Hello stampers and crafters. I am super excited because it is the first day of the February release at Newton’s Nook Designs. You also have a chance to win each stamp set during release week so check out the details I have indicated at the end of this blog post.
I have created a St. Patrick’s Day card and a small treat bag to go with my card, showcasing the Newton’s Pot of Gold stamp set and the amazing Land Borders Die.
I started out by stamping my images on Strathmore Watercolor Paper with my Simon Says Stamp Intense Black Ink. I colored the images with my new Derwent watercolor pencils, and fuzzy cut my images with my honeybee precision cut scissors. I die-cut the hill and the grass border with the new Land Borders Die set. To create the “rainbow” effect on my card, I used my pastel craft paint and paintbrush, swiping the paint across the card stock. Once the paint was dry to the touch, I used a smaller paintbrush to draw the heart on the rainbow.
Before I adhered the colored images on my card panel, I stamped the background with the shamrock image included in the stamp set, adding some pink hearts to create my own patterned paper. I finished the design by adding the sentiment “Lucky that You’re My Friend” and used my white gel pen to add some dots on the rainbow. Here’s my card:
For the treat bag, I colored the other image with my Copic markers and added gold stickles to the Pot of Gold. I die-cut a rainbow with pastel colored card stock, and also die-cut the grass with the new Land Borders Die. I adhered all of my décor pieces to the treat bag. To finish the design and to be able to close the bag, I die-cut two small bows with the Pines and Holly die-set and adhered these bows on tiny clothespins. Here’s the treat bag:
What do you guys think? I hope you like my card and the treat bag. This Newton’s Pot of Gold stamp set and Land Border dies will be available for purchase on Friday, February 17, at 8:00 a.m. CST.
Would you like to win the “Newton’s Pot of Gold” 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 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 16th at 9pm CST to comment — winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday, February 17th.
Check out all the awesome Design Team Blogs below to enter:
Maria Russell (you are here)
What a pair of lovely cards did you make! Specially love the soft colors!
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This is so adorable and cute! Love the bright spring colors you used!
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Fabulous projects! Love the pastel colors and the rainbows!
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Love the way you made the rainbow.
Wonderful card.
thanks for sharing.
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Love that you went with the pastels. Fabulous!!
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Maria, both your card and treat bag are totally awesome. I have to say, I don’t own any border dies yet but I do believe these are at the top of my list. Your rainbow is too darned cute!
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Fabulous card and bag! Awesome coloring and details on each of your delightful projects! Love the border dies and Newton’s Pot of Gold stamp set!
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Awww… very pretty, love the girly touch!
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Both of your projects are just so stinkin cute! I am in love with your pastel colors! So soft and girly, just adorable!!!
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wow! such cute projects 🙂 i love the pastel colors and adorable images.
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this is super adorable!
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Yess, it works, here is my comment! Really, what a lovely card! Love Newton, and the beautiful rainbow!
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Lovely card!
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so many fun ideas!
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This is so beautiful! Love the colors you used 🙂
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These are so cute–love the colors.
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Great projects, so cheery and spring like. Love the gift box.
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Oh Maria, i really like both projects you’ve made. They looks so amazing.♥
Hugs and greetings
Angela
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I love the pastel colors, the rainbow, and the pink pot of gold!
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Your out of the box coloring is very clever 🙂
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These are both so cute! I love the soft pastels you used and the fun ways you added rainbows! Such cool ideas with this set!
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Super sweet cards! Love the rainbows that you’ve added and that fun treat bag! Swoon!! ❤
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Awesome ideas and love the gorgeous rainbow – PERFECT:)
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