Newton's Nook Designs February Release Day 4 - Woof Pack

 

Hello, lovelies!
It is already the last day of the Newton's Nook Designs February Release today!
All the new products will be available tomorrow Friday the 16th in the Newton's Nook Designs Shop! We're revealing this adorable set, Woof Pack! 

Did we save the best for the last as always!? We sure did ;-)
Look at all these different breeds of pups!!!
Here is my take...;-)

I guess a lot of love was in the air when I was working on this card {LOL}
My original design was to stamp the image on a 4-1/4" x 5-1/2" acetate sheet and attach that as the cover, but I haven't had much luck with stamping on acetate (always smear it!), I settled with a window ;-) It was die cut out with the big heart from the Darling Hearts Die Set (if you don't own one, you really need to get on! I use it all the time!).

I heat embossed this pack of pups with Tan embossing powder on watercolor paper and watercolored them. Again, I couldn't help myself but to favor one...the poodle! Funny, because poodles aren't my favorite breed (I absolutely adore Shiba and Husky 💗) but Jen's poodle totally stole my heart 💗 I even colored her pink {EEEK!}

These guys took me even longer to color than the Company of Cats Set! I realized most dogs are brown, but I didn't want the same exact shade so I mixed colors. When I was done with all the pups, I colored the background light blue because blue really compliments brown!

I LOVE this sentiment!
It is absolutely true, and just so cute 💗

My second card with the Woof Pack Set (I am so loving this name!) is very different from my usual style! Where are colors!? {LOL} The look I tried to accomplish here is a vintage, sepia photo from the old west! I know, my poodle still had to be pink! I couldn't help it!!!

Believe it or not, this sentiment was my inspiration for this design ;-)
"Ruff" life made me think of the old west...I honestly don't know why...{LOL}
The sentiment was heat embossed with dark brown embossing powder on this already die-cut tag with the Tags Times Two Die Set, but I trimmed about 1/8" on each side and cut the corners so I'd have this skinny tag. 

My pups were stamped with Vintage Photo Distress Ink (perfect, right!?) and colored in with colored pencils. It was meant to be "quick coloring" but you and I both know that there is no such thing as "quick coloring" with me {LOL} I'm really loving the Basset hound on this one 💛 When I was finally done, I tore the cardstock around the image, distressed the patterned paper a little bit and mounted them on the base, then added burlap twine and the tag. I picked up the dusty blue and orange from the patterned paper and added enamel dots in the same colors. It still needed wee more colors and this washi tape was just perfect ;-)

{Would you like to win the “Woof Pack” Stamp Set?}

This stamp set 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 February 15th at 9pm EST to comment  -- winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday, February 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!

All the new products will be available at midnight (CST) tonight so make your wish list now! 😉

Newton's Nook Designs February Release Day 3 - Company of Cats Set

Hi, my lovelies!

Happy Valentine's Day💗

My twins have some fun celebration at pre-school today but they're been so sick, I don't know if I should take them...but don't want them to miss the fun! Grr!

Anyway, the fun Newton's Nook Designs February Release continues and we're revealing the Company of Cats Set today! It will be available for purchase this Friday the 16th in the Newton's Nook Designs Shop along with the other new products!

I know! I know!!

Can you even handle this much cuteness!!?

If you love the Frozen Fellowship Set, well, you just HAVE TO get this one too!

Okay, here is my take...;-)

They look even cuter when they're all colored in, don't they!?
As a crazy cat lady myself, this was just too much fun to color 💗 {LOL}
Did you notice the sentiment on the top? SO CUTE! and SOOOO TRUE!

I know I shouldn't favor one over another, but the one with the red mohawk is the absolute favorite 💗 I colored his mohawk bright red just because...😝

So apparently, I was in a "dimensional" mood {LOL}
First, I layered the grass on one of my bunny cards yesterday, today, I stamped and fussy cut each row of these kitties so I could do this ⇧

Here's from the other side of the card.
It took me a long time to make this, so yes! I want you to see it! {LOL}

My second card with this adorable set is a total opposite of the first one!
I wanted to show you that you don't have to color each and every kitty to use this big stamp ;-) I brainstormed...💡 A chalkboard would be fun! MAN! I was right! 

I heat embossed the image with white embossing powder on black cardstock, gave everyone blushed cheeks with this pink chalk pencil, colored their accessories with green, blue, purple, yellow, and orange chalk pencils, also white and gold regular colored pencils. I rubbed some Perfect Pearl with my finger to give a more chalky look. 

I was going to use the other sentiment from the set, but I didn't want to make one of the cats stand out, I really liked this chalkboard art look! So there I went, looking through my NND stash, and this Meow die from the Newton Unwinds Die set stopped me ;-) It's just perfect, isn't it!? 💗

{Would you like to win the “Company of Cats” Stamp Set?}

This stamp set 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 February 15th at 9pm EST to comment  -- winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday, February 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!
One more adorable set to reveal tomorrow and you won't want to miss this one!

Mixed Media Challenge

Hello there!

I found this fun challenge, Mixed Media Card Challenge, and of course I had to play along!

I love mixed media, there's so much fun packed into on one canvas! I am just a wanna-be, actually don't know anything about it. *hee hee* 

This month's theme is friendship.

And here is what I came up with...

I have been still experimenting with my photo shoots... Trying different spots in the house, different backgrounds, etc... I am not crazy about that turquoise background, what do you think? It's my mat on the desk...

So I have this coffee set from Your Next Stamp that I had been dying to play with! 

The set has many cute sentiments and one of them says "coffee + friends = the perfect blend". I die cut coffee and friends instead of using the stamp. "plus" was made with the Rotary Alphabet Stamp and Early Espresso Emboss Powder, then stained with the Crumb Cake Ink on watercolor paper.

I also heat embossed part of the sentiment. Layered on this perfect patterned paper from the This and That DSP (those circles look like coffee rings, and the design itself is so mixed media!) and this crinkled piece of the Crumb Cake cardstock. 

This was so much fun to make :-)

I can't wait for the next challenge! ;-D

My notes...

Stamp: Rotary Alphabet, Thanks a Latte (Your Next Stamp)

Paper: Whisper White, Early Espresso, Crumb Cake, Calypso Coral, Watercolor Paper, This and That DSP, I am Me DSP, Designed Vellum (Papertrey Ink)

Ink: Crumb Cake, Versamark

Accessrory: Subtles Candy Dots, Essentials Wooden Elements

Tool: Heat Tool, Early Espresso Stampin' Emboss Powder, Crinkler, Fancy Coffee and Thanks a Latte Die Sets (Your Next Stamp),  The Big, The Bold, and Friends Cutaways (Winnie & Walter)

Thank you so much for stopping by!
Hope you enjoyed it!