Newton’s Nook – Never Judge a Book

Happy Wednesday friends! I’m happy to be over on the Newton’s Nook blog today with another dose of caffeinated inspiration to get you through the Coffee Loving Cardmakers hop week. I’ll be linking this card up for sure. I hope you’re playing along too. There are lots of fun prizes up for grabs, including one from Newton’s Nook!

I just adore the images and sentiments in the Sips & Stories stamp set so I pulled that out to play with today. I chose my favorite image and colored her up with copic markers. Then I used the coordinating die to cut the image out and set it aside.

After flipping through the Coffee House Stories paper pad, I chose two patterns – one for my focal panel and one for the card front. I cut the focal panel from the largest Frames & Flags die set, then also die cut a black banner while I had it out. I stamped and heat embossed my sentiment on that.

As I was finalizing my layout, I wanted something subtle behind the image so I added a scalloped vellum circle cut from one of the Circle Frames dies. My polka dot panel is adhered with liquid glue, then the cups are popped up on foam tape. The image and sentiment banner are glued together and popped up on the vellum circle with foam tape as well. I hid some liquid adhesive behind the image to add the vellum circle to the card front. For finishing touches I added Touch of Gloss to the pillows and kitty nose.

Products used:
Sips & Stories stamps and dies
Coffee House Stories paper pad
Circle Frames dies
Frames & Flags dies
Anti-static brush
Embossing & Watermark ink
Embossing powder – frosting
Touch of gloss
Foam tape

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

Coffee Loving Cardmakers Hop – Mama Elephant Merry Christmas

It’s time for the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Hop so I’m popping in with some caffeinated inspiration to share with you. I always have fun with these because I can mix and match all the companies and create whatever suits me. I love it!

A few weeks ago I shared a card for Doodlebugs that used the inlay pieces from this Mama Elephant frame, but there was no way I was wasting the frame. It turned out to be perfect for my card today!

I colored some Mama Elephant Little Agenda Snowmen and die cut them. Then snagged an extra sentiment I saved from the Mama Elephant Easy Xmas Greetings. These sets are fun because they stamp and die cut three sentiments at a time.

I inked up a background panel with the Newton’s Nook Holiday Foliage stencil, then went over the whole panel with a light layer of the same inks I used on the stencil. This gives a great glow around the images. I love it.

Then I added all of my pieces with foam strips and squares. Finished touches were just some glossy accents on the snowman noses, candy cane and holly berries.

Are you linking up with the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Hop? So many fun prizes up for grabs! Come play with us!

Products used:
Mama Elephant Little Agenda Snowman stamps and dies
Mama Elephant Easy Xmas Greetings stamps and die
Mama Elephant Sweet Shoppe Frame dies
Newton’s Nook Holiday Foliage stencil
Blending brushes
Foam strips and squares
Glossy accents

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

Newton’s Nook | Simon Says Stamp – Stamptember Collab Release

I’m popping in really quick tonight with a fun card featuring the Newton’s Nook | Simon Says Stamp Stamptember Collaboration set. As always, it’s totally adorable and has a million and one ways to use it.

Straight away, I want to make gift tags with them, paper piece patterns on the stockings and customize the critters to all of our pets!

Today I went a little extra because that sweet reindeer was just calling out to have his nose light up. Isn’t he just the cutest!?! I started by stamping and coloring him with copic markers. Then I used the scan-n-cut to cut him out and switched gears to my messy background so it could dry while I did the light up part.

I love this layered stencil. It makes it so easy to customize your lights in different ways. Today I inked green light strings and spread Thermoweb Glitz Glitter Gel through the lightbulb layer.

While that was drying, I cut a tag shape with the Fancy Edges Tag dies from a piece of patterned paper from the Christmas Time paper pad. Then I cut a hole in the center of that for the light to shine through. I added my Pear Blossom Press One Light to the back of the tag with glue dots and then glued my reindeer in place so the light was under his nose.

I added foam to the back of the tag and tied some ribbon through the hole. ***Note that you always need double layer foam for the light mechanisms to sit flat.***

With the glitz gel dry, I die cut the panel with the largest Frames & Flags die. There was too much bright white for me so I used the green left in my blending brush and inked the edges. Then I took the green ink pad I used originally and went direct to paper to ink up the edges of my card front. It’s a darker, more saturated version of the same green so they go together plus I don’t have to try and color match my cardstock.

I chose my sentiment from the set and heat embossed it on a circle from the Frames Squared dies before adhering all my pieces together.

You all know I like dimension but I try to keep it no more than two levels high, since my tag is that high from the light mechanism, I glued the light string panel directly to my card base with liquid glue, then removed the release paper and added the tag and finally added the sentiment circle with foam and liquid glue as well.

Be sure to pop over to Simon Says Stamp and snag this adorable stamp set before they’re sold out. These things have barely been lasting the night so don’t miss it!

Products used:
Stamptember Collab stamps
Frames & Flags dies
Frames Squared dies
Christmas Lights stencils
Thermoweb Glitz Gel
Stencil Pal
Foam tape
Liquid glue
Blending brushes

Pear Blossom Press One Light

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

Newton’s Nook – September Release Day 4

Well friends, you’ve gotten to see all of the amazing upcoming products from Newton’s Nook for the September release but we’re not done sharing inspiration. Today I have another card featuring Newton’s Candy Corn. He’s just so cute I had to color him multiple times.

After stamping and coloring Newton’s Candy Corn, I used the coordinating die to cut him out and went digging in to new paper pad for background inspiration. I landed on this pattern of trick or treat bags and thought everything is just fitting together perfectly.

So I cut that with the largest Frames & Flags die, then cut an oval from orange cardstock to focus my Newton image on. I ink blended the orange cardstock with spiced marmalade distress oxide ink and also added pumice stone distress oxide ink to my card base. I spritzed them both with water and also flicked black paint on my card base.

Whenever I hot foil sentiments, I try to do multiple because they are fabulous to just have on hand, ready to grab. I happened to have this perfect match ready to go in my stash so I added foam tape and squares to everything and started layering them up.

For finishing touches I added glossy accents to Newton’s nose and the face on his pumpkin bucket.

I hope you enjoyed release reveals and are chomping at the bit to add more goodies to your Halloween cardmaking stash! Release is available tomorrow!

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

Newton’s Nook – September Release Day 3

This week is flying by! Today is our last entry of release reveals and it’s so much fun! What NND release would be complete without a new Newton to create with!?! I hope you’ve loved everything and have your list ready to go for release day on Friday!

Candy Corn Newton stamps and dies

I know this is a large debate among many families…to candy corn or not? My daughter and I are candy corn fans, my husband not so much but my brother-in-law is outright repulsed by it. It’s become quite a joke and super fun this time of year.

For today’s card, I stamped and colored Newton plus the extra smaller candy corn images with copic markers. Then I used the coordinating dies to cut them out. I die cut a speech bubble and stamped my sentiment on that toward to top to leave room for the small images and switched to creating my background.

I cut four rectangles measuring 2×3 3/8 inches from two designs in the Halloween time paper pad. Then I folded one corner back on each one creating and opening in the center of my design. I glued them to a piece of teal cardstock and adhered the corners down with a foam square. Next I added Newton with foam squares, along with the speech bubble.

For finishing touches I added glossy accents to the face on the bucket and Newton’s nose. Isn’t this just super fun?!? Have I mentioned that I love spooky season!

Would you like to win the “Candy Corn Newton” Stamp Set? This stamp set will be given away to ONE lucky winner!

Here’s how to win: Comment on the NND blog and Design Team blogs (see list below)! Thewinner will be chosen at random from the collective reveal posts. Make sure to check out each of their blogs and comment for your chance to win. 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 September 14th at 9pm ET to comment — winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday, September 15th.

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

Newton’s Nook Designs
Ellen Haxelmans
Larissa Heskett
Samantha Mann
Diane Morales
Farhana Sarker
Tatiana Trafimovich
Amanda Wilcox

Newton’s Nook – September Release Day 2

For day 2 of the Newton’s Nook September Release reveals, we’ve got spooky fun with a new stamp and die set along with a new stencil. I’m sharing two cards with you featuring both!

Ghostly Good Time stamps and dies

Spooky Line stencil

I couldn’t believe after creating both of my cards for today, how cool they turned out but how easy they were to create also! Let’s start with a Ghostly Good Time, shall we?

I stamped and colored my images with copic markers, with no design in mind at all but I thought the images were too cute and I wanted to see them both. After that, I went flipping through the new Halloween Time paper pad and stopped in my tracks at this amazing scene panel that’s in it. Too perfect not to try!

So, I used my images as a guide for where to stamp and heat emboss my spooky sounds. After the heat embossing was done, I popped the images up with foam squares and decided on this awesome sentiment from the new Spooky Sentiments hot foil plates. It’s die cut with a Banner Duo die.

I really adore all of these awesome line stencils and truly enjoy making them the star of the show. so I inked up all the layers for this new one and then just framed it up with papers from the Halloween Time paper pad. I added another hot foiled sentiment banner and snagged that little ghost from Ghostly Good Time.

To add a little interest and sparkle because, well, it’s me, I added stardust Stickles to bits of each ghost. Isn’t this so fun!?!

Would you like to win the “Ghostly Good Times” Stamp Set? This stamp set will be given away to ONE lucky winner!

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

Newton’s Nook Designs
Ellen Haxelmans
Larissa Heskett
Samantha Mann
Diane Morales
Farhana Sarker
Tatiana Trafimovich
Amanda Wilcox

Newton’s Nook – August Release Day 4

I can’t believe it but we’re already to the final day of release reveals for the Newton’s Nook August Release! I hope you’ve loved it all and are eager for tomorrow morning when it’s all available in the Newton’s Nook shop! But first, let’s get on with our final reveal.

Newton’s Harvest Time stamps and dies

This image is large and fantastic to fill your card front. Plus all those small images are great for filling in a scene or maybe making a patterned background too.

Today I colored the images with copic markers and using the coordinating dies to cut everything out. Then I used liquid glue to add my small images to the bottom of the wagon.

I used the new Autumn Leaves hot foil plate on a piece of kraft cardstock using orange foil. Then I die cut the panel with the largest Frames & Flags die and ink blended the sides with gathered twigs and ground espresso distress oxide inks. For a dark pairing, I inked the edges of my card base with aged mahogany distress oxide and popped the panel up on that.

I popped my images up with foam squares and then for my sentiment, I hot foiled one of the new Autumn Greetings on white cardstock using the same orange foil. It’s die cut with a Banner Duo die and popped up the same as everything else.

For finishing touches I added glossy accents to Newton’s nose and all the pumpkin stems.

Would you like to win the “Newton’s Harvest Time” Stamp Set? This foil set will be given away to ONE lucky winner!

Here’s how to win: Comment on the NND blog and Design Team blogs (see list below)! The winner will be chosen at random from the collective reveal posts. Make sure to check out each of their blogs and comment for your chance to win. 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 August 17th at 9pm ET to comment — winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday, August 18th.

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

Newton’s Nook Designs
Donna Idlet
Ellen Haxelmans
Tina Herbeck
Larissa Heskett
Samantha Mann
Diane Morales
Farhana Sarker
Amanda Wilcox

Newton’s Nook – August Release Day 3

Things are chugging along and we’re already to day 3 of the Newton’s Nook August Release reveals. Let’s check it out!

Autumn Apples stamps and dies

Seriously, are these not the cutest images with the most fun sentiments ever!?! I love them! Also, have so many ideas to get going on too!

Today I chose a couple of images from the set to stamp and color with my copic markers. Then I took another images and repeat stamped it all over a piece of white cardstock for a custom background.

After stamping, I took a blending brush with the same color ink and blended from left to right, rading out as I went. Then I pulled out the Circle Frames and Frames Squared dies to find the right size circles for my background focal point and sentiment.

I heat embossed my sentiment on one of the circles and then added everything to the stamped panel with a combination of liquid glue and foam squares. For finishing touches I added white gel pen highlights all over the images.

Would you like to win the “Autumn Apples” Stamp Set? This stamp set will be given away to ONE lucky winner!

Here’s how to win: Comment on the NND blog and Design Team blogs (see list below)! The winner will be chosen at random from the collective reveal posts. Make sure to check out each of their blogs and comment for your chance to win. 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 August 17th at 9pm ET to comment — winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday, August 18th.

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

Newton’s Nook Designs
Donna Idlet
Ellen Haxelmans
Tina Herbeck
Larissa Heskett
Samantha Mann
Diane Morales
Farhana Sarker
Amanda Wilcox

Newton’s Nook – August Release Day 2

Welcome to day 2 of the Newton’s Nook August Release reveals! I hope you loved yesterday’s reveals and are excited for more fall fun today.

Chrysanthemum stamps and dies

We’re adding another gorgeous floral to the collection and it happens to be one of my favorite flowers. When I start seeing the big pots of these in front of the stores I know it’s really fall and I get so excited! Also, it’s the flower for November when my birthday is so that probably plays a part too.

I stamped and colored the image with copic markers in my very favorite shade that these flowers come in. Then I used the coordinating die to cut it out. I also hot foiled an Autumn Greetings sentiment and die cut it with one of the Banner Duo dies.

For my background panel, I cut a dark blue piece of cardstock and paired it with the Plaid stencil. The first layer I inked with gathered twigs distress oxide ink, hoping the ink would sit on top of the cardstock with a brown tone. It didn’t as much as I hoped but it still looks great. For the second layer I spread Thermoweb transfer gel blanco through it and let that dry. Then I ran the panel through my mini Minc machine with light blue deco foil flock.

For my card base, I inked the edges with gathered twigs distress oxide ink before popping the flocked panel up with foam tape. Then I added the florals with foam squares and tucked the end of my sentiment banner underneath them, also using foam squares on that.

Would you like to win the “Chrysanthemum” Stamp Set? This stamp set will be given away to ONE lucky winner!

Here’s how to win: Comment on the NND blog and Design Team blogs (see list below)! The winner will be chosen at random from the collective reveal posts. Make sure to check out each of their blogs and comment for your chance to win. 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 August 17th at 9pm ET to comment — winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday, August 18th.

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

Newton’s Nook Designs
Donna Idlet
Ellen Haxelmans
Tina Herbeck
Larissa Heskett
Samantha Mann
Diane Morales
Farhana Sarker
Amanda Wilcox

Newton’s Nook – July Release Reveals Day 3

It’s already day 3 of release reveals and this time, it’s our final day! Be sure to comment on the hop each day for chances to win something revealed that day! But let’s not linger…get on with the HOT show! Hot foil that is!!!

Paw Prints, Confetti and Birthday Sentiments Hot Foil Plates

I have a couple of cards to share with you featuring some of these goodies today! They are all so fun and the options are endless to mix and match them! It’s so great.

First up is this sweet card featuring the Paw Prints and Birthday Sentiments hot foil plates, along with the sentiment duo dies that work perfectly with the hot foil sentiments. Then I couldn’t resist these adorable pups from Birthday Barks that really needed to hang out!

I ink blended a card front with a light orange ink and also inked the side of my hot foil panel with teal ink so it coordinated with the foiling. For finishing touches I came in with Touch of Gloss on puppy noses, the cherry and other things like collar tags and party hats. Then I added black glaze pen to puppy eyes with a white gel pen highlight after that was dry.

I went a little darker for my Confetti Hot Foil card front. It seemed like too much white space for my liking so I ended up almost galaxy feeling but it’s super fun and so shimmery between metallic watercolor and silver hot foil everywhere!

I inked my hot foil panel before coloring these sweet kitties so it was easy to choose a color palette that coordinated making my cake frosting extra fun! For finishing touches I added stardust Stickles to polka dots and Touch of Gloss to kitty noses and toe beans.

I also added another sentiment using the Birthday Sentiments Hot Foil set and Banner Duo dies. These sentiments are great to hot foil in mass and keep in your pocket with the foil plates so you have them on hand whenever you need. That’s my new go-to thing and I love it!

Would you like to win the “Paw Print” Hot Foil Plate? This foil set will be given away to ONE lucky winner!

Here’s how to win: Comment on the NND blog and Design Team blogs (see list below)! Thewinner will be chosen at random from the collective reveal posts. Make sure to check out each of their blogs and comment for your chance to win. 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 Wednesday July 19th at 9pm ET to comment — winners will be announced on the blog post on Thursday, July 18th.

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

Newton’s Nook Designs
Donna Idlet
Ellen Haxelmans
Tina Herbeck
Larissa Heskett
Samantha Mann
Diane Morales
Maria Russell
Farhana Sarker
Tatiana Trafimovich
Amanda Wilcox