A Watercolored Wagon for This Month's Inky Paws Challenge!

Good morning!  I had a chance to play along with the latest Inky Paws Challenge hosted by Newton's Nook Designs!  This month it is a sketch challenge- here is what I made:

I am in the mood for fall!  In fact, I had my first pumpkin spice latte' this morning!  Hee!!  I chose the adorable Wagon of Wishes set to use to create this fall feeling card, stamping the wagon and flowers on to watercolor paper with Staz On ink.  I watercolored the image and added some splatters of blue ink to the white space.  I added my sentiment from the new Simply Sentimental set to finish off the panel.

I kept my card pretty simple, embossing my kraft card base with the Large Polka Dot embossing folder by Stampin' Up!.  I also added a bit of linen thread, a chipboard button and a tiny bit of patterned paper from the My Mind's Eye Market Street 6x6 pad.

This sketch was so easy and fun to work with!  I hope you pop over to the Newton's Nook Designs blog to play along and to see what the other designers created!

Have a great day and enjoy your last long weekend of summer!

Newton's Nook Designs August Release- Simply Sentimental

Good morning!  It's day two of the Newton's Nook Designs release and boy do I love this new set, Simply Sentimental.  It's full of mix and match sentiments!  Here is what I made:

Don't you love the mix of cursive and print together?  I do!  There are so many combinations in this set- it's perfect for every occasion!

I started out with a kraft card base, embossing it with the large polkadot embossing folder by Stampin' Up!  I stamped out the roses from the Love Grows set with peach, coral, and yellow ink on to  watercolor paper.  Then I watercolored over each one with the same color they were stamped in. I also flicked a little coral mist over the top and let it all dry.

Once it was dry, I stamped my sentiment with black Archival ink.  It's such a pretty crisp black ink!  I stamped the larger word first and then added the smaller words to the top and the bottom.  You could easily line them all up on your stamping block and stamp them at the same time, too!

Would you like to win “Simply Sentimental”?

This set will be given away to TWO lucky winners! 

Here's how to win: 
Comment on the NND blog and Design Team and Guest blogs (see list below)! Two winners will be chosen at random from the collective blogs 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 Tuesday, August 19th at 9pm CDT to comment  -- winners will be announced on the blog post on Wednesday, August 20th. 
Check out all the awesome Design Team Blogs below to enter:

Taheerah Atchia

Lydia Brooke

Larissa Heskett

Samantha Mann

Crafty Math-Chick

Shellye McDaniel

Jess Moyer

Stephanie Muzzulin

Danielle Pandeline

Tessa Wise
Chitra Nair (Guest Designer)

I'm so happy you stopped by today!  I hope you get a chance to stop by all the blogs- don't forget to leave a comment for your chance to win!