notes from Naki

Thursday, December 13, 2018

Hello, lovelies!

Are you busy getting ready for the holidays!?

I'm taking a little break from all this craziness and created something sweet for the Newton's Nook Designs Blog today!

Newton's Nook Designs Newton Celebrates Set - Naki Rager

My kids are super excited about Christmas (mainly because of the gifts...LOL) but I have something else to celebrate in December...we got married on Christmas Eve 20 years ago!!!

This adorable couple popping the bottle of bubbly is from the Newton Celebrates Set and when I first saw this sweet image, I wanted to make an anniversary card for my hubby with it! I stamped the image with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink and colored with colored pencils. As you can see, I used a lot of pink on this card 💗 The sentiment was heat embossed with Rose Gold EP, love this color!

I sponged the hearts as if they were popping out of the bottle using the Tumbling Hearts Stencil and the Tattered Rose and Worn Lipstick Distress Oxide Ink, then added some shimmer using the Glitter Pen (I know it's hard to see, sorry!!!)

It had been forever since I last made a true one-layer card, it's always challenging to me!

But I am happy with how this one turned out!

Thank you so much for stopping by!

Hope you enjoyed it!

Wishing you very happy holidays and a happy new year!!!!!🎉

Friday, December 7, 2018

Hello, lovelies!
Welcome to the Newton's Nook Designs Annual Deck The Halls with Inky Paws Blog Hop!
I hope you have enjoyed our gorgeous line of guests' gorgeous work this week!
So today, all the fabulous guests and DT members are blog hopping with holiday projects and if you came from Zsofia's blog, you're on the right track! If you are lost, simply scroll down and the lineup will help you get back to wherever you were or want to be ;-)

Alright, let's take a look at what I created...;-)

Newton's Nook Designs Harvest Tails Set - Naki Rager

My card for today was inspired by my children decorating the tree ;-)
With 4 little kids and 2 cats, we can't have fancy AKA breakable ornaments on our tree so we only hang those adorable plushy ones and durable plastic ones. I actually like it that way better thought ;-)

This sweet and adorable fawn is from the Harvest Tails Set.
It is a fall set and this Bambi actually has pumpkins in her wagon, but I didn't ink that part up and after die cutting the watercolored image using the coordinating die, I trimmed off the blank part where the pumpkins are supposed to be. My little fawn is towing her little tree, which was watercolored and die cut using the Festive Forest Die Set (including the star). She has decorated it with a gold bead garland, which I used Nuvo Bright Gold Crystal Drops.

These beautiful sentiments were die cut using the Holiday Greeting Die Set from poppy cardstock then got all glammed up by the glitter pen ;-)

The background was created with blues and greens Distress inks then tons of white ink splatters. For the last detail, I die cut a few snowflakes using the Snowglobe Shaker Die Set from glitter paper ;-)

~ Deck the Halls with Inky Paws Exclusive! ~

Newton's Nook Designs is also releasing a NEW mini 2x3 stamp set today called Ginger Snap!! This fun new stamp set will only be available at Newton's Nook Designs online shop and you can get it for FREE this week with a $30 purchase! Offer is valid until Friday, December 14, 2018 or while supplies last. This new stamp set is also available for purchase for $4.99.

How cute is this gingerbread cookie boy!?

I love our mini sets, they're just so adorable 💛

Make sure to place your order so you won't miss this little guy!

~ Enter to Win! Deck the Halls with Inky Paws Hop Prizes! ~

We will be choosing two lucky winners to win a $25 store credit for Newton's Nook Designs online shop! To enter, just leave comments on the Design Team Member and Guest blogs (see list below)! Two winners will be chosen at random from the collective blogs in the blog hop. 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 Sunday, December 9th at 9 pm EST to comment -- winners will be announced on the NND blog on Monday, December 10th.