NND sponsors Cupcake Inspiration Challenge #429!

Have you heard of the Cupcake Inspirations Challenge? For each challenge they post a YUMMY cupcake photo and color combo for inspiration! Everybody likes cupcakes, right?

The current challenge going up today features the fun color combo of orange, green and brown!

We're sponsoring this challenge so If you head over to their blog and play along you have a chance to win a $25 store credit to our store at newtonsnookdesigns.com! How awesome is that?

Of course I had to play along -- here's the card I created. Since the colors screamed Halloween to me, I decided to put together a Halloween card! I used the fun skeleton kitty and mouse from our Spooky Skeletons Stamp Set and embossed them using green and orange embossing powders. I trimmed them out using the coordinating Spooky Skeletons Die Set. I knew I had to add in some brown so I found a piece of dark brown cardstock and embossed the "Happy Halloween" Stamp set onto it with orange embossing powder. I created a watercolor splash in the background using orange and green distress inks on watercolor paper.

Now that I had something using all the colors I began to assemble the card. I added in a scrap of green polka dot paper cut out with the grass border from the Land Borders Die Set. I added it all onto the orange card base, along with a little piece of orange washi tape and some white twine to finish it off. This card is a little bit "out there" for me but I had fun making it! That's what makes challenges so fun! They get you to try things outside of your comfort zone!!

Make sure you pop over to the Cupcake Inspirations Challenge blog to see more fun today. We have several other NND Design Team members featured as "Guest Sweeties" for this challenge and some of the regular "Sweeties" (that's what they call their Design Team -- cute, right?) are featuring Newton's Nook Designs stamps too!