Fan Feature - Day 4

Last day! Sharing 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! Today is our last day for  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 cute London card by Diane Morales. This card uses our Shark Bites and Love à la Carte stamp set. 

"I love how Diane mixed two sets that might not seem to go together at first. It's a cute scene with a clever design!"

Design Team member Lydia Evans picked this cute London card by Just Kate Crafting. This card uses our Newton Dreams of London stamp set. 

"I love the soft yet bold watercolour look. And Kates placement of the images is perfect .... love it!

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! We hope you enjoyed all our fan features this week!!

Watch for new stamps - next week!

Next week we're revealing some adorable new fall stamp sets! We can't WAIT to share these with you! Make sure you check back in for sneak peeks throughout the week and new stamps for sale next friday, August 19th!

You're My Sweet Tea Card by Crafty Math Chick

Lovely Owl Card!

Today Crafty Math-Chick combined several of our fun stamp sets to create this adorable Sweet Tea card! She used the sweet little jar of tea from the NEW Freshly Squeezed stamp set. Then she made a super cute custom sentiment combining the "you're my" from the Love à la Carte stamp set and the "Sweet Tea" from the Freshly Squeezed stamp set. Isn't that so fun? She also created a fun lemony background combining the little lemons from the Freshly Squeezed stamp set with the big lemon slice from the Sweet Summer stamp set! I love how creatively she mixed all these products!

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

Hey There Hottie Card by Jess Gerstner

Hot Peppers by Jess! 

Today I'm sharing a fun pepper card by Jess Gerstner. I love how she colored all the peppers green except the one fun hot red pepper! What a creative way to make the "hot" pepper stand out! I love this idea! For her project today, Jess used the Love à la Carte stamp set. 

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 more fun videos!

Inky Paws #21 - Color Challenge Winners!

Inky Paws Challenge #21 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 COLOR Challenge! 

The challenge entries were so fantastic this month! THANK YOU to everyone who entered!  All the amazing entries always make it hard to choose the winners! 

Top picks for Inky Paws Challenge #21

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 awesome ice cream card by Naki! We love how she used colors in the color challenge to create scoops of ice cream - and the fun kitty on top is from our Newton's Antics stamp set!  

Our second winner is this beautiful coffee card by Vicki! We love how she used colors in the color challenge to make a gorgeous gradient background and the she also added some fun details on the coffee cup from the Love à la Carte stamp set with glitter and glossy accents! 

Congrats to Vicki and Naki! 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 #21 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!

Shannon created this awesome scalloped circle card using the color combo and the roses from our Love Grows stamp set! So Gorgeous! 

 Tatiana used a "spotlighting" technique on her card with the Years of Cheers stamp set! I love this idea to include the colors! Check out her blog post to see more on this fun technique! 

This card by Kamay really caught our eye! We loved how she used the colors to accent the tiny flower pot image! The flowers and sentiment are from the Versatile Vases Stamp set!

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 try again next time! Save the date: the next challenge will begin on June 26.

Coffee Lovers Blog Hop

Today I'm playing along with the very fun Coffee Lovers blog hop.

There are going to be TONS of fun prizes too - 

including a $15 store credit from us at Newton's Nook Designs! 

You can head over to the Coffee Lovers Blog for more details on how to play along! 

Here's what I created:

I thought I'd use our fun Love à la Carte stamp set since it has an image of a coffee cup with a spoon of sugar. I wanted to make it have a summer feel so I stamped it and colored it to match this fun floral paper I had in my stash. I used blue and yellow shades of copics to color the image. Then I added some glossy effects over the coffee to add a fun bit of detail and shine.

Hope you enjoyed this coffee card today! Make sure you head over to the Coffee Lover's Blog to find out how you can link up your card to play along  -- There are a TON of prizes, including one from us at Newton's Nook Designs!

There's still one week left to enter our Inky Paws challenge #21 Color Challenge!

While you're making a card for the Coffee Lovers challenge, you can use our color combo here and enter it in our inky paws challenge too! You have until Friday, June 12th at Midnight CST time to enter our current challenge. All you need to do is create a card or project based on this color combo of Coral, Peach, Mint and White and 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.

Coffee Lovers Blog Hop!

Today I'm playing along with the very fun Coffee Lovers blog hop.

There are going to be TONS of fun prizes too - 

including a $15 store credit from us at Newton's Nook Designs! 

You can head over to Amy Tsuruta's Blog for more details on how to play along! 

Here's what I created:

I thought I'd use our fun Love à la Carte Set since it has an image of a Coffee Cup with some sugar  - just perfect for the theme of today's hop! I still am in the "holiday" card making mode so I decided to make this a warm wintery card. I colored the coffee cup red with a pop of teal for the saucer using copics. Then I fussy cut it out and layered it with some different circles to make a fun tag. I created the card base from Kraft colored cardstock and added some snowflake pattern paper to give it a holiday feel. Although the Love à la Carte stamp set does have some fun sentiments in it I decided to use the "warm Wishes" from the Snow Day set instead - just to make it feel more wintery!  Then I added a bit of sparkle with some glittery washi tape and a doily because I just love the look of doilies! 

Hope you enjoyed this coffee card today! Make sure you head over to Amy Tsuruta's Blog to find out how you can link up your card to play along  -- check out the BIG list of sponsored prizes below: 

17 Turtles:  $15 Store Gift Card

A Muse Studio/Chris Franco:  Cup of Good Cheer stamp set

Add a Little Dazzle:  $25 Store Gift Card

Butterfly Reflections Ink:  Prima Coffee Break

Color Cast Designs:  Coffee Lovers kit

Create a Smile:  Monster Party stamp set

Hero Arts:  A Little & Today's Special stamps/Cup 'O Joe Shadow ink

Kraftin' Kimmie:  $25 Store Gift Card

Kreative Kymona:  Fancy Mug Giveaway

Latina Crafter:  Cafe Wood Veneers + $25 Store Gift Card

Neat & Tangled:  Warm Wishes stamp set

Newton's Nook:  $15 Store Gift Card

Paper Smooches:  $25  Store Gift Card

Pickled Potpourri:  $7 Store Gift Card

Poppystamps:  Tea Cup Stack Die

Reverse Confetti:  $15 Store Gift Card

Stamp Academy:  2 classes

Stampin' Up/Veronica Zalis:  $20 Store Gift Card

STAMPlorations:  $10 Store Gift Card

Stamp Simply Ribbon Store:  Coffee Cup Prize Pack

SugarPea Designs:  $20 Store Gift Card

Sweet 'n Sassy:  Pick Me Up Clear stamp & die set

The Alley Way Stamps:  Tea Par-tea stamp set

Two Paper Divas:  Your Warm My Heart stamp set

Your Next Stamp:  $20

Verve Stamps:  $25

Whole Wild World:  Coffee before Talkee mug

●●Sponsorship prizes are eligible via random draw from linked hop participants only●●

Heartfelt Thanks Fall Shaker Tag by Larissa Heskett

Gorgeous Fall Shaker Tag! 

Today I'm sharing this beautiful shaker tag by Larissa Heskett. She used a combo of stamp sets to make this awesome tag. The little pumpkin is from our Love à la Carte set and made it the focal point of her shaker. She also used the "heartfelt" and "thanks" from the Simply Sentimental set. Isn't that gold embossing on the word heartfelt just awesome? Then she took the leaves from our Falling into Autumn set and stamped them and cut them out and added glitter --- this is SO PRETTY!  I just love the mixture of sparkle and shine  with the fun burlap bow too! It has so much fun detail. Here's a close-up of the shaker:

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 Sparkle Challenge!

Our current Inky Paws Challenge ends Tonight at midnight CST (November 7th)! The current challenge is a to create a card or project that has some sparkle in it - be creative and show us your sparkle! It does NOT have to be a holiday card, just a sparkly one! 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.

September Guest Designer - Kimberly Rendino

Hello and Happy Monday! Today I get to reveal our very special Guest Designer for our September - Kimberly Rendino! Kim has been an awesome NND fan and has many adorable cards blog using our stamps!

Here's some more about Kim in her own words - Make sure to check out her blogs and say hello!

Kimberly Rendino
Kimplete Kreativity

Hi!!! I'm so excited to join the Newton's Nook design team for the month of September! Autumn is my favorite season, and I've been having such fun playing with the new release!

I live in Central New York with my husband Joe, son Alex and daughter Arissa. Oh....and don't let me forget my two sweet kitties, Holly & Ivy! (Who am I kidding - I'd never leave them out! They are spoiled rotten, lol!). I love that my kids have inherited the crafty gene - Alex will be in Advanced Art this year, and Arissa is my crafting partner in crime. My husband built me an awesome craft room in our basement and it's my favorite place in the house!

I've always been creative (thanks, Mom!), but started scrapbooking back in 1999. That led to cardmaking, which is my absolute favorite! I'm a technique junkie - there is always something new to learn, and the papercrafting community is a treasure trove full of information and inspiration! I love this hobby and the people involved with it!

You may recognize Kim's card below as a winner from our inky paws challenge #10 in June - We really loved this card that she created using our Free Digital Sunflower image!

Here is another cutie by Kim - Love the Cupcake from our Love à la Carte set on the vellum:

And one more cutie - with our Newton's Antics set:

We can't wait to see what she does with our new September release sets!  

Make sure you stop by next week to find out!

Don't forget enter our Inky Paws challenge!

Speaking of Inky Paws Challenges - you have one week left to enter our current Inky Paws Challenge! The current challenge is a SKETCH challenge!  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.

Deadline to enter is Friday, September 12th, 2014 at Midnight CST. 

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

Inky Paws #11 Challenge - WINNERS!

Citrus Color Challenge WINNERS! 

Thanks so much to everyone who entered our last  Inky Paws Challenge at here at the Newton's Nook Designs blog! This months theme was a Bright Citrus color Challenge! It looked like everyone had a ton of fun creating bright citrus toned cards! Great job & thanks to everyone who played along! 

Top picks!

Since we had over 15 participants we got to pick TWO winners! Read the captions below the photos to see who made the cards! 

Our first winner is this fun striped card by Marina! We love how she created fun stripes using the colors in our color palette with the fun squiggle border and food from our  Love à la Carte stamp set! You can see more of her work and congratulate Marina on her blog, Marina's Craft Space.

Our second winner also used a stripe in her card! This card is by Yukari! We loved the clean and simple style of this card mixed with the bright citrus colored gifts! She used our  Wagon of Wishes stamp set.  You can see cute creations by Yukari on her flickr page.

Congrats Marina and Yukari!! 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 Favorites

Since there were so many beautiful 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!

Love the bright- almost neon colors on this card by Donna using our Sweet Summer Stamp set! 

This card by Caroline using Newton's Birthday Bash really caught our eye with the "shaker" inside the kitty balloon!

The citrus colors in dotted background are so fun on this card by Indy using Newton's Birthday Bash and Wagon of Wishes sets! 

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 try again next month. The new challenge will be posted on Friday, July 25.