Let's Party Card by January Guest Designer Peggy Emmerink-Moonen

Today we are introducing our Guest Designer for January, Peggy Emmerink-Moonen! We fell in love with her gorgeous cards and beautiful coloring over on instagram and we are super excited to share what she creates for us this month! Peggy will be back each Monday for the month of January with a new project! Keep reading to find out more about her today and to check out her first project below.

My name is Peggy Emmerink-Moonen. I am 36 years old and live in the Netherlands with my husband and 3.5 year old son. I work as a youth policy maker for the municipality. I have been crafting all my life, but got into stamping and coloring in 2016. I mostly make greeting cards, with a little bit of scrapbooking on the side. I love cute images and making scene cards. Crafting really is my therapy and always brings me so much joy. Other hobbies include reading and watching films and series!

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Happy New Year crafty friends! Peggy here with my first card guest designing for Newton’s Nook Designs. Instead of opting for Christmas cards only, I also decided to make some New Year’s cards this year. It’s a fun break from the red, gold and green color scheme and a great way to start the new year crafty!

I love making slimline cards and so my first guest card simply had to be one. You can use any slimline die set you own or simply cut a panel to size with a paper trimmer. I started by cutting two panels, a base (the one with the scallops) and a top panel. I used three shapes to make cut-outs in my top panel. These will make a nice place to highlight my colored images and stamped sentiment.

Next, I took some texture paste and mixed in some silver paint. I covered the top panel with the Cascading Stars Stencil and used a palette knife to spread the paste evenly over the surface. I set the panel aside to dry. Seriously, don’t touch it for a good while :) (No it's not dry yet!)

I stamped my images from the Newton Celebrates Stamp Set using alcohol marker friendly ink. I used the E50 copic marker series for the kitty on the left, Cool Greys for the glass and the kitty on the right and the E30 series on the puppy. The green is YG91 through YG97, yellow accents are Y21, Y00 and Y000, and blue accents B14 and B93.

After my texture paste had dried I used a stamp positioning tool to stamp the 'Let's Party' sentiment from the Newton Celebrates Stamp Set into the cut-out in the middle of the panel. I adhered the top panel to the base with foam tape to give some dimension. Lastly, I adhered my images with both foam tape and liquid glue and used a white gel pen and some glossy accents for the finishing touch!

Hope you are inspired by my card! Sending long distance hugs!

Peggy

(Come say hi on Instagram @peggyemmerink)