Pinkie screams for ice cream!

Happy Labor Day everyone!! To me the Labor Day signifies the end of summer. The leaves are already starting to fall, and it is beginning to become darker earlier. It also means the weather will be getting cooler. I don't do ice cream in the cold weather. Only in the summer. I know I am weird. But it's helpful for my diet!! Miss Pinkie though, will eat ice cream any old time, just like her daddy George. It could be minus 10 degrees and they will be slurping down an ice cream cone. 

Inky Paws  is having a sketch challenge this week. 

 

 

Come on guys! Play along! Half the work is done for you! The design is there to copy! Take it literally or think outside the box.

I had fun with this one. I had been wanting to try this technique from Jennifer Maguire for a popup window card. I don't usually do this complicate interactive cards, being a CAS gal, but this technique looked like so much fun and I could keep it reasonable CAS.

How is it that I found the perfect ice cream pattern paper in my stash! I used "Newton's Summer Treats" and "Summer Scoops" for today's card. 

Head onto over to Inky Paws and join in this sketch challenge. We will chose a RANDOM entry to win a $20.00 Newton's Nook store gift certificate. We will highlight our favorite entries from each challenge 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 14, 2018, at MN CST. the winners will be announced on the following Monday at Inky Paws.

It's what is on the inside that counts!

Since there are no stamp stores left in my area, I really depend on Jennifer McGuire and Kristina Werner's Online Card Classes to provide me with inspiration and new techniques to create my cards. Right now I am taking Insider. This class focuses on the inside of the card. This is something I never focus on, in fact, I don't even do the insides of my cards until I am ready to give it to someone and then I am scrambling to find a sentiment and an inkpad! 

So this class is a challenge!! during our first day of class Jennifer focused on easy popups- another thing I never do! I loved the idea of a card popping up in the inside of the card.  She showed us a water color technique she calls "I painted this". I can't explain, you will just have to take the class!

I chose to make a Thanksgiving card using one of my favorite Thanksgiving stamps from Amuse. My sentiments came from Hero Arts . Jennifer used watercolor paper, but for my card I wanted the harvesty feel of kraft paper. 

Does anyone have any special Thanksgiving stamps they like? I could use some new ones, but they are hard to find.