Winston takes off

Good day everyone! I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving. I had an awesome holiday, but it is time to move on to the next holiday. before I have one after another holiday card to show you, I figured I sneak in a birthday card that I made for George. His birthday was last Sunday and he is all about bears. I used this awesome sketch from Inky Paws as my inspiration for the card.

For my card I grabbed "Winston takes flight" and colored and die cut Winston. I used the sky border die to create my clouds and layered it all on the frameworks die base. 

 

Head on over to Inky Paws and join in this fun sketch challenge. 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 December 7, 2018, at MN CST. The winners will be announced on the following Monday at Inky Paws.

The most wonderful time of the year

 

Thanksgiving is early this year. Does that mean we have an extra week to get ready for the Christmas  holiday? I sure hope so. I am kicking off Thanksgiving week with a Christmas card. Expect to see quite a few holiday cards in the next several weeks.  Why? Because it is the most winderful time of the year to be creative!!

There is still time to play along with us at Inky Paws. We are having a fun and festive color challenge. I went with a brighter green for this week's card.  I used the Festive Forest set from Newton's Nook for my card today. I stamped the trees in red and green and added a bit of glitter to the swirls.

The stars on the trees were clear, but a bit of copiccoloring and I had matching color stars. How soon do you start your holiday cards? I always say I am going to start during the summer, but I really can't get in the mood till Thanksgiving. 

Head on over to Inky Paws and join in this Christmasy color challenge. 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 November 23, 2018, at MN CST. The winners will be announced on the following Monday at Inky Paws.

PS- DH loved his birthday card that I posted from last week.

Good Book

Hi everyone!! It is time for another great challenge over at Inky Paws. This weeks challenge is a color challenge. Its is beginingto look a bit like Christmas with the colors this week. Red, white, green and black.

As much as I wanted to dive into my holiday stamps for this challenge, I decided to go in a completely different direction. I pulled out Newton's Book Club for today's inspiration. Both my DH and I are readers. He's all about nonfiction and I am all about fiction. Reading is about escaping for me. There is nothing better than a cold day, and curling up in my favorite chair,  in front of the radiator and reading a good book.

DH's birthday is next Sunday, so this card will be heading to him, with may be a book or two also.

Head on over to Inky Paws and join in this Christmasy color challenge. 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 November 23, 2018, at MN CST. The winners will be announced on the following Monday at Inky Paws.

Home for Christmas

Wow!! My creative mojo has been on overdrive. I think it is 4 years of only being able to create on the rare occasion. Today's card is again inspired by the design team call at The Rainbow Card Challenge. Check out the challenge if you are interested in being at the start of something that is really going to be different.

I decided to show Mynn that I am not only a one trick pony, doing only CAS cute and whimsical. I can do artsy when I want to- but with a CAS touch.

Today color scheme is red. I used a bunch of new stuff that I have gotten in the past few months. The snow panel is from the new collection at Ellen Hutson. the rest of the card is from Ellen also. The wee house dies are from the Home&Hearth set by Julie Ebersole that I cut from various papers. the saying and the path from the house are from Over the River. 

You know how you look at card a million times and think it is perfect, but then you come back that millioneth and one tine and realize it it missing something. That is what happened here. I kept looking and tried to figure out what was missing. Guess what it was? The heart on the white house. It tied the whole card together. Often it is those teeny tiny touches that make all the difference.

Go check out The Rainbow Card Challenge.  Throw your hat in the ring.

The Rainbow Challenge

I have spent so much money in the past few months on new Christmas stamps that I figured I better start using them. I have a few sets that I have been playing with, but this set from My Favorite Things has been a go to set. I just love all the cute birds in the set.

I came across a new challenge that will be debuting in January 2019 called The Rainbow Card Challenge.

It is the creative brainchild of my good buddy Mynn from House of Cards. Right now Mynn is hosting a DT call. In order to be considered you have to submit a monochromatic card of your choice. 

To inspire you she posted this Inspiration Board.

I decided to throw my hat in the ring and apply.

I decided to use the inspiration board as my colors.  I can see this card in every shade of the rainbow. It doesn't have to be just blue.

 

So, even though I don't need anymore competition, go check out Myn's new challenge. And if you aren't applying wish me luck!!

 

 

 

Thankful

Welcome to November everyone. The month that kicks off the holiday season with Thanksgiving being three weeks away. I have much to be thankful for this holiday. The most important being thankful to be finally finished school. It has been a long eight years, between my BSN and now my MSN. I am also thankful that I will have the luxury of time- time to stamp and create. That is what makes me happy and keeps me sane.

 There is still time to play along at Inky Paws. The challenge is to use twine or burlap. I used twine last week and this week I am using burlap. I had one little piece, so I had to be very careful that I didntscrew up my card. There's another thing to be thankful for. 😃 

My card this week uses the "shades of autumn" set from Newton's Nook and the sentiment is from the "autumn Newton" set.

 

Head on over to Inky Paws and join in this fun theme challenge. 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 November 9, 2018, at MN CST. The winners will be announced on the following Monday at Inky Paws.