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Newton’s Nook – Pastel Vibes with Heartfelt Fall

Hey everyone! I’m on the Newton’s Nook blog today with a little taste of fall, but the soft, pastel version. I took a break from Halloween for a moment to pull out some fall fun for a moment.

I stamped the Heartfelt Fall image in a brown copic-friendly ink and colored it in with softer fall colors. Then I cut that out with the largest scallop Heart Frames die and inked up the edges with a little tea dye distress ink.

I chose some coordinating scraps of cardstock and cut 1/4″ strips to glue on a white cardstock panel. Once those were dry, I trimmed the panel down to 4×5.25 inches and splattered it with gold watercolor. I popped the panel up on a white card base and then did the same with my heart image.

I chose kraft for my sentiment banner using one of the Banner Trio dies and a sentiment from the Heartfelt Fall stamp set. Then I painted the open letters with gold watercolor from the splattering and also painted bits of the heart image with an extra watered down version of the same gold watercolor.

I really adore how this card turned out and the relaxing feel it gives. I think that also plays really well with the sentiment I chose too.

Products used:
Heartfelt Fall stamps
Heart Frames dies
Banner Trio dies
LH Colors watercolor – gold
Foam tape
Magic Anti-static brush
Embossing ink
Embossing powder – frosting

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Doodlebugs – Pastel Christmas Wishes, Non-Traditional Color Palettes for the Holidays

Welcome to a fun Mix it up Monday for the Doodlebugs blog where I’m still thinking of the holidays that are far away but are sure to creep up on us in no time! Typically I’m not a make ahead Christmas card type of person, I start late fall and do my best. But this year I’ve been really inspired by all the Christmas in July releases and extra inspiration I’ve seen from other design team members. It’s fabulous and so fun!

Another thing that happens for me when I create outside of the typical time of year for a holiday or season…I’m interested and willing to choose outside of my typical color palettes. It’s been SO FUN!

Today I have the Spellbinders Delivering Joy Sleigh in pinks, teals and mint greens. I added a little gold for some flair and kept the gifts classy with white. Isn’t is so pretty?!? I really adore it!

For the background, I went with the same green and teal color scheme using the Pretty Pink Posh Christmas Trees stencil set. I trimmed the panel down to 3.75×5 inches and popped it up on a pink card base because, well, pink. I chose the same teal from the poinsettias for my sentiment strip, which is also Pretty Pink Posh.

After popping the sleigh and sentiment strip up on the stenciled panel, I finished the design off with a scattering of Spellbinders pearls.

I’m really curious to know how you feel about non-traditional colors for any holiday season. Please share! I used to be really rigid with my colors and now I’m definitely enjoying playing around with it all.

Products used:
Spellbinders Delivering Joy Sleigh dies
Spellbinders pearls
Pretty Pink Posh Christmas Trees stencils
Pretty Pink Posh Sentiment Strips dies
Pretty Pink Posh Sentiment Strips | Christmas stamps
Foam tape, squares and strips
Liquid glue
Reverse tweezers
Lawn Fawn Ink – cilantro, mermaid, doe

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Newton’s Nook – Ghostly Good Times

Hey friends! I’m over on the Newton’s Nook blog today with an extra fun Halloween card. I had some inky fun stenciling on kraft and creating vellum ghosts which is always super cool looking!

I used distress oxide inks for my stenciling so the ink sat on top of the kraft cardstock and showed up really well. The colors I chose were carved pumpkin with a little ripe persimmon on the bottoms, mowed lawn and black soot. I cut that panel with the largest Frames & Tags die for that awesome zigzag edge. Then cut the frame in that set from black cardstock and popped it up with foam strips.

I heat embossed the ghosts from Ghostly Good Times and used the coordinating dies to cut them out. I adhered them to the card front by cutting tiny foam squares to hide behind their eyes, mouth and nose.

Last, I stamped a sentiment on one of the tags in the same die set using the same distress oxide inks as the pumpkins. I tied a little bow with some twine and added it with foam squares. I finished that off with one cute jack-o-lantern embellishment and popped the whole panel up on a white card base with foam tape.

You know how much I love Halloween so this card was a blast to create! I wanted to mention that the face layer of this stencil set is also optional if you wanted to create fall cards with it too. Definitely extends the use tons!!!

Products used:
Ghostly Good Times stamps and dies
Jack-O-Lantern stencils
Frames & Tags dies
Foam squares and tape
Distress Oxide Ink – carved pumpkin, ripe persimmon, mowed lawn, black soot
Twiddler’s Nook Happy Jacks embellishments

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Doodlebugs – Christmas Mixes

Hey friends! It’s Mix it up Monday on the Doodlebugs blog and today I went the holiday route. I feel like Christmas is one of those holidays where mixing and matching all the themes together work, pretty much no matter what. It’s all fun and festive, and I love it!!!

I started by playing around with the Waffle Flower Holly background die and stencil combo. These background dies from Waffle Flower are genius and so much fun to play with different color combos. I can never stop at one because one color idea leads to another and next thing I know, I’ve got 12 backgrounds and some serious cardmaking ahead of me. It’s wonderful!

With the backgrounds inked up, I pulled out the Waffle Flower Merry Christmas sentiment dies and cut the shadows from coordinating cardstock as the berries on my background. The words are white and everything is assembled with liquid glue.

I really think I could have just popped the sentiment up in the upper center but what’s the fun in that?!? So I pulled out the Pretty Pink Posh Winter Mug dies and created a couple of those in coordinating colors to each background as well.

I popped everything up on the background panel with foam tape and added a pearl to the center of each snowflake for a little something.

These cards would be simple and quick to mass produce for the holidays, especially if you got started early! I’ll definitely be adding a few more color combos to my stash before I’m done with them.

Products used:
Waffle Flower Holly Jolly die and stencil
Waffle Flower Merry Christmas Print dies
Waffle Flower blending brushes
Pretty Pink Posh Winter Mug dies
Pretty Pink Posh pearls
Liquid glue
Foam tape

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Doodlebugs – Summer Birthday Fun

Hey friends! I’m on the Doodlebugs blog today sharing a fun birthday Mix it up Monday with summer vibes. We don’t have many summer birthdays in our family and friends so I don’t make many cards this style and it was really fun!

I started with the fun Pretty Pink Posh Celebration Cupcake dies, wanting to expand the use from 4th of July vibes to general summer, so I cut the fruit and sunglasses, omitting all the other parts at first. I added some detail with copic markers instead of ink blending this time and used liquid glue to adhere all the parts and pieces together.

Next, I cut 2 Mama Elephant Arches from vellum and a green polka dot cardstock in my stash. I used tape runner to adhere the layers together and foam tape to add the cupcake to that.

I started with a blank pink background but didn’t like that so I ran the panel through my die cutter with the Spellbinders Tiny Dots embossing folder, ink blended the edges with some picked raspberry distress oxide ink and splattered it with white paint. Ahhh, that feels so much more like me. Then I popped the arches up with foam tape.

I cut a couple of Pretty Pink Posh sentiment strips from white cardstock and stamped sentiments from the Pretty Pink Posh Sentiment Strips | Birthday stamp set in guava and peacock inks. These are popped up with foam strips.

Now my card is really bottom heavy so I went back to the cupcake die set and cut some of the other decoration type shapes out and glued them all around with liquid glue. I think they add a fun touch and extend the design up without pulling everything apart.

The last thing I did was add white gel pen accents to all of the images.

Products used:
Pretty Pink Posh Celebration Cupcake dies
Pretty Pink Posh Sentiment Strips dies
Pretty Pink Posh Sentiment Strips | Birthday stamps
Mama Elephant B2B Arches dies
Spellbinders Tiny Dots embossing folder
Lawn Fawn ink – peacock and guava
Distress oxide ink – picked raspberry
Liquid glue
Foam squares, tape and strips
Gelly roll pen – white

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Spellbinders – Mini Slimline St. Nick Card

Hi there! Thanks for stopping by. Today I’m sharing a mini slimline card featuring the recently released Spellbinders St. Nick die set. This set builds a gorgeous Santa figure with a couple of add-ons like layers for a Christmas tree, a star and a snowflake.

I took my time cutting and assembling my St. Nick using liquid glue a reverse tweezers along the way. I also didn’t pay much attention to how tall he was turning out until he was complete. This meant a shift from a typical A2 card to a mini slimline which I haven’t made it a while. They are a really fun size to create and always surprise people when they open them.

My background is a piece of white cardstock embossing with the Loops embossing folder, then ink blended with green dye ink fading from one corner to the other. I like the gradient look. I glued the panel to a card base and wrapped silver floral wire around it, tying it with a tag from the Delivery Joy die set.

Finally, I popped St. Nick up with foam tape on the card front. I didn’t find a lot of reason for finishing touches so there are none today. The lantern was cut from foiled cardstock and his buckle from glitter cardstock. Not much else to make shine or sparkle. I think it turned out really pretty though. St. Nick was a joy to create as well!

Products used:
St. Nick dies
Delivery Joy dies
Loops embossing folder
Liquid glue
Foam tape
Blending brush
Lawn Fawn ink – noble fir
Reverse tweezers

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Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge – Shaker Card

Hey friends! I’m happy to announce that Twiddler’s Nook is the monthly sponsor for the Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge. The theme is coffee, Christmas and this month – cute critters! This was so fun to to mull over and create for! Ultimately, I landed on m favorite Newton’s Nook goodies, turned into a shaker card featuring a couple of Twiddler’s Nook embellishments as the shaker bits!

I’ve been heavy on pink lately so forgive me now but Christmas and Halloween are going to be a bit non-traditional this year. Hence, I started with a pink panel for my background stenciling and I love it!!! I cut that out with the Newton’s Nook Basic Frames rectangle and created a shaker pouch with some leftover packaging. I filled that with Candy Cane clay embellishments and Rosetta Pixie Dust Micro Beads.

For my images, I combined Newton’s Mug with sentiments and holly from Newton’s Gift. Don’t they go so perfectly? I love how it turned out! I also love combining my sentiment inside these large images. It’s so genius!

To pull it all together I cut the largest Frames & Flags die from the red polka dot paper in the Bright Basics paper pad and popped it up on a white card base. Then I glued the shaker panel to that with EZ Tear adhesive tape. Last, I popped my image up on that with foam squares.

For finishing touches I just added a bit of glossy accents to Newton’s nose and the berries on the holly. Just a little something extra.

Products used:
Twiddler’s Nook Candy Cane clay embellishments
Twiddler’s Nook Pixie Dust Micro Beads – Rosetta
Twiddler’s Nook Blending Brushes
Twiddler’s Nook Double Wide Platform Base
Twiddler’s Nook Blend Brush Caps
Twiddler’s Nook Pressure Pal
Newton’s Mug stamps and dies
Newton’s Gift stamps and dies
Newton’s Nook Bright Basics paper pad
Newton’s Nook Flags & Frames dies
Foam tape
Liquid glue
EZ Tear adhesive tape
Glossy accents

Remember to hop over to the Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge blog and link up your entries for a chance to win a $35 gift card to the Twiddler’s Nook shop this month! (Spoiler…if you spend the whole gift card at once you, you get free shipping!)

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Miss Ink Stamps – You’re So Charming

Happy Thursday everyone! I’m just back from camping, happy to be home but boy do I love when we’re out there relaxing and having fun! And today I’m back with some magical inspiration from Miss Ink Stamps.

It’s been a minute since I pulled out any of the amazing Magical series from Miss Ink so I went digging and was immediately drawn to the So Charming set. Professor Flitwick is a favorite and I adore these floating books so I just went with it.

After coloring and die cutting my images, I set them aside to ink up some stencils and create a little scene for them to be. I used the Bricks and Perspective Floor stencils with some gray and brown inks. I stamped my sentiment and then splattered the background a little for added interest.

For all the layers, I used the EIEIO Frames dies. On the card base, I drug my brown ink pad directly on the paper for a textured look. Then ink blended forest moss and rustic wilderness distress oxide inks and splattered it with water. The scallop panel is glued to the card base and the scene panel is popped up, along with all of the images.

For finishing touches I just added glossy accents to the Professor’s glasses and bits of the books.

Products used:
So Charming stamps and dies
Perspective Floor stencil
Bricks stencil
Foam tape
Liquid glue
Glossy accents
Distress oxide ink – forest moss, rustic wilderness
Lawn Fawn ink – narwhal and walnut

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Twiddler’s Nook Spooktacular IG Hop

Hey friends! It’s time for the next Twiddler’s Nook Spooktacular Instagram Hop! Today I have a fun card featuring a few great Twiddler’s Nook products but also a recent haul I purchased of Halloween goodies from Scrapbook.com.

I started by immediately cutting and building this ADORABLE little ghostie from the Spooky Bundle! This bundle comes with a stamp set, this ghost and sentiment dies, plus a paper pad packed full of cuteness! All of which I used today!

Next, I die cut a bunch of the “boo” sentiment and started playing with arrangements. I landed on this sort of flip-flop look and LOVE IT! After gluing everything down with liquid glue, I trimmed the excess off the edges.

Going through the paper pad, I chose this fabulous orange sky paper for my bottom border, trimmed a piece about 1 3/4″ wide and stamped my sentiment on the bottom right corner. Don’t forget to use your Twiddler’s Nook Pressure Pal to get great stamp images, especially for sentiments. No squishy fat spots here and there when you use it!

I lined the top of the orange panel with a strip of pink cardstock coordinating with the witch hat and popped my ghost up with foam squares.

For finsihing touches, I added glossy accents to the ghost’s eyes and stardust Stickles to the star on the hat. Then I scattered a sprinkling of Twiddler’s Nook Wishing on Rainbow Stars embellishments. I picked and chose the lighter colors in the mix by pouring some in a Twiddler’s Nook embellishment tray, which also made it super easy to pour them back in the bag when I was done.

Be sure to head to Instagram and hop along with us, commenting as you go for a chance to win a gift card to the Twiddler’s Nook Etsy shop.

Products used today:
Scrapbook.com Spooky Bundle
Liquid glue
Reverse tweezers
Twiddler’s Nook Pressure Pal
Twiddler’s Nook Wishing on Rainbow Stars embellishments
Glossy accents
Stickles – stardust

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