NND Sponsors Cupcake Inspirations Challenge #445

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 a FLORAL theme!

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 we just release a cute little floral set called Little Lilies this month I wanted to use it for this challenge!  This little stamp set features an image of the lily of the valley flower. I stamped and colored it using watercolor markers. This image of lily in the valley is super simple to color. I just used green for the leaves and a tiny bit of grey to add highlights to the flowers. Then I trimmed out the image using the coordinating Little Lilies Die Set.

For the card I die cut out the scallop edged panel from some striped yellow paper using our Frames & Flags Die Set. I also cut out the white stitched rectangle using the same die set. On the rectangle I added some blue watercolor splotches. Then I layered and lily over the panel and added the "thinking of you" sentiment next to it! So simple and pretty.

I decided to add on a kraft colored twine ribbon and a small piece of green washi to give this card some extra finishing touches! Then I mounted the whole thing on a light blue cardstock base which matches the blue watercolor. 

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!