It's Your Birthday! Card by April Guest Designer Jennifer Hartsgrove

Hi Krafty Friends! I’m back up on the Newton’s Nook Designs blog and YouTube Channel today as April’s Guest Designer!


In this weeks project I used Newton’s Birthday Balloons, and Oink Stamp Sets. Plus, I used their Confetti and Cloud Stencils. I also tried some techniques that I haven’t tried before!

Starting my project I used Pixie Spray to adhere the stencil temporarily to Bristol Smooth Cardstock. Then I randomly spread Rina K Designs Electro-Pop Neon Glitz Gels onto NND’s Confetti Stencil in Poppin’ Pink, Orange Glow, Hello Yellow and Screamin’ Green using a palette knife. I then scraped the excess off with my Stencil Pal. I did have a little difficulty with lifting the stencil off my paper, I had some tearing. I tried it several times, and wasn’t able to get one solid piece without some sort of tear. I’m not sure if I need to wait longer to remove, or if I used a little too much Pixie Spray. I was able to get what I needed for my card, and will have to do more experimenting in the future. That being said the pieces that didn’t have any damage, were absolutely gorgeous!


I stamped my images onto Copic friendly Cardstock with Lawn Fawn’s Jet Black Ink. I then decided to pre-cut the images out, I wanted to use flock on my balloons and thought this would be the best course of action.

My color palette:

• Newton’s Fur – Y35, Y38, YR15 and YR16. Ears: R20
• Piggy: R20, R21 and R22. Hoofs: N0 and R01
• Cake: E35 and E37
• Green: YG06
• Orange: YR04
• Yellow: Y18
•  Hot Pink: RV04

I have wanted to experiment with flock for a while, so I thought these balloons would be a cool place to check it out. I used the same colors as the Glitz Gels.


I first used Deco Foil Transfer Gel Blanco and painted it onto the “kitty” balloon. Then I waited about an hour for it to set, and added a small piece of the flock face down on the balloon. I used my household parchment paper to make an envelope and ran it through my laminator on the hot setting.


I repeated this step for each balloon using different colors. I thought the results were super cute!


Next, I cut out two Stitched Scalloped Circle Frames from Lawn Fawn. I wasn’t sure exactly what I wanted to do with them yet. So I tried two different ideas. I ultimately decided to use NND’s Cloud Stencil with Tumble Glass Oxide Ink to make a cute sky background. I tried some Electro-Pop Neon Enamel on the outer circle, but wasn’t happy with the color combo, I decided to keep the scalloped circle white. I then trimmed three pieces of my Confetti stencil pieces to 1.25″ x 4″, looking for sections that didn’t have any tearing. I adhered them to a 5.25″ x 4″ base, leaving a little room on the top and the bottom. Then I added my circle and scalloped edge a little over the edge of the card, then trimmed off the overhang.


Next, I added Newton in the sky, where the balloons are whisking him up, up and away. Then added the little piggy holding the cake with foam on the bottom left hand corner. I wanted some interest on my sentiment strip, so I decided to make diagonal stripes of color going across the sentiment, “It’s your Birthday.” I used foam for dimension under the sentiment as well.

When I assembled my card, I didn’t care for the empty white spaces. So at the last minute I added some coordinating colors to the spaces. I was very happy with this result. My finishing touch was to add three green rhinestones from my stash onto my card. Then I made a card base out of neon green Bazzill Cardstock, and glued my card panel to the base.


This is a much brighter project than I’m used to doing! But I love it! It was fun to dig out my laminator and learn how to flock!


I've also created a video showing you how I created this card:

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As always, I love working with Newton’s Nook Designs products! I really can’t get enough of Newton Kitty! I can’t wait to come back next week, with another Newton creation! Thanks for stopping in, stay krafty and stay safe everyone!

- Jennifer (Katahdin Krafts)