You're the best!

Things are starting to return to the new normal in south eastern Pa. The rest of my staff is returning to endoscopy after eight weeks helping out in the ICU, the traffic is picking up (I am not the only car on the road anymore!!), my husband went with me to get ice cream and our shopping area is opening.

Today's card was made for the color  challenge at Inky Paws. Wonderful, summery colors. Turquoise, orange, green, and yellow.

But the card could really go to the nine nurses on my unit that were redeployed to the ICU and Covid floors to help out during the surge. They are the best and are the true front line hero's in my book!!

This CAS card uses "Toucan Party" and the "Tropical Leaves" stencil both from Newton's Nook.

Hope things are normalizing where you live and that you have time to craft and join our summery 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 this Friday 19, 2020 at MN CST. The winners will be announced on the following Monday at Inky Paws.

There's still time!

Hey Everyone, there is still plenty of time to join in the fun over at Inky Paws!! The challenge

is a great color challenge. Bright red, melon green, black and white.

Of course, I pulled out my "go to"  Newton's Nook's set "Toucan Party". There are so many ways to color in these fabulous birds. My layers were cut from "Frames and Flags", another "go to" set. The saying was from "Newton's lucky to have you".  The stencil is "tropical leaves.

Are you ready to get your paws inky with us and play along to win a prize? We will chose a RANDOM entry to win a $20 store credit to our Newton's Nook Design online shop! We will also highlight our favorites from each challenge the following Monday so all entries have a chance to be featured on this blog! 

 Deadline to enter is Friday, July 20, 2018 at Midnight CST. The winners will be announced on the NND blog the following Monday. 

1+1= Toucan

Not sure what is going on over at Inky Paws, they are having a super fun sketch challenge and hardly any one is playing along!!! I don't quite get it, I couldn't wait till I was off today so I could make my card. 

I used to find sketches daunting, but now I really like them. They take the design guess work out of it and you can just have fun. I had this idea and it pretty much turned out as I envisioned it. So happy for that. 

I have my last class for this semester this week and then I will have 4 weeks off!! So cannot  wait for that!! Oh the stamping that I will do!

I used Newton's "Toucan Party" for my card today. I had to look up how to color a toucan. Wow there are many varieties of toucans. Who  knew. I love the look of black and white against the brighter colors.

Come on folks, get your creativity on and join in the fun over at Inky Paws!! If you are lacking inspiration, check out what the DT came up with.

Go Eagles!!

I am not a football kinda gal, but I can't help but be caught up in Philly's Eagles superbowl fever! I mean this is my home team!! Everywhere you go people are wearing green, they have their houses decked out in green lights. Everyone is friendly and saying"go Eagles" to one another. There are no barriers when it comes to the Eagles. We are all on the same team. 

 Philly has been deemed the underdog in this year's playoff. So I wanted to send out a bit of encouragement to them. That's why this week's sketch challenge over at Inky Paws was right on point. "Toucan do it!!" I used Newton's "Toucan Party" for the challenge. I do not have any eagle stamps, but Mr. Toucan was more than happy to don green feathers to support a fellow bird!

I kept this card very CAS, but within the confines of the sketch. Not always an easy thing to accomplish. 

Head over to Inky Paws and join in the fun, You still have five days left!

GO EAGLES!!!! TOUCAN DO IT!!!!