Retiring Products Feature Week - Day 3 - Larissa Heskett & Ellen Haxelmans

It's time to make room for new products so we are retiring select designs! 

These designs are discounted up to 40% off while supplies last so hurry to get your favorites before they're gone for good! Head over to the shop to see what's going away in the retiring sale category!

All week our design team will be sharing inspiration using some of their favorite products from our retiring list and we are featuring projects by Larissa and Ellen
 

 Next, Larissa has created a shaker card featuring the pretty flowers from the retiring Peony Blooms Stamp Set!

For this gorgeous card Larissa colored those pretty blooms in yellow and layered them over a fun shaker card window that was created using our Frames & Flags Die Set. In the background she created woodgrain texture by dry embossing with the retiring Hardwood Stencil. So pretty! She even added a matching woodgrain pattern on the envelope flap for a fun special touch! Detailed product list below.

Retiring products used: Hardwood Stencil, Peony Blooms Stamp Set, Peony Blooms Die Set

Additional products used: Frames & Flags Die Set, Monarchs Stamp Set (sentiment)

Visit Larissa's blog: Larissa Heskett Designs to see more!

Ellen created two cards using our retiring Peony Blooms Stamp Set and Hardwood Stencil:

Ellen created two gorgeous floral cards using the pretty blooms from our Peony Blooms Stamp Set. She layered them onto pretty heart shaped cards that she cut out using our Heart Frames Die Set. She also added a fun woodgrain pattern to the interior heart using ourHardwood Stencil. So colorful and pretty!   Detailed product list below.

Retiring products used: Hardwood Stencil, Peony Blooms Stamp Set, Peony Blooms Die Set

Additional products used: Heartfelt Roses Stamp Set, Heartfelt Blooms Stamp Set, Heart Frames Die Set, A7 Frames & Banners Die Set

Visit Ellen's blog: Crafty Ellen to see more!

Check back tomorrow for more inspiration!

Don't forget to check out the Retiring Products Category to see everything that is discounted and get your favorites before they are gone for good!

Pretty Peony Card by Farhana Rahman

Friends are Flowers Peony Card!

Today we are sharing a gorgeous spring floral card by Farhana! This amazing floral card features the lovely peony blooms from our Peony Blooms Stamp Set. She embossed the two of the flower images with gold embossing powder and then colored the blooms in gorgeous hues of pink. She fussy cut her blooms out by hand but if you don't like to hand cut, you could use the coordinating Peony Blooms Die Set instead. 

For the card base, she embossed a lovely floral background by using our Bold Blooms Stencil and passing it through her die cutting platform to create a dry embossed background texture. Then she layered the lovely colored blooms onto the lower corner using dimensional adhesives. She also added the sentiment, embossed in gold from our Blooming Botanicals Stamp Set. The black banner was die cut using a banner from our Frames & Flags Die Set and perfectly frames the sentiment. 

What a gorgeous combination of products! 

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

Floral Card for a Happy Couple by Ellen Haxelmans

For the Happy Couple!

Today we are sharing a beautiful wedding card by Ellen! This card wold be perfect for sending to a happy couple or a wedding or an anniversary! 

To create this card, Ellen combined several stamp sets. The gorgeous bloom on the bottom of the card is from our Peony Blooms Stamp Set. She colored the blooms, leaves and bud images and cut them out using the coordinating Peony Blooms Die Set. For the floral background, she used the big image of flowers from our Blooming Botanicals Stamp Set. 

The custom sentiment was created by combining stamped words from our Wedding Frills Stamp Set with the die cut "happy" from our Walking Woofs Die Set! What a clever way to combine elements together. This card also uses our Frames & Flags Die Set for the stitched rectangle and scalloped panels.

Tips on creating this card

Below we have some tips from Ellen on how to create a card like this:

1. (left photo) I stamped the Blooming Botanicals Stamp Set on a rectangle cut out using the Frames & Flags Die Set with embossing ink. Afterwards I embossed it with Clear Matt Dull Wow Embossing Powder. 
2. (center photo) Later I stamped and cut one of the sentiments from the Wedding Frills Stamp Set apart. I used gold embossing powder the words. I also did cut out the happy word with the word die from the Walking Woofs Die Set.
3. (right photo) The flowers from the Peony Blooms Stamp Set are colored with Zig Markers (No. 230 Pale Rose, No. 021 Light Carmine, No. 220 Tea Rose, No. 070 Orange, No. 050 Yellow, No. 044 Deep Green, No. 041 Light Green, No. 045 Pale Green).

We hope you enjoyed this amazing card today and are inspired to mix and match the stamps and dies you have to create unique and custom cards! 

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

Newton's Nook Designs & Wow Embossing Powder Inspiration Week - Day 1 with Samantha & Maria

This is our second post today. To see an awesome fall card by our September Guest Designer, Stephanie Davis, scroll down or click here. 

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 Samantha and Maria! 

First up we are sharing two amazing cards by Samantha: 

 

On her first card Samantha created a gorgeous floral card. She used the flower images from our Peony Blooms Stamp Set, embossing them using Primary Purple Orchid embossing powder from WOW!. She also stamped the leaves and stems from the Peony Blooms Stamp Set, using the Under the Sea embossing powder from WOW!. The images were colored with watercolor markers and cut out using the coordinating Peony Blooms Die Set. For the background she used clear embossing paste with our Tree Rings Stencil and then added Vintage Champagne embossing powder over the top. So lovely! The scalloped edge was die cut using our Frames & Flags Die Set. 

Next, Samantha created a this gorgeous christmas card! She used our Evergreens Stencil and applied ink using an embossing ink pad over the stencil. Then she embossed the trees using embossing powder from WOW! in the colors Primary Purple Orchid, Earthtone Pepper, and Vintage Champagne. She added in a bit of ink blending using distress inks to fill in any gaps of color. She also added the sentiment using our Sentiments of the Season Stamp Set on a piece of vellum. She hand cut it out to add to the card. What a beautiful nature scene!

Visit Samantha's blog: Sam's Scrap Candy to see to see more and leave her a comment for another chance to win!

 Next, we have gorgeous Fall card by Maria:

For her card Maria started by die cutting a bunch of leaves from colored papers and vellum using our Autumn Leaves Die Set. She also added in a couple of pine boughs and a teal bow using our Pines & Holly Die Set. She clustered the leaves together in the corner of her card. Inside the frame she added a teal background with distress inks. Then she embossed the sentiment from our Fall-ing for You Stamp Set, embossing it using White Puff embossing powder from WOW!. 

Visit Maria's blog: Maria Russell Designs to see more to see more and leave her a comment for another 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! 

Hibiscus Thank You Card by Larissa Heskett

Hibiscus Stencil Thank You!!

Happy Friday! Today we are sharing a gorgeous hibiscus card by Larissa! She created this gorgeous background using our two piece Hibiscus Stencil Set. The two piece stencils have etching of the opposite layer on them which makes them easy to line up and use with multiple colors or mediums. To achieve the stunning effect on this card, Larissa used green glitter gel paste on the stencil layer that has the leaves. Then she switched to the stencil that has the flowers and she used transfer gel and white flocking. After she finished the flocking she lined up the flower stencil layer a second time and added distress ink over the flocked flowers to give them their  lovely color! She lined it up a third time to add the gold foil to the flower stamens.

Once this gorgeous panel was created, she framed it with a scalloped edge border using our Frames & Flags Die Set. Then she stamped the "thank you" sentiment from our Peony Blooms Stamp Set and cut it out using the stitched circles from our Frames Squared Die Set to layer over her background. 

Here is a close-up so you can see the sparkle and texure:

Thank you,  Larissa, for sharing this lovely inspiration with us today! To say hello to Larissa and see more of her creations, visit her over at her blog, Larissa Heskett Designs.

Thank You Card Duo by July Guest Designer Ildi Imrefalvi

Thank you. Twice.

Preparing for my guest designing I've made a bunch of sketches for the cards I planned to

create for Newton's Nook in July. Almost a dozen. As I realized that the end of the month is

near and there's only one blogpost to go, I tried to narrow and pick my favorite sketch to

make, but somehow I couldn't decide between two, so here they are :)

For my first card I stamped the floral elements of the set ‘Peony Blooms’ onto masking paper

and cut them out. After stamping the first flower I covered it with masking paper then went

for the next one. I stamped the images repeatedly making sure that the surrounding flowers

are covered with masking paper. 

I created a diagonal shape with the peonies leaving the bottom right area white. I coloured everything with Tombow markers and splattered white acrylic paint all over when it dried. To finish my card I stamped my sentiment with black ink and adhered the finished panel onto a deep blue card base.

For my monochromatic card I picked this adorable dog duo from the Puppy Pals stamp set as the center image and stamped it onto a card sized Copic friendly paper. The rest was just coloring with warm greys. 

Creating monochromatic cards is really relaxing as there's no need to think about which colors to pick. This card just needed six markers and a white gel pen. I usually use a bunch of tools to create my cards so it's fun to make something interesting with supplies fit my pocket :)

Thank you for inviting me, it's been wonderful to be a guest designer for Newton's Nook and I have had so much fun creating cards with these adorable products.

Thank you for reading my posts, I hope you liked my creations!

Hugs,

Ildi

Product used:

Peony Blooms

Puppy Pals

Thinking of You Card by July Guest Designer Ildi Imrefalvi

Note: This is our second post today. To view our 6 year anniversary blog hop winners, scroll down or click here. 

Thinking of You

I really love stamp sets that remind me of my childhood storybooks and Garden Mice is definitely that type. It combines the cutest critters with floral elements which makes it a perfect scene building set.   

To start my card I Copic colored a bunch of images from this hilarious set and added elements from other two: Peony Blooms and Little Lilies. I usually colour and fussy cut more than I need, I found this very helpful while assembling the cards. 

For the background I trimmed a piece of watercolor paper to approx 5x5 inch and sprayed it with Oxide sprays. Watercolor cardstock has an uneven surface and special texture which I thought to be fun for my garden scene.

After white heat embossing the sentiment onto the middle of the background I started to build and arch shaped scene from the colored elements. I used foam dots of various thickness to make the dimensions more interesting. 

I planned to have splatter of white acrylic paint on all over the background, but I totally forgot about it, so I decided to put small dots with my gel pen here and there as a finishing touch.

Thank you for stopping by

Hugs,

Ildi 

NND products used: 

Garden Mice Stamp Set

Garden Mice Die Set

Peony Blooms Stamp Set

Peony Blooms Die Set

Little Lilies Stamp Set

Little Lilies Die Set

Fan Feature Week - Day 3

The rest of this week we're spotlighting creations by our fans!

We see so many amazing projects featuring Newton's Nook Designs products that we thought it would be fun to have our Design Team members pick their favorites and share them on our blog this week! Each day for the rest of this week we will share a couple of our favorite projects, created by YOU, our fans! See your project below? Make sure to scroll down to the end and grab our "spotted" badge for your blog!

Design Team member Andrea Shell picked this stunning, floral card by Anna's Crafty Boutique. This card uses our Peony Blooms Stamp Set.

"Peony Blooms is one of my all-time favorite Newton's Nook Designs sets, and the gorgeous coloring by Anna really brings it to life!  I love the colors she chose and the arrangement she created with those beautiful flowers! The splatters and drops on her purple background are the perfect compliment to those fabulous blooms!"

Design Team member Samantha Mann picked this interactive, shadow card by Mary Reiner. This card uses our Newton's Book Club Stamp Set and Newton's Book Club Die Set.

"Newton's Book Club stamps and dies are one of my all-time favorites! I love the cats sleeping on the books, and around the books! And the cat with the glasses always cracks me up! The interactive element and surprise with this card is awesome! I love the deceptively simple front of the card! It makes the cute scene pop even more! So cute and so inspiring!"

Design Team member Larissa Heskett picked this fun (and funny!) interactive card by karens_kardzz. This card uses our Cluck Stamp Set and Cluck Die Set.

"I just love this funny and interactive card! So creative!!!"

Don't forget - we've created a fun "spotted" badge too - so if your project was featured above, you can you can grab this badge and share it on your blog with a link to this post to show everyone that you were spotted by the Newton's Nook Design Team! 

If you'd like to be considered for a future feature, tag your posts with #newtonsnook in social media to make sure we see them! Check back tomorrow for more fun fan spotlights!