Herd It's Your Birthday Card by Zsofia Molnar

Birthday Moos!

Today we are sharing a fun farm themed birthday card by Zsofia! 

This adorable card features the cute cow from our Moo Stamp Set. Zsofia stamped the cow and hay bale from the Moo Stamp Set. She also stamped the bundle of balloons that are placed in the tail of the cow using and image from our Cycling Friends Stamp Set. She colored all the images, using pretty shades of yellow and blue on the balloons. The images were then cut out using the coordinating Moo Die Set and Cycling Friends Die Set. Next she cut out a black banner using our new Basic Frames Die Set and layered the images on top. So cute! She also added the sentiment "Herd it's your birthday!" from the Moo Stamp Set, stamped onto a bubble that was cut out with our Speech Bubbles Die Set. She added a bit of white ink to the edges of the banner along with some white twine across the top and a few clear embellishment dots to finish out the banner. 

For her card, she used a white card base and then layered a fun gingham patterned paper from our Pastel Basics Paper Pad, cut into a zig zag edged frame using our Frames & Tags Die Set! This perfectly frames the banner and adds to the farm theme! The last step was the the big "celebrate" across the bottom, stamped in black using our Birthday Essentials Stamp Set.

This fun farm themed birthday card would be perfect for a friend or family member of any age!

We hope you enjoyed this fun card by Zsofia today! You can find more of Zsofia's creations and say hello to her over at her blog, Safsafdesign.

Herd It's Your Birhday Card by October Guest Designer Allison Arbour

 

Hello Newton’s Nook fans! 

I’ve had so much fun and am so excited to have had the opportunity to guest design this month with all these insanely talented artists. For my last card guesting I used the beyond adorable Moo Stamp Set. My plan was to use one of the cows for this card but couldn’t decide which one was cuter so in the end 3 of them made there way on to it and I’m so glad they did. I love how this card turned out. 

Here’s how I created this card:

Start with a white slimline card base.

On top layer a white scallop slimline die cut slightly smaller.

Next make a slightly smaller slimline frame and ink up with oxide ink in the colour tattered rose.

Ink up a piece of white card stock with a cobblestone stencil using oxide inks in the colours antique linen, gathered twigs and brushed corduroy. Die cut a cloud border die strip (enough to cover the bottom of your slimline) and some additional clouds from your inked panel. You could use the Sky Borders Die Set from Newton's Nook Designs for this. 

Position and glue the cows heads from the Moo Stamp Set, clouds and larger cloud to the back of the frame. Glue some grass strips behind the bottom of the large cloud at bottom. You could use the Land Borders Die Set from Newton's Nook Designs for this. 

Add foam tape to the frame and attach to top of card.

Add a cow from the Moo Stamp Set to the bottom and a sentiment stamped on a white cloud with dimensional tape. You could use the Sky Scene Builder Die Set from Newton's Nook Designs for the cloud. 

Finish the card with a few nuvo drops.

Crafty Hugs,
Allie

Farm Animals with Glitter Cards by August Guest Designer Meghan Kennihan

Today we are introducing our Guest Designer for July, Meghan Kennihan! We have been enjoying seeing her cute cards using our stamps as entries to our inky paws challenge and are excited to see what she creates for us this month! Meghan will be back each Monday for the month of August with a new projects! Keep reading to find out more about her today and to check out her first project below.

Meet Meghan, 

A Personal Trainer and Run Coach who has a nasty craft habit on her “rest” day and loves all things crafty – especially card making and scrapbooking.
Her style is BRIGHT colors, pattern papers, CUTE, and whimsical creations. She loves her Copic markers, using Distress inks, die cuts, and stencils.
As you can tell from her profile picture, she is  a dog mom to Maddie, the love of her life. 

Please visit her blog and check out her “Make Crafty Friends Q & A” on all the posts to get to know her better!

Blog: MadeByMeghanK  • Instagram: MadeByMeghanK  • Twitter: MadeMeghan

Hi Crafty Friends,
I am SO EXCITED to be a Guest Designer for Newton's Nook Designs this month! I adore Newton's Nook's stamps, stencils, and dies; so I am soooooo HAPPY to be sharing my favorites with you all month long! For my first post, I created two farm themed cards using the Moo and Cluck Stamp Sets. I decided all farms could use a little glam so I created glitter paste stenciled backgrounds.

Make Crafty Friends Q & A:

 

Q: What is your favorite farm animal?

A: Me? I love horses

Card #1: Birthdays Can Be Fowl

This card uses the following products: 

Cluck Stamp Set

Argyle Stencil Set

Slimline Frames & Portholes Die Set

Slimline Frames & Windows Die Set

Card #2: Cow Are You?

This card uses the following products: 

Moo Stamp Set

Land Borders Die Set

Banner Trio Die Set

You can find more inspiration on my blog and follow me on Instagram @MadeByMeghanK

Galloping By Card by Amanda Wilcox

Galloping By...

Today we are galloping by with a happy hello on this card by Amanda! This fun card features the image of a horse from our Neigh Stamp Set, galloping along over some fun colorful stripes! Amanda colored the image of the horse and cut it out using the coordinating Neigh Die Set to add him to her card. She also added a couple of hay bales using an image from our Moo Stamp Set, cut out with the coordinating Moo Die Set. 

The background was created by stenciling stripes using our Serene Stripes Stencil over a  postage edged panel that was cut out using our Framework Die Set. She finishes off this fun layout by adding the sentiment, also from the Neigh Stamp Set along the bottom edge. 

Amanda also added a fun message on the card inside. She finishes off the "Galloping by" sentiment from the front with the "to say howdy" sentiment on the inside! Another horse finishes off the fun! Both images are also from the Neigh Stamp Set. 

Do you decorate the inside of your cards? With two part sentiments, this is a fun way to add a special touch! We hope you have been inspired to try this on cards you create!

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

Herd it's your Baa-thday Card by Zsofia Molnar

Farm Animals Birthday Card!

Today we are sharing an adorable birthday card by Zsofia that features cute animals from several of our farm themed products! She used the cow from our Moo Stamp Set, the pig from our Oink Stamp Set, the horse from our Neigh Stamp Set and the sheep from our Baa Stamp Set. She colored all these adorable farm friends and cut them out using the coordinating Moo Die Set, Oink Die Set, Neigh Die Set, and Baa Die Set. 

Then she created a fun square card for these cuties using the stitched scalloped square and the rounded square dies from our Frames Squared Die Set to make a window frame. She layered the frame over some checkered paper and then tucked an animal into each corner. In the center she used added a decorative die cut shape in light blue and a circle in black, also from our Frames Squared Die Set. The sentiment is from Baa Stamp Set and was embossed in white on the black circle. It's so fun how all these critters surround the sentiment! 

This fun birthday card would be perfect for a young girl or boy  - or for anyone who likes funny puns!

We hope that you enjoyed this fun card by Zsofia! You can find more of Zsofia's creations and say hello to her over at her blog, Safsafdesign.

Farm Themed Baby Card by Ellen Haxelmans

Welcome Little Boy!

Today Ellen has created a wonderful farm themed card to welcome a baby boy! For this card she features several of our farm themed sets together to create an adorable scene! For the farm friends she uses the pig from our Oink Stamp Set, the lamb from our Baa Stamp Set and the chick from our Cluck Stamp Set. She also uses the hay bale and barn from our Moo Stamp Set to set the scene. All the images were cut out with their coordinating die sets (find them all in our farm category). 

She used our Circle Frames Die Set to create the circle and scalloped circle that frames the scene. She also used our Cloudy Sky Stencil and Land Borders Die Set to complete the scene. 

To make this into a baby card she adds the sentiment "welcome little boy" by combining words from our Loveable Laundry Stamp Set. The word "welcome" was added to a banner that was cut out using our Banner Trio Die Set. Our Gingham Stencil on the background with yellow ink really adds to the sweet baby theme!

How to create this card:

Below we have some instructions from Ellen on how to create this card.

1. (left photo) Using Distress Ink and the Gingham Stencil I made the base of the card..
   
   
2. (center photo) I created a scene in the biggest frame from Circle Frames Die Set. I started with the grass and the hill. This was created with the Land Borders Die Set. I colored these borders with Distress Ink. For the sandy hill I also sprinkled brown, white and water splatters on top. The clouds were created with the Cloudy Sky Stencil and white glitter gel from Therm O Web.
   
   
3. (right photo) The last step was to color the images with Copic Markers and then assemble it all together.

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

Herd It's Your Birthday Card by Amanda Wilcox

A Herd of Birthday Wishes!

Today Amanda has combined all the fun farm animals in our farm category to create a fun slimline farm themed birthday card! 

To create her herd of animals she combined the horse from our Neigh Stamp Set, the chickens from our Cluck Stamp Set, the goat from our Bleat Stamp Set, the sheep from our Baa Stamp Set, the piggy from our Oink Stamp Set and the cow and barn from our Moo Stamp Set! How fun! She colored all the fun friends and cut them out using their coordinating die sets (find them all in the farm category). 

To set the scene, she cut a big long scalloped panel using our Slimline Frames & Portholes Die Set . Then she added grass with our Hills & Grass Stencil and a hill with our Land Borders Die Set.  The sentiment "herd it's your birthday" is from the Moo Stamp Set. 

Here are a couple of close ups so you can see all the amazing coloring details:

We hope this card inspires you to use some of our fun farm friends together on your next card!  

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

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!

Hay There! Farm Scene Card by Andrea Shell

Hay There! 

Hay There! Did you know we have a whole series of fun farm themed products? Today Andrea uses several of them together on a fun slimline card! She features the horse from our Neigh Stamp Set, the cow from our Moo Stamp Set, two goats from our Bleat Stamp Set, and the cute little piggy from our Oink Stamp Set. These animals are all sized to work together and each set includes images of animals facing front and one facing back so you have a variety of options to create scenes with! They also have coordinating die sets that work perfectly for cutting the images out (used here are the Neigh Die Set, Moo Die Set, Bleat Die Set, and Oink Die Set).

After coloring all these cute farm friends with copic markers, Andrea added them to a fun slimline card! The scalloped panel for the scene was created using our Slimline Frames & Portholes Die Set. Inside the frame she created layers of hills created with our Hills & Grass Stencil with distress inks. She also added some mountains along the top using our Mountains Stencil.

For a finishing touch she added the "hay there!" sentiment from the Moo Stamp Set!

She also added in the hay bale from the Moo Stamp Set, perfect for the goat to stand on!

This long format slimline card is perfect for showcasing all these critters together. You could also try creating more farm scenes using the chickens from our Cluck Stamp Set or tractors from our Farming Fun Stamp Set. You can find all the farm themed sets on our website here.

Thank you, Andrea, for sharing this fun way to combine the farm animals together!

To see more beautiful creations by Andrea, you can visit her over at her blog, Blissfully Scrappy too!