You're Super Card by Danielle Pandeline

Hot Dog! You're Super! 

Today we are sharing this adorable dachshund card by Danielle! She used the funny doxie wearing a hot dog costume from our Dress Up Doxies stamp set. Although we released this set at Halloween all of the images in it could be used for any time of year. The doxies dressed in costumes would make great birthday cards or just everyday cards to make someone smile! That's definitely what this card by Danielle does! She used such bright, cheer colors and a lovely vellum star behind the dog! Then she added some fun paint splatters and the "You're Super" sentiment, also from the Dress Up Doxies stamp set. So cute!

We are glad this card made us smile because we are sad to say that this is Danielle's last post as a Design Team member! Danielle has been on our team for two amazing years, sharing her fun whimsical creations here on the NND blog! She always has such a unique ways of using our stamps and we have really enjoyed seeing all her creations! We will miss her creations on the blog and we will be checking out her blog GirlRacerScrap often to see what she's up to and say hello and we hope you will too!

Happy Birthday Card by Yukari Yoshioka

This is our second post today, to see Inky Paws Challenge 38 Winners, scroll down or click here. 

Happy Birthday!

Cards by Yukari always make me smile and this one is no exception! She used the cute raccoon hanging from the branch from the Raccoon Rascals stamp set and fussy cut him out to put him in front of that lovely starry sky! She also added googly eyes on him which gives such a fun bit of whimsy to the card! For the sentiment, she use the big word "Happy" from the Simply Seasonal stamp set and added the smaller "birthday" below it. This is such a fun card!

Sadly we have another farewell today. This is Yuki's last post as a Design Team member! We have really enjoyed having her on our team for the last year and were a fan of her work even before that!  Her cards always make us smile! She has such clever combinations of images and uses stunning color combos! We are so sad to see her go but we've enjoyed having her be part of our team! We definitely wish her the very best in her future endeavors and will be checking out her blog Handmade by Yuki often to say hello and we hope you will too!

Inky Paws #38 Challenge Winners

Inky Paws Challenge #38 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 a color challenge using teal, red, white and green!

Top Picks for Inky Paws Challenge #38

Here are 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!!

 

Our first Top Pick is by Vicki at Stamp Smiles! We love the scene she created with our Serene Silhouettes and Whispering Pines stamp sets. The teal blue sky really pops off the green card base with the green and red plaid! 

Our second top pick is this adorable sweater card by Sherry Carrigan! We love how she used the color combo to color all those adorable sweaters on Winston, Lily and the fox from our Sweater Weather stamp set. Check out her blog post to see a fun video and another version of this card using copics too! 

Congrats to Vicki and Sherry! Don't forget to send us an e-mail at info@newtonsnookdesigns.com to claim your $10 store credit! (It's easiest if you already have an account set up in our shop)

Inky Paws #38 Favorites

We also wanted to share a couple more entries that we really loved! 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!

This card by Zsofi at Safsafdesign is so lovely! The red and teal colored Christmas ornament from the Ornamental Newton set is so pretty! We also loved the polka dot paper she used that has green, red and teal polka dots - the perfect colors to match the challenge! 

This card by Kathy really caught our eyes! The way she gave the kitty from the Newton Loves Coffee stamp set a fun red and green mug and a santa hat is so cute! The way she added Happy Holidays inside an ornament shape is super fun and she also found paper in the perfect colors to match this challenge!

This card by Diane Morales made us smile! We love how she used the shark from our Shark Bites stamp set and gave him a scarf to make it into a holiday theme! She also used the fun wreath from the Happy Little Thoughts stamp set! Such a clever combo of stamps! 

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 play along again next time! We are changing up the Inky Paws Challenge a bit in 2017 so make sure you check back on January 1st to see what's new! 

Merry Christmas Card by December Guest Designer Anika Lerche

Hey stampers, Anni here once again.

I am back with my last card as a guest designer for Newton’s Nook Designs. And with Christmas just a few days away I have another Christmas card for you.

For this card I combined the sets Fox Hollow and Holiday Wishes.

I started by stamping all the images on white cardstock. For the colouring I used coloured pencils. Coloured pencils are my favorite colour medium. It takes a while longer to colour with them but I love the details I can add with them. And I find it much easier to blend colours than with Copics. After finishing the colouring I went over the black lines with a fine tip marker to make the lines real black again.

I fussy cut all the images – I am one of the weird people that LOVE to fussy cut.

I cut down two stripes of white cardstock and adhered it with dimensional foam tape to the card base. Then I assembled the card. For the sentiment I used Merry Christmas from the set Holiday Tweets, embossed it in white on aqua cardstock!

Hope you like my untraditional Christmas card!

Thanks for stopping by! 

- Anni

Winter Fox Card by Larissa Heskett

Sweet Sleepy Fox!

This sweet little fox card by Larissa is so adorable! She created a sweet little scene using the sleepy fox and tree images from the Fox Hollow stamp set and trimmed them out using the coordinating Fox Hollow Die Set! She also created a sweet little nest of branches for the fox to sleep in using the branch image from the Holiday Tweets stamp set. The added glittery snow and pretty sky make such a lovely finished scene!

To say hello to Larissa and see more of her beautiful cards, pop over to her blog, Larissa Heskett Designs.

Today is the LAST day to enter our Inky Paws #38 Color Challenge!

You only have until Midnight tonight (Friday, December 16th) to enter our current Inky Paws Challenge!  To enter, all you need to do is create a card or project using a Teal, Red, White and Green and 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.

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 ONE HUNDRED 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 guests 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 await behind the door!

Here's what I created:

I had so much fun playing with our Ornamental Newton Stamp Set to create this fun colorful holiday card! That silly kitty is so cute as he's trying to hang onto that GIANT christmas bulb! I stamped the image on watercolor paper and colored it using zig clean color markers. Then I went over the gold areas with a gold wink of stella marker to add sparkle. I trimmed out the kitty image and the added santa hat with the coordinating Ornamental Newton die set.

For the card, I created a big watercolor background and added the kitty on top, hanging from some gold and white bakers twine. Then to give it some some holiday bling I added some sparkly washi tape up the side and added some dots I had created using Nuvo Crystal and Glitter drops. The "BIG holiday wishes" sentiment is also from the Ornamental Newton Stamp Set. 

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 win! Simply leave a comment on this post - then head back to taheerah-atchia.com and leave a comment there too! You must leave a comment on Taheerah’s blog as well as our blog in order to be eligible to win! 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 23:59 EST on 31st December 2016 to enter.

Don’t forget 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!

Happy Christmas Card by Jess Gerstner

Happy Christmas with Coffee!

Today Jess combined several NND sets to create this adorable Christmas card! She started out embossing some snowflakes from our Beautiful Blizzard stamp set onto some pretty woodgrain paper. She added on that adorable kitty hugging his coffee mug from our Newton Loves Coffee stamp set and finished it off with the "Happy Christmas" sentiment created using words from our Simply Seasonal set. This card is so perfect for Christmas with all the neutral colors and the pop of red and green!

Jess created a video for this card too! 

This week we are sharing several goodbyes as we are having a new Design Team starting in January! This post will be the last post for Jess as a Design Team Member! We've really enjoyed all her fun creations and videos over the last couple of years!

Although this is Jess's last post as on the Newton's Nook Design Team she's still going to be hanging out with us in 2017 to help out with our Inky Paws Challenges! In the new year we're going to switch up our challenges a bit so stay tuned for some exciting new changes! 

Thanks for the beautiful 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!