A Bit of Red, A Bit of Green, and a Bit of Brown

 I mean, when you start working on your holiday cards it's possible that 'Oh! I had better stock up on brown cardstock!' isn't the first thing that comes to mind, but, folks, I'm here to tell you that you just may want to stock up on brown cardstock for your holiday cards! This color combination presented in the Newton's Nook Inky Paws Challenge is really quite gorgeous!

The next thing that may or may not come to mind is to use these colors for... snow. Snowflakes, to be exact. Yup. From the Beautiful Blizzard stamp set. That's what I did. And you know what? I absolutely LOVE it! Turns out snow doesn't have to be blue and silver all the time. 

See what I mean? I used a combination of Hero Arts and Simon Says Stamp inks and I absolutely love how the rich color tones work with those beautiful detailed snowflakes. I stamped and embossed the Pinkfresh Studio sentiment in gold and added a strip of gold glitter paper along the edge for plenty of sparkle and shine!

And... I'm not the only one who loves stamping these pretty snowflakes! Sterling wanted to make a card, too! He is a big fan of pink, so he had to have pink on his and he chose his other colors, too. It doesn't quite fit with the challenge, but that's okay, he's two, he can pick his colors. LOL! He particularly loved the gold ink! This was the first time we've used that one and he thought it was great! We did cheat a little and used the Misti so his snowflakes were a bit easier to stamp and then ended up right where he wanted them. It is so much fun crafting with him!

Inky Paws for Halloween!

***This is my second post of the day!  You won't want to miss my Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko card featuring a fabulous Paper Smooches stamp set!  Click here or scroll down to see it!***

I am excited to be up on the Newton's Nook blog today!  Have you checked out the Inky Paws challenge yet?  Every month Newton's Nook has a fun sketch challenge for you and along with the sketch is a chance to win FREE STAMPS!   Woot! Woot!  Here is the current sketch:

And here is the super fun card I created with it using the Boo Crew stamp set!  (I love Halloween!  Yay!)  I decided to make my card a vertical one instead of horizontal, but other than that I stuck pretty closely to the sketch.



I colored my mummy bear (Go ahead...say that out loud.  It's fun.  You know you want to.) with Spectrum Noir markers and I just love how he turned out!  So adorable!  Other than that, this card is simply cardstock and a bit of May Arts ribbon!  Nice and easy, yet oh, so cute!



If you would like to participate in the challenge, you can find all of the details over on this post.  If you don't have any Newton's Nook stamps yet, you can snag a free digi here!  YAY!

Have a Happy!