Five weeks in a balloon

The challenge over at The Library Challenge is hosted by visiting librarian, Martina. She chose "Five Weeks in a Balloon" by Jules Verne. I gotta say I never read this book, but I am pretty sure I saw the movie as a kid.

But the idea of a ride in a hot air balloon does sound awesome- but.....five weeks not so much!!

I don't have many hot air balloons, but I do have this cute one from Lawn Fawn. So I pulled it out and started playing around. After tossing a few cards in the trash, I came up with this idea. It appeals to my CAS heart.

Head over to The Library Challenge and play along! 

Love is in the air....

Hi everyone! Have you played along yet at the Inky Paws sketch challenge? Here is a little inspiration to get your mojo humming. 

Valentine's in July?!!? This card just worked its magic and came together. Don't you love it when that happens! I am going to just have to hang on to this card until next February. 

For today's card, I used Newton Dreams of Paris and the sentiment is from Uplifting Wishes. This card shows how you don't always have to get crazy and add all the details like I did last week. Keeping it simple even with a sketch. I only had to color Newton and the rest was easy peasy.

I have been at Bethany Beach Delaware for the past 4 days. I was a bit worried about the weather, but God has been good to me. We have had pool days and beach days intersperced with some thunderstorms.

When this blog posts, I will still have one more day at the beach!
you ready to get your paws inmy with us and play along to win a proze? We will chose a RANDOM entry to win a $20.00 store credit to our Newton's Nook online shop! We will also highlight our favorites from each challenge the following Monday so all entries have a chance to be featured on the blog!

For those who aren't vacationing are you ready to get your paws inmy with us and play along to win a proze? We will chose a RANDOM entry to win a $20.00 store credit to our Newton's Nook online shop! We will also highlight our favorites from each challenge the following Monday so all entries have a chance to be featured on the blog!
 


 Deadline to enter  this fun challenge is Friday, August 3, 2018 at Midnight CST. The winners will be announced on the NND blog the following Monday. 

The sky's the limit

This is the time year where graduations abound. My BFF told me she was going to her granddaughter's graduation from preschool. Preschool!!!! I then found out there are graduations not only from preschool but kindergarten, elementary school, middle school. Geez, you can tell I don't have kids! 😀 Well if all these graduations are going on, you are going to need a bunch of congrats cards. I figured I better get a stock in.

CAS(E) this Sketch and Addicted to CAS both had a challenged that when I saw it, I knew exactly what I was going to do. Sometimes it happens like that. You just grab your stamps and 20 minutes later you have your creation done.

Die cuts seem to be a buzz word this week. Both The Male Room and Just Us Girls are looking for us to use them in our work.

 

I used Lawn Fawn's Blue Skies. I sponged the blue sky background and added the clouds and hot air balloon, all colored with copics.  Die cut them. (what would we do without dies?!!) The sentiment and gems were added and voila- the card was done.

These are some really fun challenges. Click on my links and play along too.

The Male Room Challenge- Spots and Stripes

 

This week the challenge at the Male Room is "spots and stripes". Oh that leaves quite a bit of interpretation doesn't it?

I grabbed this set from Mama Elephant and messed around a lot before I came up with this card. I had such fun putting this scene together that the ideas really starting flying around.

I decided to try a "land, sea, air" theme.


AAA cards is having an interesting challenge that my "nauti-cool" card fits. They are looking for "waterworld and dies"

What do you think? It works huh?

My DH George gave me the highest complement on this trio of cards. he said, "I would buy these if I saw them."

I can't wait to see how all of you approach this awesome challenge at the Male Room!

Happy Little Stampers July Sketch Challenge

 

Today is my debut on the DT at Happy Little Stampers!! How exciting is that!! To be part of all things stamping is so up my alley. Happy Little Stampers is a unique challenge. It has 3 different challenges under one roof. There is the team I am on- HLS sketch challenge, but there is also HLS CAS challenge and HLS Christmas challenge. 

  

Here is the sketch for July. I tried to think outside the box with this sketch. Let me know if I went to far afield.

When I saw the tree, I knew I wanted something a bit different and i thought- "hey hot air balloons!"

But of course I did not have a single hot air balloon stamp. I mean I am so behind the trends- weren't they popular last year?!!? As always I am a day late and a dollar short when it comes to trends.

So since Lawn Fawn is my new fav company, I had to order their set Blue Skies. I paper pieced the balloon with this orange polka dot paper and then colored the balloon panels with copic markers. It looked cool with the shadow of the polka dots coming through.

The cloud embossing folder is for a horizontal card, but I really wanted to use it on this vertical card. I just embossed what I could, but I really like how the clouds just kinda stop. Interesting effect.

 

So please check out all of the Happy Little Stamper Challenges and join in on all the fun. You have a month to play, so it shouldn't be to stressful to join in!!