Merci Card by April Guest Designer Candice Fisher

I can’t believe it is week three already!  We are in full Spring here and I am dreaming of Paris with Newton!

I can just image how awesome it is in Paris right now and will live through Newton as he travels there in this bright card!

Of course to create this fun scene I used the Newton Dreams of Paris Stamp Set. I started by using my cameo to create the three rectangles and then ran it through my die cutting machine to get the stitched frame.  For the background, I trimmed some watercolor paper to fit behind the frame and inked with squeezed lemonade, tumbled glass, and broken china. I then took the circle stencil #1 from the Bokeh Stencil Set and added white ink over for a faint circle impression. I lined up the Eiffel tower and stamped with versafine black ink and added a green stitched hill.  

I stamped the Paris Newtons, hot air balloon, and clouds, colored with copic markers, and fussy cut out, but you can get the coordinating dies to make your life easier! To create the scene, I added a die cut sun that I inked with squeezed lemonade to the top left. I lined up the frame and stamped the merci directly onto the frame and then pop dotted on the card base. Next, I added the cuties in Paris, gluing and pop dotting to get them secure.

For my embellishments, I added a variety of different sequins and added some white pen dots to the images.  

I hope you can each dream of your city that you would love to be in, or if you have any of the Newton's travel stamp sets share your creations on Newton's Nook Design Facebook page!

And you can always check out and join for your chance to win in the Inky Paws Challenge!

I’m off to now dream about England, or maybe Italy…

- Candice 

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