Welcome everyone! I’m back today with more clean and simple inspiration using the new Newton’s Nook toner card fronts from Friday’s release. Saturday I showed a very mixed media-style card and today I’m sharing the other side of things with a bright and clean way to use them too.

I started by foiling the candy cane stripe design with red deco foil. Then I used the largest Frames & Tags die to cut the fun zig-zag panel out. Next, I chose a great image for my card design to stamp and color with copic markers. This one comes from Wreath Pups.

After cutting the image out with the coordinating die, I chose one of the new tags to cut and ink blend with teal before stamping my sentiment on the bottom. After all that was done, I popped the image up with foam tape and threaded ribbon through the hole, tying it up with some jute twine.

Pulling from the teal on the tag, I took a white card base and drug my teal ink pad across it for my favorite way to add textured color. I popped the foiled panel up with foam tape and splattered a little distress oxide spray across it. Foiling is rarely perfect and a little splatter distracts from imperfections.

Last, I added the tag to the card front and finished the design off with some glossy accents to the puppy noses and wreath berries and white gel pen highlights in various places as well.

Have you started holiday cards yet? I’m proud to say my stash is pretty healthy this year. Better than it’s been in a long time with just over a month to go before I even start mailing them out.

Products used:
Wreath Pups stamps and dies
Tis the Season toner card fronts
Essential Tags dies
Frames & Tags dies
Foam tape
Liquid glue
Lawn Fawn peacock ink
Blending brush
Distress Oxide Spray – cracked pistachio
Liquid glue
Glossy accents
Sakura gelly roll pen – white 10

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Hey friends! I think I mentioned it in one of my reveal posts but Newton’s Nook released more toner card fronts but we didn’t get them in time to play for reveal week. Well, I made a point to play this week so I could share something fun with you to show how awesome they are!

I have been vibing the mixed media feels more than usual lately so that’s the route I took. I hope you like it!

This is the holly and berries toner card front from the new Tis the Season pack foiled with Emerald Watercolor Thermoweb deco foil. I use a Minc machine to foil but a regular laminator works just the same. Don’t be fooled!

After foiling, I ink blended distress oxide inks over the top in a gradient of reds – candied apple, to aged mahogany with a little fired brick in the middle. Then I layered my Reindeer stencil over the top an randomly spread texture paste through it on to the toner card front. Once that dried it gave a cool bleed through from the ink and I love it.

Once that was dry I tore the edge off one side and took my blending tool to distress the edge with brown and black inks. I didn’t add ink to the blending tools, just whatever was still on it gave enough ink. Then I distressed a strip of kraft cardstock and glued it to a white card front before popping the toner card panel up with foam tape.

Last, I die cut the new Happiest Holidays sentiment dies from black and rose gold cardstocks, gluing the layers together and popping them up on the card front with foam squares.

I know mixed media and messy things aren’t for everyone. I have grown to love them over the years and embrace joy when creating them too. I hope you found something in today’s project that you like or want to try.

Products used:
Tis the Season toner card fronts
Reindeer stencil
Happiest Holidays dies
Thermoweb deco foil – emerald watercolor
Minc machine
Texture paste
Foam tape and squares
Distress Oxide Inks – gathered twigs, black soot, aged mahogany, fired brick, candied apple
Liquid glue

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Yay!!! We made it all week long and the Newton’s Nook release is finally available in the shop. I’m here with a quick and easy but beautiful card to round out inspiration for the week and remind you we have an Instagram Hop going on today to celebrate!

This is an all die cut card which would be perfect for mass producing but it’s so pretty with those patterned papers that I think it’s one of my favorites from the release!

I used two papers from the new Christmas Party paper pad and paired them with the Essential Tags dies and Happiest Holidays sentiment dies. Everything is adhered with liquid glue and foam tape. I finished the top off with a brown bow that I added with a foam square.

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We’re already to the last day of release reveals for the Newton’s Nook October release! The week has flown by and we saved the best for last! Bring on the puppies and kitties!!!

Today we reveal the Christmas Time Cats and Christmas Time Dogs stamp and die sets, along with new toner card fronts. Today I have cards to share using the new stamps but my toner card fronts didn’t get here in time so I’ll have fun inspiration using those coming very soon!

You know I love the new size of the Newton critters and these are no exception! I had a blast creating two cards to share with you today. Let’s visit the puppies first!

For this card I cut the Card Layout 2 die with green and black cardstocks. I heat embossed my sentiment on the larger rectangle and popped it all up on a piece of paper from the Christmas Party paper pad. Then I popped my puppies up with foam squares and finished the design off with some glossy accent noses and stardust Stickles on accents on each image.

The kitty design actually uses the inserts from my card on day 2 which were white! I used Distress Micah Spray to add a fabulous green sparkle to them before popping them up with foam squares on another piece of paper from the Christmas Party paper pad.

I cut a circle using a Circle Frame die, heat embossed my sentiment on the bottom and ink blended a little white pigment ink on the top. Then I splattered a little white paint and popped my kitties up with foam squares. I added that to the card front with foam tape and finished the design off with some glossy accents on parts of each image.

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Want another chance to win? We will be having an Instagram hop on Friday with a second prize! Please join me on Instagram on Friday, October 17th for details! 

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Samantha Mann
Diane Morales
Farhana Sarker
Amanda Wilcox

Hello again. I’m back with day 2 of release reveals for the Newton’s Nook October release. Today we have a couple of die sets to share and I made a card with each one for inspiration.

These new sets are called Merriest Christmas and Happiest Holidays. They’ll be a great addition to your holiday crafting stash. They have a beautiful script and a perfect shadow die included.

I used a couple of goodies we revealed yesterday to go with these awesome new word dies and created a Christmas and New Years card to share.

First up I used the frame from the Card Layout 5 die with some of the Christma Party paper pad to create a background for the Merriest Christmas sentiment. Then I added a few gifts using the Gift Builder set to frame the words. My sentiment is cut from white glitter foam so I just finished the design with some ribbon around the top instead my usual gloss and sparkle.

For new Happiest Holidays card, I used a stamp from the Christmas Greetings stamp set to repeat across a cream panel creating my background. Then I got messy with Ranger Astro Pastes and the Fireworks stencil to create a booming background for my sentiment. That panel is cut from the banner die in the Basic Frames set.

I tied some twine around the top and popped it up on the stamped background panel. Then I added my sentiment with liquid glue and added the whole panel to a white card base.

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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 Tuesday October 14 through Thursday October 16th. 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, October 16th at 9 pm ET to comment — winners will be announced on the NND blog on Friday, October 17th.

Want another chance to win? We will be having an Instagram hop on Friday with a second prize! Please join me on Instagram on Friday, October 17th for details! 

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

Woo hoo!!! I’m so excited to be back with release reveals for another amazing Newton’s Nook release! We’re gearing up for holiday crafting so get ready!!! Let’s see what’s coming…

Four new products to chat about today – Christmas Greetings stamps, Christmas Party paper pad, Gift Builder dies and Essential Gift Tags dies! I’m smitten with it all and I have 2 projects to share with you today.

First off, you know I love making gift tags so that’s obviously where I started. Then I had some more fun with the Christmas Greetings stamps and that fabulous paper pad to create a card to share today too.

Straight away I cut the tag shapes from the paper pad and a couple of pink ones too. Then I started playing with those fun Gift Builder dies and just created a bundle of different color combos. Once that was done I played around putting them together in different arrangements. I added a sentiment to the larger one but left the other with just images.

For my card, I cut the largest Framework die from white cardstock and trimmed the stocking patterned paper to fit inside the stitching. I glued those together and cut another layer the same size from vellum. Then I stamped and heat embossed my Christmas Greetings sentiment in the center and hid some tape runner behind that to adhere it to the panel. I tied the ribbon around the top and thought it was missing something.

That’s when I went digging for my Christmas Postage stamps and added the stockings with foam squares to that. I love that they hang the opposite as the paper pattern. I added the panel to a red card base with foam tape and finished the design off with some stardust Stickles on the stockings.

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 Tuesday October 14 through Thursday October 16th. 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, October 16th at 9 pm ET to comment — winners will be announced on the NND blog on Friday, October 17th.

Want another chance to win? We will be having an Instagram hop on Friday with a second prize! Please join me on Instagram on Friday, October 17th for details! 

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

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

Okay, today it’s going to get a little controversial. Are you team candy corn or team no thank you? I live so far in the land of team candy corn, I can’t even hear you if you’re somewhere else. Lol!!! Hence, today’s fun Newton’s Nook card!

I used the candy corn stencil set on black cardstock with distress oxide inks for a toned down but cool background. Then I splattered it with white paint for some texture and interest.

Next I used a combo of Newton’s Candy Corn images, Spooky Sky dies, Land Borders dies and Frames & Flags dies to create a cool scene. My image is colored with copic markers and everything is assembled wit ha combo of liquid glue and some foam squares.

Then I stamped a sentiment from Newton’s Candy Corn on the smallest in the Oval Frames die set and popped it up with foam squares. Finally I popped the whole scene panel up with foam tape and glued the whole thing to a white card base. For finishing touches I just added some white gel pen accents to the Newton image.

Products used:
Newton’s Candy Corn stamps and dies
Frames & Flags dies
Oval Frames dies
Spooky Sky dies
Candy Corn stencils
Distress Oxide Inks – mustard seed, ripe persimmon, spiced marmalade and white
Foam tape and squares
Liquid glue

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Hey friends! I’m excited to be on the Newton’s Nook blog today with a fun way to use the postage sampler collection, not as postage stamps! Those are fun but sometimes they get old or they aren’t what you’re in the mood for. These sets are good for so much more though!

This one really called to me with that great big sentiment! I knew it needed to be in the center of my icon grid. So I pulled it out plus a handful of others, stamped and colored everything. Next, I used the coordinating dies to cut it all out.

Taking my vibe from the colors I used on the images, I cut a piece of white cardstock with the largest Framework die and taped off the edges. Then I ink blended distress oxide inks from kitsch flamingo to scattered straw, that was light so I added a little carved pumpkin at the bottom and blended it back up. Then I spritzed the panel with water and blotted it dry. SO PRETTY!

Next, I arranged my images on the panel and popped each one up with foam squares. I took my gray ink pad direct to the edges of my card base and then popped the framework panel up on that with foam tape too.

To finishing things off I added bits of glossy accents and stardust Stickles to different images, not all but most of them.

Products used:
Halloween Postage Sampler stamps and dies
Framework dies
Foam tape and squares
Distress Oxide ink – kitsch flamingo, scattered straw, carved pumpkin
Lawn Fawn narwhal ink
Glossy accents
Stickles – stardust

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