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.
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.
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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!
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!
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.
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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.
For finishing touches I just added glossy accents to Newton’s nose and toe beans, along with the white parts of his hat.
This card is so adorable and just so fun! It’s great to start stocking my birthday card stash for the year too!
Meowy Christmas everyone! I hope you all have a wonderful day full of all the people and things you love! I have a fun treat bag to share with you that I made for my daughter.
I realized a few days before Christmas that I had a gift card for her but nothing to put it in. Well, I definitely had to remedy that, so I dug through my mental catalog and thought it would be fun to made this Lawn Fawn tote bag and decorate it.
I started with the Newton’s Nook Canine Christmas paper pad so cut the bag and assembled it with EZ tear tape. Then, to decorate it I chose this sweet kitty from Newton’s Nook Christmas Kittens stamp set. I colored it with copic markers and used the coordinating dies to cut it out. I used a little liquid glue to add the holly to his hat and foam squares to attach him to the bag.
Next, I cut banners from the Newton’s Nook Frames & Flags die set from black and white cardstock. I heat embossed a sentiment on one and glued them together, then to the box. Isn’t this so cute!?! For finishing touches, I added Touch of Gloss to the kitten’s nose and holly berries. Then I added black glaze pen to his eyes and set the bag aside to dry.
I didn’t want the “to” to be bold and distract from the kitty so I cut a small circle using the same paper pad and Newton’s Nook Circle Frames dies. Then I cut an “M” from black cardstock using the Newton’s Nook Essential Alphabet dies and glued it on. I used some baker’s twine from my stash to tie it on the back side. We all have different initials in our house so it was easy to leave just the “M” to tell who the gift is for.
I hope you enjoyed my project today! This sweet kitty just makes me smile!
Hey crafty friends! It’s time, once again, for the Newton’s Nook Deck the Halls with Inky Paws Hop. I hope you have enjoyed inspiration from guest designers on the Newton’s Nook blog all week. Now, today we come together with a bundle of holiday inspiration and a hop with prizes up for grabs!
For my card, I started by stamping and coloring the adorable Dairy Christmas images, plus a couple of extra holly bits. I used the coordinating dies to cut them out and set them aside to start cutting all the layers to my slimline scene.
I started with the main die in the Slimline Frames & Portholes die set, cutting it from blue sparkle and white cardstock. Then I used one of the land borders dies to cut my different snow drifts. I inked up the edges with a light teal ink to help define one from the other.
After layering things together I wanted to fill my scene a little more so I cut some trees from the Forest Scene Builder dies, plus a bird, and the fence die too. I used copics to add depth and dimension to them all and started layering things together.
I used liquid glue for all my layers but popped my critters up with foam tape. Once I got to this point, I decided to add my sentiment to the bottom of the scene instead of the sky. I thought it fit better but didn’t really want the bold of black ink so I used gray to soften it a bit. Then I glued my holly bits in place to decorate things a little more
With the slimline panel all put together, I popped it up on a 3.5×8.5 inch piece of brown cardstock and adhered that to a slimline card base.
For finishing touches, I added white gel pen highlights to a few areas and black glaze pen to the critter’s eyes. I added glossy accents to the holly berries and tree on the cow’s blanket. Aren’t they soooooo cute?!? I love this pile!
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Hello everyone. Thanks for stopping by today. I was able to play with some new things that have been sitting on my desk for a minute this last weekend and I’m excited to start sharing them with you. Today I have a card featuring one of the new amazing sets from Ellen Hutson. It’s a little out of my comfort zone to try stamping in color rather than grabbing my copics and coloring everything in. But I really had a blast playing around and creating this card.
The stamp set is called North Pole Greetings. I used Catherine Pooler inks to stamp the images and Pink & Main embossing powder for the words. I cut everything out with the coordinating dies and liquid glue to adhere the little pieces together.
For my background, I inked up a white panel with the Newton’s Nook Snowfall stencil and more Catherine Pooler ink. Once the stenciling was finished, I used the ink left in my blending brush to add a little color around the edges and take away the stark white. Then I die cut the largest Newton’s Nook Framework die from vellum and heat embossed the rest of my sentiment in black.
I adhered the stamped images to the vellum with foam squares and hid tape runner behind them on the vellum to attach that to the stenciled panel. Then I added the panel to a white card base and my card is all finished.
Isn’t this super cute! I just adore that “greetings from” sentiment for Christmas. I think it’s whimsical and sweet.
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