Hi friends! I’m on the Newton’s Nook blog today sharing a fun gate fold valentine using one of my favorite stamp sets – Love Quarry! It’s so much fun and makes it really simple to make valentines for the guys in your life.

I started my card by working on the excavator, heart layers and sentiment speech bubble. I colored my image with copic markers and used the coordinating die to cut it out. Then I chose a speech bubble to cut out and stamped my sentiment on that. I cut a gray scalloped heart and the next size down in white. I used the Heartfelt Love stamp on the white heart with gray ink so it was subtle but definitely following my love theme.

I created a card base, scoring at 2 1/8 from each side and folding to the center. I inked up a separate panel that measured 4×5.25 inches with a few blue inks randomly and splattered it with water. Then I splattered the panel with unicorn watercolor paint. While that was drying I took the darkest ink I used on that panel and inked the edges of my card front flaps. Then, I cut the splattered panel in half and glued it to my card front.

I used liquid glue to adhere my heart to the left half of the card front only. That way it opens up nicely to reveal a surprise and my handwritten message too. Before we get to the inside, I added glossy accents and stardust Stickles to the excavator and a clay heart to my speech bubble.

This inside sentiment comes from the Heartfelt Love stamp set I used on the front and the accent images are from Love Quarry. Aren’t they so cute?!?

Products used:
Love Quarry stamps and dies
Heartfelt Love stamps
Heart Frames dies
Speech Bubbles dies
Blending brushes
Lawn Fawn inks – fish tank, forget me not, deep sea, carrot and sunflower
Glossy accents
Foam squares
Liquid glue
Twiddler’s Nook Sweethearts clay embellishments

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Hello again. I have some sweet valentine inspiration to share with you today featuring Newton’s Nook stamps, dies and stencils.

Some of these holiday stamps don’t get enough love so I get excited when I’m digging and find something I love that I haven’t created with much. That’s how today’s card came about.

I stamped and colored the main image and some flowers from Newton’s Valentine and used the coordinating dies to cut them out. Then I used the Fancy Edges Tag, Land Borders and Sky Borders dies to create a mini scene tag to put it on.

Everything wasn’t fitting how I thought it would on the tag so I used Clouds and Hills & Grass stencils to create a coordinating scene on a card front to match my tag.

I stamped my sentiment in the sky and added some solid hearts for fun. Then I took the outline heart and stamped those on the tag so it all coordinates but the tag is bolder. I glued the flowers to the grass and popped the tag up with foam tape.

For finishing touches I added glossy accents to the flower centers, bird’s beak and Newton’s nose and toe beans. Then I added black glaze pen to Newton’s eyes so they stand out more.

Do you send out Valentine’s Day cards? I only send a handful but they are so fun to create, I definitely couldn’t skip this holiday!

Products used:
Newton’s Valentine stamps and dies
Fancy Edges Tag dies
Land Borders dies
Clouds dies
Grass & Hills stencil
Clouds stencil
Blending brushes
Lawn Fawn inks – mermaid, jalapeno
Liquid glue
Foam tape
Glossy accents
Sakura black glaze pen

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Happy New Year my friends!!! Thank you for your continued love and support, whether you’re new or you’ve been here since the beginning, I truly appreciate each one of you. So I created a New Year card to share with all of you.

I created a fun fireworks scene using the Newton’s Nook Fireworks stencil and distress oxide inks. I randomly chose some brighter colors to pounce through my stencil in hopes the tint would show up over the black cardstock. It did a little but not as much as I hoped so I also went in and splattered the panel with pink and yellow metallic watercolors too.

I stamped and colored the main image from Newton’s New Year with my copic markers before cutting it out with the coordinating die. I wanted him to pop against the background so I cut a vellum scalloped circle and then went ahead and cut another smaller circle for my sentiment with the same die set. I wanted the teal to match my coloring so I colored the circle with my copic markers as well.

I found yellow cardstock in my stash that matched Newton’s hat so I cut it down and adhered it to an A2 size card with liquid glue before popping up the background panel with foam tape. Then I added Newton to the vellum circle with foam squares along with the sentiment and hid tape runner behind them to adhere those to the fireworks panel.

For finishing touches I added glossy accents to the bottle labels and Newton’s nose, plus a white clay heart above my sentiment.

Wishing you all a Happy New Year full of love and joy!!! Sending crafty hugs too!

Products used:
Newton’s New Year stamps and dies
Fireworks stencil
Frameworks dies
Distress oxide inks
Foam tape
Glossy accents
Liquid glue
LH Colors watercolors
Twiddler’s Nook Sweethearts embellishments

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