Mouse Themed Note Card by Tatiana Trafimovich

A Little Note...

Today we are sharing a sweet little note card created by Tatiana. This cute little scene filled with mice and flowers is perfect for sending a cheerful spring wish to a friend. 

She started out by stamping and coloring the duo of mice holding flowers from our Garden Mice Stamp Set. She colored the mice in neutral grays and then added bright pops of orange and purple for the big blooms. She also added highlights with a white gel pen for added detail. She cut the two images out using the coordinating Garden Mice Die Set. 

For her card, she created a fun background scene onto a white card base. She added green grass using our Hills & Grass Stencil along the bottom and then added blue ink for a sky along the top. She then added a few clouds into the sky using our Cloudy Sky Stencil with a bit of white pigment ink. This is such a fun and easy way to make a background scene. 

Next, she cut out the fun stitched frame using our Frames & Tags Die Set. She then arranged the frame over the background and tucked the mice into it on opposite sides. Isn't it cute how the mouse is peeking down from the top corner? She added the sentiment "just a little note..." from the Garden Mice Stamp Set, embossed in white onto a purple banner. She also added a few epoxy dots in orange and purple for a finishing detail. 

We love this layout! It's so fun how the scene peeks in from behind the frame! 

You can see more of Tatiana's beautiful creations on her blog, Tatiana Trafimovich. 

Gnome Card by Larissa Heskett

Enjoy the Little Moments in Life!

Today we are sharing a fun fall gnome card by Larissa that features the sweet gnome from our Gnome Garden Stamp Set. 

She stamped the sweet gnome sitting on the mushroom from the Gnome Garden Stamp Set and colored him using fall colors with a pop of teal. So pretty! She cut the image out using the coordinating Gnome Garden Die Set. 

For her card, she created a white panel and added a grassy hill to create a scene. She then added the sentiment "Enjoy the little moments in life" from the Garden Mice Stamp Set onto the grassy area.  She framed the whole scene with a postage edge panel that was die cut from black paper using our Framework Die Set. So cute! 

We hope you enjoyed this fun fall card by Larissa today! To say hello to Larissa and see more of her creations, you can visit her over at her blog, Larissa Heskett Designs.

Newton's Nook Designs & Therm O Web Inspiration Week - Day 2 with Zsofia Molnar & Tina Herbeck

This week Newton's Nook Designs and Therm O Web are partnering for a fabulous inspiration week! All week long both design teams will be sharing ways to add fun foils and more to your cards using Therm O Web products with Newton's Nook Designs stamps! There are prizes too! Read all the way to the end of this post to find out how you can win! 

Today we are featuring projects by Zsofia and Tina! 

 Today we are sharing two gorgeous rainbow foiled cards by Zsofia:

This duo of cards is sure to brighten anyone's day! Those rainbows are sure to send cheer and smiles! 

For her first card Zsofia created a beautiful rainbow background using Therm O Web toner sheets and rainbow foil. It's the perfect setting for the image of daisies on a die cut from Newton's Nook Designs! Full product list below.

From Newton's Nook Designs: 

Dainty Daises Stamp Set | Dainty Daisies Die Set |  Best Mom Oval | Fancy Edges Tag Die Set | Banner Trio Die Set

From Therm O Web: 

Deco Foil Transfer Sheets - Rainbow Shattered Glass | Brutus Monroe Toner Sheet Mixables - Floral Fantasy 

For her second card Zsofia created another beautiful rainbow background using Therm O Web toner sheets and rainbow foil. This time she paired the background with the Newton's Cupcake Stamp Set and Tag from Newton's Nook Designs for a wonderful birthday card! She even added foils to the cupcake front! Full product list below.

From Newton's Nook Designs: 

Fancy Edges Tag Die Set | Banner Trio Die Set | Newton's Cupcake Stamp Set | Newton's Cupcake Die Set

From Therm O Web: 
Deco Foil Transfer Sheets - Rainbow Shattered Glass | Laura Kelly Toner Sheets - Wacky Waves

Visit Zsofia's blog: safsafdesign to see more today!

 Next, we have three more fun and sparkly cards by Tina:

For her first project Tina created a scene filled with summer fun! She used the adorable kitty and sand bucket image from Newton's Nook Designs, creating a cute beach scene. She added fun foiled stripes to the background using toner sheets and foils Therm O Web! Full product details below.

From Newton's Nook Designs: 

Kitten Beach Stamp Set | Kitten Beach Die Set | Land Borders Die Set

From Therm O Web: 
Deco Foil Transfer Sheets - Lapis Watercolor | Laura Kelly Toner Sheets - Sprinkled Stripes

For her second project Tina created this beautiful birthday card! The sweet sentiment, oval die cut and mouse are from Newton's Nook Designs. She layered them over a gorgeous inked and foiled background using toner sheets and foils from Therm O Web! Full product details below.

From Newton's Nook Designs: 

Garden Mice Stamp Set | Best Mom Oval (sentiment) | Oval Frames Die Set

From Therm O Web: 
Deco Foil A2 Toner Card Fronts - Spring Fling | Deco Foil Transfer Sheets - Summer Rainbow | Deco Foil Transfer Sheets - Gold

Tina created on more lovely project today! This elegant card features orchid images and die cuts from Newton's Nook Designs. She paired these lovely images with a fun foiled background created using toner sheets and foil from Therm O Web! Full product details below.

From Newton's Nook Designs: 

Orchids Stamp Set | Orchids Die Set | Frames & Flags Die Set |  Oval Frames Die Set

From Therm O Web: 
Laura Kelly Toner Sheets - Baby Swiss Dots | Deco Foil Transfer Sheets - Gold

Visit Tina's blog: The Scrappin' Rabbit to see more of her lovely projects!

Make sure to come back tomorrow for more fun with Newton's Nook Designs + Therm O Web!

For a chance to win, enter using the link at the end of this blog post today!

There are also more amazing projects over on the Therm O Web blog so pop over there for more inspiration! Don't forget to enter to win a prize from either Therm O Web or Newton's Nook Designs below! 

Just a Little Note... Card by Tina Herbeck

A Little Note...

Today Tina has created created a simple yet stunning card that is sure to make the recipient smile! 

She started out by stamping and coloring the adorable image of the mouse holding a daisy from our Garden Mice Stamp Set. She used soft neutral colors with pops of green and gold on the flower. she cut the image out using the coordinating Garden Mice Die Set to add it to her card. 

For her card base, she kept it clean and simple, using several distress ink colors blended together for a soft background palette. She added a few water splatters to add a little fun detail. Then she stamped the sentiment "Just a little note..." from the Garden Mice Stamp Set in the upper corner.

This beautiful card would be so simple to recreate. Try creating a whole set of cards like this, just change out the image or sentiment for different occasions! 

To see more beautiful cards by Tina, you can visit her blog, The Scrappin Rabbit!

Enjoy the Little Moments Card by Tina Herbeck

Garden of Mice!

Today Tina has created created a whole garden of adorable mice and mixed in some gorgeous flowers too! 

She started out by stamping and coloring three of the adorable images from our Garden Mice Stamp Set. She colored the images of the mice with the flowers and butterflies in fun spring colors and cut them out using the coordinating Garden Mice Die Set. Then, she also stamped and colored more flowers using our Bleeding Heart Stamp Set and Daffodils Stamp Set. She also colored these blooms and cut them out using their coordinating  Bleeding Heart Die Set and Daffodils Die Set. 

For her card base, she chose to use the larger 5x7 card size, perfect for showcasing all these images together. She cut the big background panel with the scalloped edge using our A7 Frames & Banners Die Set. Then she ink blended to create a scene using gorgeous purples for the sky and greens for the grass. So lovely! She added all those fun floral blooms and mice to the scene and accented them with little gemstones. The sentiment "Enjoy the little moments in life" from the Garden Mice Stamp Set fits perfectly in the sky. What an amazing card!

To see more beautiful cards by Tina, you can visit her blog, The Scrappin Rabbit!

Little Mouse Hello Card by Maria Russell

Note: This is our second post today. To see the winners from our 8 year birthday celebration scroll down or click here. 

A Sweet Mouse Hello

This sweet card by Maria today is perfect for sending a sweet and cheerful hello to a friend! For this adorable creation, she started with the cut mouse holding a flower over his head from our Garden Mice Stamp Set. She colored the image with alcohol marks, adding cut little stippling details and cut the image out using the coordinating Garden Mice Die Set to add it to her card. 

To create that gorgeous card background she used our Floral Lace Stencil with a rainbow of ink colors. Then she added a wavy stitched border of white on the top and bottom, die cutting the edges with our Sea Borders Die Set. Then she used our Essential Alphabet Die Set to cut out letters that spell out "Hello". 

We hope you have enjoyed this simple, yet stunning card! 

 To see more beautiful projects by Maria you can visit her over at her blog, Maria Russell Designs.

Enjoy the Little Moments in Life Card by May Guest Designer Adam Karle

I want to tell you all how much I have enjoyed and appreciated this wonderful opportunity to share my work with you this month as a guest designer. The Newton’s Nook company has been great and their products are the best. I have several friends and family enjoying the fruits of my labor creating with their products.

My final card for the month as a guest designer is from the Garden Mice Stamp Set. This has to be one of my favorites because my mom loves all things mice. So this card will be for her.

The focal image from the set I chose is this cute mouse holding a huge mushroom.  I colored it using Copic Markers.

I decided to make the background in a rustic fashion.  I used wood grain card stock for the card base and the frame. The frame can be die cut using the Newton’s Nook Framework Die Set. I used a tree die cut that I had on hand but the trees could also be die cut using the Forest Scene Builder Die Set from Newton’s Nook.

Once I started the assembly I realized the wood grain paper was too dark so I cut and used a piece of craft paper to put behind the trees to lighten the scene. The white layer seemed to bright to me so I used some watered down acrylic black paint to splatter onto the layer. Then I attached the mouse and some bits of grass and sequins to finish the scene. The frame was attached using foam tape to give depth to the card.  My final step was to white emboss the sentiment onto a piece of dark red card stock. 

I hope you enjoyed following me this month and be sure and follow me at www.instagram.com/ark513 for more inspiration and ideas. 

-Adam

Enjoy the Little Moments in Life Card by March Guest Designer Jane Trivedi

Hi crafty friends!  Jane here today sharing another card using these adorable mice from the Garden Mice Stamp Set by Newton’s Nook Designs. To create this card, I used a variety of art mediums on Bristol smooth cardstock. 

To start, I stamped the image of the mouse under the mushroom using Versafine clair ink in the color acorn. Then, I stamped the image on masking paper and cut it out using scissors. I stamped and masked all the images in a similar manner. Next, I used distress oxide inks in picked raspberry, spun sugar, milled lavender and broken china to blend the background. The background was then splattered with water using a thin paint brush. 

After dabbing off the excess water using a dry paper towel, I removed the masks.  The images were then colored using zig clean color brush pens and accented using Inktense pencils and a white gel pen.  The background grass was filled in by using flicks of my zig pens, Inktense pencils and a white gel pen.  Distress oxide ink in twisted citron was also used to fill in the white space at the bottom of the card, but I did leave a small area of white space for the sentiment.

The sentiment was stamped using the Garden Mice Sstamp Set in versamark black ink.  After the panel was dry, I cut the card down to 3.75 inches by 5 inches and mounted it on a white A2 card base.  And that completes the card!

I hope this card inspires you to pull out different art mediums from your stash and mix them together for a unique and fun look to your projects! 

Thanks so much for stopping by today! 

-Jane

Enjoy the Little Moments Card by Samantha Mann

Enjoy the Little Moments!

We hope you are having a wonderful week and taking time to enjoy the little moments in life! Today we are sharing a beautiful card by Samantha that does just that! She features the sweet image of the mouse chasing a butterfly from our Garden Mice Stamp Set. She colored the image using distress inks and cut it out with the coordinating Garden Mice Die Set to add to her card. For the card she created a beautiful purple gradient background by using distress inks over a textured woodgrain paper. She added in clouds using our Newton Scoots By Stamp Set and the coordinating Newton Scoots By Die Set. She added just a hint of gray to the inside of the clouds to help them pop! The finishing touch is the sentiment "Enjoy the little moments in life" from our Garden Mice Stamp Set, embossed in white onto a piece of vellum. That sentiment goes perfectly with the little mouse! So sweet and pretty! 

We hope that you have enjoyed this beautiful card by Samantha today! To say hello to her and see more of her amazing creations you can visit Sam over on her blog, Sam's Scrap Candy!

Pumpkin Kisses & Autumn Wishes Card by September Guest Designer Stephanie Davis

This is our second post today, to see the reveal of the winner of our Newton's Nook Designs and WOW! inspiration week, scroll down or click here! 

Hello everyone! Today I’m sharing my last guest design project with Newton's Nook. I've had so much fun, thank you so much for having me!!

 

To create my card, first I cut out a the card panel frame using the Frames & Flags Die Set. Next I cut some Bristol Smooth Cardstock to fit inside the frame. I blended a sunset background and splattered it with black and gold gouache. Next I die cut some grass and layered it on the card panel. I stamped images from Autumn Mice, and Garden Mice stamp sets using Antique Linen Distress Ink. I used hot pressed watercolor paper. I wanted a soft look so I chose to color the images using the no line coloring technique. I colored them with Caran D'ache Supracolor Watercolor Pencils. I fussy cut the images out and began building my scene.

I wanted two of the mice to appear to be kissing each other in the sunset. Then I stamped the sentiment from the Fall Fringe Stamp Set with black ink. I adhered the card panel to the card base using foam squares to complete the card. I had so much fun coloring all of these adorable images!

If you've enjoyed my work this month you can continue to find me over on my blog, The Gypsy Chic or on Instagram!
- Stephanie

I Love Fall Most of All Card by September Guest Designer Stephanie Davis

Hello everyone! I'm so happy to be back guesting again with Newton's Nook!! Today I'm sharing a fall card inspired by the adorable Autumn Mice stamp set. My favorite way to make cards is to combine old and new stamp sets, it's so fun and I often can't help myself!

When I began creating this card, I found so many sets that went perfectly to build a wreath of fall mice. First, I cut out my card panel out of kraft cardstock using the Framed Square Die. Then I stamped multiple images from Autumn Mice, Garden Mice, Pumpkin Latte, and Harvest Tails onto masking paper and cut them out. Then began building my wreath and attached all of the masks with washi tape to a circle stencil. This made it simple to place each stamp before stamping with my MISTI. I stamped each image with a no line coloring ink pad. Then colored all of the images with Copic Markers, using the no line coloring technique. I after coloring with Copic markers, I love to add even more shadows and detail with colored pencils.



Then I stamped the sentiment from Fall Fringe with black ink in the center of the wreath. Lastly, I blended some Distress Ink in Aged Mahogany using the Falling Leaves Stencil. I thought the blended leaves looked so beautiful peeking behind the card panel. I adhered the card panel to the card base using foam squares to complete the card. I had so much fun coloring all of these adorable images, it truly was a labor of love!

I have a tutorial of this card on my YouTube channel, if you would like to see my process.

- Stephanie (The Gypsy Chic)

Just a Little Note Card by Andrea Shell

Just a Little Note!

Today Andrea created an adorable card that's perfect for sending a note to a friend who likes dogs! She created this card combining elements from several different stamp sets. She started with the corgi from our Corgi Beach Stamp Set and combined him with the typewriter from our My Type Stamp Set. She colored both images and cut them out using the coordinating Corgi Beach Die Set and My Type Die Set. She added the "Just a little note" sentiment from the Garden Mice Stamp Set, which ties the images together perfectly. For the striped background she used our Serene Stripes Stencil.

The fun layers were created using our two favorite shape sets! The postage edge frame is from the Framework Die Set.  The rounded rectangle and flag are from the Frames & Flags Die Set and the stitched circle is from the Frames Squared Die Set. These three die sets are essential for layering and work great together!

Thank you, Andrea, for the cute inspiration today! To see more fun creations by Andrea, you can visit her over at her blog, Blissfully Scrappy too!

Thinking of You Card by July Guest Designer Ildi Imrefalvi

Note: This is our second post today. To view our 6 year anniversary blog hop winners, scroll down or click here. 

Thinking of You

I really love stamp sets that remind me of my childhood storybooks and Garden Mice is definitely that type. It combines the cutest critters with floral elements which makes it a perfect scene building set.   

To start my card I Copic colored a bunch of images from this hilarious set and added elements from other two: Peony Blooms and Little Lilies. I usually colour and fussy cut more than I need, I found this very helpful while assembling the cards. 

For the background I trimmed a piece of watercolor paper to approx 5x5 inch and sprayed it with Oxide sprays. Watercolor cardstock has an uneven surface and special texture which I thought to be fun for my garden scene.

After white heat embossing the sentiment onto the middle of the background I started to build and arch shaped scene from the colored elements. I used foam dots of various thickness to make the dimensions more interesting. 

I planned to have splatter of white acrylic paint on all over the background, but I totally forgot about it, so I decided to put small dots with my gel pen here and there as a finishing touch.

Thank you for stopping by

Hugs,

Ildi 

NND products used: 

Garden Mice Stamp Set

Garden Mice Die Set

Peony Blooms Stamp Set

Peony Blooms Die Set

Little Lilies Stamp Set

Little Lilies Die Set