In This Together Card by April Guest Designer Jennifer Hartsgrove

Today we have our first post by our April Guest Designer, Jennifer Hartsgrove! Jennifer caught our eye with her adorable creations on Instagram and we are thrilled to have her as a guest this month! We can't wait to to see what she creates! We hope you will enjoy seeing her new creations on our blog each Monday this month! Keep reading to find out more about her today and to check out her first project below!



Hi Krafty Friends, I'm Jen from Katahdin Krafts. My krafty korner of the world is in northern Maine, where I live with my very tolerant husband, three active homeschooled children, two naughty dogs, two spit fire cats and a very stubborn house pig! So I officially reside in a funny farm! My passion for art and crafting began at a young age and led me to earn my BFA. I concentrated in photography which was an easy stepping stone into paper crafting. I am honored to have the opportunity to be a guest designer for Newton's Nook Designs for the month of April. What a great opportunity from a fabulous company, thank you so much for having me!

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Hello Krafty Friends, Jen here from Katahdin Krafts. I have the honor of being April’s Guest Designer for Newton’s Nook Designs! I have been a Newton’s fan for quite sometime, often working with their products.

For this project I was inspired by our global events and wanted to showcase unity for our hurting world. What better way then Newton’s Dreams of Traveling Stamp Sets! We truly are all in this together, whether we are on the front lines, staying home, or delivering lunches, we are all trying our best. I’ve often stated how crafting is my therapy, well we all need some sort of mental outlet now, stay healthy everyone.


On this card I used the Netwon Dreams of Italy, Newton Dreams of Paris, Newton Dreams of New York, and Newton Dreams of London stamp sets. I stamped them out using copic friendly ink. Then colored them with the following color palette:

• Newton’s Fur – Y35, Y38, YR15 and YR16. His ears are R20.
• London Newton – B24, B28, and R27.
• Paris Newton – B24, B28, R14, R17, R27, T0, and T1.
• NYC Newton – R14, R17, T0, and T1.
• Italy Newton – G3, G5, R14, R27, C00, and C1.
• Empire State Building – N0, N2, and N4.
• Big Ben – E51, E53, E55, and E57.
• Brooklyn Bridge – N2, N4, and N5.
• Leaning Tower of Pisa – W1, W3, and W4.
• Eiffel Tower – C1, C3, C5, E31, and E34.
• Cloud – C00, C0, and C1.

Next, I used Lawn Fawn’s Foursquare Backdrop to cut a panel for my card. I then inked up the four sections with Distress Oxide Inks. For the sky I used Tumbled Glass, Shaded Lilac and Tattered Rose. Then I used Mowed Lawn for the grass.


I then used the Newton’s Nook Designs Clouds Stencil to add some interest in the sky areas.


For my card base I cut a piece of Chili Red Classic Cardstock to 8.5″ x 5.5″ and scored it at the 4.24″ mark line, to create an A2 sized card. I used a liquid glue to adhere the frame from the backdrop die to the card base, and popped the inked sections back in place.


Then it was time to assemble my card, I really love how it turned out! I had this concept in mind for a couple of weeks, and it was exciting to see it come to life.


I've also created a video showing you how I created this card:

Don't forget to subscribe to the Newton's Nook Designs YouTube Channel to see more great videos!

Thanks again to Newton’s Nook Designs for this awesome opportunity!

Until we meet again Krafty Friends, stay safe and keep krafting!

- Jen

Happy Birthday Old Chap Card by Andrea Shell

Happy Birthday, Old Chap!

Today we are sharing a charming English-themed birthday card by Andrea! She features the cute kitty wearing a Welsh Guard costume standing in front of some London landmarks from our Newton Dreams of London Stamp Set. She colors the images and uses the coordinating Newton Dreams of London Die Set to cut them out. For the scene, she uses our Hills & Grass Stencil for the hill and adds clouds into the sky with our Cloudy Sky Stencil and some white texture paste.

She layers the scene over a background that was created by stamping a bunch of the smaller images to create a fun themed pattern. The sentiment "Happy Birthday, Old Chap" is also from the Newton Dreams of London Stamp Set. She embossed the sentiment in white onto a banner that was cut out using our Frames & Flags Die Set.

Check out the close-up photo below to see all the details. She even added flocking to the hat on the kitty to give it a fun fuzzy texture. What a cool idea! To see more details on how this is done, you can head over to Andrea's blog today.

Thank you, Andrea, for this fun birthday card today! To see more beautiful creations by Andrea, you can visit her over at her blog, Blissfully Scrappy too!

A Jolly Holiday Card by Samantha Mann

Jolly Holiday!

This adorable London themed Holiday card was created by Samantha! She's channeling her inner Mary Poppins on this one! She used the cute kitty with the umbrella, double decker bus and clock tower from our Newton Dreams of London Stamp Set. She also added in a row of city buildings using our Snow Globe Scenes Stamp Set. She cut out the images with the coordinating Newton Dreams of London Die Set and Snow Globe Scenes Die Sets to create a fun cityscape! She aded some snow in the sky too with our Bubbly Stencil. For the sentiment, she combined words from a few different sentiment stamps from the the Sentiments of the Season Stamp Set to make her own custom sentiment! HOW FUN!

Who has the Mary Poppins song stuck in their head now? So cute!

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

Newton's Nook Designs & Therm O Web Inspiration Week - Day 2 with Amanda & Samantha

Today is day two of our inspiration week with Newton's Nook Designs and Therm O Web! All week long both design teams will be sharing ways to add fun foils and more to your cards using Therm O Web products with Newton's Nook Designs stamps! There are prizes too! Read all the way to the end of this post to find out how you can win! 

Today we are featuring projects by Amanda and Samantha! 

First up is the this gorgeous shaker card by Amanda:

For her card, Amanda used the new Clear Toner Sheets (Groovy) by Therm O Web for her shaker window. She foiled the pattern on the clear sheet using Deco Foil in Spring Green from Therm O Web and a heat laminator to make the yummy green pattern on the front of the shaker! Once the shaker portion of her card was created she added florals to her card using our Lovely Blooms Stamp Set and Die Set.  She stamped the mason jar and flowers from the Lovely Blooms Stamp Set, colored them in gorgeous bright colors, and trimmed them out with the coordinating Lovely Blooms Die set. She assembled them into a big and beautiful Bouquet in front of the shaker window. Then she finished the card off with the "thinking of you" sentiment from the Beautiful Wings Stamp Set. How lovely!

Visit Amanda's blog: rutabagapiedesigns to see more and leave a comment for another chance to win!

Next we have two beautiful cards using foil  by Samantha: 

For first card, Samantha used created a gorgeous little circle of foiled waves using our Waves Stencil and the Deco Foil Transfer Gel from Therm O Web. Once the transfer gel was dry, she added on pieces of Deco Foil by Therm O Web in Aqua, Silver Shattered Glass and Spring Green colors and heat set it with a laminator! So pretty! She then colored that sweet mermaid from our Mermaid Crossing Stamp Set and fussy cut it out to layer over the waves. She added the "have a fin-tastic birthday" sentiment on a black banner that she cut out using the little banner from our Frames & Flags Die Set. 

For her second card, Samantha created lovely foiled buildings! She used the Deco Foil Transfer Gel from Therm O Web and smeared it all over a piece of cardstock. Once the gel was dry, she foiled sections of the cardstock using several different colors of Deco Foil by Therm O Web. The foil colors she used were Aqua, Silver Shattered Glass, Spring Green, Gold Shattered Glass, Red Rouge and Pink Melon. She stamped and embossed the buildings on top of the foiled colors and fussy cut them out to add onto her card! For the buildings she used images from both Newton Dreams of London and Newton Dreams of New York. She added the "lets go on an adventure" sentiment from the Stowaway Newton Stamp Set, embossing it with white embossing powder on a black banner that she cut out using the little banner from our Frames & Flags Die Set. 

Visit Sam's blog: Sam's Scrap Candy to see more and leave a comment for another chance to win!

There are also more amazing projects today over on the Therm O Web blog so pop over there for more inspiration!

Would you like to win a Prize pack including a $25 store credit to Therm O Web AND a $25 store credit to Newton’s Nook Designs? 

Here's how to win: 
Here's how to win: Leave comments on the NND & Design Team blog posts using therm-o-web products all week (March 5-9) to enter. One winner will be randomly chosen from blog posts throughout the week so the more posts you leave comments on the better your chances are of winning! You have until Friday March 9th at midnight CST to comment. The winner will be announced on the NND blog post on Monday, March 12th.

Want another chance to win? Therm O Web will also be giving away a prize pack! Visit the Therm O Web blog each day this week for more inspiration and leave comments there for another chance to win!

Flying by Kitty Card by Naki Rager

Flying by! 

Wow! The first week of 2018 has totally flown by! Can you believe it's Friday already!? Speaking of flying by, today we have an adorable card by Naki that fits that theme! She used that cute kitty floating in the sky with an umbrella from our Newton Dreams of London Stamp Set. She stamped the image in grey and colored in  the jacket and umbrella in soft tones of grey too, with just a pop of yellow on the scarf. This gives such a lovely rainy day feeling to the card! Then she trimmed it out with the coordinating Newton Dreams of London Die Set before adding it to her card. Then she added on a sentiment with the banner and "flying by" sentiment from the Winston Takes Flight Stamp Set. She also added some clouds stamped in grey from that set and some die cut out using the coordinating Winston Takes Flight Die Set. The soft tones of this card with the yellow accents are perfect for sharing a hello on a dreary rainy day!

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

'ello Card by Holly Endress

Hello from London!

Today Newton is traveling to London with this adorable card by Holly! She used that cute image of Newton wearing a British flag t-shirt along with the phone booth and Big Ben from our Newton Dreams of London Stamp Set! She colored these images, adding some awesome glossy accents and glitter too and then trimmed them out using the coordinating Newton Dreams of London Die Set. To create the scene she also used the curved hill shape from the Land Borders Die Set. Then she set the whole scene in a circle and added the "'ello" sentiment from the  Newton Dreams of London Stamp Set in a little banner.

For the card base Holly created an awesome background to coordinate with the British flag colors using red and blue inks with our new Pawprints Stencil! How cool is that! I love the way the colors coordinate!

Here's a video by Holly showing you how she created her card:

Thank you, Holly, for the beautiful card today! You can find more of Holly's creations and say hello to her over at her blog, Hollybeary Creations or visit her YouTube Channel for more fun videos!

Lucky to Have You Interactive Card by Ellen Haxelmans

This is our second blog post today - if you're looking for our post for the Coffee Lovers Blog Hop, scroll down or click here. 

You'll be surprised at what's inside!

Do you ever decorate the inside of your cards? Today's project by Ellen might inspire you to think about how much fun the inside of cards can be! She started out with an adorable card front featuring the kitty in the mailbox from our  Newton's Happy Mail stamp set! She colored him so sweetly and trimmed out the image using the coordinating Newton's Happy Mail Die Set and then added the image into a pretty distress ink circle.

Then you open the card to find this amazing pop-up scene:

She created an awesome scene using a bunch of different stamp sets! She created hills and grass using our new Land Borders Die Set and a cloudy sky using the new Sky Borders die set! Then she added in the cute kitty holding the umbrella for his ducky friend from the new Newton's Rainy Day Stamp set. She also added in some trees from the Fox Hollow Stamp set and the fun little red bus in the back is from the Newton Dreams of London Stamp set. Then she finished it off with the "Lucky to have you" sentiment over the grass from the Newton's Pot of Gold stamp set! Wow! What a fun way to combine a ton of stamp sets to create a unique scene! It would be so fun to get this in the mail and open it up!

If you love this card you can visit Ellen over at her blog Crafty Ellen to see more of her lovely creations!

'ello Rainbow Card by Holly Endress

Rainbows in London!

This beautiful rainbow card by Holly will brighten your day! She created a gorgeous rainbow background for her card using distress inks. Then she colored images from our Newton Dreams of London stamp set using only shades of grey to create a lovely contrast to the colorful background! She added the images to her card, trimming them out with the coordinating Newton Dreams of London Die Set. This is such a fun idea! To finish off her card she added the simple "ello" stamped onto a little white banner and some fun clear sequins! This card is so cheerful! It feels like a rainbow after a rainy day!

Thank you, Holly, for inspiring us today! You can find more of Holly's beautiful creations and say hello to her over at her blog, Hollybeary Creations!

Inky Paws Challenge #37 - Cozy Plaids

This month's challenge is:

Create a project using plaid!

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, November 4th, 2016 at Midnight CST. The winners will be announced on the NND blog.

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 IPC37).

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

Samantha created a plaid background for her card using masks and inks! So cool! She created the city using images from the Newton Dreams of New York  and Newton Dreams of London stamp sets and the sleigh and sentiment are from the Newton's Curious Christmas stamp set. 

Larissa created a sweet little shaker card with a fun plaid border! She used images from the Bushels of Love stamp set (Simon Says Stamp Exclusive). Adorable!

Naki created a fun fall thank you card using plaid paper and letters! She added in pumpkins cut out with the Pick-a-Pumpkin Die Set. That stitched ribbon is so pretty too!

Yuki created a duo of adorable dog cards using dogs from our Canine Christmas stamp set with fun plaid backgrounds. The color combo on these cards of black, red, kraft and white is one of my favorites for Holiday cards!

Danielle added plaid paper in fall colors to create this fun card! The angles of paper in the background are so fun! Winston from the Winston's Birthday stamp set really pops off the card! 

I pulled out one of my favorite christmas images, Winston driving a car laden with holiday goodies from the Winston's Home for Christmas Stamp Set. I colored the image with watercolors and then added plaid paper along with some black chalkboard style washi tape. I finished it off with the sentiment "have a beary merry christmas" embossed in white on a black circle.

An InLinkz Link-up

Interactive Card by September Guest Designer Ellen Hax

Hello! It's Monday and that means it's time for a post from this month's guest!! YAY! This month it's me, Ellen, and I like to share a little coloring tip and a flip card.

It seems a lot people like how I color the cat stamps, because I get a lot of sweet comments from all of you! That's why I like to share where I got my inspiration for these kittens (stamp sets "Aloha Newton" and "Newton Dreams of London").

As you can see, the coloring is inspired by pictures found on Google. Do you see the similarities? To give the cats fur I use the flicking technique. With this technique you draw a little line upwards from the edges to the inside of the stamp with brush point of your marker. For animals it's important to try to follow the form of the body with your markers. This ensures that the animals will appear more vibrant and fuller.

I created a little summer and rain scene with both cats. The word 'or' on the first page was stamped with the word 'more' from a sentiment from the "Newton's Naptime" stamp set. On the inside I used a sentiment from the "Newton Unwinds" stamp set.

I hope you liked this post! There's more to see next Monday.

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!