Christmas Cactus Card by Tatiana Trafimovich

Christmas Cactus Card

Today we are sharing a gorgeous floral card by Tatiana that is perfect for celebrating the holidays!

This beautiful card features blooms from one of our favorite holiday flowers, the Christmas cactus! She stamped the images using our Christmas Cactus Stamp Set and coloring them in gorgeous hues of red and green with white gel pen accents. She cut the images out using the coordinating Christmas Cactus Die Set. 

To create her card, she started with a white card front and added dimension by using our Starfield Stencil with texture paste to create a gorgeous tone on tone look. Then she added the cactus images, arranging them onto her card in an angle. She also added a few glittery gems and the sentiment, stamped from our Christmas Cactus Stamp Set. The sentiment was embossed in white onto a black cardstock and she carefully hand cut around it before adding it to her card. 

Do you have a Christmas cactus in your house? We have one at NND headquarters and it's just starting to bloom now! 

We hope you enjoyed this beautiful card by Tatiana today! To see more of her lovely work, you can visit Tatiana at her blog, Tatiana Trafimovich! 

You Make Life Sweeter Card by Maria Russell

 

You Make Life Sweeter!

Today Maria has created a card that is sure to satisfy your sweet tooth!

This tasty creation features macarons from our Love & Chocolate Stamp Set. She colored them in fun bright pastels and cut them out using the coordinating Love & Chocolate Die Set. They definitely look yummy enough to eat!

Next, she used a white card base and added sparkly stars across the top using glitter paste with our Starfield Stencil. Across the card base she added two strips of patterned paper from our new Love & Chocolate Paper Pad. The paper with the macarons matches the stamp perfectly!   

For a finishing touch she added the sentiment, "You make life sweeter", also from the  Love & Chocolate Stamp Set. She embossed the sentiment onto a pink banner that was cut out using our Frames & Flags Die Set. She also used a white gel pen to add fun details to the banner.

This yummy card would be perfect for sending as a Valentine, or it would work for letting someone know how sweet they are any time of year! To see more beautiful projects by Maria you can visit her over at her blog, Maria Russell Designs.

A Cup of Cheer Card by Tatiana Trafimovich

Cheers to the Hot Chocolate!

You are in for a tasty treat today as we feature a yummy hot chocolate themed card by Tatiana!

To create this delicious card, she stamped a bunch of hot cocoa mugs using our Cup of Cocoa Stamp Set. This set features a variety of pretty winter and holiday mugs, filled with whipped cream, chocolate and candy canes! She colored the images in bright festive colors and added white gel pen accents and sparkle to them too! She cut the mugs out using the coordinating Cup of Cocoa Die Set. 

For her card base, she inked a panel with shades of blue across the top and added sparkly stars using our Starfield Stencil with some shimmery texture paste! What a gorgeous effect! Here is a close up so you can see all the shimmer and sparkle: 

This card would also be a great entry to the Fall/Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop that is going on this week! Don't forget to pop over and play along with the hop by creating a coffee themed card of your own! You can find full details on the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Blog here!

We hope that this card has brought you some tasty cheer today!  To see more of her amazing work, you can visit Tatiana at her blog, Tatiana Trafimovich!

Simple Joys of Christmas Card by Zsofia Molnar

Joys of Christmas!

Today we are celebrating the joys of Christmas with Zsofia! She has created a card that is packed with all our favorite Christmas themes!

She started out by pairing the image of the girl holding the giant stack of Christmas gifts from our Christmas Haul Stamp Set with the image of the truck, also filled with Christmas gifts, from our Holiday Haul Stamp Set. These two images with the piles of gifts work so perfectly together! Do you think the girl is unloading the gifts from the back of the truck? She colored both of the images in fun bright holiday colors and cut them out using the coordinating Christmas Haul Die Set and Holiday Haul Die Set. 

Here is a close up so you can see all the beautiful details in her coloring:

For the card , she created a wonderful Christmas scene. She started by creating a snowy sky using our Starfield Stencil with white texture paste over a blue inked background! Next, she layered a series of trees that were stamped in green ink using the bold tree images from our Whispering Pines Stamp Set. These bold trees have a lovely watercolor texture that adds a fun detail. She cut them out using the coordinating Whispering Pines Die Set and layered them in front of her sky. She next layered a fence that was cut out using our Fence Die Set and a hill of snow using our Land Borders Die Set. 

What a gorgeous winter scene! She finished her card with the sentiment from our  Christmas Nap Stamp Set, embossed in white onto a black cardstock rectangle to tie it all together! 

We hope you enjoyed this gorgeous winter scene today and are inspired to make some scenes of your own! You can find more of Zsofia's creations and say hello to her over at her blog, Safsafdesign.

Holiday Wishes for a Deer Friend Card by Ellen Haxelmans

Deer Friends Card!

Today Ellen has combined several fun products to create an adorable winter scene! This scene features the image of the deer peeking around the snowman from our new Festive Fawns Stamp Set. She colored this sweet image and cut it out using the coordinating Festive Fawns Die Set. To make a fun scene she paired it with the little row of houses from our Snow Globe Scenes Stamp Set in the background. She added to the winter theme with layers of snowy hills cut out using our Land Borders Die Set and Sea Borders Die Set. The sparkly sky was created using sparkly embossing paste with our Starfield Stencil. Then she framed the whole thing using  he postage edge from our Framework Die Set.

Ellen is a genius at creating scenes! Do you like to create scenes but don't know where to start? See her tips below on how she created this one!

Tips on creating this scene!

Below we have some tips from Ellen on how she created a fun winter scene!

1. Color your images as you like. I used images from the Festive Fawns Stamp Set and Snow Globe Scenes Stamp Set. Here I used Zig Markers, these are watercolor markers. They help you to have more control over your watercoloring. The images were cut out using their coordinating die sets.
2. Then you can make your background. First I watercolored my background with Holbein Watercolors. Secondly I also added Glitz Glitter Gell in white by using the Starfield Stencil.
3. When everything is dry you can put your card together. I used the biggest frame from the Framework Die Set and added snow hills by cutting borders with the Land Borders Die Set and Sea Borders Die Set.

There are so many fun ways to combine our products for creative scenes! We love hearing the process on how Ellen created this!

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

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!

For a chance to win, enter using the rafflecopter link at the end of this blog post today!
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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Newton's Nook Designs & Therm O Web Inspiration Week - Day 1 with Samantha & Maria

This is our second post today. To see who won our new mini release on Friday, scroll down or click here. 

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 Samantha and Maria! 

First up we are sharing a gorgeous Fall card by Samantha: 

On her first card Samantha features a cluster of leaves that she die cut using ourAutumn Leaves Die Set. She cut some of them using the Deco Foil Flock Transfer Sheets in Sunshine Yellow and Think Pink from Therm O Web. She cut a few more leaves using metallic and polka dotted cardstock and layered them all together on her card. For the little leaves in the background she used our Falling Leaves Stencil along with Deco Foil Metallix Gel in White Pearl from Therm O Web. She finished the card by adding the "truly Grateful" sentiment from our Shades of Autumn Stamp Set.

Samantha also created an adorable sloth Christmas card today. She colored the sloth from our Slothy Christmas Stamp Set and cut the image out using the coordinating Slothy Christmas Die Set. Then she created a snowy scene for the sloth to sleep in by cutting out layers of clouds with Sky Borders Die Set and Deco Foil Flock Transfer Sheets  in White Latte from Therm O Web. For the starry sky she used our Starfield Stencil paired with the Gina K. Designs Glitz Glitter Gel  in White. Then she added the sentiment from the Slothy Christmas Stamp Set, adding it onto a speech bubble that was cut out using our Speech Bubbles Die Set. 

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

 Next, we have a duo of christmas cards and a fun flocked Halloween card by Maria:

For the first card Maria used the cute bunny wearing a sweater from our Sweater Weather Stamp Set. She colored the bunny in red and gray and cut the image our using the coordinating Sweater Weather Die Set. Next she created a fun shaker window for the background adding red foiled trees to the front of the shaker window using the Deco Foil Clear Toner Sheets - Oh Christmas Tree from Therm O Web.  She heat set the toner sheet with a laminator and Gina K. Designs Fancy Foil in Red Velvet from Therm O Web.  She also added a fun flocked snowy hill along the bottom using the Deco Foil Flock Transfer Sheets in White Latte and die cut a hill using our Land Borders Die Set.

For the next card Maria used the fox and bear wearing sweaters from our Sweater Weather Stamp Set. Again she colored these cute critters and cut them out using the coordinating Sweater Weather Die Set. To create the snowy scene, she embossed the Deco Foil Flock Transfer Sheets in White Latte from Therm O Web with a tree embossing folder. She die cut a hill to go along the bottom using the white flock with our Land Borders Die Set. She also die cut a yellow moon using the Deco Foil Flock Transfer Sheets - Sunshine Yellow from Therm O Web. What a gorgeous winter scene!

Last, Maria created a fun Halloween card using our Happy Howl-oween Stamp Set. She colored the duo of doggies in fun Halloween colors and cut them out using the coordinating Happy Howl-oween Die Set. Then she created a scene for the doggies using several colors of Deco Foil Flock Transfer Sheets from Therm O Web. She used the Black Velvet, Purple Punch, and Sunshine Yellow to die cut a spooky house in the background. She added layers of dark colored grass using our Land Borders Die Set. She also added a starry sky in the background using our Cascading Stars Stencil along with Deco Foil Transfer Gel. Once the gel had dried she added the shiny blue foil using a laminator with Deco Foil Transfer Sheets in Ocean Blue from Therm O Web. To finish the scene she stamped a bat over the moon from our Witchy Newton Stamp Set and added the "happy haunts" sentiment from our Spooky Street Stamp Set

Visit Maria's blog: Maria Russell Designs to see more today and check out her YouTube Channel for a video using these products today!!

For a chance to win, enter using the rafflecopter link at the end of this blog post today!

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!