Hey friends! I’ve been telling you all year about Newton’s Nook’s subscriber only newsletter called Designer’s Nook. Tomorrow my last contribution to it comes out and I wouldn’t want you to miss it. It’s super fun and adorable because it’s all Newton’s Nook! Head HERE to subscribe so you don’t miss out.
A little sneaky peek for you of tomorrow’s inspiration. I hope you enjoy it! Merry Christmas everyone!
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Hi there! Have you seen the most recent release from Miss Ink Stamps? There are some really great ones and today I’m sharing a card featuring one of them – Happy New Year. It just cracks me up!
When I think of New Year celebrations I always think of gold and champagne so those are the colors I gravitate toward. Today was no different. I pulled out the Sunburst stencil and used champagne Metallix gel over black cardstock. While that was drying I stamped and colored images from Happy New Year and Oh, Nuts. Then I used my scan-n-cut to cut them all out.
I stamped my sentiment on a circle and then die cut a stitched circle just a bit bigger in red and adhered them together. Once my background was dry I trimmed it down and popped the circle up with foam tape. Then I used a combination of liquid glue and foam squares to attach my images. Last, I decided to add the second sentiment to the top left corner so I stamped it and trimmed it into a banner and attached it with foam strips.
I don’t know about you but I’d totally party with a squirrel! He looks pretty friendly and there are extra glasses of champagne just waiting for someone to join in.
Cheers to you all! I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!
Hey friends! I’m over on the Pink & Main blog today and I decided to dig in my stash and see what stamps I could use for Christmas that aren’t necessarily intended for that. I came across that bear from Happy Fall and thought he would be perfect to turn into a polar bear! So that’s what I did…twice! Because once was not enough with this cutie!
Isn’t he the sweetest ever??? I just love how these turned out. I stamped my bear from Happy Fall with a gray copic friendly ink and colored him with my copics. Then I used the coordinating dies to cut them out and moved on to figure out what I was going to do with them.
For the first card I pulled out the great holly layering stencil and inked it up with some softer colors to match the tone I was looking for with this sweet bear. I trimmed it down to 4×5.25 and, using my bear as a guide, stamped the sentiment from Stocking Stuffers in the same gray ink. Then I added foam tape to the back and popped it on a white card base. Next, I grabbed the wreath base 2 dies and cut the two types of branches out of white cardstock, white glitter cardstock and vellum and glued them around my bear to ground him. I added foam squares to the back of the bear and adhered it down.
Normally, I’m all about shine and glitter but the soft tone of this card made me want to leave it be just how it is. So it’s all finished now and I just love it! Let’s check out the second card I made next.
For this one, I used the new houndstooth embossing folder on a white panel and trimmed it down as well. I added foam tape to the back and popped it on another white card base. Then I cut strips from white cardstock, white glitter cardstock and vellum, trimmed the edges at an angle and adhered them down. I popped my bear up with foam squares over the strips and chose my sentiment. This one is from Christmouse and is also stamped in the same gray ink. I trimmed the sentiment down and popped it up as well.
These cards were effortless and so much fun to put together because I was just in love with the look of this sweet bear and how frosty cold all the white was looking. Isn’t it great?
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Happy Friday everyone! I’ve got a really fun, adorable card to share with you today. Sometimes the simplest change, like a fold, can take a card from simple to the next level. Today I’ve made a gate-fold card to share with you.
I started by stamping and coloring the adorable Tree-mendous Christmas images and colored them with my copic markers. I used the coordinating dies to cut them all out and set them aside. Next, I created my gate-fold card by cut some green panels to decorate the front. I used some white pigment ink with the first layer of the slimline snowfall stencil, then I went over the second layer with white glitter glitz gel for a little texture. Once those were dry I adhered them to my card front.
Next, I took the slimline stitched strips and cut one from red cardstock a couple of times. I wrapped it around the card front and glued my images to it creating a sort of belly band to keep the card shut. I cut a skinnier strip and stamped the sentiment from Tree-mendous Christmas on it and adhered it down on the top strip.
I did add a few finishing touches like glossy accents to things like noses and antlers, berries and the star on top and also black glaze pen to the critter’s eyes. These little things add so much to the final card and I just love it!
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Oh my goodness, did I have fun creating this great little scene for my snowglobe shaker tag to share with you today! I pulled out Mouse House to pair with the new Winter Burrow set along with the tall shaker dome die set for my snowglobe.
To create my tag, I die cut the main snowglobe shape from white cardstock and laid out my stamps to see what I could fit inside and what I wanted on the outside. I stamped them all and colored them with my copics. I used the coordinating dies to cut them out and set them aside to create my shaker.
I cut the frame 7 times from white cardstock and then I cut an additional full panel out of acetate for the shaker window. I glued 6 of the frames together and glued the acetate to the back of the final frame, after coloring it with my copic markers. Using distress oxides I inked up the background panel with blueprint sketch and tumbled glass. I spritzed it with water and then decided that I wanted snowy hills for my scene so I went back, die cut another panel and then used the hill dies to cut that down.
I adhered all of my pieces and trimmed off anything hanging over the edge. Then I glued the snowglobe frame down and poured in some shaker bits and sealed it up.
I really wanted to decorate the front of the snowglobe so I stamped a sentiment from Merry Christmas Senti-mini on the plaque die cut and glued it down. Then I added some more images and put clear blocks on top to let it all dry over night.
Isn’t this just so fun?!? I had a blast creating it and can’t wait to attach it to a special gift for Christmas.
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Hey friends! I’m over on the Newton’s Nook blog today with my last post of the year for them. This year has flown by and been an absolute blast being a part of that team too! I hope you’ve enjoyed all the creations and found a little inspiration along the way.
For today’s card I pulled out the recently released Destination Christmas set and colored up a few of the cars with my copics. I used the coordinating dies to cut them out and set them aside. I die cut the slimline frames and windows frame from white cardstock, then I used the snowfall roundabout and heat embossed it on the squares that came from the window panel. I inked them up with distress oxides in tumbled glass and blueprint sketch. Using my frame as a guide I adhered the squares down to a panel I die cut with the slimline frames and portholes scalloped rectangle.
I decided to make this a shaker card so I trimmed down a piece of acetate and adhered it to the back of the window frame and lined it with foam tape. I sprinkled some snow queen shaker bits from the Twiddler’s Nook shop and sealed it all up. Using liquid glue I adhered the cars down next and decided on a sentiment.
I cut out a banner from the banner trio set and stamped my sentiment on that. Then I trimmed the edge off and used liquid glue to adhere it down. Finally, I didn’t like the plain card base so I used the Trinity Stamps stripes stencil on a white card base and then popped my scalloped panel up with foam tape.
There’s a lot going on here so I kept finishing touches to just glossy accents to the package bows and accents on the cars like lights, wheels and door handles.
This card is so much fun and I had a blast putting it all together!
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Hey friends! I just had to pop in and share this adorably cute card with you today. The second I saw this reveal from My Favorite Things, I knew I had to have this stamp. There were no if ands or buts, seriously. I was that smitten. Sadly, it took me forever to ink it up and play but I finally did!
When I ordered this great Reindeer Games set, I also picked up the Wishing You a Very Merry Christmas sentiment and Very Merry paper pad too. I couldn’t resist. So naturally I put it all together for my first card.
I don’t use patterned paper very often but this was so much fun to mix and match and play with the different ones to create a vibrant and fun background while still showcasing that great sentiment and adorable little girl.
After adding all my layers with liquid glue and foam squares, I did have to add a few finishing touches like glossy accents to that nose and the lights too. They were calling for it.
Then I finished things off with some Trinity Stamps peppermint candy clay embellishments scattered about too.
Do you ever have a stamp set that comes out and you absolutely have to have it? My favorite reindeer colored copic markers were low and I had to wait for refills in the mail but I will be coloring a bundle of this one up and making more cards and a few tags because I love it so much!
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Hey friends!!! I’m soooo excited to share today’s card with you! It was so much fun to create and I absolutely cannot wait to give it to the recipient! It’s a slimline pop up slider that will hold a gift card. Everything I used today is from Trinity Stamps – an excellent source of slimline products! Let’s have a look!
I had so much fun die cutting all of the pieces from Happy Snowman and Happy Little Tree Farm out of white cardstock and coloring them with my copic markers! Then I used distress oxide inks to create a beautiful blue winter scene and used glitter glitz gel over the slimline snowfall stencil. I did the same panel twice but the second time I just used Hero Arts Unicorn white ink on the stencil so it didn’t have any dimension to get in the way of the mechanism moving up and down.
I used the new slimline surprises die set to create my interactive mechanism and liquid glue to adhere all my pieces. I carefully used the Merry Christmas Senti-mini set to stamp a sentiment on the inside. I plan to attach the gift card to tab that gets pulled out of the top for a double surprise!
Here’s a closer look at the inside of the slider surprise portion. Isn’t this just so much fun!?!?! I love it way too much!
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Hey friends! I’m over on the Pink & Main blog today mixing and matching some fun goodies to create an adorable slimline Christmas card!
I knew I wanted to try something with the new slimline plaid die so I cut it out first off. I actually cut it out 3 times and glued them all together for some dimension. Then I pulled out Stocking Stuffers because I have been itching to get that elf colored up! I stamped and colored my images with copic markers and used the coordinating dies to cut them out.
I wasn’t totally sure on a sentiment so I planned to use the Merry Christmas in the Stocking Stuffers set but dug in my stash instead and found this sweet sentiment in Christmouse to use instead. I stamped it on a strip and glued my elf stocking to the side of it.
I couldn’t decide on a background color from my cardstock stash so I pulled out my distress oxide inks and made my own. This is a blend of shabby shutters and mowed lawn. I spritzed it with water and then flicked black acrylic paint and gold watercolor all over it too.
I adhered all of my layers to a white card base and decided to add just a few finishing touches. For those, I started with Wink of Stella glitter brush pen on the elf’s cheeks and then I thought some shimmer on his hat would be good so I watercolored just a bit of gold on his hat brim and bell. I added a little glossy accents to his nose and some white gel pen accents to his hat, sleeve, the candy cane and stocking. Last of all, I added some cute red clay hearts throughout the design.
Such a fun and festive card! I really hope you like it. You could swap out colors of what you stuff the stocking with and make a bundle of these. It would be so cute to see a line up of all the different stockings together.
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Hey friends! I’m super excited for today’s finale to the Newton’s Nook Deck the Halls with Inky Paws guest designer week, we’re having a blog hop today featuring everyone! Be sure to hop through for tons of great inspiration and comment for a chance to win! There’s also a surprise sale going on so be sure to treat yourself after soaking in all these awesome ideas!
To make my card, I started by stamping and coloring the images from Festive Fawns with my copic markers. Then I used the coordinating dies to cut them all out. I arranged them on an oversized panel to see how far down I need my sky to go, then I blended chipped sapphire and tumbled glass distress oxide ink on a panel. I spritzed it with water and then dried it with my heat gun. I placed the Snowfall stencil over the top and inked it up with my VersaMark ink pad. I sprinkled some crystal glitter embossing powder over it and heated it up. The snowflakes have a little shimmer to them in the light. I just love it!
Next, I took out some white cardstock and used the Land Borders die to cut out some hills for my deer to rest on. Next, to fill in the sky a bit I cut the trees from the Forest Scene Builder die set. I used liquid glue to adhere my trees and hills down, then trimmed the panel to 3.5×8.5. I used foam squares to pop up all of my images and moved on to my sentiment.
For that I die cut a banner from the Slimline Frames & Windows set from vellum and heat embossed my sentiment in white. I hid some liquid glue behind the embossing and adhered it down to the top right of my card.
For finishing touches, I added glossy accents to parts of the packages; the snowman buttons, eyes and nose; and the deer’s eye and noses too! Then I used Christmas Red Stickles to all the red accents like holly berries, package dots and the wreath berries. Last but not least, I added Unicorn Stickles to the edge of the snow hills and the trees at the top too.
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Deck the Halls with Inky Paws Blog Hop List:
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