Summer Treats with Newton's Nook!

Good Morning! Today I am feeling excited because my favorite PIP Challenge sponsor, NEWTON'S NOOK DESIGNS is providing the prize for one lucky winner this week!! A $15 gift code is up for grabs and the challenge, #1834 is anything goes :)

Newton's Summer Treats < LINK

I am also excited to share this weeks blog because I have made a thank you reflecting our recent 4H trip to Washington DC!  This card is going to one of the Oregon Senate Staffers there who really went the extra mile making sure our tour of the capitol was AMAZING!!  & got us into a visit of the White House!!

I hunted down a free capitol bldg. clip art and printed it behind Newton, enjoying his enormous stack of ice creams!!  I put a light dusting of chalk in the background to help the image pop and still keep it Clean & Simple.

 

  Oooo, these new Newton sets are the cats meow!!  Look at all the fun that can be had with them!!  Check out the NND Blog here ~ they have some great designers!

Happy Mail!!

Who doesn't love getting something fun in the mail??  As a grown-up it starts to be all about the bills!  That's part of the magic of sharing notes with others via snail mail!!  It doesn't have to be a birthday or Anniversary to send something so simple that makes others feel so special.

Here's Newton doing just that!! Do you know Newton?  Head on over to Newton's Nook Designs (NND) and there you can find out all about him (true story) and the great little shop of delightfulness that includes all his friends and so much more!!

It just so happens that NND is sponsoring our PIP Challenge #1818 this week too!!  The weekly  challenge is ANYTHING GOES and the prize is $15 to spend in their store!!!

One of my favorite things at NND is the stencils!  I thought this "Starfield" stencil looked like the bokah that fills the air in the summertime!  Doesn't it look a little like the out of focus, sundrenched seed pods etc that float around in the hot air??
                I was careful as I stenciled in selectively the dots from the stencil with the blue and then I added in the dots as well as the stars with the yellow after shifting the stencil a little.

Newton is stamped and heat embossed on a white circle die-cut & colored in with a combination of gel pens and watercolor.   The little leaf sprig is from the "Beautiful Leaves" stamp set & washi wrapped all the way around helps dress up the inside too.  

2 sizes of sequins finish it of with a little sparkle factor!(I added those in along with a some extra grass after I thought I was done!!)
Let's see what your friends can anticipate finding in their mail box! (or maybe tucked inside a book, bag, or locker!)  I promise I will check out your entries at PIP Challenges and maybe even leave a comment on your blog!!  Have fun 

Piles of Fun with Newton's Nook Designs!

Hello faithful PIP Challenge Lovers and Followers!!  Well the season's definitely changed and I'm personally in the mood for all the Fall Fun there is!!  My favorite season and all too often the shortest; so I have to load up on lots of Hot Cider, Pumpkin Spice and Autumn Leaves for the next several weeks :)

To celebrate the 40th week of the new year (hee! hee!) Newton's Nook Designs is sponsoring our challenge and that means the winner get some great "Craft Candy" from their unique line of dies, stencils & stamps inspired by Newton!  If you're not familiar with Newton and friends I highly recommend checking them out ~ so much cuteness, I just fell in love with them all!

            

Well, it was difficult to decide which stamps to showcase for this challenge, but I settled on the Autumn Newton collection.  Oh I love stamping these!!  I decided I would make tags with them for some yummy smelling hand soap gifts. 

Part of the fun with kitty stamps is the limitless ways to color them!!  My daughter caught the same bug & wants to make them over and over to match each one of our many kitties!!

A few notes about creating your own similar:  The edge of the orange paper was rubbed with red ink, white stitching was free handed with a Signo Gel Pen, and because the blue embossed words didn't show up the way I wanted I rubbed the back of the vellum with a little white pigment ink (only behind the words)!

The second tag in different colors, fussy cut and with a tassel :)

   

Thanks so much and have a great day!! 

Don't forget to enter your paper creation in the PIP Challenge for your chance to win ~

and be sure to check out the fun at the Newton's Nook Inky Paws Challenge too!!

Fun with Newton's Nook Digis!

Inspiration for this Thank You Card came from the current

Newton's Nook Designs Stamp Challenge!! 

Called

The Inky Paws Challenge! 

Black & White, Teal & Pink.

I was excited to give this a try and here are the results!  The Digis I used were

FREE AT NEWTON'S NOOK DESIGNS!!!!

Lots of fun to build cards based on a random inspiration ~ I hope you'll visit and enjoy all of the great entries and share yours while there :)

I used the digis printed on vellum immediately sprinkling embossing powder over the image before it could dry out. 

 

I used TH Oxide inks for the stripes and gel pen coloring on the vellum.

Fun and colorful!!


Looking for more fun challenges??
I've also entered this card in:
Simon Says Wednesday Challenge
Word Art Wednesday Challenge
The Artistic Stampers Challenge
MHK Designs: Challenge

Challenge #1710 / Pammies Inky Pinkies !! !!

Hi!! Welcome to "Hi!" Notes Blog
and my exciting first week as a

design team member

for

Pammies Inky Pinkies!  ( or PIP ! )http://pammiesinkypinkieschallenges.blogspot.com/. 

I hope you'll follow the link and play along, the more the merrier! 
And of course, there is also the opportunity to WIN fun stuff!

 

Each challenge is

!! ANYTHING GOES !!

unless the Monday falls on the 5th Monday of a month, then that challenge

will have a Theme that must be followed!!!!!

This weeks Design Challenge at Pammies Inky Pinkies is # 1710 

Our wonderful sponsor is

NEWTON'S NOOK DESIGNS

http://www.newtonsnookdesigns.com/

I think you should stop by & meet Newton!! He & his friends are the inspiration for so many Newton's Nook stamps

I just love this little cat & coffee set.  So much purr-sonality !!
 
    
I like to have fun with the inside and back of the cards too!! 
I think most of the elements of this card are self explanatory, but  I will do a quick rundown of techniques (sometimes the devil is in the details!!) Almost every edge is rubbed with a darker shade of ink, the white background the kitties are on was embossed with a stylus to make a clean line around the border, the dots leading up to the dream clouds are made with Tonic Studio's pearl drops, & the coffee cups are mounted on dimensional tape to make them "pop" off of the page as is the tiny toy mouse in the bottom corner!

                
Leave me a little Love :)  I look forward to hearing what you think and I wish you good luck and lots of inspiration for your challenge entry!