Fan Feature Week - Day 2

The rest of this week we're spotlighting creations by our fans!

We see so many amazing projects featuring Newton's Nook Designs products that we thought it would be fun to have our Design Team members pick their favorites and share them on our blog! Each day for the rest of this week we will share a couple of our favorite projects, created by YOU, our fans! See your project below? Make sure to scroll down to the end and grab our "spotted" badge for your blog!

Design Team member Samantha picked this adorable set of animal cards by Beru Crafts.
These cards use our Wild Child stamp set. 

"Looooove these cards! Wow! The coloring and Distress Oxide backgrounds are just to die for!"

Design Team member Larissa picked this sweet snuggly card by cimbacreativefun.
This cards use our Fireside Friends stamp set. 

"I LOVE the VERSATILE use of this Image and her AMAZING Coloring!! "

Don't forget - we've created a fun "spotted" badge too - so if your project was featured above, you can you can grab this badge and share it on your blog with a link to this post to show everyone that you were spotted by the Newton's Nook Design Team! 

If you'd like to be considered for a future feature, tag your posts with #newtonsnook in social media to make sure we see them! Check back tomorrow for more fun fan spotlights!

Congrats Penguin Card by Naki Rager

Congrats penguin card!

Today's card by Naki will make you go "awwww"! She created this adorable card using the penguins from our Wild Child stamp set!  She did such a wonderful job coloring that cute little penguin and chick image! Then she made ta lovely snowy scene for them with a pretty glittery snow pile! What a fun idea! The added sparkle makes the card seem extra special. All the polka dots are fun too! Wouldn't this make an adorable baby card? 

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

Happy Mother's Day Giraffes by Crafty Math-Chick

Sweet Giraffes for Mother's Day!

Awww! Today we have this adorable Mother's Day Card by Crafty Math-Chick! She used our sweet Giraffe mother and baby image from our Wild Child stamp set to make this animal themed card. I love the added animal print background paper! She finished it off with the "Happy Mother's Day" sentiments from the Simply Seasonal stamp set! Any mother would go wild for this card! 

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.

Happy Mother's Day Penguin Card by Jess Gerstner

Sweet Penguins for Mother's Day! 

Awww! What mom wouldn't love this adorable mother's day card by Jess? She used the sweet little penguin mother and chick from our Wild Child stamp set and fussy cut them out to add to her card! I love the colors on this card. The basic black and white with the pop of bright pink and red on the oval really creating a stunning combo!

For the sentiment she used the fun big "happy" and "mother's day" from the Simply Seasonal stamp set! This set is one you can use all year long to make custom sentiments for any Holiday or Occassion! Just mix and match the different "happy" stamps with all the included words!

If you haven't had a chance to check out the Simply Seasonal stamp set, here's an image of it: 

Thanks for the fun 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 fun crafty videos!

Inky Paws Challenge #27 - Kraft & Sparkle

This month's challenge is a Photo Challenge! 

create a project using Kraft + Sparkle!

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, December 4th, 2015 at Midnight CST. The winners will be announced on the NND blog on Monday, December 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 IPC27).

• 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's a gorgeous card by our guest Designer, Tatiana! I love those gorgeous gold tags and  and the gold embossed words. She used our new Jolly Tags stamp set and Tags Times Two die and the sentiment is from our new Simply Seasonal stamp set.

Here's a sweet little pillow box by Larissa! I love the red sparkle she added on the snowflake tag from the Jolly Tags stamp set! She also used red sparkle on the word merry from the Holiday Wishes stamp set. 

Danielle created this adorable penguin Holiday card! she used our new our new Simply Seasonal stamp set for the big "happy Holidays" and added the sweet penguins from the Wild Child stamp set - so cute!! I love that gold background too!

Here's a beautiful snowflake card by Jess! I love the embossed white on the Kraft paper - it makes the white really pop off! What a fun way to showcase our Beautiful Blizzard stamp set!

I love those sparkly snowflake tags on this card by Samantha. She used our new Jolly Tags stamp set and Tags Times Two die set!

Here is an awesome Happy New Year Card by Kimberly! I love the gold countdown on the side of the card!! She used our Years of Cheers stamp set for the numbers and champagne glasses and added the sentiments from the new Simply Seasonal stamp set.

Nina-Marie created this awesome winter scene using our Newton's Curious Christmas stamp set for the main images. She also used the sentiments from the Newton's Christmas Cuddles stamp set. If you look close you can find some snowflakes from the Fox Hollow stamp set and gifts from the Holiday Wishes stamp set! I love that gold striped background too!

Here's what I created! I used the Beautiful Blizzard stamp set to create gold and white snowflakes over a Kraft background and then added the "Happy Holidays" sentiment from our new Simply Seasonal Stamp set. 

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

An InLinkz Link-up

Friday Mash-up Sponsorship - 200th Challenge!

 

Today I'm playing along with the Friday Mash-up Challenge Blog! They are having a big party over there in honor of their 200th Challenge and there are prizes - including a  $15 store credit from to Newton's Nook Designs! 

The challenge is to Mash-up two of their previous challenges - You can find the whole list here. I choose the #76 Challenge (Starburst Technique) and the #194 challenge (baby theme). I had never tried a Starburst technique before so that was fun! If you go the page for the #76 Challenge here, there is a link with instructions on how to do it.  I chose some fun green and yellow papers I had to go with the baby theme. I then stamped the mother and baby giraffe from the Wild Child stamp set and punched it out with a BIG circle punch. I colored the giraffes with copic markers and sponged the edges of the circle just a little with some distress ink. I finished off the card by stamping some grass along the bottom. The grass and the and the "welcome baby" sentiment are also from the Wild Child stamp set. I love how this turned out. Now I have a perfect baby card for the next baby shower I get invited to!

  

I hope you will take some time to play along with the fun challenge this week! 

 You can head over to Friday Mash-up Challenge Blog for more details on how to play along. 

 

LAST CHANCE Enter our Inky Paws challenge  #18
Use Just One Layer!

You have until  Midnight tonight -  Friday, March 6th time to enter our current inky Paws Challenge. All you need to do is create a card or project with a JUST ONE LAYER 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.

Sponsoring Cupcake Inspirations Challenge!

Have you heard of the Cupcake Inspirations Challenge? For each challenge they post a YUMMY cupcake photo and color combo for inspiration! Everybody likes cupcakes, right?

The current challenge going up today features this adorable image:

We're sponsoring this challenge so If you head over to their blog and play along you have a chance to win a $20 store credit to our store at newtonsnookdesigns.com! How awesome is that?

Of course I had to play along -- here's the card I created. I was inspired by the cupcakes with the zoo animals and took out the Wild About Zoo set. I wanted to mimic the cupcake designs so I stamped the lion, zebra and elephant and punched out just their faces with a circle punch. I colored them with copics and then found coordinating papers to frame them up like on the cupcakes in the photo! I added the "wild about you" sentiment from the Wild Child  sentiment in a circle too!

To finish it off I added a strip of yellow paper embossed with a polka dot embossing folder in the big shot and some pink and white bakers twine. I love how this turned out! So fun!

Make sure you pop over to the Cupcake Inspirations Challenge blog to see more fun today. We have several other NND Design Team members featured as "Guest Sweeties" for this challenge and a bunch of the regular "Sweeties" (that's what they call their Design Team -- cute, right?) are featuring Newton's Nook Designs stamps too!

Inky Paws Challenge #17 - WINNERS!!

This is our second post today - to see our February Guest Designers, scroll down or click here. 

Inky Paws Challenge #17 Winners! 

Thanks so much to everyone who entered our last Inky Paws Challenge at here at the Newton's Nook Designs blog! This months Challenge was to create a project with a HEART SHAPE on it! 

We had a 42 amazing entries this month - I think this might have been our highest number of entries ever - THANK YOU SO MUCH! It's always so fun to see everyones creations!

Top picks for Inky Paws Challenge #17

Announcing.... our top picks! Read the description below each card to see who created it - and make sure to visit their blogs and tell them congrats!!

This adorable card by Sally is our first top pick! She caught our eye with this image of the two kitties in love from our Newton Dreams of Paris stamp set! The background is super cool too with the brick and graffiti! Make sure you check out her blog Abbey's Attic - she has a really cute story about these two kitties on it too! 

This card by Anja is our other top pick! We really love how she used the kitty from Newton's Birthday Bash and changed his balloon into a heart!  Plus the layering of all the hearts behind him is so beautiful! You can see more at her blog, Scrappietoo 

Congrats to Sally and Anja! Don't forget to send us an e-mail at info@newtonsnookdesigns.com to claim your $10 store credit and get your winner badge for your blog!

Inky Paws #17 Favorites

Since there were so many beautiful heart cards, we chose THREE more as our favorite picks! If you see your card below, contact us if you'd like to get a "favorite" badge for your blog!

We really loved this adorable card by Heidi! We loved how she mixed the "love you" & "mom" from our Love Grows stamp set with the sweet little penguin pair from the Wild Child stamp set! What a fun pairing! We also loved the watercolor in the heart - so pretty! 

The next two favorites are both awesome clean and simple cards and use our raccoon image - We couldn't decide which we liked better since they were so lovely - so we picked both!

We really loved this Clean and Simple card by Karen using the cute raccoon from the Sweetheart Tails stamp set. The clean style is so striking - and the subtle hearts on the grey stripe are a fun detail! 

Here's another Clean and Simple card by Lynn - also using the raccoon from the Sweetheart Tails stamp set.  We loved the contrast of the bright red against the white - and the cute little hearts in the background are so fun! 

Thanks so much!
Thanks again to everyone who entered - It's really so much fun to look through all the entries and see everyones ideas! If you didn't win this time we hope you'll try again in February! The next challenge will begin on February 20. 

Wild About You Scrapbook Page by Samantha Mann

"Wild about You" Page Layout!

Do you use your stamps in Scrapbooking?  They can really add a bit of fun customization to any scrapbook page! Samantha Mann always has great ideas on how to do just that! Today she created this fun scrapbook page using the Wild Child stamp set.  I love how she used the little leaves to create a fun background with some ink splatter in the upper right corner. Then in the lower left corner she created a grass border and added in the fun giraffe couple.  I'm guessing that Joshua is a bit taller than Samantha and that's why she titled it "joshua giraffe." Ooh.. I just noticed that in their photo you can see a little giraffe couple behind them that's posed in a similar position to the giraffe stamp she used! So cute!

To read more details visit Samantha's blog Sam's Scrap Candy.

Love Owl-ways Card by Jess Moyer

Love Owl-ways! 

Jess Moyer created this fun card using several different sets combined to make a fun Valentine wreath! The big bold leaves are from the Falling into Autumn stamp set and she stamped them in a circle to create a fun wreath! She added also a few little fun leaves using a leaf stamp from the Wild Child stamp set in dark green.  The sweet little owls, heart border and "love Owl-ways" sentiment are from the Sweetheart Tails stamp set - which is perfect for valentine and love cards! 

I love how Jess used some stamps that were meant for different times of year and combined them into a funValentine scene! It's so much fun to see stamps being stretched for more uses and occasions! 

Here's a video Jess created- check it out to see how to make this card:

Make sure to visit Jess at her blog, Jess Crafts  - and you can also follow her Jess Crafts youtube channel to see more fun videos!

You're Cool Penguin Card & Video by Jess Moyer

These Penguins are so cool! 

Today I'm sharing this cheerful penguin card by Jess featuring our penguin mom and chick from the Wild Child stamp set! I love how she added the bright orange and yellow ombré stars behind them - it makes such a striking composition and the little black penguins really pop off the bright colors! 

Here's a video Jess created- check it out to see how to make this card:

Make sure to visit Jess at her blog, Jess Crafts  - 
and you can also follow her Jess Crafts youtube channel to see fun videos!