Coffee Lovers Blog Hop!

This is our second post today - to check out our new release blog hop winners, scroll down or click here. 

Today I'm playing along with the very fun Coffee Lovers blog hop.

There are going to be TONS of fun prizes too - including a chance to win our new
Newton Loves Coffee stamp set from us at Newton's Nook Designs! 

You can head over to the Coffee Lovers Blog for more details on how to play along! 

I thought I'd use our BRAND NEW Newton Loves Coffee stamp set! Playing along in this hop the last couple of years is one of the things that inspired me to create this stamp set. Plus, there are so many coffee lovers in my family that I knew it would be so fun to use this set to make them cards too! I'm sure many of you can relate!

For my card, I stamped the kitty with the French Press onto watercolor paper and colored him using a combo of Zig Clean Color brush markers and Tim Holtz Distress Markers. Then I carefully fussy cut him out - you can tell in the close up that I need a bit more practice with this but if you don't look too close it looks pretty good! 

I created a background with an inked edge using distress inks since the white paper seemed too stark. I also stamped some of the little bold coffee mugs onto the background paper to add a bit more fun detail. I also added the "a birthday brew just for you" sentiment - since I seem to ALWAYS need birthday cards!

If you haven't had a chance to check out our new Newton Loves Coffee  set, here's a peek at the whole thing. It actually just went up for sale today - we didn't even plan it that way but it worked out perfect to coordinate with this hop! 

Hope you enjoyed this coffee card today! Make sure you head over to the Coffee Lover's Blog to find out how you can link up your card to play along -- There are a TON of prizes, including one from us at Newton's Nook Designs!

Like Challenges? There's one week left to enter our Inky Paws challenge #25 - Halloween Challenge!

Just a few days left to play! You have until Friday, October 2nd at Midnight CST time to enter our current inky Paws Challenge. All you need to do is create a card or project using a HALLOWEEN 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. There's even a special Halloween image that I added last week!