YIPPEE!!! We made it to release day! The Newton’s Nook release is available in the shop and we’re having an Instagram hop to celebrate today! Below is my card but be sure to head to Instagram and comment along the hop for a chance to win!

I’m pulling us back to reveal day 1 goodies with all things fall and the Autumn Dogs stamp set. I couldn’t resist this sweet pup and his barrel of apples. I just loved it so much I thought he needed his own moment to shine!

I paired him with the Autumn Leaves paper pad and the Card Layout 6 dies that parner with the Corner Flip dies (used here). This is a great way to show off both sides of your patterned paper, especially when you just don’t want to have to choose!

My sentiment is stamped on a banner in the Frames & Flags set and everything is glued down except for the flipped corners and the main image which are popped up with foam squares. Then for finishing touches I added glossy accents to the puppy’s nose and the red apples. I also added white gel pen highlights on a few spots and a red clay heart below the sentiment.

Products used:
Autumn Leaves paper pad
Autumn Dogs stamps and dies
Corner Flip dies
Card Layout 6 die
Foam squares
Glossy accents
Liquid glue
Sweethearts embellishment mix

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Welcome everyone! It’s day 2 of the Newton’s Nook September Release reveals and, like I said yesterday, there’s so much! Today is all Halloween goodies and they are SO GOOD!!!

Seriously! We have spiderwebs and sentiments, plus a new paper pad and to top it all off, accessories for the new cat and dog builders! OMG they’re so fun!!!

Since I didn’t have the new dies when I was orinally designing for this week, I went digging and played with older Halloween goodies to give the new paper pad a try. Isn’t this haunted house so fun with the stripes! It’s giving Addam’s Family for me and I’m not mad about it.

The sky portion of my background was created with distress oxide and spritz sprays. It makes for fun texture and shimmer in the end. My sentiment was borrowed from the Trick or Treat Newton stamp set.

My dies came and I couldn’t resist playing immediately so I had some inspiration to share with you! Here is a fun card featuring the new Halloween Accessories on the Cat Builder! Eeeekkk!

I pulled the paper pad back out and paired it with the Arched Frames and one of the new Halloween sentiments too! Everything is popped up with foam tape and squares like I do and it just makes it so fun!

For finishing touches on this card, I added glossy accents the the kitty nose and bits of the candy pieces.

Check out the Design Team Blogs for  more inspiration and featured project details:

Newton’s Nook Designs
Larissa Heskett
Donna Idlet
Rosie Lopez
Samantha Mann
Diane Morales
Amanda Wilcox

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Hi friends! I’m excited to be back with another Newton’s Nook release week reveal post! This time we have 2 days of reveals – so much good stuff – and release day is on Thursday! So buckle up, here we go!

Phew! Today we’re revealing two new stamp and die sets – Autumn Cats and Autumn Dogs, plus Autumn Leaves paper pad – swoon, plus Arched Frames dies and Torn Edge Frames dies! Now, distributers were slow so I didn’t have all the dies when creating for this so bear with me – all of us really. We did our best!

First up we have a little taste of the Autumn Leaves paper pad and Autumn Cats having fun in the fall leaves! Aren’t they super cute!?! I added the frame from the Card Layout 5 die for a little texture on the background to break up the patterned paper. It gives a great focus to the center.

I popped my scalloped over up with foam tape and popped the images up off that too. You all know by now that I love dimension. I can’t help myself. Finishing touches on this one are glossy accents for all kitty noses and white gel pen highlights on the images. Then I came back and added glossy accents on random leaves throughout the images. I just couldn’t help myself.

For my Autumn Dogs inspiration, I pulled out the paper pad again because it’s packed full of such different patterns, who can resist!? Not it. The dies I used were the largest Frames & Flags scalloped rectangle with the tags from the Essential Tags die set.

I took a distress oxide dusty concord ink pad direct to my card base for the textured purple edge and then popped everything up layer by layer with foam tape and squares. Finishing touches here were just glossy accents on puppy noses, coffee mug, pumpkin stems and caramel on the apple.

Check out the Design Team Blogs for  more inspiration and featured project details:

Newton’s Nook Designs
Larissa Heskett
Donna Idlet
Rosie Lopez
Samantha Mann
Diane Morales
Amanda Wilcox

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Hi friends! I’m over on the Newton’s Nook blog today sharing more inspiration featuring the new release plus reinvigorating some fabulous older products! I love it when the new does that for the old. Let’s dive in!

I started this card with the vision that my puppy would fit in the center of the Birthday Oval but when I physically had it all in front of me, the vision changed. Not a lot this time, but enough and I want to make space for everyone to remember that it’s okay to change your mind in the middle of the process. Go with your gut!

So using the guide on the packaging of the Puppy Builder dies, I die cut and ink blended all the pieces of my pup, including the collar and tag this time. I used liquid glue to assemble and then also cut a birthday hat using the Birthday Accessories dies.

Next, I haphazardly ink blended yellow and green (matching my pup’s accessories) on a white panel. I stamped the Birthday Oval image on it and die cut it with the next-to-biggest Oval Frames die. For a bold contrasting background, I cut a piece of blue cardstock and ink blended it a little deeper blue along the edges, spritzing with water for more visual texture.

At this point I was playing with placement and that’s when I really decided I didn’t like the puppy in the middle of the oval but a sentiment there with the pup on the side would be pretty perfect. So that’s what I did.

After the stamping was done, I used copic markers to color the open letters of “happy” and splattered silver watercolor on the panel. Once that dried I popped the oval up with foam tape and then did the same with the puppy.

For finishing touches, I added white gel pen highlights to the puppy eyes, nose and tag. Then I glued a scattering of blue pearls across the design for more bubbly texture.

Products used today:
Dog Builder dies
Oval Frames dies
Birthday Oval stamps
Blending brushes with yellow and green dye inks
Pearls – blue
Gelly Roll white gel pen
Liquid glue
Reverse tweezers
Watercolor – silver
Foam tape

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Hip, hip, hooray!!! It’s release day!!! But first, you have to head to Instagram and hop along with us. Comment as you go for a chance to win credit to the Newton’s Nook shop! Then go wild and snag all these super fun goodies to start your birthday card stash!

Today the card I’m sharing features the Birthday Greetings stamps along with the Cat Builder and Birthday Accessories dies.

Today, I cut the pieces from colored cardstock but used ink blending on all the parts to add depth and interest. I always use liquid glue to adhere bits and pieces together, sometimes reverse tweezers help told them in place while the glue dries.

I had a layout planned in my head, so after all the pieces were cut and glued together. I cut the A2 Card Layout die from white cardstock, saving the frame for another day, using the stitched rectangles that also cut with the frame. I added a sentiment to the longer top rectangle and popped up all my elements with foam squares.

I added those to a green cardstock panel with foam tape. The panel is cut down to 4×5.25 inches. Before gluing that to my card base, I took guava ink direct to the paper so I got a textured color edge instead of another layer of cardstock.

For finishing touches I added glossy accents on parts of each icon. Then stardust Stickles to the party hat and each balloon too.

Just a reminder that today is release day and our Instagram hop is going on. Click here to get started!

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Welcome back again! Today we’ve got three new builder die sets to share with you, plus fun inspiration before the whole lot goes on sale tomorrow!

Cat Builder, Dog Builder and Birthday Accessories dies

With so much goodness to share today, I have two cards to share featuring all of these new products! First up, let’s build a super cute cat and get him ready for the party!

I cut everything for the kitty and party accessories from white cardstock and used blending brushes with dye inks to add my color. Then I used liquid glue and reverse tweezers to assemble everything.

*A great tip, the packaging for these builder die sets has a map to show you how to put the pieces together in different ways. I cut my packaging down and kept that part with the die sets for all of them.

If you saw my post yesterday, you’ll realize that I was very stuck on the Birthday Time paper pad. It fit with everything I was creating this time so why fight it?!? I trimmed another piece down to 4.25×4.5 inches. I stamped my sentiment at the bottom of a top folding card and popped the orange panel up with foam tape. Next, I cut a strip from another pattern in the same set and glued it to the bottom of the orange panel.

Last, I popped my kitty up with foam tape as well and finished the design off with a scattering of flat sequins for some added sparkle and shine across the design.

Next, I took some time to build a dog and some of the super fun accessories that come with him!

For this card, I used the same paper pad plus the Frames & Tags die set for my layout. I took the teal inserts that cut with the frame and splattered them with teal ink. After those were dry, I stamped my sentiment from yesterday’s Birthday Greetings set on one of the smaller rectangles and popped my other elements up with foam squares on the last two.

I chose a pattern for my card front, trimmed it down and glued it to a card base. Not wanting to cover up the fun words, I cut the zig zag rectangle from vellum, added my teal rectangles to it with foam tape and then hid tape runner behind the rectangles to adhere the whole thing to my card front.

*Tip, liquid glue tends to make vellum ripple because of the liquid part so I always try my hardest to use dry adhesive like tape runner.

For finishing touches on this card, I went a different route again and added white gel pen highlights to all of the bits. It doesn’t require drying time but can also change the look of your card completely.

Check out the Design Team blogs for more inspiration and featured project details:

Newton’s Nook Designs
Larissa Heskett
Donna Idlet
Rosie Lopez
Samantha Mann
Diane Morales
Amanda Wilcox

Happy Wednesday friends! We have a quick two-day set of sneak peeks for the Newton’s Nook August release and then on Friday you get to enjoy a fun Instagram hop for added inspiration (and chances to win) plus the goodies go on sale so you can shop to heart’s content!

Today we have a builder die set and a new sentiment stamp set to share with you.

Cake Builder dies and Birthday Greetings stamps

For my card today, I used all the new goodies but surrounded my color palette around a previously released paper pad called Birthday Time. It’s a great collection of images and patterns in more pastel vibes than bright which was perfect for my crafting mood.

For my cake, I cut all the pieces from various colors of cardstock. Then I took the cake layers and spritzed them with white paint. It gave great texture and toned down the brightness of my cardstock colors. I used liquid glue to assemble it all and moved on to the other elements.

I stamped part of my sentiment on a banner trio die and trimmed the other half with scissors after stamping. My background panel is from the Birthday Time paper pad, trimmed to A2 and glued to a card base. Then I added ovals from the oval frames die set. The white scallop oval is glued to my card base and the teal is popped up with foam tape.

Last, I added the sentiment strips and cake with foam tape. For finishing touches I added stardust Stickles to the candles and glossy accents to the flames and frosting on each cake layer. I feel like these last details really pulled this card together. It went from alright to super cool!

Check out the Design Team blogs for more inspiration and featured project details:

more inspiration and featured project details:

Newton’s Nook Designs
Larissa Heskett
Donna Idlet
Rosie Lopez
Samantha Mann
Diane Morales
Amanda Wilcox

Yippee!!! It’s release day for Newton’s Nook’s 13 year mini celebration. We’re over on Instagram having an inspiration hop – head there to comment as you hop along for a chance to win. But for now, details on my card today.

Once again, I stamped and colored Newton and used the coordinating die to cut him out. I also went for the cute balloon in the set this time. I glued that to his hand and set it aside to dry.

For the background, I pulled a piece of patterned paper from the Fireworks pad and trimmed it to A2 size and glued it to a white card base. Then I die cut the Card Layout 5 die from teal cardstock. I glued the frame to the card front and took half of the inserts to splatter with paint and distress spritz sprays.

Once those were dry, I stamped my sentiment on one panel and popped them all up within the frame using foam tape. Last, I added Newton with foam squares, doubled up in some places so he laid flat among the popped up background pieces.

For finishing touches today, I just added another dab of glossy accents to Newton’s nose and then stardust Stickles to the highlight on the balloon.

Please be sure to head to Instagram and hop along with us! You’ll see fun inspiration and have a chance to win while you’re at it!

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