Newton’s Nook Holiday Release – Day 4

I can’t believe it’s the final day of reveals for the Newton’s Nook Holiday Release! One more round of amazing goodies to share with you and tomorrow you can hop on and shop ’til you drop! I can’t wait to see what you all create with this amazing release!

Without further ado, let’s see what we’ve got today!

Christmas Roundabout

Holiday Post

I’m so excited that they’ve added yet another fun roundabout to the collection! These stamps are so versatile and fun to create with!

Today I went with bright and fun for my Christmas Roundabout creation. I colored the image with my copics and used a circle die from my stash to cut it out. I adhered it to the largest of the Circle Frames with foam tape. Then I took the sentiments from the set and randomly stamped them on a panel. I colored the outline words with copics and added a layer of vellum over the top before adhering my roundabout and trimming off the side. Then I popped the panel up with foam tape. I die cut one of the Banner Trio dies and stamped my sentiment on it. I colored the outline letters again with the colors I used before and popped it up on the bottom of my card. For finishing touches, I added some glossy accents to various things like the sentiment banner, snowglobe, holly berries, etc.

Now that I’ve shared some bright and happy, I’m going to switch gears to a more muted, vintage style for my final card share.

I colored my image with copics and used the coordinating dies to cut in out. Then I took a green panel and used glitter glitz gel with the tiny trees stencil at an angle. I trimmed it down and adhered it to a kraft card base. I added a stripe of gold washi tape as a border. I popped my images up with foam squares and used my MISTI to stamp my sentiment on the bottom right of the card. For finishing touches, I just added a little glossy accents to the pup’s scarf and mailbox bows. Then I added Stickles to the snow and snowflakes to tie it in with the glittery background.

Would you like to win the “Holiday Post” Stamp Set or the “Christmas Roundabout” Stamp Set?We will choose ONE lucky winner for each stamp set!

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 October 22nd at 9pm EST to comment — winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday, October 23rd.

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
Amy Tsuruta
Amanda Wilcox

Newton’s Nook Holiday Release – Day 3

Oh my goodness, the cuteness continues for you all today! I’m super excited to share some cuddly furries with you today!

Kitten Christmas

Christmas Puppies

I’m in love with these new critters being added to the mix. My first card was super fun to create. It was difficult to choose which images to use so I’m sure I’ll have to go back and use the one I missed.

I started this card by die cutting the scalloped panel from Slimline Frames & Portholes and masked off the edge. I used the ornaments stencil in the inside and cut a red frame from Slimline Frames & Windows and glued it on top. Then I stamped and colored my kitties, using the coordinating dies to cut them out. I stamped and heat embossed my sentiment and popped the images up with foam squares. Then the whole panel was added to a green card base. I added some glossy accents to the lights and ornaments and black glaze pen to the kitties’ eyes.

Moving right along, we’ve got some love for the doggy side of the family too!

I stamped and colored this cute doggo in his boot, the hat and a bundle of bones with my copics, then I cut them out with the coordinating dies and moved on to the background. I used the snowflakes stencil again with some bold blue ink. I cut the rounded rectangle from Frames & Flags from vellum, then cut another flag from black and heat embossed my sentiment. I adhered the flag to the vellum and hit the adhesive behind the flag to attach the vellum to the snowflake panel. I attached my puppy and bones with a combo of foam squares and liquid glue. The snowflake panel is popped up with foam tape too. I finished it all off with some clay snowflakes, glossy accents and black glaze pen to the puppy eyes.

Would you like to win the “A Kitten Christmas” Stamp Set or the “Christmas Puppies” Stamp Set?We will choose ONE lucky winner for each stamp set!

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
Amy Tsuruta
Amanda Wilcox

Coffee Loving Cardmakers – Merry Christmas Snowglobe

It’s time for tea everyone! Grab a cuppa of your drink of choice because it’s Tuesday Tea with Twiddler’s Nook over on the Coffee Loving Cardmakers blog today.

I had so much fun putting this silly, adorable card together with some products from Flora and Fauna, along with Newton’s Nook stencil and dies. I stamped my images from Woodland Snowglobe and colored them with copics. Then I used the coordinating dies to cut them all out and set them aside.

I die cut a green panel with my Newton’s Nook Frames & Flags dies and inked it up with white pigment ink and their Tree Rings stencil. I took a white card base and inked up the edges with a blending brush and brown die ink and then popped the green panel up with foam tape.

Then I added my images with foam squares, stamped a sentiment from the same Woodland Snowglobe set, cut it out with my scissors and popped it up too. For finishing touches I added some glossy accents to the house windows, squirrel’s hot cocoa mug and hat and Stickles to the snow for a little shimmer in the light.

I just picture this cute squirrel enjoying his hot cocoa while watching the snow fall in his fun snowglobe. haha. Silly critters…

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

Newton’s Nook Holiday Release – Day 2

Welcome to another fabulous day of reveals for the Newton’s Nook holiday release. Today we’ve got some classic images to share and a bundle of inspiration!

Dear Santa

Nutcrackers

I had so much fun creating with these images! First I’ve got a set of Christmas tags using all of the images from Dear Santa for you.

I stamped and colored my Santas with copics, then used the coordinating dies to cut them all out. Next, I cut my tags from the Fancy Edges Tags dies in kraft, green and white. I inked the kraft with the reindeer stencil and inked the bottom edge of the fancy top with some green for a little texture. I adhered the layers together and then stamped and heat embossed my sentiments from Dear Santa. Once those were cooled off I colored the outline word with a red copic marker. I popped my images up with foam squares and did a little glossy accents in various places for finishing touches.

This nutcracker card was a complete labor of love! It took a bit of fussing but I just love how it turned out.

I started by stamping my image, coloring him with copics and using the coordinating dies to cut him out. Then I die cut the slimline panels and stenciled the new tiny trees on the white one. The panels are adhered together and I set to die cut a bundle of the Pines and Holly dies. I adhered all the pieces together with liquid glue and let them dry while I worked on my sentiments. I stamped and heat embossed one, using the foliage as a guide so I knew it would fit. Then I used the die cut sentiment from the set and layered black and gold together to help it pop. Everything was adhered to the scalloped panel with liquid glue except the nutcracker himself which is popped up. Then the scalloped panel is popped up with foam tape on a card base. I finished it off with some glossy accents on the holly berries, bow and parts of the nutcracker too.

Would you like to win the “Dear Santa” Stamp Set or the “Nutcrackers” Stamp Set?We will choose ONE lucky winner for each stamp set!

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
Amy Tsuruta
Amanda Wilcox

Newton’s Nook Holiday Release – Day 1

Oh my word do I have a fun week in store for you! It’s reveal week for the Newton’s Nook Holiday Release and every single thing is just incredible! I can’t wait to share it all with you. First, today’s products are a couple of great stencils and a couple of fabulous stamp sets. Let’s take a look.

Tiny Trees and Reindeer Stencils

Destination Christmas

Christmas Campers

I’ve got a couple of super fun projects to show you featuring today’s stamp sets and I’m using the stencils throughout the week in a couple of different fun ways!

For my Destination Christmas card, I thought it would be fun to have the cars driving down the road in a bit of a blizzard so I made a shaker card. Combining the Frames & Flags dies with a Framework die I created a frame and backed it with acetate. I glued my card to my road and trimmed off the excess, then glued the road to the back of the acetate and lined the frame with foam tape. I sprinkled some snowflake confetti on my snowflake stenciled background and adhered my shaker window. To finish things off I stamped my sentiment on a flag and trimmed it down before adhering it to the front of the shaker window.

One funny tidbit, I created today’s cards on completely separate days with other cards being made in between but somehow they both took on the same color tones. It kind made me giggle a little bit when I was organizing everything.

For my Christmas Camper card, I started with glitter glitz gel and the reindeer stencil on a panel. Then I colored my images and cut them out with the coordinating dies. I cut out a couple circles using the Circle Frames dies and inked them up with blending brushes. I trimmed the green one down with a land borders die. I stamped some snowflakes on the blue one and adhered the 2 together. Then I popped my images up with foam squares. I did some partial die cutting with a banner from the Frames & Flags dies to make it longer and stamped my sentiment at the bottom. I adhered the circle scene to the flag and popped it up on the stenciled panel. Then the whole thing was added to a card base.

Would you like to win the “Destination Christmas” Stamp Set or the “Christmas Campers” Stamp Set?We will choose ONE lucky winner for each stamp set!

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
Amy Tsuruta
Amanda Wilcox

Miss Ink Stamps – Life is Nuts!

I’m sure most everyone can relate to the sentiment on today’s card featuring the Miss Ink Stamps set called Oh, Nuts! and a great new stencil called Floral Wave Offset. I just love these squirrels. They’re so cute and this set has so many of them to choose from along with different sized accent images to go with!

I started with an idea in mind so I stamped my images and colored them with copics. Then I used the scan-n-cut to cut everything out. I cut the Trinity Stamps slimline stitched card panels (smallest one) and slimline scalloped card panels (biggest one); both from white cardstock. I took the stitched panel and masked off about 1/3 and inked it up with my blending brushes and dye ink. Then I laid the floral wave offset stencil on top and went over it all again. I moved my mask down and repeated it until I had a strip at the bottom of the panel left to stamp my sentiment. I used the MISTI to do that and popped the panel up with foam tape on the scalloped panel.

Next, I started adhering all my images, creating mini scenes in each colored panel I created. Everything was adhered with liquid glue except the squirrels that were popped up with foam squares.

For finishing touches, I went over the squirrel eyes and noses with black glaze pen and after it was dry went back over top with a white gel pen to add the highlight back in. Then I added white gel pen accents to the squirrels too.

Last of all, I added glossy accents to all of the acorns. I thought this was fun and gave a little extra attention to them throughout the whole design.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project and find some inspiration to create something wonderful.

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

Pink & Main | Scrapbook & Cards Today Feature

I’m absolutely flabbergasted to be sharing with you that I’m over on the Scrapbook & Cards Today blog featuring an adorable card and tag set using a bundle of Pink & Main products. I hope you love it, please take a moment to head over there and leave a comment if you do!

I started this fun project by stamping and coloring the images from Christmouse with my copic markers. I decided to stick to a limited color palette for my card. I like doing this to keep things coordinating. Today I went with one of my favorites – mint, pink and red. Then I used the coordinating dies for Christmouse and cut the images out. I set them aside while I worked on the rest of the card.

I pulled out the soon-to-be-released plaid embossing folder, inked up one side with pink, put my cardstock in and ran it through my die cutter. This inked up part of the panel, leaving the raised plaid lines white. You could do it reverse as well by inking the other side of the embossing folder. This is a really fun technique to play around with and when you’re done playing, you have a bundle of backgrounds ready for cards!

I trimmed the panel down to 4×5.25 inches and popped it up with foam tape on a white card base. Then I popped my mouse and presents up with foam squares on that. I stamped a sentiment from the Christmouse set in pink and used the A2 Layered Rectangle dies to cut it out. Then I cut the next side up in the same die set from mint and glued them together. They are popped up with foam squares. Last, I created a small red bow from the new Stitched Bow Dies and glued it to the corner of my sentiment.

I love adding finishing touches to my projects! …almost as much as I love creating the projects themselves. I feel like they aren’t complete until I add some little details. For this card, I added glossy accents to the christmas ornaments, package tags and the mouse’s nose. Then I went back with a Wink of Stella glitter brush pen and glittered up the package ribbons, star and tree base.

I had colored all the images at the beginning, unsure of my final design and while I was working on the card I thought it would be so cute to make a coordinating tag to go with it. So I die cut the Fancy Tags pieces from white and then ran the stitched panel through my die cut machine with the plaid embossing folder, without inking it this time. I glued those layers together and popped up my mouse image with foam squares. I stamped another sentiment from Christmouse, in mint this time, and cut it out with the banner die in the Fancy Tags Die Set. It’s also popped up with foam squares.

I strung some pink and white baker’s twine through the hole, created a medium stitched bow in mint and glued it in place. For finishing details on this little tag, I added glossy accents to the mouse’s nose and black glaze pen to the snowmouse’s eyes and nose.

Aren’t these guys just the cutest? I can’t get over them! They’re so fun to color and create all kinds of scenes with. And there’s even an image in the set I didn’t use today! So many possibilities!

I hope you enjoyed today’s project and found some inspiration to create something wonderful. I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!

Pink & Main – Meet Me Under the Mistletoe

Hey everyone! I hope your week has gone wonderfully and you’re all ready for the weekend! Today I’m over on the Pink & Main blog having some more messy fun with alcohol inks.

I had this design in my head so I just started to work on my alcohol ink background immediately. I used Tim Holtz Ranger alcohol inks and the combo for this background was deception alcohol pearl and everglades alcohol ink.

Then I got my MISTI out to stamp and heat emboss my Mistletoe image on vellum and the sentiment on black cardstock. These are both from the Mistletoe stamp set. After heat setting the embossing powder, I used the coordinating dies to cut the image out and then I trimmed the sentiment into a banner.

To put everything together, I hit liquid glue behind the heat embossing and adhered my mistletoe to the alcohol ink panel, wrapping the top over the edge, like it’s hanging on the front of the card. Then I used foam tape to pop my sentiment banner in place.

Voila! This simple but beautiful card is all finished. You could change out the sentiment and create a bundle of these in a jiffy for your Christmas cards too! So much fun to be had!

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

Trinity Stamps – Made With Love

Hello everyone! I’m over on the Trinity Stamps blog today with a really fun take on the slimline trend…a mini slimline card! It’s been around for a while but Trinity Stamps has added some more goodies to go with it and I thought I’d play a bit!

I colored up my super adorable gnome and her pup from Made With Love and used the coordinating dies to cut them out, along with my sentiment. Then, playing off the colors I chose for my image, I pulled out my Mini Slimline dies and the Clean and Simple Mini Slimline Panels dies. I cut the scalloped panel from the mustard yellow striped paper in the new Autumn Rainbow paper pad.

Then I cut the window panel from some mint cardstock in my stash. I trimmed a piece of acetate and attached it to my window panel with scrappy tape and lined it with foam tape to create my shaker mechanism. Then I poured some chocolate chip heart sprinkles and glass slipper confetti on the striped panel and attached my window panel over the top to seal everything in.

I popped my images up with foam tape and glued my sentiment in place with liquid glue. Then I put the whole thing on a red card base and also used the dies to create a matching red envelope.

This was such a fun card to make! I plan to share it along with a batch of cookies to our neighbors for fun! I think they’ll enjoy the cookies and the card! Don’t you?

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

Newton’s Nook – Grateful For You

Hello everyone! I’m over on the Newton’s Nook blog today featuring a sweet fall themed slimline card. I had extra fun mixing and matching different products to create a mini scene and got inky with some stenciling too!

I started my design by laying out the images to see how many of each thing I might need to stamp out. Then I stamped and colored the images from Paw-tumn Newton and Autumn Mice and colored them with my copics. I used the coordinating dies to cut them all out and switched gears to my background.

Pulling from the colors I chose to used on the images, I cut an orange panel with the Slimline Frames & Portholes scalloped die and inked it up with the Falling Leaves stencil. I used a dark orange and faded it to a dark yellow on the stencil. Then I took a medium brown and inked the edges of the whole panel. I like the blue in the bow on my milk jug so I cut a blue panel to 3.5×8.5 inches and inked it up with a darker blue ink to deepen the color a bit. I adhered this to a card base and popped the scalloped panel up with foam tape. Then I added my images with foam squares and liquid glue.

I die cut a banner from the Banner Trio set and stamped a sentiment from the Fall Roundabout set on it. Then I die cut a flag from Flags & Frames and heat embossed another sentiment on that. I attached the 2 and adhered them to the card front with foam squares.

For finishing touches, I went with white gel pen accents on the images and a little bit of glossy accents on the acorn hats, pumpkin stems and Newton’s Nose. Then I scattered some Nuvo Glitter Drops in golden sunset across the design.

I just really love the deep, bold colors that come with fall! They are so pretty and I love falling leaves and pumpkins…pretty much everything I included on this card. ❤

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