You Make Rainy Days Brighter Card by Tatiana Trafimovich

Bright Umbrellas

This beautiful card by Tatiana is sure to make any rainy day brighter. 

To create this beautiful card she began by cutting out umbrellas in several fun bright colors using our Umbrella Pals Die Set. This die set goes perfectly with the images in our Umbrella Pals Stamp Set but today she is using just the die set on it's own. 

For her card base, she created a fun stenciled panel using both our Bokeh Stencil Set and our Raindrops Stencil. She started by stenciling the big blue dots using the Bokeh Stencil Set with blue inks. Then she added the rain using our Raindrops Stencil with white texture paste! That layering effect is so cool! 

On her card base she added little black raindrops up the side, stamped using the image from our Umbrella Pals Stamp Set and then layered the stenciled panel over the top. Next, she arranged the umbrellas over the stenciled background, layering them on top of each other and added dimensional tape to raise some of them up. The finishing touch is the sentiment "You make rainy days brighter" from our Newton's Umbrella Stamp Set. She embossed the sentiment in white onto black cardstock and then hand cut around it before adding it to her card. 

We love the way the layering of stencils looks on this card! We hope that you will try layering some of your own stencils to create new and fun background patterns and textures!

To see more of Tatiana's beautiful creations, you can visit her blog, Tatiana Trafimovich! 

Gnome Birthday Card by Tatiana Trafimovich

 

Gnome Birthday Wishes!

Today Tatiana is sharing a gnome themed birthday card that is pretty in pink! 

For this sweet birthday scene she starts with the gnomes from our Gnome Garden Stamp Set. She stamps two gnomes along with some butterflies, flowers and a ladybug from the stamp set and colors them using alcohol markers in pretty shades of pink, green and blue. She adds a few white gel pen accents and cuts the images out using the coordinating Gnome Garden Die Set.

Next, she creates a scene for all of her images. She inks a sky in pale pink and then adds layers of circles using our two piece Bokeh Stencil Set in light pinks and then adds raindrops in dark pink using our Raindrops Stencil. Isn't it cool how the two stencils look layered together! What a fun sky!

For the bottom of the scene she cuts out two hills using our Land Borders Die Set and inks the edges with a bright lime green ink. Then she assembles the scene together, adding in the gnomes and all the flowers and butterflies. She adds the sentiment into the sky from the Gnome Garden Stamp Set and adds a little strip of pink striped paper on the right, cut from our Springtime Paper Pad.

 

We hope you enjoyed this pretty pink scene today! To see more of her amazing work, you can visit Tatiana at her blog, Tatiana Trafimovich!

 

 

Get Well Kitty Cards by Jennifer Jackson

Get Well Kitty Cards!

Hello! Jen here today. I realized that didn't have very many get well cards in my stash so I decided to make a few and today I'm sharing 3 sweet kitty themed cards that are purr-fect for sending get well wishes. 

I started by stamping images from our Newton's Sick Day Stamp Set. The kitty with the blanket and thermometer in his mouth is so cute, isn't he? I colored the image using alcohol markers. On the blanket I colored it green and then used the colorless blender to remove color for lighter stripes. I also added some darker green and blue to for several colors of stripes. This turned out so cute! I cut the image out using the coordinating Newton's Sick Day Die Set and then mounted it on a white circle that was cut out using our Circle Frames Die Set. I added the sentiment "hope you're feline better soon!" from the Newton's Sick Day Stamp Set onto the circle. 

For the background I used yellow dot and green gingham patterned papers from our Autumn Paper Pad and added in the bright blue striped paper from our Coffee House Stories Paper Pad. The trio of prints is framed with a postage edged frame, die cut using our Framework Die Set.  A few sequins in coordinating colors finish off the card. 

I made a second card using the exact same image from the Newton's Sick Day Stamp Set. This time I colored the blanket blue with alcohol markers and used the same technique as above with the colorless blender to remove ink. This time I created dots. I also added in some dark blue and yellow dots too.  Again, I used the  coordinating Newton's Sick Day Die Set to cut out the image and a white circle that was cut out using our Circle Frames Die Set with the same sentiment as above. 

For the background I used the same yellow dot and green gingham patterned papers from our Autumn Paper Pad and added in the bright blue striped paper from our Coffee House Stories Paper Pad. Again, I used a postage edge frame that die cut using our Framework Die Set and a  few sequins in coordinating colors finish off the card. 

The last card I created uses a different stamp and layout. This time I used the image of the kitty with the bowl of soup from the Newton's Sick Day Stamp Set. 

I kept with a similar color theme as the other two cards, using blues and greens with a gray kitty. I cut the image out using the coordinating Newton's Sick Day Die Set. Then I cut out a decorative square using our Frames Squared Die Set. I used distress inks on the square to color it so that it matched the bowl. I also added the sentiment in the upper right corner of the decorative square shape. 

For this card I used our Bokeh Stencil Set to create a background of cheerful yellow dots. This set has two layers that can be combined for a bokeh effect but you can use just one of the layers by itself to create fun dots, which is what I did here. I added a bit of white cotton twine and then mounted it onto a green cardstock base to match the green on the soup bowl. 

I had so much fun creating this trio of get well cards. I hope they bring the recipients some cheer! I hope you enjoyed this inspiration today! 

Thinking of Ewe Card by Samantha Mann

 

Thinking of Ewe! 

Let someone know they are in your thoughts with this adorable card by Samantha!

For this card she features a sweet trio of sheep from our Baa Stamp Set. She colored these adorable fluffy sheep in neutral colors, adding pink to their cheeks and accents with a white gel pen. She cut the sheep out using the coordinating Baa Die Set. 

For her card base, she used our Bokeh Stencil Set to add the fun bokeh background in a gradient of pink to peach, created with distress inks. She added more texture with white paint splatters and then she cut this background out using our Frames & Flags Die Set to give it a fun scalloped edge. 

To create the customized sentiment she stamped the "thinking of" sentiment from the Baa Stamp Set, embossing it in white on a black strip of paper. Then she cut the letters to spell "EWE" on the right side of the background panel, using the Essential Alphabet Die Set to complete the sentiment. Super creative!

We hope you enjoyed this lovely card today and are inspired to create custom sentiments for your cards too!

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

 

Best Witches Card by Larissa Heskett

Best Witches! 

Today we are sharing an incredible card by Larissa that is sure to put you in the mood for some Halloween treats! 

For her focal image, she used the kitten in a jack-o-lantern from our Trick or Treat Kittens Stamp Set. She colored this image with gorgeous bright colors and added white gel pen details. She also colored some extra little candy images to cluster around it. The images were cut out using the coordinating Trick or Treat Kittens Die Set. 

Next, she created a fun starry background using our Cascading Stars Stencil onto a circle that was cut out using our Circle Frames Die Set. She also added the "Best Witches" sentiment from our new Brooms & Boos Stamp Set in another circle. 

Let's talk about that gorgeous background too! She used our Gingham Stencil not once, but twice! She stenciled the pattern once in orange and once in purple, moving it over so that the squares lined up next to each other and the stripes overlapped. So cool! Then she added even more fun by using one of the layers of circles from our two piece Bokeh Stencil Set with a glitter gel over the top! Wow!

What an incredible way to send a Happy Halloween wish! 

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

Naughty or Mice Card by Tatiana Trafimovich

Are You Naughty or Mice?

This adorable mouse themed holiday card by Tatiana is sure to make you smile today! She started out with our sweet Naughty or Mice Stamp Set, coloring three of the cute little holiday helpers in fun holiday colors. She added amazing details to her coloring with added dots for texture! The images were cut our using the coordinating Naught or Mice Die Set. For her card background she created a fun cheese pattern by using the dots from our Bokeh Stencil with yellow ink over a light yellow background! This is such a fun idea and pairs perfectly with the mice! She added each mouse onto the card over a circle of vellum that was cut out using our Circle Frames Die Set, perfect for adding a soft layer over the background! The finishing touch is the sentiment "naughty or mice?" from the Naughty or Mice Stamp Set, embossed in white on a black square to make it stand out! 

This card is all kinds of adorable, don't you think!?

We hope you enjoyed this card by Tatiana  and are inspired to think of new ways to interpret a stencil to stretch its use!

Don't forget, you can always see more of Tatiana's beautiful work over on her blog, Tatiana Craft and Art.

 

New Baby Card by Larissa Heskett

Celebrate a new Baby!

Today Larissa has created a stunning baby card in shades of teal! For this fun card she stamped the whale bib from our Bitty Bibs Stamp Set several times, coloring each image with a gray whale and bright teal bubbles. Then she added a scalloped teal bib behind each image using our Baby Bib Die Set. So cute! She layered the images all over white circles and then over a gorgeous teal background.

To create that amazing background, she used our Bokeh Stencil Set to add bubbles over a teal background panel. She also repeatedly stamped the words "new baby" from the Bitty Bibs Stamp Set to make a fun pattern. A few sparkly gems were added and then the whole panel was framed using a silver scallop edged frame cut out with our Frames & Flags Die Set.

This gorgeous card has sun a fun celebratory feel and is perfect for welcoming a baby!

Thank you, Larissa, for the beautiful project today! To say hello to Larissa and see more of her creations, visit her over at her blog, Larissa Heskett Designs.

Trick or Treat Card by Nakaba Rager

Trick or Treat!!

Halloween is tomorrow! Are you ready? Today we are sharing a fun trick or treat card by Naki! For her card she created two adorable kids dressed for trick or treating using the princess from our Once Upon a Time Stamp Set and the knight from our Knights Quest Stamp Set. She was inspired by the costume choices of her kids this year who will be going as a prince and princess! She colored the images with gorgeous no-line coloring and then cut them out using the coordinating Once Upon a Time Die Set and Knights Quest Die Set. She also tucked a purple pumpkin candy holder behind the princess using the image from our Dress Up Doxies Stamp Set! What a fun idea!

To set the scene for these cuties she used the spooky house and graveyard from our Spooky Street Stamp Set. She dressed the scene up with a glittery gold moon in the sky that she added in using our Bokeh Stencil Set as a template for the circle. She also added in some die cut bats and the "trick or treat" die cut sentiment from our Halloween Trio Die Set. What a fun sweet scene with a little touch of spookiness! So perfect for Halloween!

Thank you for the fun sparkle today, Naki! If you like this project you can see more of Naki's work over on her blog, Notes from Naki. Stop by and say hello!

2019 Cat Lovers Hop!

2019 Cat Lovers Hop

This week is the 2019 Cat Lovers Hop! This hop is so fun and since the theme is CATS we knew we HAD to play along! To participate in this blog hop, you just have to create a project that features a cat theme  and upload it to the post on Her Peaceful Garden! We Hop you can play along since there are some really awesome sponsors and prizes, including one from us at Newton's Nook Designs! 

Here's what I created:

If you're like me, I never have enough birthday cards on hand so when I do have time to create that's what I usually like to make! For this card I grabbed the cute image of the kitty with the trio of balloons from our Newton's Birthday Balloons Stamp Set. I kept the coloring really simple and didn't do any shading, just added flat colors using copic markers to make a quick and easy card. 

For the background I used our Bokeh Stencil Set to create a cool two color pattern. If you haven't used these fun  stencil sets yet, they are so fun to use! The unique Stencil Sets include two pieces and each piece has an etching of the other layer so you can easily line up the layers and create two color patterns. For this card I used pink and yellow. 

Below are links to the products I've used today. Click on the names to find them in our shop!

Newton's Birthday Balloons

Bokeh Stencil Set 

We also have LOTS of other cute kitty stamps too! 

Make sure to check them all out here in our Newton Category. 

I hope you will play along with the Cat Lovers Hop! You have until Oct 26th to link up at Her Peaceful Garden for a chance to win prizes! 

Newton's Nook Designs & Wow Embossing Powder Inspiration Week - Day 5 with Larissa & Ellen

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 Larissa and Ellen! 

First up we are sharing an adorable Halloween card by Larissa: 

For this awesome witch card, Larissa used our  cute kitty from the Witchy Newton Stamp Set. She embossed the image and sentiment using Clear Gloss embossing powder from WOW! Then she colored the image in gorgeous a fun orange and purple color palette fro Halloween and cut the images our using the coordinating Witchy Newton Die Set. To create the amazing background she layered several of our Stencils. She started with the Gingham Stencil, using it first with orange and then again with purple to create the fun plaid look. Then she used our Bokeh Stencil Set, using just the #2 stencil from the two piece set. She inked over the stencil using Versamark ink and then embossed the dots using the Witching Hour (black magic color blend) embossing powder from WOW! on the dots! What a fun idea for layering stencils. The sparkle adds the perfect touch for Halloween!

Next, Larissa created an amazing Holiday card! She started with a background of printed music paper and then used our Holiday Foliage Stencil to add all the fun leaves, holly and branches to the background. She used selective masking to apply embossing ink to just small sections of the stencil so she could emboss them in different colors. She used Green Glitz, Red Glitz, Metallic Copper Sparkle, Lime Ricky, and Calypso glitter embossing powders from WOW! to add all the fun color and sparkle. She also inked a bit around the images with distress ink to help the colors pop! She added the sentiment from our Christmas Haul Stamp Set and used Clear Gloss embossing powder for WOW! to give it some shine. The scallop edged border was die cut using our Frames & Flags Die Set.

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

 Next, we have a a duo of Christmas card by Ellen:

For her first adorable card, Ellen features the duo of Christmas dogs from our Happy Howl-idays Stamp Set. She colored the dogs, giving them fun blue and red accessories and used the coordinating Happy Howl-idays Die Set to cut the image out. She added a little snowy hill for them to sit on using our Land Borders Die Set. For the gorgeous snowy background she used our Snowfall Stencil. She applied embossing ink over the stencil and then used the Midnight Dream embossing powder from WOW! to add the sparkle to the snowflakes! She added the custom sentiment by that wa created using the word "happy" from our Holiday Greetings Die Set along with the little word "Holidays" that was stamped from our Simply Seasonal Stamp Set. She embossed the little word using Metallic Silver embossing powder from WOW! The whole scene is framed with a red scalloped edge that was cut out using our Frames & Flags Die Set.

Our last project today is another adorable Holiday card by Ellen. For this fun card she used the image of the mouse with the candy cane and reindeer headband from our Naughty or Mice Stamp Set. She colored the image and cut it out using the coordinating Naughty or Mice Die Set. She created a scene for the mouse inside a stitched square that was cut out using our Frames Squared Die Set. She created a starry sky using our Cosmic Newton Stamp Set to stamp the stars and embossed them using Glow-in-the-Dark embossing powder from WOW! She die cut some trees using our Forest Scene Builder Die Set and added "snow" on them using the White Puff Twinkle embossing powder from WOW!
She added a little hill using our Land Borders Die Set to complete the scene. For her sentiment, she combined the word "merry" from our Holiday Greetings Die Set with the word "Christmas" from our Simply Seasonal Stamp Set. She embossed the word "Christmas" in white using Opaque Bright White embossing powder from WOW!  She framed the whole scene using the scallop edged square and the rounded stitched square from our Frames Squared Die Set.

Here's a photo showing how the stars look in the dark with the Glow-in-the-Dark embossing powder from WOW!:

Visit Ellen's blog: Crafty Ellen to see more to see more and leave her a comment for another chance to win!

We hope you have enjoyed our collaboration week this week! Make sure to visit the blogs and leave comments for a chance to win!

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

Would you like to win a $25 store credit Newton’s Nook Designs?

Here's how to win: Leave comments on the NND & Design Team blog posts using WOW  products all week (September 23-27) 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 September 27th at midnight CST to comment. The winner will be announced on the NND blog post on Monday, September 30th.

Want another chance to win? WOW is also giving away a prize pack! Visit the WOW blog each day this week for more inspiration and details on how to win their prize! 

Dog and Ice Cream Summer Card by Naki Rager

You make my Tail Wag!

Happy 4th of July to our readers in the USA! We hope you are having a fabulous holiday and enjoying some summer treats today! Since we are in the mood for some summer treats here we are sharing this adorable card by Naki featuring a dog  enjoying a treat of ice cream! She used the image of the dog from our Dog Days of Summer Stamp Set and colored it with soft watercolors. Then she carefully fussy cut out the image to add to her card. For her card she created a fun background of bubbles using our Bokeh Stencil Set. Then she added the "You make my tail wag" Sentiment from the Say Woof Stamp Set on top, embossing it with metallic embossing powder. She added on the dog, adding in a hand drawn horizon line for him to sit on. She also added a layer of grass along the bottom using our Land Borders Die Set! What a perfect summer scene!

Thank you for the fun beautiful summer card today, Naki! If you like this project you can see more of Naki's work over on her blog, Notes from Naki. Stop by and say hello!