Christilyn's Creations

Creative papercrafting with occasional side trips

Tag: Newton’s Nook

Products used in these posts are available from Newton’s Nook

Cats & Books

Cats are wonderfully independent yet affectionate companions, bringing quiet comfort with their soft purrs and curious personalities. Books open entire worlds, offering knowledge, escape, and imagination with every page turned. Together, cats and books create the perfect peaceful moment-curling up with a good story while a content cat rests nearby is a simple kind of magic.

This card is an entry into the Newton’s Nook Inky Paws Challenge. It was a color challenge this time, with the requirement being to use magenta, yellow, purple, and turquoise. I used the Card Layout 3 and papers from the Springtime, Happy Easter, and A Cat’s Life paper pads for the background. The image and sentiment are from Newton’s Book Club, colored with Copic markers and accented with gold gel pen. A few gold baubles round out the card.

April 8, 2026
Spring has sprung!

I created this sweet spring card using Newton’s Nook’s Postage Layout die, Frames and Flags die, and Easter Postage Sampler stamps and dies. The images were colored with Prismacolor pencils and mounted on foam squares, and the yellow basket weave paper is from the Newton’s Nook Happy Easter pack. It certainly seems springlike here in Texas, with temperatures in the 80s!

A huge thank you to the Inky Paws Challenge team, who chose this card to be featured in the current challenge! It means a lot to me!

March 6, 2026
Silhouette eggs

These simple silhouette eggs are from the Newton’s Nook Easter Egg Builder set. The egg paper is also Newton’s Nook, from their Happy Easter paper pack. The solids are from my stash. I was inspired by Samantha Mann to use the white designs over the solid eggs, although her finished card is very different.

I promised an announcement about this blog. I set a goal for myself at the beginning of February to post content every day, and I only missed two days. However, it’s taken a toll on me. So I’m going to an every three days posting schedule, and may include other crafts besides cards. I hope you’ll continue to follow along, even though it will be less frequently. I really appreciate all my visitors and commenters.

February 28, 2026
Simple shaker

Not the most complex card I’ve ever done, and there’s a couple of ink smears, but I love those sequins so much I couldn’t resist using them again. The Happy Easter stamp is by Waffle Flower, and I colored it in with a Crayola colored pencil. The little eggs are from Newton’s Easter Basket by Newton’s Nook and all the ink is LDRS Creative La La Lavender. The sequins are Brutus Monroe’s Spring Mix. I’ll have an announcement tomorrow about the future of this blog, so stay tuned!

February 27, 2026
Repetition is the key

This card has a simple design-stamps from Lawn Fawn’s Celebration Scripty Sentiments and Hoppy Easter repeated in Gina K.’s Bubblegum Pink, Peach Bellini, Lemon Drop, Applemint, Sea Glass, and Lovely Lavender inks. The large Happy Easter is by Newton’s Nook and is mounted on a vellum shadow layer. Finally, I added sequins from Stage Lights by Trinity Stamps.

February 26, 2026
Hoppy days are here again

Hoppy Days Ahead is the name of the Simon Says Stamp set I used for the bunny and flower. I colored them both with Copic markers, although the flower didn’t dry to the shade I wanted. I used Newton’s Nook Oval Frames to cut Lawn Fawn’s Spiffy Speckled pape r and inked the edges of the rectangle with their Sugarplum ink. Couldn’t find room for a sentiment, but I think the sweet bunny speaks for himself.

February 25, 2026
Simple and charming

This card uses two new products from Newton’s Nook- their Card Layout 6 die and their Happy Easter paper pack. The aqua outline paper is from my stash and the sentiment is from Newton’s Easter Basket, stamped in Ranger Archival Ink in Aquamarine.

February 22, 2026