Newton's Nook Designs August Release - Beautiful Leaves + Dies!

Welcome back to day two of Newton's Nook Designs' August  release week!  Today we have a gorgeous new set done in Jen's unique quilled style - Beautiful Leaves!  I love these sets!   Beautiful Flowers has been a longtime favorite of mine, and I can see this new set joining Beautiful Flowers right at the top of my list!! 

I did something a little different with my card - I die cut several of the leaves and then placed them on top of watercolor paper as a mask.   I sprinkled on some fall shades of Color Burst watercolor powders and spritzed them with water.   I let the watercolor dry and then lifted off the leaf masks to reveal this pretty piece!   

I didn't want to do too much more with it since it was gorgeous already, so I just heat embossed the sentiment from the Beautiful Leaves stamp set in the corner with gold embossing powder and then added a few gold pearls and some twine around the top of my card.   So elegant!

See you again tomorrow!

GIVEAWAY

 Would you like to win the “Beautiful Leaves” Stamp Set?

This 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 blog release 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, August 18th at 9pm CST to comment  -- winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday, August 19th. 

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

Newton's Nook Designs

Lydia Evans

Larissa Heskett

Samantha Mann

Crafty Math-Chick

Jess Gerstner

Stephanie Muzzulin

Danielle Pandeline

Naki Rager

Kimberly Rendino

Yukari Yoshioka

Newton's Nook Designs August Release - Raccoon Rascals!

Hi there, friends!!   It's time to start sharing the awesomeness of the August NND release with all of you!    First up is the ADORABLE Raccoon Rascals stamp set.

I stamped and colored my little rubbish-loving raccoon with Copics.  See his cute little eyes?   I didn't have google eyes in such a tiny size, so I created my own faux google eyes with Nuvo drops!

GIVEAWAY

Would you like to win the “Raccoon Rascals” Stamp Set?

This 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 blog release 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, August 18th at 9pm CST to comment  -- winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday, August 19th. 

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

Newton's Nook Designs

Lydia Evans

Larissa Heskett

Samantha Mann

Jess Gerstner

Stephanie Muzzulin

Danielle Pandeline

Naki Rager

Kimberly Rendino

Yukari Yoshioka

Let it Snow (well....maybe not yet!)

Hello everyone!   I've been a Christmas card making fool lately with all the yummy new goodies from CAS-ual Fridays.   It's a change from how I usually create my holiday cards (a week before Christmas, making a mess and stressing out in my craft room to get them DONE!), but I kind of like doing a few here and there - it'll be a lot less stress come December!

I've die cut a variety of the awesome Funky Flakes Fri-dies from glitter paper and adhered them to a grey panel.  I heat embossed some of the snowflakes from Snowy Sayings with white embossing powder as well.   The sentiment, from Snowflake Greetings, was stamped with Versamark and heat embossed with navy blue embossing powder.   I adhered it on foam tape across the snowflake panel.   The panel was attached to a scalloped mat (Winnie & Walter Audrey cutaways) and to a blue card front.   Easy peasy!   

I hope you've enjoyed my card today - if you have a little extra time, why not create a holiday card or two while you're crafting?!   I think you'll be happy you did it come December!!   

Enjoy the rest of the weekend, friends!   And remember - if you'd like to shop over at the CAS-ual Fridays store, use code KIMBERLY16 to save 15%!!!!  

Golden Pineapple Thanks

Hi Friends!   I'm over on the Butterfly Reflections, Ink. blog this morning with a card featuring a lot of gold embossing and gorgeous stamps from Concord & 9th and Sunny Studio!   Check it out!

The Coolest!

I'm over on the Butterfly Reflections, Ink. blog this morning with this cutie!   Stop by and check out how this card came together!   

A Tiki-rific 40th Birthday Card!

Happy Tuesday, friends!   I've got a special card to share with you today - a card made for my husband's 40th Birthday this past weekend!  I've used the new Newton's Nook Designs stamp set Tiki Time and an older NND favorite, Years of Cheers!

I stamped the Tiki cups with several shades of brown ink and then stamped again (I used my MISTI) with Versamark and heat embossed them with clear embossing powder.   The sentiment was put together using stamps from Years of Cheers, and the paper is from the Doodlebug Fun in the Sun  6x6 paper pad.  I stamped the super-cute "You're Tiki-rific" sentiment on the inside!

I hope you've enjoyed my tropical birthday card!   I know my husband did - along with the Jimmy Buffett concert tickets I gave him as a gift!!  Doesn't get much more tropical than that!   (Note - I'm still waiting on my Hawaiian vacation, lol!!)

Happy Tuesday!!

Distress Marker Spritzed Watercolor with CAS-ual Fridays!

 Hi friends!  I've got a card to share with you using two gorgeous CAS-ual Fridays stamp sets - Loving Thoughts and Lovely Greetings!

I started by coloring in the large flower from Loving Thoughts with several shades of Distress Markers and then spritzing the stamp with water before stamping down onto watercolor paper.   I love the mottled look you can get by stamping with this technique!!

I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment from Lovely Greetings on a tag I die cut using the Tag Buddies Fri-Die.   A few Pretty Pink Posh sequins and a piece of pink ribbon finished off the card!

Hope you've enjoyed my card today - if you feel a shopping spree coming on, you can always use my coupon code, KIMBERLY16, when shopping at the CAS-ual Fridays Store to save 15%!!   

Have a great day!!