Beary Merry Christmas Card by Samantha Mann

Beary Merry Christmas!

It's never too early to start working on those holiday cards! Today we have some fun holiday inspiration by Samantha featuring the adorable Winston's Home for Christmas Stamp Set. This design is part of our Retiring Products Sale right now, so if you like this adorable image, make sure to pop over to our shop and get it before it's gone for good! 

For her beary sweet holiday card, Samantha colored the image of our bear, Winston, driving a car laden with holiday goodies. She then fussy cut the image out by hand to layer it onto her card. For her card base, she created a gorgeous snowy scene. To create the snowy sky, she masked off part of the card at a diagonal and then added distress inks to the top along with white acrylic ink splatters. She also added to the festive feeling by adding ornaments to the sky using our Ornaments Stencil (also retiring) with white embossing paste. So beautiful! 

The Winston's Home for Christmas Stamp Set and Ornaments Stencil are part of our retiring sale and will only be available while supplies so if you like these products, make sure you get them while you can and don't forget to see what else is retiring in our retiring sale category!

To say hello to Sam and see more of her amazing creations you can visit Sam over on her blog, Sam's Scrap Candy!

Newton's Nook Designs & Therm O Web Inspiration Week - Day 4 with Tatiana & Ellen

This week Newton's Nook Designs and Therm O Web are partnering for a fabulous inspiration week! All week long both design teams will be sharing ways to add fun foils and more to your cards using Therm O Web products with Newton's Nook Designs stamps! There are prizes too! Read all the way to the end of this post to find out how you can win! 

Today we are featuring projects by Tatiana and Ellen! 

First we have this gorgeous Christmas bear by Tatiana: 

Tatiana created this gorgeous card featuring that sweet bear driving a his card laden with Christmas goodies from our Winston's Home for Christmas Stamp Set. She colored the image and added it on the inside of her card using lovely soft Christmas colors! For the card front she die cut out a scalloped frame using our Framework Die Set and inside the frame she created a glittery foiled layer of tiny snowflakes using our Petite Snow Stencil with Deco Foil Transfer Gel and a heat laminator to adhere the foil. For the big "christmas" sentiment, she used Toner Sheets and Red Deco Foil from Therm O Web along with our Holiday Greetings Die Set to create that shiny word. 

Visit Tatiana's blog: Tatiana Art and Craft to see more and leave a comment for another chance to win!

 Next, we have a trio of lovely foiled cards by Ellen:

For her first card Ellen created a fun sloth themed Holiday card:

For this card she used the cute sloth image from our Slothy Christmas Stamp Set, coloring that cutie with copic markers and giving some fun texture to the fur. She cut the image out using the coordinating Slothy Christmas Die Set. For the fun background on her card she used the fun Deco Toner Sheets in Prim Poinsettia from Therm O Web and layered the foiled piece over a fun red inked background. She also used our Framework Die Set for the postage edged panel and our Frames & Flags Die Set for the flags behind the sloth. The "ho ho ho" was cut out using the confetti die from our Ornament Shaker Die Set.

Next, Ellen created an adorable winter scene with lots of sparkle:

For this card, Ellen created an adorable scene featuring that cute little sheep from our Fleece Navidad Stamp Set. She colored the sheep with copics and cut him out using the coordinating Fleece Navidad Die Set to add to her scene. To create the scene she created layers of white hills of snow using our Land Borders Die Set and added in cute little trees using the tree from our Fox Hollow Stamp Set and cutting them out with the Fox Hollow Die Set. She added the snowflakes on vellum from the Fleece Navidad Stamp Set into the sky. Then for the sparkly "happy" she used our  Holiday Greetings Die Set along with Deco Foil Toner Sheets and Silver Deco Foil from Therm O Web. She also used our Framework Die Set for the scallop edged frame. 

For her third card, Ellen created a yummy trio of mugs:

On this last card, Ellen features a trio of yummy drinks from our Cup of Cocoa Stamp Set in the center of her card. She colored the images in fun holiday colors using copic markers and added them to her card, cutting them out using the coordinating Cup of Cocoa Die Set. For that gorgeous foiled background she used our Holiday Foliage Stencil along with Deco Foil Transfer Gel and green foil Deco Foil by Therm O Web. She also used our Frames & Flags Die Set for the scallop edged border. 

Visit Ellen's blog: Crafty Ellen to see more and leave a comment for another chance to win!

There are also more amazing projects today over on the Therm O Web blog so pop over there for more inspiration!

Would you like to win a Prize pack including a $25 store credit to Therm O Web AND a $25 store credit to Newton’s Nook Designs? 

Here's how to win: 
Here's how to win: Leave comments on the NND & Design Team blog posts using therm-o-web products all week (November 5-9) to enter. One winner will be randomly chosen from blog posts throughout the week so the more posts you leave comments on the better your chances are of winning! You have until Friday November 9th at midnight CST to comment. The winner will be announced on the NND blog post on Monday, November 12th.

Want another chance to win? Therm O Web will also be giving away a prize pack! Visit the Therm O Web blog each day this week for more inspiration and leave comments there for another chance to win!

A Beary Merry Christmas Card by Ellen Haxelmans

Adorable Bear Holiday card and gift envelope

Today we have an adorable Holiday card by Ellen using featuring our Winston's Home for Christmas Stamp Set. This stamp set is one of my favorites for the holidays and I love how Ellen colored that cute bear in the car with all the gifts on top! She even added some bling to the wreath! Then she added a few fun trees int eh background from our Fox Hollow Stamp Set to make it look like he's driving through the woods! So cute!  She also created and adorable gift envelope and added a fun festive pattern to it by using our Holiday Foliage Stencil. Doesn't' the red ink on the kraft paper look so pretty?

Here's a close up of the card so you ca see Ellen's incredible coloring! I love the glow of the sun on the car hood!

Do you love this project by Ellen? To seem more of her beautiful creations, you can visit Ellen over at her blog Crafty Ellen!

Special Delivery Card by April Guest Designer Kaja Vezensek

Hello there!
It's Kaja from Kajcyika crafts! I am back with a new card as a April guest designer here at Newton's Nook blog. Can't believe that this is last Monday in April! I had so much fun and I hope to be back on this blog sometime in the future. :)

Today we will talk about how to use your Christmas stamps in a non-christmas way. I will show you how to do so with a Newton's Nook Designs set called Winston's home for Christmas. :)

First, take a look of what I have created:

I have also prepared a video tutorial for you. Make sure you check it out! :)

The most important thing while doing a technique like this is to know what do you want your image to look like in the end. I knew that I want the Christmas tree and the wreath to be gone, so I used my post it notes to mask it off.

I couldn't make the masks to fit perfectly, since the tree is also inside our car, so I just stamped the masked images on my watercolor paper and filled up the missing lines with my black alcohol marker.

I colored everything up with my ZIG markers and I used the colors that are not Christmas related at all, cause I didn't want this car to remind us of holidays. I think that this could be a perfect birthday card for a boy, since we have a cute car and the gifts on it.

Since I really wanted to focus on a technique of masking of a holiday stamp and making it non-holiday I decided to leave the rest of the card simple. I drew some stitched lines at the background and stamped the sentiment 'Special delivery' from Newton's happy mail set.

In the end I just glued down our card with the double sided rectangles and our birthday card was all finished!

I just want to say that I am really grateful for being a guest designer here at Newton's nook this month and I hope that you enjoyed my cards! :)

Hugs,

Kaja

Inky Paws Challenge #38 - Color Challenge

This is our second post today! To meet our December Guest Designer, Anni Lerche, scroll down or click here. 

This month's challenge is:

Color challenge

Create a project using Teal, Red, White and Green!

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 16th, 2016 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 IPC38).

• 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 cards they created, inspired by this fun, festive color palette ! Read the description below each card to see who made it.

This sweet winter card by Yukari features our bunny, Lily, dressed in a Christmas colored sweater from the Sweater Weather Stamp set! She used the color combo on the sweater, leaving the bunny white and added a bunch of fun mittens in the background too! The "Season of Joy" sentiment is from the Beautiful Baubles stamp set. 

Samantha used the fun color combo on this card featuring Winston driving his car full of gifts from the Winston's Home for Christmas stamp set. She used the red and green on the car, gift and trees and added the teal as a watercolor background on white paper! 

Kimberly created this adorable card by embossing the trees from our Festive Forest stamp set in white over red cardstock! She added in the "Thank you" from our Vegetable Garden stamp set and a just a little pop of teal!

This sweet fireplace scene by Larissa uses red and green on the rug and fireplace swag while keeping a white card base. Then she added some teal in the background to help this lovely scene op off the card! This sweet image is from our Fireside Friends stamp set.  

Jess created a flurry of snowflakes from our Beautiful Blizzard stamp set using the chosen color combo! I love how pretty this looks! She added an extra pop of teal up the sides too! 

This gorgeous wreath shaker card by Naki uses the color combo in the form of sequins inside the shaker! She also used the red and green on the wreath which was made with our Pines & Holly Die Set, and added an extra pop of teal with a teal tag using our new Joyful Tags stamp set! Such a fun card! 

This cute forest scene by Danielle features our cute kitty in a sweater from the Sweater Weather Stamp set! She used the green, red, and teal on the sweater, leaving the kitty white! So cute! 

This card by Stephanie features our adorable doxie from the Holiday Hounds stamp set twisted up in some holiday lights! She kept her color palette focused on the red green and white with just little teal accents!

Here is another lovely snowflake card using the color combo with  Beautiful Blizzard stamp set. Crafty Math-Chick created this one, using white for the base and added the snowflakes in the other colors of the challenge! I love the simplicity of this with the added sequins for a bit of bling! 

Here's one created by me! I used Winston dressed in his sweater from the new Sweater Weather stamp set and colored his sweater using the color combo! The colors really pop off the white card base! 

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Inky Paws Challenge #37 - Cozy Plaids

This month's challenge is:

Create a project using plaid!

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, November 4th, 2016 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 IPC37).

• 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 PLAID cards they created! Read the description below each card to see who made it.

Samantha created a plaid background for her card using masks and inks! So cool! She created the city using images from the Newton Dreams of New York  and Newton Dreams of London stamp sets and the sleigh and sentiment are from the Newton's Curious Christmas stamp set. 

Larissa created a sweet little shaker card with a fun plaid border! She used images from the Bushels of Love stamp set (Simon Says Stamp Exclusive). Adorable!

Naki created a fun fall thank you card using plaid paper and letters! She added in pumpkins cut out with the Pick-a-Pumpkin Die Set. That stitched ribbon is so pretty too!

Yuki created a duo of adorable dog cards using dogs from our Canine Christmas stamp set with fun plaid backgrounds. The color combo on these cards of black, red, kraft and white is one of my favorites for Holiday cards!

Danielle added plaid paper in fall colors to create this fun card! The angles of paper in the background are so fun! Winston from the Winston's Birthday stamp set really pops off the card! 

I pulled out one of my favorite christmas images, Winston driving a car laden with holiday goodies from the Winston's Home for Christmas Stamp Set. I colored the image with watercolors and then added plaid paper along with some black chalkboard style washi tape. I finished it off with the sentiment "have a beary merry christmas" embossed in white on a black circle.

An InLinkz Link-up

Thanks Snow Much Card by Larissa Heskett

Beautiful Winter Thank you by Larissa!

Wow! Isn't the winter scene on this card by Larissa gorgeous? Larissa combined several of our favorite stamp sets to create this beautiful thank you card! The trees in the background from our popular Whispering Pines stamp set make the perfect backdrop for that adorable bear in the car from the Winston's Home for Christmas.  Then she added on the cute little sign with the "thanks SNOW much" sentiment from our Winter Tails stamp set! This would be a perfect thank you for a special Holiday gift, don't you think?

Thanks so much Larissa for inspiring us today! Please make sure to head over to Larissa's blog, Larissa Heskett Designs to see more details about her work and say hello to her today!

Advent Calendar Extravaganza with Taheerah Atchia

Advent Calendar Extravaganza is -the- festive event of the season! This ‘hop with a twist’ was dreamed up by Taheerah Atchia and features surprise destinations each day! Joining in the fun with Taheerah are over 60 special guests - each serving up some fantastic Christmas inspiration! Just like an Advent Calendar, you’ll never know where you’re going to be visiting next until you ‘open the door’!

And that’s not all! With 25 *amazing* sponsors taking part as well, your crafty wish list is bound to get a boost with a chance to win a prize EVERY SINGLE DAY!!

Join in the fun every day at taheerah-atchia.com to see what special surprises wait behind the door!

Winston brings Holiday Gifts!

For our Advent post today I created this fun card using Winston's Home for Christmas! This is one of my favorite stamps to color! I love this image of Winston driving along with his car loaded up with holiday gifts and the tree sticking out the window! I stamped the image onto watercolor paper and colored it with zig clean color markers. I used more muted christmas colors and added some distress ink to the card to add a sepia look.

Then I added snow all over the top of the image using the snow splatter stamp from our newest stamp set, Whispering Pines! I stamped it with Versamark ink and embossed it with white embossing powder. I also added the "let it snow" sentiment from the Whispering Pines stamp set, stamping it onto a piece of vellum and adding it in the corner.

To create the card, I added the image onto the card base with some muted snowflake paper. I also sponged distress ink on the paper edges to distress it more and help it match the image. the finishing touch was some brown and white bakers twine. I love how this turned out!!

Enter to win a prize!

It’s not a party without a prize - and with prizes every day there are several chances to win! Today’s prize is generously supplied by us at Newton's Nook Designs so you’ll definitely want to get your hands on it! Simply leave a comment on this post to enter - then head back to taheerah-atchia.com and leave a comment there too to double your chances! Don’t forget to grab the other surprise destinations from Taheerah’s blog and head over to them to leave comments there as well to improve your odds even more! You have until 7am EST on Thursday 31st December to leave all your comments!

Don’t forget the Advent Calendar Extravaganza runs from 1st-25th December inclusive so make sure you visit taheerah-atchia.com every day for fabulous inspiration and amazing prizes every single time! Merry Christmas!

Holiday Cards by Guest Designer, Tatiana Trafimovich!

Beautiful Holiday Cards by Tatiana! 

We have TWO amazing cards today by our November Guest Designer, Tatiana! She is going to WOW you again today with her beautiful cards for the holidays!

First up is this beautiful watercolor card using our Winston's Home for Christmas stamp set. She used the image of Winston driving his car filled with holiday gifts and goodies and watercolored the whole image and the background with gorgeous muted tones! I love the soft feel this had and the beautiful multi-colored sky! What a stunning card!

For her second card today, Tatiana chose to use our Newton's Christmas Cuddles stamp and cut them out with the Newton's Christmas Cuddles Purr-fect Die Set. It's so pretyt how she colored those kitties with the no-line coloring technique! Aren't they so adorable? I also love the intense purple sky she created, with he moon peeking off the edge! Another little detail she added is the sleigh in the sky from the Newton's Curious Christmas stamp set. What a beautiful Christmas card! 

A BIG thank you to Tatiana for being our guest designer this month! Make sure you continue to follow her work over at her blog, Tatiana Art and Craft!