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Doodlebugs – Peppermint Postage

Happy Mix it up Monday everyone! I had some fun playing with the Lawn Fawn peppermint border dies a while ago. I just made a bunch of them for fun but didn’t have a plan. Then I walked past my craft room the other morning and this design hit me. I ran in and sketched it out on a sticky note and came back to create it later on.

Since my peppermint borders were already created at this point, I glued them to a piece of pink cardstock and used the Mama Elephant Postage Frame dies to cut it out. I discarded the outer frame and kept the inside. Then I cut a white postage frame and used washi tape to adhere the inside to the frame.

I stamped a fun sentiment from the Mama Elephant Everything Nice set and used the coordinating die to cut it out. Then I stamped the bunny in the Mama Elephant Holiday Huggers set and colored it with copic markers. After using the coordinating die to cut it out too I hooked his paws over the sentiment and glued them together.

I didn’t want a plain white card base so I drug my cilantro ink pad across a white card base for color and texture at the same time. Then I assembled everything with foam tape and squares. Gotta love that dimension!

For finishing touches today I added black glaze pen on the bunny’s eyes and glossy accents on his nose and the while parts of the Santa hat.

How is your holiday card stash coming along? I am definitely getting there quickly. Thank goodness because it’s about time to pop these babies in the mail!

Products used:
Mama Elephant Holiday Huggers stamps and dies
Mama Elephant Everything Nice stamps and dies
Mama Elephant Postage Frame dies
Lawn Fawn Peppermint Border dies
Foam tape
Glossy accents
Sakura gelly roll glaze pen – black
Liquid glue
Lawn Fawn ink – guava and cilantro

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

Spellbinders – Felt Stitch & Create

Hi friends! I’m popping in with a couple of fun “not a card” projects I created lately for Spellbinders. The new Felt Stitch & Create line from Nichol Spohr is my favorite thing ever right now! I have completed two projects so far but I have two more in process on my craft table now. They’re so fun and easy to create!

First off, I created this fun home decor wall hanging using the new Pumpkin Lane House die set. I cut all the bits from Benzie felt and stitched with DMC embroidery floss. Then I wrapped velvet ribbon around an embroidery hoop and added some fabric and felt to create a background. Then I just used hot glue to assemble my scene to that. I finished it off by wrapping more ribbon around the fastener at the top and it’s ready to hang up.

While I was creating that large hoop I remembered extra stock I had of the mini 3″ hoops from past paper creations and it gave me this idea. I lined the back with patterned paper and used foam squares to pop the holly and berries up in the center. These come from the Candy Cane stitching set. I finished it off with a velvet bow and hanger on the top and a sentiment banner on the bottom.

Products used:
Spellbinders Felt Stitch & Create dies
Benzie felt
Spellbinders Delivering Joy dies
Foam squares

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

Doodlebugs – Presents for All Occasions

Happy Mix it up Monday everyone! On the Doodlebugs blog today sharing a little reminder that all the stamps and dies you have that are presents, birthday or other work great for Christmas too. That usually goes for the other way around while we’re at it!

I pulled out the new Mama Elephant Surprise Gifts set, which is not holiday at all, at wanted to make a Christmas card with it. So I colored my images accordingly with copic markers, used the coordinating dies to cut them out and some liquid glue to adhere my cute little scene.

Now that we’re on our way to holiday, I pulled out the Pretty Pink Posh Layered Christmas Trees stencil set and inked it up on a piece of light green cardstock. For the final layer I skipped inking and got a little messy with texture paste though. OMG do I love this stuff! It’s the perfect texture add-on if you ask me.

When that was dry, I trimmed it to fit an A2 card base and glued it on the front. I popped up the piggy and gifts and added a Mama Elephant Winter Banner Greeting. The array of options in these sentiment sets is amazing! Highly recommend!

I digress. Back to the card. For finishing touches today I added black glaze pen to the piggy’s eyes and nostrils. Then I added stardust Stickles to the heart he’s holding and white gel pen highlights to all the gifts.

Products used:
Mama Elephant Surprise Gifts stamps and dies
Mama Elephant Winter Banner Greetings dies
Pretty Pink Posh Layered Christmas Trees stencils
Blending brushes
Texture paste
Liquid glue
Foam tape
White and black gel pen
Stickles – stardust

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

Miss Ink Stamps – Tag Duo to Continue the Scene

Happy Thursday everyone! I’m back one more time with a couple of gift tags I created using Miss Ink Stamps images, dies and stencils. I wanted to use the large snow slope image but it’s so long that it seemed like a waste if I only made one tag with it…so I split it in half and made two tags!

I cut two tags from green cardstock and inked up the Perfectly Plaid stencil with green ink over it. I added the ground to the larger tag first and trimmed the excess off the edge, then glued the rest to the smaller tag.

I glued the Santa hat on my penguin and then adhered him with the present to the tag front.

On the second tag I used smaller penguins and also gave each of them something fun to hold. Next, I cut the smallest tag in the die set and stamped my sentiment on both.

I threaded some pretty ribbon through the hole and tied it with black embroidery floss, adding the smaller tag before tying the bow. To keep things in place I added a foam square to the red tag and adhered it in place on the green tag.

For finishing touches I added clay hearts to the small tag and glossy accents to the penguin beaks and feet, bow on the gift and fish. Then I added a little stardust Stickles to the Santa hat and candy cane.

Products used:
Tags dies
Ice Day stamps
Perfectly Plaid stencil
Blending brush
Sweethearts clay embellishments

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

Newton’s Nook – Thanks A Latte

Happy Thursday everyone! I’m happy to be on the Newton’s Nook blog today sharing another card using bits from the new release. Something about the color palette in the new paper pad really spoke to me and I just ran with it. I loved how they went together and the types of colors just made me happy to create. Needless to say, today’s card follows those same colors again. Yay!

This time I cut my sentiment shadow from dark blue cardstock and the letters from white. I used liquid glue to adhere them together and lined the back with foam tape. Using that as a guide, I ink blended teal behind where I wanted the words to go on a piece of white cardstock. Then I splattered that with more teal ink for extra texture.

I chose a couple patterns from the new Coffee Shop paper pad and trimmed them down. The bigger portion measures 5.5×1.5 inches and the strip is 5.5x.25 inches. These are popped up in the ink blended panel with foam tape.

After adding the sentiment over the ink blending, I used liquid glue to adhere the panel to a white card base. Then, for a little extra, I wrapped the top with jute twine and tied it in a bow.

The vibe of this card wasn’t asking for sparkle and shine so I resisted. It’s pretty great without it. Also, noting that this new paper pad and set of products are going to be fabulous for masculine feeling cards!

Products used:
Thanks a Latte dies
Coffee Shop paper pad
Liquid glue
Foam tape
Blending brush
Lawn Fawn mermaid ink

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

Destash Packages – New Price Point

I heard from crafters that the price point of my destash packages were a little more than they could do this time of year. I’m back to share that I have $65 packages stuffed full of a wonderful variety of products ready to go.

Remember, there are multiple companies in each package. Coordinating dies are included with the stamps. Nothing is duplicated because these are straight from my stash, not overstock I bought for something else. And it’s all brand new or gently used.

Please email me to claim yours at twiddlersnook@gmail.com.

Thank you!

Doodlebugs – Christmas Mug Cuteness

Welcome to this week’s Mix it up Monday for the Doodlebugs blog! Today I’m pulling out some cuteness from last year that did not get enough love! Spellbinders mugs and Mama Elephant critters, could it get any cuter? I think not!

These adorable Mama Elephant Holiday Huggers were just asking to hang out of something fun and when I came across my Spellbinders Merry Mugs I knew it was a match made in heaven! I really tried to make all 3 huggers fit in one mug but it wasn’t happening so I gave in and have that sweet bunny saved for another occasion. *Spoiler alert, gift tag to match!*

So I stamped and colored my images, die cut all the things and then assembled it all with a combination of liquid glue, reverse tweezers and foam tape. I added a double snowflake to the front of the mug with an enamel dot in the center which I really can’t get over is so pretty!

Then I cut a Mama Elephant Shimmer Lights cover from pink cardstock and glued it to a white card base. I added my filled mug to that with liquid glue and found the sweetest sentiment in the Mama Elephant Deliver Lots of Cheer stamp set to add to a banner. I stamped that with Lawn Fawn mermaid ink so it matched the mug and popped it up with foam tape.

For finishing touches I added white gel pen highlights, black glaze pen to the critter eyes and glossy accents to their noses. To finish it all off I added stardust Stickles to the Santa hats.

Oh my goodness, I really can’t get over the cuteness of this card. I love how it turned out so much!!!

Products used:
Mama Elephant Holiday Huggers stamps and dies
Mama Elephant Shimmer Lights cover die
Mama Elephant Deliver Lots of Cheer stamps
Lawn Fawn mermaid ink
Lawn Fawn Banner die
Spellbinders Merry Mugs dies
Sakura Glaze pen – black and white
Foam squares
Liquid glue
Glossy accents
Stickles – stardust

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

Newton’s Nook Release Day

YIPPEE!!! It’s release day for Newton’s Nook! We’re hopping on Instagram for added inspiration and another chance to win too!

I pulled out the Coffee Delights stamps again for my card today and of course used more of that amazing paper pad too!

I cut one-inch strips and glued them to a card base. Then cut three circles from another pattern. I stamped three coffee mugs and colored them in coordinating colors and used the coordinating die to cut them all out.

I popped the circles and mugs up with foam squares and added glossy accents to the hearts on the mugs.

Then I stamped my sentiment in the bottom right corner. It fits just perfect!

Remember to head to Instagram and comment on the hop for a chance to win!

Products used:
Coffee Shop paper pad
Coffee Delights stamps and dies
Frames Squared dies (circle)
Glossy accents
Foam squares

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

Newton’s Nook – November Release Day 3

Alright friends, it’s the final day of release reveals before you get to add all of these amazing goodies to your stash! This time we have a couple of new, fun word dies with shadows to share with you!

Hug in a Mug and Thanks a Latte dies

Today I have a card to share featuring the Hug in a Mug word dies. These two sentiments are my very favorite caffeinated sayings and I’m so happy to have them in such a perfect die! I also love that they are both one piece with the shadow so you don’t have to try and piece letters together.

For this card I cut the shadow from black and letters from white, gluing them together with liquid glue. Then I pulled out the Coffee Silhouette dies and cut them from a rainbow of cardstocks. I added a few steams, whipped creams and hearts from the set to decorate them as I went along.

I cut a piece of black cardstock and adhered it to a card base, then cut another piece of paper from the new paper pad with the largest Framework die and popped it up with foam tape. I adhered the layers to the various mugs and prepped everything with foam squares.

After popping everything in place, I finished the hearts off with glossy accents and the whipped creams with stardust Stickles.

I hope you loved the release reveals this week! Which was your favorite?

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 November 12th through Thursday November 14th. 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, November 14th at 9 pm ET to comment — winners will be announced on the NND blog on Friday, November 15th.

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