Newton's Nook Designs Inky Paws Challenge #38

Hello, hello!   Can you believe it is December already?!   My Christmas cards are all done, so now it's time to start thinking about the thank-you cards I will need to send out after the holidays.

  Today marks the beginning of a new Inky Paws Challenge (a color challenge this time!), so I decided to play along and start my thank-you card stash.  Here's what I came up with!

I stamped and heat embossed the trees from the Festive Forest stamp set on a strip of red cardstock.  The sentiment is from Vegetable Garden - I performed a quick bit of "stamp surgery" to change the horizontal orientation to a stacked orientation so that it fit a bit better.  I finished pulling all of the colors from the challenge in by adding a strip of aqua cardstock above and below the stamped piece and adding some patterned paper from Lawn Fawn which included hints all of the colors.  Super simple and easily replicated if you want to create a set!   

I hope you have a chance to play along with this month's challenge!    For full details, head over to the Inky Paws Challenge page of the NND blog.

Newton's Nook Inky Paws Challenge #35 - Burlap and/or Lace!

Hello!!   It's almost the weekend!!   My weekend is booked - football scrimmages & lacrosse tryouts are taking up what is left of our precious summer weekends before the kids go back to school in September.   But speaking of September.....I'm all about the autumn cards lately, and THAT makes me happy! 

This month's Inky Paws challenge is to use burlap and/or lace on your creation.  I couldn't wait to use Beautiful Leaves again- I stamped and die cut several of the leaves and colored them in with Copic markers.   I die cut another leaf from burlap and then punched holes in the top of all of them and threaded them with gold/cream twine and tied them in a bow at the top of a brown panel I'd die cut with a decorative edge.   The sentiment was heat embossed with gold .  I adhered the panel with foam tape to a kraft card base that I'd stamped with the leaf images from Beautiful Leaves.   

I hope you get a chance to play along with our challenge!   I can't wait to see what you create!!  Have fun getting crafty!

NND Inky Paws Challenge - Use an Arrow!

Hi crafty friends!  It's time for another Inky Paws challenge over at Newton's Nook!   The challenge this time is to use an arrow - and the new Points & Plumes die set is perfect for this!

My card is pretty simple...I inked up the awesome sentiment from Adventure Awaits with three colors of ink, starting with the lightest (yellow) and ending with the darkest (red).   I stamped it in the center of my cardbase twice, using my MISTI for extra good coverage.

I then placed several of the arrows from the Points & Plumes die set around my sentiment, taping them in place and running it through my die cutting machine.   I repeated this twice, creating a square shape around the sentiment.   

On the inside is a panel of cardstock blended with the same red, orange and yellow inks I used for the sentiment.   I love how it looks through the negative space the dies created!  

Head over to the Newton's Nook blog for details on how to play along with the challenge - you could win a store credit to NND!

   

  

      

Newton's Nook - Inky Paws #28 Love

It's time for another Inky Paws Challenge with Newton's Nook Designs!   The theme for this challenge is 'Love', and I was excited to showcase the new Darling Hearts die set!  My card is nearly all die cut - the only stamping is the sentiment!

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Instead of separating the two smallest heart dies when I received them, I left them together - this made lining everything up super easy!  I started by die cutting my pink heart and for the second heart, I placed the die slightly on top of the pink heart and cut again with the orange, and then so on and so forth.   When I was all done, I coated the smaller hearts with Glossy Accents, and glued them back inside the larger hearts in the opposite order.   The heat embossed sentiment is from the Whispering Pines stamp set.

I hope you've enjoyed today's card!   We'd love it if you played along with the challenge - I can't wait to see what you create! 

Wish You Were Here! Inky Paws Challenge #20

Happy Friday!    I'm stopping in today with a card for the Newton's Nook Designs Inky Paws Challenge.   It's a sketch this time.   Head over to the NND blog for more details!  Link up your take on the sketch for a chance to WIN!

STAMPS USED:

Delightful Doxies

Newton's Summer Vacation

Newton's Nook Designs Inky Paws Flash Challenge!

Hello!   Newton's Nook Designs has a fun FLASH Challenge up on the blog today!   But you'd better be quick - you only have until January 10th to play along!    The theme is 'Thank You', and the winner will be chosen randomly.    Don't worry - you don't have to have NND stamps to play along (but there's a super cute new FREE digi up on the NND blog - go check it out)!

I printed the free digi and decided to have a little fun with it!   I traced over the lines with a clear embossing pen and then added some Wow embossing powder for the sentiment and clear embossing powder over the border.    After that was heat set, I used Distress Inks over top to add a colorful background.   I added some accents to the sentiment with a black Memento marker to make it stand out even more.    Some fussy cutting, dimensional adhesive and sequins from Pretty Pink Posh complete the card.

I hope you have time to play along!    I'll be back soon with projects for NND's January reveal, so make sure to stop back next week!

Newton's Nook Designs Inky Paws Challenge - Wood, Metal & Cork

Hi guys!   Today I had some crafty time and I decided to make a card for the Newton's Nook Designs Inky Paws Challenge.  

 We needed to add a texture - wood, cork and/or metal.   I decided to go with a wood-look background.  I embossed the background with a PTI impression plate on kraft cardstock.   Then I added some Vintage Photo and Walnut Stain distress ink.   The super cute sunflower is a free digi image from Newton's Nook.   You can find it here.  I printed the image twice - once onto masking paper and once onto cardstock.   I cut out my mask and added the color using several shades of distress ink.   I ended up adding some extra shading with a Copic.    The li'l ladybug is coated with Wink of Stella and Glossy Accents.  A washi tape strip down the side and some letter stickers (also coated with Glossy Accents) finish the card!   My daughter oohed and ahhed over this card....so guess who will be getting a little note from Mom soon!

I hope you get a chance to play along!   This is always a fun challenge!