Two Cheerful Holiday cards by Guest Designer Heather Hoffman

Two Cheerful Cards by Heather Hoffman!

Today I'm showcasing fun designs by October Guest Designer, Heather Hoffman! Heather created TWO more awesome cards using some of our newest stamp sets! The first card (above) features our adorable Bear from our new Winston's Home for Christmas stamp set I love the bright yellow sweater she gave him - such a cheery and unexpected color combo for Christmas! Plus - I love the stippled dot effect she used on the tree and the white dots over the image add such a fun detail! 

The second card features our cute doxie pup donned in his holiday sweater from our Holiday Hounds stamp set. This little guy is so adorable! I love how simple this card is - with bright pops of color on the sweater and the patterned paper! So cute and cozy for the holidays! 

Thanks so much to Heather for the fun cards today!

Make sure you head over to Heather's Blog, Houses Built of Cards and see more of her fun designs!

Inky Paws Challenge #15 - Add a little Sparkle!

Happy Friday and the the first day of #15 Inky Paws Challenge!  

This month's challenge is to a Add a little Sparkle to your project

Get out that glitter and bling and show us what you can create!

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 7th, 2014 at Midnight CST. The winners will be announced on the NND blog on Sunday, November 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 IPC14).

• 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 -  I just LOVE the assortment of Holiday, Fall and Halloween sparkle they created! Read the description below each card to see who made it!

Our guest designer for October, Heather Hoffman decided to play along with this adorable doxie card- check out the sparkles on the hat and lights! She used our new Holiday Hounds set.

This pretty card by Lydia has a beautiful sparkly moon - She used the cute kitty image from our new Newton's Curious Christmas set. 

Samantha added some bling to her card with those pretty foil snowflakes! She also used our that cute pup in the sweater from our new Holiday Hounds set.

Crafty Math-Chick created this super sparkly Halloween Card! That sparkly orange paper goes perfectly with our little ghost kitty from the Boo Crew Stamp set! 

Jess created this cutie with the sparkly ornaments on the Christmas tree from our Newton's Curious Christmas set! Love the little row of snowflakes with a sparkle in the center too!

Larissa stamped this beautiful row of glittery leaves using the Falling into Autumn Set! So pretty!

Another cute doxie card using our Holiday Hounds stamp set - this one is by Stephanie! She added sparkle to with some pretty tinsel behind the button!

Tessa combined our new "sweater weather" sentiment from the Holiday Hounds set with the "hello" from the Winged Wishes set and the cute basket of yarn from the Basket of Wishes set. Love this combo of fun images and sentiments and the little glittery paper strip!

Danielle created this adorable little treat bag using the the doxie from our Holiday Hounds set - he has such a pretty sparkly teal scarf! 

Here's one by me - I used our sweet snowman from our Frozen Friends set- and gave him a glittery hat. I also added some fun thick glittery ribbon (from the floral section of the craft store) and a bit of sparkly brown twine through the button! 

Now it's your turn - we can't wait to see how everyone blings up their cards with sparkles!!

An InLinkz Link-up

Embossed Holiday Holly card by Lydia Brooke

Embossed Christmas card with Lydia!

I just love it when Design Team members come up with ideas that I never would have! This beautiful card by Lydia  uses the pretty "from our family to yours" sentiment from our Flaky Family stamp set and the cute little holly leaves from our Christmas Delivery set. I love how she stamped that little holly image over and over in rows and created a really beautiful embossed background! What a great idea! and the little gemstones for the holly give it that special finishing touch!

Hope you enjoyed today's post! To see more projects by Lydia, make sure to visit her blog, Love Lydia Brooke!

Just a few days left to Save on our Christmas Delivery stamp set -  until Friday!

If you haven't had a chance to check out our Holiday Release yet - make sure you pop over to our online shop to see what's new - Plus, we're offering our new Christmas Delivery mini set for a special price until Friday, Oct 24. (while supplies last - they're going fast!). 

Snowman Beachy Christmas Card by Samantha Mann

Sandy Snowman for a Beach Christmas Card!

Samantha Mann created this Super fun Beachy Christmas card using Snowmen! I LOVE this idea. Samantha used the cute  snowmen from our new Flaky Family stamp set combined with the sandcastle from the Newton's Summer Vacation stamp set! She also combined words fromthe two sets to create a custom message - so adorable!! What a great card for those who have sandy instead of "snowy" holidays!!

To read more details on how she made this card, make sure to visit Samantha's blog Sam's Scrap Candy.

Holiday Release Available + Sale until Friday!

If you haven't had a chance to check out our Holiday Release yet - make sure you pop over to our online shop to see what's new - Plus, we're offering our new Christmas Delivery mini set for a special price until Friday, Oct 24. (while supplies last - they're going fast!). 

Loads of Thanks by Stephanie Muzzulin

Happy Everything!

Check out this adorable Fall card by Stephanie Muzzulin using our wagon and leaves images from the Wagon of Wishes stamp set! I love the fun rustic fall colors Stephanie used on this card - and the twine and bits of sparkle on the leaves give it the perfect finishing touch!

To find out more about her project, head over to Stephanie's blog, Handmade Creations by Stephanie!

Two Kitty Christmas Cards on Kraft!

I LOVE kraft paper - and Christmas Kitties!!

Today I'm sharing two cute kitty cards using our brand new Newton's Curious Christmas Stamp set. I'm having SO MUCH FUN with this new set - the images are so fun to color! For these two cards I stamped the images onto Kraft card stock and colored them with colored pencils! I'm just loving how this looks. I especially like how you can add white coloring to really make it pop - like I did on the snowman card - and then I stamped some snowflakes with white ink too.  

Holiday Release Available + Sale until Friday!

If you haven't had a chance to check out our Holiday Release yet - make sure you pop over to our Newton's Nook Designs online shop to see what's new - Plus, we're offering our new Christmas Delivery mini set for a special price until Friday, Oct 24. (while supplies last - they're going fast!). 

Holiday Release Winners + Sale!

Are you ready to get your paws inky with our new stamps?

Scroll down to see if you won - then head over to our store to go shopping at newtonsnookdesigns.com.

We're also having a sale on our new Christmas Delivery Set with purchase:

Holiday Release Winners!

Thank you to everyone for participating in our blog hop. We really enjoy reading all of your comments! Check out below to see if you won! The the blogs and the comments were chosen using Random.org. 

For the stamp set Winston's Home for Christmas from Stephanie's blog:

For the stamp set Holiday Hounds from Samantha's blog:

For the stamp set Flaky Family from Crafty Math-Chick's blog:

For the stamp set Newton's Curious Christmas from Lydia's blog:

For the stamp set Special Delivery from Danielle's blog:

Congrats to the Winners! Don't forget - you have 7 days to e-mail us at info@newtonsnookdesigns.com with your full name and shipping address to claim your prize.

Remember -  you can shop online now - our new release is up in the store!

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