Hello and welcome to the final day of the Newton’s Nook January release!
All the new January products will be available for purchase tomorrow on Friday, January 24th at Newton’s Nook Designs online store and other craft retailers!
The last day of the release is full of the super adorable kitties in two new small stamp sets: Newton’s Valentine and Newton’s Crafty Cardio. Both of them come with the coordinating dies.
Giveaway alert!! NND is giving away both Newton’s Valentine and Newton’s Crafty Cardio stamp sets to lucky winners so make sure you read all the way to the bottom of this post to see how to win!
My first card features such adorable Newton’s Valentine stamp and die sets. To start, I die cut a big image along with a few small hearts using the coordinating Newton’s Valentine Die Set. I worked on Strathmore Bristol paper and used waterproof VersaFine Onyx Black ink for stamping the open stamps from Newton’s Valentine stamp set. Next I made my coloring with water based markers.
As always, I’m leaving here all the exact colors used on this project: TOMBOW MARKERS N79; 055, 515, 565, 703, 743, 755, 969; 977; 992.
Creating the background, I reached once again to Bokeh Hearts Stencil set. I loooove the bokeh effect it gives and the heart pattern makes it perfect for love cards. I masked a square on an A2 size (5 1/2″ x 4 1/4″) white card base and applied the hearts from the layer #1 from Bokeh Hearts Stencil set. Next I switched to the layer #2 and finished by adding more ink all across the square window. I used Picked Raspberry and Spun Sugar Distress inks toward the bottom part of the inked area and Mermaid Lagoon plus Blueprint Sketch towards the top overlapping them a little bit for a smooth look. The sentiment from the same Newton’s Valentine set was simply stamped underneath the inked square. Finally the kitty and the hearts were positioned with a bit of dimension.
Next comes Newton’s Crafty Cardio stamp and die sets. I started again with the coordinating dies to prepare all the die cut shapes. This time I switched to Neenah Solar White paper and Black Hybrid ink from MFT for stamping the open images from Newton’s Crafty Cardio stamp set. I colored all the elements with copic markers.
And this is the complete list of all the makers used on this card: COPIC cat E40-E41-E42-E44-E49 plus R000-R12; Y0000-Y13-Y18; R20-R22-R24-R27-R29-R39; BG10-BG11-BG23; YG01-YG23-YG17; T1-T3; E30-E31-E33; YR02-YR04; B21-B24; RV02; V04.
Working on the background, I created my own patterned paper repeatedly stamping small images from Newton’s Crafty Cardio set. Next I die cut a circle window and split in two parts the sentiment by cutting the word “CRAFTING” apart. This word, designed by NND slightly curved, embraced perfectly the circle shape. The second part of the sentiment was heat embossed on a piece of a red cardstock. I colored it with red copic markers that I used on the kitty before for a perfect match and shaped it into a fish-tale banner with my scissors. Finally I could assemble all the elements together with a bit of dimension.
Would you like to win the “Newtons Crafty Cardio” or the “Newton’s Valentine” 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 January 23rd at 9pm EST to comment — winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday, January 24th.
Check out all the awesome Design Team Blogs below to enter:
Newton’s Nook Designs
Ellen Haxelmans
Larissa Heskett
Samantha Mann
Zsofia Molnar
Naki Rager
Maria Russell
Andrea Shell
Tina Smith
Tatiana Trafimovich <— you’re here
Amanda Wilcox
Thanks so much for stopping by and have a fantastic day!
Tatiana
tatianacraftandart.wordpress.com 
Oh my goodness! These cards are way too cute! I love the colors and the bokeh hearts stencil effect. Beautiful!
I love how you created the ‘crafting’ word as a circle around your image. Such inventive fun. I’m absolutely in love with these stamps.
Both cards are so cute!
I love how you framed it with the CRAFTY around the kitty! Too cute!
LOVE these cards and love that you coloured up the kitty as a Siamese cat. Beautiful.
love Newtons cats!
they are super cute! and these ones are super super cute!
love your stunning cards! gorgeous coloring !
Love your beautiful blended stenciled background on the valentine. Your cards are both so adorable and sweet. Love these new sets.
❤ J
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These are both super adorable & full of inspiration for this newbie card maker 💟 I love seeing how different everyone’s cards are using the same main materials , so talented 💟
Both of these cards are beautiful! The stenciling is so pretty in those colors! And I love how the sentiment encircles the crafty kitty! Fabulous job!
-Jen {Newton’s Nook Designs}
Your Cardio card is one of the best designs I have seen for this release! So creatve!! I also love the blue and red colors you used for your heart stenciling. Both these sets are must haves!😉
Just loving the MEOWentine sentiment, so adorable! Your cards are so cute, especially the second one – I think that’s’ me – Fit Kitty loves crafting!
The shading is so cute with the color changing. I have never tried that. LOve it
Love the blending of blue and pink on the
first card. The circle of “crafting” on the
second card was a fun idea. thanks
for sharing. txmlhl(at)yahoo(dot)com
Adorable cards!! The valentine one is sooo sweet with a fantastic stencil background in blue and pink! Totally love it! ❤ 🙂
Great cards! My favorite is the first one – it is so pretty with the shades of blue fading into the shades of pink!
Love the stamp sets!
Love your background and color choice on the first card. Great coloring on both. Like how you did the circle with the sentiment on the second one.
So adorable!
OMG, that two-tone background is absolutely stunning! Great job on this beautiful card.
Adorable cards! And I really enjoy your blog too!
These kittens are really cute. Love the crafting kitty.
Love Love your choice of colors for these cards!! Some of my favorites ❤️
OMG! I LOOOOVE these both! Guess what I want now!!! Such cute cards Tatiana!
These are adorable–love all the hearts on the first and the gingham on the second.
Love the cards!
Tatiana, both of your cards are super super cute. The heart background on the first card is beautiful. The coloring of the big heart enhances the background.
Everyone has to like the cat doing cardio. It is unique that you cut out the center circle.That is a very attractive card.
Your coloring is amazing and I love both designs.
Fabulous cards! Love your backgrounds & coloring! Newton is just too cute!
Fabulous coloring! Love your cards!
Love the choice of inks for blending, and the genius placement of sentiment