Christmas Favorites Week - Day 2

We’re getting in the mood for Christmas this week and featuring some of our favorite Christmas stamp sets by Newton’s Nook Designs! Get inspired all week long with beautiful Christmas cards on on our blog each day as the NND Design Team features some of their favorite Christmas stamp sets! Plus, you can save 10% off on any stamps currently in the Christmas category (and their coordinating dies) in our shop! The new NND christmas stamps will be released later this month too, so stay tuned for more holiday fun! 

Today we have Christmas inspiration from Crafty Math-Chick and Samantha! 

Crafty Math-Chick used one of our favorite sets, Newton's Holiday Mischief. She created a door front for her card and featured the kitty hanging from the wreath on the door! What a cute idea! She fussy cut out the kitty on this card but we do have a coordinating die for this set too if you don't like to cut by hand! 

Have a whaley great christmas with this fun card by Samantha. She used the cute whale and sentiment from the SEAson's Greetings stamp set! This set is filled with fun sea creatures and puns that are just right for unique Christmas cards! 

Hope you are  enjoying our Christmas Favorites Week! Remember to stop back to the blog each day for some fresh inspiration!!

SEA-son's Greetings Card by Crafty Math Chick

SEA-sons Greetings!

Today I'm sharing a clever holiday card by Crafty Math-Chick! She had the coolest idea to take the coral from our new Tranquil Tides stamp set to create coral Christmas Tree! This is the perfect tree to for our mermaid from our new Mermaid Crossing stamp set - isn't it cute how she's decorating it with stars? She also added in our cute little crab and fish from the SEAson's Greetings stamp set to complete this fun underwater sea card! The Sea-sons greetings" sentiment is also from the SEAson's Greetings stamp set. This is such a fun and unexpected holiday card! Love this idea!

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

Enter our Inky Paws challenge #24 - Sketch Challenge

Have you checked out our latest challenge? You have until Friday, September 4th at Midnight CST time to enter our current inky Paws Challenge. All you need to do is create a card or project based on the SKETCH using NND products! 

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.

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

Inky Paws Challenge #16 - Christmas Theme

Happy Friday and the the first day of #16 Inky Paws Challenge!  

This month's challenge is to a Create a project with a Christmas Theme!

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! 

Since this challenge falls over a holiday weekend we decided to give a little extra time - you have three weeks to play along instead of the usual two. Deadline to enter is Friday, December 12th, 2014 at Midnight CST. The winners will be announced on the NND blog on Monday, November 15th.

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 IPC16).

• 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 -  Scroll down to see all their adorable Holiday creations and then enter your project at the bottom of the post!  Read the description below each card to see who made it!

Our guest designer for November Donna Mikasa decided to play along with this adorable card using our Winter Tails stamp set.  She changed the snowball that Winston is rolling on into a pretty ornament! Such a fun idea! I love the fun shape of this card too! 

Tessa created this adorable card using the little crab and "joy" stamps from the SEAson's Greetings stamp set! I love the layered tags and little staples as decoration! 

Here's a really fun, non-traditional holiday card by Danielle! I love the cute Dino in the santa hat! So fun! She used a bunch of NND sets on this: Snowflakes from Beautiful Blizzard, Dinosaur from Prehistoric Pals, Snowy hills from Winter Tails, Santa Hat from Winston's Home for Christmas and "be merry" from Christmas Delivery

Larissa created this Gorgeous Christmas shaker card using our new Beautiful Blizzard stamp set. I love the red and white combo - reminds me of holiday peppermints!

Jess created this adorable card using our Sweetheart Tails stamp set with the sentiment fromWinston's Home for Christmas . I love that she used a "love/Valentine" set and made it work for Christmas! What a great way to get more milage out of your stamps!

Samantha created this lovely watercolored Christmas card using the cute kitty in the wreath from the Newton's Holiday Mischief set. The "merry"& "Christmas" stamps are the Holiday Wishes stamp set. 

Crafty Math-Chick created this fun doggie Holiday Treat Bag using the cute pup in sweater from the Canine Christmas stamp set! So cute how she matched the sweater on the pup with the background paper!  

Here's one by me - I used the girl and guy snowmen from the Flaky Family set - stamped on Kraft colored card stock so I could color them white. I also added a bunch of snowflakes in white ink and the "Merry Christmas from our Family to yours" sentiment!  

Now it's your turn - we can't wait to see your holiday creations!

An InLinkz Link-up

Inky Paws Challenge #13 - Sketch Challenge

Happy Friday and the the first day of #13 Inky Paws Challenge!  

This month's challenge is a Sketch Challenge!

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 12th,  2014 at Midnight CST. The winners will be announced on the NND blog on Sunday, September 14th.

Are you ready to play along and get your paws inky? 

• Create a NEW project (card or other paper craft item) based on the sketch.

• 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 IPC13).

• 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 and our August Guest Designer decided to play along - Read the description below each card to see who made it!

Jess created these adorable card using the tigers from our Wild Child stamp set.  I love how she created that fun background with the leaves from the Wild Child stamp set and the "xoxo" from the Sweetheart Tails stamp set! 

Samantha created these adorable card using our boatful of gifts from our  SEAson's Greetings stamp set and added some words from our new Simply Sentimental stamp set! Such a fun way to get more mileage our of a holiday set!

Tessa created this fun challenge card using wagon from our Wagon of Wishes stamp set and added the big "thanks" from our new Simply Sentimental stamp set! What a great Fall thank-you card!

Shellye used our new Hanging Around stamp set for her challenge card. I love that cute little squirrel hanging off the edge!

Chitra, our Guest this month, made this adorable card, also with the, too cute for words, squirrel from Hanging Around! He looks so sweet hanging onto the "thanks" from Simply Sentimental! I just love the blues of the sheer ribbons and the umbrellas on the patterned paper! 

And here's one from me. I had to use the Newton's Summer Vacation Set one more time before starting to play with fall stamps! I added some watercolor splashes too - just for fun!

Now it's your turn!

Use the widget below to add a link to your project! Don't forget to tell your friends to play along too - If we get more than 15 participants we will pick TWO winners!

An InLinkz Link-up

Dinosaur Thanks by Valerie Ward

Awesome Dinosaur Scene!

If this card by Valerie  doesn't make you smile, I don't know what will! To start off that Pink Dinosaur is just adorable!  I love how she combined four fun NND sets to create this little beach scene! Valerie combined the dinosaur and Palm tree images from the Prehistoric Pals set with the "thanks" banner, clouds and bird from Winged Wishes.  She also added in that cute crab from SEAson's Greetings and the fluffy clouds from Spring Showers! Whew! That's a lot of fun stamps together! 

Thanks, Valerie - for making us smile! Pop over to Valerie's blog Val by Design to see what else she's up to and tell her how adorable her card is! 

More Inky Paws Inspiration!

Don't forget - you have until Friday to get your paws inky!

Have you had a chance to make a card for our latest Inky Paws Challenge?  Today I'm sharing some more inspiration for our latest challenge! Here'a a refresher of the challenge - use wood, cork, or metal - (or more than one if you'd like)!

Samantha Mann created this super fun beach scrapbook page for the challenge! Don't forget that your entry does not have to be a card - as long as you use NND stamps any fun project can be entered!

This layout has lots of fun WOOD texture in it! I love the fun background paper and the wood frame - I think that little bird might be a wood veneer too. 

Plus, Samantha used FOUR different NND stamp sets on this layout - can you spot them? There's the arrows from Around the House,  the "love U" sentiment from Love Grows, the duck and clouds from Spring Showers and the snow shovel and snow (made into a sand shovel and sand) from Frozen Friends. Wow! That's a lot of stamps!  For full details make sure to visit Samantha's blog Sam's Scrap Candy.

Guest Designer Kelly Santi created this super fun beach card using CORK for the challenge! I love how the cork works for this beach themed card! The crab, fish and boat are from the SEAson's Greetings set - LOVE how she used the holiday set for a NON-holiday card! Then she added on the "stuck on you Sentiment from the Around the House set! And a WOOD arrow! So fun!

Just one week left to enter!
I hope the gorgeous scrapbook page & beach card have inspired you to play along!  Remember, you have until next Friday, June 6th, 2014  at Midnight CDT to enter. There's a prize involved too, so don't delay - check out the entries so far and more inspiration on our  inky paws challenge page for details! 

ah-ha! Great IDEA by Samantha Mann!

ah-ha!! 

This card by Samantha Mann is such a great idea! Samantha made this fun card using the lightbulb from our new Around the House set with the crab from our  SEAson's Greetings set!  I love the combo of these two images - so adorable!! Then she used distress inks to create a fun "wave" background too! What a fun way to use two sets together. I bet we could combine that lightbulb with lots of other characters too....hmmmm..... ideas are forming! 

Thanks, Samantha, for the fun inspiration! To see more of her work, head over to Samantha's Blog, Sam's Scrap Candy!

Embossing Folder Video & Birthday Card by Danielle Pandeline!

Learn how Danielle does different types of embossing!

Danielle Pandeline created this fun birthday card using the boat from the SEAson's Greetings stamp set and the "happy birthday" sentiment from the Winged Wishes set. ! I love this fun layout with all the layers of waves and the embossed cloud background.

Some of you were asking about the card Danielle created for our release week here where she embossed acetate - so she's created a fun video showing you how to emboss three different materials - Paper, vellum and acetate! Check it out!




Thanks so much for the fun video! To see more of Danielle's work, pop over to Girl Racer Scrap and check out her youtube channel, Girl Racer Photo!

Just a few days left to enter our Inky Paws challenge!

You only have until this  Friday, May 9th, 2014 at Midnight CDT to enter our latest challenge! Check out our Challenge Post and create a card with this month's color combo for a chance to win 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 use the digital freebies on our freebies page here. 

Get Whale Card by Samantha Mann

Get Whale Soon!! 

He he he... This card by Samantha Mann makes me smile! Samantha made this fun get well card using the whale and fish from our  Season's Greetings set!  What a great way to get some mileage out of a set that was a "holiday" set! Such a great idea! I also love the big splash of watercolor behind the fish and the fun stripe down the side! This card would make anyone feel better! 

Thanks, Samantha, for the fun inspiration! To see more of her work, head over to Samantha's Blog, Sam's Scrap Candy! 

Did you get your paws inky yet? 

You have until Friday, May 9th, 2014 at Midnight CDT to enter our latest challenge! Check out our Challenge Post and create a card with this month's card sketch for a chance to win 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 use the digital freebies on our freebies page here.