Shell-abrate Card by Nakaba Rager

Shell-abrate!!

Today we are ready to "Shell-abrate" a with this adorable card by Naki! For this lovely card, Naki features the sweet turtle carrying a gift from our retiring In Slow Motion Stamp Set. She colors the cute turtle in soft watercolors. Then she fussy cuts the image out to add to her card. She cuts off the bow on the package but adds her own behind it using some thin sparkly string!

For the card background she creates a pink sky using distress inks and adds balloons behind the turtle using our Balloons Stencil and embossing paste. A bit of paint splatter adds to the fun celebratory feeling of this card!  She finishes it off with the sentiment embossed in gold! This card would be perfect for a fun birthday celebration!

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

Thank you for the adorable inspiration today, Naki! If you like this project you can see more of Naki's work over on her blog, Notes from Naki. Stop by and say hello!

Sothy Valentine's Day Shaker Card by Samantha Mann

Have a Sloth-some Valentine's Day!

Here is a fun take on a Valentine's Day card by Samantha! She has created a fun shaker card featuring the cute hanging sloth from our In Slow Motion Stamp Set. She colored the sloth and hand cut out the image. Then she nestled him inside a heart shaker shape that she cut out using our Darling Hearts Die Set. She shaker is filled with fun purple and white sequins and beads that go perfectly with the purple background. To create that fun Tropical background she used our Tropical Leaves Stencil in shades of purple! So lovely! To create that custom sentiment used creative masking and  combined the "have a sloth-some" phrase from the In Slow Motion Stamp Set with the "Happy Valentine's Day" phrase from the Love Bites Stamp Set. What a fun way to create your own sentiment!

We hope this project by Sam makes you smile today! To say hello to her and see more of her awesome creations you can visit Sam over on her blog, Sam's Scrap Candy!

Ear-Resistable Sloth Card by Samantha Mann

Ear-resistable Sloth!

Today have an adorable sloth card by Samantha that is perfect for Spring! She started with the cute sloth from our In Slow Motion Stamp Set. She colored the image and added on some leaves from our Toucan Party Stamp Set and fussy cut the image out.  She also added some adorable bunny ears to the sloth by stamping the image of Newton wearing bunny ears from our Newton's Easter Basket Stamp Set and coloring and fussy cutting out just the ears! What a fun idea!

For the background she created an awesome background of leaves using our Tropical Leaves Stencil and distress inks. Then she added the sloth image over the top of the background. She also added the "you are ear-resistable" sentiment, stamped from our Bitty Bunnies Stamp Set, on a black banner.

Here's a close up:


If you loved this creative project by Sam today you can say hello to her and see more of her awesome creations over on her blog, Sam's Scrap Candy!

A Sloth-some Birthday Card by Naki Rager

Sloth Shaker Card!

Today we have an adorable sloth shaker card by Naki! She used that adorable sloth from In Slow Motion stamp set and colored him using no-line coloring. I just LOVE how she colored the fur on him! He looks so fuzzy I want to pet him! Then she made the image into a fun shaker card, filled with tiny stars! The star theme continues with the tiny star patterned paper and the gold star washi tape! Then she finished it off with an the "have a sloth-some birthday" sentiment, also from the In Slow Motion stamp set, embossed in white on vellum and added on with a cute little heart and a tiny bit of doily! What a sloth-some card! 

Make sure you head over to say hello to Naki  and see more of her beautiful creations at her blog, Notes from Naki!

Safari Birthday Card by Yukari Yoshioka

It's a Birthday Zoo!

I just love all the fun watercolored animals on this card by Yukari! She used the fun lion, elephant, and lemur from the Wild About Zoo stamp set and added them into fun die-cut tag windows! This is such a unique and fun card layout, don't you think? She added on the "Happy Birthday" sentiment from the In Slow Motion stamp set, embossed in white on a black rectangle. I love how the sentiment really pops off!

Thanks so much to Yukari for the this super fun card today! You can head over to Yukari's blog, Handmade by Yuki to see more of her amazing cards!

Shell-abrate Card by Stephanie Muzzulin

Shell-abrate a Birthday!

Today we have a fun turtle birthday card by Stephanie! She used that fun turtle with the gift on his back from the In Slow Motion stamp set and colored him with watercolors. So pretty! The "shell-abrate" sentiment is also from the In Slow Motion stamp set! I love the fun Scrabble letter Happy Birthday paper - it's quite fitting since Scrabble is a fairly slow game! LOL! If you like this turtle card, make sure to check out our In Slow Motion stamp set - it's filled with slow animals including a turtle, sloth and snail!

Thanks for the inspiration today, Stephanie! To see more of Stephanie's work you can visit her blog, Handmade Creations by Stephanie!

Sloth-some birthday card by Ka!

Sloth-some Birthday Card by Ka! 

Today we have a feature by our guest designer for February, Ka Slagoski. Check out this awesome sloth card and info below from Ka!

Hello and Happy Leap Day! 

I am sharing this fun birthday card I made for my husband's birthday. Don't you just love this cute sloth and sentiment from the In Slow Motion stamp set? I absolutely love him and think he is the perfect critter for a masculine card.

For this card, I wanted to create a tropical rain forest sunset scene with a mountainous silhouette behind the sloth and I think I achieved the look I was going for.

I started out by creating a mountainous mask using a wavy metal dies and masking paper. I first blended the upper part of a white cardstock and then went back to blend the mountainous silhouette. While I waited for the background to dry, I stamped, colored and fussy cut the sloth out. I stamped the sentiment in Jet Black StazOn Ink onto a piece of acetate cardstock. I decided to create my own nature sequins mix using an assorted colors and sizes from Pretty Pink Posh. After arranging everything to its proper place, I assembled the shaker and adhered the entire shaker to an Olive card base.

I don't know how anyone could pass up this stamp set. The set includes different types of critters and I love how you can use the critters for all sorts of occasions and different types of projects. So head over quickly to the Newton's Nook Shop to grab yours if you haven't already!

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you enjoyed today's card!



Wasn't that amazing? Special thanks to Ka for being our guest designer this month! We really enjoyed having you and your projects were so cute!! If you like her work, you can continue to follow Ka on her blog, stamping smiles designs.

Leap Day Sale! 

Since today is LEAP DAY we thought it would be fun to have a little one day sale in celebration! Stock up today and get FREE Shipping with a $29 purchase to US addresses (or $3.50 off international orders). Today only at www.newtonsnookdesigns.com

Slow Down Birthday Card by Samantha Mann

SLOW Birthday wishes from a sloth!

Today I'm sharing this adorable birthday card by Samantha Mann using our cute little sloth image from the In Slow Motion  stamp set. I love how she watercolored that cute little guy and fussy cut him out  to add to her scene. The sentiment "slow down & enjoy our day" is also fromthe In Slow Motion  stamp set! I also love that gorgeous background she created for him! So beautiful!

Thanks, Samantha for the fun inspiration today! For more details on her project and to see what else she's creating, you can visit Samantha's Blog, Sam's Scrap Candy! 

Inky Paws Challenge #24 Winners - Sketch Challenge

Inky Paws Challenge #24 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 a SKETCH Challenge! 

We loved seeing all the ways everyone used the sketch for this challenge! THANK YOU to everyone who entered! All the beautiful entries always make it SO HARD to choose the winners! 

Top picks for Inky Paws Challenge #24

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 winner is this fun card by Naki! We loved how she used a fun chevron cut out shape for one "flag" on the sketch and the reverse of the cut out for the other - such a fun idea! It looks like those arrows are helping guide the snail from our In Slow Motion! 

Our second winner is this fun card by Magda! Can you believe she just started card making and this was her first card post? We love how she hand-cut trees to make the sketch and used the snuggling kitties from our Newton's Antics stamp set nestled in the branch! Adorable! 

Congrats to Naki and Magda! 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 #24 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!

We love this beautiful Fall card by Emily! She used our fun bold leaf set, Falling into Autumn to create that fun gorgeous background. Then she added the fun kitty from our Newton's Perfect Pumpkin stamp set - I love the way she interpreted the sketch too - so creative!

This card by Deb tickled our funny bone! I love how she used the image of the kitty with the toilet paper from the Naughty Newton stamp set and used ACTUAL toilet paper to create a background! So fun! 

Our third favorite is this fun farm card by Holly! We love the fun way she created a little window scene using the animals from the Farmyard Friends stamp set! This card made us smile! 

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! Save the date: the next challenge will begin on September 18th.

Sending Snail Mail by Stephanie Muzzulin

Snail Mail!

Do you love to get snail mail? In this day of emails and facebook there's definitely something special about getting a letter in the mail, isn't there! Finding this snail mail card by by Stephanie in your mailbox would surely make someones day! She used our snail image from the In Slow Motion Stamp Set with fun shades of green! I love how she paper pierced the letter to have a cute little edge on the bottom. And those fun papers make a perfect garden theme for the little snail! 

To see more of Stephanie's work you can visit her blog, Handmade Creations by Stephanie!

There's still time to enter our Inky Paws challenge #24 - Sketch Challenge!

Just a few days left to play! You have until Friday, September 4th at Midnight CST time to enter our current inky Paws Challenge. All you need to do is create a card or project based on this Sketch and use & 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.

Shell-abrate! Seashell card by Kimberly Rendino

Sweet Seashells

Today I'm sharing this beautiful sweet seashell card Kimberly. She used our shell image from the new Tranquil Tides Stamp Set to stamp those beautiful pink and peach seashells. She also used the Tranquil Tides Die Set to trim them out and I love how she layered the sand dollar and starfish dies to create a fun new shape! She used the "Happy Birthday" and "shell-abrate!" sentiments from the In Slow Motion stamp set! Such a fun way to get double usage of our the shell themed sentiment (in the original set it goes with the turtle image). I love how the designers on our team our constatnly coming up with new ideas like that - I don't think I would have ever thought of that and it's so clever!


Thanks, Kimberly for the amazing card today! You can head over to her blog, Kimplete Kreativity to see more of Kimberly's fun creations!

Inky Paws Challenge #24 - Sketch!

This month's challenge is a SKETCH CHALLENGE 

Create a project inspired by the SKETCH BELOW:

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, September 4th, 2015 at Midnight CST. The winners will be announced on the NND blog on Monday, September 7th.

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 IPC24).

• 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 birthday cards they created! Read the description below each card to see who made it.

Here is an adorable snail mail card by Jess. She did a ton of fun paper piercing she did with our In Slow Motion stamp set! I love that fun pattern on the snail and his shell!

  Here is a fun shark Birthday card by Yukari using our sketch! I love how she created two cute sharky scenes with our Shark Bites Stamp set!

Check out this beautiful under the sea scene that Larissa created for this challenge! She used our fun little Seahorse from the Tranquil Tides stamp set and cut him out with the coordinating Tranquil Tides die set! I love the added dimension she gave him with the white dots and the googlie eye!!

Here is a cute early christmas card by Samantha. I love the two bottle cut-outs with fish inside! Such a fun idea! She used our Message in a Bottle Stamp Set and Message in a Bottle Dies along with the SEAsons Greetings stamp set. 

Here is a fun birthday card by Crafty Math-Chick! I love how she used the bright colored balloon paper paired with the black and white colored kitty from the Newton's Antics Stamp set. She also used our new coordinating Newton's Anitcs purr-fect die set to cut out that cute kitty! 

Here's a card I created using our Mermaid Crossing stamp set. I colored the image on watercolor paper with Zig Clean Color watercolor markers. I love how vibrant these are! Then I added some fun bubble paper for the background and a fun blue twine bow!

Now it's your turn! What will you create with this sketch? Link up below:

An InLinkz Link-up

Tie Dye Snail Mail Card by Danielle Pandeline

This snail is groovy!! 

Don't you just love the tie-dye look on this fun card by Danielle?  She used the cute little snail carrying the letter and the package from our new In Slow Motion stamp set and colored the shell in tie-dyed colors! She also used the "sending you snail mail" and the fun postage stamp image from the In Slow Motion stamp set. The multi-colored background is so fun! I love this fun and colorful card - it would brighten any day! 

Thanks so much Danielle for the colorful inspiration! Make sure you head over to Danielle's blog, GirlRacerScrap to see more of her work and say hello!