Happy Friday! This Friday we are ending the week with this adorable French themed thank you card by Amanda! She used our Newton Dreams of Paris stamp set to create this adorable card. I love how she colored the image of the kitty in the hot air balloon in lovely shades of pink, red and light blue! And she even added some glossy sparkle to the hearts! Then she added this image onto a fun stenciled background with the Eiffel Tower image (also from the Newton Dreams of Paris stamp set) in the corner! The added die-cut clouds give it so much fun dimension! She added on the "merci" sentiment on the cute little stitched banner from the Sweet Summer stamp set and some fun patterned washi tape up the side to add a bit more whimsy! So adorable!
Thanks for making us smile today, Amanda! To see more of her beautiful creations, visit Amanda over at her blog, RutabagaPie Designs!
Today we are sharing this adorable mini floral card by Tatiana! She created this little shaped card using the the vase a flowers from our Lovely Blooms stamp set! She inked up those flowers, leaves and jar using Distress inks. Then she die-cut them all out using the coordinating Lovely Blooms Die Set. To make it into a card, she jut the jar out twice to create a shaped card base and glued together only the top part so that it opens and you can leave a message inside. Then she added stamped "for my mum" using the words from the Simply Relative stamp set on a little circle tag that was die-cut using our Tags Times Two Die Set.
Isn't this adorable? I love the idea of shaped cards! Who else is inspired to create a shaped card now!?
Make sure to you take a minute to visit Tatiana on her blog, Tatiana Craft and Art! Leave her a comment and see more of beautiful creations!
Today we have an adorable sloth shaker card by Naki! She used that adorable sloth from In Slow Motion stamp set and colored him using no-line coloring. I just LOVE how she colored the fur on him! He looks so fuzzy I want to pet him! Then she made the image into a fun shaker card, filled with tiny stars! The star theme continues with the tiny star patterned paper and the gold star washi tape! Then she finished it off with an the "have a sloth-some birthday" sentiment, also from the In Slow Motion stamp set, embossed in white on vellum and added on with a cute little heart and a tiny bit of doily! What a sloth-some card!
Make sure you head over to say hello to Naki and see more of her beautiful creations at her blog, Notes from Naki!
This sweet card by Holly today is perfect for sending a cheerful hello to friend! She used the fun images from our Newton Dreams of Paris stamp set to create this beautiful scene! That kitty in the rainbow colored hot air balloon is just SO adorable! To make it into a scene she added in the fun Eiffel Tower and more hot air balloons and clouds in the background. She also did a fun inked background and used our Land Borders Die Set to created the fun curve for the grass!
Here's a video by Holly showing you how she created this fun card:
Thank you, Holly, for inspiring us today! You can find more of Holly's beautiful creations and say hello to her over at her blog, Hollybeary Creations or visit her YouTube Channel for more fun videos!
Hello there!
It's Kaja from Kajcyika crafts! I am back with a new card as a April guest designer here at Newton's Nook blog. Can't believe that this is last Monday in April! I had so much fun and I hope to be back on this blog sometime in the future. :)
Today we will talk about how to use your Christmas stamps in a non-christmas way. I will show you how to do so with a Newton's Nook Designs set called Winston's home for Christmas. :)
First, take a look of what I have created:
I have also prepared a video tutorial for you. Make sure you check it out! :)
The most important thing while doing a technique like this is to know what do you want your image to look like in the end. I knew that I want the Christmas tree and the wreath to be gone, so I used my post it notes to mask it off.
I couldn't make the masks to fit perfectly, since the tree is also inside our car, so I just stamped the masked images on my watercolor paper and filled up the missing lines with my black alcohol marker.
I colored everything up with my ZIG markers and I used the colors that are not Christmas related at all, cause I didn't want this car to remind us of holidays. I think that this could be a perfect birthday card for a boy, since we have a cute car and the gifts on it.
Since I really wanted to focus on a technique of masking of a holiday stamp and making it non-holiday I decided to leave the rest of the card simple. I drew some stitched lines at the background and stamped the sentiment 'Special delivery' from Newton's happy mail set.
In the end I just glued down our card with the double sided rectangles and our birthday card was all finished!
I just want to say that I am really grateful for being a guest designer here at Newton's nook this month and I hope that you enjoyed my cards! :)
Ellen is amazing at making scenes on her cards and today's card is one of my favorites! Those kitties hanging out together having coffee and cake are SO adorable! She did such an amazing job coloring all those cute images and giving them a fun watercolor background!
She used several of our stamp and die sets to create this adorable scene! The kitty with the french press and the coffee cups are from the Newton Loves Coffee stamp set! The kitty with the cake on a plate is from our Newton Love Cake stamp set. Then she added on the cute birdie and butterflies from the Newton's Birdbath stamp set. What a fun combo of images! She also snuck in a bit of grass behind those kitty friends using the grass border from our Land Borders Die Set.
To finish the card she added in a custom sentiment she created using "Glad you're my" and "friend" from the new Simply Relative stamp set and the word "special" from the new Lovely Blooms stamp set! These two sets have words that work so perfectly together!
Then, for some more fun, she created these adorable earrings using the little butterfly from the Newton's Birdbath stamp set! She colored the cute little butterflies and trimmed them out with the coordinating Newton's Birdbath Die Set before inserting them into those cute little earrings! What a fun little gift this would make for a friend!
To seem more of her beautiful creations, you can visit Ellen over at her blog Crafty Ellen!
I love it when Designers on our team come up with unique ways to combine our products that I never would have though of! Today's layout by Samantha is the perfect example of this! She used the fun eggs from our Beautiful Spring stamp set and and combined them with the antlers from our Splendid Stags die set to create an "EGG HUNT" scrapbook page!! This is such a fun idea and unique way to combine these products! The rainbow of colors she used on the eggs is so fun and beautiful against the white page too! What a wonderful way to remember a fun day!
Thank you Samantha for awesome inspiration today! To say hello to Samantha and see more of her awesome creations, you can visit Samantha's Blog, Sam's Scrap Candy!
Today we are sharing this gorgeous peacock card by Juliana! She used the fun new swirly peacock image from our Beautiful Plumage stamp set. I love the way the metallic embossing looks on this beautiful bird! She colored the image in gorgeous shades of green and glue and trimmed it out using the coordinating Beautiful Plumage Die Set. This image really pops off that lovely textured white background and ties in perfectly with the blue border.
She also added in the "Always be yourself" from the Beautiful Plumage stamp set! This set has some really fun inspirational sentiments that are sure to make the recipient of cards using them feel great!
Thanks, Juliana, for the amazing inspiration today! To see more creations by Juliana, you can head over to her blog, 17 Turtles!
If you love flowers, you are going to LOVE this beautiful floral card by Maria! She created this amazing card using our NEW Lovely Blooms stamp set and coordinating Lovely Blooms Die Set! Aren't those flowers embossed with white over vibrant inked backgrounds so pretty!? She also added the custom sentiment " for my Amazing sister" using words from the Lovely Blooms stamp set!
Would you like to see a video of her process for creating this card? Maria has created an awesome video sharing her techniques on this card AND sharing a peek at all the products in our April release! You can find it today on her blog and YouTube Channel! Make sure you to head over there and check it out!
To see more beautiful projects by Maria, visit her over at her blog, Maria Russell Designs and don't forget to subscribe to her YouTube channel too!
Hello there!
It's Kaja from Kajcyika crafts! I am back with a new card as a April guest designer here at Newton's nook blog.
I decided that I want to use one of the stamps of Newton, since they are all so adorable. The one I had chosen is called Newton's Happy Mail!
Take a look of what I have created:
As promised, I have a video tutorial for you. So make sure you check it out! :)
First thing that I had to do was to decide which paper I am gonna use. I decided to go with Neenah desert storm and normal white card stock. I diecutted the rectangle in the middle and it was time to color our Newton!
I stamped the image from Newton's Happy Mail stamp set on my Derwent watercolor paper. I used the colors of ZIG markers that are really muted down to color the image, since I think that bright colors and kraft cardstock don't really go together. I added some gray lines on the Newton's head to make him a bit more realistic and interesting. In the end I just added some more details on the mailbox with my white gel pen.
To make the background a bit less boring, I stamped some paws using Distress Tea dye ink. The paws are from the same Newton's Happy Mail set and I stamped them in the random order.
Of course we also need a sentiment and I went with embossed 'special delivery' phrase in white on my black cardstock.
The last thing was to glue everything together. On all the pieces I used double sided tape and I added some foam rectangles on Newton to make it a bit more dimensional.
That's it for today. Hope that you like what I have created and that you will join me next Monday!
Thank you to everyone for participating in our blog hop. We really enjoy reading all of your comments! Check out below to see if you won! The blogs and the comments were chosen using random.org.
Winner of the Beautiful Plumage stamp set from the Maria's blog:
Winner of the Lovely Blooms stamp set from Larissa's blog:
Winner of the Simply Relativestamp set from Amanda's blog:
Winner of the Newton's Birdbathstamp set from Juliana's blog:
Congrats to the Winners! Don't forget - you have 5 days from today to to e-mail us at info@newtonsnookdesigns.com with your full name and shipping address and the name of the set you won to claim your prize.
You can shop online now - our new release is up in the store!
Today is the last reveal day of products from our April Release. Newton fans will love this adorable new mini set, Newton's Birdbath! We are giving this stamp set away one lucky winner so make sure you read all the way to the bottom of this post to see how to win!
Newton's Birdbath
Newton is up to his antics again in this fun 3 x 4 stamp set! Our favorite kitty is making friends with (or chasing) the birds on his birdbath. Either way, this set is sure to make you smile! Add on the "You are always on my Mind" sentiment or the "so many smiles start with you" to brighten anyone's day!
Available for purchase in our online shop starting Friday, April 14th
Have a splash with these adorable cards by our Design Team!
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.
Ellen created a beautiful scene using the kitty and birdbath image, adding a fun fence and orange sky behind the image. She also added layers of grass using our Land Borders Die Set
Holly created this adorable card! This kitty has two birds hanging out on the birdbath and fun purple butterflies in the sky! She also used the Land Borders Die Set to add in some grass too!
Maria created an a really awesome background with layered pastel colors that creates the perfect setting for the image of Newton and his birdbath! She also added the fun green polka-dot hill in front using our Land Borders Die Set.
Jennifer created this adorable card with a fun yellow birdbath! I love the way she colored the stripes on the kitty too! She also added in layers of grass with our Land Borders Die Set.
This card by Amanda will make you smile! She combined the softly colored image with a fun bold black and white background paper! I love how they contrast and look so great together!
Samantha fussy cut the kitty away from the birdbath and used him alone on this fun card! Doesn't he look cute hanging off that black banner? The fun pink and yellow inked background is super fun too!
This adorable card by Tatiana has such sweet spring colors! She used the die-cut shape to mask off the kitty and birdbath while she did the background inking! What a clever technique!
The red birdbath on this card by Juliana is so awesome! I love how it pops off the card! The watercolor background goes perfectly with the birdbath theme too!
Naki did some amazing no-line coloring on the birdbath image for her card! I love the soft watercolor background with the "smile" die cuts added in from the Garden Window die set. She also added in a little wreath from the Happy Little Thoughts stamp set.
Larissa did some amazing coloring on the kitty and birdbath image too! I love the intensity of the color! She also made a fun background using die cuts from the Sky Borders die set to create cloud masks and added in a fence and some grass using the Land Borders die set.
Would you like to win the “Newton's Birdbath” Stamp Set?
This 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 April 13th at 9pm CST to comment -- winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday, April 14th.
Check out all the awesome Design Team Blogs below to enter:
We hope you are enjoying our April Release this week! Today we are celebrating family with another new stamp set Simply Relative! This stamp set will become essential for your collection! We are giving this stamp set away one lucky winner so make sure you read all the way to the bottom of this post to see how to win!
Simply Relative
Want to create custom cards for all the special family members in your life? This 4x6 sentiment stamp set is just what you need! This set features a few big descriptor words that go with all the family members! Mix and match to create what you need. From your "mom" to your "favorite great uncle", this set has all the words you need to customize cards for any occasion! Let your family know how special they are!
Available for purchase in our online shop starting Friday, April 14th
If you like making your own custom sentiments, you might also want to check out our Simply Seasonal and Simply Sentimental sets too!
Celebrate family with these awesome projects by our Design Team!
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.
Jennifercreated a "wonderful teacher" card using the words in this new set! She also added in some of the florals from the Lovely Blooms stamp set (revealed in our post here yesterday), and our Sky Borders die set to make the scalloped edge!
This lovely bouquet by Juliana is perfect for a wonderful mother! She used words from the new Simply Relative set with a bouquet of flowers created using the Lovely Blooms stamp set (revealed in our post here yesterday). I love the bright spring colors she used!
Samantha made this striking floral card for a mother in-law using the words from the Simply Relative set along with florals stamped in yellow from our Cottage Garden stamp set! What a great way to make a gorgeous yet simple card!
Amanda used the "Glad you're my mother" words from our new Simply Relative set combined with some of the florals from the Lovely Blooms stamp set (revealed in our post here yesterday).
Holly created this awesome masculine card for the "world's best grandpa." She use the words from the Simply Relative set along with the deer die cut from our Splendid Stags Die Set. That awesome background was created using the swirly flower from the Lovely Blooms stamp set (revealed in our post here yesterday)! I love how she stamped it to look like wood! So clever!
Maria created this sweet jar or roses for a "wonderful daughter". She used words from the Simply Relative stamp set and words and flowers from the Lovely Blooms stamp set (revealed in our post here yesterday). These two sets go so perfectly together!
This gorgeous floral card is by Larissa. She created clusters of beautiful blooms in each corner using the Lovely Blooms stamp set (revealed in our post here yesterday). Then she created a wonderful background using the words "wolds best mother" using words from both the Lovely Blooms set and the Simply Relative set!
This amazing floral card is by Ellen! I love how she framed the words "world's best and wonderful mother" with sweet clusters of flowers from the Lovely Blooms stamp set (revealed in our post here yesterday). The gold and kraft background makes the card feel extra special!
Tatiana made this lovely card for the "world's best mother" using the words from the new set today combined with those beautiful hydrangea blooms from the Lovely Blooms stamp set (revealed in our post here yesterday).
Naki created this fun card for a "mother in-law." The color combo is so pretty and I love how she added the words onto a fun banner to make them pop off card! She also added in a rose from the the Lovely Blooms stamp set (revealed in our post here yesterday).
Would you like to win the “Simply Relative” Stamp Set?
This 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 April 13th at 9pm CST to comment -- winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday, April 14th.
Check out all the awesome Design Team Blogs below to enter:
