Lab-Adore You a Happy Birthday w/ Newton's Nook Designs!! =)

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Hello!!
I'm up on the Newton's Nook Designs Blog today and I CAN'T WAIT to share my card for today!! I've used the Fetching Friendship Stamp Set!!

I wanted to create a FUN Shaker Card and I needed a Birthday Card for a Sweet Friend who has a Chocolate Lab!! I thought it would be fitting to make a Card with a Dog that looked like her "Sara"!! I think I recreated her PERFECTLY!!??  =) I used my Distress Markers along with my Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers to Watercolor everything on Distress Watercolor Paper!! I then Paper Pieced a Bandana Styled Neck Tie!! I thought it would be NEAT to used the Simon Says Stamp "Happy Birthday Circle Die" around the Window and I thought it made it look like Sun Rays!!?? So I went with it and used some Distress Ink in Mustard Seed to Color the Shaker Window and then I added some Martha Stewart Heart Glitter and some Glitter Shaving then I added a Little Clear Wink of Stella Glitter Marker for some Sparkle and my Card was done!!

You're Last Chance to enter our Inky Paws challenge #23 - Summer Lovin'!
Just a little time left - You have until TONIGHT - Friday, August 7th at Midnight CST time to enter our current inky Paws Challenge. All you need to do is create a card or project with a Summer Theme and use & NND products! 
The winners of this challenge will get a $10 gift card to our shop! You can view full details and link up your card to our Inky Paws Challenge on this post.

If you don't own a NND stamp set yet you can still play along - just download and use one of the digital freebies on our freebies page.

I hope you'll Play along!! I CAN'T wait to see what you create!!
Also if you have been WAITING to get your HANDS on the New "Shark Bites Stamp Set" or the "Fetching Friendship Stamp Set" they're BACK IN STOCK in the Newton's Nook Designs Shop!! YIPPEE!! Just alittle ENABILING for some Weekend Shopping!! =)
I'm also linking this up to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Tie It Up!! I thought beings "Sara" has a Tied Bandana around her Neck and with a Package being Tied up at her Feet it counted as being Tied up of Sorts!!??  =) I'm also Linking this up to the Simon Says Stamp Flickr Challenge #25 "Whit on White with a Touch of Color!! If you haven't joined their Flickr Group NOW is the TIME!! They're CLOSE to reaching 1,000 Members and once that goal is met, they will be doing a HUGE GIVEAWAY!!  =) YIPPEE!! So if you'd like a chance to WIN and to Play Along with another FUN Challenge Join the Group today!! =)
                                           
THANKS SO MUCH for stopping by and I hope you have a FABULOUS WEEKEND!!
       COUNTRY HUGS-N-KISSES
                   LARISSA   =)

Newton's Nook Designs June Release ~ Fetching Friendship!! =)

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Hello!!

I'm here for Day 2 of the Newton's Nook Designs June Release!! Before I get started with my Release Post though, I wanted to share the Pictures of the Sunset I took Last Night!! We were having SEVER Weather again as we have been this past week, but the Colors of this just can't be FAKED so I thought I'd share a little Piece of my HEAVEN on EARTH!! See how it looks like there are Rays coming from the Ground up to Heaven!!?? I've NEVER seen this before and just had to get a Picture!! I hope it makes you SMILE as much as it does me!!??  Okay back to the Release Post!! We are showcasing the New Fetching Friendship Stamp Set today and TRUST me when I say you will LOVE this Set!!

  

I have made Two different Cards to share today!! I started with a FUN Window Card!! I have a Peek-A-Boo Frame Die from MFT and I though it would be so Sweet to put that in the Center of a Heart!! I KNEW I wanted to use the Sentiment "LOVE is a Four Legged Word" and thought the Heart went well with it!! I also chose the Sweet Image with the Tilted Head!! Both of our Dogs Jazz and Bow do this ALL the time!! =) So when I saw this Image I just fell in LOVE with it!! I Stamped and Embossed it on to some Distress Water Color Paper that I used for the Inside of my Card and then I Water Colored it with my Distress Markers!! I just LOVE the way it turned out!! =) Black is a HARD color to achieve with Distress Markers as Water Colors because when you add Water the Inks Fade some, but if you keep Layering and Dabbing away the access in your Highlight spots it works really well and I personally think the Layers add Texture and Depth!!

For  my Second Card I decided to use the same Image only I wanted to use the Sentiment "I Chews You"!! I LOVE the Play on words! =) I thought it would be FUN to have a bunch of Bones all around the ground Like the Dog "Chews You" instead of ALL those Bones!! =) I also thought about Putting the Bone in the Mouth and in the end I decided against it for this particular Card, but I plan on doing that for a different Card sometime!! =) I Stamped and Masked the Bones and Decided in the End to Cut a Few out and have them above some of the others for a more realistic look!! =) I Masked off the Ground and Inked the Sky with Tumbled Glass Distress Ink!! I used Kraft MFT Ink for the Ground!! I used my Distress Markers to Water Color the Image and I Stamped and Embossed my Sentiment!! I just LOVE the way it turned out!!

 

Would you like to win “Fetching Friendship”?This set will be given away to ONE lucky winner! 

Here's how to win: 

Comment on the NND Blog and Design Team and Guest Blogs (see list below)!! The winner will be chosen at random from the collective blog 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 Wednesday, June 17th at 9pm CDT to comment  -- winners will be announced on the blog post on Thursday, June 18th. 

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

Newton's Nook Designs

Taheerah Atchia

Lydia Evans

Larissa Heskett

Samantha Mann

Crafty Math-Chick

Jess Moyer

Stephanie Muzzulin

Danielle Pandeline

Kimberly Rendino

Yukari Yoshioka

Vera Yates - Guest Designer

THANKS SO MUCH for stopping by today and I hope you'll Visit the Newton's Nook Designs Blog tomorrow to see if you have WON one of the Giveaways and to Shop for the New Release!!

Have a FABULOUS WEEK!! 

COUNTRY HUGS-N-KISSES
LARISSA  =)