Newton’s Nook – November Release Day 2

Continuing with the amazingly fun caffeinated theme, we have a new background die to share today and I’m obsessed! It’s so fun!!!

Coffee Frame die

Do you love it? I totally do and had so much fun playing with it! I didn’t make my card a shaker today but this frame die is just begging for it!

I cut the frame from white cardstock and masked off the mugs to ink blend them. I cut the coffee portion of the mugs and coffee beans from dark brown cardstock and glued them in place next. I added foam to the back of it all and set it aside.

Next I cut the steam from white cardstock and vellum. I ink blended the edge of the white slightly with teal ink and glued the layers together but offset. Then I cut the sentiment from kraft and white cardstock doing the same with those layers.

Finally I chose a piece of paper from the Coffee Shop paper pad we saw yesterday, trimmed it to size and glued it to a card base. I added my frame first, then positioned the steam and sentiment accordingly. The steam is popped up but the sentiment is glued directly to the card front.

For finishing touches I added white gel pen highlights to everything. Isn’t this so much fun!?!

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

DESTASH ENVELOPES

Hey friends! I have another stack of padded mailers stuffed and ready to go. I desperately need to make space in my craft room. Please help me clean everything out.

These are 8×10 padded mailers stuffed full of stamps, dies, stencils and embossing folders. They each have 4-6 different companies in them and are great for yourself or a craft friend. Maybe even take some for you and share with someone else.

Please email, PayPal or Venmo to claim. Each envelope is $100 shipped in the USA. If you’re outside the USA I’m happy to work with you if you cover at least part of shipping.

Thank you!

Newton’s Nook – November Release Day 1

Happy Tuesday everyone! It’s release week for Newton’s Nook and we’ve got some really fun new things to share with you. Let’s jump right in to today’s release reveals.

Coffee Delights stamps and dies AND Coffee Shop paper pad

I had a blast with all of the products this week and really found inspiration in the new paper pad. You’re totally going to love it! Today I have a card featuring both new products to share with you.

I stamped and heat embossed images from Coffee Delights on Bristol smooth cardstock and watercolored the images with Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers. I pulled my color palette from the paper pad knowing that I was going to use it in my background.

I chose four patterns from the paper pad, cutting three with the Fancy Edges Tag die and trimming one down to A2 size for my background. I cut white hole reinforcers and used liquid glue to adhere them. Then added some twine to each tag.

I glued the tags together with liquid glue and added foam tape to the back to them all plus my coffee cup stack. I adhered them to the patterned paper background and glued it all on a card base. Then I stamped and heat embossed my sentiment on a circle from the Circle Frames set and popped it up as well.

Enter to Win a $25 Prize!

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 – Snowflakes and Penguins

Happy Monday friends! It’s Mix it up Monday once again on the Doodlebugs blog and today I added a fun mini shaker to the mix as well.

I started by using some shimmer watercolor powders on a piece of watercolor paper, once that was dry I die cut my Pretty Pink Posh Snowflake Shaker from it. I lined the back with acetate and foam strips, a sprinkle of clay embellishments and sealed it up with a piece of white cardstock.

Next, I stamped and colored some sweet penguins from the Sunny Studios Roly Poly Penguins stamp set. I used the coordinating dies to cut them out and set it all aside. I couldn’t decide how I wanted my background – ink blended or solid and then I came across the Lawn Fawn Stitched Snowflake cover die and all my questions were answered. It’s the perfect backdrop!

I ink blended the snowflake panel with pink ink to help the stitching stand out and then glued it to a white card base. Next I added the snowflake and penguins with foam squares and liquid glue. Finally, I stamped and heat embossed a sentiment on a banner die cut, all from Pretty Pink Posh. I also popped it up and trimmed the excess off.

For finishing touches I added black glaze pen to penguin eyes, glossy accents to their beaks and feet, and white gel pen highlights to all of the images.

Products used:
Sunny Studios Roly Poly Penguins stamps and dies
Pretty Pink Posh Snowflake Shaker dies
Pretty Pink Posh Sentiment Strip dies
Pretty Pink Posh Sentiment Strips | Christmas stamps
Lawn Fawn Stitched Snowflake cover die
Embossing powder – white
VersaMark ink
Anti-static pouch
Foam squares
Liquid glue
Twiddler’s Nook Happy Feet embellishments

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

Miss Ink Stamps – Capy-cino Makes Everything Better

Happy Thursday everyone! Still playing along with the Coffee Lovers Fall | Winter Hop and today I’m here with Miss Ink Stamps inspiration to share! This new set called Caffeinated Critters is a match made in heaven…coffee and cute critters! What could be better?!?

So today I inked up the cute capybara and colored him with my copics. I cut him out and set him aside while I created my sentiment banner and prepped to get inky!

I pulled out the Cuppa Joe To Go stencil set and used the “pumpkin spice” layer to adorn my coffee cups. I love that this set has two versions. After inking up the stencil layers I went messy and tore one edge off my panel. Then I went back and inked the edge with the same teal theme I have going on.

I popped the panel up on a white card base and then popped the senitment strip and capybara up with foam squares too. For finishing touches I added glossy accents to his nose, glaze pen to his eye and a little stardust Stickles to the whipped cream in the cup.

Are you playing along with the Coffee Lovers Hop? It’s really so fun and gives you a little boost to create. Give it a try if you haven’t. You might win a prize too!

Products used:
Caffeinated Critters stamps
Cuppa Joe To Go stencils
Blending brushes
Lawn Fawn dye inks
Foam tape and squares
Glossy accents
Stickles – stardust
Sakura Glaze Pen – black

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

Doodlebugs – Mixing Your Mushrooms and Your Techniques

Happy Monday! I’m on the Doodlebugs blog for another Mix it up Monday. Today I’m sharing a fun mushroom filled gnome card. I had fun with all of my favorite techniques on this card – ink blending, messy with texture paste, coloring and die cutting. It’s all there!

After getting the new Mushroom stencil from Pretty Pink Posh, I immediately went to my stash to gather other mushroomy things to play with! Eventually I landed on the Lawn Fawn Mushroom border and Oh Gnome stamps and dies.

I ink blended the background stencils, finishing the detail layer off with texture paste. I cleaned up my space and got to die cutting my fun mushroom border. I love that this border has a grass layer so you can have fun dimension with little effort. I used liquid glue to add my mushroom caps and then adhere the layers together. With the texture paste dry at this point, I trimmed everything down to A2 size and popped the ground layer up with foam tape on the stenciled panel.

Next, I stamped images from Lawn Fawn Oh Gnome and colored them with copic markers. After cutting them out with the coordinating dies, I added them to the scene with liquid glue and foam squares. I also went it with some white gel pen highlights and glossy accents on the mushroom dots.

The Oh Gnome stamp set has great sentiments and a speech bubble with mini sentiments to use but in the end I landed on a fabulous Mama Elephant Banner Greetings die cut. It was more generic which is what I was looking for and fits so perfect up there.

Products used:
Lawn Fawn Oh Gnome stamps and dies
Lawn Fawn Mushroom Border dies
Mama Elephant Banner Greetings dies
Pretty Pink Posh Mushroom stencils
Blending brushes
Lawn Fawn ink – doe, lobster
Texture paste
Glossy accents
Sakura gelly roll white pen
Foam tape and squares
Liquid glue
Reverse tweezers

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

Also, if you made it this far in my blog post, it’s my birthday! I’m going to give away some happy mail to a few commenters on this post. Comments must be submitted by Friday, Nov. 8, which is my daughter’s 18th birthday!

Coffee Loving Cardmakers – Fall | Winter Blog Hop

Hi friends! We’re super excited for the Coffee Lovers Fall | Winter Hop to be here! I’ve got a sweet card to fill your inspiration cup and a little intro to my shop for all the newcomers too!

I pulled out some fabulous oldies but goodies from Newton’s Nook to create my card. The Mugs stencil is a staple in my craft room. I love it in those rich coffee tones and I love it all full of color too! I used my Twiddler’s Nook blending brushes to ink up the stenciled panel. I love how they sit on my desk color coded and ready to grab. Check out our Platform listing to see what I mean!

Then I stamped and colored some cuties from Newton Plans and used the coordinating dies to cut them out. I used the same copic from the book on a piece of white cardstock to cut my “COFFEE” sentiment out and make sure it matched. I also stamped and heat embossing a sentiment from Time for Coffee on a banner in the A7 Frames die set.

Once all the layers were assembled I used my trusty Paw Tray to spread out some Caffeinated Crafting Embellishment Mix and pull the brown hearts to add a little something to my card. Then I easily poured it all back in the bag using the bottom corner of the tray.

For finishing touches I added glossy accents to Newton’s glasses, cup sleeve and noses.

Thanks so much for hopping along! I hope you have a blast creating for the Coffee Lovers Hop! Happy caffeinated crafting!

Miss Ink Stamps – Halloween Hill on a Tag

Hello again my spooky friends! I’m popping in with a fun little tag I created especially for today! The new Halloween Hill stencil set has a number of fun things to adorn the top of the hill and today I just had to add those famous trick-or-treaters!

I created this tag by die cutting the tag shape first and then finessing where I wanted my stenciling to go. But you could always stencil a panel and die cut it out after if that’s better for you!

Like always I cut a second layer tag where I can write a message to the recipient of the gift too. I keeps my fun tag nice and clean but gives lots of space to write because, 1 – I can have a lot to say and 2 – I tend to write big.

Another thing to remember with this stencil set in particular is that there are Christmas images to put on that hill as well so don’t you dare put it away just yet! We’re just going to switch gears and color schemes in just a minute.

I hope you all have a wonderful Halloween and be sure to snag this stencil set because we’re going to get Christmassing with it real soon!

Products used:
Miss Ink Stamps Tag dies
Miss Ink Stamps Halloween Hill stencils
Blending brushes
Lawn Fawn dye inks
Liquid glue

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

Twiddler’s Nook Spooktacular Hop

Happy Halloween everyone!!! I’m super excited for our final Spooktacular Hop of the year! I created a fun shaker card to share with you but remember to head to Instagram and comment on the hop posts for entries to win a gift code to the Twiddler’s Nook shop!

My most amazing crafty friend gifted me these sweet Picket Fence Studio ghosts and I just had to include them in our final hop. So I chose a few to stamp and color, then also stamped a sentiment before die cutting it all.

I used the Spellbinders banner punch to create a trio of banners, glued them together and wrapped the top with twine. Then I added my sentiment and images with foam squares and set that aside to create my shaker panel.

For that I ink blended over the Pretty Pink Posh Halloween Words stencil using Lawn Fawn inks – jalapeno, ballet slippers and carrot. I removed the stencil and lightly went over the panel with the same colors. After trimming it down to 4×5.25 inches I added it to a Waffle Flower shaker pouch.

I used a few different embellishments for my shaker bits today to create the perfect color combo mix – hearts from Spring Fling, Luscious Lime stars and orange Seed Beads. The variety of materials really helps them all move around when you shake it and the seed beads make an extra cool sound too.

After everything was adhered together on a white card base I added glossy accents and stardust Stickles to my ghosts for the finishing touches.

Products used:
Picket Fence Studios Be My Boo stamps and dies
Spellbinders Banner Punch
Pretty Pink Posh Halloween Words stencil
Twiddler’s Nook blending brushes
Twiddler’s Nook Luscious Lime Stars embellishments
Twiddler’s Nook Seed Beads – orange
Twiddler’s Nook Spring Fling clay embellishments (pink hearts)
Lawn Fawn inks – ballet slippers, carrot, jalapeno
Waffle Flower 5.25×4″ shaker pouch
Foam tape and squares
EZ Tear Tape
Liquid glue

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

Halloween Treat Holders

Welcome everyone! Today I’m stopping by to share a couple different treat holders I created for Halloween. The ideas are basic and since Halloween is tomorrow, you could always make them for Thanksgiving or Christmas by changing out the paper and images. Keep that in mind if you’re into this sort of thing. It’s definitely my favorite!

Let’s start with these fun ghost friends! I created the base with a strip of orange cardstock measuring 1.5″x6″. I scored each strip at 2 1/2″ and 3 1/2″ and then used the Spellbinders tag punch to cut each end. I splattered the strips with black metallic watercolor and set them aside to dry.

While those were drying I cut the cute ghost from the Lawn Fawn Scallop Treat Box Haunted House Add On and the actual haunted house from the Lawn Fawn Shadow Box Halloween Add On. I used liquid glue to adhere everything together and then one foam square on the bottom of the house.

These were sized perfectly for Hershey’s Nuggets so when the watercolor splatter was dry I stacked my chocolate inside and threaded ribbon through the holes to keep it all together. Then I removed the foam square release paper and popped those on the front.

The fit is perfectly snug so I didn’t have to use adhesive on the chocolate but they stayed in place. I made enough of these for my whole office in one evening. They came together really quick and turned out so cute!

This next box I just made one of but it would be fun to make lots of these too. I chose a piece of Newton’s Nook Halloween Party paper and followed this tutorial to create my box. It perfectly fits three Hershey’s Nuggets so I slid those inside and tied it closed with black embroidery floss.

I stamped and colored two of the Trick or Treat Newton images like our kitties at home and used the coordinating dies to cut them out. Then I hot foiled a sentiment using the Newton’s Nook Spooky Sentiments hot foil plates and coordinating Banner Duo die to cut it out. I popped the kitties and sentiment banner up with foam squares.