It's Your Birthday with Newton's Nook Inky Paws Challenge

Wow, it's been a while since I posted but I've headed into the busiest time of the year at work and I'm just dog tired by the time I get home every night and weekends are busy now too.  I'm sure you all know how that goes.  But I wanted to pop on here to share the card I made for the Inky Paws Challenge over at Newton's Nook.  I love their challenges almost as much as I love their stamps.  This one was all about sparkle and you know how I love that.  You can find the challenge here.

For this only slightly more than one layer card, I used a technique from a class I took a month ago to do some partial die cutting.  I stamped the oh so cute kitty in a box from Newton's Birthday Bash and colored him with my copics.  Then I very carefully cut around the kitty and slid my Simon Says Stamp Brilliant Gifts die behind it.  I cut out the present die from the card, then again from black card stock and some DCWV glitter cardstock.  Then it was just a matter of rebuilding the presents behind the kitty.  I added some Wink of Stella to the kitty's box and covered it with Glossy Accents.

Another Newton's Nook Image

Today I have yet another card made with the Newton's Nook set called Newton's Birthday Bash. I used a design very similar to the one in yesterday's card.  The images were stamped onto Neenah white cardstock using Tuxedo Black Momento Ink so I could color with my markers.  For the card on the left, I used some markers from Stampin' Up (I wasn't really very happy with the outcome).  For the card on the right, I used my new Copic markers.  I liked the Copic markers much better for this process.  I cut the finished images out using that same Lawn Fawn Stitched Journaling Card die.  For the paper, I used two more sheets from the Crate Paper 6x6 Party Day pad cut down to an A2 side and wrapped with baker's twine.  For the banners, I again couldn't find the right paper.  This time I used a couple of Distress Ink ink pads and my blending tool to color them to go with the rest of the card.  Then, I used that Lawn Fawn Bannerific stamp and die combined with the sentiment from Sophie's Sentiments. 

More Fun with Newton's Nook

 While I had my new Newton's Nook sets out, I could help but ink up Newton's Birthday Bash too.  It has such cute images.  This time, I used my watercolor paper, some Jet Black Archival ink and my Distress Ink Markers.  The one on the right was my first try and I was able to learn a few things that made the left image a bit easier to do.  For the cards, I used some paper from the 6x6 pad from Crate Paper called Party Day as the background and some baker's twine.  I cropped the corners with my We R Memory Keeper's Corner Rounder.  I ran the images through my Stitched Journaling Card die from Lawn Fawn for a little more interest.  I wasn't really sure about how to put on my sentiment and finally decided on a banner, but I couldn't find the right paper.  So I finally decided to add some color to watercolor paper using my Distress Ink pens, stamp the sentiment from Sophie's Sentiments from Lawn Fawn using my Archival ink.  Then it was just a few snips of the scissors to make a banner and some pop dots to finish it off.