Frozen Friends Valentine by Jocelyn Olson

Snowmen that melt your heart!

Today I'm sharing a sweet Valentine card by Design Team Member Jocelyn Olson! Jocelyn used the snuggly snowman couple from the Frozen Friends set to create this sweet Valentine! Isn't it adorable? I love the pink and teal! Jocelyn also used this card as her post for CAS-ual Fridays  as inspiration for their current challenge! If you love doing card challenges, you should definitely check them out - they have some really great challenges! 

Saying Farewell to Jocelyn

Another Farewell today - This is Jocelyn's last Design Team post! We have really enjoyed having Jocelyn on our Design Team from the start of our company! She's an incredible paper crafter and always has great ideas for combining stamps from different sets! In case haven't been following our blog since day one, I thought it would be fun to share a few of my favorite cards that she's made: (stamp sets used are captioned below the card)

Campfire Tails and Winged Wishes

Prehistoric Pals with Gift from Wagon of Wishes

Newton's Antics with hat from Magical Dreams

Frozen Friends

Thank you, Jocelyn for inspiring us over the last six months with your amazing use of color and great card layouts!

Make sure you stop over at her blog Red Balloon Cards today and help us thank Jocelyn by leaving a nice comment!

Today is the last day to enter our Inky Paws challenge!

There's still time - the deadline to enter is Tonight (Friday, December 13th) at Midnight CST!  You can view full details and link up your card and enter the Inky Paws Challenge on this post. If you don't own a NND stamp set yet you can still use the digital freebies on our freebies page here. 

It's a Jingle card by Jingle!

It's a Jingle card by Jingle!

Seriously! Design Team Member Jennifer Ingle uses "Jingle" as her nickname and her blog is called Just Jingle - so I think the Jingle stamp from the Holiday Wishes set must be one her favorite Newton's Nook Design stamp this Holiday! Isn't that funny?

Jennifer paired the sentiments from the Holiday Wishes set with the cute little line of ornaments and then some fun embossed houses! I love how the red pops off and draws your eye around the card!

Saying Farewell to Jennifer

I'm a bit sad to say that this is Jennifer's last Design Team post! We have really enjoyed having her on our team from day one and she's been a great inspiration!  In case you're a newer NND blog reader and missed some of her earlier work, I thought I'd share a couple of my favorites that she's created: (stamp sets used are captioned below the card)

Campfire Tails

Newton's Antics

Prehistoric Pals

SEAson's Greetings

Thanks so much Jennifer for inspiring us with your amazing clean and simple style over the last six months!

Please make sure you stop over at her blog Just Jingle today and help us thank her by leaving a nice comment!

Two days left to enter our Inky Paws challenge!

There's still time - the deadline to enter is Friday, December 13th, 2013 at Midnight CST!  You can view full details and link up your card and enter the Inky Paws Challenge on this post. If you don't own a NND stamp set yet you can still use the digital freebies on our freebies page here. 

Deck the Halls!

Deck the Halls with the help of little birdies!

Hello and happy Wednesday! Today I'm sharing a simple card using the Holiday Wishes Stamp set. Did you know that this set coordinates with one our our first releases, Winged Wishes? You can take the little birds from that set and add them in with any of the "stringed" items! Isn't that cute? For this card I grabbed the stockings and added the birds along with the "deck the halls" sentiment. Then I just added it onto a kraft colored card with some red polka dot paper and coordinating red card stock. Add a little satin bow and you're done! This would be a simple card to make for the holidays as long as you don't mind a bit of coloring! 

Inky Paws challenge open until Friday!

There's still time - the deadline to enter is Friday, December 13th, 2013 at Midnight CST!  You can view full details and link up your card and enter the Inky Paws Challenge on this post. If you don't own a NND stamp set yet you can still use the digital freebies on our freebies page here. 


Make sure you stop by tomorrow - we will have a fun project by Jennifer Ingle! 

SEAson's Greetings - 2 fun cards!

Boatloads of christmas cheer! 

He he he... that makes me laugh every time. I really love all the silly puns in the SEAson's Greetings christmas set!  If you haven't checked it out yet, make sure to go over to the store and take a look. This set is really very silly and unique for Christmas! 

For this card, I colored the boatful of gifts with copic markers and cut it out with some oval dies. Then I added some fun linen fabric behind it and frayed the edges - thought that helped give a bit of a nautical look! Then I added some fun christmas patterned paper and a button with twine! Love how this turned out! 

Next up is a card using the whale - Isn't he cute? I also stamped the santa hat from the Newton's Holiday Mischief set and cut it out to put on his head! I colored him with copics and fussy cut him out and added him to the kraft card stock. Stamped some bubbles and the "have a whaley great christmas" sentiment. Then I finished this card off with some patterned polka dot christmas paper and some washi tape. Plus a bit of bakers twine - can't seem to get enough of twine lately! 

Hope you had a "whaley" great time checking out these cards today! LOL - Sorry, I couldn't resist! 

  

There's still time to enter our inky Paws Challenge

There's still time - the deadline to enter is Friday, December 13th, 2013 at Midnight CST!  You can view full details and link up your card and enter the Inky Paws Challenge on this post. If you don't own a NND stamp set yet you can still use the digital freebies on our freebies page here. 

Blog Hop WINNERS + Canine Christmas Card

Happy Monday!

I know - I'm usually not too happy that it's Monday either but it's nice because I get to give away some two $10 coupons today for our online shop! That should make two other people happy!

Thanks to everyone who hopped along with us last friday and over the weekend- Weren't the projects amazing?  Check out below to see if you won! The winners, the blogs and the comments were chosen using Random.org.

Note to winners: you have 7 days to contact us with to claim your coupon code.

Our first winner is from Danielle Lounds blog: 

Our Second winner is from a comment on Jessica Esch's blog: 

Last day of our free shipping sale!

Don't forget - you can still order until Midnight tonight and get $3 off shipping! That means FREE shipping to US and $3 off international orders! head over to newtonsnookdesigns.com and shop now! Use Code INKYHOP13.  Note: If you use paypal it will ask for your code AFTER you put in your paypal info. 

A Bit of Canine Christmas

Just because any post without photos is boring, thought I'd throw in a little inspiration using the Canine Christmas Stamp set. This time I added in a bit of pink - kind of a sweet, girly Christmas card!  The doggie is colored with copics and then cut him out with some circle dies and made a pink frame with a coordinating scallop circle die. 

Here's a close-up - Isn't that puppy cute, I love how he's showing off his little sweater! 

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Newton's Nook Designs - Deck the Halls with Inky Paws Blog Hop!

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

The blog hop starts here, with a card featuring Newton's Holiday Mischief, of course!  Make sure you scroll down to the bottom to go to see the whole link list - hop along to all 14 blogs and comment for your chance to win!

Since our Newton is a sweet orange kitty, I colored this naughty kitty in the wreath to look sort of like him:

I also added some fun little jingle bells and the sentiment "deck the halls" seemed appropriate! 

In case you haven't met Newton yet -- here's a cutie from last christmas -- as usual, he likes the boxes better than any presents!

Starting NOW you can celebrate with $3 off shipping! 

That means FREE SHIPPING on all orders to U.S. and $3 off international from now until Midnight (CST) on Monday, Dec. 9th! Use Code: INKYHOP13 in your shopping cart. Note: If you use paypal it will ask for your code AFTER you put in your paypal info.  Start shopping now at Newton's Nook Designs Store!  

PLUS  - ENTER to WIN! 

Would you like to win a $10 coupon for Newton's Nook Designs online shop? We will be choosing Two lucky winners! 

Here's how to win:
Comment on the Design Team Member and Guest blogs (see list below)! One winner 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 8th at 9 pm CST to comment  -- winners will be announced on the blog post on Monday, December 9th.

Make sure you check out all the blogs below to enter:

Deck the Halls with Inky Paws Blog Hop

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Jennifer Ingle

Tessa Wise

Jocelyn Olson

Samantha Mann

Shelly Mercado

Rachel W K

Jessica Esch

Chan Vuong

Ashley Marcu

Danielle Lounds

Alice Wertz

Danielle Pandeline

Kim Singdahlsen

Deck the Halls with Inky Paws - Day 4 - Chan Vuong

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

Today is our last awesome featured guest and then tomorrow is our BIG blog hop! (with some give-aways, of course!) 

Today's Featured guest is Chan Vuong!

I'm just someone who loves making stuff.  I'm also a gigantic fan of animals! :o)  
I hope you'll enjoy the animal-themed projects I've created to share with you over the next two days!

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Here's what Chan created!

I love the "rudolph" nose that Chan added onto this adorable Basset Hound from our Canine Christmas stamp set. What a cute holiday tag! 

And for this tag, she used the sweet kitty with the milk and cookies from Newton's Holiday Mischief!  I love how she colored the gray on the kitt and the snowflake shape of this tag! 

Thanks Chan for being our guest today! 

Chan will be back for our Deck the Halls with Inky Paws blog hop Tomorrow!! Meanwhile, make sure you head over to her blog, humblechan and see all here cute projects - many of them are pet-themed!

Tomorrow is our Deck the Halls Blog Hop! 

We will be featuring 14 awesome blog stops, starting here at the the NND blog! THis is going to be loaded with NND Holiday Inspiration- you won't want to miss it!  See you tomorrow!