Special Delivery Card Set by Tina Herbeck

Special Delivery!

Today Tina shares how to take a holiday set and stretch it forward to Valentine's Day! She used the cute little scottie dog holding a letter from our Canine Christmas Stamp Set and colored him with copics, using shades of white and pink for the letter and his sweater! She then created a gorgeous glittery heart background using our Tumbling Hearts Stencil with some glittery texture paste! The stenciled panel and the patterned paper panel behind it were both cut our using our Framework Die Set. To finish it off, she added the sentiment "special delivery" from our Newton's Happy Mail Stamp Set.

How adorable! Isn't it great how you can switch an image from Christmas theme to Valentines just by changing the colors? Take a look at your stamps and see if you could try this with any of them! And if you do, make sure to share it with us in our Create and Share Facebook Group! 

We hope this adorable Valentine 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!

Sending Happy Mail Card by July Guest Designer Kay Demonbren

Today we have our first post by our July Guest Designer, Kay Demonbren! Whether she is creating an amazing scene or layering bright colors and creative layouts, her cards are so creative and fun! We are excited to have her as our guest this month and can't wait to to share what she creates! Check back each Monday to see them! Keep reading to find out more about her today and to check out her first project below.

Hello, everyone, I am beyond thrilled to be the July 2020 Guest Designer for Newton’s Nook Designs!

My name is Kay Demonbren, and I live in upstate South Carolina with my husband, teenager, five cats, and one very chilled out dog.

I’ve always loved “making stuff”, and there are too many hobbies to mention that I’ve dabbled in. I’ve been making cards for around thirteen years. I also currently enjoy sewing and quilting, puttering in my fledgling indoor garden, as well as cooking, baking, and home canning all sorts of things (makes me feel a bit like a mad scientist-lol!)

I look forward to hearing from you, and sharing my creations with you all!

You can find me on Instagram: @kaydemonbren8 and on my blog A Splash of Color!


Hi everyone! I am excited to share first card as the Newton's Nook Designs Guest Designer for July!

I decided to start with the adorable and classic Newton's Happy Mail Stamp Set, and the Evergreens Stencil. Don't feel like you need to save this lovely stencil for winter themed cards; they make perfectly lovely spring and summer trees, too!



The first thing I did was mask off the bottom portion of my card panel, and place my trees in the desired location. You can use as much or as little of the trees as you wish for the desired effect. I masked off the largest bottom portion of the stencil to make the trees appear farther away. The trees were stenciled with a blended combination of Distress Oxide inks in: Twisted Citron, Mowed Lawn, and Forest Moss. Afterwards, I didn't care for the white spaces left, so I colored those in with a Copic marker.



I then did a very simple background with Copics on the lower portion of my card panel. Dabs, swipes, and flicks, that's all there is to this. (Trust me, I cannot draw.) I colored and cut out the precious kitty hiding in the mailbox, and attached him to the front panel in his little place of honor.

Finally, I created the sky by blending Distress Oxides in Squeezed Lemonade, Worn Lipstick, Shaded Lilac, and Stormy Sky.

Thanks so much for sharing your time with me, and I look forward to sharing another card with you next week!

-Kay

January Reveals - Day 3 - Love Owl-ways

Welcome to Reveal Day 3 for our January Release! Today we have a fun new Love/Valentine themed set featuring owls called  Love Owl-ways! We also have a giveaway today so make sure you read all the way to the bottom of this post to see how to win!

Love Owl-ways

This owl themed stamp set is such a HOOT! This 4x6 set features sweet owl images and puns that will will make you smile. Use this set for Valentines, Birthday, Anniversary cards and more! These adorable owls are prefect for year round greetings!

Here's some info on the Love Owl-ways stamp set:

• 4 x 6 photopolymer stamp set 
• Includes 10 stamps: 5 images and 5 sentiments
• Coordinating Love Owl-ways purr-fect die set (sold separately) includes 5 dies 
• Available for purchase in our online shop starting Friday, January 18th

Our Design Team had a Hoot creating projects using these cute owls!

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

For her adorable Valentine, Andrea used two of the owls from the new Love Owl-ways Stamp Set. Isn't it cute how the one is flying in with a love note to give the other? She also added in a branch and leaves using our What a Hoot Stamp Set. 

This card by Larissa is so soft and pretty! She featured the owl carrying a love note from the new Love Owl-ways Stamp Set. Then she created that lovely sky using hearts from our Tumbling Hearts Stencil along with clouds cut out using our Sky Borders Die Set. She also added a scalloped panel to frame the whole scene using our Frames & Flags Die Set.

Zsofia featured three of the owls from our new Love Owl-ways Stamp Set on her card today. It's so cute how she created three stripes of pink and added one owl to each strip along with a sentiment from the set! What a fun way to showcase all three images when you can't decide which one to use! 

Maria created this cheerful owl card using the new Love Owl-ways Stamp Set. She featured the image of the owl couple from the new set sitting on a branch from our What a Hoot Stamp Set. The sunny background behind them was added using our Sunscape Stencil and it gives the card such a warm and cozy feeling!

This cute owl is bringing mail to Newton! How fun is that? Amanda created this fun scene using the owl carrying a love note from our new Love Owl-ways Stamp Set combined with Newton in the mailbox from our Newton's Happy Mail Stamp Set. She also used our Frames & Flags Die Set for the banner that holds the sentiment and for the Scallop edged border. 

The owls are so cute floating in the purple sky on this card by Samantha! She used the two owls from the new Love Owl-ways Stamp Set and colored them with adorable pink accents on their wings and bellies! Then she created a lovely sky full of fluffy purple clouds, using a cut out of our Sky Borders Die Set as a mask for the ink. She added the sentiment, embossed on a stripe of vellum to finish the dreamy scene. 

The owl on this card by Naki has SO MANY balloons! She created this delightful scene using the owl from the new Love Owl-ways Stamp Set. She stamped a bunch of extra heart balloons using the same image and some creative masking! Plus, don't you love the sparkle on the balloons? She also used the stitched rectangle from our Frames & Flags Die Set for the background panel and added in two little clouds from the Newton Scoots By Die Set.

Holly created an adorable cloudy sky scene using two of the owls from our new Love Owl-ways Stamp Set. She colored the owls with copics and added fun white gel pen details. For her sky, she used our Cloudy Sky Stencil with white embossing paste and added some blue ink to the center. So cute! 

This charming owl card by Tatiana is perfect for sending a love and happy mail! She used the owl holding a love letter from our new Love Owl-ways Stamp Set. Then she added in a whole bunch more letters using the Sending Hugs Stamp Set. So adorable!

Ellen created a playful interactive Valentine that is so fun to open! She featured one of the owls from our new Love Owl-ways Stamp Set on the front and then when you pull the card open, it flips to reveal one inside! Make sure you pop over to her blog today to see more photos. She also added in little pink clouds using our Cloud Sky Stencil and a layer of clouds across the bottom using our Sky Borders Die Set. She added in the word "love" from our Darling Hearts Die Set. 

Would you like to win the “Love Owl-ways” Stamp Set?

This stamp 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 reveal 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 January 17th at 9pm EST to comment -- winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday, January 18th.

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

Newton's Nook Designs
Amanda Bodine

 Holly Endress

Ellen Haxelmans

Larissa Heskett

Samantha Mann

Zsofia Molnar

Naki Rager

Maria Russell

Andrea Shell

Tatiana Trafimovich

Sliding Message Card by Ellen Haxelmans

Adorable Bee Card with Sliding Message

Today we have an super cute card by Ellen using a bunch of stamp sets together plus a fun interactive element! For this card Ellen used that cute kitty in a bee costume from the Newton's Costume Party Stamp Set. She created a cute little scene for the kitty using the grass and hill from the Land Borders Die Set. Then she added on stamped some little leaves from the Autumn Newton Stamp Set and flowers from the Happy Little Thoughts Stamp Set and Toucan Party Stamp Set and a tiny little butterfly from the Newton's Birdbath Stamp Set! It's so cute how all those little images work together. She colored them all and cut them out with their coordinating die sets too. Then she added the "special delivery" sentiment from the Newton's Happy Mail Stamp Set onto a little slider panel.

When you pull up the slider you see the message inside:

That sentiment, "Lucky that you're my friend" is from the Newton's Pot of Gold Stamp Set. She also used a bit of acetate from our acetate sheets to make the fun slider!

Aren't interactive cards so fun! It would be such a treat to receive a card like this in the mail!

Do you love this project by Ellen? To seem more of her beautiful creations, you can visit Ellen over at her blog Crafty Ellen!

Custom Holiday Envelopes by Tatiana Trafimovich

Make the Envelope Special!

After you've spent al that time making the perfect holiday card, don't forget to make the envelope special too! Today Tatiana is sharing a trio of fun custom envelopes she created featuring our Newton's Happy Mail Stamp Set. She created her own envelopes using Bristol paper and then stamped the Kitty in the mailbox from the Newton's Happy Mail Stamp Set on the front. She used some creative masking to add on the snow shovel in front of the mailbox from our Frozen Friends Stamp Set. She also masked the corner of the cats head to add a Santa hat onto him using the hat from the Newton's Holiday Mischief Stamp Set.  Isn't it fun how a little creative masking can turn any set into a Holiday one!? The holly on the mailbox is also from the Newton's Holiday Mischief Stamp Set. So cute!

Once the images were all masked and stamped, she used zig clean color watercolor markers to color them. For the first one she added several colors but she also created a version using just grey and red and one that's completely black and white! Depending on how much time you have, you could keep them really simple!

To see more details on her project today and more of her beautiful creations you can visit Tatiana at Tatiana Craft and Art!

Special Delivery Card by April Guest Designer Kaja Vezensek

Hello there!
It's Kaja from Kajcyika crafts! I am back with a new card as a April guest designer here at Newton's nook blog.

I decided that I want to use one of the stamps of Newton, since they are all so adorable. The one I had chosen is called Newton's Happy Mail!

Take a look of what I have created:

As promised, I have a video tutorial for you. So make sure you check it out! :)

First thing that I had to do was to decide which paper I am gonna use. I decided to go with Neenah desert storm and normal white card stock. I diecutted the rectangle in the middle and it was time to color our Newton!

I stamped the image from Newton's Happy Mail stamp set on my Derwent watercolor paper. I used the colors of ZIG markers that are really muted down to color the image, since I think that bright colors and kraft cardstock don't really go together. I added some gray lines on the Newton's head to make him a bit more realistic and interesting. In the end I just added some more details on the mailbox with my white gel pen.

To make the background a bit less boring, I stamped some paws using Distress Tea dye ink. The paws are from the same Newton's Happy Mail set and I stamped them in the random order.

Of course we also need a sentiment and I went with embossed 'special delivery' phrase in white on my black cardstock.

The last thing was to glue everything together. On all the pieces I used double sided tape and I added some foam rectangles on Newton to make it a bit more dimensional.

That's it for today. Hope that you like what I have created and that you will join me next Monday! 

Hugs,

Kaja

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!

January Reveals - Day 4 - Newton's Happy Mail!

Today is our final reveaal day for our January Release! Everybody loves Newton and everybody loves Happy Mail so today we're combing those two favorites in our new Newton's Happy Mail stamp set! We are giving this stamp set away one lucky winner so make sure you read all the way to the bottom of this post to see how to win!

Newton's Happy Mail!

Everyone loves getting happy mail! Now you can send some adorable happy mail featuring Newton with this cute little 3 x 4 stamp set! Newton is ready to deliver the mail right out of the mailbox! Add the paw print onto the mailbox or customize it with your own message! Great for decorating envelopes too!

Here's some info on the Newton's Happy Mail stamp set: 

• 3 x 4 photopolymer stamp set 
• Includes 4 stamps: 2 images and 3 sentiments
• Coordinating Newton's Happy Mail purr-fect die set (sold separately) includes 2 dies 
• Available for purchase in our online shop starting Friday, January 20th

Check out all the amazing Happy Mail from our Design Team!

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

This card by Holly is sure to make the recipient feel special! That kitty delivering the mail from a cute pink mailbox is so sweet! She also added sky in the scene behind him and the little bird from the Raccoon Rascals stamp set. Adorable!

Juliana created this adorable Happy Mail Valentine! I love the added hot pink hearts in the background and those pink letters MUST be love notes!

Tatiana used traditional red, white and blue postal service colors on her card. I love how she created a custom border by drawing stripes on with copic markers! Such a fun idea! 

Larissa also created a Valentine scene using this set! She added a heart onto the mailbox and a big one in the background too (using our Darling Hearts die set). She even stamped onto the envelope! So cute!

I love the steely grays Amanda used on her card. The subtle background papers really make the image pop off the center! That orange kitty is so adorable! He looks just like our real Newton!

This card by Naki is so adorable! I love how she colored that kitty in the mailbox with no-line coloring and watercolors! Then she added some great red and white washi and a created a cute little envelope in the corner too! 

Here is some Happy Mail from Jennifer! The teal and black color combo is so fun and the pop of hot pink letters really adds to the card! Those must be Valentines cards being delivered! She also used the "Special Delivery" stamp on her envelope!

This scene by Maria is so cute! She added the new image of the kitty in the mailbox outside a wall. It's so cute how she added a window with the kitty in a sweater from the Sweater Weather stamp set looking out! Do you think she's waiting for her mail to arrive?

Ellen created such a cute scene for the kitty and the mailbox image! The colors she used are so fun too with a bright yellow mailbox and red letters! Getting this card in the mail would definitely make anyone happy! 

This adorable mailbox card is by Samantha! She created a fun circle scene for the mailbox and cut it out using the coordinating die set to pop it off the card! Isn't it cool how she curved the "special delivery" sentiment around the edge of the circle?

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 reveal 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 January 19th at 9pm CST to comment -- winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday, January 20th.

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

Newton's Nook Designs
Amanda Bodine
Holly Endress
Ellen Haxelmans
Larissa Heskett
Samantha Mann
Juliana Michaels
Naki Rager
Maria Russell
Jennifer Timko
Tatiana Trafimovich