Doodlebugs – Mixing Four-Legged Cuteness

Hi friends! I have a fairly simple card to share with you today that I’m just smitten with! I love my critters, you all know that! So to be able to mix and match things along that theme together makes me extra happy! Today we’ve got a fun background and some adorable puppies to celebrate with!

I was digging around in my stash and came across this fabulous layered stencil set from Waffle Flower called Paw Print Duo. It’s a two layer stencil and gives these awesome paw prints for your background. Today I inked them up with peacock and mermaid inks from Lawn Fawn and then splattered the panel with white paint for a little interest and texture.

While that was drying, I stamped the puppy image from the Mama Elephant Little Line Agenda stamp set and colored them with my copic markers. I used the coordinating die to cut it out and added foam squares to the back.

From the same stamp set, I stamped and heat embossed my sentiment on black cardstock. Then I used a banner die to cut it out and also added foam strips to the back of this.

With the background dry, I glued it to a card base and simply removed the release paper on my image and sentiment strip, popping them in the upper center. Then, for finishing touches I added a dab of glossy accents to all the puppy noses and about half of the labels on the boxes. No rhyme or reason, just some glossy bits here and there.

Aren’t they the cutest thing you’ve ever seen!?! I can’t say it enough, I love the Mama Elephant Little Agenda line. They’re the perfect size to play with and too cute for words!

Products used:
Mama Elephant Little Line Agenda stamps and dies
Waffle Flower Paw Print Duo stencil
Lawn Fawn Extra Sentiment Banners dies
Blending brush
Lawn Fawn ink – peacock and mermaid
VersaFine ink
Anti-static bag
Embossing powder – white
Glossy accents
Liquid glue
Waffle Flower Grip Mat (4×6)
Foam strips and squares

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

Newton’s Nook – February Release Day Instagram Hop

Happy Friday everyone! We’ve revealed all the wonderful things and it’s all available to purchase in the Newton’s Nook shop now! To add to the release festivities we’re having a hop over on Instagram full of inspiration too!

Here are the details for my card but be sure to comment on Instagram for your chance to win!

I told you on the reveal day that I had to color both of the Spring Heights images right away because I just loved them so much! Well, since I created a tag with the other image I wanted to create a card to share with you for this image.

After coloring and die cutting the image, I cut a piece of white cardstock a couple inches wide and stenciled a mini scene with the clouds stencil and hills & grass stencil. I glued that to a piece of yellow cardstock and popped my images up with foam squares.

Next, I cut a piece of melon cardstock and glued it to a white card base before popping my scene panel up on it with foam tape. I used my MISTI to stamp my sentiment after it was all put together and finished it off with some ribbon tied at the top.

For finishing touches on the images, I added glossy accents to all beaks, noses and toe beans, plus stardust Stickles to wings and flower centers.

Remember to head to Instagram now and comment as you hop along for another chance to win!

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

Newton’s Nook – February Release Day 3

Welcome back everyone! Today is the final day of release reveals. Tomorrow you can hop with us for extra inspiration on Instagram and also hit the Newton’s Nook shop to grab your favorites too! But first…today’s reveal!

Hyacinth stamps and dies and Daisies dies

These new products are really sweet and fun to create with so I have 2 cards to share with you today! Let’s start with the fun Hyacinth image.

After creating so much pastel for this release it was really fun to go bold with these florals, and my favorite, get inky messy too! I started by stamping and coloring the image, then cut it out with the coordinating die. I already had a design in mind so I pulled out the Hexagon Frames dies and started cutting them from yellow cardstock.

Once the hexagons were cut out and arranged, I cut a piece of dark purple cardstock for my background. Then I spritzed the papers with distress oxide sprays for fun visual texture. I used Wilted Violet and Wild Honey on the respective cardstocks. Once the purple was dry, I distressed the edges before gluing it to a white card base.

I stamped my sentiment on one of the hexagons and then popped them all up with foam squares. Next, I added the hyacinth image the same and finished that off with glossy accents on all the stamen. Last, I wrapped some purple ribbon around the top and tied it in a knot.

Now, we move on to the fun new Daisies die set! I couldn’t just make one either, we needed a whole bouquet!

And with a bouquet, we needed somewhere to keep it. So I used the Jar hot foil plate on white cardstock and then inked it up with light teal ink. I splattered it with water for texture and used washi tape to adhere the daisy stems to the back to hold them in place.

Next, I pulled out the Frames & Tags die set and cut the largest one from pink cardstock. I splattered it with light pink ink and set it aside. Then, I cut one of the tags from the same die set from a purple distress cardstock and heat embossed my sentiment on it from the Hyacinth stamp set. I used a piece of sand paper to distress it a little and attached it to the jar with jute twine.

Before adhering all the layers together, I took my light teal ink pad directly to the white card base, dragging it along each side. It is a quick, fun way to add textured color to your cardstock. Next, I popped the pink panel up with foam tape. Then I glued the jar down with liquid glue and adhered the flowers with a combo of liquid glue or foam squares. Last, I went ahead and adhered the tag in place with a foam square so it wasn’t floating freely.

Enter to Win a $25 Prize!

One lucky winner will receive a $25 store credit to spend at Newton’s Nook Designs online shop! The winner will be chosen at random from the collective blog posts featuring our new products this week. For a chance to win, leave comments on the Design Team Member Blog Posts (see list below) from Tuesday, February 25th through Thursday February 27th. You will not know which blog will be randomly chosen so the more you comment on the better your chances are of winning! You have until Thursday, February 27th at 9 pm ET to comment — winners will be announced on the NND blog on Friday, February 28th.

Want another chance to win? We will be having an instagram hop on Friday with a second prize! Please join us over on Instagram on Friday, February 28th for details!

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

Newton’s Nook Designs
Donna Idlet
Larissa Heskett
Samantha Mann
Diane Morales
Farhana Sarker
Amanda Wilcox

Newton’s Nook – February Release Day 2

Happy Wednesday everyone! We’re back with another sweet spring stamp and die set to share with you today.

Spring Heights stamps and dies

I love these new images and had a blast coloring both of them! The sentiments are really fun and can be used for such a variety of occasions. Today I have a gift tag to share with you using those cute pups!

After coloring the image, I used the coordinating die to cut it out and lined the back with foam squares. Then I cut the Bookmark die from teal and white cardstocks, plus a bottom portion from brown cardstock. I used the Sky Borders die on the brown piece to mimic the bumpy dirt from the image and heat embossed my sentiment at the bottom of that.

Next I used the Petite Clouds stencil on the teal die cut and then glued the dirt at the bottom of that. I popped the image up with foam tape after that. Then I layered the fun tag with the plain white one and threaded ribbon through the hole at the top.

For finishing touches I added black glaze pen to the puppy eyes and then white gel pen highlights to those plus other parts of the images. Last, I added stardust Stickles to the flower centers and glossy accents to the dog tags and noses.

Enter to Win a $25 Prize!

Want another chance to win? We will be having an instagram hop on Friday with a second prize! Please join us over on Instagram on Friday, February 28th for details!

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

Newton’s Nook Designs
Donna Idlet
Larissa Heskett
Samantha Mann
Diane Morales
Farhana Sarker
Amanda Wilcox

Newton’s Nook – February Release Day 1

Hi friends! Happy to be here this week with reveals for the Newton’s Nook February release! It’s day 1 and we’ve got a couple of super fun things to share!

Easter Postage Sample stamps and dies and Happy Easter dies

I have a sweet card to share with you featuring all of these goodies although they’re going to be just as perfect separately too.

For this card, I stamped and colored a bunch of the images from Easter Postage Sampler, then used the coordinating dies to cut them out. I trimmed a piece of cardstock about 1.5″ wide and glued my images along the edge of that. I lined the back with foam tape and set that part aside.

Next, I pulled out the Plaid stencil and a piece of pink cardstock. I inked the first layer of the stencil with pink dye ink. For my second stencil layer, I added yellow paint to texture paste and spread that through the stencil with a palette knife.

While that was drying I cut the new Happy Easter dies from white and purple cardstocks and used liquid glue to adhere them together. Next, I assembled all my layers onto a white card base. The stenciled panel is adhered with liquid glue so that the sentiment and left panel could pop up with foam squares and tape.

For finishing touches I added stardust Stickles to bits of various images for a little sparkly interest here and there.

Enter to Win a $25 Prize!

Want another chance to win? We will be having an instagram hop on Friday with a second prize! Please join us over on Instagram on Friday, February 28th for details!

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

Newton’s Nook Designs
Donna Idlet
Larissa Heskett
Samantha Mann
Diane Morales
Farhana Sarker
Amanda Wilcox

Doodlebugs – Gift Card Holder in Your Scene

Happy Mix it up Monday everyone! I’m so excited to get a chance to play with the Mama Elephant Cake Gift Card Holder die set. It’s so fun and a fabulous way to make your card interactive!

I started by cutting the various parts of the gift card holder from colored cardstock and then used blending brushes and dye inks to add depth and dimension to them before assembling it all with liquid glue.

I pulled out the Lawn Fawn Heart Pandas to adorn the bottom of the cake, including the butterfly and trail. They are attached with foam squares.

My background panel is embossed with the Spellbinders Tiny Dots embossing folder and ink blended for depth to bring out the fun dots. I also stamped and heat embossed a sentiment from the Mama Elephant Way to Go stamp set, using the coordinating die to cut it out.

I popped the embossed panel up with foam tape on a white card base and splattered it with gold watercolor. Next, I glued the gift card holder to that with liquid glue. Then I popped up the sentiment above the candles.

For finishing touches I added stardust Stickles to the inside of the flames and butterfly wings. Then I went over the rest of the flames with glossy accents letting them mix together a bit.

Products used:
Mama Elephant Way to Go stamps and dies
Mama Elephant Cake Gift Card Holder dies
Spellbinders Tiny Dots embossing folder
Lawn Fawn Heart Pandas stamps and dies
Glossy accents
Stickles – stardust
Blending brushes
Lawn Fawn dye inks – walnut, mermaid, ballet slippers, sunflower
Foam squares

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

Doodlebugs – You Got This with a Flower Bouquet

Hi friends! I’m officially out of the holiday crafting for a little bit. But sometimes we didn’t get to play with our holiday goodies enough and it’s fun to find ways to use them all year long. Today I’m showing an idea to use that sweet Pretty Pink Posh fox past Valentine’s Day!

I cut all the pieces for the fox and ink blended them for a little depth and dimension, then used liquid glue to adhere it all together. Next, I pulled out the Spellbinders Little Blooms set and started cutting out flowers and leaves.

I used liquid glue to assemble the flowers and then also to add them into the fox’s paws. Then I set the fox aside and used the Pretty Pink Posh Happy Days Stencil on a piece of pink cardstock. After inking it up, I trimmed 1/2″ off the bottom and popped it up on a white card base with foam tape. Next I added a strip of yellow cardstock to the bottom.

I cut a Spellbinders Make a Wish Arch from vellum and started assembling the rest together with foam squares and tape runner. I like to use dry adhesive whenever possible with vellum because liquid glue makes it warp. It doesn’t like the moisture.

Last I stamped and heat embossed a sentiment from Mama Elephant Way to Go, the used the coordinating die to cut it out before popping it up with foam strips.

For finishing touches today, I added little eyelashes to my fox’s eyes and glossy accents to her nose and eyes.

Products used:
Pretty Pink Posh Fox Holder dies
Pretty Pink Posh Happy Days stencils
Spellbinders Little Blooms dies
Spellbinders Make a Wish Arches dies
Mama Elephant Way to Go stamps and dies
Embossing and watermark ink
Anti-static brush
Embossing powder – white
Liquid glue
Foam tape and squares
Blending brushes
Lawn Fawn inks – sunflower, forget me not, juice box, ballet slippers, guava
Glossy accents

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

Doodlebugs – Be Mine Bears

Hey friends! Happy to be here with another Mix-it-Up Monday for the Doodlebugs blog. I’m squeezing in one more bit of Valentine inspiration before the big day is here. I really love Valentine crafting of all sorts so it’s hard for me to be done right up until the day.

Today I played with the Pretty Pink Posh fringe heart dies. I started with white and graduated up to red on my layers. After gluing them today, I fluffed the fringe a bit and splattered the heart with gold watercolor.

Then I stamped and colored some Mama Elephant cuties from the set My Favorite Person. After die cutting them I stamped and heat embossed mini sentiments on each from the set in gold. Next, I ink blended the Pretty Pink Posh Deco Leaves stencil in red on a pink cardstock panel.

It seemed very stark so I went around the edges with the same blending brush after removing the stencil and also splattered it would a little water. I used liquid glue to adhere this panel and the fringe heart to a card base. Then I added the bears with foam squares.

Last I stamped and heat embossed a sentiment from Pretty Pink Posh Valentine Greetings and used the coordinating die to cut it out. I popped it up on the fringe heart with foam strips. For finishing touches I did add tiny glossy accents dots to the bear noses.

Products used:
Pretty Pink Posh Fringe Heart dies
Pretty Pink Posh Deco Leaves stencil
Pretty Pink Posh Valentine Greetings stamps and dies
Mama Elephant My Favorite Person stamps and dies
Lawn Fawn lobster ink
Blending brush
Liquid glue
Foam squares and strips
Gold watercolor
Glossy accents
Embossing and watermark ink
Embossing powder – gold
Anti-static bag
Distress sprayer

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

Miss Ink Stamps – Fortune Teller

Hi friends, I’m back one more time today with some inspiration featuring part of the new Miss Ink Stamps release. More fabulousness from the Magic category and I had so much fun creating with it!

The set is called Fortune Teller and it lends itself to having so much fun with color combos! I coordinated it all and had to add the sweet sleeping kitty to my little scene too! After stamping and coloring, I used the coordinating dies to cut them all out. Then liquid glue to layer the kitty, chair and table together. I added foam tape to the back of Ms. Trelawney.

For my background, I ink blended distress oxide inks from black soot to chipped sapphire, then into blueprint sketch and last a little seedless preserves at the top. I splattered the panel with water, blotted it dry and then went in with white paint splatter too. After the paint dried, I spread glitz gel through the Sparkles stencil to add to the magic of it all.

While the glitz was drying I cut a black frame from the Modern Typeset Frame die set and added foam strips to the back. I also stamped and heat embossed my sentiment and cut it out with a sentiment strip. This also has a foam strip behind it.

After adhering all the layers to a card base, I finished the design with some glossy accents on the crystal ball and Ms. Trelawney’s glasses.

Products used:
Fortune Teller stamps and dies
Sparkles stencil
Modern Typeset Frame dies
Foam strips and squares
Glitter Glitz Gel – purple
Glossy accents
Liquid glue

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

Newton’s Nook – This Calls for COFFEE

Hey friends! I’m always happy to be on the Newton’s Nook blog sharing cuteness and fun inspiration! Today we’re getting caffeinated and playing with one of my new Christmas gifts – distress spritz sprays!

I started by stamping and heat embossing the horizontal image from the Coffee Delights stamp set. Then I watercolored the image and used the coordinating die to cut it out.

I used the stitched panels but not the frame from the Fractured die set to pop up on a white card base. My foam tape is solid and wide so I was able to stamp my sentiment and heat emboss it after assembling the card front. But if you’re a sparse foam taper be sure to do that part first. Then I spritzed on a couple colors of Distress Spritz Sprays and let it dry. The sprays are so shimmery in the light! I’m in love!

Last, I just added more foam tape to my cute mugs and popped them up, centered over the diamond at the top.

I am truly loving this celebratory feeling card that’s mellow and pretty but definitely needs to contain a coffee shop gift card when I send it out. Right?!?

Products used:
Newton’s Nook Coffee Delights stamps and dies
Newton’s Nook Fractured Card Layout die
Distress Spritz Sprays
Foam tape
Embossing & Watermark ink
Magic anti-static brush
Embossing powder – licorice
Zig clean color real brush markers

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