Floral Thank you Card by Naki Rager

Floral Thank You! 

Today we are sharing a beautiful floral thank you card by Naki created this sweet floral card using the roses and tiny flowers from our our Love Grows Stamp Set. She colored them in soft pink and yellow, using no-line coloring. Then she fussy cut out the flowers and leaves to add onto her card. She stamped the vine border, curving it on her stamp block to make a fun wreath effect! What a neat idea! Then she cut out the word THANKS using our new Essential Alphabet Die Set in soft blue! Such a gorgeous card! 

If you like the Love Grows Stamp Set, make sure you pop over to our site and order one soon. This set is on sale in our retiring products category and we don't have very many left! Once they're gone, they're gone! 

To see more beautiful projects by Naki, you can head over to her blog, Notes from Naki and say hello!

Birthday Roses Card by Jennifer Jackson

Birthday Roses!

Happy Friday! Today I'm sharing a fun birthday card with roses from our Love Grows stamp set! To create this card I stamped the roses and their leaves with waterproof black ink. Then I colored around them using gelatos. I used a bit of water in a wate rbrush to smooth out the colors. To color inside the flowers I just outlined the edges with a pink gelato and then used a water brush to pull the color where I wanted it.

I added the "happy birthday" sentiment using the Simply Sentimental stamp set. This set makes it so easy to create custom sentiments for your cards! Then to finish off the card I took a white gel pen and added some dots around the edges of the roses. I love how this turned out!

Today is the LAST DAY left to Enter our Inky Paws Challenge #30 - SPRING THEME 

Our challenge closes tonight -  Friday, April 8th at Midnight CST time. To Enter, all you need to do is create a card or project inspired by theme SPRING using NND products! 

The winners of this challenge will get a $10 gift card to our shop! 

This time we're going to pick RANDOM winners so everyone has an equal chance to win! 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.

Simply Wonderful Card by Danielle Pandeline

Lovely Spring Roses by Danielle!

Today we have a lovely pastel flower card by Danielle.  She used our fun big roses from the our Love Grows stamp set stamped them on that fun circle card shape. I love the bright pinks and yellows she used to color them. Then she added on a fun butterfly from the Beautiful Wings stamp set. I love how she stamped the butterfly in white and watercolored over the top. She trimmed that cute image out using the coordinating  Beautiful Wings Die Set. Then the finished off the card with the "You are simply Wonderful" sentiment, also from the Beautiful Wings stamp set, embossed in white on vellum! This whole card has such a lovely spring feel! It would be so fun to send out as a Spring hello or Birthday greeting! 

To see more of Danielle's lovely creations,  you can head over her blog, GirlRacerScrap!

Happy Everything! Rose Card by Jennifer Jackson

Happy Everything! 

I had so much fun playing with watercolors and our Love Grows stamp set to create this card! I stamped several of the roses and leaves on a piece of watercolor paper using waterproof black ink. Then I used distress  inks to color the roses  and the teal background and splattered some ink over them to get the fun watercolored droplets! I love how this turned out. 

Then I stamped the "happy everything" sentiment using words from the Simply Sentimental stamp set on some Vellum. I added the vellum to the card with a piece of gold dotted washi tape (it's always so hard to figure out how to adhere vellum!). Then I added on some wooden heart embellishments and a piece of gold twine to finish it off and added it to the card base!

I love how this card turned out - it's a nice "general" card to have on hand - I could use it for a birthday, anniversary, or even for a wedding card!

Fan Feature Week - Day 1

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 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 card by Cynde Whitlow. This card uses our Newton's Birthday Bash and Love Grows Stamp sets. 

"I think the way she swapped the balloon for the rose is genius!
Not to mention the awesome coloring!!"

Design Team member Danielle Pandeline picked this card by Tatiana Art and Craft. This card uses our Newton's Antics stamp set

" I really really love the bright colors she used and her coloring on the Siamese kitty is great"

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.

An InLinkz Link-up

Mother's Day Floral Card and Bracelet by Larissa Heskett

Fanciful Florals for Mother's Day!

Today I'm sharing this gorgeous card by Larissa using the new Fanciful Florals stamp set. Larissa stamped three flowers from our set with a two-tone ink effect and then fussy cut them out to create this beautiful floral trio. She also stamped and fussy cut out a bunch of leaves too! I love all the dimension it has! Then she added the "happy mother's day" sentiment from the Love Grows stamp set. Of course I also love that gorgeous watercolor background too!

And if that's not enough -she made this amazing bracelet too using the floral image from the Fanciful Florals stamp set as the focal point for the charm on the bracelet! This girl is talented, right? How awesome is that?

Thanks so much Larissa for inspiring us today! Please make sure to head over to Larissa's blog, Larissa Heskett Designs to see more details about her work and say hello to her today!

Today is the LAST DAY to enter our Inky Paws challenge #20 SKETCH Challenge!

Have you checked out our latest challenge? You have until TONIGHT - Friday, May 8th 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 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.

May Flowers Blog Hop!

Happy May Day + Blog Hop!

Hello! Hope you're having a great "May Day"! Since April Showers bring May flowers we decided it was a good excuse to have a May Flowers Blog Hop! You are at the first stop of the hop so make sure to click through all the Design Team Members posts - they are all featuring flower cards on their blogs today with Newton's Nook Designs stamps! And of course there will be prizes (scroll down to the end of the post to see how to win) YAY! 

I decided to make a Mothers Day card for the hop. I used the new bold flower set Fanciful Florals to create a bold floral image with hot magenta and lime. Then I added the "Happy Mother's Day" Sentiment from the Love Grows Stamp set. I love how simple this card was to make. To dress it up, I added on a few pearls, a slight peek of patterned paper and some white bakers twine. Then the whole thing was put on a gray card base. 

 

PLUS - Newton's Nook Designs is having a SALE!

Do you love our flower stamps? Grab them up and any of your other favorites this weekend with FREE SHIPPING* Now through May 3. Use Code: MAYDAY at newtonsnookdesigns.com

* Offer good on new retail orders of in-stock items only, while supplies last. 

Expires Midnight CST, May 3, 2015

 

AND a Giveaway!
Want a chance to win a $10 store credit? We're picking 2 lucky winners!

Here's how to win:
Comment on the NND blog and Design Team blogs (see list below)! Two winners will be chosen at random from the collective blog hop 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 Sunday, May 3rd at 9pm CDT to comment -- winners will be announced on the blog post on Monday, May 4th.

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

Newton's Nook Designs
Taheerah Atchia
Lydia Evans
Larissa Heskett
Samantha Mann
Crafty Math-Chick
Jess Moyer
Stephanie Muzzulin
Danielle Pandeline
Kimberly Rendino
Yukari Yoshioka

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 :)

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

Inky Paws Challenge #17 - WINNERS!!

This is our second post today - to see our February Guest Designers, scroll down or click here. 

Inky Paws Challenge #17 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 create a project with a HEART SHAPE on it! 

We had a 42 amazing entries this month - I think this might have been our highest number of entries ever - THANK YOU SO MUCH! It's always so fun to see everyones creations!

Top picks for Inky Paws Challenge #17

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!!

This adorable card by Sally is our first top pick! She caught our eye with this image of the two kitties in love from our Newton Dreams of Paris stamp set! The background is super cool too with the brick and graffiti! Make sure you check out her blog Abbey's Attic - she has a really cute story about these two kitties on it too! 

This card by Anja is our other top pick! We really love how she used the kitty from Newton's Birthday Bash and changed his balloon into a heart!  Plus the layering of all the hearts behind him is so beautiful! You can see more at her blog, Scrappietoo 

Congrats to Sally and Anja! 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 #17 Favorites

Since there were so many beautiful heart 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 really loved this adorable card by Heidi! We loved how she mixed the "love you" & "mom" from our Love Grows stamp set with the sweet little penguin pair from the Wild Child stamp set! What a fun pairing! We also loved the watercolor in the heart - so pretty! 

The next two favorites are both awesome clean and simple cards and use our raccoon image - We couldn't decide which we liked better since they were so lovely - so we picked both!

We really loved this Clean and Simple card by Karen using the cute raccoon from the Sweetheart Tails stamp set. The clean style is so striking - and the subtle hearts on the grey stripe are a fun detail! 

Here's another Clean and Simple card by Lynn - also using the raccoon from the Sweetheart Tails stamp set.  We loved the contrast of the bright red against the white - and the cute little hearts in the background are so fun! 

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 in February! The next challenge will begin on February 20.