Giant Panda Wishes Card by Samantha Mann

Note: This is our second post today. To see winners from our 7 Year Celebration Blog Hop, scroll down or click here!

Panda Love!

If you like pandas you will fall in love with this adorable card by Samantha! For this fun card she created a trio of tumbling pandas using the image from our Playful Pandas Stamp Set. She stamped the images in black and added a little bit of shading and pink on the feet. She cut the images out using our Playful Pandas Die Set. She rotated the pandas in different directions and gave them balloons and hats stamped from our Fabulous Frenchies Stamp Set and cut them out with the Fabulous Frenchies Die Set. 

To make a fun setting for the pandas, she cut out a frame using our Slimline Frames & Portholes Die Set. Then she added three squares of clouds over it that were cut out using our Slimline Frames & Windows Die Set. For the squares, she added orange and yellow distress ink backgrounds and textured clouds using our Cloudy Sky Stencil. 

She finished it off with sentiments from our Holding Happiness Stamp Set. She embossed the sentiments in white on black cardstock and fussy cut around them to pop them off her card! 

This card is so adorable and filled with fun! 

To say hello to Sam and see more of her amazing creations you can visit Sam over on her blog, Sam's Scrap Candy!

7 Year Celebration Blog Hop Winners!

7 Year Celebration Blog Hop 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 blogs and the comments were chosen using random.org.

The following winners each will receive a $20 store credit to newtonsnookdesigns.com
If you see your comment below, e-mail us at info@newtonsnookdesigns.com with your full name and email address to claim your prize (it's also easiest if you already have an account set up in our shop).

Winner 1 of a $20 store credit was chosen from Ellen's blog: Kathy J in Ellicot City

Winner 2 of a $20 store credit was chosen from the Newton's Nook Designs's blog: Cheri

Winner 3 of a $20 store credit was chosen from Larissa's blog: Sue D

Winner 4 of a $20 store credit was chosen from the Amanda's blog: Avra

Winner 5 of a $20 store credit was chosen from Zsofia's blog: Claire Lamb

Winner 6 of a $20 store credit was chosen from Andrea's blog:Kathy Barrett

Winner 6 of a $20 store credit was chosen from Sam's blog: creationsnz

Congrats to the Winners! Don't forget - you have 7 days from today to to e-mail us at info@newtonsnookdesigns.com with your full name and email address to claim your prize (it's also easiest if you already have an account set up in our shop).

Sweet Shaker Frame Card by July Guest Designer Kay Demonbren

Hello again! I'm back to share my third card as the July Guest Designer for Newton's Nook Designs, and SO happy to be here!

I've got a shaker card today, using the Newton's Sweetheart Stamp Set.


I die cut a frame from Kraft card stock, and stamped the open paw images in a random pattern, then stamped my sentiment. Then I colored the sweet kitties and cut those out. Next, I applied a light pink wash on watercolor paper, trimming it just a bit smaller than the die cut frame. I attached the colored kitties to the watercolor paper panel, and spread a generous amount of shaker material on them. Finally, I attached a panel of acetate to the underside of the die cut frame, as well as a double layer of foam tape, and attached that to the card base.

I hope you enjoyed my little card, and I look forward to seeing you one more time next week!

-Kay

Newton's Nook Designs 7 YEAR Celebration Blog Hop!

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

We want to take a moment and say that we are so THANKFUL for all of you, our amazing fans and customers! Your enthusiasm for our products and support of our small business has really been the silver lining in what was otherwise a very challenging year! We really appreciate every order and are so happy that we are able to continue to run our small business from our home with everything going on in the world! If you didn't receive our email this morning you can read our letter about the last year here. 

To celebrate, we have a big blog hop today! Make sure to scroll down to the end of the post to see the hop link 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 products and I made a card to share today too! For my card I created a slimline card featuring all the kitties!


In the center of the card I stamped the two kittens in a box from our Newton Loves Boxes Stamp Set, coloring them to look like our NEW kittens, Marlowe and Toulouse! The darker brownish gray kitty on the left is Marlowe and lighter pale gray is Toulouse!  Both of our new kittens have distinctive "M" markings on their foreheads so I tried to add that on as well. I'm not very skilled at coloring gray kitties yet but I'm sure I will do much more practicing in the future!

I also wanted to add on the kitties we lost during this last year so I included an orange kitty on the left to represent Newton and colored the one on the right to look a bit like Hobbes! For Newton I used one of our very first Stamp Sets, Newton's Antics. I will always continue to color orange kitties like Newton, since even though he as passed he was a special kitty and remains our company namesake!

The kitty images were cut out using the coordinating Newton's Antics Die Set and Newton Loves Boxes Die Set.

For the slimline card I used an 8.5" x 3.5" card base from Kraft colored cardstock. Then I used our new Slimline Frames & Portholes Die Set to cut out the white scalloped border. The square frame with the three windows was cut out using the Slimline Frames & Windows Die Set in lime green. I also used the same die set to cut out the inner squares. I cut a set from yellow and a set from a strip white of paper that I had stenciled colored paw prints onto using our Pawprints Stencil. I arranged the kitties over the three windows and added the sentiment "You're the Best!" from our Thankful Thoughts Stamp Set onto a banner, also cut out using the Slimline Frames & Windows Die Set. I thought that sentiment was fitting because we DO have the BEST FANS!

I hope you enjoyed this project today! Make sure to visit all the blogs listed at the bottom of this post for below for more fresh inspiration today!

And if you feel like shopping, check out our SALE this weekend!

We're celebrating seven years of NND with 20% off your order! 

Now through Monday, July 20 with code: 7YEARS

Shop now at newtonsnookdesigns.com

Celebrate with us and enter to win!

To celebrate 7 years Newton's Nook Designs is giving away a $20 store credit to spend in their online shop to 7 lucky winners!

Here's how to win:
Comment on the NND Design Team 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 Monday, July 20 at 9pm EST to comment. Winners will be announced on NND blog post on Tuesday, July 21 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
Ellen Haxelmans
Larissa Heskett
Samantha Mann
Zsofia Molnar
Maria Russell
Andrea Shell
Tatiana Trafimovich
Amanda Wilcox

Live, Love, Aloha Card by Samantha Mann

Live • Love• Aloha!

Are you in the mood for summer fun? This card by Samantha is perfect for a summer greeting! She created a delightful scene combing a bunch of NND products! To start out she colored the kitty with the ukulele from our Aloha Newton Stamp Set and the cute corgi wearing a hula skirt from our Corgi Beach Stamp Set. Don't they work perfectly together!? After she colored them in gorgeous vibrant hues, she cut the images out using the coordinating Aloha Newton Die Set and Corgi Beach Die Set.

To set the scene, she created two little islands using our Circle Frames Die Set and inking the die cut shapes with distress inks. She added a curve of waves in front using our Land Borders Die Set, again adding lovely distress inks to the shape. in the background she stenciled a leaf pattern using our Tropical Leaves Stencil and some green inks. To add on more leaves and flowers she stamped images from our Toucan Party Stamp Set (cut out with the coordinating Toucan Party Die Set). Plus, she added seashells from our Manatee-rific Stamp Set and a couple of tiny starfish from our Purr-maid Newton Stamp Set.

The finishing touch is the "Live Love Aloha" from the Aloha Newton Stamp Set, embossed in white onto a black banner.

What a gorgeous tropical scene! The colors are so vibrant and perfect the the tropical setting!

To say hello to Sam and see more of her amazing creations you can visit Sam over on her blog, Sam's Scrap Candy!

Have a Blast Card by Amanda Wilcox

Have a Blast with Newton!

Today's card by Amanda is out of this world! She created a space themed card using our Cosmic Newton Stamp Set. On the front of her card she featured the image of Newton in a space rocket, heading out to explore space! She layered the image over a cloudy sky that was created using our Cloudy Sky Stencil. She added the sentiment "have a blast" using a banner from our Frames & Flags Die Set. She also die cut the bottom edge using our Sky Borders Die Set.

When you lift this panel up, a whole space scene and sky is revealed!

She created a wonderful galaxy background using distress inks and added shooting stars, planets and the kitty in the spacesuit from our Cosmic Newton Stamp Set. The images were cut out using our Cosmic Newton Die Set. She also added the sentiment onto a banner that was cut out using our Frames & Flags Die Set.

This card is so fun with the hidden scene reveal! What a fun surprise for the recipient!

Thank you, Amanda, for sharing this fun card idea with us today! To say hello to her and see more of her awesome creations you can visit Amanda over on her blog, Twiddler's Nook!

Two Sea Themed Cards by Maria Russell

Seas the Day!

Today we are sharing a duo of cards by Maria featuring our fun Tranquil Tides Stamp Set! These sea themed cards are perfect for sending cool wishes on a hot day!

For her first card, shown above, she use the images of the crab and starfish from the Tranquil Tides Stamp Set. She repeat stamps them in a row, with red and blue ink. She then cut out the one crab using a circle from our Circle Frames Die Set and added the sentiment in black over the crab! So cute! She adds this strip with a black border onto her white card base for a fun and simple card layout! 

For her second card, she created a a gorgeous sea of fish and coral using our Tranquil Tides Stamp Set:

She created a stripe of sea themed fun using several of the images from our Tranquil Tides Stamp Set in different colors. She added a frame of white over the top, adding curved die cuts using our Land Borders Die Set. 

Then she stamped a trio of fish in yellow, a duo of pink starfish and a red crab and cut them out using the Tranquil Tides Die Set. These fun images layered over the background give a fun bit of dimension to the layout! She adds the sentiment in black and a few bubbles to finish it off! 

What a fun way to use the same stamp set to make two very different but equally fun cards! 

To see more awesome projects by Maria you can visit her over at her blog, Maria Russell Designs and don't forget to subscribe to her YouTube channel too!