Whooo Loves You Card & Video by Maria Russell

Whooo Loves You?!

Today we are sharing some more adorable owl inspiration with this sweet love card by Maria! She used our new Love Owl-Ways Stamp Set and colored three of the sweet owls from the set in shades of brown, adding in pink for the balloon, candy heart and love litter. Then she trimmed out the owls using the coordinating Love Owl-Ways Die Set. For her card she created a fun dreamy setting for the owls. She started with a heart embossed background, then added a scalloped edge stripe of paper with fun tints of pink and splatters of ink on it. For the scalloped edge she used our Sky Borders Die Set. Then she added in some fun white branches using our Pines & Holly Die Set. She also added in a gold arrow for the owl to sit on using an arrow from our Points & Plumes Die Set. So adorable! She finished the card off using the sentiment from the  Love Owl-Ways Stamp Set on the bottom. 

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

Thank you for the beautiful inspiration today, Maria! To see more beautiful projects by Maria, visit her over at her blog, Maria Russell Designs and don't forget to subscribe to her YouTube channel too!

Wanted: Interactive Newton Card by Tatiana Trafimovich

Peek-a-Boo Card!

Today we are sharing another amazing interactive card by Tatiana! This fun card features Newton in his cute little cowboy hat and bandana from the new Newton Rides West stamp set. She colored colored the kitty in fun bright colors and added the fun cactus from the set behind him. She also added some colorful arrows pointing towards him using our Points & Plumes Die Set. The big bold "Wanted" is also from Newton Rides West stamp set and was embossed with white on black cardstock.

Now for the peek-a-boo part! From the front of the card it looks like that image of Newton is on the inside of the card inside that circle window but when you open it Newton disappears and instead you see a message:

Wow! Just like magic! How fun is that? 

Here's a video by Tatiana showing you how she created the fold for her card:

Isn't that so amazing!?

To see more creations by Tatiana, visit her at herblog, Tatiana Craft and Art!

Smile Card by Jess Gerstner

Rainbow Feathers!

Today we have some amazing creative die cutting with Jess! She created a this awesome rainbow card without using ANY stamp sets! Wow! She used two die sets to create this. the dotted frame and the word smile were cut using our  Garden Window Die Set  and the feathers we cut using our Points and Plumes Die Set. This is such a stunning card! The rainbow die cuts really pop off the classic black and white background!

Thanks for the beautiful inspiration today, Jess! You can see more of her projects on her blog, Jess Crafts  - and you can also follow her Jess Crafts youtube channel to see great videos too!

Stars and Stripes Card by Larissa Heskett

Stars & Stripes! 

Happy 4th of July to our fans in the USA today! Today Larissa created an awesome flag card that is perfect to celebrate Independence day!  She used The arrow dies from our  Points & Plumes die set and cut them out of white paper and then put red glittery cardstock behind it to create the stripes of the flag! Such a fun idea!  Then she stamped some little stars from the Touchdown Tails stamp set and embossed them in white over a blue corner piece.  What a fun way to celebrate!

Thanks so much Larissa for the super amazing card today! To see more beautiful projects by Larissa, head over to her blog, Larissa Heskett Designs and say hello to her today!

Love Owl-ways Card by Crafty Math Chick

Lovely Owl Card!

Today Crafty Math-Chick combined several of our fun stamp sets to create this sweet owl card! The owl on the right is from the Magical Dreams stamp set and the owl on the left and the "Love OWLways" sentiment are from the Sweetheart Tails stamp set. The branch that the owls are sitting is from the Hanging Around stamp set. I love the way she combined all these fun images to create this sweet little scene! She also added in the die-cut arrow using our new Points & Plumes die set. 

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

Check out our Inky Paws Challenge #32
- Use an Arrow

Have you had a chance to play along with our Inky Paws Challenge? Create a card using an arrow and NND products - like the one in today's post to enter! You have until Friday, June 10th to enter!

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.

JAW-some card by guest designer Naki Rager

JAW-some!

Today we are sharing a fun shark card by our May Guest Designer, Naki Rager. She used the fun image of the shark splashing up out of the water from our Shark Bites stamp set! I love how she colored him with soft colors and then added the fun strips of ribbon below! They look like fun ribbon waves! She also added in the You're JAW-some sentiment from the Shark Bites stamp set and a fun metallic silver arrow using the Points & Plumes die set! The little bit of washi in the lower corner gives it the perfect finishing touch!

We'd like to say thank you to Naki for being our guest designer this month! We really enjoyed seeing her creations! This is our last post for us but you can continue to find more of her work over on her awesome blog,  Notes from Naki.

Inky Paws Challenge #32 - Use an Arrow!

This month's challenge is a theme! 

create a project using an arrow!

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, June 10th, 2015 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 IPC32).

• 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.

Our guest designer, Naki played along with the challenge this month! She used the stag from the Splendid Stags die set and added on a hat  rom the In Slow Motion stamp set to make it a birthday stag! Then she added the wreath from the new Happy Little Thoughts stamp set and arrows cut out with the new Points & Plumes die set. 

Kimberly created this awesome card by cutting out four arrows with our new Points & Plumes die set through the front of her card. The color you see is from the inside of the card! So fun! The sentiment is from the Adventure Awaits stamp set. 

Samantha created an awesome arrow scrapbook page! I love how she cut out the arrows from the Points & Plumes die set and wrapped a bit of string around them! Super fun! 

Yuki created an awesome arrow background using that fun little strip of arrows from our new Adventure Awaits stamp set.  The sentiment is also from the Adventure Awaits stamp set and those sweet feathers are from the Points & Plumes die set. 

Jess always finds creative ways to use rainbows! I love how she created rainbow deer using our new Splendid Stags die set and added on a rainbow of arrows from the Adventure Awaits stamp set! Such a fun colorful card! 

Danielle created a fun colorful background with distress inks! I love how she stamped all the arrows and feathers from the Adventure Awaits stamp set right through the center! Such a fun and unique layout!

Lydia created this gorgeous glittery card! I love the gold "dipped" feathers she created using our new Points & Plumes die set. She also used the feather image and sentiment with the arrow from the Adventure Awaits stamp set.

Stephanie found the perfect arrow paper to create her card! She used the fun papers to frame the sentiment from the Adventure Awaits stamp set. Then she finished it off with the die cut arrow from the Points & Plumes die set. 

Larissa created this amazing arrow card! I love how she die cut out all the arrows using the Points & Plumes die set and layered them over a fun watercolor background! The sentiment is from the Adventure Awaits stamp set.

And lastly, I had fun playing along too! I used the Points & Plumes die set to cut out some arrows. I also used the negative of the die cut to make a fufun strips. Then I added on the sentiment from the Adventure Awaits stamp set onto a tag. The tag was cut out using the Tags Times Two die set.  

An InLinkz Link-up

May Release - Reveal Day 2 - Adventure Awaits Stamp Set + 2 New Die Sets!

Today is our Second Reveal day for our May Release and we are featuring the new Adventure Awaits stamp set.  Also today we are sharing our two NEW stand alone dies that compliment the theme of this set: Points & Plumes Die Set, and Splendid Stags Die Set. 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!

Let's go on an adventure with this fun 4 x 6 stamp set! Filled with tons of sweet little arrows and beautiful hand-drawn sentiments, this set will be perfect for sending inspirational greetings! The gorgeous geometric patterned deer, feather and teepee will be so fun to use for creating your own stamped adventures! This set would also be perfect for scrapbooking pages of camping trips and vacations!

Here's some info on the Adventure Awaits stamp set:

• 4 x 6 photopolymer stamp set 
• Includes 15 stamps: 12 images and 3 sentiments
• Available for purchase in our online shop starting Friday, May 20th

To add to the fun, we've created two stand alone shape dies to compliment this set:
 Points and Plumes purr-fect die set:

and the Splendid Stags purr-fect die set:

These two die sets will be available for purchase in our online shop starting Friday, May 20th

Let's go on an adventure with some awesome inspiration  from our Design Team & Guest!

Check out all the projects below from our Design Team & Guest Designer 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 all the colors that Naki used on the deer image on this amazing card! The sentiment "Adventure is waiting" on the vellum is so pretty! She also used our fun new feathers from the new Points and Plumes die set!

Danielle created this amazing scrapbook page using a ton of fun arrows and feathers. She used both stamped image from the Adventure Awaits stamp set and also die cut arrows and feathers using the new Points and Plumes die set! This is super fun! I love the bright teal and lime colors too!

Wow - the gold embossed deer on this card by Kimberly is so beautiful! I love the subtle colors added on between the embossing too! Both the deer and the sentiment are from the Adventure Awaits stamp set.

This fun arrow card is by Stephanie! I love how she used the sentiment from the Adventure Awaits stamp set as the focal point and added a die cut arrow from our new Points and Plumes die set pointing toward it. The added circle of twine is such a fun touch!

Nina-Marie did some amazing watercoloring on her card today! I love how the white feathers show through under all the fun splatters and lead your eye down to the "Adventure is waiting" sentiment from the Adventure Awaits stamp set. She also added in a couple of die cut arrows using the new Points and Plumes die set!

Samantha created an amazing background for her card using a ton of the little arrows and feathers from the Adventure Awaits stamp set! Then she added on just a touch of pink and peach and a fun pink tag from the Tag Times Two Die Set! What a gorgeous card!

Crafty Math-Chick created this sweet simple father's day card using the Splendid Stags Die Set. She added on the "#1 DAD" from the Winston's BBQ stamp set. 

Lydia created this amazing card! I love the rows of  elegant gold embossed deer and feathers with the sentiment across the center. So pretty!

Yukari created the elegant deer card! I love the mix of metallics and watercolor! Such a perfect combo!

Jess created this great trio of deer cards! I love how she used fun neon colors to create clean and simple cards! Stunning!

Larissa created an awesome graduation card by adding a tassel to the antler! What a fun idea!

Would you like to win the “Adventure Awaits” 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, May 19th at 9pm CST to comment  -- winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday, May 20th.

Newton's Nook Designs

Lydia Evans

Larissa Heskett

Samantha Mann

Crafty Math-Chick

Jess Gerstner

Stephanie Muzzulin

Danielle Pandeline

Nina-Marie Trapani

Kimberly Rendino

Yukari Yoshioka

Naki Rager - Guest Designer