Newton's Nook Designs

Happy New Year, lovelies! 🎉

Hope you all had wonderful holidays!

My first post of the new year is this birthday card I made for my niece who just turned sweet 16 yesterday and it is up on the Newton's Nook Designs Blog ;-)

My sister loves cats just like I do and naturally so does her now-16-year-old-daughter ;-) I thought to celebrate her sweet 16 with a trio of sweet kitties singing Happy Birthday to her was the perfect design ;-)

This adorable trio is from the Caroling Newton Set, who doesn't love stretching the holiday sets ;-)

After watercoloring these cuties, I die cut it using the coordinating die then fussy cut the tails of Santa hats that 2 of the kitties are wearing to make them into regular knit caps. I also colored their music books with the sparkly blue to hide the little Christmas designs on them.

For the background, I sponged with Tattered Rose, Worn Lipstick, and Twisted Citron Distress Oxide Ink, splattered some water and white ink all over, then added some music notes using the Music Stencil and Hickory Smoke Distress Oxide Ink. 

For the sentiments, I borrowed "Happy Birthday" and Here's To You" stamps from the Cocktail Mixer Set and heat embossed with gold EP. 

My watercolor paper was die cut using the Frames & Flags Die Set. I used some painters tape to hide the scallops before sponging. For the finishing touch, I added a few light blue sequins and sparkling clear sequins. What 16-year-old-girl doesn't like a bit of shimmer and shine, right!? (Well, I'm 41 and still LOVE shimmer and shine on everything possible and so does my 5-year-old so I guess we never outgrow of it...LOL)

Thank you so much for stopping by!

Hope you enjoyed it!

Hopefully, I will have more craft time this year ;-) 

That means I need to work on my time management skills...LOL 😝