Happy Summer-ween Card by Amanda Wilcox

A Perfect Summer-ween Card

Hi friends! This is Amanda from Twiddler's Nook. I've got a fun summerween card to share with all of you spooky lovers out there! Any excuse to pull out my Halloween goodies is a good day and now that we're past 4th of July, it's all fair game for me.

This card features:
Jack-O'-Lantern Stencil Set
Newton's Boo-tiful Night Stamp Set
Newton's Boo-tiful Night Die Set
A7 Frames & Banners Die Set
Newton's Happy Meowr Stamp Set
Oval Frames Die Set

Today I started by creating my stenciled background. I inked up pink and orange pumpkins using the Jack-o'-lantern stencil set on peach cardstock. After stenciling, I splattered the panel with pearl watercolor for some texture and sparkles.

 

Next, I stamped and colored my image from Newton's Boo-tiful Night with copic markers. I used the coordinating die to cut it out. Then stamped and heat embossed a sentiment from the same stamp set on a banner from the A7 Frames & Banners die set. To alter the sentiment I stamped "summer" from Newton's Happy Meowr in orange ink and trimmed it out with scissors, gluing the two together.

Then, I die cut the smallest scalloped oval in the Oval Frames die set from vellum cardstock and started assembling everything together. I glued the stenciled panel to a card base, then popped the Newton image and sentiment strip up on the vellum oval with foam squares. Finally, I hid another layer of foam squares on the back of the oval behind the image/sentiment banner and popped that up on the card front. 

For finishing touches, I added glossy accents to the jack-o-lantern faces, the crow beak and Newton's nose.

I hope you enjoyed today's summerween fun! I'd love to know if you celebrate at all. My daughter and I have at least one movie night during the summer watching our favorite Halloween movies with themed treats galore.

To see more cards by me you can visit me over on my blog, Twiddler's Nook or Instagram at @twiddlersnook

Halloween Inspiration Week - Day 4 - Donna & Ellen

This week Newton's Nook Designs is getting ready for Halloween with a fun Inspiration week! 

All week the NND Design Team has been  sharing inspiration using some of their favorite Halloween products to get you in the mood for tricks and treats! Today we are featuring cute and spooky projects by Donna Idlet & Ellen Haxelmans.

Donna created this card featuring an adorable duo of trick or treating kittens:

For this card she colored the two sweet kitties from our Trick or Treat Kittens Stamp Set, coloring them in fun bright colors. Isn't that blue treat bag adorable? She also added fun glittery accents to the coloring and cut the "trick or treat" sentiment from our Halloween Trio Die Set out of black glitter paper to match.

Here's a close-up so you can see all the amazing details:

The kittens and their candy were cut out with the coordinating Trick or Treat Kittens Die Set and layered onto an orange scalloped circle that was cut out using Circle Frames Die Set. 

For the card base she added candy corn patterned paper using our Halloween Meows Paper Pad. This pretty pattern works perfectly with the trick or treat theme! So adorable! 

Halloween products used: Trick or Treat Kittens Stamp Set, Trick or Treat Kittens Die Set, Halloween Meows Paper Pad, Halloween Trio Die Set

Additional Newton's Nook Designs products used: Circle Frames Die Set

Visit Donna's blog: Creative Lady to see more!

Ellen created a set of adorable treat boxes, perfect for holding halloween candy!

For the first treat box she cut out a spider print using our Halloween Meows Paper Pad to add to a little black paper treat box. She added a scalloped edge using our  Sky Borders Die Set and then embellished the box with bats and the cute little vampire from our Count Newton Stamp Set. 

The second box was decorated in the same way, using a ghostly pattern from our Halloween Woofs Paper Pad  with a cut scalloped edge using our Sky Borders Die Set. She added the bats again from our Count Newton Stamp Set and this time featured the kitty on the broom from our Newton's Boo-tiful Night Stamp Set,. The tag features a sentiment and spider from our Spiderweb Oval Stamp Set on a tag cut out using our Tags Times Two Die Set. 

For the third treat box she used a bat paper from our Halloween Woofs Paper Pad. Again she added a scalloped edge with our Sky Borders Die Set and more more bats from the Count Newton Stamp Set. This design features the Bride of Frankenstein from the Franken-Newton Stamp Set. 

What a fun way to us patterned paper and stamps to dress up some Halloween treats! 

Halloween products used: Count Newton Stamp Set, Count Newton Die Set, Newton's Boo-tiful Night Stamp Set, Newton's Boo-tiful Night Die Set, Franken-Newton Stamp Set, Franken-Newton Die Set,  Spiderweb Oval Stamp Set, Halloween Woofs Paper Pad 

Additional Newton's Nook Designs products used: Sky Borders Die Set, A7 Frames & Banners Die Set,  Tags Times Two Die Set

Visit Ellen's blog: Crafty Ellen to see more!

Check back tomorrow for more inspiration!

Don't forget to check out the Halloween Products Category and get your favorites for creating cute and spooky Halloween crafts!

Halloween Inspiration Week - Day 1 - Samantha & Maria

This week Newton's Nook Designs is getting ready for Halloween with a fun Inspiration week! 

All week the NND Design Team will be sharing inspiration using some of their favorite Halloween products to get you in the mood for tricks and treats! Today we are starting the week out with projects today by Samantha Mann and Maria Russell!

Samantha created a sweet Halloween card using pinks and oranges along with some of our favorite Halloween products!

For this adorable creation she paired the images of pets and pumpkins from our Newton's Boo-tiful Night Stamp Set and Pug-kin Stamp Sets. She colored both images using zig watercolor markers and colored some of the pumpkins a fun, unexpected, pink! She cut the images out using the coordinating Newton's Boo-tiful Night Die Set and Pug-kin Die Set.

For her card background she added more pinks to the sky using distress inks across the top of her card panel. Then she added pretty pumpkins using the pumpkin base and stem layers from our 3 piece Jack-o'-lantern Stencil Set. This stencil also includes jack-o-lantern faces but it's awesome how you can use it without the faces for a fun new look! The finishing touch on her card is the sentiment from the Newton's Boo-tiful Night Stamp Set, embossed in white on black cardstock and hand cut out to add onto the card. 

Halloween products used: Newton's Boo-tiful Night Stamp Set, Newton's Boo-tiful Night Die Set, Pug-kin Stamp Set, Pug-kin Die Set, Jack-o-lantern Stencil Set

Visit Samantha's blog: Sam's Scrap Candy to see more!

Maria created a treat tag that is perfect for dressing up a halloween candy box! 

For this fun tag, Maria started out by creating a tag using our Fancy Edges Tag Die Set. She cut the tag from white, orange and yellow cardstock. Then she cut the yellow and orange tag again using the fun zig zag border that is is included in this die set, layering the colors to look like candy corn! So cute!

Next, she stamped the adorable kitty in the boot from our Witchy Newton Stamp Set and colored it in fun bright Halloween colors. She colored the kitty a light gray and added speckles to the fur for a fun effect! The image was cut out using the coordinating Witchy Newton Die Set  and layered onto the 

For the sentiment she stamped "best witches" from the Witchy Newton Stamp Set. She also added the Trick or Treat Die cut from our  Halloween Trio Die Set. The finishing touch is some pretty ribbon and black and orange twine. What a fun way to dress up a Halloween treat!

Halloween products used: Witchy Newton Stamp Set, Witchy Newton Die Set, Halloween Trio Die Set

Additional Newton's Nook Designs products used: Fancy Edges Tag Die Set

Visit Maria's blog: Maria Russell Designs to see more!

Check back tomorrow for more Halloween inspiration!

Don't forget to check out the Halloween Products Category and get your favorites for creating cute and spooky Halloween crafts!

Halloween Inspiration Week - Day 1 - Sam & Maria

This week Newton's Nook Designs is getting ready for Halloween with a fun Inspiration week! 

All week the NND Design Team will be sharing inspiration using some of their favorite Halloween products to get you in the mood for tricks and treats! Today we are starting the week out with projects today by Samantha Mann and Maria Russell!

Samantha created a bewitching Halloween scene featuring our Newton's Boo-tiful Night Stamp Set.

She created a spectacular sky using our Clouds Stencil to create layers of clouds in shades of blue, green and yellow. She layered stars over the clouds using our Cascading Stars Stencil with white texture paste.  Then she added a moon to the sky along with the kitty flying on the broomstick from the Newton's Boo-tiful Night Stamp Set, giving the kitty a fun yellow glow from the moon on the left side! So cool! 

 

The finishing touch is the sentiment from our Brooms & Boos Stamp Set, stamped on a black banner, cut out using our Banner Trio Die Set. 

Halloween products used: Brooms & Boos Stamp Set, Newton's Boo-tiful Night Stamp Set, 

Additional Newton's Nook Designs products used: Banner Trio Die Set, Clouds Stencil, Cascading Stars Stencil

Visit Samantha's blog: Sam's Scrap Candy to see more!

Maria created an adorable tag to adorn a Halloween treat!

This adorable tag features the kitty reaching into a halloween treat bag from our Trick or Treat Kittens Stamp Set. She layered this cute kitty over a tag that was cut out using our Fancy Edges Tag Die Set. She used the same die set to add the fun yellow and orange zig zag borders along the bottom of the tag! What a fun way to dress up a fun treat!

Halloween products used: Trick or Treat Kittens Stamp Set, Trick or Treat Kittens Die Set

Additional Newton's Nook Designs products used: Fancy Edges Tag Die Set

Visit Maria's blog: Maria Russell Designs to see more!

Check back tomorrow for more inspiration!

Don't forget to check out the Halloween Products Category and get your favorites for creating cute and spooky Halloween crafts!

 

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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There are also more amazing projects over on the Therm O Web blog so pop over there for more inspiration! Don't forget to enter to win a prize from either Therm O Web or Newton's Nook below! 
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Halloween Pocket Letter by Ellen Haxelmans

 

Pocket Letter!

Today Ellen has created a fun Halloween themed pocket letter. She started with a page protector with built in pockets (the kind you find for trading cards or scrapbooking albums). Then she had the idea to fill the pockets with stamped items and treats for the recipient!

The top pocket has a fun Halloween scene featuring the kitty on the broom from our Newton’s Boo-tiful Night Stamp Set. She colored the image and cut the kitty out using the coordinating Newton's Boo-tiful Night Die Set. She layered the kitty over a starry sky that she had created using our Starfield Stencil with silver paste. the sky also includes clouds created with our Sky Borders Die Set. Last, she added in little bats from our Witchy Newton Stamp Set.

The center pocket contains a cute tag that folds closed to hold candy. She created this tag using our Fancy Edges Tag Die Set. Then she added a decorative square over the tag using our Frames Squared Die Set.  She added in candy corn from our Candy Corn Stamp Set and candy pieces from our Hoppy Halloween Stamp Set.  She also added in that cute little bird from our Newton’s Easter Basket stamp Set. She used the coordinating dies from these sets to cut out the images.  

Then, for the bottom panel she created a bag from a paper bag that had a spiderweb printed on it. Over this she layered the image of the kitty in the boot from our Witchy Newton Stamp Set. She used the coordinating Witchy Newton Die Set to cut out the image. She also added the sentiment, layered over two flags that were cut out using our Frames & Flags Die Set.

Tips on creating this card!

Below we have some tips from Ellen on how she created this unique project!

1. First I colored the illustrations. As you can see, I colored them in the same color scheme. This makes it easy to make them fit together.
2. For the pockets I decided to go with black, yellow and blue. The blue color was created by using distress inks. For the top card I also used the Starfield Stencil with Metallix Gel to make it looks like a night sky.
3. For one of the cards I used a spiderweb paper bag. This makes it possible to add goodies.

1. For the middle part I first created a shaker pocket. With the help of my fuse tool I sealed the pocket that holds sequins. The "Trick or Treat" word die from the Newton's Halloween Trio Die Set was perfect to fit in a circle. This made it possible to add it easily on the pocket.
2. The other side got a tag. To add candy on the tag I simply used a glue dot.

What a fun and unique way create a special treat for someone sweet!

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