Newton's Nook Designs' May Flowers Blog Hop

Hello Everyone!  Jen is in a springy mood and wanted to celebrate with a festive floral hop, so we are showing off Newton's Nook Designs' sets with floral elements.  I chose to highlight NND's 'Basket of Wishes' with this Mother's Day card for my MIL:

I used sentiments from 'Simply Seasonal' and 'Wagon of Wishes' to create the sentiment and some glittered floral patterned paper from a DCWV mat stack and topped it with a petite bow tied from some pink & white twine.  My husband prefers cards on the simple & classic side, so that is usually what I am asked to make for his Mom.

Let's Have a Giveaway!

Want a chance to win a $20 store credit?  We're picking two lucky winners!

Here's how to win:

Comment on the NND blog and the Designs Team and Guest blogs (see list below)!  TWO winners will be chosen at random from the collective blog hop 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 Monday, May 9th at 9 pm CDT to comment -- winners will be announced on the blog post on Tuesday, May 10th.  

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

Newton's Nook Designs
Lydia Evans
Larissa Heskett
Samantha Mann
Crafty Math-Chick
Jess Gerstner
Stephanie Muzzulin
Danielle Pandeline
Nina-Marie Trapani
Kimberly Rendino
Yukari Yoshioka

Wild About Mom with Newton's Nook Designs

Hello everyone!  Today is my day to be featured on Newton's Nook Designs' blog!  YAAY!  I decided to share a Mother's Day card I made using NND's 'Wild Child' set:

My Mom loves giraffes so I used the Mother & baby giraffe image paired with a 'Happy Mother's Day' sentiment created using NND's Simply Seasonal and some giraffe patterned paper by DCWV's Safari Stack and a few flowers and rhinestones from WAY back in my embellishments:

I hope Mom likes it!

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Have a GREAT day!

~ Crafty Math Chick

Newton's Nook Designs April Release ~ Day 2

Welcome back for day 2 of Newton's Nook Designs' April release.  Today we debut a beautiful silhouette floral set for all kinds of your card-creating needs, allow me to introduce: Fanciful Florals:

The pretty side view bloom caught my eye and I decided to stamp it three times and layer it in this Mother's Day card (adding a sentiment from 'Love Grows').

The pre-glittered mat is from DCWV's older 'Butterflies & Blossoms' mat stack and I created a layer of postage-friendly faux DP by stamping some of the leaf & flourish images on the green base layer cardstock.

Would you like to win 'Fanciful Florals'?
This set will be given away to one lucky winner!!

Here's how to win:

Comment on the NND blog and Design Team and Guest blogs (see list below)!  The winner will be chosen at random from the collective blogs' release posts.  Make sure you 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 16th at 9 pm CDT to comment -- the winner will be announced on the blog post on Friday, April 17th.

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

Newton's Nook Designs
Taheerah Atchia
Lydia Evans
Larissa Heskett
Samantha Mann
Crafty Math-Chick (<-- you are here)
Jess Moyer
Stephanie Muzzulin
Danielle Pandeline
Kimberly Rendino
Yukari Yoshioka
Nicole Picadura (Guest Designer)

Thanks so much for stopping by - Jess is next on the hop, I am sure she has created something spectacular for you to see - Enjoy!

~ Crafty Math Chick

Newton's Nook Designs April Release - Day 1

Welcome to the first day of Newton's Nook Designs' sneak peeks for April and we begin today featuring a pretty floral set just in time for Mother's day - Love Grows:

I think the roses are just lovely - don't you?  I stamped them in a very of colors that mimic my favorite colored roses for a CAS Mother's Day card:

I like the way it looks with all the outlines in different colors overlapping like that.

Would you like to WIN 'Love Grows'?
Here's how to WIN:

Comment on the NND Blog and Guest Team and Guest DT blogs (see list below!)  TWO winners will be chosen at random from the collective blogs' release 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 17th at 9 pm Central Standard Time (CST) to comment -- winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday, April 18th.  

NND is also having a giveaway this week on their Facebook page so make sure to head over there and enter that too!!

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

Newton's Nook Designs
Taheerah Atchia
Christine Drogt
Samantha Mann
Larissa Heskett
Crafty Math-Chick (you're here!)
Danielle Pandeline
Valerie Ward
Tessa Wise
Jamie Greene  - Guest Designer
Elena Joldersma  - Guest Designer

Good luck!  Thanks so much for stopping by!

~ Crafty Math Chick

'LEGO' my Controller!

Hello friends and followers.  Please tell me I am not the only one who instantly envisioned a LEGO piece when first seeing Taylor's Sketch 135 this week:

Well, I did.  I saw a big 'ole Lego piece staring back at me and the weird thing about that is - I didn't play with Legos that much as a child, and I don't have any children around the house playing with them either that they would be in the forefront of my mind!  I did watch the White Stripes' 'I Fell in Love with a Girl' "LEGO" video from several years ago on YouTube recently, can I blame that?  I tried to fight the urge to construct a card around the idea, and was successful with the rose & teal 'doggie in the window' card I created last week, but today I thought "why not?"  So, here is my LEGO card:

I had just about every shade of green Stampin' Up! cardstock out on the cart in the dining room (where I am currently stamping standing up while my back heals and my sitting time is limited) and finally decided Glorious Green just looked 'more 'LEGO' than the other shades.  I punched two 7/8" circles and sponged some ink of the same color around the edges of the 4 circles and square to give the illusion of dimension and then popped them up with 1/8" thick pop dots.  Garden Green was used as the backdrop and the patterned papers are from that 'Generation Tech' stack from DCWV that I love so much (I liked how the pale dots kind of played off the Lego piece).  I found a free Lego type font on the web and was going to type up 'LEGO my controller!" like I have in the title as the sentiment but I decided since it was Taylor's sketch I should honor her by using one of her sentiments from 'Boys will be Boys' - fitting for a gamer of all ages, no?  I stamped the sentiment on the dotted DP and turned it into a flag held in place by one of the controllers from the DP which I cut out by hand and stuck in place with another Pop dot.
My next card was created for Stamp TV's Sketch Spotlight Challenge 20:

I saw the scalloped border at the bottom and envisioned using the crocheted looking border from Gina K. Designs' Vintage Backgrounds set by Nina Brackett, which happened to match the sentiments in her 'Nana's Needlework Sentiments' set as well. 

The card is constructed in RidingHood Red and Very Vanilla with a deep red velvet ribbon from Hobby Lobby (note - HL's velvet ribbons are actually referred to as 'trim' - it goes on sale for half off relatively regularly if you watch their sales flyers, but make sure you are looking for the 'trim' to go on sale, not just 'ribbon by the roll' or they will enter the full price at the register, ask me how I know this?  LOL!).  Since this is a Mother's Day card it fulfills the requirements of this week's PaperPlay Challenge - For Mom/Mum. I think I would like to try this again in another color palette; I feel like I missed the mark of what I hoped to create with this one.  Does that happen to you all often too?

Thank you for visiting and taking the time to look at my cards.  Have a happy Tuuuuuesday (from 'The Laws of Attraction").
~Crafty Math Chick