Newton's Nook Designs Back to Basics - A2 Card Layout Die Set

Hello Everybody!

It is day three of our New Release!

Today we have the

A2 Card Layout Die

Need a die cut that can make a quick card front?

This die is for you!

I started by die-cutting the base out of cream cardstock.

Next, I die cut my other pieces from the NEW Pastel Basics 6x6 Paper Pad!

I chose the purple and blue stripes from the paper pad.

 After die cutting each color stripe paper out,

I also ran the die through my machine a third time and die cut

out a center piece of white cardstock.

How I like to assemble these dies to get a separate piece of basic white cardstock

and smear a whole bunch of glue onto the cardstock.

I add my frame to the gluey cardstock and then piece in each of the section pieces in their place.

I place a stamping block on top to weigh everything down for a couple of minutes.

Once the glue is dry, I carefully trim around the edges. Now I have the front of the card.

Finally, I created a card base that is sized to fit my card front.

To finish this card, I used cupcake and mice from the Birthday Mice Stamp Set.

This is a large stamp, and it fits so well on the front of this card.

I also stamped my sentiment into the center square and glued it on enamel dots to the front.

I hope you enjoyed my take on the fun latest items that we have on this release.

This and all the other fun new items are available March 22^nd.

 

Happy Shopping!

 

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Stay craft everyone!

 

DIANE

Enter to Win a $25 Prize!

We will be choosing one lucky winner to win a $25 store credit for Newton's Nook Designs online shop!

The winner will be chosen at random from the collective blog posts featuring our new products this week.

For a chance to win, leave comments on the Design Team Member Blog Posts (see list below) from Tuesday March 19 through Thursday March 21. 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, March 21st at 9 pm ET to comment.

 Winners will be announced on the NND blog on Friday, March 22nd.

Check out all the awesome Design Team Blogs below to enter:

Newton's Nook Designs

Donna Idlet

Ellen Haxelmans

Larissa Heskett

Samantha Mann

Zsofia Molnar

Diane Morales

Tatiana Trafimovich

Amanda Wilcox

 

 

 

  

Newton's Nook Designs Back to Basics - Basic Frames Die Set

Hello Everybody!

It is day two of our New Release!

Today we have the

Basic Frames Die Set

 

If you are new to cardmaking this set will give you plenty of options!

Today I used the largest of the stitched rectangle dies.

I started with the Bright Basic 6x6 Paper Pad.

Chose my color of polka dotted paper and cut the paper into ½ strips.

I glued the strips onto a separate piece of white cardstock,

and laid a stamping block on to so that everything would dry flat.

When the paper piece was dry, I used the largest of

 The stitched rectangles to die cut out my card front.

 Next, I used basic white cardstock to create a card base.

The image on the card is the NEW Newton’s Bright Birthday Set.

I colored the stamp with the same bright colors that are on the background.

I used one of the smaller stitched rectangles in Basic Frames Die Set as a place for my sentiment.

To assemble my card, I glued down my sentiment rectangle on my card front first.

Then I add my image on the front using lots of foam tape to add dimensions.

I hope you enjoyed my take on the fun latest items that we have on this release.

 

This and all the other fun new items are available March 22^nd.

 

Happy Shopping!

 

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Stay craft everyone!

 

DIANE

 

Enter to Win a $25 Prize!

We will be choosing one lucky winner to win a $25 store credit for Newton's Nook Designs online shop!

The winner will be chosen at random from the collective blog posts featuring our new products this week.

For a chance to win, leave comments on the Design Team Member Blog Posts (see list below) from Tuesday March 19 through Thursday March 21. 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, March 21st at 9 pm ET to comment.

 Winners will be announced on the NND blog on Friday, March 22nd.

Check out all the awesome Design Team Blogs below to enter:

Newton's Nook Designs

Donna Idlet

Ellen Haxelmans

Larissa Heskett

Samantha Mann

Zsofia Molnar

Diane Morales

Farhana Sarker

Tatiana Trafimovich

Amanda Wilcox

 

 

 

  

Newton's Nook Designs Back to Basics - Frames and Tags Die Set

 

Hello Everybody!

It is day one of our New Release!

Today we have the

Frames and Tags Die Set

Here is what I created

The first thing I did was to thumb through my Newtons stamps for inspiration.

The idea for this card was lots of pastel colors with a neutral card base.

The answer to this was ,

I love the way the images fit inside the windows of the frames.

I started by coloring my image first using spring colors.

I kept the color on the cat neutral so the flower colors would stand out.

Next, I chose the pink plaid color from the Pastel Basics 6x6 Paper Pad.

I used the window portion of the Frames and Tags Die Set to die cut

 out my plaid paper and a piece of white cardstock for the inserts of the windows.

How I like to assemble these dies to get a separate piece of basic white cardstock

and smear a whole bunch of glue onto the cardstock.

I add my frame to the gluey cardstock and then piece in each of the section pieces in their place.

I place a stamping block on top to weigh everything down for a couple of minutes.

Once the glue is dry, I carefully trim around the edges. Now I have the front of the card.

Next, I used the postage edge die from the Frames and Tags Die Set to create a shaped card.

I used my favorite Neenah Desert Storm cardstock for this.

Assembling this card was easy.

I just glued my paid frame to the front of the card I just created.

I glued in the white cardstock inserts next.

I add my images on to the front of the card with foam tape.

To finish this card, I stamped on the sentiment and added some enamel dots.

I hope you enjoyed my take on the fun latest items that we have on this release.

 This and all the other fun new items are available March 22^nd.

  

Happy Shopping!

 

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Stay craft everyone!

 

 

DIANE

Enter to Win a $25 Prize!

We will be choosing one lucky winner to win a $25 store credit for Newton's Nook Designs online shop!

The winner will be chosen at random from the collective blog posts featuring our new products this week.

For a chance to win, leave comments on the Design Team Member Blog Posts (see list below) from Tuesday March 19 through Thursday March 21. 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, March 21st at 9 pm ET to comment.

 Winners will be announced on the NND blog on Friday, March 22nd.

 

Check out all the awesome Design Team Blogs below to enter:

Newton's Nook Designs

Donna Idlet

Ellen Haxelmans

Larissa Heskett

Samantha Mann

Zsofia Molnar

Diane Morales

Farhana Sarker

Tatiana Trafimovich

Amanda Wilcox

 

 

 

A Llama Birthday

 

 Hello Newton’s Nook Fans!

Diane Morales here sharing a Llama good Birthday card for Designer’s Nook.

  

So many birthdays this time of year for our family.

Today I am sharing a fun birthday card I created for a very special

 Birthday using a few of my favorite Newtons Nook Product.

 

For this card I used

Lovable Llamas

Birthday Mice (hat only)

Birthday Party 6x6 Paper Pad

A7 Frames and Banner

Bookmark Die (banner only)

 To start this card, I used the frame in the A7 Frames and Banner

To die cut 3 frames out of white cardstock.

Once cut, I glue the three frames together and place them aside with weight on to dry.

Thie idea for this card was to inset the printed cardstock into each window.

The pops of color coming from the windows and everything else to be neutral.

The hardest part of the card is choosing the paper that I wanted to use.

the Birthday Party 6x6 Paper Pad became the paper pad of choice.

But which color??

Thumbing through the pad I came across a slice of the confetti paper that you see in the middle.

I love the colors and that gave me the spark for the layout of the card.

I used the frame in the A7 Frames and Banner to die cut out the paper I chose.

I also created a card base that was slightly larger than the white frame what I created.

The first thing was to glue the frame that I created to the card base.

Next, I added the confetti pieces to the middle part of the frame.

The blue ballon on the left.

The yellow presents on the right.

These pieces are inset, so I glued the back and wiggled them in.

Stamping, coloring, and die cutting images from Lovable Llamas came next.

I used the colors from the cardstock to color the image.

I used black, gray, and white to color the Llama and the extras.

I attached all these pieces to the front of the card with foam tape.

The Llama needed a bit extra.

I started thumbing through my Newton’s stamps and decided on the party hat

 From Birthday Mice that fits so well on the Llamas Head.

For a final touch I used the banner from the Bookmark Die.

I die cut the banner first.

Stamped my sentiment

Then I ran the banner back through the die to shorten the banner to fit on the card.

I also added tiny gems in the confetti panel for a touch of sparkle.

That is my card!

 

 Thanks for stopping by

 Hope you have an awesome day

Stay crafty my friends!

Diane

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shaken Slimline Birthday Card

 

Hello Newton’s Nook Fans!

Diane Morales here sharing a shaken slimline Birthday Card !

 

For this card I used the following items

Birthday Barks

Birthday Woofs Paper Pad

Slimline Frames and Portholes Die

 

I had this idea for a patchwork background for a card for a while.

But I was not sure how to create it.

I decided I would pick out my paper first and then work on the logistics.

I used the Birthday Woof’s Paper Pad,

and chose these papers to work with.

To make the background, I went into the stash and grabbed my 1.2 square Paper Shapers Punch.

This made quick work to punch out all the Squares needed for this background.

After gluing the background to a piece of cardstock, I set the background aside to dry 

and worked on the shaker part of the card.

For my shakers I use this combo:

 2 pieces of die cut cardstock (front of the shaker)

 using the portholes die from Slimline Frames and Portholes Die

1 piece of plastic hand cut to fit the die cut piece

1 piece of fun foam die cut with the Portholes Die

I prefer to use the thinnest fun foam that I can find at the craft store, this still gives

 plenty of space to for the shaky pieces and die cuts well.

1.       I glued my cardstock pieces together first and let them set up.

2.       I glue my plastic to the back of the cardstock piece.

3.       I trimmed up my foam piece and carefully glued it to the plastic piece,

 avoiding the parts of the plastic that that you are going to see through.

It is important to let these pieces dry before you work with them so that the 

pieces don’t move around and ooze glue where you do not want it.

The next thing I did was stamp, color, and die cut my piece from Birthday Barks.

I used the colors in the background as a guide and added pops of red for fun.

I mocked up the card to see if everything was going to work together.

I wanted the background colors where my shakers are going to be 

(top and bottom circles) to be more diffused. 

I used Portholes Die to cut out vellum circles.

  Now we are ready to assemble

First, I used the scalloped edge slimline die

 from Slimline Frames and Portholes Die to die cut out the background.

 Second, I flipped my front panel over and added my shaker mix to the top and bottom circles.

I added my vellum die cut circle on top of the shaky bits and then glued the

 patchwork background piece on top.

After the glue was set up and dry, I turned the piece over

 and added my sentiment circle and image from Birthday Barks.

To complete this card, I created a card base with white card stock

 using the scalloped edge slimline die from Slimline Frames and Portholes Die.

 Hope you enjoyed my take on this fun birthday card

Thank you so much for stopping by.

Hope you have an awesome week

DIANE