Merry Christmas from Newton's Nook Designs

Merry Christmas! See you Next Year!  

We are taking a bit of a holiday break for some much needed rest and relaxation! 

We will not be having any new blog posts for a couple of weeks. 
But don't worry - we will be back in January with lots of amazing inspiration! 

Wishing you a wonderful Holiday Season!

Merry Christmas from our family to yours! 

 - Jen & Jeff

(Marlowe & Saffron)

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! 

A Very Merry Cat Christmas Card by Zsofia Molnar

A Very Merry Kitty Christmas!!

Today Zsofia has created a fun cat themed holiday card featuring images from two of our favorite cat themed holiday stamp sets together!

She started out by stamping the cat wearing a winter scarf from our Newton's Holiday Mischief Stamp Set and the kitty peeking from behind the snowman from our Newton's Curious Christmas Stamp Set. She colored the kitties in neutral colors and added pops of oranges, teals and greens to the winter accessories! She cut both images out using the coordinating Newton's Holiday Mischief Die Set and Newton's Curious Christmas Die Set.

Here are a couple of close ups so you can see her lovely coloring:

Since both of the images have a winter theme, she created a winter holiday scene for her card.  She filled the background with trees using our Evergreens Stencil with green ink and then layered sparkly snow on top using our Petite Snow Stencil with glittery texture paste. So pretty! She added a snowy hill shape along the bottom of her card, cutting it out using our Land Borders Die Set. Then she layered the images of the kitties on top of the snowy hill to complete the scene. For the sentiment she cut out a red ticket shape using our Framework Die Set and added the phrase "Wishing you a Very Merry Christmas," stamped from our Bells & Holly Stamp Set and embossed in white. 

The duo of kitties looks so festive in their winter scene! We hope you enjoyed this gorgeous creation by Zsofia today! You can find more of Zsofia's creations and say hello to her over at her blog, Safsafdesign.

A Jolly Heart Shaped Holiday Card by Diane Morales

Holly Jolly!

Today we are sharing a festive heart shaped holiday card by Diane!

To create this fun heart shaped card she starts out by stamping the large heart filled with holiday foliage from our Heartfelt Holidays Stamp Set. She adds pops of color to the image and a bit of gold sparkle too. Then she cut the image out using the scalloped heart from our Heart Frames Die Set. This image is designed to fit perfectly inside the heart. She cuts a second heart from shiny gold cardstock, again using the Heart Frames Die Set. This heart frames the first one perfectly and adds a beautiful shine! 

She uses the shiny cardstock again to foil the sentiment "holly jolly" using our Holiday Greetings Hot Foil Plates. The light colored foil really pops on the metallic paper! So fun! She cuts out the foiled sentiment using our Banner Duo Die Set and layers it over the heart.

The holidays are a perfect time of year to add lots of shine and sparkle to your cards, don't you think!?

To see more creations by Diane, you can visit on her blog, 2sisters project. 

Shaker Card Duo by Ellen Haxelmans

Shaker Card Duo!

Today we are sharing a duo of Holiday shaker cards by Ellen!

To create this duo of shakers she used both our Ornament Shaker Die Set and Snow Globe Shaker Die Set. She cut the shapes out in fun bright pastels and made them into shakers filled with glittery sparkle. She added the words joy and wish to the fronts of the shakers along with some snowflake shapes, all die cut using the extra shapes from the Snow Globe Shaker Die Set. She also adds a bow to the front of the snow globe, die cut using our Pines & Holly Die Set.  

In the background of each shaker she adds more sparkle by using our Confetti Hot Foil Plate to foil silver confetti! For more fun, she covers each of the card bases with patterened paper using our  Love & Chocolate Paper Pad!

What a gorgeous set of cards, filled with fun pops of color and sparkle!

To see more creations by Ellen, you can visit her over at her blog Crafty Ellen

Season's Greetings Snowman Card by Amanda Wilcox

Season's Greetings Snowman Card!

Today we are sharing an adorable snowman card by Amanda that is perfect for sending this holiday season!

This card features the cute snowman from our Snow Much Cheer Stamp Set. Amanda stamped and colored the snowman holding the stocking filled with gifts in soft holiday colors. She then used the coordinating Snow Much Cheer Die Set to cut the image out. 

 To create the beautiful snowy oval behind the snowman, she stamped the big oval image with a snowflake border from our Snowflake Oval Stamp Set, embossing it in white. She added blue distress inks over the top to give it that gorgeous color. then she cut it out using our Oval Frames Die Set to give it a fun scalloped edge. 

For the card base, she started with a light green paper and then inked the pine boughs and holly over the top using our Holiday Foliage Stencil.  

Then she added the "Season's Greetings" Sentiment using our Holiday Greetings Hot Foil Plates with green foil onto a banner that was cut out using our Banner Duo Die Set.

What a fun combination of prouducts! We hope you enjoyed this beautiful Holiday card today! To say hello to Amanda and see more details you can visit her over on her blog, Twiddler's Nook!

Simple Christmas Shaker Card by Farhana Sarker

Christmas Tree Shaker!

Today we are sharing a simple Christmas tree card by Farhana that is perfect for last minute holiday card making!

For her card front she started with a white panel and die cut the tree out of it using the tree shape from our Christmas Trees Hot Foil Plates & Die Set. Next to the tree cut out she added the sentiment " Merry Christmas," from the Heartfelt Holidays Stamp Set.

Next, she stamped the big heart image filled with holiday foliage from our Heartfelt Holidays Stamp Set, embossing it in white. She ink blended over the top using shades of green and blue. Then she layered it behind he tree cut out, adding some 3D adhesive between the layers and clear acetate to create a shaker window. The shaker was filled with iridescent sequins. 

What a perfect way to give the simple card such a fun bit of color and sparkle! 

To see more of Farhana's creations and say hello to her you can visit her over at her blog, Everyday Engineered.