Deck the Halls with Inky Paws Blog Hop!

Welcome to our 8th ANNUAL Deck the Halls with Inky Paws Blog Hop!!

Make sure you scroll down to the bottom of this post to see the whole link list and SALE info -- there are 14 awesome blogs for you to visit today! Plus you can comment for your chance to win a prize too! Details at the end of this post!

Here is what I created for the hop today:

Today I created this fun slimline card using the adorable holiday vehicles from our Destination Christmas Stamp Set. This set is filled with fun cars, trucks, and a van laden with holiday gifts and decor. I stamped the van, station wagon and truck onto Bristol paper with waterproof ink. Then I colored the images using Zig clean color watercolor markers. I love the look of watercolor and the fun bright colors. Once the images were colored I used the coordinating Destination Christmas Die Set to cut them out. 

Next, I decided I wanted to create a slimline card. I used both of our Slimline die sets to create this. I used the scalloped frame from the Slimline Frames & Portholes Die Set. Then I layered the frame with square windows from our Slimline Frames and Windows Die Set over that. 

I wanted it to look like the vehicles were driving down a road so I added a strip of grey along the bottom of each square and layered a hill above it using our Land Borders Die Set with some green polka dot paper. I cut each of these pieces with the Slimline Frames and Windows Die Set too, to make sure they all had the stitched edge. I also made sure to line up the hills so it looks like one continuous scene. To complete the scenes, I added snow to the white squares using our Petite Snow Stencil with some blue ink. 

Once this was all assembled, I added the sentiment "deck the hauls" from our Destination Christmas Stamp Set, embossed in white onto a black banner that was cut out using our Banner Trio Die Set. 

I love how this turned out! It will be perfect for sending Holiday greetings across the miles! 

Here are some close-ups so you can see the details:

I hope you enjoyed this card today! Make sure you visit the whole hop for more amazing inspiration from our Design team and guests! The next stop is Tenia Nelson.

Deck the Halls with Inky Paws SALE! 
$5 off every $30 You Spend!
That means $5 off $30, $10 off $60...up to $25 off $150!*
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Enter to Win! Deck the Halls with Inky Paws Hop Prizes! 

We will be choosing two lucky winners to win a $25 store credit for Newton's Nook Designs online shop! To enter, just leave comments on the Design Team Member and Guest blogs (see list below)! Two winners will be chosen at random from the collective blogs in the blog hop. 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, December 6th at 9 pm EST to comment -- winners will be announced on the NND blog on Monday, December 7th.

Deck the Halls with Inky Paws Blog Hop List:

Newton's Nook Designs <---- you are here

Tammy Stark

Tina Herbeck

Dana Kirby

Angelica Conrad

Ellen Haxelmans

Larissa Heskett

Samantha Mann

Zsofia Molnar

Maria Russell

Andrea Shell

Tatiana Trafimovich 

Amy Tsuruta

Amanda Wilcox

Deck the Halls with Inky Paws Week - Day 4 - Angelica Conrad

Welcome to day four of our Deck the Halls with Inky Paws week! 

Each day this week we will have a new awesome featured guest and then a BIG blog hop on Friday, December 4th (with some give-aways, of course!) So make sure you come back and visit us every day!

Today's Featured guest is
Angelica Conrad 

Hi! My name is Angelica Conrad, and I live in the beautiful Pacific Northwest. When I am not cooking, or running after my young daughter, you can find me in my craft room. I love coloring the most, and am always ready to tackle a large project. I love creating, and I love even more giving my creations away.

Here's what Angelica created:

Today Angelica created a beautiful winter card featuring our Winter Birds Stamp Set.  She colored the image of the chickadee with copic markers, giving the bird amazing details with texture on the stomach and white accents on the wings! Isn't it beautiful? She also added hand drawn legs to the image so that she could add it standing onto the branch. For the rest of the card, she kept it simple, adding a blue sky background and white flecks of snow over the whole thing. The sentiment, "warm winter wishes" is also from the Winter Birds Stamp Set and was embossed in white in the the corner. So simple and beautiful! 

Thanks so much, Angelica for being our guest today! She will be back for our Deck the Halls with Inky Paws blog hop tomorrow,  Friday, December 4th. Until then, you can visit her at her blog, My Love for Paper to read more about her adorable projects and say hello!

Tomorrow we will have special Guest Blog Hop with all the guests we've featured this week and a couple more! Plus our FABULOUS NND Design Team - so make sure you come back tomorrow - there will be prizes too!

Deck the Halls with Inky Paws Week - Day 3 - Dana Kirby

Welcome to day three of our Deck the Halls with Inky Paws week! 

Each day this week we will have a new awesome featured guest and then a BIG blog hop on Friday, December 4th (with some give-aways, of course!) So make sure you come back and visit us every day!

Today's Featured guest is
Dana Kirby 

Hi crafty friends! My name is Dana Kirby and I am so excited to be a guest for Newton’s Nook. I love all things crafty and especially enjoy creating for the holidays. My husband and I are “empty-nesters” and enjoy traveling and cooking. I have been a scrapbooker for over 23 years and found my love for card making a little over ten years ago.

Here's what Dana created:

Dana is getting us in the mood for a snow day with her fun frosty card today! She created this fun and simple card featuring the snowman with a sign from our Snowman Greetings Stamp Set. This set is so fun because there are several sentiments included that fit on the sign. For her card, Dana added the "Let it Snow" sentiment. She colored the image in simple tones of red and blue, making the bird on top of the sign into a blue jay! She also added a few details with a white gel pen. The image was cut out using the coordinating Snowman Greetings Die Set. For her card base, she kept it simple and used an oval mask to add an oval of blue sky and snowflakes with our Petite Snow Stencil. What a great idea! 

This card is perfect for sending happy greetings to a friend or family member during the cold months of Winter!! Here is a close-up of the  coloring and markers that she used:

Thanks so much, Dana for being our guest today! She will be back for our Deck the Halls with Inky Paws blog hop on Friday, December 4th. Until then, you can visit her at her blog, D Kirby Stamps to read more about her adorable projects and say hello!

Tomorrow we will have special Guest Angelica from My Love for Paper

so make sure you take some time to come back and visit us again! 

Deck the Halls with Inky Paws Week - Day 2 - Tina Herbeck

Welcome to day two of our Deck the Halls with Inky Paws week! 

Each day this week we will have a new awesome featured guest and then a BIG blog hop on Friday, December 4th (with some give-aways, of course!) So make sure you come back and visit us every day!

Today's Featured guest is
Tina Herbeck 

Hi friends, my name is Tina and I have a blog called The Scrappin Rabbit. I am a part time music teacher and live in SoCal. I love all papercrafts but especially adore crafting with cute critters. I am a wife to an amazing husband who supports my stamp addiction and the mother of 2 kids currently in college. I love sharing my crafty creations and I'm so excited to be a part of the 2020 Deck the Halls with Inky Paws!!.

Here's what Tina created:

Tina is sharing an adorable slimline shaker card featuring our Christmas Puppies Stamp Set!  To create this fun card, Tina started by creating a shaker window using our Slimline Frames & Windows Die Set. She cut the window from white paper and used it to frame a shaker background filled with sequins in holiday colors. Then she colored tow of the cute puppies from our Christmas Puppies Stamp Set to layer over the windows. She used neutral colors mixed with pops of festive red and green on those adorable pups. They were cut out using the coordinating Christmas Puppies Die Set.  Then, in the center window she added the sentiment, "peace, love & belly rubs", also from the Christmas Puppies Stamp Set, along with the bit of holly and a bone. The banner shape was also cut out using the Slimline Frames & Windows Die Set. 

This card is so fun and festive! I wish I was there in person to shake it! Here are a few close-ups so you can see the incredible coloring and details:

Thanks so much, Tina for being our guest today! She will be back for our Deck the Halls with Inky Paws blog hop on Friday, December 4th. Until then, you can visit her at her blog, The Scrappin Rabbit to read more about her adorable projects and say hello!

Tomorrow we will have special Guest Dana from d kirby Stamps

so make sure you take some time to come back and visit us again! 

Deck the Halls with Inky Paws Week - Day 1 - Tammy Stark

Just a reminder - Today we are having a Cyber Monday sale in our shop! Don't forget to visit our shop and get 20% off your entire order with code CYBERCAT

Welcome to day one of our Deck the Halls with Inky Paws week! 

Each day this week we will have a new awesome featured guest and then a BIG blog hop on Friday, December 4th (with some give-aways, of course!) So make sure you come back and visit us every day!

Today's Featured guest is
Tammy Stark

Hi there! I'm Tammy, and I live in southern Nevada with my hubby, two amazing teenage daughters, and adorable pup. I have been crafting my entire life - from scrapbooking, to creating party favors, to more recently, card making. I actually taught scrapbooking classes for many years, and loved it! I discovered stamping and cardmaking when I was looking for products to make party favors for my daughter's birthday, and completely fell in love! I gravitate towards fun, whimsical, and happy designs that make me smile, and I can never turn down a good pun! When I'm not creating, you can find me drinking coffee with my sketchbook, thinking about creating, haha! I am ecstatic to be joining Newton's Nook this month as a guest designer, and can't wait to share my creations with you!

Here's what Tammy created:

Tammy has created an adorable matching card and tag with our Newton's Snowman Stamp Set! 

For the card, she colored image of the trio of kitties building a snowman from our Newton's Snowman Stamp Set in fun wintery colors! She used the coordinating Newton's Snowman Die Set to cut the image out. Then she created a gorgeous slimline scene for the kitties to play in! She our Forest Scene Builder Die Set to cut out some birch trees to set the wintery scene. The gorgeous snowy background was created using our Snowfall Stencil with white texture paste over a blue distress inked background! So lovey! 

The whole slimline scene was framed with a scalloped edge, cut out using the large frame die from our Slimline Frames & Portholes Die Set. 

For the matching tag, she used the same colors on the image of the kitties from our Newton's Snowman Stamp Set but switched them up a bit so that the kitties are in opposite colors than they are in the first image. Which version do you prefer?  She created a smaller snowy background on the tag using our Petite Snow Stencil over her blue background. The tag was also cut out using our Fancy Edges Tag Die Set. 

This set of projects is so adorable! 

Thanks so much, Tammy for being our guest today! She will be back for our Deck the Halls with Inky Paws blog hop on Friday, December 4th. Until then, you can visit her at her blog, Paper Pretty Boutique to read more about her adorable projects and say hello!

Tomorrow we will have special Guest Tina from The Scrappin' Rabbit

so make sure you take some time to come back and visit us again! 

No-line Watercoloring Snowman Card by November Guest Designer Ashley Ebben

Hello friends! It's Ashley with my last guest post for Newton's Nook this month! The time has really flown by! For my last card, I decided to try a bit of no-line watercoloring. I am very new to this technique, but I thought the snowmen from Frosty Folks would look really soft and lovely this way.

I started by stamping the Newton and snowman from Newton's Curious Christmas onto white watercolor cardstock with InkOn3 Fadeout Ink. I masked the image off, then stamped the Frosty Folks in Fadeout Ink as well so the images were layered. I then slowly watercolored everything in with Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers. A few of the details ended up getting lost, but the soft effect is worth it, I think.

Once the watercoloring was dry, I splattered a bit of white acrylic paint over the whole piece to look like a light snowfall. I die cut it with a stitched rectangle, then added it to a piece of blue snowflake paper. I stamped the sentiment from Frosty Folks in a bright blue ink to go with the patterned paper and some of the blue watercolored spots. To finish, I added a scattering of clear snowflake sequins for some sparkle.

Thank you so much for stopping by and for having me as a guest on the blog!
Have a wonderful day!

-Ashley

Small Business Saturday Thank You!

Thank You from Jen & Jeff!

It's Small Business Saturday today and although I don't have a card to share today, I wanted to stop in quick and say THANK YOU for helping our small business by being such amazing fans and customers! As you probably know, our business is run by just Jeff and I and we do every step of the business from designing the products to packing and shipping each individual order! It can be a lot of work but we are so happy to be here and working for ourselves, especially with everything happening in the world right now! We know it's been a tough year for everyone and your support of our small business during it all means so much to us! We can't thank you enough for your ongoing support! 

As a gesture of thanks, we are offering 20% off ALL ORDERS this weekend! You can shop at newtonsnookdesigns.com and use code THANKFUL. It's a great time to get a few goodies and fill your friends' stockings with cute stamps, dies & stencils - and don't forget to pick up some favorites for yourself too

Thank you so much and enjoy shopping! We will be back with new holiday inspiration next week with our "Deck the Halls with Inky Paws" Week! 

See you then!