Sending Love Card by Tatiana Trafimovich

Sending Love 

Today we have a card by Tatiana that is perfect for Valentine's Day! This card features images from our adorable Love Owl-ways Stamp Set. To create the image of the owl with all the valentine goodies she combined several images. She started with the owl holding the balloon form the Love Owl-ways Stamp Set. Next, she added just the box of candy from the owl holding the candy from the same set, so that the one owl could hold both items! Then, to add more accessories she added the letters and bouquet of flowers from our Sending Hugs Stamp Set! This owl is truly laden down with love! She colored all the images with copic markers and cut them out using the coordinating Love Owl-ways Die Set and Sending Hugs Die Set. The tiny hearts in the sky are also from our Love Owl-ways Stamp Set. 

For the card base she created a sky filled with clouds using our Cloudy Sky Stencil with a crackle texture paste. Then she layered this over a white panel with a postage edge that was cut out using our Framework Die Set. The last piece was the custom sentiment, created by combing the word "sending" from the Sending Hugs Stamp Set with the die cut "love" cut out with our Darling Hearts Die Set.

Here is a close-up so you can see all the amazing details: 

You can visit Tatiana at her blog, Tatiana Trafimovich, to say hello and see more of her beautiful work! 

Happy Birthday Dog and Cat Cards by Zsofia Molnar

Happy Birthday Cards for Dog and Cat lovers!!  

Today we have a duo of birthday cards by Zsofia featuring designs for both dog and cat fans! These two cards feature the same design and type of products but different color palettes and themes! What a great way to design one card and alter it to make it work for the person you are sending it to!

For the first card she used the cute dog from our Sending Hugs Stamp Set. She cut the dog out using the coordinating Sending Hugs Die Set. This die set is special because it also cuts around the paws, allowing the dog to hold items. For this card she colored that cute cupcake to nest inside. She also added a little gift to the side. To make it even more fun, she added in a big blue balloon using our Fabulous Frenchies Stamp Set and Fabulous Frenchies Die Set. The fun dog themed background was created using distress inks in shades of green and blue with our Woof Stencil! So cute!

For the second card she used the same layout but changed the images and colors. For this one she chose the cat from our Sending Hugs Stamp Set. Again, she cut the cat out using the coordinating Sending Hugs Die Set, added another adorable cupcake tucked inside the arms and a gift to the side. And, just like the previous card, a balloon was added on using our Fabulous Frenchies Stamp Set and Fabulous Frenchies Die Set. This time she stenciled a is a cat themed background using distress inks in shades of red and yellow with our Meow Stencil! So cute!

This is such a fun idea! You could create a whole series of these in different colors and be ready with birthday cards for all the dog and cat fans in your life!

Thank you, Zsofia, for the awesome inspiration today! You can find more of Zsofia's lovely creations and say hello to her over at her blog, Safsafdesign.

Love, Hugs & Smiles Card by Amanda Bodine

Love, Hugs & Smiles! 

Today we have an adorable trio of friends sharing love, hugs, and smiles on this card by Amanda. She used the three characters from our Sending Hugs Stamp Set and colored them in lovely vibrant hues using copic markers. She also colored the wine bottle, flowers, and gift, which are also images from our Sending Hugs Stamp Set. She die cut out all the items using the coordinating Sending Hugs Die Set and nestled them in the arms of the characters. The coordinating die set also cuts around the arms to make it easy for them to hold things! For her base, Amanda added a arch of blue ink for the characters to layer over. She also added a fun balloon using our Fabulous Frenchies Stamp Set and coordinating Die Set. She added the words alongs the bottom and few extra hearts too!

This card is so cute! What's great about it is that it would work for almost any occasion. You could send it for a birthday, anniversary or other celebration! A great card to have in your stash!

Thanks for the fun winter inspiration today, Amanda! To see more of her beautiful coloring and projects, visit Amanda over at her blog,  RutabagaPie Designs!

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

A Fond Farewell to Juliana Michaels!

Saying Thank you & Farewell to Juliana!

Today we are sharing a collection of favorites created by Juliana. We are sad to say this will be our last post featuring Juliana as a member of our Design Team at Newton's Nook Designs! We are so grateful to have had Juliana on our team two amazing years! We've truly loved all her beautiful cards! She has such an eye for color and has inspired us each month with so many creative ways to use our products! Her creations always bring a smile to our faces! Plus, she is such a sweetheart and we've enjoyed getting to know her too. Juliana has been such an awesome member of our NND family! We are so sad to see her go but we feel lucky to have had her on our team for so long! Who knows -  you might see her back now and then for a blog hop or special feature! We wish her the very best as she continues to do fun things in the craft world and will definitely be checking out her blog - 17 Turtles in the future to say hello!

I thought it would be fun to re-share a few favorite cards by Juliana so I asked her to choose her favorite cards from her time on the NND Design Team! She has created so many awesome projects it was hard for her to choose but here are her picks below!

I'm a huge Halloween fan and the adorable Newton's Costume Party is one of my favorites! I just loved dressing up each cat with a different costume. I created the background using the Sky Borders Die Set too!

The mice from Naughty or Mice quickly became one of my favorite Christmas stamp sets from last year!

Being a big lover of all things Christmas, I just adore the cute llama in the Llama Delivery set. Here I combined it with the Snowfall Stencil to create a festive holiday scene. I also tucked in some holly with the Pines & Holly Die Set and used the Frames & Flags Die Set too.

 I love combining multiple images onto one card and the Sending Hugs Stamp Set is perfect for that!
 

Along with their adorable stamp sets, NND also creates some fun stencils and dies like this Tree Rings Stencil and Autumn Leaves Die Set. I also added in a sentiment from the Thankful Thoughts Stamp Set.

Last but not least...the final card I created for NND combined some of my favorite characters all on one card! I'm especially smitten with those cute pups from Happy Howl-i-days! This card includes images from Happy Howl-idays, Llama Delivery, Santa Paws Newton, Naughty or Mice, and Slothy Christmas along with the Framework Die Set. 

Thank you so much, Juliana, for the awesome inspiration! We'll miss you! If you would like to continue to follow Juliana and see her creations you can continue to find her at her blog, 17 Turtles!

2018 Fall/Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop!

This is our second post today, to see a gorgeous set of winter bird cards by Ellen, scroll down or click here. 

Today I'm playing along with the FALL/WINTER Coffee Lovers Blog hop!

There are going to be TONS of fun prizes too - 

including a $25 store credit from us at Newton's Nook Designs! 

You can head over to the Coffee Lovers Blog for more details on how to play along! 

Here's what I created:

We have several coffee themed sets so it's hard to choose but I decided to work with the cute kitty from our Sending Hugs Stamp Set for my card today.  I love this set so much because the coordinating die set cuts around the arms which allows you to add in accessories for the characters to hold. On this card, I added in the little coffee cup tucked into his arms to go with our coffee them today. For the background I created a fun blue and mint plaid pattern using our new Plaid Stencil Set. This set includes two pieces that easily line up so you can create plaid patterns in multiple colors! It's SO fun to use! 

After I had the plaid background panel created, I cut it into scallop using our Frames & Flags Die Set. I also cut a stripe of white and of mint paper using the same die set and stacked them together over the plaid. I stamped the "sending smiles" sentiment from the Sending Hugs Stamp Set on the mint stripe and added some bright blue twine to finish out the card! This was so simple to make and I LOVE how it turned out! 

If you haven't seen these products yet, here are images of what I used today:

Sending Hugs Stamp Set and coordinating Sending Hugs Die Set

New Plaid Stencil Set

Frames & Flags Die Set

We also have a BUNCH of designs that have coffee in them. 

You can find them all here: Coffee Sets

If you are new to us, you might not know that Newton is our real kitty! You can follow us on facebook or instagram to see lots of photos of him! By the way - Newton would be a big fan of this blog hop since he really DOES LOVE COFFEE! I can't leave it unguarded or he will come stick his paw into the mug and then lick it! Silly kitty!

Hope you enjoyed this coffee card today! Make sure you head over to the Coffee Lovers Blog to find out how you can link up your card to play along -- There are a TON of prizes, including one from us at Newton's Nook Designs!

A birthday card with Wine by Jennifer Jackson

A Wine-themed Birthday Wish!

Hello! Jen here today with a birthday card that is perfect for a wine lover! I combined our Sending Hugs Stamp Set and Wine A Little Stamp Set to create this fun card! I started out by coloring Winston, our cute little bear, from the Sending Hugs Stamp Set with copic markers. I also stamped and colored three little gifts and a bottle of Wine from this stamp set. I cut all these images out using the coordinating Sending Hugs Die Set. This die set is super cool because it also cuts around the arms of the animals so then can easy lift up to hold the accessories. For this card I put the bottle of wine in the bears arms. Then I created a little scene for my card, adding a  few hills cut from green striped and polka dotted patterned paper using our Land Borders Die Set. I then put the hills onto the bottom of a white cardstock paper and added the bear with his wine and gifts on top with some dimensional foam tape. I then grabbed the big "Age is not important unless you're wine" sentiment from the Wine A Little Stamp Set and stamped it into the sky. 

To finish off the card, I added a strip of washi tape and some blue twine and mounted it all onto a kraft colored card base. I love the way you can mix and match so many of our stamps together to create unique custom cards! I hope this gave you some ideas today!

Thanks for stopping by today! I hope you enjoyed this card!

Manatee-rific Birthday Card by Zsofia Molnar

A Manatee Birthday card!  

Today Zsofia created a birthday card with a lovely sea them! She used those adorable manatees from our new Manatee-rific Stamp Set on this card today, giving them a fun birthday theme! She colored the manatees and cut them out using the coordinating Manatee-rific Die Set. This coordinating die set cuts around the arms of the front facing manatee, making it easy for him to hold an item in his arms.  To give this card a birthday theme, Zsofia used the cupcake image from our Sending Hugs Stamp Set, which fits perfectly inside the manatees arms! She also added a gift for the the other manatee to hold, using the Sending Hugs Stamp Set and fussy cutting around the manatee arm to layer the gift underneath! So adorable!

Once her manatees were ready to celebrate a birthday, she added them onto her card, layering them over a gorgeous panel of blue splashes that was created with Distress Inks. She also added the "You're Manatee-rific" sentiment, embossed in white on a black banner. She finished the card off with the "Happy Birthday" sentiment from our Birthday Essentials Stamp Set, stamped in blue! 

What a great way to extend your summer stamps by adding a birthday theme!

Thank you, Zsofia, for the beautiful card today! You can find more of Zsofia's lovely creations and say hello to her over at her blog, Safsafdesign

Spring/Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop!

Today I'm playing along with the Spring/Summer Coffee Lovers Blog hop!

There are going to be TONS of fun prizes too - 

including a $25 store credit from us at Newton's Nook Designs! 

You can head over to the Coffee Lovers Blog for more details on how to play along! 

Here's what I created:

I pulled out our Sending Hugs Stamp Set and stamped the kitty and coffee mug onto watercolor paper. I used Zig Watercolor Markers to color the kitty and the mug and then cut them out with the coordinating Sending Hugs Die Set! This die set is super fun because it also cuts around the arms of the animals which makes it easy for them to hold the fun accessories in the set. This set includes a few different items for them to hold but I stuck with the coffee for today's post!  

Behind the Kitty is a scallop edge rectangle that I cut out using our new Framework Die Set. I splashed some pink and brown watercolor on it to match the kitty and coffee. For the sentiment, I used "I need some coffee right MEOW" from our Newton Loves Coffee Stamp Set. I stamped it onto a black ticked shape, also cut out from using the ticket from the Framework Die Set. For the background panel I stamped coffee beans from the Newton Loves Coffee Stamp Set over a panel of kraft colored cardstock. I mounted the whole design onto a pink cardstock base. 

While I was coloring I couldn't resist also coloring the bear and owl from the Sending Hugs Stamp Set so I created a second card using the same layout and elements but featured those two cuties instead. Again, the sentiment  and coffee bean background images are from the Newton Loves Coffee Stamp Set. I used the Framework Die Set again to cut out the scallop edged rectangle and ticket shape. This time I mounted it all on a green cardstock base. 

I hope you enjoyed these two fun coffee cards today! 

If you haven't checked out these designs yet, here's an image

of the Sending Hugs Stamp Set (left) and  Newton Loves Coffee Stamp Set (right):

If you are new to us, you might not know that Newton is our real kitty! You can follow us on facebook or instagram to see lots of photos of him! By the way - Newton would be a big fan of this blog hop since he really DOES LOVE COFFEE! I can't leave it unguarded or he will come stick his paw into the mug and then lick it! Silly kitty!

Hope you enjoyed this coffee card today! Make sure you head over to the Coffee Lover's Blog to find out how you can link up your card to play along -- There are a TON of prizes, including one from us at Newton's Nook Designs!

Thanks for stopping by! 

Have a great weekend!