Happy Halloween Cat and Dog Card by Tina Herbeck

Happy Halloween!

Today Tina has created cute Halloween card that features a cute dog and kitty together in a spooky Halloween setting! 

To create this fun duo of Halloween friends, she used the image of the puppy from our Pug-kin Stamp Set paired with the kitty from our Trick or Treat Kittens Stamp Set. Don't these two images go perfectly together!? She colored both of them, adding fun shading and patterns to their fur and to the pumpkins. She also stamped and colored some candy from the Trick or Treat Kittens Stamp Set and a small jack-o-lantern treat tote from the Count Newton Stamp Set. The images were then cut out using the coordinating dies to add to her scene (Pug-kin Die Set,  Trick or Treat Kittens Die Set, Count Newton Die Set).

For the background she used trees from our Frames & Flags Die Set to create a scallop edged panel to hold the scene. On each side of the panel she embossed a spooky tree silhouette from our Spooky Street Stamp Set in black. Then she ink blended a spooky sky between the two trees with gray, purple and orange inks. She embossed the "Happy Halloween" sentiment from the Trick or Treat Kittens Stamp Set in the center. She cut out a hill using our Land Borders Die Set and inked it up with shades of gray and set our friends on top of it to complete this spooky scene! So adorable! 

To see more fun cards by Tina, you can visit her blog, The Scrappin Rabbit!

Happy Haunts Card by September Guest Designer Priscilla Joseph

Hello Crafty Friends!

I am delighted to be back again as the September Guest Designer for Newton's Nook Designs!

Cue the creepy, eerie Halloween music because for today’s post, I’ve created a haunted night scene complete with an old graveyard, a spooky mansion, ominous-looking trees draped in spider webs, and . . . one totally unexpected traditional jack-o-lantern. LOL!   I used 2 Newton Nook stamp sets to make this card: the just released Count Newton Stamp Set (coordinating dies are available) and the Spooky Street Stamp Set.

I love to make “colorless” scenes sometimes . . . they are “unexpected” you might say. Today’s card uses only black, white, and gray.

Card Details:

• Using a stencil from the stash, I created a brick wall background using black embossing paste on dark gray cardstock.
• I added a stitched hill using a die and the same gray card stock.
• I stamped the spooky house and trees from the Spooky Street Stamp Set on white card stock with black pigment ink and then cut them out using my Brother “ScanNCut2” machine.
• I stamped the headstones and jack-o-lantern from the Count Newton Stamp Set with Copic-friendly ink before using the coordinating Count Newton Die Set to cut them out, and then colored them in several shades of gray Copics.
• Time to make my haunted night scene! I adhered the spooky trees to the brick wall and the headstones to the hillside.
• I foam mounted the spooky house to create more dimension and “hung” the jack-o-lantern from a tree branch.

• For the sentiment “happy haunts” from the Spooky Street Stamp Set, I white heat embossed it on gray card stock and then foam mounted it (topped with a flying bat) above my scene.
• For a cool finishing touch, I “strung” store-bought spider webs from the tree branches to the elements below.
• I adhered the completed scene on to an A2 card base.

I hope you enjoyed my “haunted” Halloween card. Stay tuned to for a very bold harvest-themed card next week, using the contrasting colors of rust and navy.

-Priscilla

Cheers, Witches! Card by Maria Russell

Cheers, Witches!

Today we have a fun Halloween card, complete with a spooky scene by Maria! For this card she combines several of our fun Halloween stamp sets together! 

She starts out by stamping the witch holding a broom from our Brooms & Boos Stamp Set and some gravestones and pumpkin treat buckets from our Count Newton Stamp Set. She colored the images with alcohol markers, adding fun details like cracks in the gravestones! The images were cut out using the coordinating Brooms & Boos Die Set and the Count Newton Die Set. She also cut out a gravestone using the die without the stamp and added black ink over the top and added hand drawn cracks using a white gel pen! How fun!

To create her spooky scene she masked off a circle for the moon and then used distress inks in purples and orange to create a fun backdrop. Then she added a spooky tree on the one side using our Spooky Street Stamp Set. She also added bats to the sky and the sentiment "Cheers, Witches!" using the Brooms & Boos Stamp Set. For the bottom of the card, she cut out a hill and grass from black card stock using our Land Borders Die Set and sponged white ink on the edges. These borders make a perfect graveyard scene!

What a fun way to create a spooky scene! We hope you will be inspired to create a spooky scene of your own for the Halloween!

To see more projects by Maria you can visit her over at her blog, Maria Russell Designs and don't forget to subscribe to her YouTube channel too!

Happy Haunts Card by Maria Russell

Happy Haunts!

We are starting to get excited for Halloween! Today we have an awesome and just a tiny bit spooky card created by Maria that is sure to inspire you!

She started out with that adorable owl wearing the knight's armor from our Knight Owl Stamp Set. She colored that cute little image in neutral tones, adding a fun pop of blue on the moon. The image was cut it out using the Knight Owl Die Set.

For that amazing background she masked off a circle to create a moon, then used distress inks along with our Spiderweb Stencil to create a gorgeous blue and purple web background. She placed the owl over the masked circle and gave him a branch to perch on that was die cut using our What a Hoot Die Set. Such a fun idea! She added the sentiment "happy haunts"  and some little bats onto the sky from our Spooky Street Stamp Set.

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

Trick or Treat Card by Nakaba Rager

Trick or Treat!!

Halloween is tomorrow! Are you ready? Today we are sharing a fun trick or treat card by Naki! For her card she created two adorable kids dressed for trick or treating using the princess from our Once Upon a Time Stamp Set and the knight from our Knights Quest Stamp Set. She was inspired by the costume choices of her kids this year who will be going as a prince and princess! She colored the images with gorgeous no-line coloring and then cut them out using the coordinating Once Upon a Time Die Set and Knights Quest Die Set. She also tucked a purple pumpkin candy holder behind the princess using the image from our Dress Up Doxies Stamp Set! What a fun idea!

To set the scene for these cuties she used the spooky house and graveyard from our Spooky Street Stamp Set. She dressed the scene up with a glittery gold moon in the sky that she added in using our Bokeh Stencil Set as a template for the circle. She also added in some die cut bats and the "trick or treat" die cut sentiment from our Halloween Trio Die Set. What a fun sweet scene with a little touch of spookiness! So perfect for Halloween!

Thank you for the fun sparkle today, Naki! If you like this project you can see more of Naki's work over on her blog, Notes from Naki. Stop by and say hello!

Happy Haunts Card by Amanda Bodine

A Fun Haunted Scene!

Don't be spooked by this fun Halloween scene! Amanda combined several of our Halloween products to create this spooky scene! For the background she used our Ghosts Stencil to create a sky full of ghostly haunts. Then she added a hill along the bottom using our Hills & Grass Stencil. Along the hill she stamped a series of gravestones and a big spooky tree from our Spooky Street Stamp Set. This makes the perfect setting for the fun kitty skeleton from our Spooky Skeletons Stamp Set! The kitty was stamped in black and cut out using the coordinating Spooky Skeletons Die Set. To finish the card, she added the "Happy Haunts" sentiment from the Spooky Street Stamp Set. All these fun products combine perfectly together to build this fun Halloween scene!

Thanks for the spooky card today, Amanda! To see more of her gorgeous coloring and projects, you can visit Amanda over at her blog,  RutabagaPie Designs! Make sure to say hello while you are there!

Happy Haunts Card by Holly Endress

Happy Haunts!

I know you've been enjoying our Christmas release but let's not forget about Halloween coming up next week! Today we are sharing this spooky card by Holly! She used that spooky haunted house image along with the tree, graveyard and bats from our Spooky Street Stamp Set! Then she created an awesome inked background using distress inks.  Those purples are so pretty with the lighter glow in the middle behind the house. It's super cool how she masked off an area to apply ink to to keep her card simple! That way you don't have so many layers on your card. She finished the card off with some fun purple and black dots and the "happy haunts" sentiment embossing in white on black cardstock. 

Thank you, Holly, for the spooky Halloween card today! You can find more of Holly's creations and say hello to her over at her blog, Hollybeary Creations!

Happy Halloween Card by Naki Rager

Pineapple Jack-o-Lantern!

Have you heard of caring a pineapple instead of a pumpkin? This is a brand new idea to me and such a fun one too! Naki created this adorable card using the Pineapple Delight Die Set to cut a pineapple out of pattern papers and then added a jack-o-lantern face with the Pick-a-Pumpkin Die Set! So fun! She also used the "Happy Halloween" image with the crow and the little bats from the Spooky Street stamp set. I love how she added textured stars in the background too! this card is so fun!

I found this fun pineapple jack-o-lantern photo on Pinterest so I guess you really CAN carve them! Are you inspired to try it this year? If you do, please share photos with us, we'd love to see them!

Don't forget to visit Naki and see more of her awesome creations over her blog, Notes from Naki!

Happy Haunts Card by Kimberly Rendino

Happy Haunts!!

Are you ready for Halloween? I've been seeing the big bags of candy at the grocery stores and there are even some houses in our neighborhood with decorations up already! 

Kimberly created this spooky and fun card today featuring our a couple of our favorite Halloween stamp sets! She used the "happy haunts" sentiment, gravestones, spider and moon from the Spooky Street stamp set. Then she added on the little spiderweb and "eek" sentiment from the Newton's Perfect Pumpkin stamp set on the purple tag! The tags were cut out using our Tags Times Two Die Set. This combo of stamps and dies combines perfectly for this fun Halloween card! The purple and orange color combo is so awesome with the black and white stripes too! 

Thanks, Kimberly for the fun spooky inspiration today! You can head over to her blog, Kimplete Kreativity to see more about her card and say hello!

Happy Halloween Card by Jess Gerstner

Happy Halloween!

Can you believe that Halloween is just around the corner?  We're starting to get in the spirit of Halloween fun with this awesome card today by Jess! She did a super fun technique with distress ink to create the fun stripes of color in the background. She used the bats and stars from our Spooky Street Stamp set to create a fun night sky. The "Happy Halloween" sentiment with the crow on the top is also from our Spooky Street Stamp set!  Then she added on that spider hanging off the letter H from the Newton's Perfect Pumpkin stamp set! I love how this looks!

Thanks for the spooky 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!

Happy Haunts Card by Danielle Pandeline

Halloween is almost here!

Who's excited for Halloween? I hope you have your costume together and the candy purchased for Trick-or-treaters since it's just a couple of days away!

Today I'm sharing this awesome Halloween card by Danielle. It's so fun how the background with paint splatters and  epeated stamping of the eyes and "happy haunts" sentiment from the Spooky Street stamp set! The scary tree on the tag is also from the Spooky Street stamp set! She also used the Pick-a-Pumpkin die set to cut out the fun polka dotted pumpkin in front and stamped the face from the Pick-a-Pumpkin Stamp set! What a fun combo of images!!

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

Happy Haunts Shaker Card by Danielle Pandeline

Pumpkin Shaker card!

Con you believe it's October? That means that Halloween is just around the corner! I love this fun triple pumpkin shaker card by Danielle -- he he he  - that sounds like the name of a coffee, doesn't it? Danielle used our fun new Pick-a-Pumpkin die set to cut out those fun pumpkins. I love the face added to the center one! She also added a fun tag with the "happy haunts" sentiment from our Spooky Street stamp set. This makes me excited for Halloween! 

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

Spooky Street Halloween Card

Spooky Skies for Halloween!

Today I'm sharing a fun Halloween card I created using our Spooky Street stamp set! I took mini distress ink pads and squished them onto a craft mat and then pulled my cardstock through it until I had the background color I wanted. After it dried I added some water droplets to get the lighter spots. I love how distress ink reacts again to water after it's dry! 

Once my background was dry I stamped several trees from the Spooky Street stamp set along with some stars and bats. I used black archival ink to do this. Then I added on a small strip of purple and black striped paper and some Halloween word washi tape.  I also stamped the "Happy Halloween" sentiment, also from the Spooky Street stamp set and added it on with a little flagged edge. I love how this turned out! So perfect for Halloween!

Enter our Inky Paws challenge #25  - Halloween Challenge!

Just a little time left - You have until  the end of this week - Friday, October 2nd at Midnight CST time to enter our current inky Paws Challenge. All you need to do is create a card or project with a Halloween theme use & 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. There's even a special Halloween one over there!

Inky Paws Challenge #25 - Halloween Theme

This month's challenge is a Halloween Theme 

Create a project inspired by the image 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, October 2nd, 2015 at Midnight CST. The winners will be announced on the NND blog on Monday, October 5th.

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 IPC25).

• 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.

This fun owl card by Danielle is perfect for Halloween! I love how she created a fun splatter background and used the sentiment for the owl to sit on. She used the Boo Crew stamp set!

Check out the awesome background on this card by Yukari Yoshioka! Love that curved sentiment too! She used our Newton's Perfect Pumpkin stamp set for this card.

 Crafty Math-Chick created this fun Halloween card! That spooky house paper goes so perfectly with the house image from our Spooky Street stamp set! And I love the fun drippy edge on the tag!

I love that Nina-Marie used a non-Halloween set to create this fun Halloween treat tag! she used the kitty image from the Newton's Birthday Bash stamp set and Halloween colors to make it work!

Samantha created this sweet and girl Halloween card using the puppy dressed as a fairy princess from our Boo Crew stamp set! So adorable!

Stephanie used our Newton's Perfect Pumpkin stamp set for this cutie Halloween card! Isn't her paper-piercing on the had so cute?

Oooh! Such a fun spooky scene by Kimberly! I love the fun inked circle she created for a backdrop for the scene. She used our Spooky Street stamp set.

This gorgeous shaker card by Larissa is perfect for Halloween! I love the way she used our leaves from the Falling into Autumn set around the pumpkin and the "Happy Harvest" sentiment in the center!  

Now it's your turn! What will you create with this sketch? Link up below:

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Inky Paws Challenge #18 - Just ONE Layer!

This month's challenge is to a Create a project using just ONE layer!

 

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, March 6th, 2015 at Midnight CST. The winners will be announced on the NND blog on Monday, March 9th.

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 IPC18).

• 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 how they added hearts into their projects and then enter your project at the bottom of the post! Read the description below each card to see who made it!

This adorable one-layered scene was created by Yukari Yoshioka. She used our Newton's Daydream stamp set.

I love the fun way Samantha repeated the words over and over around the flamingos from the Flirty Flamingos stamp set! So fun!

 Danielle created this fun strawberry card using the Sweet Summer stamp set! Love the watercolor mixed with gold foil! 

This card by Jess has so much dimension you can hardly tell it's just one layer! She used the Bunny Hop stamp set and a fun sunburst technique! 

This stunning one layer card is by Kimberly!  I love the look of the gold and black on the Kraft card base. She used the  Falling into Autumn stamp set! So fun!

Lydia got some extra mileage out of some fall themed stamps for this spring card! She used the spooky tree from the Spooky Street Halloween set and the dots from the Falling into Autumn stamp set to created the fun leaves. Then she added the sentiment from the Newton's Daydream stamp set.

Here is a fun and playful one layer card is by Crafty Math-Chick! She even added fur to the koala from the Hanging Around stamp set. I also love the mint green circle she sponged around the words!

Larissa created this fun one-layer scene with lots of creative masking (although she did break the rules a bit by mounting it on another piece of cardstock -lol!)  She combined stamps from Bunny Hop, Versatile Vases, Winter Tails and Newton's Daydream.  What an adorable scene! 

Here was my try at a one-layer card. I stamped the flowers from the Love Grows stamp set and used the "heartfelt" from the Simply Sentimental stamp set. I added a bit of watercolor flicked onto it to add texture!

An InLinkz Link-up