Let The Cat Out Of The Bag

Hello crafters, here's Julia popping in with a really easy to make and fun card. I haven't given my stamps from Newton’s Nook enough love, so I thought it would be time to do that. And since I have a cat that likes to crawl into literally every open box that is there in my apartment, I went with the the Birthday Bash set and the cat jumping out of the bag :-)

I stamped the image on some Copic friendly card stock and colored it with my alcohol markers. I went with bright cheerful colors that are appropriate for a party :-) My cat is actually completely black, but since that is not quite as much fun to color, I gave this some tiger stripes. To add additional interest to the image, I used my white gel pen at dots to the wrapping paper and to the bag itself. As you can see, a mixture of bigger and smaller dots looks actually quite nice.

And of course I needed some sparkle and shine. I used some glue and gilding flakes with the confetti stamp from the same set, but you can easily to this with some sparkling embossing powder as well, for example the Hero Arts Gold embossing powder we have in the store.

Of course my Copic markers bled through the card stock and very visible on the other side. I simply cut a piece of card stock that was a little bit smaller than the front of the card and adhered it to the inside of the front panel. It looks very clean on the inside, and from the outside it still looks like one layer card. I'm so happy I came up with this idea because it helps me to keep the look of my cards really simple.

I hope you've enjoyed the card. See you again soon!

Newton's Birthday Bash

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Letting The Cat Out Of The Bag

Hi there, Lydia here. I know it's not my usual day but I have some exciting news to share ...... I am now part of the design team over at Newton's Nook Designs ! :-D I have been sitting on the news for weeks and it's been hard not to let it slip but I did it.... just about.

To celebrate this exciting news I have made a card using Newton's Nook Designs ' Newton's Birthday Bash' and if you keep reading to the end there may be a little Blog Candy ;)

*Cut some Neenah Solar card using the small banner from Lawn Fawn 'Stitched Party Banners' onto this stamp Newton coming out of the bag and the sentiment from Newton's Nook 'Newton's Birthday Bash'.
*Colour the image in with Copics adding a little shadow with coloured pencils and add a little Wink Of Stella to the bag for a little sparkle.
*Cut out two of the large banners from the 'Stitched Party Banners' of of white card and another using the yellow heart paper from the 'Let's Polka' 6x6 paper pad. Stick the yellow paper banner onto one of the white banners to create the front of the card. Score a line across the second white banner about an inch down from the top, add glue to the inch flap and stick to the backside of the yellow heart/white banner piece.
*To finish add some gold gel pen accents and some grey striped ribbon to the pre cut banner holes.   

I really love how bright and happy this card is. And the image was just so much fun to colour!

Now time for a bit of blog candy!!!! The fabulous and very generous Tara  has given me a Newton's Nook Designs 'Newton's Birthday Bash' stamp set to give away to one of you lovely people. All you have to do is leave me a comment over on my blog HERE .... maybe even tell me how good you are about keeping secrets and I will choose and random commenter next Wednesday at 12.00pm BST (British Summer Time) to win the set :)

Thank you so much for stopping by!

Hugs Lydia xxx

  

For dad

Hello 

With fathers day coming soon i thought id better get moving on some cards.

I have used Winston from Newtons nook, he is coloured with copics.

As all my newtons set are birthday themed i had to improvise with the sentiment.

The sentiment is made using parts of other sentiments from Newtons birthday bash.

I used Lawn fawn Quinns alpha dies alpha dies for the dad word and cut using some wood effect vinyl. 

Thanks for looking.

Newton and Winston

Hello.

I have three cards today using Newton and Winston from Newtons Nook.

I have gone for three different looks.

First up is a shaped card and i used Newtons birthday bash.

I coloured Newton with pro markers and for  the presents i stamped onto lots of scraps of patterned paper i had on my table before fussy cutting.

For my next card we have Winstons birthday. 

Winston is coloured with copics.

I used Lawn Fawn Hello sunshine papers and Stitched journalling card.

                                              Card number three...And i used Newtons antics.

This time i coloured newton with my zig pens and almost everything was coloured with them and a pen spritzer.

I kept it very simple and its only one layer.

Thanks for looking.

Cats and a Challenge

So, as a huge cat fan (mine is currently purring at my feet whilst I type) it probably comes as no great surprise that my cards today feature our newly arrived friend Newton!

I used the new Birthday Bash set along with the original Newton's Antics which is now back in stock after selling out so quickly last time.  I thought the perfect day for any cat would be playing in bags and boxes before having some dinner and nice nap - that's what mine loves anyhow!   So I made a little scene by masking off the cat in the box before stamping the others over him to get them behind.  Just simple pencil colouring on kraft - one of my favourite colouring styles.  I added a pop of colour by stamping the sentiment on pink and adding a strip of it behind the image panel for balance and finishing with some sparkly pink dash lines.

Also this week, we thought it might be fun to take a little inspiration from the colours in this design seeds image http://blog.design-seeds.com/2014/03/14/flora-brushstrokes-7/

We thought it would be interesting and fun to see how each of us on the DT took the inspiration and to see what could do with the colours, so each day this week you'll see a different take and here's mine with a little more Newton as you can never have too many cats.....

All the colours are there honest - but in a very CAS way as that is my style really.  I got a new toy this week though - a colour spritzer - so I  added the blue and green using that with a copic marker and a memory box stencil.  This time I pieced Newton together using grey card and layered up the present and his paws with more bits of card.


What we thought might make it even more fun would be to open it up to all of you to join us with your take on the same colours (plus you can use neutrals too - white, cream, grey, black and kraft).   All you have to do to join us is use stamps from our store and add your link below - other than that, anything goes as its just for fun.