Today we are thrilled to introduce our August Guest Designer, Angie Cimbalo! You are going to love Angies beautiful cards this month. We fell in love with her fun and creative layouts and beautiful color combos over on instagram and can't wait to share what she creates using our products this month! Keep reading to find out more about her today and to check out her first project below. Then, check back each Monday to see her projects!
Hello everyone, I am so thrilled and honored to be guest designing in August for Newton’s Nook!
My name is Angie Cimbalo and I’m a semi-retired music teacher living in Texas. I live with my sweet hubby Phil, and Zoe, my adorable Goldendoodle “that didn’t doodle!” She was the runt of her litter and now, at 2 1/2 years old, still looks like a mini Golden Retriever puppy. Zoe is my full-time crafty buddy! When I’m not crafting, I’m having tons of fun helping music students and their directors in schools in the area. My husband and I have 4 adult children, 5 grandchildren with 1 more on the way.
I’ve always enjoyed crafting but a few years ago, I discovered paper crafting and card making, and was immediately hooked. I often create clean and simple designs but I also love trying new techniques and learning from the many talented and kind artists in the paper crafting world. Please visit me on Instagram (
@macimbalo), my blog
Cimbacreativefun, and my new
YouTube channel where I have just started making videos.
Many thanks to Samantha and Jennifer for inviting me to guest design this month with Newton’s Nook! I look forward to sharing my projects with you!
I am so excited to be here guest designing and showcasing Newton's Nook Designs for the month of August, thanks so much to Jennifer and Samantha for inviting me. When I first started card making a few years ago, Newton's Nook Designs were some of the very first stamps I ever purchased!
For my first post of the month, I have some cards for you today with ideas on how to stretch your stamps and dies to use them in creating the all popular slimline card design. Slimlines are all the rage right now and it's fun to discover how to use stamps in new ways to fill up all that extra space you have with the longer card design. I also made envelopes to match for these slimline cards. Here's a closer look of my first card with the matching envelope.
Both card bases are a 8 5/8" by 7 1/4" cut piece of card stock, scored at 3 5/8", and folded in half.
For my first card I decided I wanted a lot of birthday celebrating cats to put across the length of the slimline card. The three cats in the center and the sentiment are from the
Newtons' Birthday Trio Stamp Set. The cat and duck on the left along with the bird and frog on the right are from
Newton's Birthday Flutter Stamp Set, and the cat on the farthest right is from
Newton Dreams of Italy Stamp Set. All were stamped in Versafine Clair Nocturne ink and heat embossed in clear embossing powder.
After stamping the images, I colored them with a mixture of Spectrum Noir, Copic, and Altenew alcohol markers along with Prismacolor Pencils. Next I cut them out, and played with them until I found a layout I liked. I like the images against the white background for a clean and simple look, but decided to make an ink blended background instead.
For my background I used 7 Distress Oxide Inks blended with blender brushes: "Squeezed Lemonade", "Mustard Seed", "Cracked Pistachio", "Tumbled Glass", "Broken China", "Pine Needles" and "Mermaid Lagoon". I added some water splatters because I love how these inks react with water. Once the background dried, I adhered all my fun sweet kitties and critters to the card, and then attached the background panel to my slimline card base.
And there you have it, a big birthday bash on a slimline card!
I have dimensions for making a slimline envelope from one piece of 8.5 X 11" paper or card stock on my instagram page
HERE. The envelope for my first card was ink blended with the same colors as the card background.
Here's my second card along with the matching envelope I made stenciled with Newton's Nook
Gingham Stencil using "Chipped Sapphire" Distress Oxide ink.
I wanted to use the large snowman stamp from the
Frozen Fellowship Stamp Set and spread them out horizontally on my slimline card. So I stamped it two times on white card stock and cut out long sections of it from left to right to use in my layout. I colored the snowmen with the same alcohol markers and colored pencils as my first card and played around with the layout until I was happy with it. Before adhering them to my night sky panel, I colored the edges of each cut out with a black marker.
The night sky background panel was made with Distress Oxide inks, direct to paper. I used "Wilted Violet" and "Chipped Sapphire", and dried it with my heat tool in between each layer of ink. The sentiment is from
Happy Little Thoughts and is stamped with Versafine Clair Nocturne ink and heat embossed with clear embossing powder and then cut with circle die.
The tree die cuts are from the
Forest Scene Builder Die Set and I cut them a little shorter to tuck them behind the snowmen arrangement.
I added some fun accents with a white gel pen on some scarfs, hats and vests, and added some snowflake sequins, and lots of tiny Nuvo Silver Moon Dust drops in the snowflake centers and around the night sky. Here's one last look at my card:
I hope you enjoyed my slimline cards and will experiment with your stamps and dies to create longer card designs. It's a lot of fun to play with layouts in this way. I'll be back next Monday with more creations and again I'd like to thank Jennifer and Samantha for allowing me to guest design with Newton's Nook this month!
