Cozy Campers Cards by August Guest Designer Kara Pogreba

Today we have our first post from our August Guest Designer, Kara from Bright Hope Creations! We are so in love with her amazing coloring and fun bright and colorful cards. We are so happy to have her join us this month and we can't wait to share what she has created with our stamps! Keep reading to find out more about Kara today and to check out her first project below!

Hi, I’m Kara of Bright Hope Creations (formally Kara Lynne Card Designs).  I live in Kimberly, Wisconsin with my wonderful husband and our two amazing daughters (ages 16 and 14).   I love designing clean and layered cards, creating scenes, and adding dimension.  Copics are my favorite coloring medium as you will see this month, and I’ve been practicing with no-line coloring lately.  I am so excited to guest design for Newton’s Nook and hope to inspire you with their creative and adorable images!

I have three cards today featuring the newly released set, Cozy Campers.  These retro campers remind me of the one we had when I was growing up!  The first one was designed with that all too often sloping camp site in mind.  We camp a lot in the summer with our pop-up camper.  My daughter looked at this card and said, "Oh that reminds me of when..."  Yep, that's how we roll!

To create this card, I stamped the camper and flowers in a light gray ink and then lightly drew out the background with a pencil, erasing the pencil lines as I colored.

The second card is a birthday card.  I love how the retro camper, flamingo, and metal table and chairs match up so well with this sentiment from the Birthday Essentials stamp set.  This card was created much like the first one.  The sentiment is longer than the die from Framework dies, so I extended it with partial die cutting.

There are so many ways to color these images, so that's what I did for my final card today.  I kept some elements the same such as the lights, flags, window light, and wheels, but changed up other elements to create a colorful campground.  The sentiment comes from the newly released Newton's Summer Treats Stamp Set and each camper sits upon a die cut from the Framework Die Set.

Supplies:
Stamps:  Cozy Campers, Newton's Summer Treats Stamp Set, Birthday Essentials Stamp Set
Dies:  Framework Die Set
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, London Fog, Rich Cocoa, VersaMark
Copics:  C00,0,1,2,3,5,6,8,  W1, BG0000,000,02,05,07,10,11,13, YG00,01,03,05,61,63,67, R02,05,24,27, Y11,13,15,  RV00,02,04,10, G12,20,21, E29,40,41,42,43,44,47,50
Other:  SSS detail white embossing powder, Prisma colored pencils 1058, 1003, Signo white gel pen, fun foam

Thanks so much for spending time with me today, and thank you, Newton's Nook for the honor to be this month's guest designer!  Have a great week!

-Kara