Birthday Card Making – Newtons Nook Birthday Card Idea – Cute Cat on Fence

This is a birthday card I made for my younger brother – his birthday was actually in May so it was a bit belated… When I was making the birthday cards for my friends, you can check out those by clicking here and here, I really wanted to do a ginger kitty. So I started by stamping out the cute little cat with the beret and scarf from the Newton’s Nook Newton Dreams of Paris stamp set and coloured him in orange using my Derwent Studio Pencils. I remembered my colour theory and coloured in his little hat and scarf in complementary blue. Oh my gosh he looks so adorable!

I had some scrap strips of yellow pattern paper left from the ray burst sheet I used on the ‘bonjour’ birthday card. I don’t know how I came up with the idea but I think it’s amazingly cute how he looks sitting on top of the yellow square. I tried to make a bit of a fence by cutting more pieces of the yellow paper and I cut them in different sizes to add a bit more interest to the design. I chose to use a blue striped background paper from the Lawn Fawn Hello Sunshine 6×6 petite paper pack and adhered it onto a blue card stock from a Simon Says Stamp Card Kit.

I adhered the kitty and the fence pieces using foam squares. Finally I stamped the sentiment ‘happy birthday’ from a Stampendous sentiment stamp set in clear embossing ink and then I used Wow Embossing Powder and heat set it using the Heat It Craft Tool. The heat setting did warp the card but I’ll set it under a heavy book for a while to straighten it out before I give it to my younger brother.

I’m really pleased with the simplicity and the cuteness of the card. I think the simplicity adds an extra element of adorable.

Birthday Card Making – Newtons Nook Birthday Card Idea – Bonjour Balloon Cat

This was another quick birthday card I put together for a friend’s birthday. I was really happy with the way this card turned out considering my time constraints. I knew I wanted to use the cute kitty in the hot air balloon basket from the Newton’s Nook Newton Dreams of Paris stamp set, so I started by stamping that first. I fussy cut out the balloon and then cut out the cat and the basket. I stamped the cat again and cut only the cat out of this second stamp. This was so I could add a little dimension but also because of the way his tail curls around, I didn’t want any white space in the gap between his tail and the basket.

I coloured in the basket, the balloon and then the cat. I chose a yellow ray burst pattern paper from the Lawn Fawn Hello Sunshine 6×6 petite paper pack. I’m actually quite amazed by how many cards I’ve made with this paper pack. It doesn’t sound like much but 36 pages really does go a long way, and I still have lots of scraps that I can use!

I adhered the ray burst directly onto the yellow card stock card base and then trimmed the edges (that’s why the left-hand side doesn’t look so straight haha). After that, I adhered the balloon, the basket and then the cat on top of the basket. I stamped the sentiment ‘bonjour’, also from the Newton Dreams of Paris stamp set, directly onto the pattern paper to the right of the hot air balloon.

To finish the card, I simply hand drew the lines of the balloon rope from the balloon to the basket and the rope line blowing away ending in a curl. I used my Memento tuxedo black ink pen. I really liked the hand drawn touch and used the original stamp as a guide. The rope line curling away I think helps add movement to the card as though the cat is floating along in the basket by the breeze. I think my friend should really like this card because of the cuteness factor so I can’t wait to hand it to her.

 

If you’re interested in seeing the other cards I’ve made using the Lawn Fawn Hello Sunshine papers, you can check them out by clicking the links below:

Paper Smooches Nine Lives Stamp with Lawn Fawn Hello Sunshine Paper Birthday Card Idea

Lawn Fawn Hello Sunshine & Paper Smooches Spectrum Card Idea

Lawn Fawn Hello Sunshine & Paper Smooches Spectrum Card Idea

Paper Smooches Spectrum & Lawn Fawn Hello Sunshine Idea

Paper Smooches 9 Lives & Lawn Fawn Hello Sunshine Idea

Paper Smooches Nine Lives Stamp Set Birthday Card Idea – Cute Happy Cat Stamp

Paper Smooches Nine Lives Card Idea – Vicky Papaioannou Inspired

Paper Smooches Nine Lives Card Idea – Vicky Papaioannou Inspired

Birthday Card Making – Paper Smooches Spectrum – Vicky Papaioannou Inspired

Birthday Card Making – Paper Smooches Nine Lives Stamp

 

And if you’re interested in seeing the other cards I’ve made using the Newton’s Nook Newton Dreams of Paris stamp set, you can also check them out by clicking the links below:

Simon Says Stamp Card Kit March 2015 & Newtons Nook – Birthday Card Idea

Newtons Nook Birthday Card Idea – Seedy Moustache

 

Enjoy!

Birthday Card Making – Newtons Nook Birthday Card Idea – Seedy Moustache

This was a quick little card I put together as a belated birthday card. I used the Newtons Nook Dreams of Paris stamp set. I had my partner help me with this one as the card is for a mutual friend. So he decided to use the cat with the striped shirt. I stamped the cute cat stamp and then fussy cut him out. I didn’t wait for the ink to dry so I had a bit of smudging here and there. I should really learn to be more patient with my crafts. Then I coloured in the cat using my Derwent Studio Pencils. I had a scrap piece of grey pattern paper from the Lawn Fawn Hello Sunshine paper pack and I adhered that directly to the black card base as a strip. I then adhered the cute kitty with foam tape. I stamped the little moustache separately and fussy cut it out. I went around the edges of the moustache with the memento tuxedo black ink pen and then adhered it with a glue pen. I stamped the sentiment ‘le meow’ onto a scrap piece of yellow pattern paper also from the Lawn Fawn Hello Sunshine paper pack and cut it into a ribbon. As an afterthought I decided to add some moustaches to the ribbon. After I stamped the moustaches to the ribbon, I wasn’t immediately sold on it, but my partner really liked the effect so that’s how it is going to stay.

It’s really awesome having the moustache stamps as the friend we are gifting the card to is often teased about the day he unintentionally had a moustache that made him look like a really seedy pervert. A little inside joke into a card I think is a nice touch.

Birthday Card Making – Simon Says Stamp Card Kit March 2015 & Newtons Nook – Birthday Card Idea

 

This card I made for a workmate’s sister’s birthday. I used the Simon Says Stamp Card Kit from March 2015 with the Newtons Nook Newton Dreams of Paris stamp set. The cardstock is the grey from the Simon Says Stamp Card Kit which I cut and folded to the standard card size.

I used two strips of the shiny gold paper left over from my previous cards I made, you can check the birthday card I made for mother out by clicking here.

I used another scrap piece of pattern paper and placed in in the middle of the two gold strips, making the gold strips border the chevron strip. I stamped the sentiment ‘le meow’ on to a small rectangle cut from the same grey cardstock as the card base. I accented it with a cluster of three gold rhinestones.

Lastly, I stamped little Newton who looks absolutely adorable wearing his little scarf and beret. I coloured Newton in using my Derwent Studio Pencils. My favourite gunmetal grey for his kitty cat body and then yellow for his beret and scarf. I accented his scarf bow with a rhinestone. I went over the hat and scarf using a Wink of Stella Clear Glitter Pen but it’s really hard to catch the glint of the glitter in a photograph.

I really liked how this card turned out. It was a little surprising as when I started making the card, I hadn’t intended on using the Newton’s Nook stamp set, but I’m glad I decided to go that way.

Simon Says Stamp Package or Haul

The current card kit for Simon Says Stamp, the April 2015 kit, pictured below, didn’t move me and I wasn’t too keen to pay the price for it. I have the subscription and with shipping and the exchange rate, it ends up being close to fifty Australian dollars for the kit and I couldn’t see the point in spending that amount of money on something I wasn’t really keen for and didn’t really want.

So I decided to use that money instead to make an order of items from Simon Says Stamp that I’ve been really wanting. And it arrived the other day! Pictured below are the items I ordered – I think it ended up costing me a bit more than $50AUD but I really wanted them so I guess it was okay to make the exception and spend that little bit extra.

I’ve been wanting a Newton’s Nook stamp set for a while because the little Newton cat is sooooo adorable. And I was in love with the little French kitties in this stamp set. Newton Dreams of Paris is what the clear stamp set is called. I noticed it was sold out on the official Newton’s Nook website and as Simon Says Stamp still had it listed in stock I really wanted to buy quickly so I didn’t miss out. And I’ve just gone to the website while typing this to copy the link to add it to this post and it’s sold out! Maybe I got the last one? I’m so glad I purchased when I did!

The next stamp set pictured is My Favorite Things set called Planner Basics which I’ve found is also sold out! I feel like this order is so serendipitous now.

The other stamp set I really wanted is a Simon Says Stamp Exclusive Coordinating Set of two stamps and two dies called From Me To You Better Together. This is still in stock! I really wanted this set because I’d like to make cards for my Grandma and having sentiments such as ‘thinking of you’ in the large cursive would be beautiful and ‘sending’ & ‘wishing’ are both very versatile. There’s lots of cute elements to the stamps as well such as the borders and the envelopes and love hearts and dots. Although it is quite a bit of money (in my frugal eyes) I feel I will get my money’s worth out of this set and it will be a good investment.

Lastly, I ordered the Lifestyle Crafts QuickStik which is a precision pick-up and placement tool. This would have come in handy for doing things such as the heart in the ‘it moose be easter‘ card where it’s tiny and fiddly. This tool will make fiddly and annoying jobs like that a breeze and enjoyable! 😀

So that’s what was in my Simon Says Stamp package; my little haul of crafty products.