Hello again everyone! I’m over on the Newton’s Nook blog again this week with a second bit of inspiration and today we’re going down deep in the ocean with my Purr-maid friend Newton. I hope you love it as much as I do!

This card all started with the idea to create that fun wavy color block pattern in the background. I chose a selection of cardstock colors and cut them all with one of the Sea Borders dies. I nested them together and secured them with washi tape on the back before die cutting them with the rounded rectangle in the Frames & Flags die set.

Next, I chose images from Purr-maid Newton and Scuba Newton, stamped and colored them with my copic markers, before cutting them out with the coordinating dies. Then I arranged them on the panel, deciding on final placement and where to put my sentiment. I eventually thought the speech bubble would be fun so I cut one and stamped the sentiment on that and then adhered the images with a combination of liquid glue and foam squares.

Next, I took a white A2 size panel and lightly inked up the Waves stencil with teal ink and a blending brush before popping the focal panel up with foam tape on it. Then I used liquid glue to add the whole thing to a card base and moved on to finishing touches.

For those I added black glaze pen to the fish eyes and glossy accents to the stripes or fins on each fish and Newton’s nose. Then I came in with unicorn Stickles on Newton’s tail and the bubbles above the sentiment.

I had so much fun creating this card and just love how the wavy panel turned out! I think it’s so cool!

Products used:
Purr-maid Newton stamps and dies
Scuba Newton stamps and dies
Sea Borders dies
Frames & Flags dies
Speech Bubbles dies
Waves stencil
Foam squares and tape
Stickles – unicorn
Glossy accents
Blending brush
Lawn Fawn mermaid dye ink

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Hello everyone! Today I’m over on the Newton’s Nook blog sharing a big cup of thanks and an adorable Newton colored to resemble our kitty, Oreo. It’s so fun to customize these cute kitties to look like pets in our lives.

I started by stamping the main image from Newton’s Mug and the pair of cups from Love Cafe and colored them with my copic markers. I used the coordinating dies to cut them out and then kept going back and forth between adding the sentiment to my large mug or decorating it with lines and dots. Obviously, I landed on the sentiment but either way would have been awesome!

Next, I cut a gray panel and inked it up with the mugs stencil for a tone-on-tone look. I die cut the panel with the largest Framework die. I just love that postage stamp edge and the stitching detail. It’s so fun! Next, I cut a rounded rectangle out of vellum using a die from the Frames & Flags die set.

To adhere all these layers, I glued the mugs together with a little liquid glue and added foam squares to the back of them. I adhered them to the vellum rectangle and hid tape runner behind those to add my vellum to the stenciled panel. I wrapped twine around that and then added foam tape to the back before popping the whole thing on a white card base.

Doing things in this order gives us lots of help in different ways. First, we hid the adhesive on the vellum in areas you can’t see it. Then, wrapping the twine before adding foam tape lets us avoid that area so it’s not bulky and lays nice and flat.

For finishing touches I simply added glossy accents to Newton’s nose and the hearts and both mugs. I intentionally kept it minimal and not super glittery because this card was giving me masculine vibes, even with the heart mugs, and I wanted to keep it that way. I always need more like this in my stash but I have to make an effort to stop with the glitter. Haha.

Products used today:
Newton’s Mug stamps and dies
Love Cafe stamps and dies
Mugs stencil
Framework dies
Frames & Flags dies
Foam tape
Foam squares
Glossy accents

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Hello everyone! If you’re new here I want to make sure you have a chance to sign up for the Newton’s Nook Designer’s Nook Newsletter before tomorrow!

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Welcome everyone! Today is the first day of release reveals for the Newton’s Nook April Release! This is such a varied release and everything is just so much fun! Today we’re sharing a stamp and die set along with a new stencil too! Let’s take a look.

Cycling Friends stamps and dies

Tree Line Stencil

I have a few cards to share with you today. First let’s look at two clean and simple mini slimline cards I made using the new tree line stencil.

I inked up the stencil on teal cardstock with distress oxide inks to make the layering stand out instead of soaking into the cardstock. Then I added Thermoweb Glitz Glitter Gel for the detail layer on both cards. Isn’t that glitter detail so much fun!?!

I trimmed the panels down to 2.75×5.75 and popped them up on white card bases, cut some grass and adhered it down. Then cut a banner from the Banner Trio set and stamped sentiments from Floral Roundabout on them before popping them up with foam squares.

Won’t this new stencil be gorgeous year round! I can’t wait for all the fall colors!!! Now, I have a card using this stencil again but paired with the new Cycling Friends cuties in a mini scene.

For this card, I inked up the background panel with light peach and pink dye ink for a setting sun type of sky. Then I layered the trees over top with distress oxide inks. I also used distress oxide ink on a scrap of white cardstock to create a ground for my critters. Then I cut the panels out with the largest Frames & Flags die and adhered the layers together.

I stamped and colored the images from Cycling Friends, and used the coordinating dies to cut them out. I used liquid glue to adhere the goodies in the bike basket and popped the whole thing up with foam squares.

Next, I die cut the small banners in the new A7 Frames die set and heat embossed my sentiment in two parts on each banner. I trimmed them down and added them to the scene with foam squares.

I popped the whole panel up on a kraft card base with foam tape and added glossy accents to the images for finishing touches. Then I decided to all some white gel pen detail to the scarves on the critters for added fun.

Would you like to win the “Cycling Friends” Stamp Set? This stamp set will be given away to ONE lucky winner!

Here’s how to win: Comment on the NND blog and Design Team blogs (see list below)! Thewinner will be chosen at random from the collective reveal posts. Make sure to check out each of their blogs and comment for your chance to win. You will not know which blog has been chosen so the more you comment on the better your chances are of winning! You have until Thursday April 21st at 9pm ET to comment  — winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday April 22nd. 

Check out all the awesome Design Team Blogs below to enter:

Newton’s Nook Designs
Donna Idlet
Ellen Haxelmans
Tina Herbeck
Larissa Heskett
Samantha Mann
Zsofia Molnar
Maria Russell
Farhana Sarker
Tatiana Trafimovich
Amanda Wilcox

Hello friends! Today I’m over on the Newton’s Nook blog sharing this adorable Easter card I created with a fun new background idea that popped into my head.

The whole card started with those fun circles. They are the negative piece that comes from the Slimline Frames & Portholes die. Every time I used that set, I keep the circles in a sleeve if I’m not using them on the current card. I happened to have a stash of them and though this would be a fun way to use them.

I stamped each one with the Spring Roundabout stamp set in different areas so each one is a little different. Using the same ink I stamped the image I inked up the edges with a blending brush so they weren’t stark white. Then I arranged them on the patterned paper with foam squares and trimmed off the excess.

Next, I stamped and colored images from Hoppy Greetings with my copic markers and cut them out with the coordinating dies. I added the images with foam squares so the dimension would help the bunny scene stand out from the background a little and moved on to finishing touches.

I kept those pretty simple too. Just adding glossy accents the the bunny’s nose and toe beans, flower center and parts of the Easter eggs.

This was a very fun card to create and it was also really cool to use up something that I’ve been saving to for a while too.

Products used:
Hoppy Greetings stamps and dies
Slimline Frames & Portholes dies
Spring Roundabout stamps
Springtime paper pad
Foam squares
Glossy accents

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