Warm Wishes Octopus Card!

Sending you lots of warm wishes!

Has it been cold where you live? This January has been a horribly cold one here in Wisconsin. We've had several days of -20 and lower temps! Sooooo cold! So I thought it would be fun to make a silly warm wishes octopus card to send a friend this winter! 

Plus, I love finding ways to use stamps for multiple occasions. This set, SEAson's Greetings, was part of our holiday release but I love that just by changing the colors to something a little less holiday, you can easily make this card fit other wintery occasions too! 

To create this card, I stamped this cute octo on watercolor paper with waterproof ink and then colored it in with distress markers and a water brush. I love this purple/green/teal color combo! So fun and cheery! Here are a couple close-ups so you can see the fun coloring. 

After the ocotpus was all colored I cut it out with circle dies in my big shot and then added it onto this card with a doily behind it for fun! Then I added some patterned paper and washi tape (I can't seem to make a card without washi tape and bakers twine lately). 

What do you think? Doesn't changing up the colors really give this stamp set a fresh, winter feel? I also grabbed the "warm wishes" sentiment from the Snow Day Stamp set - but you could use any word you like - it would be cute for a winter birthday too!

By the way - this set is one of our sets that's ON SALE this week!  We're trying to make room for our spring sets -so from now until Friday, February 7th - select stamp sets are on sale for just $10.99!  What a great time to snatch them up! Check out our site to see the sale: http://www.newtonsnookdesigns.com/sale/

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Don't forget to enter our Inky Paws challenge!

You have until this Friday, February 7th, 2014 at Midnight CST to enter our latest challenge!  This month we're trying something new - a color challenge! Check out our color combo here and post a card using it for a chance to win 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 use the digital freebies on our freebies page here.