Hey Foxy Card

Hi!  How's your day going?  I am having a great day!  We had an extra busy long weekend packed with fun things and then today we have a snow day!!  It is just what I needed- I'm all caught up on my emails and projects and now I get to play! :)

My girlfriends came over yesterday for a crafty get together- we had fun chatting about crafty stuff and playing with each other's stamps!  I was determined to make a card for a challenge that I haven't gotten to play along with yet and tried and tried while they were here to get it done... I was having so much fun chatting that it didn't get done until after they left- and with a set of my own lol!  Here's my card:

I was inspired by the latest MFT Color Challenge :)  I used the Cute Critters set and decided to keep the layout simple since the stamps are pretty big.  I stamped and cut out the fox and stump then paper pieced the red patterned paper onto the fox.  I added just a bit of glossy accents to his nose :)

I'm going to try to make more time for fun posts over the next few weeks so I can play along with some more new-to-me challenges!  Do you have a favorite or new fun challenge to share?  Let me know! :)

Foxy Merry Christmas Card

Good Morning!  Can you believe it's already December 1st??  Crazy, isn't it!  We enjoyed our last weekend in November- we spent it with family and friends, relaxing and having fun!  I feel rested and ready for the holiday season!

I thought I'd kick off December with a cute Christmas card I created for a class I had a couple of weeks ago.  It features the adorable Joy to the Woods set by Lawn Fawn:

This little fox makes me smile!  I watercolored him with my q-tip technique- I'm still loving this messy watercolor look!  I let him dry and fussy cut around him.  The trees are stamped in Smoky Slate ink by Stampin' Up! and I also stamped some Soft Sky snowflakes around and glittered over them with Stickles- they are very light though and hard to see!

This was such a fun class!  I'm hoping to share the rest of my cards from it over the next week or two!

Well, I've got a few things to finish up today so I better get off the computer and back to work!  lol!  Hope you have a great day!

Newton's Nook Designs January Release: Sweetheart Tails

Hello there!  It's day two of Newton's Nook Designs January release!!

Today we have another adorable set to share with you- Sweetheart Tails!  It is full of the cutest little critters and fun sentiments that go along with each of them.  Here is what I made:

I couldn't help but choose the fox for my card- he is just so cute!!  I colored him pink, just for fun!  I used the border stamp behind my tag- it has been embossed with white powder.  The little pink heart is also from the set along with that fun sentiment!

I had so much fun with this set.  I used Copics to color the fox.  I paired it with the pretty Be. Loved. collection by Fancy Pants- I love the colors in this line!

Would you like to win Sweetheart Tails? This set will be given away to Two lucky winners! 

Here's how to win: 

Comment on the NND blog and Design Team blogs (see list below)! Two winners will be chosen at random from the collective blogs January release 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 Thursday, January 16th at 9 pm Central Standard Time to comment  -- winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday,January 17th.

Check out all these awesome Design Team Blogs below to enter:

Newton's Nook Designs

Taheerah Atchia

Christine Drogt

Samantha Mann

Larissa Heskett

Crafty Math-Chick

Danielle Pandeline

Valerie Ward

Tessa Wise

I love this set and I know you will too!  Don't forget to peek through all of the Design Team blogs to see what they made!  This set along with yesterday's Love a la Carte will be on sale at  Newton's Nook Designs tomorrow!

Thanks for stopping by today.  Don't forget to leave a comment for your chance to win!

-tessa

Papered Ornaments

Hello!

How's your week going?  We've been busy here- we decorated our tree and put our lights up outside.  It's so fun getting all the Christmas stuff out- I only wish I had more! :)  I love decorating for the holidays.  Every year I make a few ornaments for our tree I thought I'd share a few that I've made this year.  I've been using a paper-mache' technique I learned in a Stephanie Ackerman class I took last year- it is so much fun and really easy to do.  Here are my ornaments:

Merry and Bright

Mr. Foxy

Can you guess what song I had stuck in my head?  Hee!

Cocoa

I added a little glitter to the inside of the cup.

Snowflake

This one is actually more aqua then green... 

The base is a glass ornament.  Then I paper-mached torn book print over the top.  Once that was done, I tore, cut, or punched different shapes from inked book print and added them.  Next is the shadowing and then I added some embellishments.

It's such a joy to see fun handmade ornaments on my tree!  The girls have been busy making some, too but I'll share them another day...

Hope you have a great afternoon!

-tessa