Newton's Nook Designs August Release - Beautiful Leaves + Coordinating Dies

it's Tuesday, and that means it's day 2 of the Newton's Nook Designs August Release! 

today's release is going to a big favorite, i think!
today, the whole DT is showcasing the beautiful and versatile Beautiful Leaves Stamp and Coordinating Die set!

you can totally use this to scrapbook, create a project life type spread, gift tags and, of course, cards! all of the new sets will be available for purchase on August 19th, right here!

I just LOVE the style of this set, and I'm so happy to see it in the leaves!

my first project is a super pretty card!

i watercolored the images with Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers, and then heat embossed them in gold! yeahhhhhh - gold! so pretty! then i die cut out the flowers and heat embossed the sentiment onto a strip of black cardstock!

i colored the leaves with rainbow-like colors and then in the background of the card, i used Peacock Feathers Distress Ink to add some soft blue! so pretty! Oh, and the leaves were all stitched on with my sewing machine!

for my second project, i made a scrapbook layout with those leaves!

so cool, right? i just stamped them in black ink and die cut them out! i made a scattered bed of leaves for my photo and title to rest on!

i knew these leaves would be perfect for this layout, because the leaves are so close to the design of my duvet cover! my littlest Mann and our fur baby Phoenix used to cuddle up in my bed after we came back from taking my oldest to school, in the winter! it was so sweet!

i used Distress Paints in Twisted Citron and Cracked Pistachio to create the background! once it was dry, i used a polka dotted stencil and some embossing paste for a little texture! then I did some embellishing, stitched the title on, and splattered with gold Heidi Swapp Color Shine! Love that gold! 

Would you like to win the “Beautiful Leaves” Stamp Set?
This 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 blog 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, August 18th at 9pm CST to comment  -- winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday, August 19th. 

Check out all the 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

Naki Rager

Kimberly Rendino

Yukari Yoshioka