Newton's Picnic Card by Maria Russell

It's a Good Day for a Picnic! 

We hope that today's card by Maria will inspire you to have a good day! Today she created an adorable picnic scene featuring our retiring Newton's Picnic Stamp Set. Isn't it so cute how that kitty has his rear sticking out of the picnic basket while he dives in to find all the goodies? She colored this adorable image and used the coordinating Newton's Picnic Die Set to cut it out. 

For her card base she created a circle window to hold the scene and inked a blue sky background. She also added birch trees using our Forest Scene Builder Die Set and a layer of grass using our Land Borders Die Set. This is the perfect woodsy setting for the picnic image. She also added some ants trailing off the side and the sentiment "It's a good day to have a good day" from our Woodland Picnic Stamp Set (also retiring). The simple white card base really lets this scene pop!

Note: The Newton's Picnic Stamp Set is part of our retiring sale and will only be available while supplies last so if you like this design, make sure you get it while you can and don't forget to see what else is retiring in our retiring sale category!

To see more projects by Maria you can visit her over at her blog, Maria Russell Designs

Life's a Picnic With You Card by Samantha Mann

Life's a Picnic!

Life may not be a picnic lately but I'm sure you know someone who makes your life easier! Today Samantha shares a card that would be perfect for letting someone know that they make your life better!She started out by coloring some of the cute critters from our Woodland Picnic Stamp Set. She colored them with beautiful neutral tones adding little pops of color and pink cheeks. She also added some interest by adding accents with a white gel pen. The critters were cut out using the coordinating Woodland Picnic Die Set.

Then she set the scene for these adorable critters using several die sets. She created a blue sky with distress inks and then layered grass over the top using our Land Borders Die Set. Birch trees were added to the background, cut out with our Forest Scene Builders Die Set. Then she used our Sky Borders Die Set to create a canopy of leaves above the trees! Such a fun effect! She also added a dimension to all the die cut pieces with distress inks! So pretty! 

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

Food, Friends & Sunshine Picnic Card by Amanda Wilcox

Let's go on a Picnic!

Today Amanda has created the cutest picnic scene, featuring a combination of images that go perfectly together! She started out by combining the bear and squirrel from the Woodland Picnic Stamp Set and with the kitty digging into the picnic basket from our Newton's Picnic Stamp Set. These images really work great together to create a fun picnic scene! She used the coordinating Woodland Picnic Die Set and Newton's Picnic Die Set to cut the images out so they were ready to layer over the scene.

To set the scene she created layers of hills and grass using our Hills & Grass Stencil with green and brown inks.  In the sky, she used our Cloudy Sky Stencil  inking it with white pigment ink and then heat embossing an iridescent glitter embossing powder over the top.

Now that the scene was set, she layered a picnic blanket along the bottom, created using our Plaid Stencil Set. Over the blanket, she layered all the lovely critter images. To finish the scene out, she added a row of ants from the Woodland Picnic Stamp Set, climbing over the hill to look for picnic snacks!


Here is a close up so you can see how cool those glittery clouds look! She also added the sentiment "food, friends, & Sunshine" from the Woodland Picnic Stamp Set, stamped onto a ticket shape that was cut out using our Framework Die Set. 

We hope you have a picnic as fun as this one (maybe minus the ants)!

Thank you, Amanda, for sharing this adorable picnic scene with us today! To say hello to her and see more of her awesome creations you can visit Amanda over on her blog, Twiddler's Nook!

One in a Melon Card by Larissa Heskett

One in a Melon!!

Today we have a duo of melon themed projects by Larissa that will make you smile! She was inspired to create a fun melon background after seeing this watermelon project on instagram by kaydemonbren8. Kay had used our Raindrops Stencil over a pink background to make a watermelon pattern.  On her project Larissa used our Tumbling Hearts Stencil to create a fun watermelon background pattern where the seeds are black hearts over a pink inked background! She then added a stripe of green sparkle to represent the watermelon rind! So cute!


She used this background pattern on two projects along with the image of the bear eating a watermelon from our Woodland Picnic Stamp Set. She cut the bears out using the coordinating
Woodland Picnic Die Set so that she could layer them over the background. The finishing touch was the sentiment "You're one in a melon" from the Newton's Melon Stamp Set.

Here is the card she created:

And here is the same pattern used on a tag for a little gift! She also used our Fancy Edges Tag Die Set to cut out the tag shape:

What a fun duo of projects! We hope this inspires you took at your stencils and think of ideas of how to create uniquely themed backgrounds of your own! If you do, make sure to use #newtonsnook to share them with us on instagram or join our Create & Share Facebook Group to share in there! We'd love to see them!

To say hello to Larissa and see more of her creations, visit her over at her blog, Larissa Heskett Designs.

It's a Good Day Card by Amanda Wilcox

It's a Good Day for a Picnic!

Today Amanda has created and amazing fold open box card that is sure to put you in the mood to have a good day! She created a picnic theme for this project, featuring the cute critters from our Woodland Picnic Stamp Set. She stamped and colored all those fun woodland friends with their picnic food from the set, cutting them out using the coordinating Woodland Picnic Die Set. She added them onto her card with layers of grass in between them, added in using our Land Borders Die Set. On the four edges of the box, she added panels of a gingham, stenciled using our Gingham Stencil, that work perfectly for a picnic tablecloth! She added on some little ants and a soda from the Woodland Picnic Stamp Set too.  The back panel features a sky, created with our Clouds Stencil. She added the sentiment "It's a good day to have a good day" on top!

This card is so perfect for sending smiles and reminding the recipient to enjoy their day!

We hope you enjoyed by this project by Amanda today! To say hello to her and see more of her awesome creations you can visit Amanda over on her blog, Twiddler's Nook!

It's a Good Day Card by Tatiana Trafimovich

It's a Good Day!

Today Tatiana has created a charming picnic scene using the cute critters from our Woodland Picnic Stamp Set. She colored the deer with the picnic basket and the cute squirrel with an apple using copic markers and added little accents with a white gel pen. The critters were cut out using the coordinating Woodland Picnic Die Set.

In the background she created a fun woodsy scene by stenciling the sun ray pattern from our Sunscape Stencil to create a fun two toned sky. Over this she layered some white birch trees, die cut using our Forest Scene Builder die. The whole scene is framed by a circle cut out from a white card front. She also added a line of grass using our Land Borders Die Set and added a bit of dimension to it by coloring it with distress inks! She also added some iridescent sequins for a finishing touch. Those little extra details really make a card feel special!

Along the bottom she stamped the sentiment "It's a good day to have a good day" from the Woodland Picnic Stamp Set. This sentiment is perfect for sending a happy hello to a friend to help them remember to have a good day!

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

We hope you having a good day today and are inspired by this lovely card by Tatiana today! If you like this project you can see more of Tatiana's work over on her blog, Tatiana Craft and Art.

Hoppy Spring Card by Maria Russell

Hoppy Spring!

Does it feel like Spring yet where you live? According to the calendar Spring is officially here and we are celebrating today with an adorable Spring card by Maria! This adorable card features a duo of sweet bunnies from two different stamp sets! The bunny holding the daffodil is from our new Hop into Spring Stamp Set and the bunny with the cupcake is from our Woodland Picnic Stamp Set. She paired them together, coloring the daffodil and cupcake with pretty pinks! She used the coordinating Hop into Spring Die Set and Woodland Picnic Die Set to cut the bunnies out.

For her card she created a beautiful pink background panel, giving it a postage edge using our Framework Die Set. She added a circle die cut in the center to hold a lovely little scene that was created using a grass border cut out using our Land Borders Die Set and clouds and a sunshine from our Sky Scene Builder Die Set. She made the cute scene into a shaker too, adding lovely transparent hearts inside.

To finish out the card she added the sentiment "hoppy Spring" by combing the word hoppy from the Hop into Spring Stamp Set with letters that spell out Spring, cut out with our Essential Alphabet Die Set.

This beautiful card has so many fun details!  Here is a close up:

This card is perfect for sending a cheerful Spring wish! To see more beautiful projects by Maria you can visit her over at her blog, Maria Russell Designs and don't forget to subscribe to her YouTube channel too!

Woodland Picnic Card by January Guest Designer Tina Wilstrup

Hello everyone! I don't know about you, but I'm so ready for spring! For my last post as guest designer I used the adorable Woodland Picnic Stamp Set.

I stamped all the critters as well as a couple of sodas, colored them with Copics and fussy cut the images.

I wanted to have them sit on a picnic blanket so I first used a scalloped frame die and on the inside panel I used the cool Gingham Stencil with Festive berries Distress oxide ink. I then flipped the stencil over and used Spun sugar Distress oxide ink. Placing the panel back inside the white frame gives a look of a typical picnic table cloth, don't you think? I flicked a couple of green Copics around the edge of the card base to make it look like the blanket is laid out on the grass.

I popped up the critters with craft foam and placed them on the card. The little sneaky bunny is skipping main course and stealing desert from the basket, so cute! I stamped a sentiment on a strip of white cardstock and cut a flag at one end.

A huge thank you to team Newton's Nook for having me, I had so much fun playing with the cute stamps!

Have a great crafty day!

 - Tina (Handmade Paper Hugs)

Life's a Picnic Card by July Guest Designer Ildi Imrefalvi

The new picnic themed stamp sets were love for the first sight for me, I immediately knew

that these cuties would appear in one of my projects while guesting in July.

This time I decided to create a large sized card - 5,5 X 7 inch - with a bunch of colored

images. As a start I Copic colored and fussy cut images from the sets Woodland Picnic and

Newton’s Picnic. Plaid Stencil Set was perfect to create a blanket for my critters to sit on. I

applied red and blue distress inks onto a piece of white cardstock through stencil 1 and 2

and drew tassels on two sides with a black fineliner before cutting it around.

To create a super colorful woodland background I took my favorite pine trees from Winter

Memories and stamped them in a row with various colors of Memento inks making sure that

the trees are overlapping each other. Fussy cutting this 7 inch row of pine trees may take a

little time :).

For this busy and colorful scene I wanted to have a cloudy blue sky in story book style. So I

dabbed embossing ink through my Cloudy Sky Stencil onto a white piece of cardstock and heat set

with clear embossing powder. This way my clouds stayed white after applying blue distress

ink onto the whole surface.

Before assembling my card I white heat embossed my favorite sentiment from Woodland

Picnic stamp set onto the green card front as well as some ants heading to the picnic basket. I

adhered all the background elements with liquid glue while the stamped and colored images

got a little dimension with foam dots.

Thank you for stopping by,

Ildi

Newton's Nook Designs products used:

Stamp sets:

Newton’s Picnic

Woodland Picnic

Winter Memories

Stencils:

Cloudy Sky Stencil

Plaid Stencil Set

You Make Life a Picnic Card by Maria Russell

You make life a picnic!

Life is a picnic when you have good friends to share it with! Today Maria created this adorable card using those sweet friends from our new Woodland Picnic Stamp Set. She colored the deer holding the picnic basket, the bear with a slice of watermelon and a bunny with a cupcake from the set. She used the coordinating Woodland Picnic Die Set to trim the images out. She placed the bunny and bear in a cute little square, adding the sun in the background using our Sunscape Stencil. She also added in that cute little butterfly using our Bitty Bunnies Stamp Set and coordinating die set. She added in some grass too using our Land Borders Die Set. How cute!

Along the bottom of the card she added another grass border using our Land Borders Die Set and stamped ants along it from the Woodland Picnic Stamp Set. She finished the card off with the "You make life a picnic" sentiment, also from the Woodland Picnic Stamp Set.

Thank you, Maria, for the fun picnic card today! To see more beautiful projects by Maria you can visit her over at her blog, Maria Russell Designs and don't forget to subscribe to her YouTube channel too!

April Reveals - Day 4 - Woodland Picnic Stamp Set

Today is our final reveal day for our June Release and today we are going on a picnic with some of our favorite friends on our Woodland Picnic Stamp Set! We are having a giveaway today too, so make sure you read all the way to the bottom of this post to see how to win!

Woodland Picnic

Our loveable woodland friends are gathering for a picnic on this adorable 4x6 Stamp Set. These sweet little friends are perfect for creating cute picnic scenes, complete with fun picnic snacks! No picnic would be complete without ants so make sure to add those in! This set also includes sentiments that are perfect for creating sunny friendship cards!

Here's some info on the Woodland Picnic Stamp Set:

• 4 x 6 photopolymer stamp set 
• Includes 12 stamps: 9 images and 3 sentiments
• Coordinating Woodland Picnic purr-fect die set (sold separately) includes 2 dies
• Available for purchase in our online shop starting Friday, June 14th

Our Design team is headed on another Picnic today! Please join in!

Check out all the awesome projects below from our Design Team below! Then, make sure to click through to all their blogs for details on their cards - you will find a few extra cards on some of the DT blogs and you might even find a fun video or two along the way! Make sure to comment on all the blogs for a chance to win! Details on the giveaway are at the bottom of today's post.

This woodland scene by Zsofia will steal your heart! She featured several of the forest friends from our new Woodland Picnic Stamp Set and created a scene for them to have their picnic in. She used our Forest Scene Builder Die Set to add in trees and colored a die cut cloudy border from our Sky Borders Die Set green to make it look like tree tops! She also added grass along the bottom edge using our Land Borders Die Set. Did you spy the squirrel hiding in the tree tops? So cute!

This sweet bear and squirrel are enjoying picnic goodies together, complete with the usual picnic ants! Samantha created this fun and whimsical card using the bear and squirrel from our Woodland Picnic Stamp Set and adding an awesome stipe of color behind the critters using distress inks! Love how vibrant this looks!

Andrea created a whole forest of friends sharing a picnic! She used the bear, fox and bunny from our new Woodland Picnic Stamp Set, nestled in a forest of birch trees that were cut out using our Forest Scene Builder Die Set. She also added some grass using our Land Borders Die Set. What an adorable picnic scene!

The deer and squirrel are ready to share a picnic on this card by Tatiana. She used the cute critters from our Woodland Picnic Stamp Set. Isn't that lime green picnic basket so fun? She created her own gingham pattern using our Plaid Stencil Set and overlapping it. She cut the squares out using our Frames Squared Die Set and added a bit of grass with our Land Borders Die Set. Completely adorable!

Larissa created an adorable picnic for all the sweet forest friends in our new Woodland Picnic Stamp Set.  She used our Frames Squared Die Set to create a picnic blanket for them all to fit on. She colored them in gorgeous neutrals adding accents and cheeks with a white gel pen. The sentiment is held inside a cute ticket shape from our Framework Die Set.

The fox on this card by Ellen is so cozy enjoying his lunch in the woods! She created this fun scene featuring the fox, soda and ants from our new Woodland Picnic Stamp Set. Then she added in hills using our Land Borders Die Set. She placed some little trees from our Fox Hollow Stamp Set in the hills and layered it all over a sunny background that was created using our Sunscape Stencil. She die cut the square layers using our Frames Squared Die Set.

This sweet and simple card by Holly is perfect for sending to a friend who has made your life a picnic! She featured the deer, bear and fox from the new Woodland Picnic Stamp Set. She left the deer and bear uncolored and highlighted the image of the fox by coloring him in gorgeous tones! An adorable way to make an image stand out!

Naki created the sweetest picnic scene using all the critters from the new Woodland Picnic Stamp Set. She colored all those lovely friends in soft shades of neutral colors and added rosy pinks to their cheeks! She created a landscape for them using the hill from our Land Borders Die Set and added in a bunch of ants to make the picnic complete! 

Maria created this delightful scene featuring three forest friends from our Woodland Picnic Stamp Set. These cuties are so adorable eating their picnic foods nestled in grassy hills. She added all those little ants along the bottom for a fun border. She completed her scene with a cloudy sky and sun and added the sentiment, also from the Woodland Picnic Stamp Set in the sky. 

With so many cute critters in this picnic, Amanda wanted to feature them all so she created a fun long panoramic card! She colored each of the fun critters from our Woodland Picnic Stamp Set and lined them all up across the card, layering them over hills that we cut out using our Land Borders Die Set. The gorgeous sunny background was created using our Sunscape Stencil. So gorgeous! 

Would you like to win “Woodland Picnic” Stamp Set? This stamp set will be given away to ONE lucky winner!

Here's how to win: 

Comment on the NND blog and Design Team blogs (see list below)! The winner will be chosen at random from the collective reveal posts. Make sure to check out each of their blogs and comment for your chance to win. You will not know which blog has been chosen so the more you comment on the better your chances are of winning! You have until Thursday June 13th at 9pm ET to comment  -- winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday, June 14th. 

Check out all the awesome Design Team Blogs below to enter:

Newton's Nook Designs

Amanda Bodine

Holly Endress

Ellen Haxelmans

Larissa Heskett

Samantha Mann

Zsofia Molnar

Naki Rager

Maria Russell

Andrea Shell

Tatiana Trafimovich