Love is in the Air Card by Diane Morales

For the Love of Coffee!

Today we have a sweet little card by Diane that is perfect for any coffee lover! This card features our adorable Love Café Stamp Set. 

Diane colored the duo of coffee mugs from the Love Café Stamp Set in using alcohol markers. She also stamped the little trios of coffee beans with brown ink. Then she cut the images out using the coordinating Love Café Die Set. 

For the background she used a light colored gray ink to cover the white panel with coffee mug images. Then she stamped the big sentiment on the top, embossing it in black.  She added some black paint splatters and then she cut the panel out using the scalloped rectangle from our Frames & Flags Die Set. She added the die cut mugs and coffee beans over the top to finish the card front. 

This sweet little card would be a great Valentine to send to a coffee lover! Or, with the colors she used, you could use it any time of year just to send a happy hello! 

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

Love & Coffee! Valentine Card by Donna Idlet

Love & Coffee!

Love is in the air today on this coffee themed card by Donna!

This card features our Love Café Stamp Set along with our Fractured Card Layout Die and our Love & Meows and Lovely Hearts paper packs.

Donna stamped the image of two mugs from the Love Café Stamp Set and colored it with alcohol markers. She also stamped the steam with the heart on top and the coffee beans from the same set. She cut everything out using the coordinating Love Café Die Set.

To create her card she used our Fractured Card Layout Die along with papers from our Love & Meows and Lovely Hearts paper packs to create the background with all the pretty heart patterns.

Last, she added the fun coffee themed sentiment from the Love Café Stamp Set. She embossed the sentiment onto a black postage edged banner that was cut out using our Framework Die Set.

With Valentine's Day right around the corner this would be a great way to send love to a coffee lover! 

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

Espresso Your Love Card by Farhana Sarker

Espresso your Love!

Today Farhana is sharing a way to create a valentine greeting for a coffee lover by combining our Love Café Stamp Set and our Charming Hearts Frame Die Set.

The cute little duo of mugs from the Love Café Stamp Set is colored in shades of teal and blue and die cut using the coordinating Lové Cafe Die Set. 

Here are the copic colors she used:

For her card base, she used the word love from the Charming Hearts Frame Die Set, cutting it directly out of the white card front. Then she layered some red paper behind it to make it pop. Above the die cut word she stamped the words "espresso your" from the Love Café Stamp Set. 

This clean and simple design is perfect for creating a quick valentine card! 

To see more of Farhana's creations you can visit blog, Everyday Engineered. 

Love is in the Air Card by Zsofia Molnar

Love is in the Air!

Today Zsofia has created a a gorgeous card that celebrates love AND coffee! Perfect for the coffee lovers in your life!

She started out by stamping the cute duo of coffee mugs from our Love Cafe Stamp Set. She colored them in vibrant shades of red and yellow. She also stamped the coffee beans and wisp of steam and cut everything out using the coordinating Love Cafe Die Set.  She added  bits of gloss to the images too for an extra special touch.

She then layered the images over a decorative vellum square that was cut out using the shape from our Frames Squared Die Set. 

For her card base she hot foiled a stripe of coffee beans using our Coffee Beans Hot Foil Plate down the center of her card panel. Then she ink blended red and yellow inks over the top of the beans and cut the panel out using our Framework Die Set to give it that fun postage edge. She also embossed the sentiment onto the smaller postage edged rectangle from the Framework Die Set and layered that above the coffee mugs.  

Those vibrant colors are perfect for sending a warm glow to a coffee lover! We hope you enjoyed this beautiful card by Zsofia today! You can find more of Zsofia's creations and say hello to her over at her blog, Safsafdesign.

Brew-tiful Shaker Card by Ellen Haxelmans

Brew-tiful Shaker Card!

Today Ellen has created a beautiful shaker card that is perfect for sending to a coffee lover! 

The fun shaker frame was cut out using our A7 Frames & Banner Die Set and the background is filled with a coffee bean patterned paper from our Coffee House Stories Paper Pad. She embellishes the shaker with coffee themed images from our Love Café Stamp Set, Newton's Mug Stamp Set and Time for Coffee Stamp Set. 

Here are a couple close-up photos of the card:

Are you enjoying this brew-tiful project? Read on to get tips from Ellen on how she created it!

Here are some tips from Ellen on how to create this Shaker Card:

• (Left photo above): First, die cut 3 times the second largest frame from the A7 Frames & Banner Die Set (out of pattern paper, white paper and foam adhesive). Stick the foam adhesive frame on top of a card base and place the pattern paper in the open spaces
  
  
• (Right photo above): Next you add the shaker material. You cut a transparency as large as the ourside of the full sized frame.  Stick the transparency on top of the foam adhesive frame. As last step you adhere the white frame on top of the clear acetate.
  
  

Copic Colored colored images:

Here are the copic colors Ellen used to color the above images:

• Dark Brown: E79, E47, E74
• Brown: E18, E17, E15, E13
• Beige: E53, E51, E50
• Teal: BG34, BG32, BG11
• Dark Teal: BG29, BG09, BG49, BG15
• Pink: RV25, RV14, RV13
• Green: G99, YG63, YG17, YG25, YG03

We hope you enjoyed this shaker card by Ellen today and are inspired to create one of your own!  

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

Espresso Your Love Card by Farhana Sarker

Note: This is our second post today. If you are looking for the Sweet Treats Blog Hop Winners, scroll down or click here: Sweet Treats Blog Hop Winners

Espresso Your Love! 

Valentine's Day will be here soon and it's the perfect time to espresso your love!  Farhana created a card that does just that for todays feature!

She started out this fun coffee themed card by using the duo of mugs from our Love Café Stamp Set. She colored them in sweet pastels and cut them out using the coordinating Love Café Die Set. Behind the mugs she features the fun big heart image from our Heartfelt Love Stamp Set, embossed in white onto vellum and cut out using our Heart Frames Die Set. 

She uses the Heart Frames Die Set again, this time cutting out a fun teal patterned paper heart using a page from our Love & Chocolate Paper Pad. 

She creates a card base from white cardstock and adds more hearts, this time using our Petite Hearts Stencil with some pretty pink ink. The finishing touch is a duo of banners cut out with our Banner Trio Die Set. One banner is cut from pink paper and includes the sentiment from our Love Café Stamp Set. The second banner is cut using another pretty patten from our Love & Chocolate Paper Pad.

This beautiful card would be perfect for sending a Valentine card to a coffee lover!

We hope you enjoyed this sweet card today! You can find more of Farhana's creations and say hello to her over at her blog, Everyday Engineered. 

2022 Fall/Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop

Today we are playing along with the Fall/Winter Coffee Lovers Blog hop!

There are going to be TONS of fun prizes too - 

including a $25 store credit from us at Newton's Nook Designs! 

You can head over to the Coffee Lovers Blog for more details on how to play along!

PLUS - we're having a SALE this weekend too so grab your coffee and read all the way to the end of this post for sale details!

Here's what I created:

To start out, I chose a few printed papers from our Coffee House Stories Paper Pad that features cat and coffee themes (two of our favorites). I cut out a postage edged panel using our Framework Die Set from dark brown cardstock and then added the three strips of the patterned paper inside the frame. 

Next, I stamped the image of the big mug with the kitty peeking out of it from our Newton's Mug Stamp Set. This set has a bunch of different phrases that will fit on the coffee mug front but this time I left the front blank and colored it watercolored the mug purple and the kitty a brownish gray. I stamped the duo of heart mugs from our Love Café Stamp Set and colored them in coordinating colors. When coloring the images I tried to match the colors to the papers I had chosen! Then I cut out the images using the coordinating Newton's Mug Die Set and Love Café Die Set. 

I arranged the mugs over my pattern filled card base, then decided I needed a circle of vellum to help soften the busy prints so I layered a circle cut out using our Circle Frames Die Set between the printed papers and the stamped images. The finishing touch is the sentiment from the Love Café Stamp Set. I stamped the sentiment onto kraft colored paper and then cut it out into a banner using the banner from the Bookmark Die Set. 

I just love how this all came together! It was so much fun to mix and match our coffee themed designs together! 

Below is a recap of what I used on this project:

Stamps:

Pictured below left: Newton's Mug Stamp Set and coordinating Die Set 

Pictured below right: Love Café Stamp Set and coordinating Die Set

Dies: 

Framework Die Set, Circle Frames Die Set and Bookmark Die Set (I used the banner). 

Paper: 

Coffee House Stories Paper Pad

We also have a BUNCH of designs that have coffee or tea in them. 

You can find them all here: Coffee Sets

Coffee Hop SALE!

Grab your cup of coffee and go shopping this weekend with our SALE! 

Use code COFFEELOVE to receive 15% off your order, now through Sunday, November 13th at www.newtonsnookdesigns.com

Don't forget to visit the Coffee Lovers Blog to find out how you can link up your card to play along -- There are a TON of prizes, including one from us at Newton's Nook Designs.     

A Big Cup of Thanks by Amanda Wilcox

A Big Cup of Thanks!

Today we have an adorable thank you card by Amanda that features two of our favorite things: Kitties and Coffee!

For this sweet thank you she featured the kitty in the mug from our Newton's Mug Stamp Set. This set has several fun sentiments that will fit on the front of the mug and on hers she used "A big cup of thanks", embossed in white. She colored the mug a fun rustic orange color and added fun grey spots to her white kitty! So adorable! She cut the image out using the coordinating Newton's Mug Die Set. She also colored the smaller duo of mugs with hearts on them from our Love Café Stamp Set, coloring them in soft blues, greens and yellows. What a fabulous color combo! The smaller mugs were cut out with the coordinating Love Café Die Set. 

For the card base she cut a panel of textured neutral colored cardstock using our Framework Die Set to give it a postage stamp edge. Then she stenciled mugs onto the panel in a light gray using our Mugs Stencil. Over this panel she layered a rectangle of vellum that was cut out using the stitched rectangle from our Frames & Flags Die Set. Then the mugs were layered over the top. I love how the vellum softens the background pattern. A Little bit of twine finishes off the card. Doesn't this card have such a lovely coffee shop feel!?

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

Note: make sure to check out the Spring/Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop this week for more coffee theme inspiration and a chance at prizes too, including one from us at Newton's Nook Designs! 

Coffee-Themed Card Set by Tina Herbeck

Coffee Card Trio!

Today we are sharing a fun trio of coffee themed cards by Tina! This fun set of cards shows how you can use the same design to create a fun set of cards simply by changing the images!

She started out by choosing three fun coffee themed stamp sets. She used the kitty in the big mug from our Newton's Mug Stamp Set, the kitty hugging a travel mug from our Newton Loves Coffee Stamp Set and the duo of heart mugs from our Love Café Stamp Set. She embossed these images and sentiments from the sets onto watercolor panels with white embossing powder and then used distress inks to paint colors over the top. She chose yummy shades of pink and brown that go perfectly with the coffee theme. Each panel was also die cut with our Framework Die Set to give it a fun decorative postage edge. She also finished them off by adding iridescent sequins for a bit of sparkle. 

Here are some close-ups so you can see the amazing details. 

Card one: image from Newton's Mug Stamp Set, sentiment from Newton Loves Coffee Stamp Set

Card two: image and sentiment from the Love Café Stamp Set.

Card three: image and sentiment from the Newton Loves Coffee Stamp Set.

Aren't these amazing? This set of cards would be a great gift for a coffee lover too! 

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

Thanks a Latte Card by February Guest Designer Caitlin Anthony

Hi everyone! For my third project this month, I really wanted to change things up and do a slim line card. I should probably start off by telling you that as a human being, my body is probably made up of about 64% coffee on any given day. So, when I saw the super sweet new Love Café Stamp Set from the Valentine’s release, I knew I needed it immediately and I thought I would use it to inspire my slim line card.

I started out by cutting down some plain white 80 lb cardstock to 3 x 8 inches and taping it to the back of the circle stencil from the Slimline Masking Circles & Squares Stencil Set. I used a blending sponge and two colors of distress ink to create an ombré effect for each circle, with the darker color (Walnut Stain) on the outside and the lighter color (Gathered Twigs) in the middle. I also made up a water mixture with each color and added splatters to each circle. I really wanted to give it the feel that lots and lots of coffee had dripped and spilled there over time (but really, who would dare to waste coffee like that…). The last  addition to the circles was the little coffee beans from the Love Café Stamp Set, which I stamped with the Walnut Stain distress ink since I wanted a more rustic, splotchy feel.

I stamped the lady from the Pumpkin Latte stamp set and the coffee mugs from the Love Café Stamp Set in alcohol friendly ink and stamped a sentiment from the Pumpkin Latte Stamp Set in the middle circle in the same black ink. I picked out a cool black and beige pattern paper for the main card panel and used coordinating copics to color in the images, adding in a hot pink combo for a fun pop. I used the coordinating die sets to cut out the images then removed the circle panel from the stencil and added some Antique Linen and Gathered Twigs to the outer edges of the rectangle.

This card came together so quickly at the end. I glued the circle panel to the pattern paper and added my images to their circles. I decided to put the cups at the bottom because they had a heavier feel vs the latte lady. I glued the whole piece down to a card base measuring 3.5 x 8.5 inches and paired it with a kraft brown slimline envelope. This was a really fun card to make and I can’t wait to play with these slim line stencils some more.

As a bonus, I was begged into sharing one last picture with you this week. My 6 years old daughter came to inspect my work and fell in love with the Woodland Spring Stamp Set that I used in my first card. She made her own card with those stamps, completely on her own start to finish and asked if I could share it with you all- we hope it makes you smile!

- Caitlin