Yay!!! We made it all week long and the Newton’s Nook release is finally available in the shop. I’m here with a quick and easy but beautiful card to round out inspiration for the week and remind you we have an Instagram Hop going on today to celebrate!
This is an all die cut card which would be perfect for mass producing but it’s so pretty with those patterned papers that I think it’s one of my favorites from the release!
I used two papers from the new Christmas Party paper pad and paired them with the Essential Tags dies and Happiest Holidays sentiment dies. Everything is adhered with liquid glue and foam tape. I finished the top off with a brown bow that I added with a foam square.
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Hello friends! I’m proud to be a sponsor for the Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmakers linky party once again. Today I’m popping in with some Christmas inspiration using some of our awesome Twiddler’s Nook products.
I started by using my pressure pal to help stamp my snowman and sentiment; coloring with copic markers and using the coordinating dies to cut him out. I trimmed the sentiment with a paper cutter.
Next I sprayed a white panel with distress oxide and distress spritz sprays for textured color. After the panel dried I splattered it with water and blotted that. Finally I used my blending brush with the Simon Hurley Sparkling Stars stencil set. The first layer I used mustard seed distress oxide ink and the second layer is phoenix feather Astro Paste.
Once that panel dried, I used the snowflake stamp in the Simon Hurley Christmas Borders stamp set with white pigment ink on the background. Trimming the panel to 4×5.5 inches I popped it up on a white card base and tucked a black strip along the right edge.
I added silver thread behind my snowman before adhering him and my sentiment strip with foam squares. To finish the design I glued a scattering of Snow Day clay embellishments across the panel and added glossy scents to the holly berries and carrot nose.
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We’re already to the last day of release reveals for the Newton’s Nook October release! The week has flown by and we saved the best for last! Bring on the puppies and kitties!!!
Today we reveal the Christmas Time Cats and Christmas Time Dogs stamp and die sets, along with new toner card fronts. Today I have cards to share using the new stamps but my toner card fronts didn’t get here in time so I’ll have fun inspiration using those coming very soon!
You know I love the new size of the Newton critters and these are no exception! I had a blast creating two cards to share with you today. Let’s visit the puppies first!
For this card I cut the Card Layout 2 die with green and black cardstocks. I heat embossed my sentiment on the larger rectangle and popped it all up on a piece of paper from the Christmas Party paper pad. Then I popped my puppies up with foam squares and finished the design off with some glossy accent noses and stardust Stickles on accents on each image.
The kitty design actually uses the inserts from my card on day 2 which were white! I used Distress Micah Spray to add a fabulous green sparkle to them before popping them up with foam squares on another piece of paper from the Christmas Party paper pad.
I cut a circle using a Circle Frame die, heat embossed my sentiment on the bottom and ink blended a little white pigment ink on the top. Then I splattered a little white paint and popped my kitties up with foam squares. I added that to the card front with foam tape and finished the design off with some glossy accents on parts of each image.
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Hello again. I’m back with day 2 of release reveals for the Newton’s Nook October release. Today we have a couple of die sets to share and I made a card with each one for inspiration.
These new sets are called Merriest Christmas and Happiest Holidays. They’ll be a great addition to your holiday crafting stash. They have a beautiful script and a perfect shadow die included.
I used a couple of goodies we revealed yesterday to go with these awesome new word dies and created a Christmas and New Years card to share.
First up I used the frame from the Card Layout 5 die with some of the Christma Party paper pad to create a background for the Merriest Christmas sentiment. Then I added a few gifts using the Gift Builder set to frame the words. My sentiment is cut from white glitter foam so I just finished the design with some ribbon around the top instead my usual gloss and sparkle.
For new Happiest Holidays card, I used a stamp from the Christmas Greetings stamp set to repeat across a cream panel creating my background. Then I got messy with Ranger Astro Pastes and the Fireworks stencil to create a booming background for my sentiment. That panel is cut from the banner die in the Basic Frames set.
I tied some twine around the top and popped it up on the stamped background panel. Then I added my sentiment with liquid glue and added the whole panel to a white card base.
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Woo hoo!!! I’m so excited to be back with release reveals for another amazing Newton’s Nook release! We’re gearing up for holiday crafting so get ready!!! Let’s see what’s coming…
Four new products to chat about today – Christmas Greetings stamps, Christmas Party paper pad, Gift Builder dies and Essential Gift Tags dies! I’m smitten with it all and I have 2 projects to share with you today.
First off, you know I love making gift tags so that’s obviously where I started. Then I had some more fun with the Christmas Greetings stamps and that fabulous paper pad to create a card to share today too.
Straight away I cut the tag shapes from the paper pad and a couple of pink ones too. Then I started playing with those fun Gift Builder dies and just created a bundle of different color combos. Once that was done I played around putting them together in different arrangements. I added a sentiment to the larger one but left the other with just images.
For my card, I cut the largest Framework die from white cardstock and trimmed the stocking patterned paper to fit inside the stitching. I glued those together and cut another layer the same size from vellum. Then I stamped and heat embossed my Christmas Greetings sentiment in the center and hid some tape runner behind that to adhere it to the panel. I tied the ribbon around the top and thought it was missing something.
That’s when I went digging for my Christmas Postage stamps and added the stockings with foam squares to that. I love that they hang the opposite as the paper pattern. I added the panel to a red card base with foam tape and finished the design off with some stardust Stickles on the stockings.
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Welcome to Mix it up Monday for Doodlebugs everyone! This week really switches gears to holiday inspiration from all directions so bear with me if you’re still in spooky mode.
Today I created a simple card using the Mama Elephant Candy Cane Lane stamps and dies. I started by stamping and coloring three of the mice with copic markers. Then I used the coordinating dies to cut them out and set them aside to create my background.
Taking an A2 size white panel of cardstock, I used post-it tape to mask off the bottom portion of my card, a few inches from the top. I ink blended that section with Distress Oxide Ink in tattered rose and spun sugar for a soft peachy pink gradient. Then, leaving the mask in place, I stamped the mushroom house from Candy Cane Lane on the right side.
I also stamped my sentiment from the Pretty Pink Posh Wavy Christmas Greetings stamp set on the bottom before gluing the panel to a white card base. Last, I popped the mice up with foam squares and added stardust Stickles to the poms on each of their hats.
Isn’t this a sweet but simple Christmas card!?! I adore how it turned out!
Okay, today it’s going to get a little controversial. Are you team candy corn or team no thank you? I live so far in the land of team candy corn, I can’t even hear you if you’re somewhere else. Lol!!! Hence, today’s fun Newton’s Nook card!
I used the candy corn stencil set on black cardstock with distress oxide inks for a toned down but cool background. Then I splattered it with white paint for some texture and interest.
Next I used a combo of Newton’s Candy Corn images, Spooky Sky dies, Land Borders dies and Frames & Flags dies to create a cool scene. My image is colored with copic markers and everything is assembled wit ha combo of liquid glue and some foam squares.
Then I stamped a sentiment from Newton’s Candy Corn on the smallest in the Oval Frames die set and popped it up with foam squares. Finally I popped the whole scene panel up with foam tape and glued the whole thing to a white card base. For finishing touches I just added some white gel pen accents to the Newton image.
***Sorry friends, I had this scheduled for the wrong day so it’s publishing a day late.***
Hey friends! This week for Doodlebugs Mix it up Monday, I’m really feeling the fall vibes. I have been itching to play with these Lawn Fawn Sunflower dies since I got them and today it just felt perfect!
Instead of using colored cardstock for the petals, stems and leaves I used distress oxide and spritz sprays to add color to white cardstock. It gives great texture, shimmer and depth. After the panels were dry from spraying them, I cut out the pieces and used liquid glue to assemble everything.
I cut a red background panel at 4×5.25 inches and ink blended the Pretty Pink Posh Deco Leaves stencil over top with darker red ink. Then I ink blended the edges for depth before adding it to a white card base.
Next I popped up my sunflowers with foam squares. Then stamped and die cut a sentiment using the Pretty Pink Posh Sentiment Strips stamps and dies. I glued the layers together and popped it up over the stems with foam strips.
For finishing touches on the design I glued a scattering of brown flat sequins from Pretty Pink Posh.
Here’s a close up look at the texture on the sprayed sunflower parts. I love them!
Hi friends! Today I’m here with a fun little shaker card to celebrate National Coffee Day with the Coffee Loving Cardmakers! The hop is over on Instagram so be sure to comment there! Below are some of the details on how I created my card.
I couldn’t help but go for a Halloween coffee shaker card to celebrate today. I used our Happy Jacks embellishment mix with a variety of Lawn Fawn dies and Newton’s Nook stamps and dies for my sentiment.
I rediscovered a fun paper pad in my stash to create the background. First I cut a 4.25×5.5 panel with the green polka dots and then gave life to some scraps in the pad with stripes for some contrast. Isn’t that fun!?!
I created my shaker and glued it in place with a few extra visitors in the form of ghosts and a spider on his web. Then I stamped and heat embossed a sentiment from Newton’s Nook on a banner and popped it up with foam squares.
Hello again! I’m back with another Mix-it-up Monday for Doodlebugs and, of course, I’m back to my Halloween antics. This time we’ve got potions class. So grab your text books and turn to page 394 please.
I started this card by wanting to play with the Pretty Pink Posh Potions Shaker dies so I cut out all the bits and blending brushes to add shading and dimension. After that I splattered them with unicorn watercolor and let them dry.
While those were drying, I chose a couple of images from Mama Elephant Bewitched to stamp, color and cut out. Then I assembled my potion bottles, and decided on arrangement. I adhered them together with liquid glue and added foam squares to my images.
My gray background panel was too drab so I pulled out the Pretty Pink Posh Crackle Background stencil and inked it up. Then splattered the panel with darker gray ink for more distressing. We’re in the dungeon after all.
Finally, I adhered the panel to a card base, used liquid glue to adhere my potion bottles and popped my images on with their foam squares. I placed the whole card in my MISTI and stamped the sentiment in the upper right corner and finished the design off with just a bit of glossy accents on my witch and ladel.
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