Nailed It! Card by Tatiana Trafimovich + Black Friday Sale!

Details for our Black Friday Sale are at the end of this post - scroll down to see and shop!

"Nailed it!" Card by Tatiana 

Happy Black Friday! Are you shopping today? This shopping themed card by Tatiana is perfect to inspire you to achieve all your shopping goals today! She created a lovely shaker card featuring the girl laden with gifts and shopping bags from our Christmas Haul Stamp Set. She colored the image in fun bright pastels and cut it out using the coordinating Christmas Haul Die Set. She added the image in front of a big circle shaker window. Inside the shaker window she used our Music Stencil to create a festive teal background pattern. For the shaker elements she used little gifts, also from our Christmas Haul Stamp Set, mixed with iridescent sequins. So pretty! She finished it off with the "nailed it" sentiment embossed in white on the black banner underneath!

Here's a close up so you can see all the details of the shaker window:

If you like this project you can see more of Tatiana's work over on her blog, Tatiana Craft and Art.

Don't Miss our BLACK FRIDAY sale!

Are you inspired to shop now? Don't forget to check out the BIG SALE today in our shop! Head over to newtonsnookdesigns.com to grab your favorites and pick up some gifts too!

Shop early - TODAY only - all orders are 25% off - 

Use code 25FRIDAY 

Sale continues all weekend - all orders are 20% off -
Saturday through Monday - Use code THANKS20

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Thank you for supporting our small business and happy shopping!

Happy Thanksgiving & Black Friday Sale Preview!

Happy Thanksgiving!

We hope everyone is having a wonderful Thanksgiving Holiday! We want to take a moment today to thank YOU, all of our AMAZING customers and fans! We are hope you are spending our day today with family, filling up on turkey and relaxing! Then come back and join us for our big Black Friday and Weekend sales starting tomorrow. If you want a peek of the new products and sales, keep reading or scroll down to see the details! 

I did want to take time to share a card today as well! To make this lovely Thanksgiving card, I started with the image of the kitty with the full belly from our Newton's Thanksgiving Stamp Set. I colored the image using watercolor markers and cut it out with the coordinating Newton's Thanksgiving Die Set. For the fun background I stamped a bunch of the smaller images of turkey, pumpkins and pie from the Newton's Thanksgiving Stamp Set on watercolor paper and loosely added color to them. I love how with watercolors you don't have to be perfect and it still looks fun! I also added a few splatters of watercolor paint too. I layered the main image of the kitty over this along with the sentiment "gobble 'til you wobble" from the same stamp set. I stamped this on a banner that was cut out using our Frames & Flags Die Set. I adhered it all together and added some orange bakers twine to finish it off! Super easy and fun!

 I'm sure this is how most of our American fans will feel after their Thanksgiving dinners today! 

I hope you enjoyed this card today! If you're here to find out about our sale this weekend, that's up next!

BLACK FRIDAY SALE tomorrow + Savings ALL weekend!

It's our biggest sale of the year! Make sure to head over to newtonsnookdesigns.com tomorrow to save! 

Shop early - Friday November 29 only 
all orders are 25% off with code 25FRIDAY 

Sale continues all weekend - all orders are 20% off 
Saturday Nov. 30 through Monday Dec. 2 with code THANKS20

Hope you will come back tomorrow and shop! Get your wish lists ready and enjoy your Thanksgiving!

Advent Calendar by Nakaba Rager

Countdown to Christmas!

With December just around the corner it's nearly time to get out the advent calendars and countdown to Christmas! Today Naki created her own custom advent calendar using a bunch of NND products! She started by cutting out 24 tags using our Tags Times Two Die Set. Then she used the numbers from our Essential Alphabet Die Set and added those on.

Then she cut 24 pieces of kraft cardstock and added images for each day from some of her favorite NND holiday stamp sets. She embossed each one with white embossing powder. Then she pinned them all onto striped message board. The effect is subtle, but stunning!

Here's a close-up so you can see some of the details better. Aren't those houses along the bottom from our Main Street Christmas Stamp Set so cool across the three tags!?

And one more image from the other side! The mice from The Nutcracker Squeak Stamp Set  are perfect for this project and the tag with the reindeer names from our Reindeer Roll Call Stamp Set is so fun!

Here is a list of all the stamp sets she used on this project:

All Aboard for Christmas

Santa Paws Newton

Purr-fect Present

Mistle Toad

Ginger Snap

Fleece Navidad

Llama Delivery

Puppy Present

Holiday Lights

The Nutcracker Squeak

Reindeer Roll Call

Poinsettia Blooms

Main Street Christmas

Let It Snow

Thank you for the fun and creative project 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!

Jaw Humbug Card by Samantha Mann

Jaw Humbug!

Today we have a funny card by Samantha featuring sharks with the"Jaw Humbug" sentiment! I guess those sharks are not too excited about the holidays! So funny! She used two sharks from our Shark Bites Stamp Set, colored them and fussy cut them out. She added hats onto them that were stamped from our Newton's Christmas Kittens Stamp Set. These hats are just the right size to add onto the sharks and look even cuter with the tiny pom-poms on the ends!

For the card base she created layers of lovely waves in purples, blues and greens using our Waves & Splashes Stencil with distress inks. Adding a bit of water splatter to the inked parts really adds a nice touch for the water theme! Then she created that custom sentiment "Jaw Humbug" into the center, cutting letters out using our Essential Alphabet Die Set. She added cute little accents to the letters with a white gel pen too. The sharks perfectly frame the sentiment on each side.

Sam is fabulous at fussy cutting but if you don't like cutting images out with scissors you could use the coordinating Shark Bites Die Set  to trim out the sharks and the Newton's Christmas Kittens Die Set to trim out the hats!

We hope this project by Sam made you smile today! To  say hello to her and see more of her awesome creations you can visit Sam over on her blog, Sam's Scrap Candy!

Penguin Piles Slim Line Card by November Guest Designer Amanda Wilcox

This is my last post as a guest designer with Newton's Nook and I want to extend a HUGE thank you and so much love for the opportunity to join everyone this month! It's been so fun creating things to share with everyone and I hope you've enjoyed it as well. 

For today's final card, I just has to use these absolutely adorable penguins from the newest release last week. The set is called Penguin Pile and I fell in love when I saw them and couldn't wait to start stamping! This is a slimline card, measuring 3 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches. It fits in a regular business envelope and still only takes one stamp to mail, which is awesome!

To make my card, I started with an over sized piece of white cardstock and blended blueprint sketch, picked raspberry and scattered straw distress inks together. Then I took the Snowfall stencil and inked up with with white pigment ink. Then I splattered the panel with water and die cut it to fit my card front. Then I die cut a smaller rectangle to create a frame. I did cut a second frame in white to put under and lift up the frame for just a teeny bit of dimension.

I set to coloring my Penguin Pile images to match the area of the background they would be in. This was so much fun! Then I used the coordinating dies to cut them out and popped them up with foam squares.

I added white gel pen detail to all the images, glossy accents to the penguin beaks and feet and a black glaze pen to their eyes. I also added Wink of Stella glitter brush pen to the two Santa-style hats for a little shimmer.

Last, I cut a custom banner using my rectangle dies and stamped my sentiment. I wrapped the banner with the awesome orange baker's twine that came on my Newton's Nook package and popped it in place with foam squares.

Lastly, I added Nuvo Crystal Drops scattered across the background in coordinating colors to the inked panel.

Oh my goodness, I love this card so much! It's soooo bright and fun and just really makes me smile!

I hope you've enjoyed today's card and the other's I've shared this month. Thank you for all the kind words, likes and loves! Each one is appreciated!

If you'd like, you can follow my crafting at these other sites too.
Blog: twiddlersnook.blog
Instagram: @twiddlersnook

Facebook: @twiddlersnook 

I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day! 

Fun with Frame Dies by Ellen Haxelmans

Frame Up some Holiday images!

Today Ellen is showcasing our frame dies and combining two fun hobbies! She features a set of cross-stitched images created by her mother-in-law that work perfectly for holiday cards when framed with our die sets!

You could use our frame dies to create frames for so many things! Try using them with photos or hand painted images to make fun and unique cards like this! The possibilities are endless!

For the first card, she features a cross stitched snowflake and created a square card using our Frames Squared Die Set for the red scalloped square and the kraft colored stitched square. After assembling the card she added on the word "joy" cut from sparkly gold paper using our Snow Globe Shaker Die Set.

For the next card, she uses the Frames Squared Die Set again, this time cutting the square shapes from shades of brown paper. She then uses the decorative square, also from the Frames Squared Die Set to cut out the cross-stitched image of a squirrel and layers that in the center. She adds the word "merry," die cutting it from shiny red paper using our Snow Globe Shaker Die Set. The final touch is some holly added to the bottom, cut out using our Pines & Holly Die Set.

Last, she features a cute cross-stitched Santa. She cuts the image out using our Fancy Edges Tag Die Set. This die set also has a fun top oval that folds over the tag hole and she adds that in red. She also cuts out a scalloped edge frame using our Framework Die Set to layer with the tag. 

Here is the result! How cute is this card!?

Inspired to try creating fun cards and framing images with our frame dies? You can find these and more fun shape dies in our shop under our Shape Dies category!

If you love this project by Ellen you can visit her over at her blog Crafty Ellen to see more of her beautiful creations!

Santa's Gone to the Beach Card by Samantha Mann

Santa's Gone to the Beach!

Santa is so cute chilling out at the beach on this adorable card by Samantha! Maybe he's just finished wrapping his gifts and is relaxing in the waves!

The adorable Santa image is from our Sun Soaked Christmas Stamp Set. She colored the image using watercolor markers and then fussy cut it out. For the awesome beachy scene she creates waves using our Sea Borders Die Set and a beach using the hill from our Land Borders Die Set. Then she added color to them using a whole bunch of distress inks. For the sea she used Mermaid Lagoon, Peacock Feathers and Cracked Pistachio. For the land she used Vintage Photo and Fossilized Amber and for the sky she used Chipped Sapphire, Blueprint Sketch and Mermaid Lagoon.

She embossed the sentiment "Gone to the beach, Love Santa" from our Sun Soaked Christmas Stamp Set onto the blue sky with white embossing powder. She also stamped the image of the Palm trees with the stockings and gifts from the Sun Soaked Christmas Stamp Set onto the beach. She stamped this image a second time on white paper and colored it so she could fussy cut and layer the trees, gifts and stockings over the top without having to fussy cut the tiny line that the stockings are on!

She did an amazing job with her fussy cutting but if you don't like to fussy cut, you could use the coordinating Sun Soaked Christmas Die Set too.

Oh, and did you notice the fun pom-pom she added onto Santa's hat!? So cute!

This project by Sam is so perfect for a warm weather Christmas! To  say hello to her and see more of her awesome creations you can visit Sam over on her blog, Sam's Scrap Candy!

Nutcracker Card by Jennifer Jackson

Hello! Jen here today with a fun nutcracker themed card! I created this fun holiday card featuring the mouse wearing a nutcracker outfit from our The Nutcracker Squeak Stamp Set. I colored the mouse using copic markers and then cut him out using the coordinating The Nutcracker Squeak Die Set. To add to the music theme, I created a background of music notes using our Music Stencil. The nutcracker was layered over this onto a strip of white cardstock. I also added the "joy to the world" sentiment, embossed with red embossing powder from our Ornamental Wishes Stamp Set. To add a bit of holiday sparkle, I cut out two scalloped borders from gold glittery paper using our Sky Borders Die Set. 

This card was is simple to make yet feels so fun and festive! It's putting me in the mood to listen to some Christmas music!

I hope you enjoyed this card today!

Have a fabulous day!

Piles of Warm Winter Wishes Card by Maria Russell

Piles of Penguins and Warm Winter Wishes!

Today Maria created an a sweet winter scene that is sure to make you smile! She features the cute trio of penguins from our new Penguin Pile Stamp Set. She colored them with fun bright pastels on their scarves and hats and used the coordinating Penguin Pile Die Set to cut them and the iceberg out. She created a fun cold scene for them, adding some gifts in the lower corner using the Santa Paws Newton Stamp Set and the coordinating Die Set. Do you think they're crossing the water to grab their gifts!? She also added some snowflakes in the sky and attached stockings to the trees in the background using the little die cut confetti shapes from our Ornament Shaker Die Set. What a fun idea! The warm wishes sentiment on the snowbank was also stamped from our Penguin Pile Stamp Set. 

Thank you for the beautiful winter scene, Maria! 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!

Deck the Halls Card by November Guest Designer Amanda Wilcox

Welcome back everyone! This is my third post as a guest designer for Newton's Nook and the fun is just beginning. I love all of their products so much and have been planning this card out in my head since the last release in November. I hope you enjoy it!

To make this card I die cut my backdrop from white cardstock and then used distress inks and the Gingham Stencil and Ornaments Stencil to create backgrounds for my too cute Christmas Trimmings girls. I trimmed some glitter cardstock down for ground and added that to each panel.

Next, I set to work on my images from Christmas Trimmings, using the stamps and coordinating dies. I colored them with copic markers and added white gel pen accents and then laid out my card to started assembling.

I stamped my sentiment in the upper right box and popped up my gifts and ornament with foam squares. I added glossy accents to the ornament and Wink of Stella glitter brush to the gift boxes.

I popped up my next 2 girls and added glossy accents to the wrapping paper dots, scissors, and tree star and ornaments. The glitter here went on her hair bow and the Santa hat.

 

For this last fun girl, I popped her up with foam squares and added glossy accents to the light bulbs and ornaments in the box. I glittered the bow in the decorations box too.

I had so much fun keeping the color palette for this card limited to blue and teal tones. I just love those colors and it was a fun spin for a non-traditional Christmas card.

I hope you enjoyed this and find a little inspiration to create something beautiful!

I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!

If you'd like, you can follow my crafting at these other sites too.
Blog: twiddlersnook.blog
Instagram: @twiddlersnook

Facebook: @twiddlersnook 

November Release Now Available + Blog Hop Winners!

Are you ready to get your paws inky with our new products?

Winners from the blog hop are posted below - scroll down to see if you won.

Our new products are now available at newtonsnookdesigns.com

November Blog Hop Winners!

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.

From Reveal Day 1 - Winner of the Snowman Party Stamp Set from the Newton's Nook Design's blog:

From Reveal Day 2 - Winner of the Newton's Toboggan Stamp Set from Samantha's blog: Mary-Anne V

From Reveal Day 3 - Winner of the Penguin Pile Stamp Set from Ellen's blog: Brenda Rohlfing Simpson

From Reveal Day 4 - Winner of the Frosty Folks Stamp Set from Tatiana's blog: 

Congrats to the Winners! Don't forget - you have 7 days from today to to e-mail us at info@newtonsnookdesigns.com with your full name and mailing 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!