Wish You Were Here Card by Samantha Mann

Wish you were here! 

Sometimes sweet and simple cards are the best! This simple card by Samantha features just one stamp set and some ink blending! 

For this beautiful summer card she features the image of the kitty at the beach from our Newton's Summer Vacation Stamp Set. She colored the kitties umbrella and beach towel in fun bright rainbow colors and added stripes to the kitty fur. So cute! The image was cut out by hand but you could also use the coordinating Newton's Summer Vacation Die Set if you don't like to hand cut. 

For her card base she created a simple blue inked background and then layered white panels over the top to create the fun layout. A little bit of black paint splattered on top adds a fun detail. She also used the "wish you were here" sentiment from the Newton's Summer Vacation Stamp Set, embossing it in white  onto black paper and hand cutting it out. 

Who's ready for a beach day now? We sure are! 

To say hello to Sam and see more of her beautiful creations you can visit her over on her blog, Sam's Scrap Candy!  

Wish You Were Here Card by Samantha Mann

Wish You Were Here!

Today we are wishing were were at the beach with this gorgeous card by Samantha! She created a stunning beach scene by creating layers of sand and waves using our Land Borders Die Set and Sea Borders Die Set. She added colors to the die cut layers using distress inks in vibrant colors! Then she added textures on them by adding water splatters and white and colored ink splatters! Love that look!

Once the scene was created she filled it with furry friends! On the shore she used the image of the dog wearing an inner tube and scuba gear from our Dog Days of Summer Stamp Set. In the waves she added the corgi from our Corgi Beach Stamp Set. Behind another wave she added the kitty in the back with the scuba mask from our Newton's Summer Vacation Stamp Set. The original image has him looking into a fish bowl but she cut it apart and tucked it behind a wave! So creative! She colored all the images using gorgeous bright colors and carefully fussy cut them out by hand! The wish you were here sentiment from the Newton's Summer Vacation Stamp Set is added on in the top corner.

This amazing scene would be perfect to send summer greetings to a friend that you miss! 

To say hello to Sam and see more of her amazing creations you can visit Sam over on her blog, Sam's Scrap Candy!

Wish You Were Here Card by Samantha Mann

Wish You Were Here!

Today we are sharing an adorable kitty card by Samantha! She created this fun card using the kitty watching the fish in the bowl from our Newton's Summer Vacation Stamp Set! Isn't this image so cute with the kitty wearing snorkeling goggles? She colored the image and fussy cut it out to add to her card. Behind the image she added some stenciled fish using our Tropical Fish Stencil with shades of green ink. The fish make the perfect backdrop for this fun image!

She added the "wish you were here" sentiment from the Newton's Summer Vacation Stamp Set onto a  vellum thought bubble that was cut out using our Speech Bubbles Die Set. Then she added some fun water droplets too!

If you loved this creative project by Sam today you can say hello to her and see more of her awesome creations over on her blog, Sam's Scrap Candy!

Summer Beach Cards by July Guest Designer Ildi Imrefalvi

Today we have our first post from our July Guest Designer, Ildi Imrefalvi. We fell in love with her beautiful cards on instagram and are excited to see what she creates this month using NND products! We hope you will enjoy her projects and she will inspire you each week! Keep reading to find out more about her today and to check out her first project below!

Hi everyone, my name is Ildi and I live in Budapest, Hungary with my wonderful and supportive husband. We share our home with three cats and three dogs.

My passion for cardmaking started many years ago and became an important part of my life. I love coloring, masking and scene building the most love and of course I love collecting the cutest stamp sets from all around the world.

When I’m not in my craft room I love clicker training my pets and hiking with my dogs.
My instagram is hellopilda and you can also find be on my blog, Hellopilda.

Newton and Friends on the Beach

Hello everyone, my name is Ildi and I’m super excited and feel honored to be guest designing for Newton’s Nook this month.

We’re having a really hot summer here in Europe, so I often find myself dreaming of a day off at the beach. It gave me the idea to create two similar cards which together make a larger beach scene where Newton and his friends are having fun.

For a start I took two pieces of cardstock and attached them together on the back with a piece of removable adhesive tape so that I could handle them as one while creating the background. I tore a larger piece of paper in half and placed it diagonally on the cardstock.

I applied different shades of yellow, orange and brown Distress Inks onto the bottom area to create sand then took the negative piece of my torn paper, covered the colored area to create sea with blue Oxide Inks. To add a little texture I used a white gel pen to draw sea foam here and there.

I colored and fussy cut a bunch of elements from my favorite summer themed Newton’s Nook stamp sets: Newton’s Summer Treats and Newton’s Summer Vacation.

I found some pretty seashells in the mini set Vitamin Sea, found them perfect to have interesting details.

I attached my colored elements with foam dots to add dimension to my cards.
Thank you for stopping by!
 - Ildi

Aloha Cards by Ellen Haxelmans

Aloha Kitty Cards

Today we have two amazing summer cards by Ellen using our Newton’s Summer Vacation Stamp Set and our Aloha Newton Stamp Set together! We JUST added die sets to coordinate with these two sets so Ellen wanted to share how fun these new die sets are to use!


For her first card Ellen used the kitty with the sandcastle and bucket of sand from our Newton’s Summer Vacation Stamp Set and the kitty in the hammock from our Aloha Newton Stamp Set together on the beach! She colored the images with copic markers and then she used the coordinating new Newton's Summer Vacation Die Set and Aloha Newton Die Set to die cut out all the images.

To create the sandy beach she used our Land Borders Die Set for the sand. She then assembled her scene and added in the die cut word "aloha" which is a bonus word die on the Aloha Newton Die Set and added the "enjoy your day" from the Newton’s Summer Vacation Stamp Set. The whole scene is mounted on a fun postage edged panel that was die cut out using the Framework Die Set. What a gorgeous beach scene! 

For her second card Ellen used the kitty under his beach umbrella from our Newton’s Summer Vacation Stamp Set and added in the tropical drink from the Aloha Newton Stamp Set! She colored the images with copic markers and then she again used the coordinating new Newton's Summer Vacation Die Set and Aloha Newton Die Set to die cut out all the images.

To create her scene she used our Land Borders Die Set to add in some grass and two layers of waves with our Sea Border Die Set. Again, she added the die cut Aloha and this time she paired it with the "your a cool cat" from the Newton’s Summer Vacation Stamp Set. The yellow postage edged panel was cut out using the Framework Die Set.

Aren't these fun beachy cards so awesome? If you already have these two fun summer sets you'll want to make sure to pick up the new coordinating die sets!

To see more of Ellen's beautiful creations, you can visit Ellen over at her blog Crafty Ellen!

Interactive Newton Card by June Guest Designer Megan Quinn

Hi everyone and happy Monday! I am back again this week guest designing for Newton’s Nook and I am so excited that you stopped in today to see what we have in store for you! Today, I am sharing a card that I created using Newton’s Summer Vacation Stamp Set and Newton Scoots By Stamp Set stamp sets.

I began by stamping the hilarious cat image with little Newton peering into the fish bowl. I thought that it would be fun to make this into an interactive card by putting Newton’s head onto a slider mechanism so that he could get a closer look into the fish bowl (and the fish inside). I stamped this image several times, colored them with Copic markers, and fussy cut the parts of Newton that I needed for each layer. I then used a craft knife to cut the inside of the fish bowl away and backed the rim of the bowl with acetate. I cut the pebbles and seaweed from the bottom of the aquarium and the fish image out next. To make these pieces stick to the inside of the fish bowl, I put the images into my sticker maker face down so that the adhesive would be on the front of the image. I put the fish, pebbles, and seaweed on the back of the acetate where they would line up with the original fish bowl image underneath. I was careful to add foam adhesive to the back of the fish bowl only on the edges and where Newton’s head would not come into contact with the foam adhesive. I then fussy cut Newton’s front paw out and adhered that to the side of the fish bowl with liquid glue and foam tape as well.

To create the background, I used Salty Ocean Distress Oxide Ink and blended the ink onto a white piece of cardstock. I then flicked water droplets onto the background and blotted it dry with a clean paper towel. I added some patterned paper at the bottom of the front panel to create a table for the fish bowl and little Newton to sit upon. I adhered Newton’s head onto the slider mechanism. Lastly, I adhered the front panel to a card base that I had layered with a contrasting piece of cardstock to add a pop of color.

I hope that my card has inspired you to look at your stamps in a new and different way! I have one more card to share with you, so please come back next Monday.

 Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!
- Megan

Fan Feature Week - Day 3

The rest of this week we're spotlighting creations by our fans!

We see so many amazing projects featuring Newton's Nook Designs products that we thought it would be fun to have our Design Team members pick their favorites and share them on our blog! Each day for the rest of this week we will share a couple of our favorite projects, created by YOU, our fans! See your project below? Make sure to scroll down to the end and grab our "spotted" badge for your blog!

Design Team member Ellen picked this sweet baby card by Annikarten.
This card card uses our Lovable Laundry stamp set. 

"The soft colors and that that little detail to use a rectangle to stamp that baby word just makes this card adorable. How can you not love this?"

Design Team member Holly picked this fun summer card by Anita Madden.
This card card uses our Newton's Summer Vacation stamp set. 

"I love Anita's use of the pattern papers with the image. Such a Fun bright Summer card!"

Design Team member Juliana picked this fun summer card by Claire Broadwater.
This card card uses our Lovely Blooms stamp set.

"The color combo and white embossing really makes this bouquet of flowers pop!"

Don't forget - we've created a fun "spotted" badge too - so if your project was featured above, you can you can grab this badge and share it on your blog with a link to this post to show everyone that you were spotted by the Newton's Nook Design Team! 

If you'd like to be considered for a future feature, tag your posts with #newtonsnook in social media to make sure we see them! Check back tomorrow for more fun fan spotlights!

Fan Feature Week - Day 1

The rest of this week we're spotlighting creations by our fans!

We see so many amazing projects featuring Newton's Nook Designs products that we thought it would be fun to have our Design Team members pick their favorites and share them on our blog! Each day for the rest of this week we will share a couple of our favorite projects, created by YOU, our fans! See your project below? Make sure to scroll down to the end and grab our "spotted" badge for your blog!

Design Team member Naki Rager picked this gorgeous card by Birgit. This card uses our Whispering Pines stamp set. 

"WOW! Her watercolor is absolutely GORGEOUS, this is a piece of art that should be framed! And she used a Christmas set to make this, clever!"

Design Team member Maria picked this adorable Paris themed card by Amy Lim. This card uses our Newton Dreams of Paris stamp set. 

"I just really love the scene that Amy had created for the two cats; simple and classy!"

Design Team member Amanda picked this beautiful summer card by Zsofia. This card uses our Newton's Summer Vacation stamp set. 

"Zsofi created such a fun scene on her card, and I love the ombré inking in gorgeous summer colors!"

Don't forget - we've created a fun "spotted" badge too - so if your project was featured above, you can you can grab this badge and share it on your blog with a link to this post to show everyone that you were spotted by the Newton's Nook Design Team! 

If you'd like to be considered for a future feature, tag your posts with #newtonsnook in social media to make sure we see them! Check back tomorrow for more fun fan spotlights!

Wish You Were Here Card by March Guest Designer Eloise Blue

Hello everyone! Eloise here and today I'm here with my last post for being a guest designer for Newton's Nook. It's been such a great month, I've loved creating with these stamps and thank you to Newton's Nook for having me this month!

For my card today I'm using the Newton's Summer Vacation stamp once again and doing a fun bubble watercolour background.

To start off my card today, I stamped out little Newton in the floaty ring, coloured him in with some Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers and then fussy cut him out.

For my background, I did the bubble watercolour technique. For this I just used a bowl, some water, dishwashing liquid and then some Dr. PH Martins Hydrus Watercolours. I first mixed the water and dishwashing liquid in the bowl, grabbed a straw, blew some bubbles, added some colour on top of the bubbles using the dropper included with the bottle of watercolours, blew more bubbles using my straw and swiped my watercolour cardstock through and pounced it on top. I repeated this several times to get the intended look. I then dried it off with a heat tool and you get this fun watercolour bubble look.

Once my background was dry and my image was coloured, I adhered the image onto my background with foam tape and then stamped the 'wish you were here' sentiment with black ink directly onto the background. I then adhered the entire panel onto a white card base and the card was complete.

Super simple card for today but I absolutely love this background look, I love this technique!

Thanks so much for stopping by today and for Newton's Nook for having me this month! I had a lot of fun playing with your stamps. :)

- Eloise

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