Doodlebugs – Flying By to Say… and a Contest Winner

Happy Mix it up Monday everyone! I’m here with this week’s fun concoction, featuring the giveaway from last week – the Mama Elephant Curly Screen Frame – and at the end of this post the reveal of the winner of this die set!

To create this card, I stamped and colored the images from the Lawn Fawn Have a Mice Flight stamp set, then used the coordinating dies to cut them out. Switching gears to my background, I die cut the Mama Elephant Curly Screen Frame from blue cardstock and the frame from melon cardstock.

I paired my blue panel with the Lawn Fawn Stratus Cloud stencil, spreading white lie Stellar Paste through it for some great textured glossy clouds. Once that panel was dry, I glued the frame over the top and popped up my images in the center.

Next, I stamped and heat embossed my sentiment, cutting it out with a Pretty Pink Posh sentiment strip die. I popped this up with foam strips and then added foam tape to the back of the curly screen panel to adhere it to a light yellow card base.

For finishing touches I added glossy accents to the mouse’s goggles and nose. Isn’t it so sweet?!?

Now, on to the part you scrolled down to find out…the winner of the Mama Elephant Curly Screen Frame die set donated by Doodlebugs!

Congratulations BO GILMORE!!! You are the winner! Please email me at twiddlersnook@gmail.com to claim your prize.

Products from today’s card are:
Mama Elephant Curly Screen Frame dies
Pretty Pink Posh Sentiment Strips dies
Lawn Fawn Have a Mice Flight stamps and dies
Lawn Fawn Stratus Clouds stencil
Stellar Paste – white lie
Glossy accents
Foam tape, strips and squares
Liquid glue

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

Newton’s Nook – Retro Party Release Week Day 1

Hey friends! So excited that it’s release week for Newton’s Nook and we’re taking it way back!!! Today we get to reveal the whole release with some fun inspiration and then through the rest of the week we will be highlighting different products each day for more inspiration!

Newton’s Nook Retro Party Release

Today I have a card to share highlighting both sets of toner card fronts, the awesome Party On sentiment stamps and our favorite Newton with his mix tape!

This card started by playing with the new toner card fronts. I first used a silver flower foil on the patterned panel from the Retro Mix Toner Card set, then took the negative foil from that and foiled it on one of the new Solid Black Toner Cards. It’s a great way to stretch your foil and get some fun reverse designs.

After foiling, I stamped and colored Newton’s Mix Tape with copic markers and used the coordinating dies to cut him and his music notes out. With a direction on color palette, I splattered my white foiled panel with ink and spritz spray that coordinated and die cut a circle from the upper center. I lined the back of the white panel with foam tape and adhered it to the reverse foiled panel so the patterns matched up.

Next, I added Newton and the music notes with foam squares. Then stamped and heat embossed a sentiment from Party On! on one of the banner trio dies. After gluing the ends in place, I popped this up with foam strips as well.

Finally I glued the whole panel to a white card base and tied some neon ribbon to the top. For finishing touches I added glossy accents to Newton’s nose and toe beans, along with the music notes too.

Check out the Design Team Blogs for more inspiration and featured project details:

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

Spellbinders – All My Senses

Hello everyone and happy Friday! I hope your week went well and you’re ready for a fun weekend ahead of you! Today I’m here with a trio of cards featuring a couple of products from the recently release All My Senses Collection from Spellbinders. This is a beautiful collection with such a variety of products. Be sure to check it all out at Spellbinders.

If you’ve been around, you know that I love a good stencil set! Today I created three cards because this amazing Ambient Aura stencil set from the All My Senses Collection has 6 layers. They’re made to mix and match but also are labeled A1, A2, B1, B2, C1, C2 so you can easily pair them. For my first round playing with them I kept them in pairs and created three backgrounds.

Because I wanted vibrant colors on my backgrounds, I used distress oxide inks for all the stencil blending today. I chose a lighter color for each layer and came in with a darker/accent color on the edges of each opening. Once the panels were inked up, I splattered them with water and let it air dry, then splattered all the panels with watered down white paint for more texture.

Then I trimmed or ripped edges of each panel so they were all just a bit different. Finally, I chose colors coordinating with my panels and cut the Line of Being die multiple times, using pieces from each color on my panels. These are all adhered with liquid glue directly to the stenciled panels.

I added foam tape to the back of each panel but before adhering them to my card bases, I chose coordinating colors of ink to add color the the card bases that would show along side the stenciled panels. I love the texture that direct-to-paper gives when you use felt ink pads, which is what I’ve done here.

Remember, not every card has to have a sentiment on the front. Sometimes it’s just a work of art and your words on the inside are their own work of art.

Products used:
Ambient Aura stencils
Line of Being die
Foam tape
Distress Oxide Inks
Liquid glue

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

Newton’s Nook – Hogs and Kisses

Hi friends! I’m over on the Newton’s Nook blog today with some fun inspiration using older, but still favorite, goodies! Who doesn’t love a good farm pun?!? Definitely this girl!

I started by stamping and coloring a couple of adorable pigs from the Oink set and used the coordinating dies to cut them out. Then I found some great orange cardstock to cut my oval from using one of the Oval Frames dies. But I knew I needed to break it up with something so I went digging in my stencils.

That Argyle stencil will win the day every single time! I inked a white panel up with light teal and dark blue for a great play on the orange we’ve got going on. I trimmed the stenciled panel down by 1/2 inch and popped it up on a white card base. Then I stamped my sentiment on the bottom of the orange oval before popping it up on the argyle with the piggies.

I ended up not liking the white strip at the bottom of my card like I thought I would so I cut a strip of the orange cardstock and added it which I love! It’s great when things work out. For finishing touches I added glossy accents to the piggy snouts, hooves and dots on the bandana.

This is such a fun love-themed card using anything but traditional colors and I think it’s fantastic!

Products used:
Oink stamps and dies
Argyle stencils
Oval Frames dies
Foam tape
Blending brushes
Stellar Inks
Glossy accents
Liquid glue

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

Doodlebugs – You Got This Card and GIVEAWAY

Hi friends! Happy Mix it up Monday! Today I’ve got a card to share plus a little giveaway at the end sponsored by Doodlebugs! Let’s get on with it!

For this card, I pulled out the Concord & 9th Fish Friends stamps and dies. I cut the fish from a bunch of different colors, then mixed and matched creating fun and vibrant fish along the way. Then I cut the base to one of the fish shapes and stamped my sentiment on it for a fun and interesting look instead of a banner.

For my background, I took a piece of white cardstock and spritzed it with different Distress Sprays – stains and spritz for bold color and shimmer. After the sprays dried I splattered a little water for some texture too. Then I cut the panel with the Pretty Pink Posh Pierced Scallops cover plate.

I arranged the fish and seaweed to my liking on the background panel. Then I glued the seaweed down with liquid glue and added all the fish with foam squares. It made a big difference to give them height. Last, I glued the panel to a white card base.

GIVEAWAY:
Today I have one of the new Mama Elephant Curly Screen Frame die sets to give away courtesy of Doodlebugs! Please leave a comment on this blog post by Friday, March 6 at noon PST. I’ll choose a winner later that day.

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

Newton’s Nook – Feature Week Day 4

We’re already on the final day of features. I hope you’ve enjoyed them all and found some fun inspiration to create with!

Silhouette Bunnies dies

This new set of adorable bunny silhouettes (and carrot) are so sweet and fun to create with using a multitude of mediums. My card last Friday had them cut from felt and today I’m using Thermoweb flock mixed with cardstock for fun texture.

And as promised, I’ve paired these sweet bunnies with the new Corner Flip dies too. It’s difficult to see in pictures but on the corner flip portion, I add a small foam square close to the fold line, then a glue dot on the corner tip before folding and adhering the panels. This gives them a little dimension which is really cool in person.

I used my trusty, favorite direct-to-paper inking technique on my background panel to get a textured green background. Then glued the corner flip pieces with liquid glue and popped my sentiment strip and bunnies up with foam squares. The carrot is glued directly to the bunnies with liquid glue.

Last, the panel is popped up on a white card base for even more dimension and visual interest.

Products used:
Silhouette Bunnies dies
Happy Easter paper pad
Banner Trio dies
Springtime Roundabout stamps
Foam squares and tape
Glue dots
Liquid glue

Check out the Design Team Blogs for more inspiration and featured project details:

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

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

Newton’s Nook – Feature Week Day 3

The week is chugging along! Today we have some more fun dies to share with you that are going to be a fast favorite, I’m sure!

Easter Egg Builder dies

These eggs are so fun to cut from a billion colors and just play with, mixing and matching different colors. Ink blending or coloring the details. Even cut them from patterned paper for more options that are quick and easy!

Today I created a little outdoor scene for the kiddie Easter egg hunt in all of us! I cut lots of bits from all the different styles of eggs and used liquid glue to adhere them together. Then I cut some layers of grass, adding a little ink blending to the tips for depth and glued the layers together, nestling the eggs in between.

Next, I took a light blue panel and spread texture paste through the Petite Clouds stencil haphazardly so it’s not perfect and set the panel aside to dry. While I was waiting I cut the Happy Easter sentiment and shadow, using liquid glue to adhere the layers together.

When the clouds were dry, I ink blended the edges of the panel a little for some depth there too. Then I adhered the grass and eggs along with the sentiment to the sky. Then I glued the whole thing to a card base.

Products used:
Easter Egg Builder dies
Land Borders dies
Petite Clouds stencil
Happy Easter dies
Texture paste – matte
Liquid glue

Check out the Design Team Blogs for more inspiration and featured project details:

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

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

Hero Arts – Spring Meadow Collection Inspiration

Hello again. I’m back with some inspiration for the Hero Arts February Release but this time goodies from the Spring Meadow Collection. This one is beautiful and caters more to those who enjoy spring florals vs the cute furry critters. I’m focusing on the stencil/die combo and new sentiments from this collection though.

I love this combo because the stencils and die fit perfectly together but they are both wonderful on their own as well. This first card shows the combo where I stenciled all the layers on a white panel, then diecut the cover from kraft cardstock and layered them together.

I splattered the panel with silver watercolor and added a sentiment strip using the new Everyday Sentiment Strips 2 stamp. It coordinates with the Sentiment Strips die giving you a billion and one sentiments with one stamp and one pass through the die cut machine. It’s brilliant!

After popping up my sentiment strip with a foam strip, I glued the panel to a white card base and finished the design off by tying some ribbon around the top. This card just sings spring happiness to me.

Next, I have a card using the stencils without the cover die and it’s just as pretty!

I chose a different color palette for the flowers and added some teal to my leaves. I also pulled out the detail blending brushes to add different colors to some of the small openings and give a splash of yellow among the cooler feeling tones.

This panel was spritzed with water and splattered with white paint for extra texture. Once that was dry, I trimmed it down to 4×5.25 inches and popped it up on a teal panel. That was glued to a white card base and another sentiment strip was popped up in the center. This time I created a set of simple black ink on white cardstock so they are extra versatile. I just save the extras for future cards which will come in handy for sure!

My next adventure will be to create a card featuring just the cover plate for this and no stencils. Stay tuned for that to come later.

Products used:
Meadow Blooms layering stencils
Meadow Blooms cover plate
Everyday Sentiment Strips 2 stamps
Sentiment Strips cover plate
Foam strips
Liquid glue
Silver watercolor
White paint

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Newton’s Nook – Feature Week Day 2

Welcome back everyone! It’s day 2 of release features and today we have two new die sets that coordinate but can be used alone too!

Card Layout 6 die and Corner Flip dies

If you saw my card on Friday for the Instagram Hop, you saw one way to use the new Card Layout 6 die. Today I created a shaker card using it. Be sure to come back Thursday to check out a way to use the Corner Flip dies on their own!

To create the shaker, I cut the frame from white cardstock and trimmed a piece of acetate to fit the whole panel. These are adhered with double-side tape. Then I lined the back with foam strips, they fit perfectly! I filled each well with some shaker bits from my stash and sealed the whole thing up with a piece of patterned paper from the Happy Easter paper pad!

Next, I took the center diamond that cuts out from the Card Layout 6 die and inked it lightly with pink before stamping my sentiment and adding a couple Easter eggs from the Springtime Bunnies stamp set. I glued that in place with double-sided tape because it was on the acetate panel.

I wanted to tie the pink in more so I drug my pink ink pad directly to my card front before adhering the shaker panel. Then finished things off with glossy accents on the Easter eggs.

Products used:
Springtime Bunnies stamps and dies
Happy Easter paper pad
Card Layout 6 die
Foam squares
Liquid glue
Glossy accents

Check out the Design Team Blogs for more inspiration and featured project details:

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

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

Newton’s Nook – Feature Week Day 1

Hi friends! Newton’s Nook had a release last Friday and this week we’re featuring products to share added inspiration and get you geared up for springtime crafting! Let’s go! Today we have…

Happy Easter paper pad and Springtime Bunnies stamps and dies

These new bunnies are the cutest thing you’ve ever seen and the color palette of this new paper pad has me craving spring like never before!

For my card, I chose a few of the Springtime Bunnies images to stamp and color with my copic markers. Then I used the coordinating dies to cut them out and started playing to arrange them across my card filling the scene from left to right. I used liquid glue to adhere the little groupings together and added foam squares to the back of each one.

I trimmed a piece of Happy Easter patterned paper to fill the bottom 2/3 of my card front and used that as a guide where to start my light ink blending for the sky behind my bunny line up. After ink blending, I glued the panel to my card front and stamped my sentiment on the bottom right corner.

I trimmed a piece of “grass” and popped it up with a foam strip on the border between the pink and the sky. Then added my bunny scene to that. For finishing touches on this card, I added glossy accents to bits of the eggs and both bunny noses.

Products used:
Springtime Bunnies stamps and dies
Happy Easter paper pad
Foam squares
Liquid glue
Glossy accents

Check out the Design Team Blogs for more inspiration and featured project details:

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

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