge at Inky Paws. This time it is a color challenge. We are asking you to use

Purple, Orange, White, Teal

Unusual colors for this gal. The image and colors bring to mind all things southwestern. I had to think on this. So when in doubt, pull out the florals!!

Newton's Nook has these great new stamps- the "roundabouts". My card today uses the "Floral Roundabout". Along with the new roundabout stamps, there are matching dies for all the stamps.

A hint for matching your sentiment strips to your card. If you don't have a matching color cardstock, I just color a strip of white paper with a matching marker or "direct to paper" with an ink pad.

How about some musical inspiration to help you along on this challenge?

I hope you join us for our southwestern color 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 11, 2020 at MN CST. The winners will be announced on the following Monday at Inky Paws.

 

 

Party till the cows come home

 

Happy Monday all. Wooooh....... I am exhausted after all the festivities from our 500th birthday challenge at Cupcake Inspirations during the last two weeks. I hope you were able to check out all the sponsors, inspiration and prizes. It was an awesome party.  But as the saying goes, "there is no rest for the weary". It is time for our new challenge at CI.

This one had me a bit stumped and required some retail therapy! So off shopping I went. I saw this adorable cow set from Newton's Nook. Bingo into my shopping cart.

 

As a kid we often took family drives on a Sunday afternoon. I always counted batches of cow. I guess I didn't know that it was a herd of cows. I could never count the same batch twice. If I recall I was in the 30's when I just stopped counting.

You have two weeks to play along with our "on the Farm" challenge at Cupcake Inspirations.

Cupcake Insprations Celebration Day 12!!

 

  Welcome to our last day of  celebrations at Cupcake Inspirations. We have been celebrating our 500th challenge. Each day we featured a different sponsor.  What better way to end the festivities than with a cupcake or more specifically a mouse holding a cupcake!

 

  Today's sponsors spotlight is Inky Stamper!

Below is the cupcake image to inspire you to create 

a card or other craft project.

 

What better way to end the festivities than with a cupcake or more specifically a mouse holding a cupcake from our final sponsor Inky Stamper.

 

I  hope you all enjoyed our two weeks of inspiration, prizes, and celebrations at Cupcake Inspirations. 

Be sure to stop by tomorrow for the winners from the past two weeks! I hope you are one of them!!

 

Cupcake Insprations Celebration Day 11!!

 

   Welcome to day 10 at the celebrations at Cupcake Inspirations. We are celebrating our 500th challenge. Each day we are featuring a different sponsor. 

 

Today's sponsors spotlight is Rachel Vass Designs!

Below is the cupcake image to inspire you to create 

a card or other craft project.

 

 

 This cheery card uses a digi stamp from our sponsor Rachel Vass Designs. There is nothing like a CAS card with lots of white space. It makes my heart happy! 

I  would love to have you play along this week at the big celebration at Cupcake Inspirations. Who knows you might win one of the fun prizes from our awesome sponsors!!

Be sure to stop by tomorrow for inspiration from one of our spotlight sponsors!!

 

 

  

Cupcake Insprations Celebration Day 10!!

 

  Welcome to day 10 at the celebrations at Cupcake Inspirations. We are celebrating our 500th challenge. Each day we are featuring a different sponsor.

 

 

Today's sponsors spotlight is Digital Delights by Louby Loo!

Below is the cupcake image to inspire you to create 

a card or other craft project.

 

 

My hubby has a good friend who is a drummer in a classic rock band. This fun card featuring a digi image from our sponsor Louby Loo was perfect for his upcoming birthday. I enlarged the image so I copuld have it straddle the A2 card. You have to peek around the corner to see the whole image!! How fun!!

I  would love to have you play along this week at the big celebration at Cupcake Inspirations. Who knows you might win one of the fun prizes from our awesome sponsors!!

Be sure to stop by tomorrow for inspiration from one of our spotlight sponsors!!

 

Beach Day!

Hi everyone! Today I am reminding you that there is still one more week to play along with our fun challenge at Inky Paws.

We  are asking you to create a scene. Newton's Nook has so many awesome stamps that make this challenge easy- peasy, even for some one like me, who generally doesn't do scenes. LOL!

 

My card today uses several stamps, dies and stencils from Newton's Nook. Newton's Perfect Wave, Newton's Summer Vacation, the sunscapes stencil and the sea borders dies.

 

Those kitties are having a blast at the beach doncha think?!!? 

I hope you join us with your own creative scene card 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 August 28, 2020 at MN CST. The winners will be announced on the following Monday at Inky Paws.

 

 

Cupcake Insprations Celebration Day 8!!

 

I hope you have been joining in the fun for our 500th challenge at Cupcake Inspirations! There is still time to play. We have lots of sponsors and great prizes!!

Have you had a chance to make a card for our 

latest Cupcake Inspirations Challenge?

Below is the cupcake image to inspire you to create 

a card or other craft project.

 

 

 

 

Today's Card features stamps and stencils from our sponsor at  Newton's Nook Designs!

I used  the "Balloon" stencil, "Newton's Birthday Balloons" and the popular new stamp set, "Birthday Roundabout".

 

 

I  would love to have you play along this week at the big celebration at Cupcake Inspirations. Who knows you might win one of the fun prizes from our awesome sponsors!!

Be sure to stop by tomorrow for inspiration from one of our spotlight sponsors!!

 

Cupcake Insprations Celebration Day 6!!

 

 Welcome to day 3 at the celebrations at Cupcake Inspirations. We are celebrating our 500th challenge. Each day we are featuring a different sponsor.

Today's sponsors spotlight are Bugaboo Stamps and Lawn Fawn!

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Below is the cupcake image to inspire you to create 

a card or other craft project.

 

 

This digi stamp from Bugaboo Stamps. They always have offer some free digis. This cute one was a freebie!

 

 

I  would love to have you play along this week at the big celebration at Cupcake Inspirations. Who knows you might win one of the fun prizes from our awesome sponsors!!

Be sure to stop by tomorrow for inspiration from one of our spotlight sponsors!!

 

 

Birthday Fishes

 

Yay!! It's Friday,but it isn't any Friday It's time for a new challenge at CAS on Friday!! And this one is special to me because I am hosting. 

When I was deciding what theme I wanted for my challenge, I thought "ya know, everyone loves cute little land critters, but what about all those fun and cute critters from under the sea?. they need to be shown some love too."

So today's challenge at CAS on Friday is:

UNDER THE SEA

 

My card uses well inked stamped set by Avery Elle called "That Bites". Unfortunately it is no longer available. To really make the card fun, I added googly eyes to each little  fishy.

You have two weeks to play along and show those under the sea creatures some love and support my challenge at CAS on Friday!!