Happy Easter | Neat & Tangled

I made quite a few slider cards for Easter, and they were a big hit. Interactive cards are a lot of work to make but the end result is they are a lot of fun to play with. This stamp set, Cottontail Cuties by Neat & Tangled was so very cute to color and there were so many color combinations you could do with it.

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CARD RECIPE

STAMPS: Neat and Tangled Cottontail Cuties.
PAPER: Bristol Smooth. Texture White, SSS 50lb Vellum.
INK: SSS Intense Black Ink. Tim Holtz Distress Inks.
EMBELLISHMENTS: Spectrum Noir Clear Sparkle.
TOOLS: Bigkick
SUPPLIES: Mft Die-namics Blueprints 13, Clouds, Grass. Double-Sided Adhesive Foam. Pop Dots. Copic Markers.

Happy Easter | Lawn Fawn

Are you ready for a Easter Party, these kids sure are! This interactive shaker card is filled with sequins and caviar beads. The egg silhouette has been colored with distress oxide ink and a acetate window is glued onto the back to keep all the shaker elements inside. I then added a thin border of foam tape around the edge to contain all the beads and sequins.

I debated leaving the inside of the egg white or keeping the patterned paper in the background of the egg. After laying it out several times it looked much better keeping it in. The patterned paper was die cut with a stitched border and adhered to a #110 white card base. The shaker element was then attached with a strong adhesive glue to the panel.

The children were colored with Copics and the smaller images from the Easter Party set were used to fill in. White gel pen is used for highlights and glitter sparkle was added to the pedals, glossy accents was added to the ducks nose, feet, and jelly beans.

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CARD RECIPE

STAMPS: Lawn Fawn Easter Party.

PAPER: Neenah Solar White 110. Lawn Fawn Perfectly Plaid Spring.

INK: SSS Intense Black. Distress Oxide Fossilized Amber.

TOOLS: Big Shot. Cutting Machine.

SUPPLIES: Foam Tape, White Gel Pen, MFT Blueprints 13.Copics. Sequins, Caviar Beads. Acetate. Miss Kates Cuttables Happy Easter Egg.

Happy Easter | Newton's Nook Designs | Alcohol Ink Background

This weekend was the first time I had ever played with alcohol inks and I thought it would be a fun thing for both my partner and myself to together as a couple. I had everything bought and pre-cut, setup the kitchen table and showed him how to do the first one and away we played.

He thought it was cool, and we both made 5 panels, and they turned out great. I left them dry and I used one on todays card to finish off a Newton Easter shaker card.

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CARD RECIPE

STAMPS: Newton's Nook Designs Newton's Easter Basket.

PAPER: Neenah Solar White 110. Yupo. SU Old Olive

INK: SSS Intense Black. Alcohol Ink Amethyst, Purple Twilight. 

TOOLS: Big Shot.

SUPPLIES: Foam Tape, White Gel Pen, MFT Blueprints 13, Fresh Cut Grass. Copics. Sequins, Acetate. Nuvo Drops Carnation Pink, Apple Green, Caribbean Ocean.





Friends like You | Newton's Nook Designs

I've been playing with a few different stamping techniques, this one is called Fill-In Stamping Jennifer McGuire shared it on here blog about a week ago. This was such a cute, vibrant image and I wanted to keep it the focal point for this card and I thought this technique was perfect.

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CARD RECIPE

STAMPS: Newton's Nook Designs Newton's Easter Basket.

PAPER: Bristol Smooth. Neenah Solar White 110.
INK: SSS Intense Black. Lawn Fawn Minty Fresh.

TOOLS: Big Shot.

SUPPLIES: Foam Tape, White Gel Pen, Glitter, MFT Blueprints 13, Copics.

Have an Egg-stra Special Day! | Newton's Nook Designs

Happy Friday, where did this week go? I have been so busy in my design room yet I feel I have got nothing done. Though the first day of Spring came and went I know I was not the only person in that slump!

I jumped on in a took part in a color challenge this week, as I have not done one in ages. This color challenge is by

The colors chosen to use were yellow, light green, light blue and white. I colored Kitty Easter Bunny Newton first with Copics. Then using embossing paste and some pretty iridescent glitter I stenciled on the cloudy sky background and set that aside to dry for a few hours. I stamped on the black sentiment and die-cut out the background panel. I pop dotted Newton for raised dimension and added some grass to ground him and a touch of blue on the side, a little white gel pen for highlights, sparkle to the eggs, and glossy accents for detail. 

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 Krysta's lovely Easter card is so sweet with those clouds from Cloudy Sky stencil. We love how she softly colored the bunny-kitty from Newton's Easter Basket stamp set. What a delightful card!

CARD RECIPE

STAMPS: Newton's Nook Designs Newton's Easter Basket.

PAPER: Bristol Smooth. Neenah Solar White 110. LF Audrey Blue. 

INK: SSS Intense Black.

TOOLS: Big Shot.

SUPPLIES: Foam Tape, NND Cloudy Sky, Embossing Paste, Iridescent, White Gel Pen, Glitter, Blueprints 27, Copics. Spectrum Noir Clear Sparkle, Glossy Accents.

You Are My Cottontail Cutie! | Neat and Tangled | Sunny Studio Stamps

A super fun interactive slider card, a little girl walking amongst the grass on an Easter egg hunt.

I stamped and colored all the images that I wanted to use for the scene. Then I created my slider mechanism with the green grass and made sure all the working parts moved correctly.

Stamped my sentiments before assembling it all together. Then adhered a second piece of grass so you don't see the -slide me- moving slider and it is raised so it doesn't interfere with the slider mechanism itself.

I then moved onto the background by stenciling the sky onto heavyweight cardstock as this is what will hold the slider piece. I added it onto a #110lbs card base and finished off the card by completing the scene with adding the sitting bunny and the kitty hiding in the grass.

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CARD RECIPE

STAMPS: Neat & Tangled Cottontail Cuties, Sunny Studio Stamp Purrfect Birthday. Lawn Fawn Push Here.

PAPER: Bristol Smooth. Neenah Solar White 110. SU Certainly Celery. FL Audrey Blue. 

INK: SSS Intense Black. Distress Oxides Broken China.

TOOLS: Big Shot.

SUPPLIES: Foam Tape, MFT Fresh Cut Grass, Blueprints 13, Slider Channel Builder. Copics. Spectrum Noir Clear Sparkle, Glossy Accents, Acetate.