Naughty Newton Card by July Guest Designer Cynde Whitlow

Hey folks!

I'm back for my third post in my guest design series for Newton's Nook! Woot!

I gotta be honest, the card I'm sharing with you today is extremely ambitious. It was loads of fun and worth every bit of work that was put in to it. HOWEVER! Don't be intimidated by it. I went totally over the top, but this would be doable on a standard 4.25"x5.5" card panel and just as cute!

I did have had plan mapped out before I started making this card. I knew I would be working with quite a few stamps sets and let's be honest folks, 4"x9" is a pretty big canvas. I was really excited to be able to use 4 stamps set though. I don't get to do that very often. On this card I used: Hanging Around, Naughty Newton, Lovely Blooms and the Versatile Vases Stamp Set.

I started by using a ruler and lightly tracing a line just about the bottom edge of my card panel. I needed this to make sure all of my stamps would line up and I would get the proper perspective. Of course, I couldn't help myself I ended up adding an entire frame. What d'ya do?

To save myself a little bit of time, I cut multiple masks out of all of the images. All of them folks. It is a lot, but the trick is to layer 2 pieces of masking paper. Stamp the one on top and cut out both at the same time.

There was only one stamp I had do make a special accommodation for. This was the stamp from the Naughty Newton Stamp Set. It's the one where Newton is sitting next to the pot that's been knocked over. Since I had cut out 2 masks of this image, I took one and carefully trimmed Newton from around the pot. I left the other mask intact.

I placed my panel in a stamp positioning tool and placed the 2 piece mask on the panel where I planned on stamping my image. Then I placed the stamp over the top of the mask. I made extra sure it was line up properly. When I had it where I wanted it, I removed the pot portion of the mask, leaving Newton in place. I didn't ink the entire stamp, I went a little over onto Newton, but it's no big because we have a mask in place. I removed the mask and with a Copic Multiliner, I drew in the rest of the pot.

For the rest of the stamping, I stamped the rest of the images that are in the front, then started working my way backwards. The other trick for something this size is to work from both ends towards the middle of the panel. Stamp as many images at one time as possible. It's a huge time saver aaaaand it really helps to give you an idea where spaces need to be filled. The Versatile Vases Stamp Set has lots of choices and fillers for this!

After all of my images were stamped, I colored them all in with Copic's. The largest jar is from Lovely Blooms Stamp Set and the hanging Newton is from the Hanging Around Stamp Set. They fit together perfectly!

To finish it off, I added some detail with a Signo Uni-Ball White Gel Pen and a Clear Sakura Glaze Pen. Also, no card is complete without a little bit of Clear Wink of Stella. Here is where we call it a day.

I hope you enjoyed my card today and thanks so much for stopping by to see me!

Until next time!
-Cynde

Love Owl-ways Card by Crafty Math Chick

Lovely Owl Card!

Today Crafty Math-Chick combined several of our fun stamp sets to create this sweet owl card! The owl on the right is from the Magical Dreams stamp set and the owl on the left and the "Love OWLways" sentiment are from the Sweetheart Tails stamp set. The branch that the owls are sitting is from the Hanging Around stamp set. I love the way she combined all these fun images to create this sweet little scene! She also added in the die-cut arrow using our new Points & Plumes die set. 

Thank you, Crafty Math-Chick, for the fun inspiration today! To see more details and other projects, you can visit her blog, Canines & Card Designs.

Check out our Inky Paws Challenge #32
- Use an Arrow

Have you had a chance to play along with our Inky Paws Challenge? Create a card using an arrow and NND products - like the one in today's post to enter! You have until Friday, June 10th to enter!

The winners of this challenge will get a $10 gift card to our shop! You can view full details and link up your card to our Inky Paws Challenge on this post.

If you don't own a NND stamp set yet you can still play along - just download and use one of the digital freebies on our freebies page.

Thankzzzz Card by Larissa Heskett

Thankzzzz!

Today we're sharing a lovely bee Thank You card by Larissa! She made this adorable hanging beehive by stamping the branch from the Hanging Around Stamp Set and then stamping the Beehive from our new Winston's Honeybees Stamp Set under it. She added some sweet bees and the stitched heart bee-trail, also from the Winston's Honeybees Stamp Set. I love the fun cloud edge to the scene too! So pretty!

Thanks so much Larissa for making us smile! To see more beautiful projects by Larissa, head over to her blog, Larissa Heskett Designs and say hello to her today!

Today is the LAST day to Enter our Inky Paws #31 - Sketch Challenge

There's still time! Our challenge closes Tonight, Friday, May 13th at Midnight CST time. To enter, all you need to do is create a card or project inspired by the sketch using NND products!

The winners of this challenge will get a $10 gift card to our shop! You can view full details and link up your card to our Inky Paws Challenge on this post.

If you don't own a NND stamp set yet you can still play along - just download and use one of the digital freebies on our freebies page.

Fan Feature Week - Day 2

Day two 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 Jess Gerstner picked this fun doxie card by Ka at Stamping Smiles Designs. This card uses our Delightful Doxies stamp set. 

"I love how she keeps the focus on the dog image but still adds beautiful details like the bow and the faux stitching."

Design Team member Nina-Marie Trapani picked this possum card by Therese Calvird. This card uses our Hanging Around stamp set. 

" I love how she used the possums from to create this darling little scene! Her earthy color choices lend perfectly to the overall feel of the scene, and her attention to detail in the placement of everything creates a visually appealing and very beautiful work of art!"

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!

Think Spring Card by Samantha Mann

Think Spring Kitty Card

Awww - isn't this kitty card by Samantha Mann super cute? I love how she created a wreath made of little flowers around the kitty's head! It looks like a she dressed Newton with a lion mane for spring! This is such a fun idea - It reminds me of the saying "in like a lion, out like a lamb" for March. 

Samantha used a ton of little sets for this - can you spot them? She used Newton's Daydream, Newton's Antics, Basket of Wishes, Bunny Hop, Easter Scramble, Hanging Around and Love Grows! Wow - that's a ton of sets to create all those fun little flowers!!

Hopefully this sweet card will bring on spring (we had snow here in the Midwest yesterday-ugh)! Meanwhile, you can pop over to Samantha's Blog, Sam's Scrap Candy, and say hello :)

Cupcake Inspiration Challenge - Sparkle!

Let's Sparkle! 

This week is a fun week over at the Cupcake Inspirations Challenge Blog! They are celebrating their 300th challenge with tons of fun prizes (including one from us at Newton's Nook Designs). They are also hosting 3 challenges throughout the week. The first challenge starts today and is based on the above photo: SPARKLE!

Danielle from our Design team played along. Here's what she created:

Make sure you pop over to the Cupcake Inspirations Challenge blog to see more fun today and make some time to link up a project for a chance to win some awesome projects!

Hi Newton! Card by Jess Moyer

Newton wishing for spring...

This card by Jess Moyer is quite fitting. Right now in cold Wisconsin, the REAL Newton is getting very stir crazy and wanted to have the windows open so he can hear the birds and get fresh air but it's just too cold. I imagine the stamped Newton on this card is feeling the same way - he wants to go outside and see that birdie! 

For this card Jess used the kitty from the Naughty Newton stamp set and the birdie outside is from Campfire Tails  and the clouds and "hi" sentiment are from Hanging Around! 

Make sure to visit Jess at her blog, Jess Crafts - and you can also follow her Jess Crafts youtube channel to see more fun videos!

 

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!

An InLinkz Link-up

Video by Taheerah Atchia & Art from the Heart Blog Hop Sponsor

Fly away with me!

Today I'm sharing this awesome hot air balloon card by Taheerah! She used the kitty and hot air balloon from our Newton Dreams of Paris stamp set and the funny little squirrel hanging off it is from the Hanging Around stamp set.  This is such a fun idea - I love that the cute little squirrel is hitching a ride with Newton! 

Here's a video Taheerah created- check it out to see how to make this card:

This project is also part of a fun blog hop to celebrate 100 videos and 2500 subscribers to Art from the Heart! If you've been following us for awhile you might know that Emily Leiphart was on our very first Design Team! We're very happy to help her celebrate her milestone!

 This project is just one of many in the hop - Make sure you head over to Taheerah's Blog to see the whole hop list and find out how to win a prizes from sponsors, including one from us at Newton's Nook Designs! Or you can start from the beginning of the hop at Emily's Blog here.

While you're blog hopping - there is still time to comment on the Sweet Treats Blog hop too!

If you haven't had a chance to go through all the awesome Design Team projects from our SWEET TREATS blog hop, you still can. Check out all the fun treats and leave comments along the way for a chance to win a $10 store credit to Newton's Nook Designs! Start the hop at the Newton's Nook Designs post here.

You have until Tonight at 9pm CDT (Wednesday, February 4th) to comment  -- winners will be announced on the blog post on Thursday, February 5th. 

Happy New Year card by Samantha Mann!

Happy New Year Card with Kitty!

Today I'm sharing this fun card by Samantha Mann just in time for the New Year! Are you ready for the new year yet? There's only a couple days left in 2014! Samantha used the image of the fun basket of champagne from the Basket of Wishes stamp set  - which is just perfect for a New Years card! She also snuck in a cute kitty - from the Hanging Around stamp set, peeking off the card edge - ADORABLE! I also love the bright colors and star background! What a fun way to celebrate the new year!

To read more details on how she made this card, make sure to visit Samantha's blog Sam's Scrap Candy.

Back in Stock - Winter Favorites! Our four Winter Sets that were sold out are now back: Beautiful Blizzard, Flaky Family, Winter Tails and Holiday Wishes are all now available at newtonsnookdesigns.com

Happy New Year Card & Video by Jess Moyer

A sparkly Kitty for the New Year! 

I know most of you are probably still doing last-minute Christmas prep but today we're taking a little break from Christmas cards to share this awesome sparkly New Year card by Jess!  Jess created this awesome card using the image of our hanging kitty from the Hanging Around stamp set with some super fun sparkly paper! I love how she created a row of sparkly banners for the kitty to hang on! Then she used our fun "happy" from the Simply Sentimental stamp set along with some cute letters to create the fun big "happy new year" message! This is so pretty! I just love all the sparkle!

Here's a video Jess created- check it out to see how to make this card:

Make sure to visit Jess at her blog, Jess Crafts  - 
and you can also follow her Jess Crafts youtube channel to see fun videos!

Halloween Treat Holders with Larissa Heskett!

A Sweet and Spooky set of Halloween Treat bags! 

Design Team Member Larissa Heskett is sharing this cute little set of Hallowen Treat holders today! She used three stamp sets to create these cuties -  Hanging Around, Newton's Perfect Pumpkin, and Spooky Street!  I love how she used little elements from each of these sets in unexpected ways - like the Spiderweb eyeball! So fun!! Here are a few close-ups:

Thanks so much Larissa for the inspiration today! Please make sure to head over to Larissa's blog, Larissa Heskett Designs and say hello to her today too!

Today is the LAST DAY to get inky with our Fall color combo for the latest Inky Paws challenge!

Our current Inky Paws Challenge ends Tonight at midnight CST (October 10th)! Create a card or project based on this Fall Color Combo! The winners of this challenge will get a $10 gift card to our shop! You can view full details and link up your card to our Inky Paws Challenge on this post.

If you don't own a NND stamp set yet you can still use the digital freebies on our freebies page here.