Welcome baby

 Happy Friday everyone. So glad the week is over and I have the weekend to look forward to. Rainbows seem to be the "in thing" for card making these days. Everyone has a rainbow, stamp, stencil and or die. I know have a plethora of all kinds of rainbows. And I have yet to actually make a rainbow colored rainbow!

Today is a new challenge at CAS on Friday and the timing could not be more perfect! 

BABY 

One of my staff just had a baby and I needed a baby card. 

Since she had a boy- blue rainbows it was gonna be. 

You have two weeks to play along with our baby theme challenge at CAS on Friday!

Beach Days

 

My sister-in-law- AKA my true sister and BFF, just moved to the beach. Lucky girl- she can make every day a beach day. She is a die hard sun worshiper and I know she will be at the beach when ever she can.

Today starts a fun new sketch challenge at Inky Paws. I decided to turn it on its head and do a vertical take on it.

All products used on my card are from Newton's Nook. I used the "tropical leaves" stencil and "Aloha Newton". 

 Let our sketch inspire you and join our challenge 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, May 7, 2021 at MN CST. The winners will be announced on the following Monday at Inky Paws.

 

 

Spring flowers

Spring has sprung and flowers are blooming. The tulips have been magnificent this year. My spring flowers for the pastel challenge at Cupcake Inspirations are a bit more subtle than the tulips around here, but are just as pretty.

Time to lighten up your colors. You have one more week to play along with our pastel challenge.

I love the stencil, stamp, die combos that are all the rage right now. My card today uses a stencil die combo from Pinkfresh Studio called "Garden Florals".

You have one more week to lighten things up with our pastel color challenge at Cupcake Inspiration!

Blooming birthday

Welcome to week 2 of our springy color challenge at Inky Paws!  You have plenty of time left to join the fun!

Don't these colors total breath springtime?!!? Love them . We are asking you to se orange, yellow, spring green, and white.

My card uses "Loads of Blooms" and the backdrop is "Floral Roundabout" both from Newton's Nook.

Let our springy colors inspire you and join our challenge 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, April 23, 2021 at MN CST. The winners will be announced on the following Monday at Inky Paws.

 

Lighten it up

Hi everyone! today starts a new challenge at Cupcake Inspiration. This one wasn't quite in my wheel house.

The Sweeties would like to lighten up your creations and make it pastel. I am a bright color girl, so I really had to tone things down a bit.

My card uses something old and something kinda new. I used "Wish Big" by Essentials by Ellen now retired and "Birthday Palooza" by Simon Says Stamp.

You have two weeks to lighten things up with our pastel color challenge at Cupcake Inspiration!

 

Home sweet home

 

Hey everyone! Happy Friday!! Yay!! The weekend is upon us! Today starts a new challenge at CAS on Friday! 

The theme this week is:

NEW HOME

This was a bit tough for me. I had to find a stamp hat would fit the challenge. I dug deep and found an old wood stamp that fit the build.

 

"Row Houses" by Stampendous

You have two weeks to join us in our "new house" challenge at CAS on Friday!

Reindeer friends

 

Today starts a new challenge at Christmas 24. It's a fun one for me, because it involves critters! I love my critter stamps and always am on the look out for some new ones.

Today's challenge is all about reindeer. I took a bit of poetic license along with some whimsy and pulled some wanna be reindeer critters. After all what critter wouldn't want to be a reindeer and be part of Santa's team!

My card today uses two new stamp sets. "Peace, Love and Paws" from My Favorite Things and "Meowy Catmas" from Simon Says Stamp.  I added some bold snow flakes and this CAS card was complete.

 

Of course you need some musical inspiration and who better than Burl Ives!

 

You have till the first of the month to play along with our "reindeer" challenge at Christmas 24!

Daffodil days

 

One of the quintessential flowers of spring are the daffodils. Boy, they are in full bloom everywhere I look these days, letting me know spring is springing! 

That's why I when I saw the new color challenge at Inky Paws, I knew I needed to pull out my daffodil stamp from Newton's Nook. We are asking you to use orange, yellow, green, and white in your creations.

Along with the daffodil stamp, I stamped "Blooming Botanicals" in white and heat embossed. Using the slimline circle stencils I sponged green ink over the embossed flowers. This creates such a stunning backdrop to my daffodils.

Let our springy colors inspire you and join our challenge 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, April 23, 2021 at MN CST. The winners will be announced on the following Monday at Inky Paws.

Dreaming of Summer part 2

 

At Cupcake Inspirations,we have a wonderful sponsor for this challenge: Bugaboo Stamps

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As if raising five children in the frozen land of the North was not enough of a challenge, Jodie Mackrell decided to dip her cold little Canadian toes into the world of paper crafting by opening an online store full of her illustrations. That was 11 years ago. Today Bugaboo Stamps is one of the leading companies in digital images, and we're still growing!  From seriously snarky to sugary sweet to sublimely soulful all the way over to the other side of the super sexy spectrum, you're bound to find all that you need and more to create your paper projects.  Jodie works very hard to provide New Releases and Freebies every week! 

Prize: $12 Gift Code to their store

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We are also teaming up with Double Trouble Challenges

You can make your cards to fit both our challenges.

I hope you are enjoying our "Dreaming of Summer" challenge at Cupcake Inspiration and have headed over to Double Trouble to also join the fun. Have you check out the cute and whimsical digis at Bugaboo Stamps? No? Where get on over there, they won't disappoint!

So be sure to check out Bugaboo digis and play along with our "dreaming of summer" at Cupcake Inspirations. You have two weeks to play along.

Crafty friends

 Every year my stamping tribe gets together at a lake house in the Pocono mountains in Pennsylvania. Because of Covid we have now missed two years. It is so sad. Hopefully with the vaccine and herd immunity we will be able to get together again for a fun filled weekend of crafting, good food, long walks and lots of laughs!

 

So that's what my card means to me. Friends and the lake! They go hand in hand. At Inky Paws we want to remind you to play along with us for our "friendship" card challenge.

My card features lots of Newton Nook products. "Winston's Lake House", Forest scene die builder set,  cloud stencil and for the water I used the hills and grass stencil. 

So find a friend to inspire you and join our friendship challenge 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, April 9, 2021 at MN CST. The winners will be announced on the following Monday at Inky Paws.