Newton pop-up card

Last fall I bought the Lawn Fawn popup dies and have been itching to use them ever since. Now was the time. I used Newton's Nook "Birthday flutter"-stamp set and I also used Lawn Fawn's stiched cloud border dies.

I was inspired by a card on Pinterest and wanted to do the front of my card with all the clouds in different colors. Then on the inside I used the popup to really deliver the message in the most surprising way. Loved how it turned out.

The bird and kitty is colored with Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers. The clouds are really very blue, it's just the photo that is not the best. Blaming it on the really long dark winters here, not much time to photograph in daylight *smile*.

The back is ink blended with distress inks and the sentiments are heat embossed. I think it was here that I figured out why you really shouldn't use black embossing powder but instead use a black ink and clear embossing powder, the risk is otherwise that you have black speckles EVERYWHERE...

The patterned paper is also from Lawn Fawn. Love that whole series. I saw that they have now come out with a similar one but in rainbow colors. Must have it =)

Newton's Inky Paws color challenge - #41

It's time again for another Inky Paw's challenge over at Newton's Nook. This time it's a color challenge. The colors you are supposed to use are; yellow, pink, mint (blueish/green kind of) and white;

Lately I've been obsessed with using Lawn Fawn's stiched cloud border die. I just love it. So, I thought I would use it both as a die cut and as a mask to do some ink blended fluffy cloud skies. I used Picked Raspberry and Mustard Seed for the sky. I painted the kitty with my Zig markers and gave him a "minty" balloon with some Wink of Stella for that extra glitter. Not really being picked up on the photo though... The clouds on the bottom also got some shimmer and glitter on them.

Newton's flying high.

Challenges
Participating in the following challenges;
1. Inky Paw's challenge - Color
2. Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - Anything goes

Newton hangs out by the coffee table

Since I really like the Newton stamps, I made another card on the same theme and thought I'd enter that to the Inky Paws challenge as well. This time it's a sketch challenge that looks like this;

I knew I wanted to change up the coffee table image in "Newton loves coffee" so I grabbed "Newton's holiday mischief" and masked off the image with Newton and the wreath and stamped the belly, feet and tail from that onto this one under the table. I also added two more coffee mugs, one can never have too much coffee *smile*. This scene is quite common in my house with two large cats that always want to check out what we're having on the dinner/coffee table.

I tried another color combo for this siamese kitty (a bit darker) and again used Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers to color the scene. I then die-cut the panel with Lawn Fawn stiched rectangle die.

I wanted some more life in the background so I flicked on some pink shimmer/glitter water color and then also used a stencil and Spun sugar Distress ink to do the circles.

Two strips of patterned paper, one with plain red and some bakers twine and here we are *smile*

Newton making a birthday brew

They're having another Inky Paws challenge at Newton's Nook and I could not resist to enter. This time it's a sketch challenge that looks like this;

I knew I wanted to change up the coffee table image in "Newton loves coffee" so I grabbed "Newton's holiday mischief" and masked off the image with Newton and the wreath and stamped the belly, feet and tail from that onto this one under the table. I also added two more coffee mugs, one can never have too much coffee *smile*. This scene is quite common in my house with two large cats that always want to check out what we're having on the dinner/coffee table.

When I was a kid we had a siamese so I wanted to try and color Newton like that. I grabbed my Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers and colored everything in. Still need lots more practise. Thankfully the water color paper is very forgiving so if you mess up you can add more water and dab off or you can simply let dry and do another layer of color. It's fun to play though. I then die-cut the panel with Lawn Fawn stiched rectangle die, shifted it around a bit and die-cut again to get this square rectangle instead.

I wanted some more life in the background so I flicked on some pink shimmer/glitter water color and then also used a stencil and Spun sugar Distress ink to do the circles. The card base is also stamped with Spun sugar distress ink to have some more life there.

Two strips of patterned paper, one with plain red and some bakers twine and here we are *smile*