Send Uplifting Smiles Blog Hop!

Send Uplifting Smiles Blog Hop!

Today the Newton's Nook Designs and Inky Paws Challenge Team members are hopping along to Send Uplifting Smiles! Our goal today is to help brighten your day with uplifting and encouraging cards that will make you smile! We know that many of you are under stay home orders to help fight the spread of the Coronavirus and during this time of social distancing it's more important than ever to keep in touch with family and friends and we encourage you to spend some time creating and sending cards to those who matter to you! Check out all the stops in this hop to get inspired on ways you can send uplifting smiles!  

Make sure you scroll down to the bottom of this post to see the whole list and hop along and comment on all the blogs hopping along today for a chance to win a store credit to our shop too!

For my stop on the hop today,  I created an uplifting card using our Holding Happiness Stamp Set.

The girl with the giant bouquet of balloons makes me smile every time I create with it so I thought it would be great for an uplifting card! I colored the image using copic markers and then used a white gel pen to give little highlight accents to the balloons. The image was cut out using the coordinating Holding Happiness Die Set to add onto the card. 

For the card, I created a scene by adding a hill and some grass using our Hills & Grass Stencil. This stencil has borders on both sides so it makes it easy to create a scene like this. Then I used our Sky Borders Die Set to cut out the cloud border along the top, layering it over a strip of blue paper. The final touch was the "You lift me up" sentiment, stamped from our Uplifting Wishes Stamp Set. This set has the perfect sentiments in it for sending smiles! 

We hope you enjoyed this cheerful card today and that it helped bring a smile to your day! 

Don't forget to reach out and send smiles to your friends! Together we will get through this!

Visit all the NND designers today for more uplifting inspiration! The next stop on the hop is Ellen Haxelmans and you can find the whole list at the bottom of this post!

Inspired?

What will you create? We are having a sale this weekend so you can stock up on your favorites to make some cards today! Shop now and save 15% off your order with coupon code SMILES at www.newtonsnookdesigns.com

The discount includes retiring products, with already reduced prices so make sure to check those out too!

Send Uplifting Smiles Hop Giveaway!
Would you like to win a $25 store credit to Newton's Nook Designs online shop?
We are giving them out to TWO lucky winners!

Here's how to win:
Comment on the NND blog and Design Team blogs (see list below)! The winner will be chosen at random from the collective reveal posts. Make sure to check out each of their blogs and comment for your chance to win. You will not know which blog has been chosen so the more you comment on the better your chances are of winning! You have until Monday, April 20th at 9pm EST to comment -- winners will be announced on the blog post on Tuesday, April 21st.

Check out all the awesome Design Team Blogs below to enter:
Newton's Nook Designs
Ellen Haxelmans
Larissa Heskett
Samantha Mann
Zsofia Molnar
Maria Russell
Andrea Shell
Tatiana Trafimovich
Amanda Wilcox
Debbie Owens
Diane Morales
Becky Noelle
Crystal Komara