No Peeking! Cat Christmas Card by Larissa Heskett

Kitty Christmas Card!

Today we are sharing an adorable kitty themed Christmas card by Larissa! 

For this fun card, she started by using the kitten wearing a Santa hat from our A Kitten Christmas Stamp Set and the cat peeking out of the gift box from our Newton's Gift Stamp Set. For both images she colors the kitties in neutral brown with lots of fur details and speckles! So cute! Then she colors the hat and gifts in Christmas reds and greens, adding details to the image with a white gel pen. She also added a tiny bell to the Santa hat! She cut the cat image out using the coordinating A Kitten Christmas Die Set and the Newton's Gift Die Set.

Here is a close-up so you can see the amazing coloring details:

For her card base she started with a white card and then layered the plaid patterned paper from the Meowy Christmas Paper Pad, cutting it out with our Frames & Flag Die Set to give it a scalloped edge. 

Behind the kitties and gifts she used our Petite Snow Stencil to add sparkly snow the the background, inking over it with a light blue. The kitties and gifts were layered on top to create a cozy Christmas scene! 

 

This gorgeous holiday card would be PURR-fect for sending to any cat lover! We hope you enjoyed this card by Larissa today! To say hello to Larissa and see more of her creations, you can visit her over at her blog, Larissa Heskett Designs.

Newton's Stocking Gift Bag and Tag by Larissa Heskett

Stocking Kitty for Christmas!

Larissa has created an adorable gift tag and bag that is sure to help make a holiday gift feel special! 

To create this beautiful gift, she started out by stamping and coloring the image of the kitty in the stocking from our Newton's Stocking Stamp Set. She added some amazing details to her coloring with shading, stripes on the kitty and white gel pen accents. She cut the image out using the coordinating Newton's Stocking Die Set and added a little pom pom to the Santa hat.  She also adorned the stocking, adding a sprig of holly stamped from our A Kitten Christmas Stamp Set with a heart embellishment to replace the berries!

Here is a close-up so you can see all the details:

She added this fun image to a tag that was cut out using our Fancy Edges Tag Die Set. She added a little circle tag to the larger tag using our Jolly Tags Stamp Set (cut out with the coordinating Tags Times Two Die Set). She embellished the top of the tag using a bunch of pretty ribbons! She also used patterned papers from our Canine Christmas Paper Pad and our Christmas Time Paper Pad. 

What a gorgeous Holiday creation! The recipient of this gift is sure to be wowed! 

To say hello to Larissa and see more of her creations, you can visit her over at her blog, Larissa Heskett Designs.

Hug in a Mug Card by Larissa Heskett

Hug in a Mug!

Newton is getting ready for a cozy holiday on this card by Larissa! 

To create this gorgeous card she started by stamping the images of the big kitty in the mug from our Newton's Mug Stamp Set and two smaller holiday mugs from our Cup of Cocoa Stamp Set. She colored all three images in gorgeous bright holiday colors and added white gel pen details to each image. The images were cut out using the coordinating Newton's Mug Die Set and Cup of Cocoa Die Set.

She also added in two tiny candy canes a holly burst from our A Kitten Christmas Stamp Set (cut out using the coordinating A Kitten Christmas Die Set) to add to the festive feeling!

The images were all arranged on a circle that was cut out using our Circle Frames Die Set from our Meowy Christmas Paper Pad.

Here is a close-up so you can see all the details:

For the fun case base, she created a background pattern by repeatedly stamping the mug images from the Cup of Cocoa Stamp Set in black and adding black paint splatters. Some pretty red, green, and snowflake shaped embellishments finish out this amazing card!

What a gorgeous Holiday creation! To say hello to Larissa and see more of her creations, you can visit her over at her blog, Larissa Heskett Designs.

This card would also be a great entry to the Fall/Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop that is going on this week! Don't forget to pop over and play along with the hop by creating a coffee themed card of your own! You can find full details on the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Blog here!

Naughty Kitten Christmas Card by Tatiana Trafimovich

There's Always Next Year... 

This week we are lucky enough to have TWO adorable projects by Design Team member, Tatiana! Today we are sharing a fun card with a naughty kitty tangled in holiday lights!

For this card, Tatiana used the cute but naughty kitten from our A Kitten Christmas Stamp Set. She colored the image of the kitty tangled in the lights from this set and added a cute Santa hat to the kittens head (stamped from the Christmas Puppies Stamp Set). She also stamped and colored a bunch of single lightbulb images from the A Kitten Christmas Stamp Set, adding fun color glows around each lightbulb! What a fun way to make the lights look like they're glowing! She cut all the images out using the coordinating A Kitten Christmas Die Set. 

For the background, she inked up a panel using blue distress inks and added blue and white splatters to it. She cut it out using the large frame die from our Frames & Flags Die Set to give it a scalloped edge. The kitty and lights went on top. The single lights were added around the image and added to a hand drawn line that works as the messy light string tangle!

The finishing touch was the sentiment "There's always next year to be good!" embossed in white on a piece of black cardstock. She hand cut around the letters and added it to her card below the kitten.  

We hope this card has made you smile today!

Thank you, Tatiana, for the fun smiles and inspiration! To see more of her beautiful work, you can visit Tatiana at her blog, Tatiana Trafimovich!

A Christmas Hello Card by Samantha Mann

A Christmas Kitten!

Ready for a sweet Christmas hello? This adorable kitten card by Samantha is sure get you in the mood for some holiday cheer!

This adorable holiday creation features the sweet kitten wearing a Santa hat from our A Kitten Christmas Stamp Set. She colored the image in neutral colors, adding pink to the kitty cheeks! The image was cut out using the coordinating A Kitten Christmas Die Set. 

For her card base, she used the argyle patterned paper from our new Meowy Christmas Paper Pad to cover the card front. She used out Heart Frames Die Set to cut a heart out of it to leave a white heart behind the kitty. What a great way to make the image pop! She also added some distress ink and white paint splatters over the paper to add more fun dimension to her card. 

For the sentiment, she used "A Christmas Hello" embossed in white onto a black banner that was die cut using our Banner Trio Die Set. The finishing touch is some die cut holly and berries that were created with our Pines & Holly Die Set. 

To say hello to Sam and see more of her amazing creations you can visit Sam over on her blog, Sam's Scrap Candy!

 

Meowy Christmas Card by October Guest Designer Allison Arbour

Hello Newton’s Nook fans!
I’ve been having so much fun quest designing this month. For today’s card I created a soft pink slimline card for these sweet kittens from A Kitten Christmas to hang out on.

To make this card:

Start with a white slimline card base. Layer from the bottom up. A large pink stitched rectangle panel, next a slightly smaller scalloped panel with snowflakes stenciled on it. You could use the Snowflake Stencil from Newton's Nook designs for this. 

For the top layer I created a shaker panel. To make the shaker, die cut a frame with a slimline rectangle set and use vellum for the window. Fill the window with lots of sparkly happiness and attach foam to the back of the frame. Close it up with white copy paper with a pink card stock strip in the middle.

Attach a string around the window to dangle some snowflake die cuts from. You could use the snowflakes from the Snowglobe Shake Die Set from Newton's Nook designs for this. 

Finish the card by adding some cute kittens and a sentiment with dimensional tape and a few nuvo drops and sequins.

I hope you enjoyed my take on a A Kitten Christmas.

Crafty hugs,
- Allie

Holiday Belly Rubs card by Zsofia Molnar

Peace, Love & Belly Rubs!

Are you a cat person or a dog person? Either way, you will find something to love on this holiday card by Zsofia! She combined the kitten tangled in lights from our A Kitten Christmas Stamp Set with the puppy tangled in lights from our Christmas Puppies Stamp Set. These images pair so well together! She did an amazing job coloring both images and cut them out using the coordinating A Kitten Christmas Die Set and Christmas Puppies Die Set. Then she added them to a slimline card. She used our Slimline Frames & Windows Die Set to create the stitched frames and the green banner. The sentiment from the Christmas Puppies Stamp Set and the little holly from the A Kitten Christmas Stamp Set tie it all together! 

Here are a couple of close-ups so you can see the lovely coloring. She also added shiny gloss to the lightbulbs!

Whether you are more of a cat person or a dog person, we hope that you enjoyed this adorable card by Zsofia! You can find more of Zsofia's creations and say hello to her over at her blog, Safsafdesign.

2020 Cat Lovers Blog Hop!

2020 Cat Lovers Hop

This week is the 2020 Cat Lovers Hop! This hop is so fun and since the theme is CATS we knew we HAD to play along! To participate in this blog hop, you just have to create a project that features a cat theme  and upload it to the post on Her Peaceful Garden! We Hop you can play along since there are some really awesome sponsors and prizes, including one from us at Newton's Nook Designs! 

Here's what I created:

We JUST had our Holiday release last Friday and so I wanted to share a card I created using our brand new A Kitten Chistmas Stamp Set. 

If you are new to us you might not know that our business is a husband and wife team (Jeff and I) and I am also the illustrator of all of our designs. Our company was named after our orange kitty, Newton, who passed away last fall. This spring we adopted two new adorable kittens, Toulouse and Marlowe, who are now just six months old. This new kitten stamp set is inspired by them! 

I also colored the kittens on this card on our new little ones! I colored the image of the kitten in the oversized Santa hat to look like Toulouse and the kitten playing with the dangling Christmas ornament to look like Marlowe. I used Inktense watercolor pencils to color them. 

Here is a close-up so you can see the coloring. 

After they were colored, I cut the images out with the coordinating A Kitten Christmas Die Set so they could layer onto my card. For the card background I created more ornaments for those kitties to chase using our Ornaments Stencil. I carefully masked off the ornaments so that I could ink them in different colors. I'll admit, it took me a couple of tries to get it to look how I wanted but I'm happy with how it turned out! 

Then I added a couple of snowy hills, using our Land Borders Die Set across the bottom. The sentiment "Meowy Christmas" is also from the new A Kitten Chistmas Stamp Set. 

I know it's going to be an interesting Christmas this year with these two mischievous little ones around! I hope you enjoyed this project today! I had so much fun making it!  

Here's a photo of Toulouse and Marlowe, attempting to both fit in their favorite cozy perch. These little kittens are growing so fast! 

Below are links to the products I've used today. Click on the names to find them in our shop!

A Kitten Christmas

Ornaments Stencil

We also have LOTS of other cute kitty stamps too! 

Make sure to check them all out here in our Newton Category. 

I hope you will play along with the Cat Lovers Hop! You have until Oct 31st to link up at Her Peaceful Garden for a chance to win prizes, including one from us at Newton's Nook Designs! Hope you can play along! 

From Meow to You Card by Tatiana Trafimovich

From Meow to You! 

Today we are sharing an adorable kitty themed holiday card by Tatiana! She created this fabulous slimline layout using a trio of kittens from our new A Kitten Christmas Stamp Set. She colored all three kitties in a similar color palette but gave each one different fur markings! She also used matching colors to tie together their accessories so that they all coordinate together on this card! Aren't they adorable!? The images were cut out using the coordinating A Kitten Christmas Die Set. 

For the slimline card she created a white frame using our Slimline Frames & Windows Die Set. This die set cuts out the frame and adds stitching to the inside of the windows too. She added blue ink to the interior cuts to create a sky and also added little snow flurries using texture paste with our Petite Snow Stencil. 

Here are a couple of close-ups so you can see all the amazing details:

This card by Tatiana is perfect for the Cat Lover's Blog Hop, going on this week! Make sure you head over there and see more amazing kitty cards, and don't forget to play along for a chance to win prizes by October 31! You can find details at Her Peaceful Garden. 

Don't forget, you can always see more of Tatiana's beautiful work over on her blog, Tatiana Craft and Art.

Holiday Reveals Day 3 - A Kitten Christmas and Christmas Puppies Stamp Sets!

We're back with reveals of more Holiday products! Today we are sharing Christmas kitties and puppies! Scroll down for details. Plus, we are having a giveaway today, so make sure you read all the way to the bottom of this post to see how to win!

 

A Kitten Christmas

This 4x6 stamp set features an adorable trio of Christmas kittens! Inspired by the new kittens at NND headquarters, this set features sweet kittens getting into Holiday mischief! Pair the images with the kitty themed sentiments for delightful Christmas greetings!

A Kitten Christmas Stamp Set

• 4 x 6 photopolymer stamp set
• Includes 10 stamps: 6 images and 4 sentiments
• Coordinating A Kitten Christmas purr-fect die set (sold separately) includes 6 dies
• Available for purchase in our online shop starting Friday, October 23rd

Christmas Puppies

Celebrate the holidays with the darling trio of puppies on this 4x6 Stamp Set! Nestled in Santas boot, tangled in lights or getting into presents, these puppies are ready to spread holiday cheer! Don't forget to add on their Santa hat! The coordinating sentiments are perfect for sending dog themed holiday wishes!

Christmas Puppies Stamp Set

• 4 x 6 photopolymer stamp set
• Includes 9 stamps: 5 images and 4 sentiments
• Coordinating Christmas Puppies purr-fect die set (sold separately) includes 5 dies
• Available for purchase in our online shop starting Friday, October 23rd

Fill your Christmas with Kittens and Puppies! Find Inspiration from our Design Team Below!

Check out all the awesome projects below from our Design Team below! Then, make sure to click through to all their blogs for details on their cards - you will find a few extra cards on some of the DT blogs and you might even find a fun video or two along the way! Make sure to comment on all the blogs for a chance to win! Details on the giveaway are at the bottom of today's post.

 

Created by Tatiana. Additional products used: Frames & Flags Die Set

 

Created by Andrea. Additional products used: Circle Frames Die Set

 

 Created by Maria. Additional products used: Land Borders Die Set, Festive Forest Stamp Set, Festive Forest Die Set

Created by Samantha. Additional products used: Light Strings Stencil Set

 

Created by Amy. Additional products used: Framework Die Set, Frames & Flags Die Set, Meow Stencil, Banner Trio Die Set 

 

Created by Amanda. Additional products used: Snowfall Stencil, Frames & Flags Die Set

 

Created by Zsofia. Additional products used: Pawprint Shaker Die Set, Pines & Holly Die Set

Created by Larissa  Additional products used: Circle Frames Die Set, Frames & Flags Die Set , Light Strings Stencil Set, Banner Trio Die Set

 

 

Created by Ellen. Additional products used: Plaid Stencil Set, Framework Die Set

Would you like to win the “A Kitten Christmas” Stamp Set or the “Christmas Puppies” Stamp Set? 

We will choose ONE lucky winner for each stamp set!

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 Thursday October 22nd at 9pm EST to comment -- winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday, October 23rd.

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

Newton's Nook Designs

Ellen Haxelmans

Larissa Heskett

Samantha Mann

Zsofia Molnar

Maria Russell

Andrea Shell

Tatiana Trafimovich 

Amy Tsuruta

Amanda Wilcox