Holiday Gift Card Holder by Donna Idlet

No Peeking! Holiday Gift Card Holder!

Today we are sharing a fun card by Donna that is also a gift card holder!

For this fun card layout she started with a  card base that was 5 1/2" x 10 1/2." Then she scored it at 2" and 6 1/4" to make a tri-fold card. On the front panels she cut papers from our Canine Christmas Paper Pad to fit over the panels. She also stamped the kitty in the gift box from our Newton's Gift Stamp Set, coloring the gift in traditional holiday colors and adding "From meow to you!" on to the front.  She cut the image out using the coordinating Newton's Gift Die Set and adhered it to the top flap of the tri-fold card so that the image helps keep the card closed with a little circle of velcro on the back. She also added a "no peeking" in the lower corner, stamped onto a circle that was die cut using the little stitched circle from our Frames Squared Die Set. 

Here is what it looks like as you open the card: 

Once fully open, there are three panels inside that were decorated. On the top and bottom she added white cardstock and the sentiments from our Sentiments of the Season Stamp Set. In the center she added more patterned paper from our Canine Christmas Paper Pad and a pocket to hold the gift card! 

What a fun way to make a gift card feel special!

We hope you have enjoyed this project today. To see more fun creations by Donna, you can visit her blog, Creative Lady!

A Woodland Christmas Greeting by Jennifer Jackson

Merry Christmas!

Hello! Jen here today with a lovely Christmas card with a woodsy feel! Perfect for the nature lover!

To create this card I started by stamping the image of the deer wearing the holiday wreath from our Festive Fawns Stamp Set. I colored the image with copic markers and then cut it out using the coordinating Festive Fawns Die Set. 

Next, I created a scene for the little deer to sit in. I used our Evergreens Stencil with brown ink over a kraft colored cardstock to create a fun tone on tone forest of trees. I then used our Frames & Flags Die Set to cut the tree panel and give it that nice stitched edge with rounded corners.  I then cut out a snowy hill using our Land Borders Die Set with white cardstock. I cut it again with the same stitched rectangle from  the Frames & Flags Die Set so I could line up the stitched edging. Doesn't this make a cozy scene for the deer to sit in? 

I added the sentiment "Merry Christmas" from the Sentiments of the Season Stamp Set along the top of the scene. Then I added created a panel with a fun red pattern using our Houndstooth Stencil with brown ink over a red cardstock piece. This really adds to the fun and festive feeling. The finishing touch is a piece of green twine to match the wreath!

I hope you have enjoyed this card today and are inspired to mix and match your stamps and stencils to create unique holiday scenes!

Sparkly Peppermint Card by Zsofia Molnar

Sweet and Sparkly!

Today Zsofia created a holiday card filled with sparkles and sweets!! She used our Peppermint Die Set to cut out three sparkly candies. She used glitter paper in blue, purple and white for the fun die cuts. She added them stacked in a vertical row onto her card, leaving a space for the sentiment between the bottom two. For the message she embossed the sentiment "May your holidays sparkle with joy and happiness" from our Sentiments of the Season Stamp Set, embossed with green embossing powder. She layered this fun panel over a candy filled background paper that coordinates perfectly with the theme!

Here is a close up photo so you can see the gorgeous sparkle:

Thank you, Zsofia, for the yummy and sparkly Holiday card today! You can find more of Zsofia's lovely creations and say hello to her over at her blog, Safsafdesign.

Merry Everything Card by Tatiana Trafimovich

Merry Everything! 

Have you started on your Christmas cards yet? Today we have a gorgeous ornament card by Tatiana that will help put you in a holiday mood! She used our Ornamental Shaker Die Set to create a mask for the two ornament shapes. She layered our Snowfall Stencil over the mask and used deco foil transfer gel from Therm O Web on it. Once the gel was dry she add the blue flock by layering it over the top of the stenciled pattern and sending it through a heat laminator. This gives the ornaments a fun textured look and feels fuzzy too! She added the silver ornament tops, using glitter paper with our Ornamental Shaker Die Set. In the corner she added the "Merry Everything" sentiment from our Sentiments of the Season Stamp Set, embossed with silver embossing powder.

Here's a video by Tatiana showing you how she created this beautiful card:

Thank you for the amazing  card today, Tatiana! If you like this project you can see more of Tatiana's work over on her blog, Tatiana Craft and Art

Newton's Nook Designs & Wow Embossing Powder Inspiration Week - Day 1 with Samantha & Maria

This is our second post today. To see an awesome fall card by our September Guest Designer, Stephanie Davis, scroll down or click here. 

Newton's Nook Designs and WOW! embossing powders are collaborating all week long to offer you inspiration using their products together! Both design teams will be sharing fun ways to use embossing powders on your projects using WOW!embossing powders paired with Newton's Nook Designs stamps! 

Today we are featuring projects by Samantha and Maria! 

First up we are sharing two amazing cards by Samantha: 

 

On her first card Samantha created a gorgeous floral card. She used the flower images from our Peony Blooms Stamp Set, embossing them using Primary Purple Orchid embossing powder from WOW!. She also stamped the leaves and stems from the Peony Blooms Stamp Set, using the Under the Sea embossing powder from WOW!. The images were colored with watercolor markers and cut out using the coordinating Peony Blooms Die Set. For the background she used clear embossing paste with our Tree Rings Stencil and then added Vintage Champagne embossing powder over the top. So lovely! The scalloped edge was die cut using our Frames & Flags Die Set. 

Next, Samantha created a this gorgeous christmas card! She used our Evergreens Stencil and applied ink using an embossing ink pad over the stencil. Then she embossed the trees using embossing powder from WOW! in the colors Primary Purple Orchid, Earthtone Pepper, and Vintage Champagne. She added in a bit of ink blending using distress inks to fill in any gaps of color. She also added the sentiment using our Sentiments of the Season Stamp Set on a piece of vellum. She hand cut it out to add to the card. What a beautiful nature scene!

Visit Samantha's blog: Sam's Scrap Candy to see to see more and leave her a comment for another chance to win!

 Next, we have gorgeous Fall card by Maria:

For her card Maria started by die cutting a bunch of leaves from colored papers and vellum using our Autumn Leaves Die Set. She also added in a couple of pine boughs and a teal bow using our Pines & Holly Die Set. She clustered the leaves together in the corner of her card. Inside the frame she added a teal background with distress inks. Then she embossed the sentiment from our Fall-ing for You Stamp Set, embossing it using White Puff embossing powder from WOW!. 

Visit Maria's blog: Maria Russell Designs to see more to see more and leave her a comment for another chance to win!

There are more amazing projects today over on the WOW! blog so pop over there for more inspiration!

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Sweet Noel Card by Tatiana Trafimovich

Sweet Santa Deer!

This winter scene by Tatiana is so sweet and perfect for the holidays! She started out by coloring the duo of cute deer from our Deer Friend Stamp Set with copics. Her coloring is so lovely with the extra little dots for texture! She cut the deer out using the coordinating Deer Friend Die Set. The stamp set these deer are from is a Spring themed set so she gave the deer a holiday feel by coloring their noses red and adding hats onto their heads using the little Santa hat from the Ornamental Newton Stamp Set. How clever!

For her card she created a wintery scene by started with a blue inked background  and embossing the word noel in white from our Sentiments of the Season Stamp Set. Then she added snow around the sentiment with our Petite Snow Stencil and white embossing paste.  To complete the scene she added a die cut birch tree on each side and a red cardinal using our new Forest Scene Builder Die Set. She also added snowy hills for the deer to sit on using our Land Borders Die Set. Lastly, she tucked some little bits of greenery into the snow drifts using the little leafy plants from the Deer Friend Stamp Set. 

Here is a little video from Tatiana about this card too:

To see more her beautiful creations you can visit Tatiana at Tatiana Craft and Art.

A Jolly Holiday Card by Samantha Mann

Jolly Holiday!

This adorable London themed Holiday card was created by Samantha! She's channeling her inner Mary Poppins on this one! She used the cute kitty with the umbrella, double decker bus and clock tower from our Newton Dreams of London Stamp Set. She also added in a row of city buildings using our Snow Globe Scenes Stamp Set. She cut out the images with the coordinating Newton Dreams of London Die Set and Snow Globe Scenes Die Sets to create a fun cityscape! She aded some snow in the sky too with our Bubbly Stencil. For the sentiment, she combined words from a few different sentiment stamps from the the Sentiments of the Season Stamp Set to make her own custom sentiment! HOW FUN!

Who has the Mary Poppins song stuck in their head now? So cute!

Thank you Samantha for the fun and unique creation today! To say hello to Samantha and see more of her awesome creations, you can visit Samantha's Blog, Sam's Scrap Candy!

Holiday Camper Card by Tatiana Trafimovich

May your Holidays Sparkle!

Today we are sharing this fun Holiday camping scene by Tatiana! We designed that cute little camper from our Cozy Campers Stamp Set with summer in mind but we love the idea to use it for a winter camping scene too! Tatiana used that cute camper and colored it fun bright colors with copic markers. Then she cut it out using our Cozy Campers Die Set and added some snow along the top to make it feel right for a winter card! She added it to the scene along with the little deer and trees from our Snow Globe Scenes Stamp Set. She also cut out the trees and deer using the coordinating  Snow Globe Scenes Die Set and added bits of snow to their tops!

For the snowy scene in the background, she used white embossing paste with our Bubbly Stencil over blue cardstock to make a fun snowy background. Then she cut the snow globe shape out of white using our Snow Globe Shaker Die Set to set it into just one fun area of the card. 

She finished out the card by stamping a sentiment from our Sentiments of the Season Stamp Set along the bottom! What do you think of this winter camper scene!? Does it give you ideas on how to use your summer sets throughout the year? 

To see more details on her projects today and more of her beautiful creations you can visit Tatiana at Tatiana Craft and Art. 

Merry Christmas Card by Holly Endress

Merry Christmas!

Christmas is just a few days away! Can you believe it? Today we have another adorable Christmas Card by Holly! She stamped the adorable Santa Kitty, North Pole sign, mouse and little gift from our Santa Paws Newton Stamp Set and colored them with copics. The way she colored the fur on the kitty with two tones is so cool! She also added a tiny white accents to the images too! She then trimmed the images out using the coordinating Santa Paws Die Set before adding them to her card. For the card base she cut out that fun scalloped edged panel using the Frames & Flags Die Set and added some pretty blue distress ink onto it to create that pretty sky! She also used the Land Borders Die Set to create the snowy hill.  To finish the card off she used two sentiments from our Sentiments of the Season Stamp Set, embossing them in white over the blue background. A few sparkly sequins give it the perfect finishing touch!

Thank you, Holly, for the adorable card today! You can find more of Holly's creations and say hello to her over at her blog, Hollybeary Creations!

A Trio of Holiday Cards by Maria Russell

 Holiday Inspiration from Maria!

Today we have THREE adorable Holiday cards by Maria to share! First we have an adorable scene featuring that cute pug from our Pug Hugs Stamp Set! Maria added on a Santa Hat to the Pug and put him under some mistletoe from our Holiday Smooches Stamp Set! She added the "meet me under the Mistletoe" sentiment, also from the Holiday Smooches Stamp Set and some cute little presents from the Llama Delivery Stamp Set. I love how with a little creativity you can mix and match so many of our stamps together! She also used our Frames & Flags Die Set to cut out the rounded corner stitched rectangle panel and the red scalloped card frame!

Next Maria created two yummy cards featuring our new Peppermint Die Set:

For the first card she created  a trio of peppermints using our Peppermint Die Set and cutting them from sparkly glitter paper! She also added on a fun scalloped border and the "merry everything" sentiment along the bottom from our Sentiments of the Season Stamp Set. How fun! 

For her second card she made the card into a tree shape, complete with star on top! Then she decorated the tree with festive peppermints using our Peppermint Die Set. In the center she used the "peppermint kisses and mistletoe wishes" sentiment from the Newton's Candy Cane Stamp Set. I love how perfectly this sentiment goes with those sparkly mints!

We hope these lovely projects by Maria have inspired you today!

To see more beautiful projects by Maria, visit her over at her blog, Maria Russell Designs and don't forget to subscribe to her YouTube channel too!

Deck the Halls with Inky Paws Week - Day 4 - Michelle Short

Welcome to day FOUR of our Deck the Halls with Inky Paws week! 

Each day this week we will have a new awesome featured guest and then a BIG blog hop on Friday, December 8th (with some give-aways, of course!) So make sure you come back and visit us every day!

Today's Featured guest is
Michelle Short

Hello there, my name is Michelle I live in London, UK. I am a part-time nurse, part-time crafter. I have been crafting for over 10 years now and I still absolutely love it! My style is very clean and simple. I love colouring, cute critters and white space on my cards, but I have been getting a little bit more inky recently and really been enjoying that too. I love Newton’s Nook designs and I am delighted to be taking part in the Deck the Halls with Inky Paws week.

Here's what Michelle created!

Michelle created two amazing sparkly snow cards featuring our Snowfall Stencil with the Sentiments of the Season Stamp Set! For the first card she created a background using shades of blue distress ink with the Snowfall Stencil. Then she kept the stencil in place and layered transparent glitter paste over the top! The added sparkle really makes this card feel special! To finish it off she stamp the sentiment "May your holidays sparkle with joy and happiness!" from the Sentiments of the Season Stamp Set. That sentiment goes so perfectly with the sparkle on the card!

She also created this same layout using a pink/orange/yellow color combo!

It's so fun to mix it up just by changing the colors! Both color combos are so pretty I can't decide which one I like better! How about you? 

Make sure you head over to The Card Grotto to say hello to Michelle today and get all the details on how she created this card!  

Thanks so much, Michelle for being our guest today! She will be back for our Deck the Halls with Inky Paws blog hop on Friday, December 8th. Until then, you can visit her at her blog, The Card Grotto to read more about her adorable projects and say hello!

Tomorrow we will have a big BLOG HOP with all the guests we've featured this week and a couple more! Plus our FABULOUS NND Design Team - so make sure you come back tomorrow - there will be prizes too! 

Snowman Jar Card by Naki Rager

Snowy Jar Holiday Card 

Today Naki is sharing how to combine several stamp sets to create something unique! She stamped the cute little mason jar from our Lovely Blooms Stamp Set in gray and then she stamped the tiny snowman and tree from the  Snow Globe Scenes Stamp Set inside the jar! What a cute idea! She also added some fun dimensional snow! Then she added a tiny round tag using our Tags Times Two Die Set, tied around the jar. This cute little image was added to her card over a scalloped panel that she cut out using our Frames & Flags Die Set. She also added some fun texture onto that panel using the Starfield Stencil with embossing paste and orange and yellow inks! She finished off the card with the "May your holidays sparkle with joy & happiness" sentiment from the Sentiments of the Season Stamp Set! What a great way to combine a ton of fun products on one amazing card!

To see more adorable cards by Naki,  you can head over to her blog, Notes from Naki and say hello!

Cozy Fireplace Card Tutorial by Ellen Haxelmans

Today Ellen is sharing a instructions on how to make a scene with a floor and wallpaper on your card! She created this amazing card featuring our Fireside Friends Stamp Set. Scroll down for details on how you can create a scene like this!


Instructions:

1. First you stamp out your images for your scene. I used Fireside Friends and a mice from Santa Paws Newton. The sentiment is from Sentiments of the Season.

2. Than you draw a horizontal line which best represents the dividing line between the floor and the wall. After this you put a pencil point somewhere in the center. This point will be your viewpoint. Measure on the bottom points that are evenly spaced. Connect these points to your central point.

3. To make your perspective better you draw now horizontal lines. Be sure you space the lines more closer to each other, than below.

4. Color your tiles. First I colored the darker tiles with Copic Markers C07, C05 and C04

5. Then color the lighter tiles. The Copic markers I used for these are C03, C02, C0.

6. The last thing to do is to create your wallpaper. I simply covered the images and tiles with post it notes and distress inked my background. After the base was finished I did the same thing but with the Waves Stencil.

Now that you know how to make a scene like this, make sure to let us know if you create one by sharing it in our Create & Share Group on Facebook!

To seem more of her beautiful creations by Ellen, you can also visit her over at her blog Crafty Ellen!