Newton’s Nook – Gift Wrapping

Welcome back everyone! Today is my final entry into the current Inky Paws Challenge with Newton’s Nook. It’s a sketch challenge this time and I’m having a blast with it! These are my absolute favorite type of challenge.

This is the format we are challenged to mimic. I kept things pretty much exact to the sketch this time but used some fun products while doing it.

To make this card I stamped one of the girls from Christmas Trimmings and die cut it, then set it aside. Next, I took a white panel and used champagne mist metallix gel over the Snowfall stencil. Once it was dry I die cut it from the largest of the Framework dies. I glued that panel to a green card base and moved on to the other pieces of the sketch. The green square is popped up with foam squares, the banner glued directly to that and then the pool colored square is popped up as well. Finally the stamped image is popped up with foam squares.

Finishing touches for this card were very simple – just white gel pen accents and then Wink of Stella glitter brush pen on the girl’s hair bow and shoes and the dots on the wrapping paper.

I love the non-traditional colors for this Christmas card. It made me realize that this image really could be used year round for fun birthday cards too!

I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!

Trinity Stamps – Guest Designer

Thanks for joining me today. I’m so honored to be guest designing for Trinity Stamps with this fun, interactive Have an Ice Day card.

Interactive cards are my favorite to create. I love giving them to people even more than making them! It’s so cool to see their response when a thing I made from paper moves and interacts. When I saw this polar bear, I just knew I had to make him skate on ice, at least once. 😉

So I set to work and stamped, colored and die cut him in order to plan out the rest of my card. I’m really partial to the cup of cocoa but I used that last time and decided to change it up with the package this time.

This is the card front when the pull tab is closed. (You can see it on the left side.) I wanted to make a darker starry and snowy sky so the polar bear wouldn’t get lost. I did this by blending salty ocean, blueprint sketch, faded jeans and black soot distress inks. Then spritzed it with water and then flicks of gold and pearl watercolor.

And here is it will the pull tab open. He’s just so cute! I played with it for a ridiculous amount of time after it all came together. He skates back and forth so perfectly!

I stamped my sentiment and cut it in a flag, then popped it up with foam squares. I added white gel pen accents throughout the images and then Wink of Stella glitter brush to all the red accents on the bear and package.

I also added glossy accents to the bear’s nose and skates and the star on the package. And the last thing I decided to do was add a few cream vanilla heart sprinkles to the background. I love adding lots of texture and dimension to cards.

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The Rabbit Hole Designs New Release – Day 3

Thank you so much for stopping by to celebrate day 3 of The Rabbit Hole Designs new release blog hop! It’s been so much fun so far and today we’ve got even more to share. The stamp set for today is called Put a Bow On It and it’s adorable! There’s also another stencil that is mind blowing – Square Illusion. These are versatile and so fun to play with.

As soon as I saw the Put a Bow On It stamp set, I knew I wanted to try a rainbow. And I absolutely love how it turned out!

For this card, I stamped the love sentiment in pink all over my background. Then stamped, colored and cut out my bows. I decided I wanted to break things up a bit between the card base and the bows so I added a vellum heart between with foam squares popping each up so there’s lots of dimension. I stamped and heat embossed love in silver and glued it to the bow heart. Then to finish things off I added some gems across the card front.

Soft and sweet! But my next card is the polar opposite! If you like bold and bright, let’s move along with the show.

Using the Square Illusion stencil I added transfer gel to a black panel and set it aside to dry. Then I sent it through my laminator with some fractured rainbow deco foil for a bold background. Not wanting to take away from that, I decided to slice the panel at an angle and cut off about a quarter inch from each side. It gave me a perfect gap to add a simple sentiment from Sassy Sentiments and some heart embellishments.

The products I used today are:

Put a Bow On It

Square Illusion

Sassy Sentiments

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GIVEAWAYS: To celebrate day 3 of inspiration The Rabbit Hole Designs is giving away the Stamp and stencil promoted on day 3, to One lucky winner. Winner will be chosen at random from the comments left on participating blogs, so make sure to visit each stop and leave a comment. Leave comments by 11:59 pm PST 11-28-19 on all participating blogs. Winner will be announced on The Rabbit Hole Designs blog 11-29-2019

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The Rabbit Hole Designs New Release – Day 2

Thanks for stopping by for day 2 of The Rabbit Hole Designs new release fun! Today we’re dancing up a storm and having a blast! The stamp set for the day is Heart Dance and we’ve got a new stencil called Circle Illusion.

I had so much fun creating both of these cards! I’m going to start off by sharing Heart Dance because I’m just loving this stamp set! This couple is adorable and I’ve got tons of ideas for them!

For this card, I stamped, colored, cut out my couple and set them aside. Next, I cut a pink glitter panel down to A2, then die cut a heart backdrop to go over it. I didn’t like the plain white so I used distress ink and blended it darker up to nothing at the top. I glued all my layers together, popping the couple up with foam squares and stamped my sentiment on a banner. I finished it off with a couple of hearts that came out of the backdrop on either side of the sentiment. These barefoot dancers are just adorable! I love them!

For the next card, I had to pull out my squirrel again because he was so much fun to color!

For this card, I used a gray pigment ink on a melon colored background with the new, amazing Circle Illusion stencil. Then I colored my squirrel more gray tones, cut him out and popped him up. I stamped my sentiment next to him and then just had to add glossy accents to his glasses and nose, and some sugar Stickles to the donut frosting.

So much fun! I love the cool interest the stencil gives to the background of an otherwise simple card.

The products I used today are:

Heart Dance

Circle Illusion

GIVEAWAYS: To celebrate day 2 of inspiration The Rabbit Hole Designs is giving away the stamp and stencil promoted on day 2, to One lucky winner. Winner will be chosen at random from the comments left on participating blogs, so make sure to visit each stop and leave a comment. Leave comments by 11:59 pm PST 11-28-19 on all participating blogs. Winner will be announced on The Rabbit Hole Designs blog 11-29-2019

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The Rabbit Hole Designs New Release – Day 1

Welcome to day 1 of the fabulous Rabbit Hole Designs new release blog hop! Today we’re getting squirrely with More Than Donuts and I also have a bonus project featuring the new Sassy Anti Valentine Sentiments to share.

I’m going to start us off with this fun Love and Donuts card where I took one of the sentiments from the set and made it a little bolder with die cut letters for parts.

I think I really feel the sentiment of this card. It’s just so me, and my family. LOL! We love donuts and love!

I started off stamping and copic coloring my squirrel on the right side of a panel just shy of A2 size. I mounted that to a teal card base and then stamped and heat embossed my sentiment, cutting it apart. I die cut the two words that I chopped off of the embossed portion three times for each letter and glued them together for stacked dimension. I added glossy accents to the squirrel’s glasses and clay embellishments for donut sprinkles and around the background too.

This next card was super quick to put together and I will definitely be making more to share with some of my girlfriends for Valentine’s Day this year.

I just took the heart and cupid images and stamped them all over a kraft card base, stamped and popped up my sentiment banner and finished it all off with a scattering of red and gold sequins.

The products I used today are:

More Than Donuts

Sassy Anti Valentine Sentiments

GIVEAWAYS: To celebrate day 1 of inspiration The Rabbit Hole Designs is giving away the stamp set More than Donuts to One lucky winner. Winner will be chosen at random from the comments left on participating blogs, so make sure to visit each stop and leave a comment. Leave comments by 11:59 pm PST 11-28-19 on all participating blogs. Winner will be announced on The Rabbit Hole Designs blog 11-29-2019

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Michelle
Shanna

Newton’s Nook – Guest Designer

This is my last post as a guest designer with Newton’s Nook and I want to extend a HUGE thank you and so much love for the opportunity to join everyone this month! It’s been so fun creating things to share with everyone and I hope you’ve enjoyed it as well.

Here’s a fun peek at my card share. Please head over to the Newton’s Nook blog for the full picture and info on how I made it. Trust me, you want to see this!

I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!

Newton’s Nook – Holiday Wishes

Hello everyone! I’m back today with another entry into the current Inky Paws Challenge with Newton’s Nook. In case you missed my previous post, here is the sketch that we are challenged to mimic this time.

I think the sketch challenges are my favorite. Using whatever stamps suit me, trying to think of different ways to use them to fit the given format. It’s great!

Today I chose one of the Festive Fawns images – colored and die cut the image and set it aside to build my pieces like the sketch showed. I used one of the Framework dies for the red plaid panel and then trimmed down the other pieces with my paper trimmer. This time I used a corner rounder to make the edges a little softer which I thought fit well with the scalloped rectangle and the sweet fawn image I chose.

I glued the white patterned paper to a card base, then popped up the red rectangle. The banner is glued directly down and then the small white square and the fawn image are popped up with foam squares.

For finishing touches on this card I added glossy accents to the fawn’s nose, spots and hooves, black glaze pen to the eyes, white gel pen accents, Wink of Stella glitter brush pen to the wreath bow and Crystal Nuvo Drops to the wreath berries. Very last I added a two cinnamon red hots jelly drop hearts from Trinity Stamps. I love the impact this gives the card.

After all that was dry I stamped my sentiment on the inside of the card. I chose “Holiday wishes to deer friends” from the Festive Fawns set. I love that it’s sweet and punny at the same time.

I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day.

The Rabbit Hole Designs – Merry Christmouse!

Hey everyone! I’m taking over The Rabbit Hole Designs blog today with this fun Merry Mousemas Christmas card. It’s been years since I’ve done this braided card edge and thought it would be fun to bring back.

Once my card base was created, I stenciled snowflakes from the new Light Me Up stencil all over the background. I stamped, colored, cut out and popped up my mouse in the middle and heat embossed my sentiment. Then added a second heat embossed sentiment strip below that.

For finishing touches on this card I added Wink of Stella to the hat, ornament and sentiment strip. Then glossy accents to the ornament, mouse’s nose and belt buckle.

Isn’t he so cute!!! Have you started on your Christmas cards yet?

The products I used today:

Merry Mousemas

Light Me Up Stencil

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Trinity Stamps – Layered Snowglobe

Happy Friday! I hope you’ve had a wonderful week and are ready for the weekend! I’m really excited to share today’s card. It’s been an idea I had since I first saw the tall shaker dome die set from Trinity Stamps. It’s not often I create all die cut cards but this was a blast to put together!

To start I blended salty ocean, faded jeans and black soot distress ink on my background. Then I spritzed it with water and splattered it with pearl watercolor. I love the look that gives.

Next I die cut all of my elements from white cardstock except the trim which was cut from gold. Then I custom colored everything with my copic markers.

I ended up die cutting the main dome 4 times total. I cut the hills from 2 and the dome from another. This way I have one solid piece for a backing and the front has a border around the dome I colored with BG000 to give it a little bit of a glass look to offset it from the snow.

Once everything was cut and colored, I glued it all together with liquid glue and popped the whole dome up with foam tape on the background I created earlier.

The only stamping I did on this card was for the sentiment and that came from the Merry Christmas Senti-mini set. Then for finishing touches I thought it would be fun to glue Frosty Snowflakes Sprinkle embellishments in the sky.

I hope you’ve enjoyed today’s card. Take a moment for yourself to go create something beautiful!

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Newton’s Nook – Furry and Bright

Thanks for stopping by today. I’m sharing my first card for the newest Newton’s Nook Inky Paws Challenge. This time around we’ve got a sketch to play with and I love it!

I had pulled two Newton’s Nook sets out this weekend with hopes to use them and ran out of time. Hence, I was super excited when they would both fit with this challenge perfectly! Today I’m using the Puppy Present stamps and die along with the Ornaments stencil.

I started by using glazed pewter deco foil metallix gel over the Ornaments stencil on green cardstock. I set it aside to dry while I stamped, colored and die cut my cute little puppy! Next, using the sketch picture as a guide I started cutting my layers and adhered everything together.

I used a pearlescent vellum for the bottom square to give a little extra shimmer. I also put glossy accents on the puppy’s nose and Wink of Stella glitter brush pen on the hat and gift bow.

I finished things off with black glaze pen for the eyes and then white gel pen accents throughout the image. Finally I stamped the sentiment from the set on the inside which reads, “May your days be FURRY and bright.” I love it! Such a cute pun.

I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!