Sponsoring INK hop 2016

Today we're sponsoring and playing along with Ink hop:

This hop was put together by Simon Hurley to help promote and share the fun of being creative!
Simon is an awesome young crafter with his own blog and youtube channel! There are some awesome prizes too in this hop, including $25 store credit from us at Newton's Nook Designs! Make sure you check out the Inkclipse blog for details on how to win!

Let the cat out of the bag!

For our post in the hop today I thought I would share a card featuring one of our cute kitty stamp sets, Newton's Birthday Bash. If you're new to Newton's Nook Designs you might not know Newton yet but he is our big orange kitty and the inspiration for many of our popular kitty stamp sets!  (You can follow us on instagram to see a ton of fun kitty pix of the "real" Newton.)

For this card, I used the image of the kitty in the bag and stamped it onto watercolor paper with black waterproof ink. I colored it with Inktense watercolor pencils and then carefully trimmed out the image, fussy cutting it by hand. If you don't like to cut by hand, this set does now have a coordinating die set so you can cut it easily with that too. 

I wanted to make this card into a masculine birthday card so I kept the color palette simple, using teals and browns. I used some striped brown washi and a strip of subtle teal patterned paper. Then I added the cat to the white cardstock with a dimensional square and stamped the "let the cat out of the bag" and "it's your birthday" on each side of the image. These sentiments are also part of the Newton's Birthday Bash stamp set! 

I love how this card turned out. It's simple and fun and will make a great birthday card!

Make sure you check out the rest of the hop :

Inklipse

Simon Says Stamp

Newton’s Nook Designs <--- You are here

Laura Bassen

Jess Gerstner

Taniesa Vlasak

Crafty Max

Kristie Kreates

Kevin Bray
Concord & 9th