Vibrant Winter Scenes by Ellen Haxelmans

Vibrant Winter Scenes!

Today Ellen has created a duo of vibrant winter themed cards using sets from our Retirement Sale Category! There are several holiday and winter designs in our retiring sale that are only available while supplies last so it's a great time to get a jump start on your holiday cards for next year and receive a discount on the products!

Her first card features the snowboarding moose from our retiring Moose Mountain Stamp Set:

This card features a gorgeous orange and yellow background that was stenciled using inks with our Snowfall Stencil. She also used our Land Borders Die Set and Sea Borders Die Sets to cut white snow.  and added black tree silhouettes using our Forest Scene Builder Die Set. The whole scene was cut out with our Frames & Flags Die Set to give it a scalloped edge. 

Her second card features the sweet llama with gifts on his back from our retiring Llama Delivery Stamp Set:

For this card she created a square layout using our Frames Squared Die Set to create the layers. She added stars to the sky using our Cascading Stars Stencil. Stars and a cloud were die cut using our Sky Scene Builder Die Set. She also added snowy hills using our Land Borders Die Set and Sea Borders Die Sets.

Here are instructions from Ellen for creating these cards:

• (Left photo above): I stamped the images using Llama Delivery Stamp Set and the Moose Mountain Stamp Set and colored them with copic markers. Colors listed below:
  
  LLAMA:
  Red: R27, R24, R22
  Green: YG05, YG03, YG01
  Teal: BG13, BG11, BG10
  Blue: B00, B02
  White: E43, E41, E40
  Grey: C9, C7, C5
  
  MOOSE:
  Blue: Bg09, BG07, BG05 + BG13, BG11, BG10
  Yellow: Y14, Y12, YR02
  Orange: YR09, YR07, YR20
  Red: R39, R29, R27, R24
  Grey: W4, W3, W1
  Black: 100, C9, C7
  Brown: E29, E27, E25, E23
  
  
• (Center photo above): I colored the backgrounds with ink and went over them with a stencil and the same ink. This creates a pretty tone on tone background.
  
  
• (Right photo above): At the last step I die cut some trees and clouds form the Sky scene builder and Forest scene builder die set.
  

To see more creations by Ellen, you can visit her over at her blog Crafty Ellen

Note: Llama Delivery Stamp Set and the Moose Mountain Stamp Set are part of our retiring sale and will only be available while supplies last so if you like these products, make sure you get it while you can and don't forget to see what else is retiring in our retiring sale category! 

Fa-La-La-La Llama Card by Amanda Wilcox

Holiday Llama Card

This holiday card by Amanda will get you in the mood to sing Christmas tunes! 

To create this adorable card she features the image of the holiday llama from our Llama Delivery Stamp Set. She colored the llama in soft holiday colors and added fun accents using a white gel pen. The image was cut out using the coordinating Llama Delivery Die Set. 

Next, she created a fun wreath to surround the llama. For the wreath base she cut out a circle using our Circle Frames Die Set from kraft colored paper. She added music notes to the circle using our Music Stencil. Then she cut out lots of branches in using two shades of green paper with our Pines & Holly Die Set and adhered them all around the edge of the circle to create a wreath shape. She also cut out the bow and pinecones using the same Pines & Holly Die Set and placed them onto the wreath as well. 

She tucked that cute llama into the wreath and added the "Fa-la-la-la-llama" words stamped onto a speech bubble above his head. The speech bubble was cut out using our Speech Bubbles Die Set. So cute! 

This whole wreath was then layered over a teal and blue inked card base. Some paint splatters add a fun and creative detail to the background too!  

We hope you have enjoyed this festive card by Amanda today! To say hello to Amanda and see more of her awesome creations you can visit her over on her blog, Twiddler's Nook! 

Fa-La-La-La Lllama Card by Amanda Wilcox

Special Holiday Delivery

Today Amanda has created a whimsical holiday card that will make you sing along! 

This adorable card features that lovely llama from our Llama Delivery Stamp Set. This guy is so cute with the load of gifts on his back! She colored the image in fun bright holiday colors and added some fun glossy details. She also colored three extra gifts and colored them to match. All the images were then cut out using the coordinating Llama Delivery Die Set. She also stamped the sentiment "Special Delivery" and cut it into small strips. She then placed everything onto a circle that was cut out using our Circle Frames Die Set. So cute!

For her card base, she used the fun plaid patterned paper from our new Meowy Christmas Paper Pad. cutting it to the cover the whole card front. Then she added a banner to hold the sentiment on the top using our Frames & Flags Die Set. She added some red twine and some cute little music notes, also from the  Llama Delivery Stamp Set.

Are you singing along yet? This card is sure to send holiday smile and maybe even make the recipient hum along! 

To say hello to her and see more of her awesome creations you can visit Amanda over on her blog, Twiddler's Nook!

A Llama Birthday Fun Card by Zsofia Molnar

A Llama Birthday Fun!

Today we are having a llama fun with this card by Zsofia! She created this adorable card by re-purposing the holiday llama from our Llama Delivery Stamp Set to create a birthday card! She colored the image using a gorgeous mint green and blue color palette and cut it out using the coordinating Llama Delivery Die Set. She layered the image onto a kraft colored tag that was cut out using our Fancy Edges Tag Die Set. For the background she created a gorgeous blue to mint colored ombré background with distress inks and layered confetti over it using our Confetti Stencil. The background was also cut out using our Frames & Flags Die Set to give it a scalloped edge. For the birthday sentiment, she used our Lovable Llama Stamp Set and stamped it onto a circle cut out using our Frames Squared Die Set.

We hope this gives you some ideas to look at your stamps in new ways. With just a little creative thinking many of your holiday stamps can be used all year long!

Here is a close up photo so you can see the gorgeous sparkle:

Thank you, Zsofia, inspiring us to stretch our holiday stamps today ! You can find more of Zsofia's lovely creations and say hello to her over at her blog, Safsafdesign.

Newton's Nook Designs & Wow Embossing Powder Inspiration Week - Day 2 with Zsofia & Holly

Newton's Nook Designs and WOW! embossing powders are collaborating all week long to offer you inspiration using their products together! Both design teams will be sharing fun ways to use embossing powders on your projects using WOW! embossing powders paired with Newton's Nook Designs stamps! 

Today we are featuring projects by Zsofia and Holly! 

First up we are sharing a duo of fall themed card by Zsofia: 

On her first card Zsofia features the adorable fox hugging a pumpkin from our Harvest Tails Stamp Set. She cut the fox out using the coordinating Harvest Tails Die Set. Then she layered him over some gold grass cut out using our Land Borders Die Set on a decorative square cut out using our Frames Squared Die Set. She added some leaves along the edge that were cut out using our Autumn Leaves Die Set. She embossed the leaves to look like metal embellishments by coating them with embossing ink and using embossing powder in Metallic Platinum, Caramel Macchiato Pearlscent and Metallic Gold Sparkle from WOW! embossing powders! She also used the Metallic Platinum embossing powder from WOW! for the sentiment. The stitched rectangle shape was cut out using our Frames & Flags Die Set.

For her second card,  Zsofia created another Fall themed card. Again, she die cut the leaves using our Autumn Leaves Die Set. She covered the leaves with Versamark Ink and then embossed them using the "Sara Naumann" Trio of embossing powders from WOW! Embossing Powder. Next, she added the sentiment from our Thankful Thoughts Stamp Set using the Metallic Platinum embossing powder from WOW!. She mounted the trio of leaves above the sentiment for a simple yet stunning Fall card!

Visit Zsofia's blog: Safsaf Designs to see to see more and leave her a comment for another chance to win!

 Next, we have beautiful summer-themed card by Holly:

For her card Holly created a sparkly sea using our Waves Stencil. She inked over the stencil using an embossing ink pad and then added the Mermaid Tails embossing glitter powder from WOW! Embossing Powder to create the sparkly sea! She added on the mermaid and narwhal from our Narly Mermaids Stamp Set. She colored the images, giving them great textures and cut them out using the coordinating Narly Mermaids Die Set. What a fabulous sparkly sea scene! 

Holly also created a fabulous sparkly Christmas card using our Llama Delivery Stamp Set.She colored the llama in fun bright colors and cut the image out using the coordinating Llama Delivery Die Set. For the background she used our Snowfall Stencil with a sponge dauber, adding the embossing ink to just a few of the snowflakes. Then she added the sparkle to them using White Puff Twinkle embossing powder from WOW! Embossing Powder. 

Visit Holly's blog: Hollybeary Creations to see more to see more and leave her a comment for another chance to win!

There are more amazing projects today over on the WOW! blog so pop over there for more inspiration!

Would you like to win a $25 store credit Newton’s Nook Designs?

Here's how to win: Leave comments on the NND & Design Team blog posts using WOW! products all week (September 23-27) to enter. One winner will be randomly chosen from blog posts throughout the week so the more posts you leave comments on the better your chances are of winning! You have until Friday September 27th at midnight CST to comment. The winner will be announced on the NND blog post on Monday, September 30th.

Want another chance to win? WOW! is also giving away a prize pack! Visit the WOW! blog each day this week for more inspiration and details on how to win their prize! 

A Fond Farewell to Juliana Michaels!

Saying Thank you & Farewell to Juliana!

Today we are sharing a collection of favorites created by Juliana. We are sad to say this will be our last post featuring Juliana as a member of our Design Team at Newton's Nook Designs! We are so grateful to have had Juliana on our team two amazing years! We've truly loved all her beautiful cards! She has such an eye for color and has inspired us each month with so many creative ways to use our products! Her creations always bring a smile to our faces! Plus, she is such a sweetheart and we've enjoyed getting to know her too. Juliana has been such an awesome member of our NND family! We are so sad to see her go but we feel lucky to have had her on our team for so long! Who knows -  you might see her back now and then for a blog hop or special feature! We wish her the very best as she continues to do fun things in the craft world and will definitely be checking out her blog - 17 Turtles in the future to say hello!

I thought it would be fun to re-share a few favorite cards by Juliana so I asked her to choose her favorite cards from her time on the NND Design Team! She has created so many awesome projects it was hard for her to choose but here are her picks below!

I'm a huge Halloween fan and the adorable Newton's Costume Party is one of my favorites! I just loved dressing up each cat with a different costume. I created the background using the Sky Borders Die Set too!

The mice from Naughty or Mice quickly became one of my favorite Christmas stamp sets from last year!

Being a big lover of all things Christmas, I just adore the cute llama in the Llama Delivery set. Here I combined it with the Snowfall Stencil to create a festive holiday scene. I also tucked in some holly with the Pines & Holly Die Set and used the Frames & Flags Die Set too.

 I love combining multiple images onto one card and the Sending Hugs Stamp Set is perfect for that!
 

Along with their adorable stamp sets, NND also creates some fun stencils and dies like this Tree Rings Stencil and Autumn Leaves Die Set. I also added in a sentiment from the Thankful Thoughts Stamp Set.

Last but not least...the final card I created for NND combined some of my favorite characters all on one card! I'm especially smitten with those cute pups from Happy Howl-i-days! This card includes images from Happy Howl-idays, Llama Delivery, Santa Paws Newton, Naughty or Mice, and Slothy Christmas along with the Framework Die Set. 

Thank you so much, Juliana, for the awesome inspiration! We'll miss you! If you would like to continue to follow Juliana and see her creations you can continue to find her at her blog, 17 Turtles!

Fa-La-La-La Llama Delivery Card by Amanda Bodine

Fa-la-la-la-llama! 

This llama card by Amanda is so fun and festive! She created this adorable holiday scene featuring the llama from our Llama Delivery Stamp Set. She colored the llama and the gifts in vibrant colors using copic markers. Then she cut out the llama, gifts and music notes using the coordinating Llama Delivery Die Set. To create a scene for her card she used a lovely starry sky background and added in trees and a cardinal using our Forest Scene Builder Die Set. A snowy hill cut our using our Land Border Die Set in the front completes the scene! We hope this llama is bringing some good gifts our way!

Note: Our Forest Scene Builder Die Set, it is temporarily out of stock but we will be receiving more soon. You can enter your email on the product page for the Forest Scene Builder Die Set here and you will be notified by email when we add more inventory of this design into our shop for purchase. 

Thanks for the beautiful inspiration today, Amanda! To see more of her beautiful coloring and projects, visit Amanda over at her blog,  RutabagaPie Designs!

Special Delivery Card by November Guest Designer Kelli Cool

This is our second post today! To see our 25 Days of Christmas Tags Post, scroll down or click here!

Today we have our first post from our November Guest Designer, Kelli from Cools Cards! We love her fun card making style using bright colors and adorable scenes and we can't wait to share what she creates this month as our guest! Keep reading to find out more about her today and to check out her first project below!

 

Hey! My name is Kelli and I am from Texas! I work as a Civil Engineer and am married to Michael, a pilot. We have two dogs, Izzy and Molly, and we love to travel! You can find my creations on my blog and instagram too!!

Hey everyone!
Kelli, here, posting a cute card using the Newton’s Nook Llama Delivery Stamp Set.

For this card, I colored the images using BG13, BG11, BG10, Y19, Y13, Y11, RV09, RV06, RV05, and RV 00. 

To blend the background, I used Distress Oxides in Peacock Feathers and Distress Inks in Faded Blue Jeans. I also used the Newton’s Nook Snowfall Stencil to add a little extra to the background. 

Leave me a comment below to let me know what you think! I’ll be guest designing all November so be sure to pop back in!

 - Kelli

Fa-la-la-la-llama Card by Juliana Michaels

Fa-la-la-la la and a Llama! 

Today we are sharing an adorable Holiday card by Juliana! She used several of our newest Holiday products to create this fun card. She started out by coloring that cute Llama from our new Llama Delivery Stamp Set in a festive holiday color combo of red, green and teal! She trimmed out the llama using the coordinating Llama Delivery Die Set to add it to her card. Behind the llama is a bunch of cute holly leaves and berries that were cut out using our Pines & Holly Die Set. This is all layered over a panel of kraft paper covered in white snowflakes using our Snowfall Stencil. She cut out that fun teal panel with the scalloped edge and the snowflake panel with the curved dotted edge using the Frames & Flags Die Set. Then she finished off the card with all those "Fa-la-las"  from the Sentiments of the Season Stamp Set white over the bright red banner!

Thanks, Juliana, for the fun Holiday inspiration today! To see more creations by Juliana, visit her over to her blog, 17 Turtles!