Newton’s Nook Designs Birthday Release and Giveaway – Day 3 – Confetti, Paw Prints & Birthday Sentiments Hot Foil Plates

Hello and welcome to the final day of the Newton’s Nook Birthday release! Thanks so much for joining me today throughout this week, for all your kind and sweet comments, love and support!

Please note that all the new July products will be available for purchase on Thursday, July 20th at Newton’s Nook Designs online store and other craft retailers!

The last day of the July reveals is filled with sparkle and shine since NND adds with more fabulous new hot foil products to their collection: Confetti Hot Foil Plate, Paw Prints Hot Foil Plate, Birthday Sentiments Hot Foil Plate.

Giveaway alert!! NND is giving away new Paw Prints Hot Foil Plate to a lucky winner so make sure you read all the way to the bottom of this post to see how to win!

I know, it’s a long post since I have four cards to share today! But I LOVE the new hot foil products so much that I couldn’t help pairing them both with the new stamps and the pattern papers from this birthday release! Which one is you favorite?

Key Ingredients:

• Confetti Hot Foil Plate
• Paw Prints Hot Foil Plate
• Birthday Sentiments Hot Foil Plate
• Birthday Barks Stamp Set
• Birthday Barks Die Set
• Newton’s Birthday Delights Stamp Set
• Newton’s Birthday Delights Die Set
• Banner Duo Die Set

Step By Step Instructions:

• Die cut from Neenah Solar White paper all the shapes you need, using the coordinating Birthday Barks Die Set, Newton’s Birthday Delights Die Set and Spellbinders Platinum 6 Die Cutting Machine or  Sizzix Big Shot Die Cutting Machine. Save the negative parts of the dies.
• Stamp the outline illustrations from Birthday Barks Stamp Set and Newton’s Birthday Delights Stamp Set with Memento Tuxedo Black ink, using the negative parts of the dies as a guide for a perfect alignment inside the stamping positioning tool.
• Color the stamps with COPIC MARKERS. I used on this card:
  • dog #1 E40-E41-E42-E43 & T0-T1-T3
  • dog #2 C00-C0-C1-C3-C5
  • dog #3 YR30-YR31-YR23-YR24-YR27
  • pink RV000-RV00-RV10-RV13
  • orange YR000-YR04
  • yellow Y000-Y11-Y13-Y15-Y19
  • green YG0000-YG01-YG05
  • teal BG10-BG11-BG45
  • purple V000-V01-V12
  • black 100
• Trim and score an extended A2 size card base (5 1/2″ x 4 1/4″) from Neenah Solar White paper. I used Tim Holtz Maxi Guillotine Trimmer and Mini Score Board on my card.
• Hot foil the paw prints on white, following the instructions of your hot foil system and using Paw Prints Hot Foil Plate and a rainbow foil. You will need both a hot foil system and a die cutting machine for this step. I used:
  • Spellbinders – Glimmer Hot Foil System
  • Spellbinders – Platinum 6 – Die Cutting and Embossing Machine
  • Spellbinders Glimmer Specialty Cardstock
  • Spellbinders – Glimmer Foil Roll – Rainbow
• Hot foil twice the confetti background on the same piece of a light grey cardstock with Spellbinders – Glimmer Foil Roll – Prism.
• Splatter the grey background with a few tiny droplets of Hickory Smoke Distress ink diluted with a small amount of water.
• Hot foil the sentiment on dark grey cardstock with Spellbinders – Glimmer Foil Roll – Silver.
• Die cut the sentiment with the coordinating fish-tail banner from Banner Duo Die Set.
• Arrange and glue in place all the elements on the card front by popping some of them on a foam tape for a bit of dimension.
• Finish with a generous coat of a clear glitter pen and a few highlights added with a white gel pen. Add a layer of Glossy Accents on the balloon stamps.

Key Ingredients:

• Confetti Hot Foil Plate
• Birthday Sentiments Hot Foil Plate
• Newton’s Birthday Delights Stamp Set
• Newton’s Birthday Delights Die Set
• Banner Duo Die Set
• Frames & Flags Die Set
• Sky Borders Die Set
• Birthday Meows Paper Pad

Step By Step Instructions:

• Die cut from Strathmore Bristol paper the kitty ice cream cone, using the coordinating Newton’s Birthday Delights Die Set and Spellbinders Platinum 6 Die Cutting Machine or  Sizzix Big Shot Die Cutting Machine. Save the negative parts of the dies.
• Stamp the outline illustrations from Newton’s Birthday Delights Stamp Set with VersaFine Onyx Black pigment ink, using the negative parts of the dies as a guide for a perfect alignment inside the stamping positioning tool.
• Color the stamps with ZIG CLEAN COLOUR REAL BRUSH MARKERS. I used:
  • cats: 904 Fog Gray – 901 Warm Gray 2 – 064 Oatmeal – 072 Beige – 055 Pale Yellow – 061 Light Brown – 220 Tea Rose;
  • pink: 026 Light Pink – 201 Pink Haze – 025 Pink;
  • orange: 052 Bright Yellow – 054 Pale Orange – 070 Orange;
  • green: 045 Pale Green – 047 May Green – 049 Green Shadow;
  • cherry: 023 Scarlet Red – 022 Carmine Red;
  • cone: 055 Pale Yellow – 050 Yellow – 061 Light Brown.
• Trim and score an extended A2 size card base (5 1/2″ x 4 1/4″) from Neenah Solar White paper. I used Tim Holtz Maxi Guillotine Trimmer and Mini Score Board on my card.
• Hot foil the confetti background on pink, following the instructions of your hot foil system and using Confetti Hot Foil Plate and a prism foil. You will need both a hot foil system and a die cutting machine for this step. I used:
  • Spellbinders – Glimmer Hot Foil System
  • Spellbinders – Platinum 6 – Die Cutting and Embossing Machine
  • Spellbinders – Glimmer Hot Foil – Glimmer Foil Roll – Prism
• Partially die cut the rounded corners frame from the confetti background, using Frames & Flags Die Set.
• Then partially die cut the rounded corners frame from yellow striped pattern paper, using Frames & Flags Die Set and Birthday Meows Paper Pad.
• Die cut the scalloped stripe from a green pattern paper, using Sky Borders Die Set and Birthday Meows Paper Pad.
• Hot foil the sentiment on black with Spellbinders – Glimmer Foil Roll – Champagne.
• Die cut the sentiment, using Banner Duo Die Set.
• Arrange and glue in place all the elements on the card front by popping some of them on a foam tape for a bit of dimension.
• Finish with a few highlights added with a white gel pen and “glaze” the ice cream with Moonstone Glimmer Paste from Nuvo.

Key Ingredients:

• Birthday Meows Paper Pad
• Birthday Sentiments Hot Foil Plate
• Banner Duo Die Set
• Circle Frames Die Set

Step By Step Instructions:

• Trim and score an extended A2 size card base (5 1/2″ x 4 1/4″) from Neenah Solar White paper. I used Tim Holtz Maxi Guillotine Trimmer and Mini Score Board on my card.
• Die cut a bunch of small hearts from Birthday Meows Paper Pad, using Spellbinders Platinum 6 Die Cutting Machine or  Sizzix Big Shot Die Cutting Machine.
• Hot foil the sentiment, following the instructions of your hot foil system and using Birthday Sentiments Hot Foil Plate and a gold foil. You will need both a hot foil system and a die cutting machine for this step. I used:
  • Spellbinders – Glimmer Hot Foil System
  • Spellbinders – Platinum 6 – Die Cutting and Embossing Machine
  • Spellbinders – Glimmer Hot Foil – Gold
• Die cut the sentiment with the coordinating fish-tail banner from Banner Duo Die Set.
• Trim a thing stripe of the pattern paper from Birthday Meows Paper Pad.
• Arrange and glue in place all the elements on the card front by popping them on a foam tape for a bit of dimension.

Key Ingredients:

• Birthday Woofs Paper Pad
• Birthday Sentiments Hot Foil Plate
• Banner Duo Die Set

Step By Step Instructions:

• Trim and score an extended A2 size card base (5 1/2″ x 4 1/4″) from Neenah Solar White paper. I used Tim Holtz Maxi Guillotine Trimmer and Mini Score Board on my card.
• Trim a bunch of small squares, using a wire paper trimmer.
• Hot foil the sentiments, following the instructions of your hot foil system and using Birthday Sentiments Hot Foil Plate and a gold foil. You will need both a hot foil system and a die cutting machine for this step. I used:
  • Spellbinders – Glimmer Hot Foil System
  • Spellbinders – Platinum 6 – Die Cutting and Embossing Machine
  • Spellbinders – Glimmer Hot Foil – Gold
• Die cut the sentiments, using the coordinating fish-tail banner from Banner Duo Die Set and Spellbinders Platinum 6 Die Cutting Machine or Sizzix Big Shot Die Cutting Machine.
• Arrange and glue in place all the elements on the card front by popping them on a foam tape for a bit of dimension.

Would you like to win the “Paw Print” Hot Foil Plate? This foil 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 Wednesday July 19th at 9pm ET to comment — winners will be announced on the blog post on Thursday, July 18th.

Check out all the awesome Design Team Blogs below to enter:
Newton’s Nook Designs
Donna Idlet
Ellen Haxelmans
Tina Herbeck
Larissa Heskett
Samantha Mann
Diane Morales
Maria Russell
Farhana Sarker
Tatiana Trafimovich <– you’re here
Amanda Wilcox

That’s all for today! Hope you like this fun birthday card ! Thanks so much for stopping by and have a fabulous day!
Hugs,
Tatiana