Newton’s Nook – Crafting is my Cardio

Hi everyone! I know there have to be at least a few of you who can relate to my card share today. I have discovered that my motivation to work out at home is less than stellar and with my gym closed, crafting is saving my sanity.

Given all of that, I totally reached for my Newton’s Crafty Cardio stamps because they were just too perfect!

The design of today’s card was inspired by a sketch I found while scrolling Pinterest the other night. I thought it was just perfect for this awesome image and the small supporting images that are just so perfect!

I started by stamping and coloring my Newton’s Crafty Cardio images and then cut them out with the coordinating dies. Next, I set to cutting the pieces from the sketch. I used green for the cardfront and then an awesome textured polka dot purple for the strips. The top and bottom are .75×5.5 inches and the center strip is 2.25×5.5 inches. I popped these up with foam tape and die cut a 3 inch diameter circle from striped paper and popped it up too. Next, I adhered my images with foam tape and using my MISTI stamped the sentiment.

For finishing touches I added Stickles to the sweatband because a crafter works out in bling. haha! Not really but it’s funny. 😉 Then I added glossy accents to various places on the images and lastly, added some gumdrops from Your Next Stamp.

A really fun card that perfectly expresses how I’m feeling these days. I hope you’re all staying safe and healthy, and relatively sane given the circumstances. Crafty hugs to you all!

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

Newton's Nook – Let's Be Mermaids

Hello everyone! I’m super excited to be up on the Newton’s Nook blog today featuring this super bright and colorful purr-maid card.

I had a general idea of what I wanted to do with this and it definitely started with deco-foil on that awesome seashells stencil. I spread transfer gel over the stencil and set it aside to dry. Then ran it through my laminator with shattered rainbow deco-foil and look at that awesomeness!!!

Next, I laid out my dies and stamps for a general layout so I could stamp and color my images from Purr-maid and cut them with the coordinating dies. Then I die cut a rounded rectangle from iridescent vellum and used my images for guide where to stamp and heat emboss some fun bubbles and the sentiment. At this point I also die cut my deco-foiled panel with the scalloped rectangle. Both of those are from the Frames & Flags die set. Then I moved on to assembly.

To do this I worked kind of backward. I popped my images up on the vellum panel and then hid glue behind those to adhere it to the seashell panel. Then that whole thing is popped up on a textured teal cardstock panel and finally it’s all attached to a card base.

Last I finished things up with some Wink of Stella glitter brush pen on the mermaid tails, glossy accents on the kitty noses, seashells, seahorse and fish, and lastly Unicorn Stickles on the bubbles.

There is so much bright and fun going on with this card. I just love each piece of it! I hope you do too!

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

Newton’s Nook – Hap-Pig Birthday!

Hi there! I’ve been making so many thinking of you cards that I decided to go a different route for today’s card. I’m using Oink from Newton’s Nook with some Trinity Stamps dies. The punny sentiments in this set are just the best for many occasions but the birthday one made me giggle.

I started this card by stamping out all of the images from the Oink set and coloring them with my copics. Then using the coordinating dies, I cut them out…one was lost because the die shifted in my die cutter, such a bummer but the ones left worked out great for this design.

Wanting to use all of the images on one card, I decided to make it a slimline. Using my Trinity Stamps Slimline series dies, I cut out all the layers and started deciding on a final layout. At this point I thought it would be fun to have some grass for my piggies to sit on so I inked up a panel and die cut it with the Slimline Borders grass die.

Now for the actual assembly, I adhered the red panel to a card base, then the blue patterned paper to that. I popped up the white frame with foam squares and adhered the grass to that. The piggies are attached with a combo of tape runner and foam squares where they overlap the window openings.

I decided on the sentiments I wanted to use and found speech bubbles from the Newton’s Nook speech bubble die set that fit them. Once those were die cut and stamped, I added them to the card front and moved on to finishing touches.

I kept those pretty simple with a black glaze pen to the eyes, white gel pen accents throughout and glossy accents to a few key places like the bow, bandana and cake.

This fun card is all finished and ready for the world. These piggies seriously make me smile every time I look at them! I can’t wait to make more fun cards with them, especially with the one image I didn’t get to include here.

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

Mama Elephant – Stackable Cuties

Hello everyone! I’m still making cards to send to friends and family for a little break in the day. I hope it’s making them smile and as fun for them as it is for me to make and send. I recently pulled out my Mama Elephant Stackable Cuties to play with and made a couple of cards with them.

When I get an inkling like this, I usually stamp and color a bunch of images and make cards afterward. Here is the first one.

To make this card, I die cut the My Favorite Things Arched Window (the next to the largest) from a white cardstock panel that measures 4×5.25. I took the window it cuts out and used my Newton’s Nook clouds stencil to ink up some sky using my Trinity Stamps blending buddy brush and a blue dye ink. Then I die cut a second arch, inked it up with green and die cut it with my grass die from the Newton’s Nook land borders dies. I adhered these together, added my critters and glued it to my card front.

Using my MISTI, I added a couple of appropriate speech bubbles from the same stamp set and then popped my frame up around the scene with foam tape.

I finished this card off with glossy accents on the noses, kitty’s fish and puppy’s bone. Then I scattered some Your Next Stamp gumdrops across the design. Very last, I added black glaze pen to the eyes and white gel pen accents to the images.

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

Newton's Nook – We Go Together…

Thanks so much for stopping by! I’m super excited to share today’s card for a whole bunch of reasons! Mostly being…it’s awesome!!!! I hope you enjoy it too!

I started today’s card by stamping Newton’s Movie Night images and coloring them with my copics. Then I die cut them and set them aside.

I knew I wanted to use Therm-o-Web flock on the popcorn stencil so I started by spreading my transfer gel and then set it aside to dry. Once it was I sent it through my laminator with white flocking and it came out perfect! Then I die cut the panel with the largest Frameworks die. I wanted a little more depth on the popcorn so I used a finger dauber and some yellow chalk to give it a buttery look. I love how this turned out!

Next I stamped and heat embossed my sentiment on vellum and then die cut it from another Frameworks die. I cut a second layer in bright yellow to go behind it and adhered the two together.

I wanted the popcorn panel to pop off the card base so I took candied apple distress oxide ink and inked up a panel and spritzed it with water. I popped the popcorn panel up with foam tape and then popped the images up with foam tape as well.

For finishing touches on this fun card, I added white gel pen accents to the images, glossy accents to kitty noses and toe beans, popcorn boxes and candy box and also to the 3-D glasses.

I’m so excited how I was able to take an idea from my head and so perfectly make it a reality. I absolutely love how this card turned out.

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

Coffee Loving Cardmakers – Exploding Envelope

It’s Tuesday Tea with Twiddler’s Nook over on the Coffee Loving Cardmakers blog. Today I’m excited to finally share a project I’ve been wanting to try for a while…an exploding envelope. I used my We R Memory Keepers envelop punch board paired with a bunch of awesome Newton’s Nook goodies to create this awesome gift!

To start this project, I chose 2 main colors – green and pink and created my base envelope with my punch board and some trimmed inserts to cover the panels. The envelope is 5×7 inches so that I had extra surface area to play with. From there I chose the Newton’s Nook Flower Trio dies and cut out bunch of them in the same green and pink, along with some yellow and kraft to add a little contrast.

I knew that I wanted a tag and a mini envelope on the center panel so I cut those out and glued them together. With the main elements figured out, I took my stamps from Loveable Llamas and Cuppa Cactus and decided how many of each I needed to stamp. Once they were stamped, I colored them with copics and used the coordinating dies to cut them out.

I adhered all my pieces to the main envelope with liquid glue and moved on to create the belly band that will hold the whole thing closed.

I cut two 2×11 inch strips from the same kraft cardstock I used on the flowers and scored them both at about 7 1/4, then adhered the two together. (Pro tip: In the future, I would rework this so the glued seams are in the centers not at the edge. The band catches sometimes when you slide it off but it’s not horrible.) Once that was made, I adhered the extra images and flowers I had set aside and used my MISTI to stamp Hello! from the Cuppa Cactus set.

Here’s a closer look at the inside of the envelope. I plan to put a coffee gift card in the small envelope, along with a note for the recipient.

Isn’t this a fun way to give a gift? I’m super excited to make more of these in different themes! I hope you enjoyed today’s project and are inspired to go make something beautiful.

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

Newton’s Nook – Wanna Grab Lunch?

Did you see that Newton’s Nook Designs is having a retiring sale on their website? It’s time to make room for new products so they are retiring select designs! These designs are available at up to 40% off while supplies last so hurry to get your favorites before they’re gone for good!

All week the NND Design Team will be sharing inspiration using some of their favorite products from our retiring list! Check out what I created today and don’t forget to check the NND Blog each day this week for more fun inspiration!

Today I’m featuring Raccoon Rascals from the retiring list. It’s just too cute and you’re going to want to grab it while you can. Once they’re gone, they’re gone.

For today’s card I started by getting messy…again. 😉 I added paint to my texture paste and used it over my Tree Rings stencil on kraft cardstock. I set that aside to dry while I stamped and colored my images from Raccoon Rascals using copic markers. Then, I die cut them using the coordinating dies.

I used the largest Frameworks die to cut my stenciled piece. Then I die cut a purple flag from the Frames and Flags dies and heat embossed my sentiment on it. I popped it up along with my images on the stenciled panel. For final assembly I cut down some green patterned paper from my stash and glued it to a card base, then popped my decorated panel up with foam tape.

For finishing touches I added blaze glaze pen to the raccoon eyes, glossy accents to their noses and some of the garbage and white gel pen accents throughout all of the images.

I am loving this cute set! It’s got great images and fun, punny sentiments to go with them all! Don’t forget to check out the Retiring Products Category to see what is going away and grab your favorites before they are gone for good!

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

Trinity Stamps – Mouse House Snow Globe

Hello again everyone! This weekend I had some extra crafting time and was able to get another idea out of my head and into reality that I’d been thinking about for a while.

I used the Trinity Stamps Mouse House stamp set along with the Tall Shaker Dome dies to make a fun scene! I love both of these sets so much! The mice are just the cutest and this tall snow globe-style dome is so fun to fill with lots of different things!

To make this card I started by stamping, coloring and die cutting my Mouse House images and then set them aside to work on the Tall Shaker Dome. I cut all of the dome pieces from white cardstock and used Distress Oxide Inks to blend some color on them. I used liquid glue to assemble everything and then trimmed off any excess of the images.

At this point I thought it would be fun to make it look like the dome was glass so I die cut another top portion of the dome from acetate and adhered it over the top.

I think this little detail gives it a pretty cool look. To finish off the dome I stamped my sentiment on the label and adhered it as well.

After that was finished I moved on to the background. I blended distress oxides and then also used the same colors to splatter on a panel. After all of that was dry I die cut the panel from the largest Frames and Flags die set from Newton’s Nook. This panel is popped up with foam tape and then the Tall Shaker Dome is popped up with foam tape as well.

In a world full of crazy, I think it’s important to stay positive and help others as well. I’m going to be mailing out happy mail periodically to try to give people in my life a little piece of happy.

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

Heffy Doodle – Super Dudes!

Hello everyone! I hope you had a wonderful weekend and are ready to tackle a new week! ❤ I’m excited to finally own some Heffy Doodle stamps so that I can play along with their Facebook group challenges. This month you can choose between going green or interactive cards! For my first entry I decided to try a green and teal color palette with the Super Dudes and Rescue Dogs stamp sets.

I started by stamping, coloring and die cutting my Heffy Doodle images and then moved on to setting up my scene. I used cracked pistachio distress ink with my Newton’s Nook Clouds stencil to create a sky and then inked some cardstock with mowed lawn distress ink and die cut it with my Newton’s Nook Land Borders grass die. Then I took both pieces and used one of the Newton’s Nook Frames and Flags dies to cut a rounded rectangle. I glued it all together and added my images. Then I took the largest Newton’s Nook Frameworks die and cut it from white cardstock. I adhered that panel to a teal cardbase with foam tape and then popped my scene panel up with foam tape as well.

This is when I put my card into my MISTI and stamped my sentiment from Super Dudes in green ink. Next I moved on to finishing touches which started with white gel pen accents on the images. Then I added glossy accents to the super dudes and rescue dog. Last I added Stickles to the stars for a little glittery fun too.

I had fun keeping to a limited color palette for this card and will definitely be entering it into the Facebook group challenge. Next, I think it’s time to make these fun super heroes do something interactive!

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

Newton’s Nook – Newton’s Book Club

Hello again! Today I’m up on the Newton’s Nook blog sharing this simple but adorable card featuring Newton’s Book Club. I just adore this set because I’m not just a crafter, but a total book nerd too! This will be a fun card to send a book loving friend.

To make this card I started by stamping my image from Newton’s Book Club and coloring him in. I had an idea of the layout and now that he was colored, I pulled cardstock that coordinated with the colors I chose for the other elements of my card. I used the coordinating dies to cut my image out and started on the rest of my card.

The woodgrain paper gave great texture but the teal and red papers were too plain so I went over the red using my gingham stencil with red ink for a tone-on-tone look. I liked this much better. I adhered the teal to my card base and then die cut my red piece from the largest in the Frames & Flags die set and popped it up with foam tape.

For the next layer, I took a wood-grain patterned paper from my stash and die cut it with the rounded rectangle, also from the Frames & Flags die set, and then used the coordinating die from Newton’s Book Club to cut a window in it. This is when I stamped and heat embossed my sentiment. The woodgrain panel is popped up while the Newton image is glued inset. Kind of like Newton really is in the bookcase. 😉

For finishing touches I added white gel pen accents throughout the image and glossy accents to the spines of some of the books.

Thanks for stopping by today. I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!