Tangle Tuesday

Welcome to Tangle Tuesday. Today's project was for a children's class at a local art center. These fun paper pumpkins can be made with any kind of paper and tangled with any medium. They are a perfect addition to my Thanksgiving table decorations.

Wishing all of you a blessed Thanksgiving!

Tangle Tuesday

 Welcome to Tangle Tuesday. This tile was based on a class from Loretta West.  I love all things Halloween!

The great pumpkin

Happy Monday folks! Three weeks till Halloween. Time to get started on your cards Pumpkin!!! 

Today starts a new challenge at Inky Paws! We are looking for weener cards! So pull out those spooky Newton's Nook stamps, stencils, and dies and have some fun!

My card today uses my favorite die set from Newton's Nook- "Speech Bubbles". I die cut the big speech bubble and stenciled just the faces from the "Jack-o-Lantern" stencil set. From the same set, I stenciled just a row of the pumpkins. The sentiment is from Newton's Boo-tiful Night.

No intro needed!

You have two weeks get your spook on at 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 October 21, 2022 at MN CST. The winners will be announced on the following Monday at  Inky Paws.

 

 

 

Hey there pumpkin

 

I just love making Halloween cards, I think I have mentioned this a time or two before. LOL!!  The colors for the challenge at Inky Paws were perfect for a weener card.

There is still time to play along at Inky Paws for our fallish color challenge. Orange, lime green, black, and cream. We haven't had much action for this challenge and I don't understand. These are great colors. So much can be done with them. 

Today's card features the following product from Newton's Nook. The flying bat stenciled embossed on the back card stock, the jack-o-lantern stencil, a great new layering stencil from NN, and lastly "Newton's Perfect Pumpkin" stamp set.

Today's musical inspiration is called "A summer song" but really it's about the end of summer and fall starting. Perfect for this time of year.

You have one more week for our color 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 September 30, 2022 at MN CST. The winners will be announced on the following Monday at  Inky Paws.

 

Thanksgiving

Morning all! Can you believe it Thanksgiving is in three weeks! Where does the time go. It just flies away like the autumn leaves on the breeze.How  many of you do the cooking for Thanksgiving? before the pandemic i would head to my brother's on the Monday before Thanksgiving and we would spend the next four days cooking. Now, I am cooking just for the dear husband and myself.

 

You have one more week to join in our fallish color challenge at Cupcake Inspirations.

My card today features a new stamp set from Penny Black. I have used this set quite a bit this year. Pumpkins can be colored in so many ways.  See this post.

 

You have one more week to join in our  color challenge at Cupcake Inspirations.

Stunningly Sage

This is my third post for today!! I hope you have stayed with me for all my postings. All of my posts are about Thanksgiving. Lot's of ideas for you.

 

Since it is the first of the month, we have a new color challenge at The Rainbow Card Challenge. A perfect color for Thanksgiving- stunningly sage. Not only a great color but the perfect addition top your Thanksgiving meal.

My card today features a new stamp from Penny Black-"Pumpkin Stack".  I love how you can be so creative with coloring pumpkins. I have so many different colored pumpkins this year.

My video inspiration comes from Simon and Garfunkel's Scarborough Fair.

You have all month to share your stunningly sage creations with us at The Rainbow Card Challenge.

Have a blessed Thanksgiving!

 

Autumn blessings

 

Happy Friday and welcome to October. So glad to be facing the weekend and to celebrate World Card Making Day which is coming up tomorrow! How will you be spending it? I plan on celebrating with a day of crafting with my BFF.

Today though we start a new challenge at CAS on Friday. Today's theme is a bit of a no-brainer and so timely.

AUTUMN

So pull out your falling leaves and  pumpkin stamps,  grab those fall color ink pads , gorgeous browns, oranges, reds and yellows and have some fun.

Today's card features some really old stamp sets from  Great Impressions. "Harvest Mouse" and "Pumpkins in a Row".

 You have two weeks to get your autumn on and share your creations with us at CAS on Friday!

Give thanks

 

Good morning all! It's time for another challenge at Inky Paws. The weather inspired this fall card. It's cooler here and the leaves are started to change and the light in general is more muted. Bring on the sweaters and long pants!

 The design team at Inky Paws is asking you to create a card based on this sketch. You have quite a bit of room for interpreting this sketch. I went rather literally.

My card today uses the stencil from Newton's Nook- "Pumpkin Patch" and the sentiment is from NN's "Fall Roundabout" stamp set. 

I hope you join us for our sketch 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 25, 2020 at MN CST. The winners will be announced on the following Monday at Inky Paws.

 

Thanksgiving Harvest

Look who is hiding among the fall harvest- rocky raccoon. Hope he is enjoying hos Thanksgiving meal!

Today is the second week for our sketch challenge at Inky Paws. Take some time from all your cooking, and eating to join in the fun. You have till this Friday to play along.

My card today use these Newton's Nook product- Harvest Tails, Fall Fringe, Pumpkin Patch stencil and the square dies.

You have the next two weeks to play along with our sketch 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 this Friday, November 29, 2019 at MN CST. The winners will be announced on the following Monday at Inky Paws.

eeeeeek!!!!!!!!

Good morning everyone! It's a bright and sunny Monday! There is still a few days left to play along with the holiday mix-up challenge over at Inky Paws.

Today's card quick and easy if you need a fast card to send to your favorite ghost, witch or little goblin. I just die-cut a bunch of pumpkin faces from Newton's Nook's "Pick a pumpkin". I stamped "eek" from Newton's Nook's"Newton's perfect pumpkin". I layered this piece on top of glitter paper. The glitter paper was white and I colored it orange with my copic markers.

There is still a week to join in this mixed-up holiday 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 this Friday, November 1, 2019 at MN CST. The winners will be announced on the following Monday at Inky Paws.

Autumn Mice

Happy Monday everyone! Time for a reminder about the fall color challenge at Inky Paws.

 I got a little carried away with the oranges on this moss green, orange, chocolate brown, and ivory color challenge! But hey, this card makes me smile. It's bright and happy.

 
I used Newton's Nook's "Fall Fringe", "Autumn Mice" and the square dies. The "fringe" stamps from Newton's Nook are so much fun to play with. Here is the spring set. For this card, I didn't have the correct shade of green to use so I colored the base with copics to match my card. See this post.

There is still a week to join in this autumnal color 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 this Friday, October 4, 2019 at MN CST. The winners will be announced on the following Monday at Inky Paws.

House of Cards November Technique Challenge

Hi everyone! It's November and that means a new challenge at House of Cards!! Mynn has shared a very cool video on a stamped and cut window technique. 

I am known for always stretching- who am I kidding!!-  I mean breaking the rules a bit. So I had to come up with a bit of a twist on the challenge. So I did a double cut and stamped window. I wonder how many cut and stamped windows could you create? Could it be like looking in two mirrors? it goes on for infinity?!!?

If you read yesterday's blog posting you know that my new fav stamp company is Reverse Confetti. I used the Pumpkin Patch set again for my challenge card.

I made my card with two background, the stripes:

I just wasn't sure so I tried it with a woodgrain background:

I was torn, but the stripes just keep whispering a wee bit louder. What do you think- stripes or woodgrain?

Please join us at House of Cards this month for this way fun and cool technique!