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This is so exciting! Newton’s Nook is turning 7 years old and we’re celebrating with a sale and a fun hop!
So go ahead and treat yourself…but first keep scrolling to check out my card share and then hop along and comment on all the rest of the design time for your chance to win too! Now, on with the show! Get your snorkel, you’re gonna need it!
I knew that I wanted to create something summery and beachy so I grabbed my Scuba Newton and Purr-maid Newton stamp sets and started brainstorming. I thought a slimline would be extra fun so I die cut a scalloped panel with the Slimline Frames and Portholes set and inked it up with distress oxides in blueprint sketch, salty ocean and peacock feathers and spritzed it with water. Then I cut a white panel with the porthole portion and set both of those aside to work on images.
I chose my images from the 2 sets, inked them up and started coloring with my copics. Once those were complete I cut them out with the coordinating dies and arranged them on my card to make sure I had enough to fill in the scene.
Once everything was laid out, I used liquid glue to adhere it to either the white panel or the inked panel. After everything was in place, I flipped the white panel over and covered it with foam squares. Using this as a guide, I lined up my sentiment, stamped and heat embossed it before adhering the panel down. I took the whole thing then and added it to a 3.5×8.5 inch card base with foam tape for extra dimension.
Then I moved on to finishing touches. I used unicorn Stickles on the purr-maids seashells and Wink of Stella glitter brush on both of their tails. Then I added some glossy accents to the kitty noses, insides of the seashells in the scenes and the fins on the fish for just a little shine here and there.
I just love the colors and how bright and happy this turned out! They just make you smile.
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Welcome back! I hope your week is going well. We’re on the downward end and sailing into the weekend now.
I had an idea pop into my head that I just couldn’t wait to try out and today I finally get to share it with you. It features some new and some older Trinity Stamps prodcuts. Get your gear, we’re heading under the sea again.
The idea that I most wanted to try was layering my distress oxides with the waving hello stencil so that’s where I started. I cut a 3.5×8.5 panel and blended mermaid lagoon, blueprint sketch and seedless preserves. I spritzed it with water and blotted it dry. Then I used both layers of the waving hello stencil with the same colors over the top. I love how this turned out! I inked up another little panel with tea dye and gathered twigs and die cut it with the scenic borders for some sand.
Next, I grabbed shark bait, ocean reef builder and turtlely awesome stamp sets to ink up and get coloring. After that I die cut them with the coordinating dies and started building my scene.
After I decided on placement, I started adhering everything down with liquid glue. I specifically left room for my sentiment in the middle of my scene so I made sure to stamp and cut that out from shark bait as well.
After building my scene, I thought it would look nice to frame it up so I pulled out the scalloped frame die from the slimline envelope builder set and cut one out in white to glue on top. Then I moved on to finishing touches.
For those, I added unicorn Stickles as bubbles and also on some of the coral on the sea floor. Then I gave little bits of shiny to all the critters with glossy accents. Last, I added some shimmer with my Wink of Stella glitter brush pen to some of the plants and the sentiment.
I love how all of these sets go together so well and using them on a slimline card gives you so much real estate to build an awesome scene.
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Hey everyone! I’m up on the Newton’s Nook blog today with this really fun surprise outer space card featuring Cosmic Newton heading out to space and floating among the stars when he gets there! Let’s check it out!
To create this card, I started by taking a white card base, opening it up and using the sky borders die on the bottom to create the front flap. Then I took the cloudy sky stencil and lightly added some blue clouds over the top.
I stamped and colored my images from Cosmic Newton with my copics. Then I used the coordinating dies to cut them all out. Next, I took a flag from the Frames & Flags die set and cut it out to stamp my sentiment on it.
Moving to the inside, I took a 4.25×5.5 panel and inked it up with distress inks in peacock feathers, picked raspberry and mustard seed and then went over the whole panel with black soot to create my galaxy background. I spritzed it with water and flicked gold and pearl watercolor on it for a great starry look. Then I adhered my images with liquid glue.
I wanted to continue the sentiment to the inside too, so I cut another flag and heat embossed the second sentiment in white and glued the flag down. Then I took the whole panel and glued it to the inside of my card.
Next, I moved on to finishing touches. On the front, I popped my sentiment flag up with foam squares and added white gel pen accents to the images. Then I took glossy accents and covered the whole window and the bolts on the spaceship. I used crushed pineapple Stickles on the star too.
For the inside images, I just added white gel pen accents and Wink of Stella glitter brush to the planets because I wanted the card to close nice and flat. However, one of the shooting stars peeks out beneath the cloudy border that was die cut so I added the crushed pineapple Stickles to that for fun.
Between outer space and undersea cards, I could be content for life. The backgrounds are so soothing to make and I always love the images so much. I hope you enjoyed today’s card.
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Fancy meeting you here again! Today I’m over on the Coffee Loving Cardmakers blog with this fun card and tag combo featuring the Mermazing Coffee stamps and dies from Pink & Main. Keep scrolling to check it all out!
I’ve been wanting to try embossing with a background die for a while and this card just seemed like the perfect scenario to try it out. I did some ink smooshing with my Tombow brush markers to create the bright fun background and then, using the embossing sandwich for my die cutter, embossed the panel with the Neat and Tangled snake scales coverplate die. I trimmed it down to 4×5.25 and set it aside to work on the rest of my card.
I stamped, colored and die cut my images from Mermazing Coffee, not totally sure what I was doing with my card. Then I decided to cut a vellum heart using the Trinity Stamps nested hearts and heat embossed my sentiment. I attached my mermaid with foam squares.
I decided to add some jute twine around the background panel for a little fishy texture and then adhered my heart over that. I finished my card off with some Wink of Stella glitter brush pen on the mermaid tail, Stickles on her cheeks and heart in her hair and finally a scattering of Nuvo Crystal Drops across the design.
But I still had an extra image I didn’t use…so I thought a fun coordinating tag was in order.
I die cut the tag pieces from Newton’s Nook’s Fancy Edges Tag die set and adhered them together. I stamped the sentiment from Mermazing Coffee and also some hearts from the set too. I popped the image up with foam squares and added a little Wink of Stella glitter brush pen here and there for some extra shimmer. Then I thought it needed more so I grabbed the glossy accents and added some of that to the mug on all the pink areas…and then finished it off with some teal twine I had in my stash.
I hope you enjoyed my little project today and found some inspiration to create something wonderful.
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Hello there. Welcome to a whole new week full of new adventures! Today Alice and the White Rabbit from Miss Ink Stamps are stopping by for a bit of nonsense and my very first attempt at copic coloring a scene.
The creation of this card is really simple, it’s just the length of time it takes to color a scene like this that I underestimated. Some of those copic artists out there make it look so simple but it’s really not. I need much more practice and maybe it’s time for a class or two as well.
I started by stamping and coloring my images from the Alice set from Miss Ink Stamps. Then used the scan-n-cut to cut them out. Next, I stamped the Forest Path image and the sentiment from Alice on a 3.75×5.5 panel and colored it with my copics. After the coloring was finish, I adhered a couple of strips of black cardstock to the panel and popped it up on a white card base with foam tape. The images were them popped up with foam tape as well.
I can just picture Alice and the White Rabbit standing on their path to who-knows-where and she’s decided to share with him some fabulously random thought. I love this book and playing with these stamps has inspired me to pull it out and read it again.
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Happy Friday everyone! I’m so excited to have finally made it a priority to play with my Mother’s Day present…the Alice in Wonderland release from Miss Ink Stamps. It was so much fun to sort through it all and decide what to create. My first card kind of shows my mood…a little snarky and a lot funny.
I started this card by stamping my images from Queen of Hearts and colored them with my copics. Then I used my scan-n-cut to cut them out and set them aside to work on my background. I took a 4.25×5.5 black cardstock panel and used white pigment ink with the Pick a Card stencil. Then I die cut an oval from the center. Using this panel and a white card base, I decided on the placement of the Queen’s Castle image and used my MISTI to stamp it.
Then I moved on to assembly. I laid out my images and slowly glued them in place, layer by layer to the black panel. Then I flipped the panel over and covered it with foam tape and adhered it to the card front. I stamped my sentiment and cut it into a strip and glued it in place as well. The center is supported with a thin foam strip.
I kept the finishing touches on this card fairly simple – glossy accents on the queen’s crown and Wink of Stella glitter brush pen to all the roses.
I already have my next card planned out and the images all stamped, ready to go. This series of products is just amazing, the possibilities are endless! I can’t wait to share more with you!
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Hello everyone. I’m over on the Trinity Stamps blog today sharing a really fun beach card using some fun stencil techniques and new products from the recent Trinity Stamps 2nd Birthday Release! Let’s check it out!
This can seem like a complicated card to make so I’m going to break it down into two parts – beach and ocean. Starting with the ocean, I stamped, colored and cut out my images from Shellabration and set them aside. Then I took the Slimline Wonky Stitched Wilderness and die cut 2 panels from white cardstock. I took one and used the scenic borders dies to cut it down for my under water portion. Let’s focus on that panel now.
Using my blending buddy brushes, I inked the panel up with a blue dye ink and then used the Scenes From the Sea stencils to add the ground, seaweed and fish in the background. Using my images as a guide I stamped the string for the balloon and then adhered everything down. I went ahead and added some embellishments to fill in my scene as well…starfish wish and gold fishes for the underwater portion. Then I moved above water. 😉
Now I moved on to the full white panel cut from the Slimline Wonky Stitched Wilderness dies. Using the water panel as a guide I pulled out the new Layered Palm Tree stencils and created my sand mounds. From there I continued with those stencils and added my palm trees. I just flipped the stencil over to get the trees to lean toward each other. Next, I placed the negative pieces of the palm trees on top to mask them and used one layer of the Catching Some Rays stencil to add a sun in the upper left corner. Last, I stamped my sentiment from Shellabration and added a few more embellishments – Having a Ball and more Starfish Wish.
To assemble everything, I cut a card base measuring 3.5×8.5 and adhered my 2 layers to it. At this point I also decided to draw the string into the crabs pinchers and all the way up to the bottom of the balloon too.
I love the sentiment on this card! It kind of eludes to a birthday but really, you could be shellabrating anything at all! I know I have days like that. Treat yo’self! ❤
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Hey there! I’m up on the Birch Press Design Blog today with a step-by-step on how to create this super fun rainbow happy card featuring some new products that just arrived in the shop.
As soon as I saw this die set, I knew I had to try it in a rainbow straight away! So I grabbed my cardstock and set to work! I’m thinking a set of these in color tones would be amazing too!
Those awesome confetti bits are from Trinity Stamps and you know I had to add some sparkle to it too…head to the blog to see how I put it all together.
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Hello everyone! I hope you had a wonderful 4th of July weekend! We had so much fun playing games outside and lighting fireworks…and the best BBQ spread to go with it all. Such a great, relaxing weekend.
Today I’m here celebrating my 13th anniversary with my husband. We don’t do much but I wanted to make him a fun card to tell him I love him…s’more every day! 😉
I started by die cutting some Lawn Fawn plaid paper with my largest stitched rectangle and adhering it to a white card base. Then I took a strip of green wood grain paper from Lawn Fawn and die cut it with the same rectangle so the stitching matched up. I adhered it over the top, to the left side. Then from the same wood grain paper pad but in brown, I die cut a stitched circle. I started by heat embossing part of my sentiment on the circle in red and then stamped the rest of it. I popped the circle up with foam squares. Last, I stamped and colored my s’mores from the Love You S’more set with copics. I added 2 different faces to them and cut them out with the coordinating dies. Then I popped them up with foam squares too.
Then I finished this silly, sweet card off with some clay hearts scattered about.
We’ve been talking about camping a lot lately so I thought the s’mores would be on par for that thought and the sentiment is fitting for us. Life’s too short to be serious so we rarely are. ❤
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