Paperie Ink – You Are So Meowgical

Hey friends! I’m back today with an adorable unikitty slimline card to share featuring stamps from Paperie Ink and some other goodies from Newton’s Nook and Trinity Stamps. I just love these kitties so much! They are adorable and so fun to color!

I started my card by stamping and heat embossing the kitties on Bristol Smooth cardstock. Then I watercolored them with my Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers and a water brush pen. I used the scan-n-cut to cut them all out and switched over to my background.

Next, I used the Newton’s Nook Cloudy Sky stencil on a white panel with Lawn Fawn inks in rainbow colors. This is a 6×6 stencil so I did half of the panel, shifted the stencil down and continued my clouds. Then, I used my images as a guide to decide where I wanted my sentiment. I stamped it in VersaMark ink and heat embossed it with silver embossing powder.

I die cut a couple of cloud strips with the Newton’s Nook Sky Borders die and adhered them to the stenciled panel with liquid adhesive. Then I used the largest Trinity Stamps Slimline Stitched Panel die to cut it out. This die leaves about a 1/8″ border so I trimmed down purple cardstock and adhered it to a white slimline card base before adhering the main card panel with foam tape.

I added foam squares to the back of my kitties and popped them in place. To fill in some of the space I thought these Trinity Stamps Boiled Sugar Jelly Drop Hearts were the perfect touch!

Isn’t this just the sweetest card?!? I could seriously color these sweet kitties all day long. I love the different poses and how chubby cute they are!

Here are the products I used on today’s card:
Paperie Ink You Are stamps
Newton’s Nook Cloudy Sky stencil
Newton’s Nook Sky Borders dies
Trinity Stamps Slimline Stitched Card Panels and Windows dies
Trinity Stamps Boiled Sugar Jelly Drop Hearts embellishments
Foam squares
Lawn Fawn inks – ballet slippers, sunflower, mermaid, forget me not
Blending Buddy brushes
Blending Buddy brush color coding caps
Blending Bar

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Newton’s Nook | Crafty Meraki Collaboration – Celebrate

Hey friends! There is a super awesome collaboration hop happening over on Instagram today! The Newton’s Nook and Crafty Meraki design teams have collided and created so many fun projects to share! If you hop along and comment you’ll have a chance at gift cards for both companies!

Here’s a looksy at my fun project for today.

I started my card by stamping images from Cosmic Newton and colored them with my copic markers. Then I used the coordinating dies to cut them all out and set them aside. Next, I die cut the Crafty Meraki Bubble Mania die from gray cardstock. I also die cut “celebrate” from the Celebrate Tag die set from white cardstock 3 times and brushed silver once. I used liquid glue to adhere the letters and moved on to get inky with my background!

For that I inked up a panel with distress oxides – peacock feathers in the center, then blueprint sketch over the whole panel and then the edges with chipped sapphire to darken it a little. I spritzed it with water and blotted it dry.

Next, I used white pigment ink with a blending brush over the Newton’s Nook Cascading Stars stencil. I did the top portion, then flipped the stencil around and did the bottom portion so they fade out toward the middle. Now it’s time for assembling all of our layers!

I used liquid glue to adhere the inked panel to a white card base, then also to adhere the bubble mania background. I also used liquid glue to adhere the stacked celebrate sentiment and then switched gears to foam squares for all of my images.

For finishing touches, I added glossy accents to the helmet and window of the spaceship, also to the flames and emblem on the space suit. Then I came back with star dust Stickles on the stars and planets.

Isn’t this just an out of this world cool card?!? I had so much fun playing with these products together! I hope you enjoyed it too. Be sure to head to Instagram and hop with us for lots more inspiration!

Products used on today’s card:
Newton’s Nook Cosmic Newton stamps and dies
Newton’s Nook Cascading Stars stencil
Crafty Meraki Bubble Mania die
Crafty Meraki Celebrate Tag dies
Distress Oxide inks – peacock feathers, blueprint sketch, chipped sapphire
Glossy accents
Copic markers
Stickles – star dust

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Newton’s Nook – Gnome-one But You

Hey everyone! I’m over on the Newton’s Nook blog with a super sweet birthday card for the gnome lover in your life. I know I have plenty of those in mine!

Isn’t this guy just the cutest in his little garden?!? I used Gnome Garden and Daffodils stamps sets for the images today. Then I stenciled a blue panel with white pigment ink and the cloudy sky stencil, and die cut it with the rounded rectangle from Frames & Flags.

I also used the same rectangle to die cut a green scrap and make some grass with the Land Borders die. Then I die cut a cute white picket fence with the Fence die. I used tape runner to adhere all these layers together. At this point I stamped my sentiment in the upper right corner.

I die cut a dark blue scalloped rectangle from the Frames & Flags die set and wrapped some cool ribbon around it. I added the rounded rectangle with foam tape on top. Then I glued the daffodils down to my scene and popped the other images up with foam squares.

I ink blended a white panel with candied apple distress oxide ink and spritzed it with water. I used liquid glue to adhere it to a white card base and popped the blue panel up with foam tape on that.

Moving on to finishing touches, I added some white gel pen accents to the images and star dust Stickles to the butterfly wings.

Products used on today’s card:
Frames & Flags dies
Land Borders dies
Fence die
Cloudy Sky stencil
Gnome Garden stamps and dies
Daffodils stamps and dies
Distress Oxide – candied apple
Stickles – star dust

I hope you enjoyed today’s sweet card and found a little inspiration to create something wonderful and share it with someone.

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Newton’s Nook – June Release Day 1

Who’s ready for a whole week of amazing Newton’s Nook reveals??? I totally am! This release is my favorite so far…EVER!!!! It’s packed full of such amazing summer goodies. I know you’re going to love it all! Today we have three new things to share with you so let’s get started!

Fireworks Stencil

Newton’s 4th of July

Buns Out

OH! MY CUTENESS!!! Am I right?!? Yeah, I know I’m right! I have two really fun cards to share with you today using all of these products.

For this awesome 4th of July card, I started by stamping and coloring images from Newton’s 4th of July and then used the coordinating dies to cut them out. Then I die cut a scalloped rectangle from Frames & Flags dies and taped it to the new Fireworks stencil. I carefully smeared glitz gel in brilliant blue and red velvet in various spots trying for a multicolored fireworks look. I set the panel aside to dry while I did a little more die cutting of the ground and fence.

I left the fence white and ink blended the grass panel with twisted citron and mowed lawn distress oxide inks. Then I spritzed it with water and flicked some watered down mowed lawn ink too.

For assembly, I cut down a piece of red cardstock to A2 size and adhered it to a white card base. Then I used foam tape to pop up the fireworks panel and liquid glue to adhere the ground and fence. Last, I added foam squares to the back of my images and popped them in place.

Finally, I die cut a stitched flag from Frames & Flags and stamped my sentiment. I used copics to do simple coloring on the open letters, trimmed the flag down and adhered it to my scene with foam squares.

For finishing touches, I added glossy accents to various spots on my images like the stars and dots and, of course, noses. Then I added little dots of bright gold Nuvo Crystal Drops to the center of Newton’s sparklers on the left image.

I really love creating 4th of July crafts of all kinds so this card brought me a bit of extra joy. I can’t wait to make new decorations for my house for the 4th this year too!

Next, we have a card featuring the super silly and awesome Buns Out stamps and die.

I stamped and colored this adorable image with my copic markers and used the coordinating die to cut it out. Next, I die cut the Fancy Edges Tag from yellow and orange cardstocks. Then I inked up the yellow one with the Sunscape stencil. I die cut the hole reinforcer from black and strung the tags together with baker’s twine.

Next, I die cut the rounded rectangle from Frames & Flags dies from blue cardstock and inked up the edges with a slightly darker blue ink for some depth. Then for my background panel, I inked up an orange piece of cardstock with spiced marmalade distress oxide and spritzed it with water. Then I came back and flicked some watered down black acrylic paint on the panel too.

Last, I die cut a stitched flag from Frames & Flags and stamped my sentiment on the right side of it. Then I moved on to assembling my card layers.

I started by adhered the orange panel to a white card base with liquid glue. Then I popped the blue panel up with foam tape. I adhered the tags with liquid glue and then the banner to that the same way. Finally, I popped up my cheeseburger (Oh my cuteness!) with foam squares.

Isn’t this just too cute?!? Cracks me up every time!

Would you like to win the “Newton’s 4th of July” 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 June 17th at 9pm ET to comment — winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday, June 18th.

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

Newton’s Nook Designs

Jane’s Doodles – I Woof You Slimline

Hello everyone! Thanks for stopping by today. I hope your weekend is going splendidly! I have a fun, masculine feeling slimline card for the dog lover in your life featuring Jane’s Doodles Dogs stamp set along with some other goodies from my stash.

I started this card by stamping and heat embossing images from Jane’s Doodles Dogs stamp set. I watercolored them with my Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers and then used the scan-n-cut to cut them all out.

Next, I used the Newton’s Nook Slimline Frames and Portholes set to cut the green panel. Then I stamped the Trinity Stamps Woodsy image on it in dark green ink for a little added interest. Next, I took the Newton’s Nook Slimline Frames and Windows and cut it from dark gray cardstock. I kept the frame for another project and took the squares it creates and taped them to the Miss Ink Stamps Pawsome stencil. I used white pigment ink to add paws to the squares. Then I stamped and heat embossed a sentiment on one with black embossing powder.

With all of my elements ready to go I started assembling my card. I added foam tape to the back of the green panel and placed it on a kraft slimline card base. Then I used tape runner to adhere the gray squares to the green panel. I added foam squares to the back of my images and added them to the squares.

Voila! Super cute card that could be used for guys and girls alike. Even for Father’s Day coming up depending on the message you write on the inside.

Products used on today’s card:
Jane’s Doodles Dogs stamps
Newton’s Nook Slimline Frames & Windows dies
Newton’s Nook Slimline Frames & Portholes dies
Miss Ink Stamps Pawsome stencil
Trinity Stamps Woodsy stamps

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Newton’s Nook – Galloping By…

Hi everyone! I’m hanging out at the Newton’s Nook blog today sharing a thinking of you card featuring some older products you might have in your stash and a cool design that can be adapted many ways.

For this card, I stamped the horse and horseshoe from Neigh and colored them with my copic markers. Then I thought it would be nice to have something else in the “scene” so I also pulled out Moo and borrowed the hay bail from there. I used the coordinating dies to cut out my images and set them aside.

I’ve been really into beachy, summery, happy colors lately so I chose 3 that made me smile and cut 1/4 inch strips. I glued them to a white panel and die cut the whole thing with the largest die in the Framework die set. Then I came in with the serene stripes stencil and blended a light teal ink on the lower left and upper right of my panel. Then I place the panel in my MISTI and stamped the first half of my sentiment in the lower right.

I glued one hay bail down with liquid glue and popped the horse, horseshoe and second hay bail up with foam squares. Next, I created a white card base and adhered a light teal panel to the front. Then, using the same ink as the stencil, I stamped the finishing portion of my sentiment and another horse on the inside.

Finally, I added foam tape to my framework panel and popped it on the front of my card and moved on to a few simple finishing touches. I like adding black glaze pen to critter eyes, then I went back in and added a white gel pen highlight after that was dry. I also added glossy accents to the horse’s nose and hooves and the horseshoe too.

Just a fun, happy, thinking of you card, perfect for horse lovers in your life or anyone really. It’s just cute!

Products used on today’s card:
Neigh stamps and dies
Moo stamps and dies
Serene Stripes stencil
Framework dies
Lawn Fawn kiddie pool ink
Trinity blending buddy brush
Glossy accents

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Miss Ink Stamps – Some Days…

Hey friends! Thanks for stopping by again today. I’m over on the Miss Ink Stamps blog with a new-to-me idea on stenciling and some more of those wonderful Alice in Wonderland stamps! I hope you enjoy it!

For today’s card, I inked up the enchanted stencil with a couple of peachy-red inks and tealy-blue inks. I tried to have them meet just shy if center on my panel so I could put my focus on the upper section of the card. After the panel was inked, I die cut it with a Newton’s Nook scalloped rectangle from the Frames & Flags die set.

After a teammate, Lynnea, had layered her stencils a while ago I’ve been enamored with the idea and wanted to try it with this card. So I taped my panel to the back of the Sparkles stencil and spread glazed pewter Metallix Gel through it. I removed the stencil and set my panel aside to dry.

I stamped and colored an image from Alice with my copic markers and fussy cut her out. Then I chose a sentiment from Wonderland Wisdom, stamped and heat embossed it in silver on a vellum strip. I added foam tape to the back of my stenciled panel and wrapped my sentiment around it. Then I popped it on a white card base and added my Alice image with foam squares.

Have you ever layered stencils like this that aren’t “meant” for each other? I think it’s a fantastic idea and challenge you to give it a try! It extends the use of your goodies and will make you think outside the box. It’s so fun!

Products used on today’s card:
Alice stamps
Wonderland Wisdom stamps
Sparkles stencil
Enchanted stencil
Newton’s Nook Frames & Flags dies
Thermoweb Metallix Gel – glazed pewter

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Newton’s Nook – Hello Summer

Hello again everyone! I hope your week is going well. I’m over on the Newton’s Nook blog today sharing a fun, bright taste of summer! I’m so ready for bbqs, sprinklers and soaking up the sunshine! So I channeled all those things into my card for today. I hope you like it!

I started by stamping and coloring the Newton’s Melon image with my copics. Then I cut him out with the coordinating die. Next, I die cut the scalloped square in the Frames Squared die set and stamped the Tropical Fringe image on it. I used my copics to color the image in and then die cut a second scalloped square from vellum.

I chose a sentiment from Tropical Fringe and stamped it on a scrap of white cardstock. Then, using my Newton image as a guide die cut it with a stitched circle in the Framed Squared die set so that I could layer them together.

I took a turquoise panel and inked up the waves stencil with a slightly darker ink. Then I trimmed the panel down to A2 size and blended a little extra ink on the edges for some depth. When I layered everything together for a “test fit” I thought things were a little sparse so I dug in my stash and found this super fun melon colored ribbon and decided to add it. I cut a strip and adhered it to the back of my stenciled panel. Then I cut another piece and tied it around the strip.

To assemble the rest of the card, I worked from the top down. I adhered Newton to the circle. Then, holding the Tropical Fringe image behind the vellum, I figured out where to place Newton and used some tape runner to adhere him. (Pro-tip: I learned that liquid glue can make your vellum buckle from the moisture so I try to use dry adhesive whenever I can now.) Hiding adhesive behind the image I added tape runner to the back of the vellum and adhered it to the colored panel. Then I added foam tape to the back of the square, but only on the sides so it doesn’t get wonky from the ribbon and popped it in place.

For finishign touches, I added glossy accents to Newton’s nose, the watermelon seeds and the letters in SUMMER.

I hope you enjoyed today’s fun, summer themed card! Products I used on today’s card are:
Newton’s Melon stamps and dies
Tropical Fringe stamps
Frames Squared
Waves stencil
Glossy accents

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Miss Ink Stamps – Rainbow Builder Stencil Obsession

Hey friends! Miss Ink Stamps came out with an amazing new release a couple weeks ago and I finally carved out some time to play with the new rainbow builder stencil set and I’m officially obsessed! I have rainbows everywhere…literally. I love them in all different combinations, shapes and sizes! They are so much fun! I paired them with some of my favorite Thermoweb products to step them up a notch and added sentiments from the amazing new Sunshine and Rainbows sentiment stamp set!

So, today I have 3 cards and a tag to share with you! Aren’t they all so much fun!?! I can’t get over looking at them. Let’s take a look at each one and I’ll go through the basics of how I put them together.

First up is the super fun slimline card because it was probably the most labor intensive one of them all. To ink the rainbows I started by marking the center of the paper with a pencil and did the first stencil layer (red and green on this one). I inked them up center, left, then right. This goes for all of the cards, I inked up everything for one stencil first, then everything for the second, and finished with the decorative layer last. The white panel for this card is 8.5×2.75 inches. I added 1/4 inch strips of silver glitter paper to the top and bottom and popped it up on a yellow slimline panel. Then added it to a white card base. I finished things off by stamping a sentiment on a Newton’s Nook banner trio die and popping it up with foam squares.

For this sherbet rainbow cuteness, I inked up the layers with some lighter, non-traditional colors. Then finished things off with bubblegum glitz gel! I stamped the sentiment with the same purple that I inked the outer layer with. The white panel measures 3.75×5 inches and is popped up on a piece of Lawn Fawn teal Let it Shine paper. That measures 4×5.25 inches and is popped up on a white card base.

This card is just so much fun! I inked up the rainbows in all different color combinations and then spread transfer gel through the decorative stencil layer and set it aside to dry. While it was drying, I turned on the laminator to heat up and also stamped and heat embossed a sentiment on black cardstock. I trimmed that into a strip and cut a banner tail on one end. When everything was ready, I ran the rainbow panel through the laminator with silver shattered glass decofoil! It’s sooooo cool in the light! I trimmed the panel down to 4×5.25 inches and popped it up on a white card base. Then I added foam strips to the sentiment and popped it on the left-middle-ish of the design. (That’s a very technical term.) 😉

Last but not least, I thought it would be fun to ink up a tag in the mix of everything else. So I die cut the Newton’s Nook Fancy Edges Tag twice from white and once from black. Then I used one of the fancy edges to cut a topper from the black and glued it to one of the white ones. I lined up the rainbow stencil and inked up the layers. I spread transfer gel through the decorative layer again and let it dry. This time I used blue decofoil flock for a little fuzzy fun texture! Last, I popped it in my MISTI and stamped a sentiment on the top left of the tag. Then I chose a few fun ribbons and threaded them through both tags and tied it with baker’s twine. I like having the double layer of tags so I can write on the back one and don’t have to worry about anything bleeding through to the pretty front that I decorated.

Phew! That was a lot of rainbows!!! Oh, but wait…while I was impatiently waiting to get my Sunshine and Rainbows stamp set in the mail, I had played with the rainbow stencil and couldn’t resist completing a card. So here’s a fun bonus for you today!

This rainbow has brighter color palette but I used the same silver shattered glass decofoil. Only, this sentiment comes from the new Lovely Unicorns stamp set. Isn’t it just perfect! The white panel measures 4×5.25 and the black is just 1/8 inch wider for a tiny border and there is foam tape between both layers, ending on a white card base.

So much rainbow fun! I hope you enjoyed it all and found a little inspiration to create something wonderful and share it with someone!

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

Thermoweb – International Scrapbook Day

Hi everyone! I’m having a little fun with a scrapbook sketch today in celebration of International Scrapbook Day with Thermoweb! I’m absolutely not a scrapbooker at all…tried, failed, moved on to cards and never looked back. Lol! So I decided to take a sketch for a 12×12 scrapbook page and see if I could turn it into a card. I’m pretty happy with the outcome and it was really fun to push myself.

When I’m getting messy, I like to start with that part first if at all possible so it had time to dry while I work on other parts. So today I inked up a panel with tumbled glass and mermaid lagoon distress oxide inks. Then I splattered it with watered down ink of both colors. Once it was dry, I used the Newton’s Nook petite flowers stencil and decofoil transfer gel over the whole panel.

While that was drying I stamped and colored images from the Newton’s Nook Monarchs stamp set. Then I used the coordinating dies to cut them out. Thinking ahead to filling in my card a little, I stamped and heat embossed the smaller images from the set in silver and cut them out as well.

Next, I die cut 3 scalloped squares from the Newton’s Nook slimline frames and windows die set and inked them up with colors to coordinate with the butterflies. Last, I die cut two circles from the slimline frames and portholes and inked them up with soft yellow. Then I stamped a sentiment on the bottom half of one in the same gray ink I used on the butterflies.

Once the transfer gel was dry and my laminator was heated up, I ran the flower panel through with purple sketch decofoil. It’s so beautiful and I just love the sketch line detail in this foil! I trimmed the panel down A2 size and wrapped a 2 inch strip of vellum around it before adhering the panel to a white card base. Next, I arranged the scalloped squares and circles how I wanted them and glued them together with liquid glue. Then I added foam squares to the back and placed them on the card front. Last, I added foam squares to the heat embossed butterflies and added them to my scene as well.