Newton's Nook Designs Send Uplifting Smiles Blog Hop ☺

Hello and happy Friday!

Welcome to my stop on the Newton's Nook Designs Send Uplifting Smiles Blog Hop ☺

Today the Newton's Nook Designs and Inky Paws Challenge Team members are hopping along to Send Uplifting Smiles! Our goal today is to help brighten your day with uplifting and encouraging cards that will make you smile! We know that many of you are under stay home orders to help fight the spread of the Coronavirus and during this time of social distancing it's more important than ever to keep in touch with family and friends! We encourage you to spend some time creating and sending cards to those who matter to you! Check out all the stops in this hop to get inspired on ways you can send uplifting smiles!  

Leave comments at all the stops on the hop for a chance to win a store credit to the Newton's Nook Designs online store! (details at the bottom of this post).

I was supposed to be on vacation for Spring Break this week at the beach so I went with a tropical themed card complete with a sandy little beach!

I embossed my Kraft background with Texture Paste and then inked it up in some gorgeous shades of green Distress Oxide. I splattered it with a little white paint and then put it aside to work on the rest of the card. I stamped, colored and fussy cut out my image and glued it down to a die cut vellum circle. I added the sentiment with Versafine and clear embossing powder. To finish my little beach off I covered the bottom of my die cut circle with translucent embossing paste and then sprinkled and pressed some real sand in the paste and set that aside to dry!

Inspired?

What will you create? Newton's Nook Designs is having a sale this weekend too so you can stock up on your favorites to make some cards today! Check out their shop at www.newtonsnookdesigns.com for details! 

Send Uplifting Smiles Hop Giveaway!Would you like to win a $25 store credit to Newton's Nook Designs online shop?
We are giving them out to TWO lucky winners!

Here's how to win:
Comment on the NND blog and Design Team blogs (see list below)! The winner will be chosen at random from the collective reveal 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 Monday, April 20th at 9pm EST to comment -- winners will be announced on the blog post on Tuesday, April 21st.

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

Newton's Nook Designs

Ellen Haxelmans

Larissa Heskett

Samantha Mann

Zsofia Molnar

Maria Russell

Andrea Shell

Tatiana Trafimovich

Amanda Wilcox

Debbie Owens

Diane Morales

                      >>> Becky Noelle <<< you are here!

Crystal Komara

Supplies: Newton's Nook Designs Aloha Newton stamp set, Newton's Nook Designs Tropical Fringe stamp set (sentiment), Newton's Nook Designs Tropical Leaves stencil, Lawn Fawn Outside In Stitched Scalloped Circle Stackables die set, Kraft cardstock, Neenah Solar White cardstock, Patterned Vellum, Copic Markers, Prismacolor Colored Pencils, Black Memento ink, Black Versafine ink, Clear Embossing Powder, Translucent Embossing Paste, Sand, Ranger Texture Paste, Distress Oxide in: Twisted Citron, Mowed Lawn, Lucky Clover, and Pine Needles