Newton’s Nook – May Release Day 1

Welcome everyone! I’m very excited to be back at it with another amazing Newton’s Nook release! Today is the start of release reveals and it’s getting hot in here!!! That’s right…we’ve got HOT FOIL PLATES!!!!

Fireflies Hot Foil Plates and Dies

Jar Hot Foil Plate & Die

Bright Sentiments Hot Foil Plates

Banner Duo Die Set

These products all play perfectly together but are fabulous to use on their own too! I created a fun card with the sweet fireflies and a foiled sentiment to share with you today.

I spent some time and hot foiled the fireflies all over a piece of black cardstock with gold shattered foil and then used a rounded rectangle die from Frames & Flags to cut it out. For a little contrast I foiled a sentiment on a white banner in silver.

Next, I took a piece of teal cardstock and inked the edge with peacock feathers distress oxide ink. I splattered it with water and blotted it dry for texture. Then I splattered the panel with gold watercolor and set it aside to dry before assembling my card.

Once it was dry, I adhered the panel to a white card base and popped up the firefly panel with foam tape. Then I popped the sentiment banner up with foam strips on that. Last of all I wrapped some twine around the top and tied it in a bow.

Would you like to win the “Fireflies” Hot Foil Plates & Dies? This hot foiling set will be given away to ONE lucky winner!

Here’s how to win: Comment on the NND blog and Design Team blogs (see list below)! Thewinner 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 Thursday May 18th at 9pm ET to comment — winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday, May 19th.

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

Newton’s Nook Designs

Spellbinders – Hexi-Gems Miss You Card

Hi there everyone! I’m so glad you’re here today. I have another card featuring a couple of products using the Hexi-Gems collection. When I was playing with my first round of stitching these pieces, I flipped and flopped them a few different directions before adhering them together in the intended shape. That led to me wanting to try my card today.

This time I cut the main piece from white cardstock and used a variegated sherbet cotton DMC floss. I pulled colors from the floss again for the layers on the edging. Then I trimmed the edges off that would normally adhere together.

Next, I used the Glimmer Hexi-Gem plate to foil a pink background shape. I trimmed it out with my paper trimmer, leaving a white border. Then I inked up a background panel with twisted citron and mowed lawn distress oxide ink. I spritzed it with water and blotted it dry. I popped the foiled panel up with foam tape and also added foam squares to the back of my stitched panels so they would lay flat.

After that was all adhered down, I added florals from the Umbrella Bloom die set. Last, I chose a sentiment from the Thanks Enclosed Sentiments die set with liquid glue.

I love how different this card is and how much texture and interest there is everywhere. It turned out so pretty.

Products used:
Glimmer Hexi-Gem hot foil plate
Stitched Kaleidoscope Hexi-Gem dies
Umbrella Bloom dies
Thanks Enclosed Sentiments dies
Liquid glue
Foam tape
Distress Oxide – mowed lawn and twisted citron
Glimmer Hot Foil – rose gold

I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!

Coffee Loving Cardmakers Hop WINNER

Hello crafty friends!!! I’m popping in with my two winners from the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Hop that happened last Friday.

Drum roll please for our first winner…

Congratulations kimkmom4! You have won the complete set of stickers and a project bag!

Drum roll please for our second winner…

Congratulations jlingraham! You have won a complete set of stickers plus a $20 code to the Twiddler’s Nook shop.

If you could both please email me through the contact form on the blog or at twiddlersnook@gmail.com within 7 days to claim your prize.

Have a fabulous day everyone!!!

Pink & Main – Minc Release Foiling Fun Hop

Hey friends! I’m popping in with some extra fun today! We’re highlighting the recently released Pink & Main Minc Machine and CheerFoils! I created a couple of cards to share but also want to share my opinion given that I have extra experience and knowledge of other brands as well.

I foiled one of the Wildflowers foilables panels with rose gold CheerFoil and colored the images in with my copic markers. I love that you can color over foiling! Then I took my negative and foiled it over a teal Garden Color Toner Sheet to get a two-for-one out of my foil!

After coloring the first foiled panel, I trimmed it to 4×5.25 inches and inked a light teal sky before splattering the panel with a bit of black acrylic paint. Then I used the sentiment die from Wide Stitched Arches dies four times on white cardstock. I glued them together with EZ Squeeze liquid glue and glued them to the panel.

I added the panel to a white card base with foam tape and then wrapped some twine around it and tied it in a bow. Check out that gorgeous shine in the light!!!

Next, I had the reverse foiling panel which is SO COOL!!! Pink & Main is the first to have colored toner sheets so your negative doesn’t have to always be black. These colors are beautiful!

For this card, I kept to the same products but using the Wide Stitched Arches to cut a window from a panel and popped it up over the top of the foiled panel. I added the same hey friend sentiment to the center and wrapped the same twine around the top too.

Now, check it out…I’m going to be so real right now. I have done a TON of foiling over the last few years. I could not believe how quick the Minc heated up, how easy it was to use and MOST OF ALL how beautiful it foiled!

I had a blast creating these two cards, and, honestly, kept foiling after these were done because I didn’t believe it was going so well. I highly recommend snagging one of these sweet Pink & Main Minc machines if you like or want to try foiling at all.

REMEMBER

There’s an Instagram Hop going on where you could win a new Minc plus all the goodies to start foiling too. So, head there, hop and check out the inspiration, leaving comments along the way to increase your chances of winning.

Products used today:
Minc
CheerFoils – rose gold
Foilables – garden color toner sheets, wildflowers
Foam tape
EZ Squeeze liquid glue
Wide Stitched Arches dies

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Spellbinders – Hello Blooms Stencil | Die Combo

Welcome back friends. Yesterday was a very busy day so although this released yesterday, I’m sharing it today to spread things out a bit.

Spellbinders has a few releases this month that I was lucky enough to get to play with early. The Glimmer Cardfront Sentiments release also has this gorgeous stencil and die combo. I loved creating this card and think making sets of these in color themes would be a wonderful gift to share with someone.

To start, I used an A2 piece of white cardstock and inked up the stencil, step-by-step. It was super easy to follow and has registration marks for each step so you know it’s lined up perfectly. I chose distress oxides today because I wanted to splattered/splotchy look. For my detail layer on the flowers, I also used glitz glitter gel to add sparkle to the flower centers. Once it was dry, I used the coordinating die to cut the florals out.

I spritzed them with water and blotted them dry, then flicked gold watercolor on them as well. While that step was drying, I took a 4×5.25 inch white panel and used the Dazzling Dots embossing folder on it. I popped this panel up on a white card base with foam tape before doing the same with the flowers.

There is a wonderful hello die and shadow that comes in the set as well. I cut the word from glitter foam using the peach in the painted desert pack. I used liquid glue to adhere it to the vellum shadow and then to the flowers.

Isn’t this stencil just beautiful?!? It was so simple to use too!

Products used:
Hello Blooms stencil and dies
Dazzling Dots embossing folder
Distress Oxide Inks – tattered rose, abandoned coral, gathered twigs, bundled sage, dried marigold
Die Cutting Glitter Foam – painted desert
Foam tape and squares
Liquid glue
LH Color watercolor – gold

I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!

Doodlebugs | Mama Elephant – Planner Clips

Welcome friends! I was on the Doodlebugs blog yesterday with another guest post but my blog was so crazy I didn’t want this to get lost so I figured I would share it here a day later.

This time I’m not sharing a card but a fun way to decorate your desk or planner with super cute paperclips! They are really easy to create, totally addicting and would make a fun gift along with something to use yourself.

Here’s a look at the set I created this time. So many sizes for different uses. The large one could hold your planner more flat while writing in it while the others are great for keeping your place in your planner, book or use it as a regular paperclip on your desk.

To create these I started by stamping the images I wanted to use and colored them with copic markers. Using the coordinating dies I cut the images out, plus 3 additional blank ones too. I glued the colored image to one blank, then glued the other 2 blanks together. You should have 2 sets of each image now.

Next, I add double-sided tear tape to the back of the colored ones and the front of the blank stack. remove the release paper from the blank ones and position your paperclip where you want it. I put it as high as I can, where the points of the metal ends rest along the bottom of the image. Next, I add strong liquid glue all the way to the edges of this, remove the release paper on the back of the colored stack and adhere them together.

*Tip: I don’t find that acrylic blocks put pressure in the right areas on these so I do take a moment to hold the layers together for a good hold.

This was my first large, double clip and I am loving using it to hold the page I’m writing on in my traveler’s journal. It’s the cutest, totally makes me smile and holds everything more flat than the others.

When I created this guy, I actually intended him for my desk at work for a little extra happy but he happens to hold my folder of mini photos closed in my traveler’s journal closed perfectly, so that’s where he lives for now. This size is also great to use as a bookmark.

Also, my boss was eyeing this guy, reminding me of when her birthday was so I think I better make a set of them.

Finally, I just had to make a few with the new Little Froggy Agenda cuties! They are my favorite! The happy colors and cute images are perfect!

Remember, you can add finishing touches to these for that little extra as well. I used black glaze pen on any eyes I could, white gel pen highlights on the frogs and glossy accents on things like snail shells, cattails and noses. Then I also added sparkle with stardust Stickles to the sparkles in Hammy’s hands and the lights on the bus.

I have to know…will you give these a try? For yourself or a friend?

Products used today:
Mama Elephant Little Agenda Froggy stamps and dies
Mama Elephant Little Agenda Bus stamps and dies
Mama Elephant Celebration Hamsters stamps and dies
Bearly Art liquid glue
1/4″ double-side tape
Stickles – stardust
Sakura black glaze pen and white gel pen
Glossy accents
Copic marker

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Miss Ink Stamps – Highland Cows Sneak Peak

Oh my goodness friends! I’m SUPER EXCITED to announce that Miss Ink Stamps has a new release coming and it’s so fun! There is magic and critters and flowers and EVERYTHING!!!! You’re going to love it!

My personal favorite…highland cows. IYKYK. Trust me. I love cows!

I colored this cutie and his friends with my copic markers, added some fun scene setting images too and used the coordinating dies to cut them out. Then I used liquid glue to adhere all the little elements to the big ones.

Then I took a 4×5.25 inch white panel and scored it every 1/4″ for 2″. The sentiments in this set fit perfectly! So I chose one and stamped it. Then masked off the lines with post-it tape and inked up a little dirt and sky on my panel. I added the images with foam squares and popped the panel up on a white card base with foam tape.

Before adding finishing touches to the front, I stamped a second sentiment and the sweet baby cow on the inside of my card. Doesn’t that just crack you up? It’s so good!

Moving back to the front, I tied some twine around the top and tied it in a bow. Then I added black glaze pen to the birds’ eyes and Touch of Gloss to their beaks and the flower center.

Be sure to check the rest of the design team today through Friday for more sneak peeks of upcoming fun and then head to the Miss Ink Stamps shop on Saturday, May 13, for release day!

Products used:
Highland Cows stamps and dies
Blending brushes
Lawn Fawn Ink – mermaid and doe
Touch of Gloss
Foam tape and squares

I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!

Spellbinders – Hexi-Gems Sending Wishes

Welcome everyone! I’m so glad you stopped by. Today I have a card using the newly released Stitched Kaleidoscope Hexi-Gem die set. I this is simple die set is gorgeous and a little addicting to stitch up. I could see making a lot of these in the future. Great to cut ahead, stitch on the go and create cards with later.

I cut the main piece from black cardstock and stitched it with a metallic variegated thread. Then I chose cardstock colors inspired by my thread to fill in the extra border pieces that come in the die set. After the stitching was finished, I adhered the two pieces together with liquid glue and added foam tape to the back.

I stamped a sentiment from an older Spellbinders sentiment set and used the strip die included to cut it out. This is the same teal cardstock I used in the edge of the stitched piece. I like how they tie in together. This is added with a foam strip.

Last, I inked blended salvaged patina, scattered straw and spun sugar distress oxide inks on a white panel and spritzed it with water. After blotting it dry I flicked some black paint on the panel too. I popped this panel up with foam tape before adding my stitched pieces on top.

Have you tried stitching dies before? Do you enjoy them? They are definitely different then typical cross stitch or embroidery but I think they’re fun too.

Products used:
Stitched Kaleidoscope Hexi-Gem dies
Distress Oxide Ink – salvaged patina, scattered straw, spun sugar
Foam tape and squares

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Pink & Main – You Can Have the Worms…

Hello everyone! I’m over on the Pink & Main blog today playing with different layers and a funny chicken that I can very much relate to. Lol!

When I started this card, I had two things in mind – that chicken and sentiment plus the stenciling for my background. So I started by stamping and coloring the image, using the coordinating die to cut it out and then inked up a scrap of streetlight cardstock with yellow and brown inks. This combo gave me a hay bail vibe so I went with it. After trimming the yellow panel down a few different sizes, I pulled out the Mod Stitched Rectangle dies and cut it out with that for a fun, different shape.

For added layers, I cut another mod rectangle two sizes bigger using a piece of patterned paper from the Pumpkin Season paper pad. Using a different pattern from the same paper pad to cut one of the Square Frames too. Now we can assemble all our pieces.

I adhered the largest mod rectangle with EZ Squeeze liquid glue to a white card base, then popped the stenciled panel up with foam tape. The square frame is glued directly to that and my chicken is popped up with foam as well.

For finishing touches I added a scattering of glitter enamel dots that coordinate with the color paper they are stuck to. Then I added Touch of Gloss to the bunny slippers and chicken’s glasses.

Products used today:
Mod Stitched Rectangle dies
Square Frame dies
Chicken In stamps and dies
Pumpkin Season paper pad
Streetlight cardstock
Touch of Gloss
Foam tape
EZ Squeeze liquid glue
Woven stencil
Ergonomic blending brush
Floral Hearts glitter enamel dots

I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!

Mama Elephant – Moo-chas Grass-ias Thank You Card

Hi friends! The rest of the week on my blog is slam packed but I wanted to pop in this morning with a fun Mama Elephant thank you card. It’s punny and cute and all the things I love…plus cows! I love cows a ridiculous amount. They’re just so cute!

I missed the Zodiac critter band wagon when they were releasing with Mama Elephant years ago so I’ve been slowly collecting them all the last few months. Today I have the Zodiac Ox set with some accessories from Zodiac Tiger too. I stamped and colored them with my copic markers and used the coordinating dies to cut them out. Then I used liquid glue to adhere the accessories in place.

Just before Doodlebugs took a little vacation I snuck in another order to pick up the Mama Elephant Thank You (Love You) stamps and dies along with the Diamond Stripes dies too. For my background, I cut the stitched version in the Diamond Stripes from three colors and glued them to the top of my panel. I saved the rest in a clear pocket so I have them for another card later on.

Next, I stamped and die cut the big thank you from Thank You (Love You0 and used the coordinating die to cut it out. Instead of using one of the mini sentiments in that set, I used the one in Zodiac Ox because PUNS! Seriously. It’s hilarious and I love it…especially with the taco in his hands.

*Tip – to cut the sentiment into a strip, I used the non-stitched Diamond Stripes plate to cut a scrap of cardstock and stamped in that. Then I just trimmed the edges off. Voila! Perfect sentiment strip with no extra dies needed.

I added some ground to the bottom of the panel with gathered twigs distress oxide and spritzed it with water. I also splattered a little ink on the area for a little texture. Then I added thank you and my cows with foam squares.

For finishing touches, I added black glaze pen to their eyes and Touch of Gloss to their snouts, hat and the cherry.

Products used:
Zodiac Ox stamps and dies
Zodiac Tiger stamps and dies
Diamond Stripes dies
Thank You (Love You) stamps and dies
Distress Oxide Ink – gathered twigs
Foam squares and strips
Touch of Gloss
Sakura Glaze Pen – black

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