Newton's Nook Designs 6 YEAR Celebration Blog Hop!

Newton’s Nook Designs is so excited to be celebrating our SIX Year Anniversary
- WOW - That's six whole years of getting our paws inky!

I remember how excited I was when our first four sets came in the mail over six years ago! Now we have over XX products in our shop! It's been an Incredible journey so far- filled with happiness, stress, lots of excitement and very little sleep! Here are a few behind the scenes photos from this last year of Jeff and I and our little helpers, Newton and Hobbes!

We want to take a minute to say THANK YOU to all our fans, designers and customers who helped make it happen! We are so happy to be here and we can't wait to see what the next year brings!

To celebrate, we have a big blog hop today! Make sure to scroll down to the end of the post to see the whole list and leave them some sweet comments for a chance to win prizes (details at the end of this post)

Every stop on the hop is sharing cards made with our new products and I made a card to share today too! For my card I colored the image of Newton surfing from our new Newton's Perfect Wave Stamp Set. Isn't that kitty adorable in his bathing suit with fish on it!? I colored the image with copics and added fun little stripes to the kitty.

For the background I created layers of clouds using our new Clouds Stencil. Then I added a die cut wave across the bottom using our Sea Borders Die Set. I cut this whole panel out using the scalloped edge from our Framework Die Set. For the background I created a fun pattern of orange leaves using our Tropical Leaves Stencil. Last, I added the sentiment from the Newton's Perfect Wave Stamp Set, stamping it onto a circle that I cut out using our Frames Squared Die Set. I added some orange distress ink to the circle to make it look like a sun!

I hope you enjoyed this project. Make sure to visit all the blogs listed below for more fresh inspiration today! Don't forget to check out our new release too!

All the new items are available in our shop now! 

Plus, we're celebrating six years of NND with 15% off your order! 

Now through Monday with code: 6YEARS

Shop now at newtonsnookdesigns.com

Celebrate with us and enter to win!

To celebrate 6 years Newton's Nook Designs is giving away a $25 store credit to spend in their online shop to 6 lucky winners!

Here's how to win:
Comment on the NND Design Team and Special Guest blogs (see list below)! The winner will be chosen at random from the collective blog hop 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 Sunday, July 21 at 9pm EST to comment. Winners will be announced on NND blog post on Monday, July 22 and will need to contact us to claim their prize so make sure you check back to see if you've won!

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

Newton's Nook Designs 5 YEAR Celebration Blog Hop!

Newton’s Nook Designs is so excited to be celebrating our FIVE Year Anniversary
- WOW - That's five whole years of getting our paws inky!

I remember how excited I was when our first four sets came in the mail over five years ago! Now we have over 350 products in our shop! It's been an Incredible journey so far- filled with happiness, stress, lots of excitement and very little sleep! Here are a few behind the scenes photos from this last year of Jeff and I and our little helpers, Newton and Hobbes!

We want to take a minute to say THANK YOU to all our fans, designers and customers who helped make it happen! We are so happy to be here and we can't wait to see what the next year brings!

To celebrate, we have a blog hop and we've invited some very special guests to our hop along with us today! Make sure to scroll down to the end of the post to see the whole list and leave them some sweet comments for a chance to win prizes (details at the end of this post)

Every stop on the hop is sharing cards made with our new products and I made a card to share today too!

For my card today I used our new 2x3 sized Flip-Flop Life Stamp Set! Those adorable little flip-flops are so fun to color in bright colors! I created two pair for my card and cut them out using the coordinating Flip-Flop Life Die Set.  

For my card base I cut out layers of sand using our Land Borders Die Set with kraft cardstock. For the water, I used our Waves Stencil with some embossing paste that I tinted blue for a tone-on-tone effect! I layered it all onto the card and added the sentiment from the Flip-Flop Life Stamp Set, embossed in white on a banner cut out using our Frames & Flags Die Set.

I hope you enjoyed this project. Make sure to visit all the blogs listed below for more fresh inspiration today! Don't forget to check out our new release too. All the items are now available at
newtonsnookdesigns.com! Plus, we're having a sale this week where you can get one or two of our adorable new 2x3 stamp sets for FREE with purchase:

Celebrate with us and enter to win!

To celebrate 5 years Newton's Nook Designs is giving away a $25 store credit to spend in their online shop to 5 lucky winners!

Here's how to win:
Comment on the NND Design Team and Special Guest blogs (see list below)! The winner will be chosen at random from the collective blog hop 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 Sunday, July 22 at 9pm EST to comment. Winners will be announced on NND blog post on Monday, July 23 and will need to contact us to claim their prize so make sure you check back to see if you've won!

Special Guests:

Jess Gerstner
Stephanie Muzzulin
Kimberly Rendino
Jenn Shurkus

Newton's Nook Design Team:

Newton's Nook Designs
Amanda Bodine
Holly Endress
Ellen Haxelmans
Larissa Heskett
Samantha Mann
Juliana Michaels
Zsofia Molnar
Naki Rager
Maria Russell
Tatiana Trafimovich

2018 Stamping For Autism Awareness Blog Hop

Today Newton's Nook Designs is proud to be a supporter of the 2018 Stamping for Autism Awareness Blog hop!

We are joining Veronica Zalis and tons of other amazing stampers to help raise autism awareness! We hope you will help us spread the word and follow along with us. There are going to be TONS of fun prizes too - including a $25 store credit from us at Newton's Nook Designs! 

To learn more about this hop and see a complete list of sponsors and prizes, please visit this blog post by Veronica Zalis here.

Here's what I created to play along with this hop today: 

The theme of our hop is to create inspirational and uplifting cards so today I used two of our new stamp sets to create this adorable card! The girl holding the balloons is from out new Holding Happiness Stamp Set. I stamped her onto watercolor paper with waterproof ink and colored her using Zig Clean Color watercolor brush markers. I though the bright colors were so fun and cheerful so I left her dress a simple black so that they would stand out. I also used the "You lift me up" sentiment from our new Uplifting Wishes Stamp Set for the sentiment, embossing it in white on black cardstock. 

For the card base I created a scene using the for the girl. I started by stenciling clouds from our Cloudy Sky Stencil and then added two hills cut out with our Land Borders Die Set. I assembled it all together and added some black and white polka dot washi tape up the side! 

I hope you enjoyed this project today! Make sure to visit our Design Team blogs (listed below) to see more uplifting inspiration and support our Stamping for Autism Awareness blog hop! 

Would you like to win a $25 store credit to Newton's Nook Designs Online Shop?
We will be picking ONE lucky winner from our own blog hop! This  prize is in addition to the one we are sponsoring over on the hop hosted by Veronica. 

Here's how to win: To win this bonus prize, comment on the NND blog and Design Team blogs (see list below)! The winner will be chosen at random from the posts linked below. 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 Sunday April 8th at 11:55 pm EST to comment  -- winners will be announced on the blog post on Tuesday April 10th. 

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
Naki Rager
Maria Russell
Tatiana Trafimovich

SURPRISE!! It's a Birthday Blog Hop for Jennifer!

Hello! Samantha here! I'm the DT Coordinator for the Newton's Nook Design Team, and today I'm TAKING OVER THE BLOG for a very special occasion...

Today is a super special day, we're so glad you're joining us!
All of the Newton's Nook Designs Design Team has gotten together to throw a surprise birthday blog hop for Jennifer, the owner, illustrator and all around wonderful-amazing-kind,generous-creative-inspiring person behind Newton's Nook!
We are so honored to get to work with Jennifer, and we all just love her so much! 

We hope you have the happiest birthday ever, Jennifer!

Be sure to hop along with the team's blogs below for your chance to win a $25 gift card to the NND store! I'll choose the winner by random from one of the blogs, so the more you comment, the better chance you have to win!

Would you like to win the a $25 gift certificate to the NND store?

You could be the ONE lucky winner! 

Here's how to win: 

Comment on the NND blog and Design Team blogs (see list below) with a birthday message for Jennifer! 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 Sunday, February 18th 9pm EST to comment  -- winners will be announced on the blog post on Monday, February 19th. 

Check out all the awesome Design Team Blogs below to enter:

Newton's Nook Designs

Samantha Mann

Amanda Bodine

Holly Endress

Ellen Haxelmans

Larissa Heskett

Juliana Michaels

Naki Rager

Maria Russell

Jennifer Timko

Tatiana Trafimovich

Newton's Nook Designs 4 year Celebration Blog Hop!

Newton’s Nook Designs is so excited to be celebrating our FOUR Year Anniversary - WOW - That's four whole years of getting our paws inky!

I remember how excited I was when our first four sets came in the mail over four years ago! (see photo below) - Now we have over 200 products in our shop! It's been an Incredible journey so far- filled with happiness, stress, lots of excitement and very little sleep! Here are a few behind the scenes photos from this last year of Jeff and I and our little helpers, Newton and Hobbes!

We want to take a minute to say THANK YOU to all our fans, designers and customers who helped make it happen! We are so happy to be here and we can't wait to see what the next year brings!

To celebrate, we have a blog hop and we've invited some very special guests to our hop along with us today! Make sure to scroll down to the end of the post to see the whole list and leave them some sweet comments for a chance to win prizes (details at the end of this post)

Every stop on the hop is sharing cards made with our new products and I made a card to share today too! I LOVE all the sets in the release this month and how they coordinate so perfectly with our BRAND NEW STENCILS! For my card I used our NEW Toucan Party Stamp Set!

I've been having so much fun coloring the cute little toucans in this set. For this card I colored the bird with copic markers and trimmed him out using the coordinating Toucan Party Die Set! I created a fun background for him by covering half of the white background panel with  leaves using embossing paste with our NEW Tropical Leaves Stencil! Then I added on a yellow scalloped edge using the scallop from our Sky Borders Die Set. Behind the toucan I added in some tropical leaves and a hibiscus flower using our Hibiscus Die Set! I love how all these products work so well together!

I hope you enjoyed this project. Make sure to visit all the blogs listed below for more fresh inspiration today! Don't forget to check out our new release too. All the items are now available at
newtonsnookdesigns.com! Plus, we're having a sale this week:

Celebrate with us and enter to win!

To celebrate 4 years Newton's Nook Designs is giving away a $25 store credit to spend in their online shop to 4 lucky winners!

Here's how to win: 
Comment on the NND Design Team and Special Guest blogs (see list below)! The winner will be chosen at random from the collective blog hop 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 Sunday, July 16th at 9pm CDT to comment. Winners will be announced on NND blog post on Monday, July 17th and will need to contact us to claim their prize so make sure you check back to see if you've won!

Special Guests:

Taheerah Atchia
Crafty Math-Chick
Danielle Pandeline
Stephanie Muzulin
Nina-Marie Trapani
Kimberly Rendino

Newton's Nook Design Team:

Newton's Nook Designs

Amanda Bodine

Holly Endress

Ellen Haxelmans

Larissa Heskett

Samantha Mann

Juliana Michaels

Naki Rager

Jennifer Timko

Tatiana Trafimovich

Newton's Nook Designs & Studio Katia Co-Hop!

Welcome to the Summer Fun Collaboration Blog hop with Newton's Nook Designs and Studio Katia! Both teams are celebrating the start of summer with fun and colorful cards using stamps from Newton's Nook Designs and dies and embellishments from Studio Katia. There's prizes too! Both companies have a prize to give away too so make sure you read all the way to the bottom of this post to see how to win!

Here's what I created:

I started out using the Stitched Loops Die from Studio Katia. I love the three little circles in a row an it reminded me of port holes on a ship so I decided to go with a sea theme and grabbed our Shark Bites Stamp Set to create my card.

I created a shaker card, using the Stitched Loops Die from Studio Katia to cut out a window in the center of a piece of bright blue cardstock. I also cut it out in black to create the inner frame. Before assembling my shaker, I stamped little tiny fish all over it from the Shark Bites Stamp Set. I also stamped the little shark silhouette from that set to put behind the window. I filled the shaker with sequins using the Summer Fusion sequin mix from Studio Katia. I love the bright colors in this mix! Then I added a shark in front of the shaker using the shark image from the Shark Bites Stamp Set and coloring him with copics. I also added the "Feel like grabbing a bite?" sentiment into a little circle (this circle was the innermost cut that comes out when you use the Stitched Loops Die from Studio Katia). I finished the card off with a little strip of heart patterned washi tape and a bright yellow cardstock base! 

I hope you enjoyed this project! The next stop on the hop is Olga. 

Make sure you hop through all the blogs to see all their gorgeous projects and leave comments for a chance to win! Details are below.

We are giving away TWO prizes - one prize pack from Studio Katia and one $25 store credit from Newton's Nook Designs!

Here's how to win:
Comment on the Design Team blogs from Newton's Nook Designs and Studio Katia Team Blogs (see list complete list at the Studio Katia and NND blogs)! The winner will be chosen at random from the collective blog hop 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 Sunday June 4th at 12pm CST to comment -- winners will be announced on the Newton's Nook Designs and Studio Katia blogs on Tuesday, June 6th.

Check out all the awesome Design Team Blogs below to enter:

Newton's Nook Designs
Olga
Amanda 
Kristina
Holly
Laurie
Jennifer
Svetlana
Maria
Ellen
Svitlana
Naki
Valentyna
Juliana 
Larissa
Liliushka
Samantha
Tatiana
Studio Katia

Blog Hop Winners!

THANK YOU!

3rd Anniversary Blog Hop Winners!

Thank you to everyone for participating in our blog hop! I was amazed by ALL the sweet comments that were left on our blog! We really enjoyed hearing from all of the amazing fans! Check out below to see if you won! The the winning comments were chosen using random.org

Blog stop 1: Sandy Allnock

$25 Newton's Nook Designs Prize goes to: Beth Rang

$25 Simon Says Stamp Prize goes to:  patty4wp

Blog stop 2: Taheerah Atchia

$25 Newton's Nook Designs Prize goes to: Amy C

$25 Simon Says Stamp Prize goes to: Oh You Made Me Ink

Blog stop 3: Jennifer Ingle:

$25 Newton's Nook Designs Prize goes to: Tami O'Grady

$25 Simon Says Stamp Prize goes to: Carol LFerguson

Blog stop 4: Amy Tsuruta:

$25 Newton's Nook Designs Prize goes to: Jennifer Moyer

$25 Simon Says Stamp Prize goes to: Anna Tracy

Blog stop 5: Newton's Nook Designs

$25 Newton's Nook Designs Prize goes to: Bunny D

$25 Simon Says Stamp Prize goes to: Macimablo

Blog stop 6: Lydia Evans

$25 Newton's Nook Designs Prize goes to: Tracy

$25 Simon Says Stamp Prize goes to: Merrill P

Blog stop 7: Larissa Heskett

$25 Newton's Nook Designs Prize goes to: Pennie Glasser

$25 Simon Says Stamp Prize goes to: Cynthia

Blog stop 8: Samantha Mann

$25 Newton's Nook Designs Prize goes to: Janet

$25 Simon Says Stamp Prize goes to: Kleri F

Blog stop 9: Crafty Math-Chick

$25 Newton's Nook Designs Prize goes to: Teresa Doyle

$25 Simon Says Stamp Prize goes to: Ivy Marino

Blog stop 10: Jess Gerstner

$25 Newton's Nook Designs Prize goes to: Tricia Ann

$25 Simon Says Stamp Prize goes to: Dee Earnshaw

Blog stop 11: Stephanie Muzzulin

$25 Newton's Nook Designs Prize goes to: Cindy

$25 Simon Says Stamp Prize goes to:  Marcy

Blog stop 12: Danielle Pandeline

$25 Newton's Nook Designs Prize goes to: Helen F

$25 Simon Says Stamp Prize goes to: Nathalie Paquette

Blog stop 13: Naki Rager

$25 Newton's Nook Designs Prize goes to: Rowena Miniaci

$25 Simon Says Stamp Prize goes to: Judy

Blog stop 14: Kimberly Rendion

$25 Newton's Nook Designs Prize goes to: Mardi Weber

$25 Simon Says Stamp Prize goes to: Brenda in IN

Blog stop 15: Yukari Yoshioka

$25 Newton's Nook Designs Prize goes to: Bobbie Bluegill

$25 Simon Says Stamp Prize goes to: Sylvia

Congrats to the Winners! Don't forget - you have 5 days from today to to e-mail us at info@newtonsnookdesigns.com to claim your prize (make sure to include email address, your full name and which prize you won). If you have won a prize to the Newton's Nook Designs Shop, it's easiest if you already have an account set up with us! If you have won a prize to the Simon Says Stamp shop, I'll be passing your info along to them to get you set up.