Newton’s Nook – March Release Day 1

Hey friends! I’m very happy to be back with another Newton’s Nook release week! It’s day 1 and we’ve got a bunch of fun products to reveal today. Let’s jump in.

Spring Haul stamps and dies

Spring Garden Line and Quatrefoil stencils

Spring Blooms paper pad

Isn’t this an amazingly awesome way to kick off the week!?!?! So many fabulous products and we’re just getting started! Here are a couple of simple cards I created using just the paper pad and new stencil.

I couldn’t resist trying the Garden Line stencil with glitz gel and making sparkly flowers! Aren’t they beautiful!?!

Then I created this super simple circle shaped card using one of the designs in the paper pad. When you’re in a crunch and need something quick but beautiful…I got you! This is fantastic!

Next, I have a card to share featuring Spring Haul, which I absolutely LOVED sitting and coloring. These images are so sweet and would be amazing in a million different color ways.

I kept the colors soft because my brain is really ready for light and happy after feeling dark and dreary from the weather. The gingham paper is from the new paper pad and I’m obsessed. It’s so perfect!

I feel like this truck belongs backed up in a farmer’s market to sell all its gorgeous blooms. Don’t you? The smaller images in the set make it really easy and fun to create little scenes too.

For finishing touches I added glossy accents to the taillights and stardust Stickles to all the things with wings. You know I can’t resist shine and shimmer.

Would you like to win the “Spring Haul” 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 March 23rd at 9pm ET to comment — winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday, March 24th.

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

Newton’s Nook – Meow’s it going? Slimline

Hi again! Today I’m over on the Newton’s Nook blog playing with Captivated Kittens and creating a sweet slimline card.

I started my card but stamping all of the kitties in this set and colored them with my copic markers. At first I thought I might create a card with a coordinating tag for fun but once they were colored and die cut I thought mini scenes on a slimline card would be so cute!

With the kitties colored and cut out, I pulled out the Slimline Frames & Windows die set and cut the frame from white cardstock. This gives the frame and stitched squares to fit in your windows at the same time. Next, I inked up the squares with the hills & grass stencil first, adding two layers of grass for dimension. Then I used the clouds stencil to fill in the sky.

I arranged my frame and scene panels to decide what order I wanted the kittens in. This ended up leaving the perfect spot for a sentiment and I thought putting it in a speech bubble would make it extra cute! So, I die cut the bubble and stamped on that.

Finally, I knew I wanted contrast between my frame and the card front so I cut a piece of kraft cardstock and inked it up using the basketweave stencil. It gives a subtle amount of interest without distracting from the cute kitten scenes in the frames.

Now, it’s time to assemble all the pieces. I started by adding the kraft panel to a white card base measuring 3×8.5 inches. Then I popped the frame up with foam strips and used liquid glue to adhere the scene panels in each opening. Last, I added the kittens and speech bubble with foam squares to bring them out to the same level as the frame.

For finishing touches I added glossy accents to kitten noses and toe beans, plus flower stamen. Then I came in with black glaze pen on the eyes of all the critters. This makes them a bit raised and shiny. Finally, I added stardust Stickles to the bug wings so they’re all shimmery and sparkly.

Products used:
Captivated Kittens stamps and dies
Slimline Frames & Windows dies
Basketweave stencil
Hills & Grass stencil
Clouds stencil
Speech Bubbles dies
Foam strips and squares
Liquid glue
Stickles – stardust
Glossy accents

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

Newton’s Nook – A Little Pickup

Welcome friends! Today I’m over on the Newton’s Nook blog sharing a little “pickup” card for someone who could use a smile. Oh, goodness I love a good pun! This Farming Fun set from Newton’s Nook is not short on them either! They’re so good!

I thought a sunshine feel for my card giving a “pickup” could use some warm tones, so that’s what I stuck to for my color palette. I stamped and colored the truck with copic markers and cut it out with the coordinating die. The speech bubbles are solid dies so I cut that out and then stamped the sentiment on it.

For my background panel, I blended distress oxide ink in mustard seed and squeezed lemonade fading to nothing at the top. Then I cut 3 of the next-to-smallest die in the Framework set and blended distress oxide ink in carved pumpkin, fading up to nothing. I spritzed them all with a distress sprayer and let them dry.

Next, I adhered the background panel to a card base and popped the rectangles up with foam tape. Finally I added the truck and speech bubble with foam squares.

For finishing touches I added red clay hearts from the Twiddler’s Nook Sweethearts embellishment mix with liquid glue. Then I came in with a bit of glossy accents on parts of the truck -anything “metal” and the window.

Products used today:
Farming Fun stamps and dies
Framework dies
Speech Bubbles dies
Distress Oxide Ink – mustard seed, squeezed lemonade, carved pumpkin
Foam tape and squares
Glossy accents
Liquid glue
Sweethearts clay embellishments

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

Newton’s Nook – Woof You Be Mine?

Happy Valentine’s Day everyone! I have another sweet chocolate box to share with you today featuring more Newton’s Nook goodies.

If you missed the original post with all of the measurement details, feel free to click HERE to check it out. These are really quick and simple to create. I had a blast making both of mine and will definitely pull the idea back out in the future too!

For this box, I used all red cardstock for my base, lid and sides. Then I found a fun pattern in the Love & Woof paper pad to die cut from the scalloped heart for a background.

I stamped and colored the puppy and a couple of bones from Puppy Heart with my copic markers. After coloring, I stamped my sentiment inside the heart and then used the coordinating dies to cut everything out.

I assembled my box with liquid glue, then popped the scalloped heart up with foam tape. I adhered the puppy with foam squares and used liquid glue for the bones.

To finish the design off I added a few heart embellishments around the puppy. I also added black glaze pen to the puppy’s eyes and whiskers. Then glossy accents to his nose. When the eyes were dry, I came back in with a white gel pen highlight.

Products used today:
Puppy Heart stamps and dies
Love & Woofs paper pad
Heart Frames dies
Liquid glue
Foam squares
Glossy accents
Trinity Stamps Peachy Keen Jelly Drop Heart embellishments

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

Newton’s Nook – Sweet Treats Blog Hop

The Newton’s Nook Designs Team is hopping along today to share some great Sweet Treats – just in time for Valentine’s day! Make sure you scroll down to the bottom of this post to see the whole list and hop along and comment for a chance to win!

Today I have a tutorial to show you how to create your own box of chocolates using Newton’s Nook products! Isn’t this so much fun!?! I had a blast creating it and made sure to take photos along the way to make it easy for you to make one too!

I started by die cutting two of the largest hearts and one of the next size down. Then I stamped and colored Heartfelt Roses before die cutting it with the next size down from that. This gives me a box bottom, top and layers for decorating.

Next I created the sides for my box lids. I made one a smidge bigger than the other so they slide together perfectly.

Start with 2 – 1.5×11 inch strips of cardstock matching your lid color. Score them lengthwise at 1/2 inch. Turn and score one at 3 1/4, 6 1/2 and 9 3/4. Score the second one at 3 3/8, 6 3/4 and 10 1/8. Then I made little tick marks about in the center of each section. (See close up photo 3)
On the 1/2 inch side trim little mountain peaks from the center tick mark to the score line on both strips. Then cut the notch off the tab end.
This is a close up of what your strips should look like.
Fold on all your score lines. Then glue the tab to the other side creating 2 triangles. Next, add glue to the mountain peaks so you can adhere them to your box top and bottom.

To adhere the triangles to the lids, I used liquid glue so I could move things if I needed to. Also, I added the smaller triangle first, then layered the other over the top and aligned my heart on top of that.

To decorate my lid, I added the two hearts you saw earlier. First the coral scallop one with liquid glue and then the roses with foam tape. But then I pulled out the banner trio dies and cut one from white cardstock. I chose a sentiment from Heartfelt Love to stamp on it and added it to the box top with foam squares.

For finishing touches I added some clear dew drop hearts across the design. Don’t you love it?!? I’m hoping to make one more using the awesome Love Quarry set for someone special.

Sweet Treats SALE!
As an extra treat to you, we are celebrating with a SALE!

Use code TREAT to receive 15% off your order this weekend!
Now through Monday, February 6th at www.newtonsnookdesigns.com

Enter to Win! Sweet Treats Blog Hop Prizes!
We will be choosing two lucky winners to win a $25 store credit for Newton’s Nook Designs online shop! To enter, just leave comments on the Design Team Member and Guest blogs (see list below)! Two winners will be chosen at random from the collective blogs in the blog hop. 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 Sunday, February 5th at 9 pm EST to comment — winners will be announced on the NND blog on Monday, February 6th.

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

Newton’s Nook – Giveaway Winner

The winner of my little Newton’s Nook gift pack is….

beccab33324

Congratulations Becca! Please email me by Feb. 6 at noon PST to claim your prize, or another winner will be chosen.

Thank you for your comments everyone! I appreciate them all!

Newton’s Nook – Paw-sitive Vibes Tag

Hello everyone! I’m finally back with another Tag Time Saturday. We had a competition last weekend that I made a sweet little tag for but I was running very behind and never got photos of it. So, trust me, it was cute and she liked it. Lol.

Today I have a tag featuring Newton’s Nook stamps, dies and stencils. All colored in my daughter’s school colors to bring the extra good vibes because today is her Category Championships!

School colors are orange and black but I like to add white in with it so it’s not so dark. I stamped the fun balloon image from Sky High Celebrations and colored everything with my copic markers. The pup slightly resembles the coloring of one of our puppies and Newton is colored like our Oreo kitty. I used the coordinating die to cut it out and set it aside to make a crafty mess on my tag base.

I die cut the Bookmark die from light teal cardstock and taped the Cloudy Sky stencil over top. I inked it up with white pigment ink but didn’t think the clouds showed up good enough. So I went bold and switched to iridescent Glitz Gel for sparkly goodness in the background!

The sentiments in this set didn’t totally fit the occasion so I went digging, thinking I would piece something together. Then I found this entire sentiment in the Newton’s Kite set from last spring. It’s fun and perfect! I stamped the large words on a banner from the Banner Trio die set and the rest of the sentiment on a circle from Circle Frames.

Once the glitz gel was dry, I added everything with foam squares. Then I die cut a second tag from white cardstock and threaded ribbon through the holes to attach them together. To finish that part off, I tied a bow with twine and glued it in place at the top.

For finishing touches I added glossy accents to noses and beaks and then all of the balloon highlights. Then I came in with black glaze pen on the puppy and bird eyes. I let it dry and added white highlight back in the puppy’s eyes.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project and it inspires you to look at your stamps in a different way to extend their use!

Products used today:
Sky High Celebrations stamps and dies
Newton’s Kite stamps
Banner Trio dies
Bookmark dies
Circle Frames dies
Cloudy Sky stencil
Thermoweb Glitz Gel – iridescent
Thermoweb stencil pal
Ultrabond liquid glue
Foam squares
Glossy accents

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

Newton’s Nook – Release Day Bonus Card Set

Happy Friday everyone!!! The Newton’s Nook January Release is officially available for purchase! I hope you love it and would be super excited to hear what you choose to snag from it.

Today I have a set of cards to share using the Love & Chocolate paper pad. This design goes well with virtually any paper pad but I thought it was extra fun for Valentine’s Day coming quick and wanted to share some inspiration.

Since the paper pads are double sided, I chose four designs and cut them into4 – 2×2 3/8 rectangles. Then I cut those rectangles in half diagonally – two going one way and two going the other so the designs that had a direction had options of where to be placed.

I arranged the pieces so each background has one of each design, then glued them to copy paper and added foam tape to the back of that. Next, I cut 4 of the same heart using the Heart Frames dies to pop up in the center of each background. I die cut a few banners using the Banner Trio dies and heat embossed sentiments from the Heartfelt Love stamps on each one.

Here’s a less busy photo of just one card so you get the idea. These are easy to create in mass and fun with all of those awesome designs to choose from in the different paper pads.

Remember if you change the center shape to a circle or star, you could create birthday, get well, thinking of you, the sky is the limit! Also, the Roundabout and Heartfelt stamp lines from Newton’s Nook are absolutely PERFECT for sentiments in the Banner Trio dies. This expands your sentiment choices ten-fold!

Products used today:
Love & Chocolate paper pad
Heart Frames dies
Banner Trio dies
Heartfelt Love stamps
Pink & Main embossing ink with frosting embossing powder
Foam tape
Liquid glue

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

Newton’s Nook – January Release Reveals Day 1

Hello everyone! I’m very excited to be here to share the first Newton’s Nook Release of 2023! It’s adorable and packed full of fun! Let’s see what we get to reveal today!

Love & Chocolate and Love & Woofs paper pads

Puppy Heart stamps and dies

I had a blast with the paper pads along with today’s stamp and die reveal! To start let’s look at the card I created using Puppy Heart and the Love & Woofs paper pad together! It’s so fun!

To start my card today, I stamped and colored the sweet image from Puppy Heart with my copic markers. Then I went back and stamped the sentiment inside the heart and used the coordinating die to cut him out.

To create the background, I chose a piece of paper from the Love & Woofs paper pad and cut it in half at a diagonal. I flipped one over and adhered the two pieces to a white card base.

I die cut a scalloped circle from the Circle Frames dies out of iridescent vellum. I adhered the puppy with foam squares to the circle and hid tape runner behind him to attach the circle to the card front. Then I trimmed off the extra.

For finishing touches I just added sparkly twine to the left side of my card, tying it in a bow. Then I added black glaze pen to the puppy’s eyes and whisker dots and glossy accents to his nose. When the glaze pen was dry I added a white gel pen highlight back in.

Keeping with the puppy theme, here are a couple of bonus cards I created using just the Love & Woofs paper pad, along with the Paw Print shaker dies and Puppy Heart stamps for sentiments.

Again, I just cut the paper at an angle – two sheets this time so the angles were the same. I covered the seam with some silver glitter cardstock and popped the pawprints up with foam tape.

Would you like to win the “Puppy Heart” 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 January 19th at 9pm ET to comment — winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday, January 20th.

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

Newton’s Nook – Happy Brr-thday! Action Wobbler

Hello everyone! I hope the first week of the new year is treating you amazing! I’m starting a new term designing for Newton’s Nook which makes my heart SO HAPPY! Today I’m on the blog with a fun, interactive winter birthday card. I think I have yet to create a card with either of the adorable snow angel images without putting them on action wobblers. It’s just so inviting and fun, I have to do it!

To start my card, I took a piece of white cardstock and blended distress oxide inks all over it in a rainbow of colors. Then I stamped and heat embossed the Snowfall Roundabout stamp in white. I spritzed the panel with water and blotted it dry before die cutting it with the largest Circle Frame die. Then I stamped and colored Snow Angel Newton with my copic markers and used the coordinating die to cut him out too.

Then, I took another piece of white cardstock and taped it to the Snowfall stencil and spread iridesent glitz glitter gel from Thermoweb through it. I set the panel aside to dry while I die cut and stamped my sentiment on a banner from Banner Trio dies. This sentiment came from the Snowman Roundabout stamps because I wanted to create a birthday card today.

Once the glitz gel was dry, I used the largest Frames & Flags die to cut it out. Then I started assembling all the layers. The glitz background is popped up on a teal panel with foam tape, then the rainbow circle was popped up the same way on that. I added the sentiment banner with foam squares and finally added Newton with an action wobbler.