You Make Me Smile Card (ft. Newton’s Nook Designs)

Hello and welcome!

I’m so happy you’ve joined me today and even more excited to be on the Newton’s Nook Designs blog sharing a cute and sweet card that, I hope, will bring a smile into your face.

All the adorable images on this projects were picked from new Newton’s Flower Garden stamp set. To start, as usual, I die cut on Neenah Solar White paper all the shapes I needed using the coordinating Newton’s Flower Garden Die Set. Next I stamped the open images from Newton’s Flower Garden stamp set with Memento Tuxedo Black ink. I used my MISTI tool and the negative parts of the dies to achieve a perfect result. Next I colored all the images with copic markers.

And here’s the complete list of all the colors used on this project: COPIC MARKERS cat YR000-Y32-YR20-YR21-YR24-YR27 plus C00-C2-C4 and RV0000-RV02; YG00-YG01-YG05; V01-V04; Y00-Y13-Y15-Y17-YR04.

The white card base, made from the same Neenah Solar White paper, was trimmed and scored to an extended 5 1/2″ X 4 1/4″ size. I cut out another white rectangle large enough to cover the whole card front where I die cut three circles using another newbie from NND: Circle Frames Die Set. I inked the open circle windows with Twisted Citron, Tumbled Glass, Peacock Feather, Mermaid Lagoon and Blueprint Sketch Distress inks and my ink blending brushes. I also flicked a few tiny shimmer droplets to bring a bit more interest to the card base. I stamped the sentiment inside the top circle window and finally assembled all the other elements by popping them on a foam tape. A few clear sparking sequins and a generous coat of a clear shimmer pen brought a finish touch to this project.