Hello everyone! It’s finally time to reveal bits and pieces of the Newton’s Nook Holiday Release! I’m not even wasting time with words today, let’s just get to the good stuff!

Evergreen Frame die

Merry Christmas, Holiday Cheer and Christmas Word Trio dies

Christmas Basics paper pad

I’m using lots of these products on projects throughout the week but for today, I do have two special ones to share to get everything moving!

First, I created a fun shaker card using the new Holiday Cheer sentiment dies and Evergreen Tree Frame die. I used microbeads and flock for my shaker material so it’s light and fluffy but moves around great when you shake it.

I added stardust Stickles for some sparkle on the trees and that sweet bow from the Pines & Holly die set for a pop of red to add something festive to the mix.

This new Christmas Word Trio die set is going to be fabulous separately but they just formed the perfect tree shape, I couldn’t resist giving it a go right out of the gate.

The star on my tree is from the Sky Scene Builder die set and the green stripes are from the new Christmas Basics paper pad.

Isn’t this just so fun and festive?!? I love it!

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Hello again. I’m happy to be on the Newton’s Nook blog today sharing a fun card I created during my session with the September release goodies! This time I added one of the sweet Trick or Treat Newtons to a stencil and paper pad that was previously released. They go together so well!

First, I had this kitty left from last week’s release card. Isn’t he cute?!? And I loved how the size worked with the Spooky Line stencil so I had to try it out. I inked up the stencil on a piece of white cardstock.

Then I pulled out my Halloween themed paper pads and landed on this fun design from the Halloween Woofs paper pad. I cut strips to fill in the top and bottom gaps around the stenciled portion and popped them up with foam tape. I added a little border to the bottom section that acts like a ground for my Newton.

After gluing my panel to a card base, I added Newton with foam squares and stamped my sentiment in the sky of the scene.

For finishing touches I added glossy accents to Newton’s nose and the stem on the pumpkin costume. Then I came in with black glaze pen on the face of the pumpkin so it was shiny too.

Products used:
Trick or Treat Newton stamps and dies
Spooky Line stencil
Halloween Woofs paper pad
Foam tape and squares
Glossy accents
Sakura black glaze pen

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Hi friends! Thanks for stopping by again today. Things have been packed with the Newton’s Nook release and I’m not even done sharing creations from it! I’m back today with another card, this time featuring the Trick or Treat Puppy set that I’m equally as obsessed with!

This time I stamped a few of the images and colored them with copic markers, using the coordinating dies to cut them out. Aren’t they adorable!?!

I inked up the Candy Corn stencil on gray paper with distress oxide inks so they stayed nice and bright. Using the images as a guide on a card base, I used one of the Cloud Border dies to trim the edge off my stenciled panel. Then I popped it up with foam tape.

I die cut a banner using one of the Banner Trio dies, stamped and heat embossed my sentiment and then lined it back up in the banner die to cut the edge off to make it just the right size. After that I popped the puppies and sentiment banner up with foam squares.

For finishing touches I added black glaze pen to the eyes and glossy accents to puppy noses.

Products used:
Trick or Treat Puppy stamps and dies
Cloud Border dies
Candy Corn stencil
Distress Oxide inks
Foam tape
Glossy accents
Sakura black glaze pen

Remember to check out the whole new release at Newton’s Nook for your infusion of fun fall and Halloween goodies!

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Happy Friday friends! We’re having an Instagram hop to celebrate the September Newton’s Nook Release today! I have a really fun, but sort of involved project to share with you for the release.

It looks simple on the front but this is a really fun mini book/album using the new Autumn Meows paper pad, along with some other fun products. It can stand up and be a decoration or tuck away to pull out when you want to look at it too.

When you flip open the first page, you have a pocket on the left that I made a little pull out for. I plan to write something on the back and add a small photo to the front. Then in the center (on the right here) you have another pull out slot that I’m going to add small photos to both sides of.

Here is a look at the back section. On the left you see the back of the leaf paper from the previous picture, along with another pocket on the right with a tag to pull out. I’ll probably do the same idea here with a photo on one side and write on the other.

And last, here’s the back of it. It’s such a sweet little book and was really a fun immersive crafting session to create it. I started with the basic shell and once I started cutting and adding little bits here and there, then I was totally invested in completing the whole thing. Next thing I knew, it was bedtime!

Remember to head to Instagram for the Newton’s Nook Release Hop for a chance to win a gift card to the shop!

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Hey friends! It’s a fabulous week on the blog! We’ve got Newton’s Nook September Release reveals all week, with an Instagram Hop happening on Friday when everything goes on sale! Let’s have a look at the reveals for today, shall we?

Trick or Treat Newton stamps and dies

Trick or Treat Puppy stamps and dies

Haunted House and Spooky Skies dies

Halloween Party paper pad

If you’ve been her for a minute you know already that I’m obsessed with every bit of today’s reveals! There is a ton and it’s all AMAZING!!! I scaled it back and am sharing 2 cards with you today.

First up, a fantastically fun card using the new Haunted House and Spooky Skies dies, along with a piece of the Halloween Party paper pad.

Such a simple card but it was so fun to create and build on as I was going. I just trimmed the ghost paper from the pad to cover my card front, then cut a piece of orange cardstock to 3.75 x 5.5 inches and used a circle die to cut the corner out. I popped that up on the ghosts with foam tape.

Then I cut the Haunted House from black cardstock and lined the windows with yellow. I popped it up with foam tape and arched my BOO sentiment around the side. Then I finished the sky off with elements from the Spooky Skies die set. These are the perfect addition!

Seriously, so much fun! Now we’ll switch gears to a card featuring those absolutely adorable Trick or Treat Newton cuties! I’m obsessed with both of these new sets. The size of the images are so fun to color, addicting really because they go so fast!

So, let’s be real…you know I stamped each one of these images, I couldn’t leave just one out. But knowing that one image didn’t fit in my design idea, I chose a spooky one to set aside for it’s very own card.

I cut the largest rectangle in the Frames & Tags die set from white cardstock and popped all my kitties up on that. Then I stamped and heat embossed my sentiment on a circle from the Circle Frames set and popped that up too.

For the background panel, I cut a piece of green cardstock and inked it up with the Serene Stripes stencil using green ink. This is a great texture stencil to add interest but not detract from your design.

After everything was assembled, I came in with some glossy accents on parts of different kitties for a little shine here and there.

Enter to Win a $25 Prize!

One lucky winner will receive a $25 prize to spend at Newton’s Nook Designs online shop! The winner will be chosen at random from the collective blog posts featuring our new products this week. For a chance to win, leave comments on the Design Team Member Blog Posts (see list below) from Monday September 9th through Thursday September 12th. 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, September 12th at 9 pm ET to comment — winners will be announced on the NND blog on Friday, September 13th.

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

Newton’s Nook Designs
Donna Idlet
Larissa Heskett
Samantha Mann
Diane Morales
Farhana Sarker
Amanda Wilcox

Hey everyone! I’m on the Newton’s Nook blog today with a little taste of fall, but the soft, pastel version. I took a break from Halloween for a moment to pull out some fall fun for a moment.

I stamped the Heartfelt Fall image in a brown copic-friendly ink and colored it in with softer fall colors. Then I cut that out with the largest scallop Heart Frames die and inked up the edges with a little tea dye distress ink.

I chose some coordinating scraps of cardstock and cut 1/4″ strips to glue on a white cardstock panel. Once those were dry, I trimmed the panel down to 4×5.25 inches and splattered it with gold watercolor. I popped the panel up on a white card base and then did the same with my heart image.

I chose kraft for my sentiment banner using one of the Banner Trio dies and a sentiment from the Heartfelt Fall stamp set. Then I painted the open letters with gold watercolor from the splattering and also painted bits of the heart image with an extra watered down version of the same gold watercolor.

I really adore how this card turned out and the relaxing feel it gives. I think that also plays really well with the sentiment I chose too.

Products used:
Heartfelt Fall stamps
Heart Frames dies
Banner Trio dies
LH Colors watercolor – gold
Foam tape
Magic Anti-static brush
Embossing ink
Embossing powder – frosting

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Hey friends! I’m over on the Newton’s Nook blog today with an extra fun Halloween card. I had some inky fun stenciling on kraft and creating vellum ghosts which is always super cool looking!

I used distress oxide inks for my stenciling so the ink sat on top of the kraft cardstock and showed up really well. The colors I chose were carved pumpkin with a little ripe persimmon on the bottoms, mowed lawn and black soot. I cut that panel with the largest Frames & Tags die for that awesome zigzag edge. Then cut the frame in that set from black cardstock and popped it up with foam strips.

I heat embossed the ghosts from Ghostly Good Times and used the coordinating dies to cut them out. I adhered them to the card front by cutting tiny foam squares to hide behind their eyes, mouth and nose.

Last, I stamped a sentiment on one of the tags in the same die set using the same distress oxide inks as the pumpkins. I tied a little bow with some twine and added it with foam squares. I finished that off with one cute jack-o-lantern embellishment and popped the whole panel up on a white card base with foam tape.

You know how much I love Halloween so this card was a blast to create! I wanted to mention that the face layer of this stencil set is also optional if you wanted to create fall cards with it too. Definitely extends the use tons!!!

Products used:
Ghostly Good Times stamps and dies
Jack-O-Lantern stencils
Frames & Tags dies
Foam squares and tape
Distress Oxide Ink – carved pumpkin, ripe persimmon, mowed lawn, black soot
Twiddler’s Nook Happy Jacks embellishments

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Happy Thursday everyone! I’m happy to be on the Newton’s Nook blog today with a pair of bookmarks using limited supplies but having different outcomes for each.

I created these one after the other so I had mindful intent to make them look different but use the same stamp set, bookmark dies and background stencil. The images are stamped and watercolored with Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers. They are very forgiving and fun markers to use and can give different looks depending if you blend with their blender pen or water and a paint brush.

With my first image being a rainbow stack of books, I wanted to keep the background neutral and though white and gray were the perfect combo to pull such a thing off. Also, with these being bookmarks intended for that use, I glued all the images down with liquid glue, no foam squares today.

For the second bookmark I chose a limited color palette with a background color that followed suit. For my sentiment this time, I glued two extra die cuts from the bookmark die set together.

Both of the bookmarks have wide ribbon threaded through the hole, tied with embroidery floss. I like a good plume coming out of the top of my book so I’m not digging for where my bookmark is. But you could alter that to your taste as well.

Products used:
All Booked Up stamps and dies
Bookmarks dies
Cascading Stars stencil
Blending brushes
Liquid glue

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Hey friends! Remember the backgrounds I shared on Tuesday this week during the Newton’s Nook release reveals? I’m back today with a card I created using another one! Stay tuned for the final 2 coming very soon. But first…

This background is the one I created with the insert panels glued directly to the card base and the frame is popped up with foam strips. This version of the background is the perfect one to create shakers with if you like that style of card too!

The colors I chose for the insert panels just really gave me bee vibes so I couldn’t resist pulling out the new Heartfelt Honeycomb stamps and dies from the June release. Aren’t they the perfect addition!?!

After adding my images with foam squares and liquid glue, I came back through with stardust Stickles on the bee wings and white gel pen highlights on all the honey drips.

Such a simple and quick card to put together and I just love the color combo so much too!

Products used:
Heartfelt Honeycomb stamps and dies
Banner Trio dies
Natural Basics paper pad
A2 Card Layout 2 die
Foam squares and strips
Liquid glue
Stickles – stardust
Embossing and watermark ink
Anti-static brush
Embossing powder – frosting

If you haven’t checked out the July Newton’s Nook release, be sure to! It’s so fun!

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Hi there! It’s release day for the Newton’s Nook 11th Birthday Release and we’re celebrating with an Instagram hop today!

With dies like the 2 new background dies, I like to keep the inserts when I don’t use them on the card at hand because I almost always want them for something later on. This proved true very quickly for my Fractured Card from Monday. I immediately went back and pulled the teal inserts back out to use without the frame piece at all.

Using the die as a guide for placement I adhered the pieces together temporarily with washi tape. Then I layered the petite clouds stencil over top and spread texture paste through it. In reality the whole design is pretty forgiving so I didn’t have to be that picky but I liked it perfectly spaced better than winging it.

While that was drying, I stamped and colored Newton’s Birthday Balloons and used the coordinating die to cut it out. Going off the colors I used in the image, I pulled out a similar color cardstock to heat emboss my sentiment on after cutting a banner from the Frames & Flags die set.

With the clouds almost immediately dry because the heat wave where I live is a real thing! I moved on to assembling everything. For this, I was a little extra again I added foam tape to the back of the panels back from the Fractured Card Layout and placed them back in the die upside down. Then I removed the release paper and pressed a white cardstock panel to them. I liked the placement so I used liquid glue and adhered the panel to a card base.

I added Newton and my sentiment banner with foam squares and switched to finishing touches. For that, we went with all the things – glossy accents on Newton’s nose and toe beans, plus the balloons. Then Wink of Stella glitter on the gift and a scattering of red clay hearts. When the glossy accents was dry I came back in with white gel pen highlights on various parts of the image too.

Remember to head over to Instagram and hop along with us for a chance to win a $25 gift card to the Newton’s Nook shop!

Products used:
Newton’s Birthday Balloons stamps and dies
Fractured Card Layout die
Petit Clouds stencil
Foam tape
Liquid glue
Texture paste
Twiddler’s Nook Sweetheart embellishments
Glossy accents
Wink of Stella glitter brush pen

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