A Watercolored Wagon for This Month's Inky Paws Challenge!

Good morning!  I had a chance to play along with the latest Inky Paws Challenge hosted by Newton's Nook Designs!  This month it is a sketch challenge- here is what I made:

I am in the mood for fall!  In fact, I had my first pumpkin spice latte' this morning!  Hee!!  I chose the adorable Wagon of Wishes set to use to create this fall feeling card, stamping the wagon and flowers on to watercolor paper with Staz On ink.  I watercolored the image and added some splatters of blue ink to the white space.  I added my sentiment from the new Simply Sentimental set to finish off the panel.

I kept my card pretty simple, embossing my kraft card base with the Large Polka Dot embossing folder by Stampin' Up!.  I also added a bit of linen thread, a chipboard button and a tiny bit of patterned paper from the My Mind's Eye Market Street 6x6 pad.

This sketch was so easy and fun to work with!  I hope you pop over to the Newton's Nook Designs blog to play along and to see what the other designers created!

Have a great day and enjoy your last long weekend of summer!

Loads of Christmas Wishes

Good morning!  Today I'm playing along with the most recent Inky Paws Challenge from the Newton's Nook Designs blog!  

They have another cute sketch to inspire you- here is my take on it:

I stuck to the sketch, creating a fun Christmas card.  I chose the adorable Wagon of Wishes set and put a Christmas spin on it by coloring the presents in red and green.  I colored the image with my Prismacolor pencils again- I'm still loving them!  I may even invest in the gigantic tin with all the colors!

The sentiment is a combination of two sets- Wagon of Wishes and Holiday Wishes.  I love how easily the go together!

The papers are by Little Yellow Bicycle- I love the rich colors in that stripe!  I kept my embellishments simple, a couple black epoxy dots by Teresa Collins Designs and sticker stitches by SRM Stickers along with some pretty ribbon I had in my stash.

Thanks for stopping by today!  Don't forget to pop over to the Newton's Nook Designs blog to see what the rest of the team made and check out the full sketch!

-tessa

Happy Harvest with Newton's Nook

Good Morning!

I just got back from the dentist! :) You know how that goes!  Hee!  Luckily all the people at my office are so friendly and fun!  I don't mind going so much.

I wanted to pop on because there is a new challenge up on the Newton's Nook Designs Blog today!  I had fun playing along!

Here is the sketch:

And here is the card I came up with using it:

I enjoyed coloring the image with my Copics this time around!  The papers are from last year's October Afternoon Witch Hazel line.  I still love that plaid!

I hope you have time to play along with the sketch!  Pop over to the Newton's Nook Designs Blog to see what the other designers did with the sketch!

Thanks for stopping by today!

-tessa

Newton's Nook Designs August Release- Wagons of Wishes

Hello!  It's day two of Newton's Nook Designs August release!  Today the design team is sharing cards made with the new Wagons of Wishes set!  It's another fun one!  Check out what I made:

This set is so fun because you can add different things to the wagon!  I chose to add the flowers for this one.  I paper pieced the little wagon with some red polka-dot paper then stamped the flowers inside.  I colored them with Copic markers.  The papers are by Little Yellow Bicycle and work perfectly for the vintage look I was going for.  I finished my card by stamping the sentiment onto a banner and embellishing it with a genuine vintage button from my Great Grandma Ollie's collection.  I love that I can use something she saved for so long in my crafts today!

I am already plotting a few more cards with this set!  I think I'll make the girls' teachers some cards for the first day of school!

Don't forget to pop over and visit the Newton's Nook Designs blog to check out the full set!  They are graciously giving away two of each of their new sets- here is the information:

Would you like to win Wagons of Wishes?

This set will be given away to Two lucky winners! 

Here's how to win: 

1. Comment on Newton's Nook Design blog: http://www.newtonsnookblog.com. One Winner will be randomly chosen from the comments on the August release posts.

2. Comment on the Design Team Member and Guest blogs (see list below)! One winner will be chosen at random from the collective blogs in the August release blog hop. 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, August 15th at 9pm Central Standard Time to comment  -- winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday, August 16th.  

Make sure you check out all the blogs participating in the Launch Party below to enter:

Tessa Wise (me!)

Jocelyn Olson

Samantha Mann

Emily Leiphart

Jennifer Ingle

Elena Roussakis (Guest Designer)

I love what the design team did with this set!  It's fun to see different ideas with the same set, isn't it? 

I hope you enjoy your day!  Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to leave a comment- you never know if you'll be the winner of this cute set!!  :)

-tessa