Kitty Valentine Card by Donna Idlet

Kitty Valentine!

Today Donna has created a kitty themed Valentine that is sure to warm your heart!

This sweet Valentine features the cozy duo of kitties from our Newton's Antics Stamp Set. She colored the the kitties and their toy mouse and cut them out using the coordinating Newton's Antics Die Set.  She layered them over a duo of hearts that were cut out using our Heart Frames Die Set. She also added a couple of hearts around them, stamped using our Heart Frames Die Set. 

For her card base she choose two fun patterns from our Love & Meows Paper Pad and cut them both out using our Frames & Flags Die Set. She split the panel in half, giving her card two fun patterns and added a little black strip in the center to separate them. The finishing touch is the sentiment "loves mew" from the Newton's Antics Stamp Set, embossed in white onto a little black rectangle.  

This snuggly kitty card would make a perfect Valentine or would be great for an anniversary or other occasion too! 

To see more beautiful cards by Donna, you can visit her blog, Creative Lady!

Cozy Cats & Coffee Card by Zsofia Molnar

Cozy Kitties and Coffee!

Today we are sharing a cozy card by Zsofia with two of our favorite things: Coffee and Kitties! For this sweet card she combined our Newton's Antics and Time for Coffee stamp sets! What a purr-fect pairing!

She stamped and colored the image of the two cozy kitties, along with two balls of yard and a toy mouse from our Newton's Antics Stamp Set. She colored the kitties in soft grays and chose teal for the yarn and pink for the mouse. Next, she stamped the image of the french press and two coffee mugs from the Time for Coffee Stamp Set. She matched the colors on the mugs to the mouse and added teal to the top and handle of the french press to coordinate with the yarn. Such sweet colors! All the images were cut out using the coordinating Newton's Antics Die Set and Time for Coffee Die Set.

For her card, she cut a strip of white to match the width of the card and arranged all the die cut elements on top, leaving room on the right side for the sentiment, stamped in teal from the Time for Coffee Stamp Set. She added a teal scalloped border along the top and bottom, using our Sky Borders Die Set. 

For the card background, she used the coffee bean patterned paper from our Coffee House Stories Paper Pad. These elements all work so purr-fectly together, don't you think!? 

You can find more of Zsofia's creations and say hello to her over at her blog, Safsafdesign. 

Kitty Birthday Cake Slimline Card by Tina Herbeck

A Kitty Birthday Card!

Today Tina is sharing an adorable slimline birthday card featuring two of our favorite Newton stamp sets! In the center she features the kitty with the cake from our Newton Loves Cake Stamp Set and the kitties on the top and bottom are stamped from our Newton's Antics Stamp Set. She added birthday hats to all three kitties using the birthday hat from the Newton Loves Cake Stamp Set. Each kitty is colored with unique fur colors using copic markers.  She also added on the toy mouse, heart, toy ball and ball of yarn from our Newton's Antics Stamp Set. Since she changed the image shapes by adding the hats she used her Scan N Cut to cut out the images. But if you want to add the hats on separately you could cut everything out using the coordinating dies too (Newton's Antics Die Set, Newton Loves Cake Die Set). 

To create the slimline card, she used cut a purple scallop edged frame using our Slimline Frames & Portholes Die Set. On top of that she added the frame with 3 square windows from our Slimline Frames & Windows Die Set. Each window has an ink blended square behind it that was created using our Slimline Masking Circles & Squares Stencil Set with distress inks. This stencil is sized to coordinate perfectly with the square window frames! 

She also mixed the sentiments from the Newton's Antics Stamp Set and Newton Loves Cake Stamp Set to create a fun kitty themed message inside each window. 

We hope this adorable kitty card by Tina has inspired you today! Don't forget to pop over and say hello to Tina and see more of her awesome creations on her blog, The Scrappin Rabbit!

Cat in Box Scrapbook Layout by Samantha Mann

Cats & Boxes!

Today we sharing an amazing scrapbook page by Samantha that any cat owner will appreciate! For this gorgeous page, she used our Meow Stencil along the edges of the layout and on the right side where she planned to add the photo, with white texture paste. Once the paste was dry she added watercolors in pinks, reds, oranges and yellows on top. This frames the photo and the page perfectly and is such a beautiful effect! She also added the images of the kitty in a box, just like the kitty in the photo, from our Newton Loves Boxes Stamp Set and from our Newton's Antics Stamp Set. Adorable!

Here is a close up so you can see the texture: 

If you like to scrapbook, we hope that you are inspired to try our stencils and stamps on your pages! 

To say hello to Sam and see more of her amazing creations you can visit Sam over on her blog, Sam's Scrap Candy!

Newton's Nook Designs 7 YEAR Celebration Blog Hop!

Newton’s Nook Designs is so excited to be celebrating our SEVEN Year Anniversary
- WOW - That's seven years of getting our paws inky!

We want to take a moment and say that we are so THANKFUL for all of you, our amazing fans and customers! Your enthusiasm for our products and support of our small business has really been the silver lining in what was otherwise a very challenging year! We really appreciate every order and are so happy that we are able to continue to run our small business from our home with everything going on in the world! If you didn't receive our email this morning you can read our letter about the last year here. 

To celebrate, we have a big blog hop today! Make sure to scroll down to the end of the post to see the hop link list and leave them some sweet comments for a chance to win prizes (details at the end of this post).

Every stop on the hop is sharing cards made with our products and I made a card to share today too! For my card I created a slimline card featuring all the kitties!


In the center of the card I stamped the two kittens in a box from our Newton Loves Boxes Stamp Set, coloring them to look like our NEW kittens, Marlowe and Toulouse! The darker brownish gray kitty on the left is Marlowe and lighter pale gray is Toulouse!  Both of our new kittens have distinctive "M" markings on their foreheads so I tried to add that on as well. I'm not very skilled at coloring gray kitties yet but I'm sure I will do much more practicing in the future!

I also wanted to add on the kitties we lost during this last year so I included an orange kitty on the left to represent Newton and colored the one on the right to look a bit like Hobbes! For Newton I used one of our very first Stamp Sets, Newton's Antics. I will always continue to color orange kitties like Newton, since even though he as passed he was a special kitty and remains our company namesake!

The kitty images were cut out using the coordinating Newton's Antics Die Set and Newton Loves Boxes Die Set.

For the slimline card I used an 8.5" x 3.5" card base from Kraft colored cardstock. Then I used our new Slimline Frames & Portholes Die Set to cut out the white scalloped border. The square frame with the three windows was cut out using the Slimline Frames & Windows Die Set in lime green. I also used the same die set to cut out the inner squares. I cut a set from yellow and a set from a strip white of paper that I had stenciled colored paw prints onto using our Pawprints Stencil. I arranged the kitties over the three windows and added the sentiment "You're the Best!" from our Thankful Thoughts Stamp Set onto a banner, also cut out using the Slimline Frames & Windows Die Set. I thought that sentiment was fitting because we DO have the BEST FANS!

I hope you enjoyed this project today! Make sure to visit all the blogs listed at the bottom of this post for below for more fresh inspiration today!

And if you feel like shopping, check out our SALE this weekend!

We're celebrating seven years of NND with 20% off your order! 

Now through Monday, July 20 with code: 7YEARS

Shop now at newtonsnookdesigns.com

Celebrate with us and enter to win!

To celebrate 7 years Newton's Nook Designs is giving away a $20 store credit to spend in their online shop to 7 lucky winners!

Here's how to win:
Comment on the NND Design Team blogs (see list below)! The winner 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 Monday, July 20 at 9pm EST to comment. Winners will be announced on NND blog post on Tuesday, July 21 and will need to contact us to claim their prize so make sure you check back to see if you've won!

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

Newton's Nook Designs
Ellen Haxelmans
Larissa Heskett
Samantha Mann
Zsofia Molnar
Maria Russell
Andrea Shell
Tatiana Trafimovich
Amanda Wilcox

Birthday Wish Card by Tatiana Trafimovich

Make a Wish! 

Today we have an adorable birthday card by Tatiana that is perfect for sending a sweet birthday wish! She started by coloring the kitty from our Newton's Antics Stamp Set in gray and adding dark gray stripes. She also stamped and colored a balloon from our Playful Pandas Stamp Set. Then she carefully fussy cut out the kitty and balloon to add to her card. She used our Essential Alphabet Die Set to cut out the letters to spell "wish" and used the kitty to in place of the letter "i". In the background she used our Clouds Stencil with light pink ink to create a soft clouds. The stitched rectangle panel was cut out using our Frames & Flags Die Set and she added a scalloped edge using our Sky Borders Die Set. This card is so sweet and pretty and would make anyone smile!

Thank you for the adorable inspiration today, Tatiana! If you like this project you can see more of Tatiana's work over on her blog, Tatiana Craft and Art

Newton Loves Boxes Cards by Larissa Heskett

Cats + Boxes = CUTE!!

Happy Friday! Today we have TWO adorable cards by Larissa using our Newton Loves Boxes Stamp Set! She created two adorable creations by mixing this new set with some old favorites!

On her first card she stamped all four of the images of the kitties in boxes from the Newton Loves Boxes Stamp Set and cut them out using the coordinating Newton Loves Boxes Die Set. She added in some fun details onto all the boxes too! She stamped the words "cat's meow" and some fishbones, both from the Newton's Antics Stamp Set, on the sides of the box on the right. For the center box she added "in the sea" from the Tranquil Tides Stamp Set on the box front. The box on the left has a cute little feather added on from the Newton's Birthday Flutter Stamp Set. Then she added in a ball of yarn and little wind up mouse in front, both from the Newton's Antics Stamp Set. 

For her background she created some fun pawprints using the Pawprints Stencil and added the sentiment "I love you more than boxes" from the Newton Loves Boxes Stamp Set. The cute little ticket frame was cut out using the Framework Die Set.

For her second card today she created a fun interactive pull tab card! She stamped two images of the kitties in boxes from the Newton Loves Boxes Stamp Set and cut them out with the coordinating Newton Loves Boxes Die Set and then she stacked them over each other, attaching the top kitty to a pull tab so the recipient gets to pull to reveal the second kitty beneath! 

How fun is that!? She also added on some fun box decorations, again using the fishbone from the Newton's Antics Stamp Set and the word "nom" from the Shark Bites Stamp Set. She snuck a little mouse on the orange kitties head too, masking him from the Santa Paws Newton Stamp Set. 

For the card background she created a fun room with pawprint wallpaper (created using the  Pawprints Stencil) and some cute little framed pawprint pictures. For the frames she die cut the postage edge and ticked shapes using our Framework Die Set and added in the pawprints and words from the Newton's Antics Stamp Set! So fun and creative!

Thank you, Larissa, for the stunning creations today! To say hello to Larissa and see more of her creations, visit her over at her blog, Larissa Heskett Designs.

Newton's Garden Card by July Guest Designer Cynde Whitlow

Today we have our first post from our July Guest Designer, Cynde Whitlow! We are thrilled to have Cynde designing with us this month! Her amazing ability to combine images to make unique scenes is definitely going to inspire you! We can't wait to share what she creates with our stamps! Keep reading to find out more about Cynde today and to check out her first project below!

My name is Cynde and I live in the beautiful state of Montana. I’m married to my first love and together we have 4 kids. We also have a feline fur-baby named Ginger. My family is a lot like the Brady Bunch, if they'd been an 80's hair band. For real. I've always had the creative bug. In fact, I was that kid who had an imaginary friend and I thought purple horses were the bomb in kindergarten. I've been cardmaking for a little over 2 years and my blog is The Pink Envelope. I LOVE every bit of blogging. Sharing what I make and inspiring other folks is an amazing thing! My favorite type of cards to make are one layer cards that I can build up with lots of masking and color it all in with Copic's. My other crafty kryptonite is ink. I have more than what any one person should have, but they are all fab, so I tell myself I need them. Seems reasonable. I'm SO excited to be guest designing for Newton’s Nook and I look forward to sharing what I’ve created with you all!

Hey folks!

I'm super duper happy to be guest designing for the Newton's Nook Blog this month! Today's post is one of four I will share and I can't wait to share them all!

One of my favorite things about Newton is that he makes for a great scene. Whether you take any Newton Stamp Set and use it as is or pair him with other fabulous images, you've got yourself a story to tell.

For my card today, I paired up several stamp sets. I started with some images from the Garden Starter and Flower Garden Stamp Sets. I knew that I would be doing quite a but if masking so I stamped and cut those out first.

Before I started stamping any of the images on my white cardstock panel, I used a ruler and lightly traced a rectangle on the front with a pencil. This will be my faux frame. I'm also going to use this as a guide so I know where to stamp my images.

When stamping scenes like this, it's always important to stamp the images that are going to be in the front or foreground first. With this card, I needed to keep in mind what images I wanted in front, but also which ones I wanted to go outside the faux frame and the ones I wanted to stay inside the frame. For those that need to stay in the frame, I simply blocked off the outer edge of the frame with more masking paper.

The mischievous feline I chose to go with those big beautiful blooms is from the Newton's Antics Stamp Set. I LOVE how he looks like he's ready to pounce!

When I had everything stamped where I wanted it, I colored it all in with Copic's. I adore big, bold color folks. It's go big or go home in my crafty world. Plus, I really wanted the whole scene to jump off the page.

Using a Copic Multiliner, I went over the faux frame again and added shading with my grey Copic's. The idea is to make it look like it's another layer to the card.

There's no need for embellies on this card peeps. However, to finish off my panel, I used Clear Wink Stella on the highlights of the images and Ranger Glossy Accents on the center of all of the flowers and called it a day.

That's it! Easy peasy.

I hope you enjoyed my card today and thanks so much for stopping by to see me!

Until next time!

 - Cynde

Purr-fect Birthday Card by Jennifer Jackson

Hello & Happy Monday! Today I have a fun card using the cute kitty in the box image from our Newton's Antics stamp set! Did you know this was the very FIRST stamp set that I sketched out when we first started Newton's Nook Designs? It's still one of my favorites! 

For this card I stamped the kitty image and colored it with copic markers. Then I fussy cut it out. (You could also use our coordinating Newton's Antics Die Set if you don't like cutting by hand). For the card base I used a piece of Kraft cardstock and added some fun dimension with a star stencil and white embossing paste. Then I stamped the "have a purr-fect birthday" sentiment from the Newton's Birthday Bash stamp set.  I added some orange and white bakers twine and mounted the whole thing on some lime green cardstock to add a pop of color! 

Hope you enjoyed this card today!

To add a bit more fun, here's a typical pic of Newton in a box - - see where I get my inspiration??

Happy Thanksgiving Card by Danielle Pandeline

Happy Thanksgiving!

Today I'm sharing this super cute Thanksgiving card by Danielle. She used our favorite kitty, Newton, from the Newton's Antics stamp set and the "happy" and "Thanksgiving" words from our  Simply Seasonal stamp set! I love all the tiny colored dots behind the words! This is such a simple way to add color to the card and it looks so fun! It's super cute how she added a few dots onto the kitty too to tie him in!

Make sure you head over to Danielle's blog, GirlRacerScrap to see more of her work and say hello!

BLACK FRIDAY SALE tomorrow + Savings ALL weekend!

It's our biggest sale of the year! Make sure to head over to newtonsnookdesigns.com tomorrow to save! Shop early - Friday November 27 only - all orders are 25% off  with code FRIDAY25

Sale continues all weekend - all orders are 20% off Saturday Nov. 28 through Monday Nov. 30
with code THANKYOU20 

Get Well Card by Crafty Math-Chick

Birthday Wishes!

Today I'm sharing a sweet get well card by Crafty Math-Chick! She crocheted a sweet blue ribbon for the recipient and added it to the card with a couple of our favorite kitty sets! The kitty with the nurse hat is from our Newton's Sick Day stamp set and the kitty perched on the top of the ribbon is from the Newton's Antics stamp set. I love how colored the kitties with subtle stripes and left the card layout sweet and simple! I know the recipient of this card will definitely feel the special care that went into it!

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

Fan Feature - Day 5

Last day of Fan Spotlights!

We hope you have been enjoying our FAN FEATURE week! It's been so fun to see all the amazing projects our fans have created! Make sure to click back through each day this week to see them all if you haven't yet!  See your project below? Scroll down to the end and grab our "spotted" badge for your blog!

Design Team member Stephanie Muzzulin picked this dreamy kitty card by Sheri Gilson. This card uses our Winged Wishes stamp set. 

"I have always loved Sheri's layering of papers and love the whole layout of this card."

And here's my pick (Jen) - this awesome kitty birthday card by Emily Lauritzen. This card uses the balloons, bird and sentiments from the Newton's Birthday Flutter stamp set and the kitty from the Newton's Antics stamp set.

"I LOVE how Emily created that giant bouquet of balloons and tied it around the tail of the kitty! The sentiments on the clouds are adorable too!"

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! 

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!