Gnarly Birthday Card by Jen

Howling Hits! 

Hello! Jen here today and I'm sharing a gnarly birthday card that features our newest Toner Card Fronts and our adorable puppy with the mix tape!

This card uses the following products:

Puppy's Mix Tape Stamp Set

Puppy's Mix Tape Die Set

Retro Mix Toner Card Fronts

Solid Black Toner Card Fronts

Party On! Stamp Set

Card Layout 7 Die

Banner Duo Die Set

I started out by stamping and coloring the cute pup from the Puppy's Mix Tape Stamp Set. I used watercolor markers to create a gray pup and then used blue and purple for the cassette. I added the "Howling Hits!" as the title of the tape. The coordinating Puppy's Mix Tape Die Set has an extra die that fits right over the cassette image so that you can add the label on as a layer! I love this because it makes it look like you put a sticker on the cassette! 

Once the image was done I created the card. I  chose toner sheet with the cassette pattern from the Retro Mix Toner Card Fronts. I added blue foil over the top and applied it with my minc laminator. I saved the leftover piece of foil and layered that over a black toner sheet from our Solid Black Toner Card Fronts. Then I took both of the foiled pieces and cut them out using our Card Layout 7 Die. I used the piece created with the solid black for the frame. Then I used the pieces that were created with the original toner sheet for the top and bottom panels and glued them to a gray card base. 

Next I stamped the "hope your birthday is" onto a purple banner. Then I used the Card Layout 7 Die with black cardstock for the center window. I added the words "totally gnarly" onto the center piece, embossed in white to finish the greeting. 

The dog holding the cassette fit perfectly along the bottom below the birthday greeting. 

I already sent this fun birthday card out to a friend! I she will think it's pretty gnarly! 

Floral Thank You Card by Larissa Heskett

Beautiful Blooms for a Cheerful Thank You!

Today we are sharing a gorgeous thank you card by Larissa! She used a bunch of our favorite floral sets to create whole garden of blooms!  

Larissa cut out a stitched rectangle using our Basic Frames Die Set. She used this as a background for her main images, making it into a scene by inking the bottom in brown and the top in blue. She added fun blue and black paint splatters for a bit of texture. Then she added on all of her flowers to the scene. She stamped and colored flowers from several different sets. She used the beautiful bloom from our Hyacinth Stamp Set for the centerpiece of her garden. Then she added sunflowers on each side from our Autumn Fields Stamp Set. She also layered in a little tulip from our Easter Postage Sampler Stamp Set and little flowers and butterflies from Newton's Blooms Stamp Set.  This creates such a beautiful garden! 

Under all of the blooms she added the thank you sentiment from the Floral Roundabout Stamp Set. The message was stamped and embossed in white onto a black banner that was cut out using our Banner Trio Die Set

Last, she layered everything onto a fun blue check pattern from our Bright Basics Paper Pad. She cut the paper out using our Framework Die Set to give it the fun postage edge. What a beautiful floral card! 

To see more projects by Larissa you can visit her on her blog, Larissa Heskett Designs.

Make a Wish Birthday Card by Donna Idlet

Make a Wish! 

Today we are taking a break from holiday cards to share a lovely birthday card by Donna! This card features our Gift Builder Die Set along with some of our Frames & Tags Die Set and birthday stamps and paper!

Donna used our Frames & Tags Die Set with navy blue paper and cut out the large frame and the smaller inner frame with windows using navy blue paper. She then used fun patterns Birthday Time Paper Pad and cut them out using our Frames & Tags Die Set for the birthday patterns inside the frame. 

For the birthday message she chose sentiments from our Birthday Essentials Stamp Set. She stamped the "make a wish" onto a stitched rectangle from our Basic Frames Die Set. 

Last, she added the adorable gift using our Gift Builder Die Set. She used a striped paper from our Birthday Time Paper Pad along with pink cardstock for the ribbon and bow. 

This birthday card would be perfect for a birthday any time of year! We love how the die cut birthday gift goes perfectly with the paper!

To see more beautiful creations by Donna, you can visit her blog, Creative Lady!

Shell-ebrate Card by Donna Idlet

Shell-ebrate!

As summer is nearing the end we thought it would be fun to sneak in one more summer card! This card by  Donna features the adorable Newton's Sand Dollar Stamp Set along with our Seaside Paper Pad and Fractured Card Layout Die Set.

For this card Donna cut out the shapes using the Fractured Card Layout Die Set twice. She cut it out once using the gray seashell paper from the Seaside Paper Pad and once from a piece of light gray cardstock. To get the second shade of darker gray on the center piece she ink blended it over it with gray ink.  

She stamped and colored the images of Newton and the seashells from the Newton's Sand Dollar Stamp Set. She used neutral colors for the seashells and orange for Newton to add a fun pop of color! She cut the image out using the coordinating Newton's Sand Dollar Die Set and added him to her card. 

Last, she cut out a black stitched banner using our Banner Duo Die Set and stamped the "Shell-ebrate" message using a stamp from our Seashell Roundabout Stamp Set. This sentiment goes perfectly with the seaside images! 

We hope you enjoyed this fun summer card! To see more beautiful creations by Donna, you can visit her blog, Creative Lady!

Christmas Cactus Card by Samantha Mann

Christmas Cactus!

Have you thought about making holiday cards yet? It's never too early to start and today we are sharing a Christmas card by Samantha featuring our Christmas Cactus Stamp Set and Lattice Die Set to get the inspiration started!

To create this card Samantha stamped the lovely cactus blooms from our Christmas Cactus Stamp Set multiple times. She colored all the blooms in shades of pink using watercolor markers. She added white highlights with a white gel pen to the petals and cut out all the blooms using the coordinating Christmas Cactus Die Set. 

For her card base she stenciled a white piece of cardstock using a light gray ink with our Tree Rings Stencil. Then she took that panel and cut it out using our Lattice Die Set. What a fun way to give the die cut texture! She stenciled another piece of white cardstock using our Petite Snow Stencil with white texture paste to give a subtle texture. She cut the snowy panel to fit her card front and then layered the die cut lattice over the top. She then layered all those cactus blooms along the right side, overlapping them to create a beautiful edge. 

Last she added the sentiment, stamped and embossed in white onto a black banner. The banner was die cut using our Banner Duo Die Set. She also added a few iridescent sequins around the blooms for a little bit of sparkle. 

What a gorgeous Christmas card! We hope this card gives you inspiration to get a jump start on holiday crafting!

To see more fun cards by Samantha you can visit her over on her blog, Sam' Scrap Candy!

Ghostly Greetings Card by Donna Idlet

Ghostly Greetings!

Don't be scared! This ghostly Halloween card by Donna is too cute to be spook! 

This card features the cute dog and cat ghosts from our Ghostly Good Times Stamp Set. Donna stamped and embossed the images onto vellum to give them a fun transparency. What a perfect way to add a ghostly effect to the card.  The images were cut out using the coordinating Ghostly Good Times Die Set. 

Behind the ghosts is a spooky scene from one of the pages in our Halloween Time Paper Pad. She cut the paper to fit just inside the zig zag frame from our Frames & Tags Die Set. The finishing touch is the sentiment "Ghostly Greetings" from our Spooky Sentiments Hot Foil Plates. She added hot foil to the sentiment and then cut it out using our Banner Duo Die Set. 

We hope you enjoyed this fun ghostly greeting today! 

To see more fun creations by Donna, you can visit her blog, Creative Lady!  

It's Happy Meowr Somewhere! Card by Diane Morales

Happy MEOWR with Newton!

Today we are headed out to the beach to share a fun drink with Newton on this fun summer card by Diane! 

For this card Diane features the cute image of the kitty with the fishbowl drink from our Newton's Happy Meowr Stamp Set. She colored the image in fun bright summer colors with alcohol markers and cut it out using the coordinating Newton's Happy Meowr Die Set. She also stamped and colored the fun little seashell images that are included in this set to add to her beach scene. 

To create a fun beach scene for Newton, She used our Sunscape Stencil with orange ink over a yellow cardstock panel to create a sunny sky. Then she used our Sea Borders Die Set to cut a curved border of sand to go across the bottom of her scene. She used our Frames Squared Die Set to create a scalloped square for her card base and cut the layers to fit onto the front. So fun! 

The finishing detail is the sentiment "It's happy MEOWR somewhere!" stamped onto a banner that was cut out using our Banner Duo Die Set. 

What a fun way to send a cheerful summer greeting to a friend! To see more creations by Diane, you can visit on her blog, 2sisters project. 

Have a Brew-tiful Day Card by Diane Morales

Have a Brew-tiful Day!

We're staring Monday out with two of our favorite things: Coffee & Cats! Diane has created an adorable card that features both, sure to brighten your monday! 

This adorable card features the big image of kitties and coffee mugs from our Caffeinated Cats Stamp Set. This image is sized to fit the whole card front and Diane colored mugs in tons of fun playful colors! She colored all the kitties in neutral shades of gray and they look so perfect peeking out behind all the colors! 

For her card she cut out a scallop edged frame using our Frames & Flags Die Set to frame the image. On top of that she used our Basic Frames Die Set with our Bright Basics Paper Pad to cut out the fun blue pattern with tiny hearts. These two dies layer perfectly together and create a fabulous background for the kitties. Then she cut fussy around the image she had colored of the kitties and layered it onto her card. 

The finishing touch is the sentiment "Have a Brew-tiful Day!" from our Time For Coffee Stamp Set. This message was stamped onto a banner that was die cut using our Banner Duo Die Set. 

We hope you have this fun inspiration has perked you up today! To see more creations by Diane, you can visit on her blog, 2sisters project. 

Welcome Spring Shaker Card by Donna Idlet

A Sweet Spring Shaker!

Today Donna has created a sweet shaker card that is perfect for celebrating spring!

To create this fun shaker card she began by stamping the big circle filled with little spring icons from our Spring Roundabout Stamp Set. She colored all the cute little images with bright spring colors and then cut the image out using our Circle Frames Die Set. She also used the same die set to cut out the scallop edged circle for the shaker window. She filled the shaker with sequins that matched the spring colors she had used on the images. 

For her card she started with a white card base. Then she cut out the pretty blue gingham pattern from our Spring Blooms Paper Pad using our Frames & Flags Die Set to give it the scalloped edge. For the message she used "Welcome Spring!" from the Spring Roundabout Stamp Set. She embossed the sentiment in black and then die cut it using our Banner Duo Die Set. 

What a fun way to celebrate spring! 

We hope you have enjoyed this project today. To see more fun creations by Donna, you can visit her blog, Creative Lady!

You Light Up My Life Card by Ellen Haxelmans

 

Light up some Love!

Today Ellen shares how to stretch your supplies and create a love themed card using holiday stamps and stencils! 

For her card base she a beautiful colored background panel using distress inks in shades of pink and red.  Then she used Light Strings Stencil Set to add a fun lightbulb pattern. This stencil includes two layers and she inked the layer that has just the strings and lightbulb bases with a dark red distress ink. Then she used the second layer of the stencil (that has the lightbulb tops) and added foil using transfer gel to give the bulbs a bit of fun shimmer! She cut the panel down to fit inside the scallop edged frame from our Frames & Flags Die Set. 

For her main image she used the lightbulb from our Holiday Lights Stamp Set. To create a love theme with the lightbulb she added a heart to the center with a yellow glow around it. The bulb was cut out with the coordinating Holiday Lights Die Set. She then layered the bulb over a vellum heart that was cut out using our Heart Frames Die Set. 

To add to the Love theme, she used the sentiment "you light up my life" from the Bright Sentiments Hot Foil Plate. She used a hot foil machine to foil the sentiment in gold onto red cardstock and then cut it out using the Banner Duo Die Set. 

Isn't this a fun way to stretch those holiday stamps and stencils to create a fun love themed project? We hope this has inspired you to take a look at your holiday sets and see if they can be stretched to use for different occassions!

To see more details on her project today, you can visit Ellen on her blog Crafty Ellen.

 

 

A Jolly Heart Shaped Holiday Card by Diane Morales

Holly Jolly!

Today we are sharing a festive heart shaped holiday card by Diane!

To create this fun heart shaped card she starts out by stamping the large heart filled with holiday foliage from our Heartfelt Holidays Stamp Set. She adds pops of color to the image and a bit of gold sparkle too. Then she cut the image out using the scalloped heart from our Heart Frames Die Set. This image is designed to fit perfectly inside the heart. She cuts a second heart from shiny gold cardstock, again using the Heart Frames Die Set. This heart frames the first one perfectly and adds a beautiful shine! 

She uses the shiny cardstock again to foil the sentiment "holly jolly" using our Holiday Greetings Hot Foil Plates. The light colored foil really pops on the metallic paper! So fun! She cuts out the foiled sentiment using our Banner Duo Die Set and layers it over the heart.

The holidays are a perfect time of year to add lots of shine and sparkle to your cards, don't you think!?

To see more creations by Diane, you can visit on her blog, 2sisters project. 

Newton's Nook New Holiday Release Blog Hop!

Holiday Release Available NOW + BLOG HOP!

Here is a quick look at our brand new holiday products! We'll be sharing a closer look at these sets throughout the week but we wanted you to be able to purchase them right away so we've put them all for sale in our shop today! Grab your favorites today then keep following our blog all week for more inspiration!

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Blog Hop Today!

The Newton's Nook Designs Team is hopping along today with Inspiration using our BRAND NEW Holiday Products! 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!

Here's what I created for our stop on the hop:

This fun holiday card features our new hot foil plates. I created two sparkly foiled trees using red and green foil with our Christmas Trees Hot Foil Plates & Die. I layered the foiled trees over a kraft colored rectangle shape that was cut out using our Frames & Flags Die Set. For the sentiment I added a green foiled "merry & bright" using our Holiday Greetings Hot Foil Plates and cut the banner out using our Banner Duo Die Set. In the background I added some printed patterns of trees and polka dots from our Christmas Time Paper Pad. This holiday card is so fun and was easy to make! I hope you enjoyed this project! Don't forget to visit all the blogs on the list below. Each of our Design Team Members has a fun project to share with you today!

Enter to Win a $25 Prize!

We will be choosing two lucky winners to win a $25 store credit for Newton's Nook Designs online shop! To enter, just leave comments on the Design Team Member blogs (see list below)! Two winners will be chosen at random from the collective blogs in the blog hop. 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, November 2nd at 9 pm ET to comment -- winners will be announced on the NND blog on Saturday, November 4th.

Newton's Nook Designs
Donna Idlet
Ellen Haxelmans
Larissa Heskett
Samantha Mann
Zsofia Molnar

Diane Morales
Farhana Sarker
Tatiana Trafimovich
Amanda Wilcox