Happy Holidays by Tatiana Trafimovich

Happy Holidays!

Tatiana created this card today, using colorful die cuts for the holidays!

To create this card she used die cuts almost exclusively. She started with our Pines & Holly Die Set and cut out all the amazing holiday foliage shapes from white bristol paper. She then used watercolor markers to add color to all the pieces for that amazing watercolor look. She arranged all the little elements around the edge of a card front panel, trimming off the edges to match the card edges. She splattered the whole piece with white and black ink to add to the painterly feeling. 

For the sentiment in the card center, she die cut out the word "holidays" from our Holiday Greetings Die Set, using gold foiled paper. Then she added the little word "happy" above it, stamped and embossed using the word stamp from our Cycling Friends Stamp Set. 

What a gorgeous way to use die cut images! We hope you will try this technique! To see more of her amazing work, you can visit Tatiana at her blog, Tatiana Trafimovich!

Merry Christmas Card by Zsofia Molnar

Merry Christmas!

Today we are sharing a gorgeous Christmas card by Zsofia that is perfect for sending a snowy holiday wish!

She started out by using our Snowflake Oval Stamp Set to create the big oval filled with snowflakes. She embossed the big snowy image in white and then ink blended over the top with shades of blue distress ink. She cut the image out using the Oval Frames Die Set to give it that scalloped edge. She also cut out a larger stitched oval from white paper to layer behind it. 

Next, she stamped and colored the image of the holiday house from our Holiday Home Stamp Set. She colored the house in holiday colors with a bright red roof and cut it out using the coordinating Holiday Home Die Set. She added this image to her card, centering it onto a white strip of paper that she layered over the center of the oval. 

Here is a close up so you can see the coloring on the house. She also added sparkle and glitter!

On the white paper strip she also added the sentiment "Merry Christmas" which she created by stamping the word "merry" from the Holiday Heights Stamp Set and die cutting the word "Christmas" from the Holiday Greetings Die Set. What a great way to create a customized sentiment! 

What a unique way to combine the images! We hope you are inspired to find ways to combine your Christmas themed stamps to create a unique creation of your own! You can find more of Zsofia's creations and say hello to her over at her blog, Safsafdesign.

 

Christmas Ornament Shaker Card by Ellen Haxelmans

Christmas Ornament Card

Today Ellen created a wonderful Christmas Ornament card that features a combination of cutting dies and papers from Newton's Nook Designs! 

For the main image Ellen created an ornament using our Ornament Shaker Die Set. She cut the shaker frame from black cardstock and the top from glittery silver cardstock. Then she cut the background using the pretty print of a holiday street from our Christmas Time Paper Pad! She filled the shaker window with shimmery sequins to add a fun holiday sparkle! A bit of blue ribbon from through the top of the ornament ties in perfectly with the blue sky on the paper!

For her card base she chose a light blue, matching the ribbon and sky. Then she added a panel of argyle printed paper from our Canine Christmas Paper Pad. She framed it with a die cut scalloped frame, cut out using our Frames & Flags Die Set and black cardstock. 

The finishing touch is the word "Christmas" across the bottom. This was die cut from sparkly silver paper using our Holiday Greetings Die Set. 

Isn't it wonderful how everything coordinates perfectly together!? We love the festive feeling the sparkle adds to this card! To see more creations by Ellen, you can visit her over at her blog Crafty Ellen!

Happy Birthday on the Farm Card by Ellen Haxelmans

Happy Birthday on the Farm!

Today Ellen has created an amazing Happy Birthday card with a farm scene that uses several NND stamp sets together! 

She started by creating a slimline card base using our Slimline Frames & Portholes Die Set to create a long card with a scalloped edge. This long format is perfect for creating scenes! Next, she stamped and colored farm themed images to add to her scene. She used the cow and barn from our Moo Stamp Set, coloring them in shades of brown and cutting them out with the coordinating Moo Die Set. The cute goat is from our Bleat Stamp Set and was colored so beautifully with extra dot details! She cut the goad out using the coordinating Bleat Die Set. For the Horse, she used the image of the horse looking over his shoulder from our Neigh Stamp Set. Again, she colored the image beautifully and cut it out with the coordinating Neigh Die Set. Last, she added in a couple of little chicks using the image from our Newton's Easter Basket Stamp Set.



To create the scene she used our Land Borders Die Set for the hill and the grassy edge, adding on distress inks and splatter for textures. The Happy Birthday sentiment was created by combining a die cut "Happy" using our Holiday Greetings Die Set with the word Birthday from the Bleat Stamp Set. So cute!

Isn't it fun how you can mix and match these farm sets together? You can find them all and a few more in our Farm Category here!

Tips on creating this card

Below we have some tips from Ellen on how this card was created:

How to create a longer die cut border:

You can make your border dies longer by matching the end with each other. Match the piece of paper that’s already cut with the beginning of the dies. Then you cut it again.


How to create a card base with a die cut shape:

1. (left photo) fold your cardstock in half using a bone folder.
2. (center photo) Cut out your panel with the same die you used for your card front. Pay attention you do not cut all the way up to your fold. This makes it possible to have a shaped card.
3. (right photo) Glue your card front on top of your card base. They match perfectly because you used the same die for it.
   
   
   

We hope you enjoyed this fun card today and tips from Ellen! To see more unique creations by Ellen, you can visit her over at her blog Crafty Ellen!

Eat, Sleep and Be Merry Card by Samantha Mann

Eat, Sleep and be Merry!

The holidays can be so busy and stressful I'm sure we could all use a nap like the sloth on this adorable card by Samantha. She features the sleepy sloth from our Slothy Christmas Stamp Set and colors him with watercolor markers. The image is cut out using the coordinating Slothy Christmas Die Set and then added over layers of snowy hills that were created using our Land Borders Die Set. the sentiment is also from the Slothy Christmas Stamp Set but she masked off the word merry and added it below in a red die cut using our Holiday Greetings Die Set. This gives the card such a fun pop of red and coordinates with the Santa hat perfectly! She also used our Snowfall Stencil
with white texture paste over blue distress inks to create the lovely snowy background!

We hope this project by Sam made you smile today! To  say hello to her and see more of her awesome creations you can visit Sam over on her blog, Sam's Scrap Candy!

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

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 Holly! 

First, we have several fun projects created by Zsofia: 

On her frist card Zsofia features that cute kitty peeking out of the pumpkin from our Newton's Boo-tiful Night Stamp Set. She colored the kitty and pumpkins in traditional Halloween colors and cut the image out using the coordinating Newton's Boo-tiful Night Die Set. For the background she created a flocked texture using our Tree Rings Stencil. She used the stencil with Deco Foil Transfer Gel from Them O Web. Once the gel was dry, she added the flock using Deco Foil Flock Transfer Sheets in White Latte from Therm O Web with a laminator. The sentiment on the banner was stamped from our Newton's Pumpkin Patch Stamp Set.

On her second card, Zsofia used the Newton's Boo-tiful Stamp Set again, this time choosing the image of the kitty on the broom. She colored the kitty image and fussy cut it out to add to her card.  For the sky, she used our Flying Bats Stencil, again with the Deco Foil Transfer Gel from Therm O Web This time she used the Deco Foil Flock Transfer Sheets in Black Velvet.  She used blue and purple distress ink to created the background sky. She also used our Frameworks Die Set for the postage edge frame and our Frames & Flags Die Set for the banner that holds the sentiment. Such a fun Halloween sky! 

 For this card, Zsofia switched to the Christmas theme and she featured the sloth from our Slothy Christmas Stamp Set. She used the coordinating Slothy Christmas Die Set to cut the image out. She paired this cute image with some sparkle using Therm O Web products. She used the  Gina K. Designs Fancy Foils 6x8 in Passionate Pink  along with the Gina K. Designs Foil-Mates Backgrounds - Stars & Stripes to create that lovely striped background. She also used our Frames & Flags Die Set for the scalloped die cut edge and the rounded rectangle cut from vellum. She finished it off with some pine boughs using our Pines & Holly Die Set and a glitter sentiment, die cut using our Holiday Greetings Die Set.

 Zsofia was having so much fun creating, she decided to create a winter card too! This lovely card features the cute fox friends from our Fox Hollow Stamp Set.  She colored the foxes and several trees using soft wintery colors and cut them out using the coordinating Fox Hollow Die Set. To create a scene for them she used our Land Borders Die Set along with the Deco Foil Flock Transfer Sheets - White Latte from Therm O Web to create a fuzzy white hill. For the snowy background she paired our Petite Snow Stencil with the Gina K. Designs Glitz Glitter Gel  in White  from Therm O Web. So pretty! She also used our Frames & Flags Die Set for the scalloped edge on the frame.

Visit Zsofia's blog to see more details!

 Next, we have a Halloween card by Holly:

To create this adorable Hallowee scene, Holly used those cute kitties playing in the pumpkin patch from our Newton's Boo-tiful Night Stamp Set. She colored them so they all matched with similar brown and orange markings. For her card she fussy cut them out by hand but you could also use the coordinating Newton's Boo-tiful Night Die Set. To create her scene she used our Clouds Stencil to create layers of purple clouds in the background. Then she added stars over the top using Gina K. Designs Glitz Glitter Gel in White from Therm O Web along with our Cascading Stars Stencil. Along the bottom of the card she created a fun textured ground using Deco Foil Metallix Gel in Black Ice from Therm O Web. She finished her card out with the sentiments from the Newton's Boo-tiful Night Stamp Set over the top. She also used the Memory Tape Runner XL from Therm O Web to adhere it all together.

Visit Holly's blog: Hollybeary Creations to see more today!

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Happy Birthday Floral Card by Ellen Haxelmans

Happy Birthday Flowers! 

Today we are sharing a gorgeous floral Birthday Card by Ellen! She cut out the fun layered flowers using  Flower Trio Die Set. She cut the flowers out in shades of pink, layering them together and adding a sequins in the centers for sparkle. For the leaves she cut them from cardstock and then added color to the die cut shapes.

Here's a tip from her on how they were colored:
"I used my Copic Markers: for the brown I followed the curves with the markers E34 and E31. For the leaves I followed the grooves that the dies make when you cut them. I colored over these grooves with green YG05 and YG01."

She layered the flowers onto a panel of brown cardstock that was cut out using our Framework Die Set to give it a fun scalloped edge. She also added a fun woodgrain pattern to this panel using our Hardwood Stencil. She created a custom sentiment by cutting the word "happy" out using our Holiday Greetings Die Set and combining it with the word "birthday" stamped from our Newton Celebrates Stamp Set.

What a gorgeous combination of die cut images for a special Birthday creation!

If you love this project by Ellen you can visit her over at her blog Crafty Ellen to see more of her beautiful creations!

Deck the Halls with Inky Paws Week - Day 3 - Katie Gehring

Welcome to day three of our Deck the Halls with Inky Paws week! 

Each day this week we will have a new awesome featured guest and then a BIG blog hop on Friday, December 7th (with some give-aways, of course!) So make sure you come back and visit us every day!

Today's Featured guest is
Katie Gehring

My name is Katie and I live in Northeast Ohio with my husband, our two lively, creative daughters, one dog, four cats and countless antique automobiles. By day, I work in the HR department of a large regional bank, and by night, I am a paper engineer, DIY enthusiast and all around crafty gal. I started scrapbooking in 2001 and decided to try my hand at stamping a few years later. Little did I know that stamping would take my crafty passion, enthusiasm, and stash of supplies to a whole new level! I love to try new things and try to do something creative every day

Here's what Katie created!

Katie created this fun Christmas mouse card with the nutcracker theme! She used those adorable mice from our Nutcracker Squeak Stamp Set, dressed as characters from the Nutcracker! The color palette she used is so gorgeous with red, navy and a pop of yellow! She added the mice onto her card along the bottom half and added the "Merry Christmas" sentiment along the top, die cut out using our Holiday Greetings Die Set. Such a fun and festive card!

Make sure you head over to Stamping Lightly to get all the details!  

Thanks so much, Katie for being our guest today! She will be back for our Deck the Halls with Inky Paws blog hop on Friday, December 7th. Until then, you can visit her at her blog, Stamping Lightly to read more about her adorable projects and say hello!

Tomorrow we will have special Guest Caly Person from Caly Person | Create & Inspire

so make sure you take some time to come back and visit us again! 

Be Merry Slothy Christmas Card by Guest Designer Kelli Cool

Hey everyone! Today is my last Guest Blog post for Newton's Nook and I've had such a good time! Today I used the Slothy Christmas Stamp Set and die set.

I colored him using Copics and added some glitter to his hat along the brim and the poof on the end! I covered the glitter with Glossy Accents to seal it in so it wouldn't get everywhere.

Then, I die cut BE and MERRY from the Holiday Greetings Die Set. I love this die set because you can use it in so many different ways!

Well, I've had fun this month! Hope to see you soon! Leave me a comment below and let me know what you liked about my card!

 - Kelli

Cups of Cheer Card by November Guest Designer Kelli Cool

Hey y'all! It's Kelli here again sharing this card I made for today's blog post!

For this card I used the Newton's Nook Cups of Cocoa stamp set along with the Holiday Greetings Die Set.

I added Glossy Accents and glitter to add some extra dimension to the card!

Leave me a comment below and let me know what you think!

- Kelli

Holiday Tags by Holly Endress

Deck out your gifts with Holiday Tags!  

Do you want to dress up your gifts this season? Today we are sharing two adorable gift tags by Holly. For the tag on the left, Holly used our Ornament Shaker Tag Die Set to cut out an ornament shape and added the "deck the halls" sentiment inside the ornament using our Ornamental Wishes Stamp Set. Then she added a cute little stocking using our Holiday Stockings Stamp Set. She colored the stocking and cut it out using the coordinating Stylish Stockings Die Set and added it to the ornament! So cute!



For the second tag she cut out a tag using foiled and glitter papers with our Fancy Edges Tag Die Set. Then she added those fun critters from ourAll Aboard for Christmas Stamp Set along the bottom of the tag. She colored them with copics and cut them out using our coordinating All Aboard for Christmas Die Set and then fussy cut the bottom edge to eliminate the white border. For the sentiment she used the "merry" die cut from our Holiday Greetings Die Set and combined it with the word "christmas" from our Nutcracker Squeak Stamp Set. What a fun way to mix and match products to create custom sentiments!

Thank you, Holly, for the beautiful inspiration today! You can find more of Holly's creations and say hello to her over at her blog, Hollybeary Creations!