Happy Bird-Day Card by Zsofia Molnar

Heart Shaped Birthday Card!

Today Zsofia has created a sweet heart shaped birthday card! For this card she features the duo of sweet flamingos from our retiring Flirty Flamingo Stamp Set. She stamped this sweet duo onto a scallop edged heart that was cut out using our Heart Frames Die Set. Then she created an amazing sunset over the water behind them, hand coloring it using alcohol markers. How gorgeous! The little birds in the sky are also from the Flirty Flamingo Stamp Set. She added the sentiment "Happy bird-day" embossed in white on a little strip of black paper. Then she layered this scene over a large pink heart shaped card base. This larger heart was also cut out using our Heart Frames Die Set

Here is a close up so you can see all the lovely details. The gloss added to the bird beaks really gives a special finishing touch!

The Flirty Flamingo Stamp Set is part of our retiring sale and will only be available while supplies so if you like this design, make sure you get it while you can and don't forget to see what else is retiring in our retiring sale category!

You can find more of Zsofia's creations and say hello to her over at her blog, Safsafdesign.

Pink Christmas card by Maria Russell

Pink Christmas Card by Maria!

We are dreaming of a PINK Christmas with this adorable card today by Maria! She created this fun cold weather scene using our adorable Festive Flamingos Stamp Set. She stamped both the flamingo images from the set and colored them in sweet shades of pink. She added extra white accents on them too for some fun detail! She trimmed them out and added them to her winter scene along with some hills she created using our Land Borders Die Set. She added some cute flamingo footprints in the snow and the "dreaming of a pink Christmas" sentiment, both from the Festive Flamingos Stamp Set. She also added in a fun die cut sign post which she decorated with a pretty pine bough and bow using our Pines and Holly Die Set. What an adorable winter scene!

To see more beautiful projects by Maria, visit her over at her blog, Maria Russell Designs. You can also fun great videos my Maria over on her YouTube channel too!

Fan Feature - Day 3

The rest of this week we're spotlighting creations by our fans!

We see so many amazing projects featuring Newton's Nook Designs products that we thought it would be fun to have our Design Team members pick their favorites and share them on our blog! Each day for the rest of this week we will share a couple of our favorite projects, created by YOU, our fans! See your project below? Make sure to scroll down to the end and grab our "spotted" badge for your blog!

Design Team member Kimberly Rendino picked this adorable coffee card on instagram by Janith Finley. This card uses our Newton Loves Coffee stamp set. 

"I absolutely love the coloring of the kitty and the bright pops of red combined with the neutral colors!"

Design Team member Danielle Pandeline picked this cute flamingo card by KT Fit Kitty.
This our Flirty Flamingos stamp set. 

"I love the bold color background that looks quick and easy. It really makes the flamingos pop!"

Design Team member Stephanie Muzzulin picked these fun bookmarks on instagram by Kelli Horger. These use our Shark Bites stamp set. 

"I love these bookmarks! I think it would be a fun project for kids to do as well!So fun!!!"

Don't forget - we've created a fun "spotted" badge too - so if your project was featured above, you can you can grab this badge and share it on your blog with a link to this post to show everyone that you were spotted by the Newton's Nook Design Team! 

If you'd like to be considered for a future feature, tag your posts with #newtonsnook in social media to make sure we see them! Check back tomorrow for more fun fan spotlights!

Inky Paws Challenge #33 - Ombre

This month's challenge is:

create a project using ombre!

Are you ready to get your paws inky with us and play along to win a prize? The Challenge winner will receive a $10 store credit to our online store and a Inky Paws Challenge Top Pick Badge to add to your blog! If we get more than 15 participants, we will choose two winners so be sure to tell your friends to play along! 

You have TWO WEEKS to play along - Deadline to enter is Friday, July 8th, 2015 at Midnight CST. The winners will be announced on the NND blog.

Are you ready to play along and get your paws inky?

• Create a NEW project (card or other paper craft item).

• Your project MUST use at least one Newton's Nook Designs stamped image (or free digital stamp - check out our Freebies page).

• Post your project to your blog or to an online photo gallery such as Flickr, Pinterest, or splitcoaststampers (on splitcoast please use keywords newtonsnook and IPC33).

• Link back to this challenge (if posting in an online gallery copy the link into the photo description). 

• Submit your project to this challenge using the InLinkz widget below. You must submit a DIRECT link to your post page.

• Have more than one great idea? You can enter more than once! Just link up each card separately. 
• TIP: Please make sure your photo in focus  - We can't pick you as a winner if we can't see your card clearly because your photo is blurry! 

Here's some inspiration!

Several of our Design Team Members decided to play along - check out all the awesome Ombré cards they created! Read the description below each card to see who made it.

This gorgeous card is by Larissa. She created ombré birds using the bird image from the Darling Duos stamp set mixed with the die cut feathers from the Points & Plumes die set! I Love the dipped gold edges too!

Jess created a beautiful purple ombré coffee cup background using the little coffee cups from the Newton Loves Coffee stamp set. Then she colored two cute kitties with their coffee cups too! 

Crafty Math-Chick used some awesome ombré background paper featuring watermelons and then added on that cute watermelon stamp from our Sweet Summer Stamp set! I love how that yummy melon slice pops off the card!

Lydia created this sweet pink ombre background and then added on the butterfly and sentiment from the Beautiful Wings stamp set. I love the soft pink and vellum together!

This sweet card by Samantha features the kangaroo and joey from our Hoppy Days stamp set. I love how they're hopping through that gorgeous ombre watercolor background!

Danielle created a sea of sharks from our Shark Bites stamp set  in a blue ombre pattern! All you need is a bold stamp and a couple of shades of ink to make your own ombre patterns!

I love the gorgeous ombré background on this card by Yuki! The flower from our Beautiful Blossoms set and butterfly from the Beautiful Wings set really pop the background off so nicely!

Here's what I created. I used different shades of blue cardstock to create the ombré and cute them freehand with a scissor to make them look like waves. The shell stamps and "Seas the Day" sentiment from our Tranquil Tides Stamp set were stamped in ombré inks and trimmed out with the Tranquil Tides die set.

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Inky Paws Challenge #27 Winners

This is our second post for today. To see our Advent Calendar hop with Taheera Atchia, scroll down or click here. 

Inky Paws Challenge #27 Winners! 

Thanks so much to everyone who entered our last Inky Paws Challenge at here at the Newton's Nook Designs blog! This months Challenge was to use Kraft + Sparkle! 

We loved seeing all the sparkly projects for this challenge! THANK YOU to everyone who entered! All the awesome entries always make it difficult to choose the winners! 

Top picks for Inky Paws Challenge #27

Announcing.... our top picks! Read the description below each card to see who created it - and make sure to visit their blogs and tell them congrats!!

Our first top pick is this adorable card is by Shannon McComb! We love how she created a fun kraft card with gold snowflakes around the border and a big sparkly middle! We also loved the bright coloring on those kitties from our Newton's Holiday Mischief stamp set! So pretty!

Our second top pick is this cute flamingo card is by Diane Jaquay! We love how she gave those sweet flamingos from our Flirty Flamingos stamp set gold santa hats. The gold and white splatter and gold letters give it the perfect finishing touch! 

Congrats to Shannon and Diane! Don't forget to send us an e-mail at info@newtonsnookdesigns.com to claim your $10 store credit and get your winner badge for your blog!

Inky Paws #25 Favorites

Since there were so many great cards with this sketch cards, we chose THREE more as our favorite picks! If you see your card below, contact us if you'd like to get a "favorite" badge for your blog!

This shaker card using our Newton's Christmas Cuddles stamp set by Kate is so fun! We love how she added all the gold snowflakes and stripes too! What a ton of yummy sparkle!

We loved all the sparkle on this gorgeous snowflake card by Kamila! She used our Beautiful Blizzard stamp set and tons of sparkle too. Check our her blog post for a video too!

And one more favorite - We loved the starry sky and sparkly hill on this card by Naki! Those polar bears from our Wild Child stamp set look like they are having so much fun surrounded by all the sparkle! 

Thanks so much!
Thanks again to everyone who entered - It's really so much fun to look through all the entries and see everyones ideas! If you didn't win this time we hope you'll play along again next time! 

Fan Feature - Day 3

Day THREE of Fan Spotlights!

We see so many amazing projects featuring Newton's Nook Designs products that we thought it would be fun to have our Design Team members pick their favorites and share them on our blog! Each day this week we will share a couple of our favorite projects, created by YOU, our fans! See your project below? Make sure to scroll down to the end and grab our "spotted" badge for your blog!

Design Team member Lydia Evans picked this fun flamingo card by Just Jingle. This card uses our Flirty Flamingos stamp set. 

"I loove the CAS look ... and the clever use of watercolour" 

Design Team member Larissa Heskett picked this adorable summer kitty card by Diane Jaquay. This card uses our Newton's Summer Vacation stamp set. 

" I LOVE LOVE LOVE this BRIGHT and HAPPY Design by Diane!! Just a SUPER AWESOME Design!! "

Don't forget - we've created a fun "spotted" badge too - so if your project was featured above, you can you can grab this badge and share it on your blog with a link to this post to show everyone that you were spotted by the Newton's Nook Design Team! 

If you'd like to be considered for a future feature, tag your posts with #newtonsnook in social media to make sure we see them! Check back tomorrow for more fun fan spotlights!

Inky Paws Challenge #21 - Color Challenge

This month's challenge is to a create a project using the colors below

The colors we are Coral, Peach, and Mint

Are you ready to get your paws inky with us and play along to win a prize? The Challenge winner will receive a $10 store credit to our online store and a Inky Paws Challenge Top Pick Badge to add to your blog! If we get more than 15 participants, we will choose two winners so be sure to tell your friends to play along! 

We have a little bit of extra time this month to play along - We're going to run this challenge for three weeks instead of the usual two! Deadline to enter is Friday, June 12th, 2015 at Midnight CST. The winners will be announced on the NND blog on Monday, June 19th.

Are you ready to play along and get your paws inky?

• Create a NEW project (card or other paper craft item).

• Your project MUST use at least one Newton's Nook Designs stamped image (or free digital stamp - check out our Freebies page).

• Post your project to your blog or to an online photo gallery such as Flickr, Pinterest, or splitcoaststampers (on splitcoast please use keywords newtonsnook and IPC21).

• Link back to this challenge (if posting in an online gallery copy the link into the photo description). 

• Submit your project to this challenge using the InLinkz widget below. You must submit a DIRECT link to your post page.

• Have more than one great idea? You can enter more than once! Just link up each card separately. 
• TIP: Please make sure your photo in focus  - We can't pick you as a winner if we can't see your card clearly because your photo is blurry! 

Here's some inspiration!

Several of our Design Team Members decided to play along - Remember the colors are just an inspiration - check out all the ways they used them! Read the description below each card to see who made it!

I love the pretty floral card by Lydia! She stamped the flowers from our Fanciful Florals stamp set in the coral, peach, and mint inks and added in the words from the Simply Sentimental stamp set!

Here's some fun inspiration from Samantha! I love how she used the colors to create a fun background and then added black and white roses using the Love Grows stamp set. 

  This card by Yuki also uses the bold flowers from our Fanciful Florals stamp set in the coral with minty colored leaves! I love the added sparkle with the silver letters too! She also used the "for everything" words from the Simply Sentimental stamp set!

Here's an adorable one layer card by Danielle! She used our Flirty Flamingos stamp set, coloring flamingos in shades of coral on a minty background! 

This lovely card by Jess uses our blooms from our Fanciful Florals stamp set in a fun bright bold design! 

This lovely card by Larissa uses our our lovely Beautiful Blossoms stamp set. Love all those pretty layers!

And here's one more card using Fanciful Florals by me - I tried to do color fade from the coral to the mint.  I'm not the best with color blending yet but I think it turned out ok - sort of a "dip died" type of look.

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Happy Bird-Day Card by Samantha Mann

Happy Bird-day!

Today I'm sharing this awesome birthday card Samantha Mann! She used the image of the flamingo wearing an inner tube from the Flirty Flamingos stamp set - love how she colored with the some fun pink speckles! Then she created some really fun watercolor splotches for the background and added in some waves using the wave border from the Beach Party stamp set! This is such a great beachy card to send someone for to wish them a cheerful birthday! 

For more details on this awesome card, check out Samantha's Blog, Sam's Scrap Candy! 

Inky Paws Challenge #18 - Just ONE Layer!

This month's challenge is to a Create a project using just ONE layer!

 

Are you ready to get your paws inky with us and play along to win a prize? The Challenge winner will receive a $10 store credit to our online store and a Inky Paws Challenge Top Pick Badge to add to your blog! If we get more than 15 participants, we will choose two winners so be sure to tell your friends to play along! 

You have two weeks to play along. Deadline to enter is Friday, March 6th, 2015 at Midnight CST. The winners will be announced on the NND blog on Monday, March 9th.

Are you ready to play along and get your paws inky? 

• Create a NEW project (card or other paper craft item).

• Your project MUST use at least one Newton's Nook Designs stamped image (or free digital stamp - check out our Freebies page).

• Post your project to your blog or to an online photo gallery such as Flickr , Pinterest, or splitcoaststampers (on splitcoast please use keywords newtonsnook and IPC18).

• Link back to this challenge (if posting in an online gallery copy the link into the photo description). 

• Submit your project to this challenge using the InLinkz widget below. You must submit a DIRECT link to your post page.

• Have more than one great idea? You can enter more than once! Just link up each card separately. 
• TIP: Please make sure your photo in focus  - We can't pick you as a winner if we can't see your card clearly because your photo is blurry! 

Here's some inspiration!

Several of our Design Team Members decided to play along - Scroll down to see how they added hearts into their projects and then enter your project at the bottom of the post! Read the description below each card to see who made it!

This adorable one-layered scene was created by Yukari Yoshioka. She used our Newton's Daydream stamp set.

I love the fun way Samantha repeated the words over and over around the flamingos from the Flirty Flamingos stamp set! So fun!

 Danielle created this fun strawberry card using the Sweet Summer stamp set! Love the watercolor mixed with gold foil! 

This card by Jess has so much dimension you can hardly tell it's just one layer! She used the Bunny Hop stamp set and a fun sunburst technique! 

This stunning one layer card is by Kimberly!  I love the look of the gold and black on the Kraft card base. She used the  Falling into Autumn stamp set! So fun!

Lydia got some extra mileage out of some fall themed stamps for this spring card! She used the spooky tree from the Spooky Street Halloween set and the dots from the Falling into Autumn stamp set to created the fun leaves. Then she added the sentiment from the Newton's Daydream stamp set.

Here is a fun and playful one layer card is by Crafty Math-Chick! She even added fur to the koala from the Hanging Around stamp set. I also love the mint green circle she sponged around the words!

Larissa created this fun one-layer scene with lots of creative masking (although she did break the rules a bit by mounting it on another piece of cardstock -lol!)  She combined stamps from Bunny Hop, Versatile Vases, Winter Tails and Newton's Daydream.  What an adorable scene! 

Here was my try at a one-layer card. I stamped the flowers from the Love Grows stamp set and used the "heartfelt" from the Simply Sentimental stamp set. I added a bit of watercolor flicked onto it to add texture!

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