Newton's Nook Designs' 3 Year Celebration - July Release - Party Pops, Pineapple Delight and Tiki Time

Welcome back to the second day of the July reveals for Newton's Nook Designs!  Get ready to feast your eyes on THREE (that's right!  THREE!) stamp sets and THREE (uh huh!) puur-fectly coordinating die sets from Jen today!  Introducing 'Party Pops' (which gave me memories of chasing the ice cream truck as it drove by):

and 'Pineapple Delight':

AND 'Tiki Time' (how cool and original is THIS set?!!):

I always had trouble deciding on ONE ice cream treat off the ice cream truck, so I decided to show off a rainbow of colors & flavors in my 'Party Pops' card:

(for the record, I learned the heard way you cannot just heat emboss some clear EP on brown cardstock and run it through your die cut machine and get perfect glossy chocolate topping - there is an unattractive rim around the edge where the metal die is, and I didn't have time for Glossy Accents to dry, so matte chocolate it is!)

I was feeling elegant with 'Pineapple Time' and created this card with heat embossed gold EP and some gold foil cardstock from American Crafts:

The moment I saw 'Tiki Time' I was transported to my childhood and this yummy Chinese food restaurant we used to frequent as a family.  I was too young to partake, but they served these tropical fruity drinks in kiln fired glossy looking tiki-shaped tall cups; that is what I drew inspiration from with my card:

The Tiki cups are heat embossed with brown EP to give them a glossy appearance like the beverages I remembered.  I had fun accenting them with the accessory images and dies from the sets.  Isn't Jen's 'You're Tiki-rific!' sentiment great?!!  SO original too!!    

Would you like to win a $20 store credit?
ONE lucky comment will be chosen from each reveal day to win!

Here's how to win:

Comment on the NND blog and the Designs Team blogs (see list below)!  The winner will be chosen at random from the collective blogs' release posts.  Make sure you check out each of the 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, July 14th at 9 pm CDT to comment -- the winner will be announced on the blog post on Friday, July 15th.  

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

Newton's Nook Designs
Lydia Evans
Larissa Heskett
Samantha Mann
Crafty Math-Chick (<-- You are Here)
Jess Gerstner
Stephanie Muzzulin
Danielle Pandeline
Naki Rager
Kimberly Rendino
Yukari Yoshioka

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Jess Gerstner is the next blog on the hop, I am sure she has created something spectacular for you to see!  Have a great day!

~ Crafty Math Chick