Under the Sea Card Duo by Ellen Haxelmans

Under the Sea Cards

Today we have two amazing under the sea themed cards by Ellen using our some or our new summer products combined with our Message in a Bottle Stamp Set! She's created such clever combinations of products!

For her first card Ellen used the mermaid hugging the narwhal from our Narly Mermaids Stamp Set. She colored the image with vibrant colors (love the yellow tail) and cut it out using the coordinating
Narly Mermaids Die Set. Then she colored the scroll from our Message in a Bottle Stamp Set and combined it with the sentiment from the Narly Mermaids Stamp Set. She used the Message in a Bottle Die Set to trim it out.  For her background she created an awesome stenciled area of sparkly fish using our Tropical Fish Stencil with glittery paste. This panel was mounted onto a scallop edged teal colored panel that was cut out using our Framework Die Set.

For her second card Ellen used the big bottle image from our Message in a Bottle Stamp Set and stamped the image inside it from our new Vitamin Sea Stamp Set! So cute! She cut colored everything in fun ocean colors and cut out the bottle and cork using the Message in a Bottle Die Set. For her background on this card she use our Seashells Stencil to create a fun seashell pattern. Again, she mounted the stenciled panel onto a scallop edged orange colored panel that was cut out using our Framework Die Set.

Aren't these ocean themed cards so awesome? It is so neat how you can combine so many of our products together to create unique cards! I hope you are inspired to see what sets you have in your collection that you could use together!

To see more of Ellen's beautiful creations, you can visit Ellen over at her blog Crafty Ellen!

Let's Get Kraken Card by Samantha Mann

Kraken Slider Card

This slider card by Samantha is so fun! She used our Message in a Bottle Stamp Set to create a fun image of a bottle with a little purple kraken sliding up and down inside it! How perfect is that? It's just like he's bobbing in the water! She stamped and colored the bottle and the kraken and trimmed them both out using the coordinating Message in a Bottle Die Set. The she created a little slider inside the bottle and attached the kraken to that! The she added it to her card with fun layers of water that she created using our Sea Borders Die Set. This set has 3 fun border dies that are perfect for making water scenes. She inked the edges of the die cut pieces with distress in and splattered it with water and ink droplets to get even more of a water look! So fun! She finished off the card by stamping the "Let's get Kraken" sentiment inside the little rolled message scroll and adding that to the card! The little bits of washi at the top give it the perfect finishing touch! 

Thank you Samantha for awesome inspiration today! To say hello to Samantha and see more of her beautiful creations, you can visit Samantha's Blog, Sam's Scrap Candy!

Adventure Awaits Semi-Liquid Shaker by Samantha Mann

Ship in a bottle with a water effect!

Today we have a crazy cool card by Samantha using the ship in a bottle from the Message in a Bottle stamp set. She created an awesome little scene, die cutting out the bottle shape with the Message in a Bottle Die Set. Then made a shaker card with it - but this is no ordinary shaker, she added in hair gel to make a shaker that looks like it's filled with water!  Isn't that the COOLEST? She finished it off with the "Adventure Awaits" sentiment, also from the Message in a Bottle stamp set.

Thank you Samantha for the super cool inspiration today! To say hello to Samantha and see more of her awesome creations, you can visit Samantha's Blog, Sam's Scrap Candy!

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

Cheers card by Kimberly Rendino

Cheers!!

Today I'm sharing this fun wine bottle card by Kimberly. She used our new Message in a Bottle Die Set to cut out some bottle shapes for this unique card! I love how she added shading onto the bottles and that splash of wine coming out on the right is so cool!  Then she added on the "cheers" sentiment from our Years of Cheers stamp set with gold embossing. And the fun little cork cut out of cork material is also a die from the Message in a Bottle Die Set! This is such a fun way to use these dies!

You can head over to her blog, Kimplete Kreativity to see more of Kimberly's fun creations!

Let Your Dreams Set Sail card by Danielle Pandeline

Set Sail with this ship in a bottle! 

Here is a fun ship in a bottle card by Danielle. I love how sue used our new Message in a Bottle stamp set and coordinating Message in a Bottle die to cut out the bottle.  She added some really cool details to her scene. Did you noticed the fun stippled water dots and the way she colored the boat to look like real wood? So cool! I also love the addition of the vellum circle and the fun strips of pattern paper. This would be a great layout to use for using up all those little scraps we save!! 

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!

Ship in a Bottle Card

Let you Dreams Set Sail!

Today I wanted to share another fun card using our Message in a Bottle Stamp set and coordinating die! I created this fun bottle image by stamping and cutting out the bottle and the ship with our new coordinating dies. I colored the boat with copics and added a light blue border to the bottle with copics too. Then I also cut another bottle shape out of the vellum (I didn't stamp on the vellum, just used the bottle shape) and I layered that over the top to give it a "frosted" bottle look. I attached some brown and white bakers twine around the bottle neck to help hold it in place.  Then I added a piece of light colored burlap behind the bottle. 

The base of the card was a white cards tock that I splattered with distress inks and then I added the "Let your dreams set sail" sentiment, also from the  Message in a Bottle stamp set. I also added a strip of red and white stripes to add to the nautical look. I am having SO much fun with this new stamp set and dies too!

Jenn Shurkus is celebrating 10 years of blogging!

I also wanted to mention a special celebration going on over at the Creative Chick blog by Jenn Shurkus. She's celebrating 10 years of blogging and is having a special post each every Tuesday for the whole month of July She's also doing a fun challenge for you to link up to and there's PRIZES, including one from us at Newton's Nook Designs - so you should definitely go check it out! Here is the link to here celebration!

July Reveal Day 3 - Message in a Bottle Stamp Set + Die

Today is our first reveal for our July Release and we are featuring the set Message in a Bottle stamp set and our BRAND NEW Purr-fect dies - coordinating die set! Many of our fans have been asking for coordinating dies so we thought our 2 year anniversary would be the perfect time to add them to our product line! 

We are giving the stamp set away to one lucky winner so make sure you read all the way to the bottom of this post to see how to win! 

Create your own custom message in a bottle with this 4x6 stamp set. There are two different bottle shapes and a rolled scroll that can fit inside both bottles. All 5 fun nautical themed messages will fit on the scroll. You can also fit the ship or the kraken images inside the larger bottle to create a fun little scene!

Here's some info on the Message in a Bottle stamp set:

• 4 x 6 photopolymer stamp set 
• Includes includes 13 stamps: 8 images and 5 sentiments
• Available for purchase in our online shop starting Friday, July 17th

And here is our SECOND coordinating "Purr-fect dies" set! These shapes coordinate with the Message in a Bottle stamps shown above.  

Here's some info on the new Message in a Bottle Purr-fect die set:

• Stainless steel die set
• Includes 7 separate die images
• Available for purchase in our online shop starting Friday, July 17th

Let's get inspired with some awesome creations from our Design Team!

Check out all the amazing projects below from our Design Team below - Then, make sure to click through to all their blogs for details on their cards - Some of the designers have extra cards on the blogs and you might even find a fun video or two along the way! Make sure to comment for a chance to win! Details on the giveaway are at the bottom of today's post. 

I love the scene that Larissa created using all these new stamps together - the Kraken on top of the bottle is so fun! 

Samantha created this awesome watercolor card with lots of Kraken - and she used the die to cut out those cute anchors! 

Kimberly created this fun card! I love how she layered all the die cut shapes over a fun anchor background! 

Here's a super fun shaker card by Jess using our new stamps and dies! This card has such pretty inking and texture too! 

Stephanie created this fun ship in a bottle card! I love the pattern papers the she used too! 

This card by Danielle has such fun layers & texture! Check out the cute little die-cut anchors! 

Here's a lovely card by Nina-Marie using the new dies and stamps together!

Crafty Math-Chick found the perfect paper to make her card look like a nautical map! I love how she added on the scroll over the blue bakers twine too! 

Here is s super fun shaker card by Yukari! What a fun scene inside the bottle!

Lydia created this awesome nautical card! I love the little red metal anchor she cut out with our new dies! 

Would you like to win the “Message in a Bottle” stamp set?
This set will be given away to ONE lucky winner! 

Here's how to win: 

Comment on the NND blog and Design Team blogs (see list below)! The winner will be chosen at random from the collective blog release 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 Thursday, July 16th at 9pm CDT to comment  -- winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday, July 17th.

We will also be having a giveaway on Facebook - so make sure to like our Facebook page and enter to win there! 

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

Lydia Evans

Larissa Heskett

Samantha Mann

Crafty Math-Chick

Jess Gerstner

Stephanie Muzzulin

Danielle Pandeline

Nina-Marie Trapani

Kimberly Rendino

Yukari Yoshioka

Here's another chance to win too!
Give us feedback on which stamp set you'd like to see have coordinating dies and be entered to win! You can enter once a day until Sunday! You can enter this giveaway here!