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Newton’s Nook Designs April Release – Newton’s Birdbath

April 13, 2017 Jentimko 33 Comments

So today is the last day of the April release from Newton’s Nook Designs. So far, there hasn’t been a Newton…were you getting worried??!! No fear, today is the day for all of you who love this fellow!

You know the hardest part about Newton sets?? Ok, besides choosing a favorite. I always debate what kind of kitty he gets to be. For this card, I chose to make him look a bit more like the real Newton (you can see his pictures over on the company site).

I started by stamping the images and coloring them with Copic markers (colors listed below). Once I was done and had the images cut out with the coordinating dies, I thought it best to create a cute little scene. The Land Border Dies with the grass border was exactly what I needed! All you have to do is make one cut and you have two grassy edges. And this sentiment….yes, I have already given you my disclaimer on love them….it is another one that is wonderful to have for so many occasions. Ready to this guy for free?? Here you go:

Would you like to win the “Newton’s Birdbath” 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 April 13th at 9pm CST to comment — winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday, April 14th.

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
Naki Rager
Maria Russell
Jennifer Timko (you are here)
Tatiana Trafimovich

I am so happy that you stopped in today. I hope you enjoyed my April release week projects. Tomorrow is the day when you can get them all!
Copic Colors: Newton – E31, E33, E35, E37, E59, R21; Bird – W2, W3, W5; Birdbath – Y21, Y17, Y35, Y38; Water – B32, B34; Butterflies – V12, V15, V17

Stamp: Newton’s Birdbath (Newton’s Nook Designs); Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, Copic Markers; Paper: Wild Wasabi (SU), Thick Whisper White (SU); Accessories: Big Shot, Newton’s Birdbath Dies (Newton’s Nook Designs), Land Border Dies (Newton’s Nook Designs), Stitched Rectangles Dies (SSS), Misti Stamp Tool

Newton’s Nook Designs April Release – Simply Relative

April 12, 2017 Jentimko 31 Comments

Wow, it is already day 3 of the April release from Newton’s Nook Designs. Today is the day for all of you “sentiment-a-holics”!! You know who you are!

I mentioned yesterday how much I love flower sets but good sentiment sets are another love of mine. And this is an amazing sentiment set!! Just look at all the choices to personalize cards for the people you love. So many of these are options I have not seen in a stamp before and I’m so happy to have them.

I also told you yesterday that the Lovely Blooms set was perfect for coloring and I used it again here to create a frame with flowers. I chose some pretty pinks and purples and stamped a whole bunch of little flowers. Before you know it, I had a virtual garden to choose from. The little dies eliminate any need for fussy cutting and make it easy to create fun groupings. I chose to make this for a teacher that certainly deserves recognition! To be truthful, just having this word choice makes the set a must have! I used the Sky Borders Dies to create a scallop and picked a pretty raspberry card stock as a base. This is a card that you could easily duplicate for all the teachers who need a little pick-me-up this time of year! So now is the time that we all love….

Would you like to win the “Simply Relative” Stamp Set?
This set will be given away to ONE lucky winner!

Here’s how to win:

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
Naki Rager
Maria Russell
Jennifer Timko (you are here)
Tatiana Trafimovich

I am so happy that you stopped in today. Tomorrow will be the last day of release week and I know you will be thrilled to see what comes next. I hope you have a great day!
Stamp: Simply Relative (Newton’s Nook Designs), Lovely Blooms (Newton’s Nook Designs); Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, Copic Markers; Paper: Raspberry Ripple (SU Retired), Thick Whisper White (SU); Accessories: Big Shot, Lovely Blooms Dies (Newton’s Nook Designs), Sky Borders Dies (Newton’s Nook Designs), Stitched Rectangles Dies (SSS), Misti Stamp Tool, Basic Pearls (SU), Black Sharpie marker

Newton’s Nook Designs April Release – Lovely Blooms

April 11, 2017 Jentimko 28 Comments

Welcome back for another day of release week for the April release from Newton’s Nook Designs. Day 2 has a beautiful flower set called Lovely Blooms.

I hardly knew where to start with this set. If you follow me, you know I love myself a flower. And this set is full of pretty images to mix and match. I finally settled on creating a watercolor styled card but kept it simple. I sponged Distress Ink onto watercolor paper creating some ombré effects and then stamped over the sponging with the images. The coordinating Lovely Blooms Dies made short work of cutting things out so that I could create this pretty little arrangement. The script sentiments are really great so I chose to create this one for mom. Um….sorry mom, should have given a spoiler alert. I added a few sequins for a finishing touch and I just love the effect you get on this with no actual coloring required.

Of course, if you love to color, this set is totally for you too! I’ll show you what I mean tomorrow! Until then, you have a chance to win this set with just some simple commenting.

Would you like to win the “Lovely Blooms” Stamp Set?
This set will be given away to ONE lucky winner!

Here’s how to win:

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
Naki Rager
Maria Russell
Jennifer Timko (you are here)
Tatiana Trafimovich

I am so happy that you stopped in today. Tomorrow will be Day 3 of release week and I know you will be thrilled to see what comes next. I hope you have a great day!
Stamp: Lovely Blooms (Newton’s Nook Designs); Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, Tim Holtz Distress Ink; Paper: Marina Mist (SU), Thick Whisper White (SU), Tim Holtz Watercolor, Basic Black; Accessories: Big Shot, Lovely Blooms Dies (Newton’s Nook Designs), Misti Stamp Tool, Heat Tool, White Stampin’ Emboss Powder (SU), Sequins (Pretty Pink Posh)

Newton’s Nook Designs April Release – Beautiful Plumage

April 10, 2017 Jentimko 30 Comments

Happy Monday to you! Today is the start of release week for the April release from Newton’s Nook Designs. This release is so perfect for spring and you are going to love it!

This new set is a really lovely start to the April offerings, don’t you think? The swirl images are always so pretty and the peacocks are fabulous! The sentiments that go with this set are also ones you are sure to love.

I decided to emboss the image with gold onto vellum and I love the effect. Using Copic markers, I colored on the back of the stamped image to create the color variances in his feathers. This technique is very forgiving and fun to do. Here is a closeup so you can see him a little better.I added another vellum panel over the card base. Using the coordinating die cuts for the set, the peacock is super easy to cut out. To help him stand out more, he is up on a stitched circle and I added some gold thread behind him. I know you will love all that the design team has to show you and here is your chance to get the set for free!

Would you like to win the “Beautiful Plumage” Stamp Set?
This set will be given away to ONE lucky winner!

Here’s how to win:

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
Naki Rager
Maria Russell
Jennifer Timko (you are here)
Tatiana Trafimovich

I am so happy that you stopped in today. Tomorrow will be Day 2 of release week and I know you will be thrilled to see what comes next. I hope you have a great day!
Stamp: Beautiful Plumage (Newton’s Nook Designs); Ink: Versamark, Copic Markers; Paper: Surf Blue (Simon Says Stamp), Thick Whisper White (SU), Vellum (SU); Accessories: Big Shot, Beautiful Plumage Dies (Newton’s Nook Designs), Misti Stamp Tool, Gold Thread, Gold Sequins (SU and Pretty Pink Posh)

Freshly Made Sketches #282

April 5, 2017 Jentimko 8 Comments

Quick post today. Sorry if you stopped in earlier and got a white screen or other messages. Apparently a plugin update cause the whole site to have a fatal error. Good times! Now to happy things!

We have the most wonderful sketch this week at Freshly Made Sketches from the lovely Cécile. I just love the idea of the layered squares! It didn’t take me long to decide on the smallest squares from the Stitched Shapes Thinlits but then what to add? I was looking through my stamp sets and the most counterintuitive set jumped out at me. Mondo Hydrangea by Ellen Hutson! So yes, the mondo flower was not the right fit for the squares but the little blossoms were perfectly sized! I stamped them in Versafine ink onto Fabriano watercolor paper and colored with my Zigs. Simple coloring but oh so pretty! I added on a little sentiment from another Ellen Hutson set called Lovely. Am I allowed to say how happy I am with this card? I was fighting with my mojo a bit this week and having this card come together quickly saved a bit of my sanity.

Ok…off to visit the amazing team. Make sure you stop in to let us know what you think of the sketch and I hope you’ll join in with us. I’ll be back at the beginning of next week with the April release week from Newton’s Nook Designs. Until then, I hope you have a great week! See you soon.

Supplies:

Stamp: Mondo Hydrangea (Ellen Hutson), Lovely (Ellen Hutson) ; Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, Zig Clean Color Markers; Paper: Thick Whisper White; Accessories: Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Thinlits (SU), Dimensionals

Newton’s Nook Designs – Cottage Flowers

April 4, 2017 Jentimko 2 Comments

I’m up today over at the Newton’s Nook Designs blog today and I want to share all the details with you here. My project focuses on the Cottage Garden Stamp Set and coordinating dies.

The art in this beautiful stamp set is unique and really pretty but I also fell in love with the sentiments. I created this card to show one of them off and to also highlight that the dies are able to multitask. On a piece of watercolor paper (Tim Holtz Distress), I sponged on some different Tim Holtz Distress Inks in Picked Raspberry, Mowed Lawn, Blueprint Sketch and Squeezed Lemonade then splattered on a bit of water. Using the dies, I cut out the flowers big and small. Additionally I created a frame with the ovals from my Stitched Shapes dies. I stamped the sentiment in Picked Raspberry onto a white base (using the Misti helps since I needed to stamp a few times given the nature of Distress Ink). All I had to do was group my flowers and add some Basic Pearls.

I love when die sets lend themselves to quick cards and I think these flowers are ones I’ll return to again and again (and of course, all the other adorable shapes in the set!). Back tomorrow with the latest from Freshly Made Sketches. Thanks so much for stopping in. See you soon!

Supplies:

Stamps: Cottage Garden (Newton’s Nook); Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Inks (Picked Raspberry, Mowed Lawn, Blueprint Sketch, Squeezed Lemonade); Paper: Tim Holtz Distress Watercolor, Thick Whisper White (SU); Accessories: Misti, Big Shot, Cottage Garden Dies, Stitched Shaped Thinlits (SU), Basic Pearls (SU), Dimensionals

Fancy Friday – Step Up Sketch Challenge

March 30, 2017 Jentimko 5 Comments

Welcome to this month’s Fancy Friday Blog Hop! Our team is a group of stampers who love to make beautiful things. Sometimes they are clean, sometimes they are layered but the one thing I can say for sure is that our projects will be fancy! If you hopped over from the amazing Erica Cerwin, welcome to the next stop. For March, we have double the fun! Not only do we have a sketch but we have a step it up challenge. Making a basic card and a stepped up version! It is going to be a fun hop!

So here are my cards together but I also took photos of them separately so you can see the details better. Both versions are still “clean” but the stepped up version has a bit more wow to it.

For my first card I used the sketch as my guide. I love the new Stitched Shapes Thinlits and they worked perfectly here. I stamped the leaves from the stamp set in Night of Navy then cut a flower with the coordinating thinlits to go with them. The sentiment is from the same stamp set. When you have a card that is super clean, every detail matters. Bold contrast (like the navy and white) really catches the eye and the bit of stitching helps the card feel finished. The Basic Pearl in the flower’s center adds a special touch.

For my stepped up version, I added a few more elements. First I cut a frame with my stitched squares and then also cut a square from both White Vellum Card Stock and Floral Boutique DSP (the polka dots). I layered them up and attached them together. The vellum helps the DSP not take over the card and you can still see the flower. This time, I cut both the flower and the leaves from with the Flourish Thinlits and then added them to the square. The sentiment remains the same as above, as does the pearl. But I decided it needed more accessorizing so I added some Night of Navy Solid Baker’s Twine. For both cards, I used my Envelope Punch Board to round the corners (those little punches are so handy on that board!).

I hope you like both of my cards and the sketch. I think the team is going to impress you with their creativity! And let’s face it, these ladies are all about stepping it up!

Now for the rest of the hop! I’m telling you….this team is the most talented group. You will be so inspired as you go along. Next up is my amazing friend Cindy Schuster. She is one of my favorite stampers and one of the nicest people you could ever meet!

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Stamp: Flourishing Phrases; Ink: Night of Navy; Paper: Floral Boutique DSP, Thick WW, White Vellum; Accessories: Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Thinlits, Flourish Thinlits, Basic Pearls, Night of Navy Baker’s Twine, Envelope Punch Board

Freshly Made Sketches #281

March 29, 2017 Jentimko 10 Comments

Another super fun sketch is up this week at Freshly Made Sketches. This week, the super talented Kim Singdahlsen is our hostess and her sketch is really unique. It is always fun to see what the team comes up with and this one really got me to thinking.

I love when a sketch inspires me to go look hard at my stamps to see what jump out and this Stampin’ Up set called Work of Art practically leapt off the shelf. The watercolor styled swoosh is tailor made for the sketch. All I had to do was choose the ink colors. I went for this happy spring trio of Bermuda Bay, Daffodil Delight and Melon Mambo because they seem to be my go-to palette these days. Seasonal stamper’s disorder….choosing the colors of the season….although it seems that I have been stamping in spring for the entire winter too, haha! This sentiment is in my personal sentiment hall of fame (I may be guilty of sentiment ~~hoarding~~ collecting). The perfect message and one that many need to hear. I stamped it in Versafine Onyx Black and then cut it out using the Stitched Shapes circle from SU. The whole panel was cut using Stitched Rectangles from Simon Says Stamp and put on a base of Thick Whisper White. I added some enamel dots because they, too, were calling out to join the fun.

I hope that you have a good time with this sketch. I anticipate a gallery full of creative work. The Design Team will start you off right so make sure you go take a look at their amazing cards. I’ll be back on Friday with this month’s Fancy Friday hop. Hint…their just may be a sketch!! Yippee!

Supplies:

Stamp: Work of Art (SU) ; Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, Bermuda Bay, Daffodil Delight, Melon Mambo; Paper: Thick Whisper White; Accessories: Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Thinlits (SU), Stitched Rectangles Dies (SSS), Dimensionals, Enamel Dots (SU)

Spring Coffee Lovers Blog Hop

March 28, 2017 Jentimko 13 Comments

The Spring Coffee Lovers Bloghop is well underway and what fun it is! I was happy to get a little time to join in this time because I’m always so inspired by the lovely work in the hop. It was also a good time to make sure I’m still coloring for The 30 Day Coloring Challenge this month.

I was thrilled to see this free download set from JessicaLynn Original that was created just for the blog hop. I don’t use digital stamps very often but this one was so pretty I just had to! The nice part is that you can size the image to your taste. I printed it onto X-Press It Blending Card so I could color it with my Copics. I took a Copic Coloring Class about a week ago (Copic Flowers with Lori Craig) and tried to apply some of what I learned with her. This image was super fun to use!

Just a quick post today. Back in the craft room working on some projects for later this week. I hope you have an amazing day. Don’t forget to go over to the blog hop to see all the talented stampers who have joined in! See you soon!

Supplies:

Stamps: Spring 2017 Coffee Lovers Blog Hop Digital Stamp (JessicaLynn Original); Ink: Copic Markers, Versafine Onyx Black; Paper: X-Press It, Bermuda Bay; Accessories: Misti, Big Shot, Stitched Rectangles Dies (Simon Says Stamp), Softly Falling Embossing Folder (SU), Bermuda Bay Baker’s Twine (SU), Dimensionals

Lesley’s Baby Girl Celebration Blog Hop

March 25, 2017 Jentimko 10 Comments

If you have been around stamping for a while, you are sure to know the lovely Lesley Croghan. She is personally responsible for some of the most successful and fun challenges! But beyond that, she has encouraged stampers to join her design teams and to play along with all kinds of inspiring ideas, making our stamping world a happier place. I know that I personally can never truly pay Lesley back for the joy, friends and confidence I have due to one little contact. The day she asked me to join the Freshly Made Sketches Design Team is one that I can mark as one of those days that changes your life in a meaningful way. At the time, I squealed and jumped around like a fool because I was so excited to be asked to join such an amazing group of stampers. Little did I know that I would also make some of the most incredible friends and find a support network that makes me a better person….and enables more that I can even admit to!! *smile*

So Lesley, thank you! For you and Corey, I am so very happy for this new little girl to arrive and she will have more stamping “aunties” than she can even imagine!

I created this card using the Moon Baby stamp set from Stampin’ Up. I think these little images are too cute and they seemed perfect for Lesley’s little girl. The nursery colors are Cameo Coral, Coastal Cabana, Smoky Slate, Basic Gray and White. I took a little bit of liberty and added some pale yellow to help the colors pop but tried hard to stick to this fabulous combination. I colored the images with my Zig Clean Color Markers and used some Distress Ink in the background. After coloring, I cut out the image panel with Stitched Shapes Framelits and layered another stitched oval cut from Thick Whisper White. I added some retired coral ribbon (SU SAB) and put the whole thing on some Lemon Card Stock (SSS).

Now you need to check out all the marvelously talented stampers who feel just the same way I do about Lesley. We have a whole hop going on and you can find the link to all of us here: It’s A Girl Blog Hop for Li’l Miss Croghan

Many of us sent our cards to the hop coordinator, Lori Turner, who bundled everything up and sent it to Lesley and Corey. They get to open it this morning (Saturday) and I hope it brings much joy and happiness!! Thanks for hopping through today. I hope you enjoy sharing in the love and appreciation we have for Lesley! Have a great weekend.

Supplies:

Stamps: Moon Baby; Ink: WPlus9 Black Dye Ink, Zig Clean Color Pens, Versafine Onyx Black; Paper: Tim Holtz Watercolor, Thick Whisper White, Lemon Card Stock (Simon Says Stamp); Accessories: Misti, Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Dies (SU), Stitched Rectangles Dies (Simon Says Stamp), Ribbon (SU Retired), Dimensionals

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