Hello again. I have some sweet valentine inspiration to share with you today featuring Newton’s Nook stamps, dies and stencils.

Some of these holiday stamps don’t get enough love so I get excited when I’m digging and find something I love that I haven’t created with much. That’s how today’s card came about.

I stamped and colored the main image and some flowers from Newton’s Valentine and used the coordinating dies to cut them out. Then I used the Fancy Edges Tag, Land Borders and Sky Borders dies to create a mini scene tag to put it on.

Everything wasn’t fitting how I thought it would on the tag so I used Clouds and Hills & Grass stencils to create a coordinating scene on a card front to match my tag.

I stamped my sentiment in the sky and added some solid hearts for fun. Then I took the outline heart and stamped those on the tag so it all coordinates but the tag is bolder. I glued the flowers to the grass and popped the tag up with foam tape.

For finishing touches I added glossy accents to the flower centers, bird’s beak and Newton’s nose and toe beans. Then I added black glaze pen to Newton’s eyes so they stand out more.

Do you send out Valentine’s Day cards? I only send a handful but they are so fun to create, I definitely couldn’t skip this holiday!

Products used:
Newton’s Valentine stamps and dies
Fancy Edges Tag dies
Land Borders dies
Clouds dies
Grass & Hills stencil
Clouds stencil
Blending brushes
Lawn Fawn inks – mermaid, jalapeno
Liquid glue
Foam tape
Glossy accents
Sakura black glaze pen

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Happy New Year my friends!!! Thank you for your continued love and support, whether you’re new or you’ve been here since the beginning, I truly appreciate each one of you. So I created a New Year card to share with all of you.

I created a fun fireworks scene using the Newton’s Nook Fireworks stencil and distress oxide inks. I randomly chose some brighter colors to pounce through my stencil in hopes the tint would show up over the black cardstock. It did a little but not as much as I hoped so I also went in and splattered the panel with pink and yellow metallic watercolors too.

I stamped and colored the main image from Newton’s New Year with my copic markers before cutting it out with the coordinating die. I wanted him to pop against the background so I cut a vellum scalloped circle and then went ahead and cut another smaller circle for my sentiment with the same die set. I wanted the teal to match my coloring so I colored the circle with my copic markers as well.

I found yellow cardstock in my stash that matched Newton’s hat so I cut it down and adhered it to an A2 size card with liquid glue before popping up the background panel with foam tape. Then I added Newton to the vellum circle with foam squares along with the sentiment and hid tape runner behind them to adhere those to the fireworks panel.

For finishing touches I added glossy accents to the bottle labels and Newton’s nose, plus a white clay heart above my sentiment.

Wishing you all a Happy New Year full of love and joy!!! Sending crafty hugs too!

Products used:
Newton’s New Year stamps and dies
Fireworks stencil
Frameworks dies
Distress oxide inks
Foam tape
Glossy accents
Liquid glue
LH Colors watercolors
Twiddler’s Nook Sweethearts embellishments

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Hi friends. I’m on the Newton’s Nook blog one last time for 2023 sharing a sweet holiday card with you. I actually combined a few products this time and love how it all came together.

I started by ink blending distress oxide ink on a white panel. I chose faded jeans and chipped sapphire for a deeper, gray-blue. Then I heat embossed Snowflake Oval in the center of the panel and used the largest scalloped oval in the Oval Frames set to cut it out. Next, I chose a snowman from Snow Much Fun to stamp and color with my copic markers. I used the coordinating dies to cut him out and set those aside.

I pulled the blues in my snowman from the background but the greens came from this hot foiled sentiment banner I had saved from a previous foiling session. It uses the Holiday Greetings hot foil plates and Banner Duo dies. Using the green again, I chose light green cardstock and ink blended the Holiday Foliage stencil on it.

For my layers, the background panel is adhered with liquid glue and everything else with foam tape. Then I finished things off with stardust Stickles and Touch of Gloss on bits of my snowman.

I hope you’re enjoying your holiday season!

Products used:
Snow Much Fun stamps and dies
Snowflakes Oval stamps
Holiday Greetings hot foil plates
Banner Duo dies
Oval Frames dies
Holiday Foliage stencil
Blending brushes
Distress Oxide Ink – faded jeans and chipped sapphire
Lawn Fawn Ink – walnut, celery stick, lobster
Foam tape
Stickles – stardust
Touch of gloss
Liquid glue

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Hey friends! I’m on the Newton’s Nook blog and super excited to share my card today! I’m using 4th of July themed products for a super spectacular Happy New Year card and I can’t be more happy with how it turned out.

I inked up a white piece of cardstock using the Fireworks stencil. After removing the stencil I went over all the areas lightly with another layer of the same color ink. Then I splattered the panel with silver watercolor and set it aside to dry.

White that was drying I pulled out Newton’s 4th of July stamp set and stamped that adorable kitty on the firecracker. I colored it similar to the fireworks colors and used the coordinating die to cut him out. Next I stamped my sentiment from Newton’s New Year in the same pink from the stenciling and cut it out with a Circle Frame die. I also inked the edges of this so it wasn’t stark white.

I trimmed the stenciled panel down to 5.25×4 inches and added foam tape to the back. Before adhering it I went around the edges of my white card base with speckled egg distress oxide ink. After all of that I popped my image and sentiment up with foam squares.

For finishing touches I cut and glued some stars from the Sky Scene Builder die set around and added touch of gloss to Newton’s nose and collar tag, as well as the flames on the firecracker.

Isn’t this a fabulous way to ring in the new year?!? I love it!

Products used:
Newton’s Nook Fireworks stencil
Newton’s Nook Newton’s 4th of July stamps and dies
Newton’s Nook Newton’s New Year stamps
Newton’s Nook Circle Frames dies
Distress Oxide Ink – speckled egg
LH Colors – silver watercolor
Foam tape
Touch of gloss
Twiddler’s Nook Blending brushes
Lawn Fawn dye inks – ballet slippers, celery stick, mermaid

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We’re at it again. It’s time for the November release from Newton’s Nook and it’s cozier than cozy! Grab a cuppa and a comfy blanket to hop through for amazing inspiration this week! First up…

Heartfelt Coffee (coordinates with Heart Frames dies)

Coffee Beans and Coffee Mug hot foil plates

Coffee Silhouettes dies

Aren’t all of these incredible? I had so much fun creating! Today I have a pair of tags plus two cards to share with you!

I couldn’t resist cutting and gluing together a bunch of the new Coffee Silhouette shapes and once I had them all over my desk I had to figure out what to do with them. Tags seemed perfect and given the colors I chose I went with the fun Cup of Cocoa stamp set for my sentiments.

Next I pulled out my Glimmer Hot Foil machine and tested out the new Coffee Beans hot foil plate with gold shattered foil. After that I inked up the panel with distress oxide inks in all the random brown tones. I spritzed the panel with water and flicked white paint on it too. I just wanted a bunch of texture.

Then I stamped and colored the Heartfelt Coffee image with my copic markers. I used the largest scallop heart from the Heart Frames die set to cut it out and popped it up with foam tape in the center of my panel.

Last, I stamped and heat embossed a sentiment from the same set on a banner from the Banner Trio die set and carefully adhered it with liquid glue. For finishing touches I added glossy accents to the hearts on the coffee cups in the image.

I kept things simple for my Coffee Mug Hot Foil card because I felt like that awesome coffee mug spoke for itself! I hot foiled it with rose gold foil and pulled my colors from that. I die cut a kraft panel with the largest Framework die and inked it up with the Mugs stencil using tattered rose distress oxide ink.

Next, I splattered that with white paint and inked the edges of my white card base with the same distress oxide ink. After the paint was dry I popped up all my layers with foam tape and my card was all finished.

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Happy Friday everyone! We’re back with one more feature from the Newton’s Nook Holiday Release! It’s another addition to the long images that fit the Bookmark dies. These don’t have to be used with them, of course, but they fit perfectly.

Something about this holly image had this design popping in my head the moment I saw it. So naturally I immediately started stamping and coloring away. Then I used the coordinating dies to cut them all out. After arranging them on a blank card base to see how they would fit, I started on my background.

I used light gray ink of the Music stencil for a subtle texture in the background. Then I went around the edges just a bit more with the gray ink for some depth. Then I stamped my sentiment ink the center and started adding the holly images with foam squares.

For finishing touches I added glossy accents to all of the berries, all the way around. I love this touch of shine on a serene feeling card. I really love how this one turned out!

Products used:
Bells & Holly stamps and dies
Music stencil
Blending brush
Lawn Fawn – narwhal ink
Touch of gloss
Foam squares

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Hello everyone. I’m back with another product highlight from the Newton’s Nook Holiday Release. Today it’s a stamp and die set called Scandi Christmas and it’s gorgeous!

I ended up heat embossing the images for both of my cards today but I think they’ll be gorgeous stamped in colored ink as well.

For this card, I inked up a panel with the Snowfall stencil using blue inks and then went over the whole think with a lighter layer of blue. I used the arch die from the Labels hot foil and die set to cut four windows.

I stamped and heat embossed my images and sentiment and then added everything to my card front with foam squares.

While creating this first card, the idea for the second one popped in my head so I had to keep going.

For this card, I cut a piece of white cardstock down to fit the line image in the Scandi Christmas stamp set and repeat stamped it in different green inks. I used my MISTI and just shifted my paper a 1/2 inch for each line. To keep the ratio of the paper in line with my card front, it gave a little gap at the top which I covered up with Pines & Holly die cuts.

I stamped and heat embossed my image on kraft cardstock and inked the edge with brown ink for a “frosted cookie” look. I stamped my sentiment at the bottom of the panel and added the tree with foam squares.

To get my green card base, I used the darkest ink pad from my background and drug it across the edges. If you’ve never done this before it seems scary but it’s not, I promise. Try it with a scrap first. It’s a simple way to get perfectly matching cardstock to your colored stamping.

Products used today:
Scandi Christmas stamps and dies
Label hot foil plates and dies
Snowfall stencil
Pines & Holly dies
Blending brushes
Lawn Fawn dye inks
Foam tape and squares
Magic anti-static brush
Embossing powder – frosting and licorice
Embossing and watermark ink

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Today we’re finally diving in to the sweetest cats and dogs you’ve ever seen! I absolutely adore these new sets and had a blast creating these projects with them. Today I’ve got a gift tag and card to share with you.

These images are large and totally fill up a card but that made me realize they would be cool on their own too. So I tried it out.

I colored my Dog Christmas Tree, plus a couple of the small supporting images with copic markers. I cut everything out with coordinating dies and used liquid glue to add the bone and gift to the “tree.” Then I cut a second shape from white cardstock.

I scored it a ways down, nothing specific, and used liquid glue to adhere the two layers on that top part only. Then I stamped a sentiment on the inside, punch a hole through the star and threaded it with twine.

I couldn’t help myself so I did go through and add glossy accents to all the Christmas lights and puppy noses. Aren’t they so stinking cute?!?! I love them!

With my kitties, I kept it very simple and just added light gray shading and dot detail to them. Then keeping to a simple color palette, I used the same R20s line of copic markers to color everything from the noses and ears to the lights and gifts. I used the coordinating dies to cut them all out too.

I used the Light Strings stencil on my background panel, letting the ink blending fade out on the edges. The panel is die cut with the largest Frames & Flags die, then I stamped my sentiment at the bottom and popped my images up with foam squares. I added glossy accents to all the things on this card as well.

These sentiments are too fun and perfect, that I also stamped one on the inside of this card for added fun.

Don’t forget to come back tomorrow for more inspiration with the new Newton’s Nook Holiday Release!

Products used today:
Dog Christmas Tree stamps and dies
Cat Christmas Tree stamps and dies
Frames & Flags dies
Light Strings stencil
Blending brushes
Foam tape
Glossy accents
Liquid glue

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Happy Halloween everyone! I love this holiday so much that I wanted to be sure and pop in with a card to share celebrating the occasion! Today I’ve got hot foiling fun from Newton’s Nook.

It is a fairly simple card, focusing on hot foiling for sure. The jar, label and sentiment are all using different Spellbinders hot foils. The fun plates and dies are all from Newton’s Nook.

I chose a piece of patterned paper from the Newton’s Nook Halloween Time paper pad and cut it with the largest Framework die. I popped it up with foam tape on a white card base. Then I popped the sentiment banner and jar up with foam squares on that.

I inked the edge of my jar label with black soot distress ink before gluing it down with liquid glue. I feel like that dingy feeling adds a bit of spooky to the jar.

Be safe and have so much fun out there today and tonight!!!

Products used:
Halloween Time paper pad
Framework dies
Jar hot foil plate and die
Banner Duo dies
Spooky Sentiments hot foil plates
Labels hot foil plates and dies
Halloween Apothecary stamps
Spellbinders hot foil
Spellbinders Glimmer machine
Foam tape
Liquid glue

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