Winter Wishes - Winter

Hello there!  This is my second post for today so if you're looking for my Newton's Nook Designs post, please view the post below this.   It's time for a new Where Creativity Meets C9 Challenge!  This month's challenge is all about Winter, so think frosty days with snow and icicles or in crafty terms, glitter, silver, white, blues or cozy colors.  I hope you'll pull out your Concord & 9th supplies and join us for this month's challenge.

 For my card, I used the Concord & 9th stamp sets, Flourish for the stamped leaves, stems and berries for my background and I used Sophisticated Script Uppercase and Sophisticated Script Lowercase to stamp my Winter Wishes sentiment.  I started out with an enchanted evening card base, then stamped a panel of white cardstock using spring rain & brocade blue inks and the large leaf/stem stamp from the Flourish set.  Then I went back in with enchanted evening ink to stamp some detail into the leaves.  Next I stamped my sentiment onto a die cut oval using enchanted evening ink.  A tip I can pass along when lining up these beautiful script letters is to stamp the center letters first and work your way out.  For instance, I stamped the "n" and "s" in each word and then stamped the reminder of my letters.  I also stamped off using spring rain ink onto my oval sentiment piece, then adhered it to my card with foam tape.  To a bit of sparkle, I added some silver sequins throughout my background.

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Flourish Stamp Set
from: Concord & 9th


Sophisticated Script Uppercase Stamp Set
from: Concord & 9th 
Sophisticated Script Stamp Set
from: Concord & 9th 

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!

Sweet Birthday Wishes - (CTD422)

Hello!  It's time for this week's Color Throwdown Challenge and we've got some fun colors for everyone to create with!  Before I get to my card, I'd like to welcome our two guest designers for this month, Leigh Penner and Kim Singdahlsen.

For my card, I used the My Favorite Things stamp set Beary Special Birthday and the Beary Special Birthday Die-namics.  I started out with a white card base, then used a stitched rectangle die and die cut a piece of enchanted evening cardstock.  Next I used a MFT Circle Grid stencil and stenciled on some enchanted evening ink onto my background.  I added a horizontal strip of raspberry fizz polka dot paper and a MFT Single Stitched Rectangle die cut frame.  After that I stamped my sentiment from the MFT stamp set Celebrate with Cake onto a banner, stamped and colored my images with Copic markers and die cut them out.  I adhered my sentiment banner first, then the packages and finally my bear image with foam tape.  As a final touch I added some orange enamel dots and some glossy accents to the bears nose. For more inspiration, check out the design teams' blog links below OR you can go to the Color Throwdown blog for details on how to play along and you can see all the sample entries in one location.
Amy Rohl Amy Rysavy

Barbara Anders   

Broni Holcombe   

Jodi Collins 

Lisa Henke 

Lori Tecler

Lynn Put   

Vickie Zimmer 

Wanda Cullen

Leigh Penner & Kim Singdahlsen - December Guest Designers

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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.