Newton's Nook Designs June Release Day 3

Hello, lovelies!

Welcome back to the Newton's Nook Designs June Release!

All the new goodies will be available for purchase this Friday the 16th over at the Newton's Nook Designs Shop!

Today is day 3  and we are showcasing 2 fun sets, "Cuppa Cactus" and "Cultivated Cacti" set! I have aways LOVED cacti (but my black thumb killed several of them and now I stop myself from picking them up when I see them at the store...LOL), so I was so very happy to see these cute cactus stamps!

Ohhh my goodness!

This is called Cuppa Cactus ;-)

Isn't this the most adorable and unique set you've ever seen!?

And here's Cultivated Cacti set ;-)

I LOVE how you can mix and match different cacti and plant pots!

So many possibilities! 

Alright, I have made 4 cards (can you tell I really enjoyed these sets!?), here we go!

EEEEEEEEK!!!

I am just so in LOVE with these little prickly guys in cups! I mean, how stinkin' cute and fun!!! I thought it might be fun to have "prickly" things like the triangle background and stars all over the card ;-)

My little prickly was stamped with antique linen distressed ink on watercolor paper, watercolored, then fussy cut. Why did I fussy cut?  For some reason, I forgot that I had the coordinating die set...{LOL} I borrowed that pair of glasses from the Newton's Book Club set, only the glasses were inked up to stamp, then I traced the outline with a black gel pen and fussy cut. Doesn't she look sharp with her glasses!? ;-) The sentiment was heat embossed with black on watercolor paper after sponging with distressed oxide ink and splattered some water. 

I am pretty excited about this second card with the Cuppa Cactus set!

As soon as I saw this set, I wanted to make these yellow caution tapes! Isn't it fun!? We put yellow tape on our front porch every Halloween, so I guess I have a thing for yellow tapes...{LOL} I placed a piece of painter's tape and used the flat paint brush and yellow ink to draw the tapes. After it was all dried, I heat embossed the sentiment with black. 

"I'm a little prickly before my coffee!" is exactly how I am! Maybe more than just "a little"...{LOL} The cactus in a cup image was stamped with antique linen distressed ink on watercolor paper, watercolored, and fussy cut. I actually messed up the orange flower so I stamped and colored again then paper pieced it, and I liked that little bit of dimension so I did the yellow flower as well ;-) The lines on the cup was traced with the gold watercolor to give some sparkle, and I thought a little gold flower sequin would look really cute! 

Now my first card with the Cultivated Cacti set!

I am sticking with the prickly/pointy theme here {LOL}

The background was embossed with triangle embossing folder on my favorite, linen cardstock ;-) I just LOVE the texture on them!

How much do you love this sentiment!!? {LOL}

Oh man...it cracks me up every time I see it! :-D I love it so much, I had to heat emboss it separately with gold and pop it on! My beautiful cacti were both heat embossed with green and a little bit of gold, I thought dipping them in gold might be fun ;-) It's a pretty simply design but I love how it turned out!

Last but not least, my second card with the Cultivated Cacti set ;-)

This one is also simple but very organic! I immediately grabbed the hexagon die because it looks like those pretty glass dome things that you plant pretty succulents in ;-) 

After inking up the aloe stamp with antique linen distressed ink, I applied some water directly on it with a paint brush then stamped onto watercolor paper. I colored it with green, purple, and yellow. I did the same thing with the pot image but I used the orange. I applied a bit too much water on this one so the stamped image didn't show the beautiful details, but no worries! I traced it with red ink and ta-da! The background was colored with light blue, then some water splatters were applied. I love this little sentiment, so cute, isn't it!? It was heat embossed on vellum (I know, refreshing...LOL) and since I didn't have the right size speech bubble die, I drew the outline with white gel pen and made my own ;-) 

{Would you like to win the “Cuppa Cactus” or the “Cultivated Cactus” stamp set?}

Each of these sets 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 June 15th at 9pm CST to comment  -- winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday, June 16th. 

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

Newton's Nook Designs

Amanda Bodine
Holly Endress
Ellen Haxelmans
Larissa Heskett
Samantha Mann
Juliana Michaels
Naki Rager
Maria Russell
Jennifer Timko
Tatiana Trafimovich

Thank you so much for stopping by!

Hope you enjoyed it!

We have one more set to reveal tomorrow so make sure to come back! ;-)