Hello Summer Card by Donna Idlet

Summer Sweets!

Today we are celebrating the sweet days of summer with this yummy card by Donna!

She filled her card with tasty cold summer treats, starting out with the popsicles from our Summer Scoops Stamp Set. She created a whole row of yummy popsicles, coloring them in a bright rainbow of colors and cutting them out using the coordinating Summer Scoops Die Set. Can you imagine what flavors each of these tasty treats represents? 

For her card base, she created a tasty background using the ice cream printed paper from our Summertime Paper Pad. This pretty print pairs perfectly with the stamped ice cream images! She also added a green striped paper behind the popsicles from the same paper pad. 

For the sentiment she used "hello summer" from the Flamingo Oval Stamp Set and embossed it in white onto a black circle (die cut using our Frames Squared Die Set).

What a perfect way to celebrate a summer day! 

To see more fun creations by Donna, you can visit her blog, Creative Lady!

Happy Birthday with Sprinkles on Top Card by Farhana Sarker

Birthday Sprinkles! 

Sprinkles make every birthday treat better! Today we're sharing a card by Farhana that features ice cream treats, complete with sprinkles, for a tasty birthday wish!

She started out this yummy card by stamping and coloring all the ice cream images from our Summer Scoops Stamp Set. This stamp set has so many tasty ice cream treats it will be hard to choose a favorite. The best thing to do is stamp a bunch of them like Farhana did! She colored them in fun bright pastels and used the coordinating Summer Scoops Die Set to cut the images out. Here is a peek at her copic color choices if you are interested:

Since the ice cream images are so colorful, she kept the background simple with just a texture of hearts. To create this texture she used our Petite Hearts Stencil, dry embossing it by running it through her die cutting machine to press it into the cardstock. So pretty! 

Next, she cut out a banner using our Frames & Flags Die Set from purple cardstock. She added the sentiment from the Summer Scoops Stamp Set onto the banner, embossing it in white. Then she simply assembled the card, using dimensional adhesive behind some of the ice creams to add height. For a finishing touch, a few decorative gems add a bit of sparkle!

We hope you enjoyed this sweet card today! You can find more of Farhana's creations and say hello to her over at her blog, Everyday Engineered. 

Treat Yo' Self Card by Samantha Mann

Treat Yo'Self! 

Do you love ice cream as much as we do? A fun ice cream cone is one of our favorite things about summer. Today we have a fun ice cream card to share from  Samantha that will remind you to treat yo' self! 

For this adorable card she features the pup who is licking a dropped ice cream cone from our  Dog Days of Summer Stamp Set. That pup is definitely making the best of the situation! 

Next, she created a fun background by randomly stamping ice cream treats using our Summer Scoops Stamp Set in a light gray ink. She added some matching ink splatters too, adding to the fun! She then used our Essential Alphabet Die Set to cut out the letters to spell out "treat yo' self" from the stamped panel. She layered the panel with the cut out letters over a fun pink ombré inked background tO really makes the letters pop! And it matches the ice cream too! 

We hope you have enjoyed this card by Sam today and are able to find time to treat yourself to some ice cream! 

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

Summer Birthday Gift Card Holders by Farhana Sarker

 

Birthday Sprinkles! 

Today we are sharing a fun way to create custom birthday gift card holders by Farhana! These fun gift card holders with ice cream on top are sure to make the recipient smile on their special day!

For these fun gift card holders she used pretty patterned papers from our Springtime Paper Pad, for the pretty gift card holder bases. Then she decorated the tops with an ice cream theme with images from our Summer Scoops Stamp Set. She stamped and colored various ice cream and popsicle images from the set, coloring them in bright and cheerful colors and cut them out using the coordinating Summer Scoops Die Set. She layered them over a rectangle of vellum and then added them to the tops of her gift card holders.

She also stamped the sentiment "Happy Birthday with Sprinkles on top!" embossing it in white on black cardstock and hand cutting around it to add onto her cards. 

This adorable set of gift cards is perfect for celebrating special birthday gifts! 

You can find more of Farhana's creations and say hello to her over at her blog, Everyday Engineered. 

 

 

Happy Birthday with Sprinkles on Top Card by Farhana Sarker

A Rainbow of Birthday Treats!!

Today Farhana has created a whole rainbow of fun ice cream treats on this delicious birthday card featuring our Summer Scoops Stamp Set. She started by stamping all the fun treats from the Summer Scoops Stamp Set and coloring them in a rainbow of yummy colors! She fussy cut the images out by hand but you could also use the coordinating Summer Scoops Die Set to trim them out. She layered all her images in a row onto a slimline card, layering them over a fun piece of rainbow patterned paper. She also embossed the sentiment "Happy Birthday with Sprinkles on Top" in white across the top. 

What a fun and tasty card for a birthday greeting! You can find more of Farhana's creations and say hello to her over at her blog, Everyday Engineered.

Happy Birthday with Sprinkles on Top Card by Zsofia Molnar

Birthday Sprinkles!

Today Zsofia has created a colorful birthday card, filled with ice cream treats! She created a whole cluster of yummy ice cream treats using our Summer Scoops Stamp Set. She embossed all the images with white embossing powder and used watercolor markers to add vibrant colors to the treats! The white edges really make the colors pop! She cut the images out using the coordinating Summer Scoops Stamp Set and then clustered them inside the center of her circle card. She used our Circle Frames Die Set to create the stitched and scalloped circle shapes, perfect for holding all those tasty treats! The finishing touch is the sentiment "Happy Birthday with Sprinkles on top" from the Summer Scoops Stamp Set embossed in white on a black banner that was cut out using our Banner Trio Die Set. Isn't it cool how the banner pops up to add dimension?

Here is a close-up so you can see the all the gorgeous details!



Does anyone else want ice cream now!?

We hope you enjoyed this bright and cheerful card by Zsofia! You can find more of Zsofia's creations and say hello to her over at her blog, Safsafdesign.

A Set of Stamped Background Cards by September Guest Designer Sindhu Prajay

Hello everyone! Sindhu here. Today happens to be my last GD post for Newton's Nook Designs. I'm so grateful for this opportunity and wish to thank Jen and Samantha again for inviting me over. :) My post for today is all about stamped backgrounds. I enjoy creating my own patterns by stamping backdrops for my focal images. Here is my first card...

I used Newton's Summer Treats and Summer Scoops stamp sets. I stamped images from the Summer Scoops set on a piece of Neenah Solar White 110 lb cardstock in light grey ink and coloured the images with a grey copic marker. I used W0 since I didn't want the background to dominate my focal image. I used a stitched rectangle die to cut out a rectangular panel. Then, I coloured the image, fussy cut it and adhered it on the panel and then stuck it on the card base.

For the next card, I stamped small images from the Newton's Birthday Bash Stamp Set in the background with coloured inks. Then filled a few of those images with colour.

Since the background has so much colour, I decided to tone it down a bit by layering vellum behind my focal image which is from the Newton Loves Boxes Stamp Set. I added sentiment on a pice of white cardstock layered on red cardstock. I assembled the card on the card base.

For the last card, instead of stamping images in the background, I stamped text. Text backgrounds are so much fun. I used only a single stamp called 'Classy Teachers'. I didn't use any ruler or stamping tool for help but if you want a perfect background, one of them is recommended.

Here is a close up..

I used a stitched rectangle die to cut out a rectangular panel. Then, I coloured the image, fussy cut it and adhered it on the panel and then stuck the panel on the card base. Here is picture of the three cards together..

I also wanted to share a picture of all the cards I made for posts this month. :)

I thoroughly enjoyed playing with the adorable stamp. I hope you like the cards too. Thank you for visiting and commenting on my posts throughout this month! 
Hugs.. Sindhu.

Ice Cream Cards by September Guest Designer Sindhu Prajay

Today we have our first post from our August Guest Designer, Sindhu from Paper Minty! You also might know her as sindhu_trappedincraft on instagram where she also shares her fun and whimsical creations! We are so happy to have her join us this month and we can't wait to share what she has created with our stamps! Keep reading to find out more about her today and to check out her first project below!


Hi everyone! I'm Sindhu from India. I live with my husband and our 3 year old son who just started preschool. I have been paper crafting for over 6 years and now when I think of it, I wonder why I hadn't started earlier. :) I am a Clean and Simple (CAS) lover although I try other styles quite often. I am also a lover of all things critter. I find colouring very therapeutic and my latest obsession is Copic colouring.

I'm thrilled to be joining Newton's Nook as a Guest Designer for September! I hope that you will like what I share with you every Monday through out September here.

Thank you so much, Jennifer and Samantha for this opportunity!
Hello everyone! Sindhu here. I'm thrilled to be Guest Designing for Newton's Nook Designs this month! Thank you so much for this opportunity, Jennifer and Samantha! Today, I have a couple of summer theme cards to share. I know summer is officially over but to those still longing for it, this is the post for you. :) I combined Newton's Summer Treats and Summer Scoops stamp sets to make my cards. Both the stamp sets are so much fun to play with and go very well together. Here is my first card:

To make this card, I stated by masking a part of the stitched die cut rectangle panel. Then, I sponged ink through the stencil on the upper portion of the panel. Then, I removed the masking paper and masked the stencilled pattern and sponged ink on the lower portion of the panel. The area where the two meet is ideal to ground the images. I stamped the images on a piece of Neenah Solar White 110 lb cardstock with Mememto Tuxedo black ink and coloured them with copic markers. Then, I fussy cut out the images and arranged them on the stitched rectangle panel. I also applied Wink of Stella shimmer on the ice creams but it doesn't show in the pictures. Stamped the sentiments and adhered the panel to card base. Here are couple more pictures...

 
Here is my second card...

For my second card, I followed the same steps like I did for the first card. To make this card, I stated by masking a part of the top folding card base. Then, I sponged ink through the stencil on the upper portion of the card base. Then, I removed the masking paper and masked the stencilled pattern and sponged ink on the lower portion. The area where the two meet is ideal to ground the images. I stamped the images on a piece of Neenah Solar White 110 lb cardstock with Mememto Tuxedo black ink and coloured them with copic markers. I fussy cut out one of the images but used a stitched frame die around the other as I wanted it to be a photo frame on the wall. I also cut the frame in brown multiple time and adhered one over the other to make it look like a frame on the wall. I adhered it on the top right. I in laid the piece with kitty and added the 'hanger' part to the frame.

I adhered the kitty with a bowl of ice cream on the ink sponged 'ground'. I heat embossed the two sentiments on strips of brown cardstock and added them using foam tape

I also added Wink of Stella on the scoops for interest.

Here is a picture with both the cards.

I hope you like the cards I shared. Thank you for visiting! See you again next week... Bye!

 - Sindhu

Happy Birthday with Sprinkles on Top Card by Naki Rager

Sprinkles on Top! 

Today we have a delicious ice cream themed card by Naki featuring our Summer Scoops Stamp Set. She used the tasty ice cream images from the set and colored them with soft yummy colors.  She then used the NEW coordinating Summer Scoops Die Set to trim out the images. The Summer Scoops Stamp Set is an older stamp design that we JUST added dies for and now it's so fun to be able to cut out those images easily! 

She embossed the sentiment embossed on a vellum banner that was die cut out using our Flags & Frames Die Set. Then she layered the banner and ice cream images over her card. For the card base she created a shaker card using beads and a fun triangle die cut panel (from another brand).

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

Newton's Nook Designs & Xyron Inspiration Week - Day 4 with Holly & Jen

This week we are partnering with Xyron for a very awesome inspiration week! Each day we will have fresh inspiration using Newton's Nook Designs products with Xyron adhesives on the NND blog and Xyron will be featuring  projects as well on the Xyron facebook page! 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 Holly and Jennifer! 

First up a fun summer card by Holly that includes magnets!

For this fun birthday card Holly used our Waves Stencil to create a fun wave background on her card base. Then she stamped a bunch of the yummy summer drinks from our Cocktail Mixer Stamp Set. She colored them in fun bright colors with copic markers and then cut them out using the coordinating Cocktail Mixer Die Set.  She also added the "cheers" die cut from the Cocktail Mixer Die Set for the sentiment!

She added magnets to the back of the cocktails using Magnet Tape by Xyron and attached them onto her card with magnets. The cocktails are also laminated so the recipient of this card could use these magnets again and again on their refrigerator or on a metal office cupboard!

Visit Holly's blog: hollybeary creations to see more and leave a comment for another chance to win!

Next, we have these fun treat favors by Jen (owner of Newton's Nook Designs):

To decorate these fun glassine favor bags, Jen used our Summer Scoops Stamp Set, coloring a bunch of the popsicles and ice creams with copic markers. She trimmed them out using the new Summer Scoops coordinating die set.  She also used our Essential Alphabet Die Set to cut out letters in several colors. She added adhesive to them using the Teresa Collins 1.5" Create-A-Sticker Maker from Xyron, then she stuck them onto white banners that were cut out using the Frames & Flags Die Set. She also used the 2.5" Create-A-Sticker Machine from Xyron to make the popsicles and ice creams into stickers and adhered them to the glassine bags, filled with candies. She added on a bit of bakers twine too for the perfect finishing touch!

Leave a comment on this blog today for a chance to win - details below!

Would you like to win a Prize pack including a Mega Runner from Xyron and a $25 store credit to Newton’s Nook Designs? 

Here's how to win:Leave a comment on the NND & Design Team blog posts using Xyron products all week (June 25-29) to enter. One winner will be randomly chosen from blog posts throughout the week so the more posts you leave comments on the better your chances are of winning! You have until Friday June 29th at midnight EST to comment. The winner will be announced on the NND blog post on Monday, July 2nd.

Xyron will also be giving away a prize pack! Make sure to visit the Xyron facebook page each day this week for inspiration and leave comments there for another chance to win!