Happy 4th Anniversary Newton's Nook Designs!!

Hello everyone!  Newton's Nook Designs is celebrating their 4th YEAR ANNIVERSARY (WOO HOO!) and Jen was kind enough to ask me to play along with the current Design Team members.  I was so honored and humbled.  

Earlier this week Jen debuted the new Winston's Lake House stamp set and its coordinating die:

Well the current Design Team members really knocked it out of the park showing off this new set with their beautiful creations.  When I first saw this stamp set I was really drawn to the loon bird (did Jen hit it out of the park with this illustration or what?!!  She even got the petite white stripes on the bird's neck!  Way to go Jen!)  and the goofy romantic sentiment 'I'm still looney for you' - it is just the kind of thing my hubby would love to get from me for our anniversary, Valentine's Day, or as a little love note (probably because he thinks I am a little looney, LOL!) so I made a card I thought would appeal to him on the masculine side:

I thought the black & white polka dot paper complemented the white dots on the loon's back nicely and created a little eyebrow for expression simply by not coloring that part of the head in black.  I added a little pop of color with the red flag and red rhinestone hearts.  

Jen also introduced a brand new line to the Newton's Nook Designs family this anniversary as well - FOUR new stencil designs!!  That's right - not one, FOUR!  Here is a graphic depicting all four of them:

I think they are all really terrific and the NND DT did such a terrific job showing them all off earlier this week, didn't they?!!  Since I love making dog-themed and cat-themed cards so much I decided to make a birthday card using NND's Pug Hugs stamp set and the brand new Paw Prints stencil :

I just secured the stencil in place with a piece of blue painter's tape and sponged the plum perfect ink over the open paw prints and VOILA!  Pretty neat huh?  My first time working with a stencil too!!  I also tried it with my new Crayola Airbrush kit I got back in December - worked nicely with that too!  And both times, all I had to do to clean the stencil off was run it under the faucet and the ink and marker just washed right off, good as new again - can't get much easier than that!  :)

Would you like to try NND's new stencils for yourself?  Well as part of Newton's Nook's 4th anniversary celebration, you can receive the Paw Prints stencil FREE with a $75 purchase from Newton's Nook Designs!  Cool no?  But the promotion only runs for one week so don't wait too long!

Celebrate with us and enter to win!

To celebrate 4 years Newton's Nook Designs is giving away a $25 store credit to spend in their online shop to 4 lucky winners! 

Here's how to win: 

Comment on the NND Design Team and Special Guest blogs (see list below)! The winner will be chosen at random from the collective blog hop 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 Sunday, July 16th at 9pm CDT to comment. Winners will be announced on NND blog post on Monday, July 17th and will need to contact us to claim their prize so make sure you check back to see if you've won!

Special Guests:

Taheerah Atchia
Crafty Math-Chick (<-- you are here)
Danielle Pandeline
Stephanie Muzulin
Nina-Marie Trapani
Kimberly Rendino

Newton's Nook Design Team:

Newton's Nook Designs
Amanda Bodine
Holly Endress
Ellen Haxelmans
Larissa Heskett
Samantha Mann
Juliana Michaels
Naki Rager
Jennifer Timko
Tatiana Trafimovich

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog and seeing my creations.  Danielle Pandeline is next on the hop, I am sure she has created something spectacular for you to see.  Enjoy!  And have a wonderful weekend!

~ Crafty Math Chick

A Card for Your 'Sweet-Tea'

Welcome!  Today it is my turn to be featured on the Newton's Nook Designs' Blog (YAAY!) so I decided to have a little fun with a play on words with this card using the newly released Freshly Squeezed stamp set and elements & sentiments from the previously released 'Sweet Summer' and 'Love a la Carte' stamp sets as well:

I have always loved lemons and lemon flavoring, I do not know why.  I even think lemons themselves look cute, so I had so much fun contently coloring up all these lemons.  I added some clear, yellow and red gloss using my Sakura Glaze gel pens to the lemon rinds, hearts and the mason jar, but I don't know if it shows up much in the picture.    This is a perfect card from my hubby who frequently calls me his 'Sweetie' and loves sweet tea and brewing his own sun tea in the backyard during the summer months.

Hope you like my card!  Thanks so much for stopping by!

~ Crafty Math Chick

Newton's Nook Designs' Inky Paws Challenge #32 ~ Use an Arrow

Hello Everyone!  I hope you all enjoyed a relaxing Memorial Day Weekend and were able to reflect upon those who selflessly sacrificed their lives to help protect the freedoms with which we are all blessed.  It is my turn to be featured on the Newton's Nook Designs' Blog (yaay!) so I wanted to make a card to play along with the current Inky Paws Challenge - to use an arrow.   

I knew this challenge was the purr-fect opportunity to feature the new Points & Plumes die set.  

Originally I was going to have one of the owls 'riding' on the arrow, clenching it in its talons.  But I couldn't decide - do I use the feminine shy owl from Sweetheart Tails?  Or the adorable barn owl from Magical Dreams?  (which I purchased long ago and still had yet to use!)  I couldn't decide (big shock there) so I altered the design and used both - yaay!!  I masked them and had them perch on the branch from Hanging Around, which I extended with a ruler and a black gel ink pen.  I simply cut the arrow die cut in half and positioned it so it looked like it was piercing the heart above - VOILA!  Hope you like it!

Thanks so much for stopping by and taking the time to look at my card.  Hope your May ends happily and your June was a wonderful beginning!

~ Crafty Math Chick

Newton's Nook Designs August Release ~ Final Day

Welcome back to the last day of Newton's Nook Designs' August sneak peeks.    Today Jen is releasing TWO of her coordinating die collections!  Introducing coordinating dies for the previously released Newton's Antics:

I was SO excited to here Jen was releasing coordinating dies for this set - it is special to me because it was one of the first ones I purchased from NND before I was fortunate enough to be asked to join the design team.  I wanted to honor it with a cute kitty anniversary card as a tribute to Jen & Jeff's kitties, Newton ^ Hobbes:

I didn't quite get Hobbes' coloring right with my Copic markers, but I will try harder next time Hobbes.  I love all the little dies for the cute kitty accessories in this set too - don't you?  And I had fun tucking the die cut fishbone (which matches the patterned paper so nicely, doesn't it?) under Hobbes' little paw.

Would you like to win a $10 store credit to Newton's Nook Designs?

One will be given away to ONE lucky winner!!

 Here's how to win:

Comment on the NND blog and Design Team and Guest blogs (see list below)! The winner will be chosen at random from the collective blogs' release posts. Make sure you 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 13th at 9 pm CDT to comment -- the winner will be announced on the blog post on Friday, August 14th. Check out all these 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
Nina-Marie Trapani
Kimberly Rendino
Yukari Yoshioka

Thanks so much for stopping by - I hope you like my card.  Jess is next step on the release, I am sure she has created something spectacular for you to see!  Enjoy!  

~ Crafty Math Chick

Anniversary Card with NND's Years for Cheers

Hello!  I hope everyone is doing well.  I am featured on the Newton's Nook Designs' blog today.  Since my in-laws' anniversary is this month I decide to make an elegant anniversary card using NND's recently released 'Years for Cheers' stamp set:

Yep, they've been together 49 years - isn't that wonderful?!!  I went for a formal black & white design with two kinds of embossing (heated with white EP and the D'Vine Swirls CB EF).  My hubby thinks they'll like it - I hope he's right!

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog to see my creations, I hope you have a GREAT day!

Cheers!

~ Crafty Math Chick

Newton's Nook Designs May Release ~ Final Day

Welcome back for the third and last day of sneak peeks for the May release for Newton's Nook Designs.  Today Jen's sharing a mini set perfect for all kinds of occasions, from birthdays to anniversaries to New Years celebrations, even for pocket pages of visiting wineries or going wine tasting!  Introducing: ' Years for Cheers':

First I decide to make a card for my hubby for our next anniversary:

(my hubby prefers simple elegant cards so I didn't embellish beyond this, even though inside I was screaming to add glitter and rhinestones, LOL!  I hoe the little silver bow from Michaels $1 bin wasn't too much for a man!).

I have a confession - as hard as I try, I usually end up having a few holiday cards that just don't make it to the mail in time - we are a military family and we move a lot, our friends move a lot, and trying to keep up with all the address changes can be daunting.  So I always make a few 'Happy New Years!' cards for folks whose addresses I don't learn of in time.  This set is perfect for that:

Since this one wasn't for hubby I decide to go a little flirty with pink and gold accents.  I sliced up some strips from this cool golf foil vellum from a DCWV stack that I LOVE and tacked it down onto some Blushing Bride cardstock (looks like embossing, doesn't it?) and stamped the numbers individually and punched them with a 1/2" punch (they fit perfectly!) and matted them in black with a 3/4" punch.  So, one down, a few more to go... the trick now is not to misplace it before December so I will have it when I need it (though I could always pop off the '6' and add a '7' in its place for the following year if I had to, right?).  So, which care was your favorite?

Would you like to win 'Years for Cheers'?
This set will be given away to ONE lucky winner!!

 Here's how to win:

 Comment on the NND blog and Design Team and Guest blogs (see list below)! The winner will be chosen at random from the collective blogs' release posts. Make sure you 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, May 14th at 9 pm CDT to comment -- the winner will be announced on the blog post on Friday, May 15th. Check out all these awesome Design Team & Guest Blogs below to enter:

Newton's Nook Designs
Taheerah Atchia
Lydia Evans
Larissa Heskett
Samantha Mann
Crafty Math-Chick (<-- you are here)
Jess Moyer
Stephanie Muzzulin
Danielle Pandeline
Kimberly Rendino
Yukari Yoshioka
Jenn Shurkus - Guest Designer

Jess is next on the NND May Release hop, I am sure she has created something spectacular for you to see - Enjoy!  Thanks for stopping by!  

~ Crafty Math Chick

Yipes! Stripes! With Newton's Nook Designs

Welcome!  I have to admit, the day Jen sneaked 'Wild About Zoo':

That little zebra instantly reminded me of the colorful zebra from Fruit Stripe gum.  Don't remember Fruit Stripe Gum?  Curious as to what it is?  Here are some links to fill you in: 1970's commercial & 1990's commercial (you have that in your head now, don't you?).  It is difficult to find in stores, but you can find it at specialty candy stores online if you do a google search for it.  One of these days I will buy a brick of it and come up with some cute treat holder for it.

Anyway, that was my inspiration for today's card:

The cute little zebra's tails was difficult to fussy cut around, so I gave him a rainbow one instead created by 6 strands of embroidery floss twisted together in shades that matched the brightly striped paper.  I think this will be a perfect card for Operation Write Home for a deployed service member to send to his or her daughter back home.  

I am also submitting this card for Simon Says Stamp's Monday Challenge: Anything Goes (did you know Simon Says Stamp also sells Newton's Nook Designs?  They do!!)

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Have a bright & colorful day!

~ Crafty Math Chick

Newton's Nook Designs February Release ~ Day 1

Hello everyone!  Welcome to the first day of Newton Nook Designs' February Release.  Today's set is perfect not only for Valentine's Day, but for Anniversaries and any time you want to share a little love, introducing 'Bunny Hop':

Who doesn't think bunny butts are adorable?!!  So I of course chose this image for my card:

I created a larger bunny for the Newton bunny to snuggle with using shapes from circle punches and gave him a sparkly pom pom tail and added some sparkly flock to Newton bunny's tail with a quickie glue pen.

Since this card features two widdle bunnies I am also entering it into Simon Says Stamp's Wednesday Challenge: 'all creatures great and small' (did you know that Simon Says Stamps carries NND?  Cool huh?)

Would you like to win 'Bunny Hop'?
This set will be given away to TWO lucky winners!!

Here's how to win:

Comment on the NND blog and Design Team and Guest blogs (see list below)!  Two winners will be chosen at random from the collective blogs' release posts.  Make sure you 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 12th at 9 pm CDT to comment -- winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday, February 13th (guess it will be a lucky day for at least two people!).

Check out all these awesome Design Team & Guest Blogs below to enter:

Newton's Nook Designs
Taheerah Atchia
Lydia Evans
Larissa Heskett
Samantha Mann
Crafty Math-Chick (<-- You are here)
Jess Moyer
Stephanie Muzzulin
Danielle Pandeline
Kimberly Rendino
Yukari Yoshioka
Simon Hurley (Guest Designer)
Angel Rivera(Guest Designer)

Next on your hop is Jess Moyer, I am sure she has created something spectacular for you.  Enjoy!

~ Crafty Math Chick

Newton's Nook Designs Inky Paws Challenge #17

Hello everyone!  Today is the first Inky Paws Challenge of 2015.  For Inky Paws Challenge #17, Jen challenges us to use something heart-shaped in your creation featuring Newton's Nook Designs:

(Don't those cookies make your mouth water?  YUM!)  I met the challenge using Flirty Flamingos, which I honestly believe is the cutest flamingo set I have seen anywhere!!

to make this card:

I used various sizes of heart-shaped Nestabilities dies by Spellbinders to create this heart-shaped card with a window in the middle for the flamingos to peek out of.  

I am also entering this card in Simon Says Stamp's 'Have a Heart' Wednesday Challenge (did you know Simon Says Stamp carries Newton's Nook Designs sets too?  They do!!).

Won't you take the Inky Paws Challenge and play along with us?  You have until Friday, February 6th to play along and you must use a NND image (though there are some freebies on the NND blog)on a new creation.  Check out the Newton's Nook Designs blog for all the details - including how you could WIN a $10 store credit to NND (and if there are more than 15 participants, Jen will pick TWO winners!  WHOOP!)!

And if you happen to have some extra valentines lying around - I hope you will consider donating them to Winter Sims' Cards from the Heart Card Drive - she is collecting valentines for distribution to children spending valentine's day in hospitals.  You get to do a good deed, spread a little love, and even have a chance to win some fun crafty prizes in the process!  Visit HERE for more information.

Have a great day and a wonderful weekend crafty friends!

~ Crafty Math Chick

Newton's Nook Designs January Release ~ Day 2

Welcome back for the second day of Newton's Nook Designs January Release!  Today 'Newton Dreams of Paris' makes its debut, with lots of images and sentiments perfect for valentines day, anniversaries, any expression of love, scrapbooking trips to Paris or even just saying hello - how's that for versatility?!!

Just seeing the images in the package gave me the impression that little Newton in the lower right corner was looking up at the Newton kitty in the air balloon, so I went with it with this card:

(please click on the photo for a larger image).  The background is from Echo Park's 'Be Mine' stack - lots of great pinks, greys and black & white in that collection (lots of Parisian elements to coordinate with this stamp set as well!) so I did a bit of paper piecing here with both Newton's and all four air balloons.  I don't know if it shows up in the photo, but I added some glitter glue to the hearts on the card for an added touch of sparkle, cards are more festive with a little sparkle, right?

Would you like to win 'Newton Dreams of Paris'?
This set will be given away to TWO lucky winners!!

Here's how to win:

Comment on the NND blog and Design Team and Guest blogs (see list below)!  Two winners will be chosen at random from the collective blogs' release posts.  Make sure you 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 15th at 9 pm CDT to comment -- winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday, January 16th.

Check out all these awesome Design Team & Guest Blogs below to enter:

Newton's Nook Designs
Taheerah Atchia
Lydia Evans
Larissa Heskett
Samantha Mann
Crafty Math-Chick <--- (you're here!)
Jess Moyer
Stephanie Muzzulin
Danielle Pandeline
Kimberly Rendino 
Yukari Yoshioka 
Tracy Mae (Guest Designer) 

Good luck!  Jess Moyer is the next stop on the hop, I am sure she has something spectacular for you to see, enjoy!

PS - I really don't send many valentine's other than to my husband (from me and one from Ty as well, LOL!) and to my Mom & MIL, so I will be donating the majority of the valentine-themed cards I make to Winter Sims' Cards from the Heart' Card Drive - she collects valentines to distribute to children in hospitals - if you'd like to participate you can read all about the details HERE.

~ Crafty Math Chick

Newton's Nook Designs January Release ~ Day 1

Welcome!  Today we are showing off Newton's Nook Design's soon-to-be-released set: Wild About Zoo:

As you can see, the set has several images of adorable animals with sentiments perfect for valentine's day, anniversaries, and other fun expressions of love!  I decide to use little lion Newton and wrapped the twine Jen wrapped around the sets when she shipped them to create a fun texture mane:

(please click on the image for a larger picture).  I converted Newton from Newton's Day Dream into a lioness to snuggle with placed over this perfect background scene from a sheet from DCWV's 8" x 8" Safari stack.  

Would you like to win 'Wild About Zoo'?
This set will be given away to TWO lucky winners!!

Here's how to win:

Comment on the NND blog and Design Team and Guest blogs (see list below)!  Two winners will be chosen at random from the collective blogs' release posts.  Make sure you 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 15th at 9 pm CDT to comment -- winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday, January 16th.

Check out all these awesome Design Team & Guest Blogs below to enter:

Newton's Nook Designs
Taheerah Atchia
Lydia Evans
Larissa Heskett
Samantha Mann
Crafty Math-Chick <--- (you're here!)
Jess Moyer
Stephanie Muzzulin
Danielle Pandeline
Kimberly Rendino
Yukari Yoshioka
Tracy Mae (Guest Designer)

Good luck!  Jess Moyer is the next stop on the hop, I am sure she has something spectacular for you to see, enjoy!

PS - I really don't send many valentine's other than to my husband (from me and one from Ty as well, LOL!) and to my Mom & MIL, so I will be donating the majority of the valentine-themed cards I make to Winter Sims' Cards from the Heart' Card Drive - she collects valentines to distribute to children in hospitals - if you'd like to participate you can read all about the details HERE.

~ Crafty Math Chick

Happy Anniversary!

Hello Friends & Followers!  As you read this I should be arriving in our new state, though I am not sure of the availability of our house at the time I author this post (wish me luck!).  

I wanted to share the card I made for my hubby for our anniversary using Newton's Nook Designs' 'Sweet Summer' set and Cuttlebug's Preserves embossing folder:

I masked the pear and stamped it twice (needed a pair of pears right!  Good homonyms lesson for your little ones!) and colored them in using Copic markers.  I just love the little hearts Jen added to the pears when she illustrated this set.  

'Sweet Summer' is a really adorable and versatile set, I would definitely consider adding it to your NND collection if you don't already have it!

Thanks so much for stopping by!  I hope YOU are having a 'Sweet Summer' yourself!

Cheers!
~ Crafty Math Chick

SNSDC66 ~ Greens & Purples

Happy Friday Friends & Followers!  Time for another Sweet 'n Sassy Digi Challenge, and this week certainly was a challenge for me - Use greens & purples - not too colors I frequently use together, in fact, I really don't use purple much at all now that I think of it, I don't have anything against the color, there are just others I seem to reach for first.  For the challenge I created this CAS card using Cookie's Pear digi stamp:

I figured I could write 'you are a wonderful 'pear'' on the inside and use it as an anniversary card or something.  99.9% of my embellishments are still packed up and inaccessible so I took a white grosgrain ribbon and used my Bic Mark It's that I used to color little Cookie Mouse and drew lines using the same colors to create a coordinating ribbon.
     Hope you will play along with our challenges, you don't even need to use SNSS digis (though we certainly love it when you do - and then you are in the running to be a spotlighted stamper and might even end up being the featured guest designer for October!) and remember, every card you enter during the month of August enters you to win 3 SNSS digis of your choice!  So play along every week to increase your chances.  This card also fulfills the requirements of the following additional challenges as well:

• Crafts and Me Challenge 96 - to use a digi, and
• Inky Impressions Challenge - use ribbon.

     Have a wonderful weekend!
~ Crafty Math Chick