Naughty Kitten Christmas Card by Tatiana Trafimovich

There's Always Next Year... 

This week we are lucky enough to have TWO adorable projects by Design Team member, Tatiana! Today we are sharing a fun card with a naughty kitty tangled in holiday lights!

For this card, Tatiana used the cute but naughty kitten from our A Kitten Christmas Stamp Set. She colored the image of the kitty tangled in the lights from this set and added a cute Santa hat to the kittens head (stamped from the Christmas Puppies Stamp Set). She also stamped and colored a bunch of single lightbulb images from the A Kitten Christmas Stamp Set, adding fun color glows around each lightbulb! What a fun way to make the lights look like they're glowing! She cut all the images out using the coordinating A Kitten Christmas Die Set. 

For the background, she inked up a panel using blue distress inks and added blue and white splatters to it. She cut it out using the large frame die from our Frames & Flags Die Set to give it a scalloped edge. The kitty and lights went on top. The single lights were added around the image and added to a hand drawn line that works as the messy light string tangle!

The finishing touch was the sentiment "There's always next year to be good!" embossed in white on a piece of black cardstock. She hand cut around the letters and added it to her card below the kitten.  

We hope this card has made you smile today!

Thank you, Tatiana, for the fun smiles and inspiration! To see more of her beautiful work, you can visit Tatiana at her blog, Tatiana Trafimovich!

Winter Birds Card by Tatiana Trafimovich

Sing a Song of Snowflakes! 

Today we are sharing a gorgeous winter card by Tatiana featuring that pretty cardinal from our Winter Birds Stamp Set. 

For this card, she colored the bird in gorgeous bright colors with copic markers. She also colored the branch and some leaves and berries using the Winter Birds Stamp Set along with some holly from the Poinsettia Blooms Stamp Set. She die cut all these pieces out using the coordinating  Winter Birds Die Set and Poinsettia Blooms Die Set and then clustered them all together along the branch to create a cozy scene for the cardinal. She added little white snow splatters over the image using white gesso and a paintbrush. 

For the background, She inked a panel with some light blue ink and then used our Petite Snow Stencil with white texture paste to create a snowy sky. She also added some gold and white paint splatters to the sky. IN the lower corner, she added the sentiment "Sing a song of Snowflakes" from the Winter Birds Stamp Set in gold. 

What a beautiful creation! This card definitely captures a cold winter day and makes it feel magical!

Thank you, Tatiana, for the inspiration today! To see more of her beautiful work, you can visit Tatiana at her blog, Tatiana Trafimovich!

Snowy Couple Christmas Card by Jennifer Jackson

A Snowy Christmas Greeting!

Hello! Jen here today with a fun and snowy Christmas card that is sure to brighten a cold winter day!

For this card I used the adorable snowy couple from our brand new Snow Much Cheer Stamp Set. I love how they are both hugging the holiday wreath! I colored the image with fun bright colors using watercolor markers and added a few white gel pen accents too. The image was cut out using the coordinating Snow Much Cheer Die Set to add to the card. 

For the card, I started with a red cardstock base. I used a piece of green gingham patterned paper along the bottom of the card from our new Meowy Christmas Paper Pad. For the top of the card I created a panel of blue snowflakes over a white background using our Snowfall Stencil. I started with white texture paste and added a bit of distress ink onto a glob of it on my craft mat to create the blue color. I added this panel along the top of the card and put a light green ribbon between the two sections of pattern. 

Next, I added the snowy couple along with the sentiment "May Christmas bring you joy, love and laughter" which I stamped onto a circle that was cut out using our Circle Frames Die Set. 

This card would be perfect to send to your favorite couple this holiday season!

I hope you enjoyed this card today! Thanks for stopping by!

2021 Cat Lovers Hop!

2021 Cat Lovers Hop

This week is the 2021 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:

For this card I featured the fun image of THREE kitties on a sledding together from the Newton's Toboggan Stamp Set. I colored the image with copic markers, giving each kitty a different fur color and colorful hats and scarves. The one in the back looks a little bit like Toulouse, our gray tabby! I cut the image out using the coordinating Newton's Toboggan Die Set. 

For my card base, I created a fun green gingham background using one of the patterns from our BRAND NEW Meowy Christmas Paper Pad. We just introduced this paper pad with our newest release and it's filled with fun prints that are perfect for Christmas and some of the patterns have kitties in them too! If you haven't seen it yet, make sure to pop over to our shop and check it out in the new category. I cut the paper out using the big scalloped frame from our Frames & Flags Die Set.

Next, I created snowy hills using our Land Borders Die Set. I cut out the curvy hills and then cut the papers again with the Frames & Flags Die Set so that I could match them up with the patterned paper that is behind them. I also added some birch trees using our Forest Scene Builder Die Set.

The finishing touch is the sentiment "bring on the snow" from the Newton's Toboggan Stamp Set. I stamped it inside a bubble that was cut out using our Speech Bubbles Die Set. I placed it so that the kitty on the back of the toboggan looks like he's yelling it out. So cute!

Our Design Team Member, Amanda Wilcox is playing along today too. Here's a little peek at her project:

You can head over to her blog, Twiddler's Nook to see the whole project and more details!

We hope you enjoy the cat hop! I you are not familiar with our brand yet, our company was named after our orange tabby, Newton. Sadly, we lost our 18 year old Newton in 2019. We miss him terribly but he still lives on in our hearts and our stamp designs! Now we have two kitties at our house, Toulouse and Marlowe. They are pretty distracting, I mean "good" helpers! LOL! Here's a photo of them last week as they were "helping" us pack orders! Toulouse is curled up inside the USPS bin and Marlowe is sitting in a sunbeam next to it. 

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

Newton's Toboggan

Meowy Christmas Paper Pad

Dies used(left to right): Frames & Flags Die Set, Forest Scene Builder Die Set, Speech Bubbles Die Set, Land Borders Die Set 

We also have LOTS of other cute kitty stamps too! 

Make sure to check them out here in our Newton and Kittens categories.  

I hope you will play along with the Cat Lovers Hop! You have until Oct. 29 to link up at Her Peaceful Garden for a chance to win prizes, including one from us at Newton's Nook Designs! Hope you can play along! 

    

Herd It's Your Birhday Card by October Guest Designer Allison Arbour

 

Hello Newton’s Nook fans! 

I’ve had so much fun and am so excited to have had the opportunity to guest design this month with all these insanely talented artists. For my last card guesting I used the beyond adorable Moo Stamp Set. My plan was to use one of the cows for this card but couldn’t decide which one was cuter so in the end 3 of them made there way on to it and I’m so glad they did. I love how this card turned out. 

Here’s how I created this card:

Start with a white slimline card base.

On top layer a white scallop slimline die cut slightly smaller.

Next make a slightly smaller slimline frame and ink up with oxide ink in the colour tattered rose.

Ink up a piece of white card stock with a cobblestone stencil using oxide inks in the colours antique linen, gathered twigs and brushed corduroy. Die cut a cloud border die strip (enough to cover the bottom of your slimline) and some additional clouds from your inked panel. You could use the Sky Borders Die Set from Newton's Nook Designs for this. 

Position and glue the cows heads from the Moo Stamp Set, clouds and larger cloud to the back of the frame. Glue some grass strips behind the bottom of the large cloud at bottom. You could use the Land Borders Die Set from Newton's Nook Designs for this. 

Add foam tape to the frame and attach to top of card.

Add a cow from the Moo Stamp Set to the bottom and a sentiment stamped on a white cloud with dimensional tape. You could use the Sky Scene Builder Die Set from Newton's Nook Designs for the cloud. 

Finish the card with a few nuvo drops.

Crafty Hugs,
Allie

A Dino-mite Christmas Slimline Card by Ellen Haxelmans

Have a Dino-mite Christmas!

Today Ellen has created an adorable dinosaur card that is perfect for sending fun holiday wishes! 

Ellen used our two of the cute holiday dinosaurs from our new Prehistoric Christmas Stamp Set, the "tree-ceratops" and the "santa-saurus". She colored them in fun brright colors and added them to a slimline card. 

For her slimline card, she created a white slimline card base. Then she added the long lime green panel with the scalloped border using our Slimline Frames & Portholes Die Set. Over that she layered the darker green stitched panel with three windows using our Slimline Frames & Windows Die Set. Inside each window she used a piece of gingham pattern paper from our new Meowy Christmas Paper Pad along with a snow hill that was die cut using our Sea Borders Die Set. The little trees and sentiments are also from the Prehistoric Christmas Stamp Set. What a fun and unique holiday card!

We hope you enjoyed this holiday project today! To see more unique creations by Ellen, you can visit her over at her blog Crafty Ellen!

A Christmas Hello Card by Samantha Mann

A Christmas Kitten!

Ready for a sweet Christmas hello? This adorable kitten card by Samantha is sure get you in the mood for some holiday cheer!

This adorable holiday creation features the sweet kitten wearing a Santa hat from our A Kitten Christmas Stamp Set. She colored the image in neutral colors, adding pink to the kitty cheeks! The image was cut out using the coordinating A Kitten Christmas Die Set. 

For her card base, she used the argyle patterned paper from our new Meowy Christmas Paper Pad to cover the card front. She used out Heart Frames Die Set to cut a heart out of it to leave a white heart behind the kitty. What a great way to make the image pop! She also added some distress ink and white paint splatters over the paper to add more fun dimension to her card. 

For the sentiment, she used "A Christmas Hello" embossed in white onto a black banner that was die cut using our Banner Trio Die Set. The finishing touch is some die cut holly and berries that were created with our Pines & Holly Die Set. 

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

 

Main Street Christmas Card by Amanda Wilcox

Most wonderful time of the year!

Today Amanda has created a beautiful holiday card that is sure to put you in a festive mood! 

This lovely card features the holiday street filled with houses from our Main Street Christmas Stamp Set. This big image is so fun to color! She even added bits of gloss to the windows to make them shine. She also stamped a bunch of the little snowflakes and the image of Santa's sleigh from the same stamp set, embossing them in gold and black. She cut all the images out using the coordinating Main Street Christmas Die Set. 

For her card base she used our Music Stencil along with distress inks to create a subtle pattern in the background! So beautiful! She stamped the sentiment from the Main Street Christmas Stamp Set along the bottom of the card. She also added some gold splatters into the sky for a lovely finishing touch!

To say hello to her and see more of her awesome creations you can visit Amanda over on her blog, Twiddler's Nook!

Christmas Gift Tag by Maria Russell

Holiday Cheers!

Have you started to think about holiday gifts? Today we have inspiration from Maria on how to dress up a gift of a bottle of wine to make it feel special!

To dress up this holiday bottle, Maria created a custom gift tag using our brand new holiday products. She started out by cutting a long rectangle from red cardstock. She added a fold line to create a tag that folds into two sections with the top section fitting over the top of the bottle.  She rounded all the corner s and then added patterned paper from our new Meowy Christmas Paper Pad onto both sections, also rounding the corners.  On the top section she cut out a circle so that the tag would fit over the bottle. On the bottom section she added that cute kitty peeking out of the stocking from our Newton's Stocking Stamp Set!

She colored the image, making the kitty orange and the hat a fun vibrant blue. Then she cut the image out using the coordinating Newton's Stocking Die Set. She also stamped the image again onto the red and white striped paper from the Meowy Christmas Paper Pad and fussy cut out the stocking bottom, layering it over her first image to add some pattern to it! How fun! She also added some branches and a bow using our Pines & Holly Die Set and the "holiday cheers" sentiment onto the stocking front using our Christmas Cocktails Stamp Set! What a fun and festive way to dress up a holiday gift! 

To see more projects by Maria you can visit her over at her blog, Maria Russell Designs!

Life's Small Moments Circle Card by October Guest Designer Allison Arbour

Hello Newton’s Nook fans!, I’m back again this week with another card using the adorable Autumn Mice Stamp Set. These cuties with their fall settings cover both my love of mice and fall.

To make this card:

Start by scoring your card stock in half and placing a larger circle die on top with the top of the circle hanging slightly over the score line. You could use the Circle Frames Die Set by Newton's Nook Designs for this. Run through die cutting machine. 

Next glue a larger scalloped circle die cut on top that is stenciled with wild honey oxide ink using the second part of the Argyle Stencil Set.

Next, layer yellow card stock, a white cross stitch die cut and an inverted scallop in the shape of a circle to the center with dimensional tape.

Attach mouse and sentiment from the Autumn Mice Stamp Set with dimensional tape.

Finish the card by gluing in some leaves behind the mouse and adding nuvo drops and a twine bow.

Crafty hugs,
- Allie