Hello and welcome to Day 2 of the Newton’s Nook Designs October Release!
All the new October products will be available for purchase on Friday, October 19th at Newton’s Nook Designs online store and other craft retailers!
Day 2 reserved us two absolutely adorable stamp sets filled with super cute critters!!! And so here we have Caroling Newton and The Nutcracker Squeak stamp sets! Both new sets comes with the coordinating dies.
Giveaway alert!! NND is giving new The Nutcracker Squeak and Caroling Newton Stamp Sets away to lucky winners so make sure you read all the way to the bottom of this post to see how to win!
NND comes with the most adorable designs every time and it’s soooooo hard to pick favorites, but this fabulous trio of kitties from Caroling Newton stamp set has immediately stolen my heart!!! And so I decided to color them as my sweet girl Lilly (on the left), the cutest red Newton – the inspiration for the NND name and logo (in the center) and my eldest boy Tommy (on the right). I can’t stop laughing every time I look at this card!!!
Creating this card, I really invested my time on coloring the cats from Caroling Newton that were die cut from Neenah Solar White paper with the coordinating die and stamped with Memento Tuxedo black ink.
This is the complete list of all copic markers I used here: cat on the left W00-W1-W2-W3; cat in the center Y32-YR21-YR24-YR27; cat on the right E40-E41-E42-E43-E44; YG03-YG25-YG67; B91-B93-B97-B99; R35-RV29-R39; R11-R12; T0-T1-T3; BG10-BG13.
The scalloped frame on the background were die cut with Frames & Flags Die set, slightly inked with Tumbled Glass Distress ink and an ink blending tool. Next new amazing Music stencil was placed on top and inked with Mermaid Lagoon Distress ink. I lifted up and cleaned the stencil and then applied it once more on the background slightly shifted right up. Finally the music pattern was reapplied once again with a white embossing paste. Assembling the card, I simply stamped the matching sentiment from Caroling Newton stamp set and finally popped the background and kitties on a foam tape.
The Music background was chosen again for my second card and paired with the super cute mice from The Nutcracker Squeak. I started this project with a watercolor cardstock from Tim Holtz, inked the whole panel with Shaded Lilac Distress ink and applied the music pattern using Wilted Violet Distress ink. Next I added some water droplet and color splashes across for more fun and playful look.
The cute ballerinas were die cut with the coordinating dies, stamped with VersaFine Onyx Black ink on Strathmore Bristol paper and colored with water markers. I used the matching sentiment from The Nutcracker Squeak stamp set and simply stamped it on the music panel before popping the critters on a foam tape.
Here’s the complete list of all the colors used here: TOMBOW n.N15, n.673, n.723, n.725; ZIG Clean Colour Real Brush n. 95 Mid Gray.
Would you like to win “The Nutcracker Squeak” or the “Caroling Newton” Stamp Set? We will choose ONE lucky winner for each stamp set!
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 October 18th at 9pm EST to comment — winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday, October 19th.
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
Zsofia Molnar
Naki Rager
Maria Russell
Tatiana Trafimovich <– you’re here
Thanks so much for stopping by and have a fantastic day!
Tatiana
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Such fun cards. I love how you did the music stencil background on the kitties.
Fun holiday cards, love the purple and pink for the Nutcracker mice.!
super cards – LOVE your stenciled backrounds!!
Just STUNNING! I love the way you colored the mice! They are so vivid!
These are so beautiful! 🙂 Love how you colored the cats and mice, and those backgrounds are awesome.
Very pretty!
I love your colouring on the caroling Newtons card!! Adorable cards.
Oh my, as a musician who has sat in Nutcraker orchestra pits for years…I cannot get enough of these adorable sets….this is one of the best releases EVER! And your card are very inspiring and have such original detailing. AWESOME!!!
These cards are so sweet and pretty! I love the soft colors you used! The trio of kitties works perfect with the music background! And I love the sweet little ballerina mice! Adorable!
-Jen {Newton’s Nook Designs}
That Nutcracker set is so stinkin’ cute!
Wow! Che colori fantastici!!! Adoro le tue cards! Bellissima idea per i backgrounds! Davvero originali!!! ❤
Super adorable stamp sets! The cards are amazing with wonderful coloring and design. Awesome musical backgrounds.
Love your gorgeous cards!
both are gorgeous but cat card is my favorite!
wonderful cards, love the color choices, especially how you painted the darling cats
Love the purple & pink – such a sweet card! And the kitties are all
colored purr-fectly. Love how you did the musical BG on that one.
Simply darling!
The stenciled backgrounds look wonderful and I love your choice of colors.
Beautiful cards – I especially like the subtle dimension you created with the stencils on both cards!
That music stencil background is beautiful and thanks for the tips on double-stenciling for dimension
Wow! Your cards are so beautiful! Love your designs!
Adorable cards! Love the way you colored the kitties and the mice! Fabulous new sets!
Adorable cards. Love the caroling kitten and the cute mice.
Thanks for sharing…
I really liked the dimension you gave with the stencil on the first card and how you used the stencil on the 2nd card with the water droplets. Both cards are so cute Tatiana.
Darling cards. Love the ballerinas
in their little tutus. thanks for sharing
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so cute. I like the soft colored musical background on both.
Cute cards. Love how the music stencils is used. Thanks for sharing.
The backgrounds on your cards are so bright & beautiful! Love your fantastic coloring on the cute stamped mice & kitties!
Super cute cards! Love the stenciled background.
Such sweet and festive cards! Beautiful backgrounds and wonderful coloring.
Your cards are beautiful, love the colors!
Absolutely adorable! I can’t wait to try them out!
Adorable cards! I love the music background – such a great technique!
Gorgeous cards! I just love how you shifted the stencil for the first crad and used the paste – what a beautiful end result!!
Wow! Even though you used the musical background for both of your cards I didn’t even realize it for awhile because they were sooooo different!!! Love your impeccable coloring on the first card and the peek a boo technique with the second. Nicely done 🙂
Beautiful coloring on these cuties!
Beautiful cards! I love the colors.
Fabulous backgrounds on your cards! Love how you styled and colored the cats after your own. That’s a cute idea. Such a pretty card design for the ballerinas, and even though I’m not positive, I think pink and purple are the colors of sugarplums!
Fun colors and embossed backgrounds!
Definitely the music notes makes a great background for these stamp sets and love the shaker card you made for the nutcracker squeak stamp set.
Fun cards. Love the great backgrounds.
love the music note background in purple with the distress look! so fun with these mice! and the kitties are just so sweet ❤