Holiday Tweets

Hello there!  For those of you who celebrate Christmas, are you ready for the holiday?  I'm actually on schedule this year which is surprising.  I'm excited for Christmas!  I love seeing the faces of my kids as they open their gifts Christmas morning and I enjoy getting together to celebrate with family.
I'm popping in today to share a card that I created a few weeks ago using the sweet Newton's Nook Designs stamp set Holiday Tweets.  I decided to go with non-traditional colors for my card and used different shades of aquas.  I started out with a white card base, then added a matted piece of My Mind's Eye Winter Wonderland designer paper.  Next I added a vertical banner from the same designer paper.  Then I stamped and colored the bird image (using Copic markers) and Merry Christmas sentiment and die cut the image using a square die and matted it with ocean tides cardstock, popping it up with foam tape.  I added some finishing touches like the small snowflake, silver gems, silver metallic twine and used some silver metallic pen on the packages in the nest. I'll be back tomorrow to share some Christmas tags!

Newton's Nook Designs - Deck the Halls with Inky Paws Blog Hop!

Hello!  Today I'm excited to be participating in the Newton's Nook Designs - Deck the Halls with Inky Paws Blog Hop!

I've created two cards using the sweet Newton's Nook Designs stamp set, Holiday Tweets.

For my first card, I used a white card base along with some pure poppy cardstock and scrap pieces of My Mind's Eye designer paper for my background and green banner.  I stamped my sentiment onto a white cardstock banner and tucked it under the edge of the vertical red banner.  I used one of the larger images from the Holiday Tweets set and colored it using Copic markers.  Once my coloring was done, I die cut my image using a square die and matted it in pure poppy cardstock and adhered it with foam tape to my card base. To finish off my card, on a piece of scrap white cardstock I stamped the holly image from the set, colored it with Copic markers and fussy cut the image out and added it to the top left corner of my main image.  I also used a silver glitter pen to color in the tops of the ornaments and added little dots of silver in and around the image and used some glossy accents on all of the red berries (see close up photo below).

For my second card, I decided to highlight this darling nest with birds image from the stamp set.  I die cut a scallop circle from pure poppy cardstock for my card base, added a mat of white cardstock and some polka dot My Mind's Eye designer paper.  Next I stamped my image along with the Merry Christmas sentiment and colored them with Copic markers.  Then I die cut my image using a circle die and matted it with cardstock and adhered it to my card base using foam tape.  I also, like my first card, stamped the holly separately and colored and cut it out to attach to my main image.  For a touch of sparkle, I added some silver glitter gems on my card base, some silver glitter pen to the present in the nest and some glossy accent to the berries in the holly.

Deck the Halls with Inky Paws Sale! 

Newton's Nook Designs is also having a sale starting today! Spend $25 and get a mini tree tag stamp for free along with FREE shipping on US orders ($3.50 off international) Use code TREETAG to redeem this special! Free/Discounted Shipping is valid through Friday, December 16th. Free stamp is also valid through Friday, December 16th or while supplies last. 

Enter to Win! Deck the Halls with Inky Paws Hop Prizes! 

We will be choosing two lucky winners to win a $20 store credit for Newton's Nook Designs online shop! To enter, just leave comments on the Design Team Member and Guest blogs (see list below)! Two winners will be chosen at random from the collective blogs in the blog hop. Make sure to check out each of their blogs and comment for your chance to win. You will not know which blog has been chosen so the more you comment on the better your chances are of winning! You have until Sunday, December 11th at 9 pm CST to comment  -- winners will be announced on the NND blog on Monday, December 12th.

Deck the Halls with Inky Paws Blog Hop

Newton's Nook Designs 

Melody Rupple

Lynn Put (That's ME!)

Ruby Naz

Jessica Frost-Ballas

Lydia Evans

Jess Gerstner

Larissa Heskett

Samantha Mann

Crafty Math-Chick

Stephanie Muzzulin

Danielle Pandeline

Naki Rager

Kimberly Rendino

Yukari Yoshioka

Gladys Marcelino

Anika Lerche

Thank you for stopping by today and I hope you enjoy the hop!

Newton's Nook Designs - Featured Guest

Hello, crafty friends!  I've got some exciting news to share, I was asked by Jennifer Jackson, the owner of Newton's Nook Designs to join in their Newton's Nook Designs Deck the Halls with Inky Paws celebration going on this week!  I'm sure most of you are familiar with the adorable Newton's Nook stamps but if not, I recommend popping over and taking a look.  Each day this week, Newton's Nook Designs is highlighting a Featured Guest Designer and today I get the privilege of sharing what I've created using the sweet stamp set, Ornamental Newton.

For my card, I started out with a white card base, then added a piece of My Mind's Eye 12 Days of Christmas designer paper (I thought the ornaments would work well with this cute image) along with a coordinating polka dot rose colored paper for along the bottom.  I matted these designer papers in pure poppy cardstock and adhered them to my card base.  I added a strip of pure poppy cardstock along where the two designer papers met.  Next I stamped my Ornamental Newton image and colored him using Copic markers.  It might be difficult to see in the photos but I used a silver glitter pen on the top of the ornament and on the stripes running through the center of it.  I trimmed and matted my image with more pure poppy cardstock and adhered my image using foam tape to my card front.  Then I added two green designer paper banners and my sentiment which I had stamped and die cut.  As a final touch I added three silver glitter gems for a bit of sparkle.

That's it for me today.  Thank you so much for stopping by and be sure to stop over and join in the week long Newton's Nook Designs - Deck the Halls with Inky Paws celebration.