Newton's Nook Designs July Release- Newton's Summer Vacation

Good morning!  I have another fun card for you today featuring another great set from this month's Newton's Nook Designs release!!  This one is a full set of Newton- doing what kitties dream of doing on their summer vacation!!  So cute! Hee!  Here is my card:

I chose the image where Newton is building a sand castle.  I just love this little image!  So imaginative and cute!  I stamped Newton and the bucket onto white cardstock and colored them with Copic markers.  I fussy cut around them and put them aside.  I stamped the sandcastle and the sand in the bucket onto Sahara Sand cardstock and used Copics to color them, too.  I added a poof of Crumb Cake marker with my Spritzer tool to give it a sandy look and cut them out as well.
Then I built my card.  I created a base out of light blue cardstock.  I cut the waves and sand panels using the Custom Panels die set by Avery Elle.  I layered the waves onto my card so they would peek out from behind the sand.  I stamped the bucket, sentiment, and Newton onto the sand and layered my colored pieces over the top.  I added some shadows around them to give them a little dimension.  I layered it on to my card using dimensional adhesive dots and then added a strip of striped paper to finish off the look

Isn't Newton just the cutest?

Would you like to win “Newton’s Summer Vacation”?
This set will be given away to TWO lucky winners! 

Here's how to win: 

Comment on the NND blog and Design Team and Guest blogs (see list below)! Two winners will be chosen at random from the collective blogs release posts. 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 Thursday, July 17th at 9pm CDT to comment  -- winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday, July 18th.  

We will also be having a giveaway on Facebook - so make sure to like our Facebook page and enter to win there! 

Check out all the awesome Design Team Blogs below to enter:

Newton's Nook Designs

Taheerah Atchia

Lydia Brooke

Larissa Heskett

Diane Jaquay

Samantha Mann

Crafty Math-Chick

Shellye McDaniel

Jess Moyer

Stephanie Muzzulin

Danielle Pandeline

Tessa Wise (you're here)

I loved this release so much!  Using each set just made me smile- they are so stinkin' cute!!  I hope you had as much fun with this release as we did!  Thanks for stopping by!

Urban Market Cards for Teresa Collins Designs

Hello there!  I have two cards to share today using the beautiful Urban Market collection by Teresa Collins Designs.  The patterned papers were really inspiring me this week:

I paired the Urban Market patterned papers with the chipboard stickers, decorative tapes, and sequins for these cards.  I love playing with all the bits and pieces!

The blue tiled patterned paper (dots) is so pretty!  I had to use it on a card:

I started with a kraft card base and added a panel of the blue patterned paper (dots) to the center, leaving 1/4" around the sides and top. Next, I diecut a panel of the chevron glittered paper (zig) with the Avery Elle Custom Panels dies so it had a rounded edge.  I decorated the glitter panel with a couple of the decorative tapes, a faux stitching sticker from SRM, and a bit of linen thread.  I added the fleur de lis chipboard piece over the top of it all.  I added my sentiment, also from Avery Elle on vellum and diecut it with the label die from the Custom Panels die set so that you could see all the good stuff going on underneath.  I embellished it all with those beautiful silver sequins and added the rounded panel to my card using the foam squares found in the Teresa Collins Adhesive Kit by Xyron.  The dimension is perfect!

For my next card, I chose a pretty journaling card from the cards patterned paper as my focal point:

I started with another kraft colored card base.  I added the larger dots patterned paper (zig) to the center of my card front.   I cut out the journaling card with stripes and damask from the cards paper and stamped my sentiment from Reverse Confetti on it.  I embellished with more of the faux stitching sticker from SRM, some fun decorative tape and a bit of linen thread.  I added a couple of staples to hold it in place using my pink Teresa Collins stapler from Xyron.  Over the top of the flat items, I added a couple of smaller chipboard pieces and finished off the look with those awesome woodgrain and striped sequins:

I used the foam adhesive squares again to add the panel to my card front, adding just a strip of the blue floral print (floral) patterned paper peeking out from the bottom edge.

Each time I pull out the Urban Market collection I love it more and more!  I have been using the decorative tapes, the sequins, and the glitter paper on all of my cards- they are my favorites right now!

Hope you have a great day- if you have time and haven't voted yet, please pop over to the Paper Crafts and Scrapbooking Magazine's Gallery Idol contest page.  Voting ends today at noon!