More Inky Paws Challenge Inspiration by Samantha Mann!

Have you had a chance to get your paws inky yet?

Don't forget to play along with our latest challenge for a chance to win!  Today I'm sharing some more inspiration from Design Team Member Samantha Mann for our latest inky paws challenge. She created this beautiful card Inspired by the current color challenge (see below). Samantha really used those fun bright colors to their full advantage by finding coordinating patterned papers - and she paired them with that cute kitty in a box from the Newton's Antics stamp set. So cute! I think this card would brighten anyones day! For full details and to see what else she's up to make sure to visit Samantha's blog Sam's Scrap Candy.

photo credit - sweetsugarbelle.com

I hope her card inspired you to play along!  Remember, you have until next Friday,  February 7th, 2014 to enter. There's a prize involved too, so don't delay - check out our inky paws challenge page for details! 

Nuts about You Valentine by Tessa Wise!

I'm NUTS about this card!

He he he... sorry - I couldn't resist the pun! But it's really true, I just love how Tessa created the fun pile of nuts with the squirrel on top! She used our newest set, Sweetheart Tails to create this fun scene!  I love that she used two of the smallest stamps in the set, the squirrel and the acorn - just shows how versatile this set can be!! Plus, I bet that squirrel would love the addition of the sequins to his acorn pile!

Thanks for the fun card, Tessa! If you're reading this, make sure you pop over to Tessa's blog, Crafty Girl Designs and tell her how adorable it is! 

Are you inspired? Don't forget to enter our Inky Paws challenge!

This month we're trying something new - a color challenge! Check out our color combo here and post a card using it for a chance to win a $10 gift card to our shop! The deadline to enter is Friday, February 7th, 2014 at Midnight CST!  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 use the digital freebies on our freebies page here. 

"Mew Stole my heart" Card by Taheerah!

This little kitty will steal your heart! 

Don't you just love this adorable kitty card by Taheerah Atchia? She took the kitty from the Newton's Antics stamp set and colored it with the "no line" coloring technique! I love how he looks soft and fuzzy! Plus, what a cute little mini card size! How fun is that? 

She also used the "stole my heart" sentiment from our Sweetheart Tails set and replaced the "you" with a "mew"! So cute! 

Thanks, Taheerah, for the fun inspiration today! Want to learn more about this card? Head over to Taheerah's Blog, Fill Your Paper with the Breathings of Your Heart today to read more. Make sure to say hello and check out more of her amazing work! 

Tri-Shutter Valentine by Crafty Math-Chick!

Do you love cards the unfold and move?

I do! Today I'm sharing this very cool tri-shutter card by Crafty Math-Chick! She used our two newest sets,  Love à la Carte and Sweetheart Tails,  to create this amazing Valentine! What a fun surprise the recipient will get when they open this card to find the long, tri-folded piece of art! Have you every tried making one of these? I made one once long ago - they're a bit tricky but look so cool!  Here's what the card looks like opened flat:

Thanks so much, Crafty Math-Chick for the fun inspiration! If you want to know more about this card, please head over to her blog Canines and Card Designs today for more details! And be sure to leave her a nice comment! 

Don't Forget to enter our inky Paws Challenge

Make sure you check out our newest challenge  - the deadline to enter is Friday, February 7th, 2014 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. 

Love Bandit!

Love Thief!

This little bandit (that's what I like to call raccoons) makes such a cute little Valentine! He's from our new Sweetheart Tails stamp set and he's one of my favorites! I really just love coloring him! For this card I colored the image with copic markers, using a colorless blender to pull a bit of color out around the eyes so they popped out a bit more! Then I added him to this card with tones of grey, black and pink! Such a great love card! I also added the heart border along the bottom of the card in pink ink!

Hope this fun card brightens up your Monday!

p.s. don't forget to follow us on pinterest! We have boards for each stamp set plus just fun inspirational boards too - right now I'm having fun adding items to our Be My Valentine board! Don't you think pinterest is so fun ... and addicting!!

Inky Paws Challenge #06 - Color Challenge!

Happy Friday and the the first day of #06 Inky Paws Challenge!  We're shaking things up a bit this year and decided to do a color challenge instead of a sketch this month!

photo credit - sweetsugarbelle.com

I just loved these yummy-looking heart cookies for this month's inspiration. The colors we're looking for in projects are: Coral • Golden Yellow • Teal blue • Light Green

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,  February 7th, 2014 at Midnight CST. The winner will be announced on the NND blog on Monday, February 10th.

Are you ready to play along and get your paws inky? 

• Create a NEW project (card or other paper craft item) based on the color combo above.

• 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 or splitcoaststampers (on splitcoast please use keywords newtonsnook and IPC06).

• 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. 

Ready for some Inky Paws inspiration?  

Read the description below each card to see who made it!

Samantha Mann created this adorable scene using the fox from our Sweetheart Tails set! Sooo Cute! 

Here's a fun little note card set by Valerie Ward using our Love à la Carte stamp set! Wouldn't these be fun little love notes to tuck into lunches?

 Taheerah Atchia used the Newton's Antics stamp set to create this adorable tag!
Isn't it neat how she created balls of yarn in the key colors? And she snuck in the little heart thought bubble from the Just Say Cheese set too!  

Larissa Heskett  the used the cupcake from our Love à la Carte stamp set stamp set to create pops of color against a gray background! I love how the colors pop! She also used the "hello" sentiment from the Winged Wishes stamp set! 

Tessa Wise the used the sugar stamp from our Love à la Carte stamp set stamp on this fun card! Isn't the bright teal and pink combo so pretty?

What a cute scene with Newton created by Danielle Pandeline! She used 3 different sets - the Kitty from Newton's Holiday Mischief, the squirrel from Sweetheart Tails and the "hello" sentiment from Winged Wishes! So fun!  Love the polka dots on his belly!'

And a card from me :) I used the snuggling kitties from the  Newton's Antics stamp set and watercolored them to bring in the yellow. Then I used patterned papers and a green card base to bring in the other colors! 

Now it's your turn!

Use the widget below to add a link to your project! Don't forget to tell your friends to play along too - If we get more than 15 participants we will pick TWO winners!

Foxy Hug Card by Christine Drogt

Have you hugged your Fox Today?

The adorable fox on card by Christine Drogt is sending you hugs!  Christine used the fox from our Sweetheart Tails set and mixed him with a fun color palette of teal, orange and white patterns! What a great fun and bright card. This could easily be a get-well card to send some cheer to a friend. Or a great hello card for just about anyone! The layout is so simple and fun too!

Thanks, Christine, for the fun inspiration today! Make sure to head over to Christine's Blog, Das Kartenchaos, to say hello and check out more of her amazing work! 

Sweet Baby Card by Samantha Mann

So Happy for You - Baby Card!

Today I'm sharing a fun baby card by Design Team Member Samantha Mann using our Winged Wishes stamp set. I love how bright and colorful the baby onsies are! They really pop nicely off the woodgrain background that she used! I also love the fun touches of vellum - I'm seeing vellum pop up a lot lately! If you have some vellum around, I think it's time to pull it out of your stash and start using it! 

Thanks Samantha, for the adorable inspiration! Make sure you pop over to Samantha's Blog Sam's Scrap Candy today to learn more about her card and to and say hello! 

Raccoon Love card by Valerie Ward

This Raccoon card will steal your heart! 

Today I'm sharing an adorable card by Design Team Member Valerie Ward using the Sweetheart Tails Stamp set.  Aren't the bright colors so much fun? Plus, I just love all the little details Valerie added to this card. I spy some stitching, vellum, shine and embossing! Wow! All those little details add up to one really amazing card, don't you think? Here's one close-up so you can see that fun white embossing of the heart border! 

Thanks Valerie, for the inspiration! Make sure you pop over to Valerie's Blog Val by Design today to learn more about her card and make sure to leave her a comment on how cute it is! 

Cupcake card with paper piercing!

Have you tried paper-piercing yet?

I love how cute this is! In case you don't know - paper-piercing is stamping an image on patterned paper and then cutting it out. This is a great alternative to coloring and it is really pretty easy as long as you have a steady hand to cut! For this card I stamped the cupcake image from our brand new Love à la Carte stamp set on several different patterned papers.  I dug into my scrap pile and found colors that coordinated. I even cut out the hearts! I thought they would be too small but it actually wasn't bad at all to cute those little hearts out!  When I assembled the cupcake pieces back together I put a little foam dot between the liner bottom and the frosting top- just to add a bit of dimension. Then I used markers to color in the "jimmies" or "sprinkles". What do you call them? I usually call them sprinkles but some of my friends call them "jimmies" which I think is so funny!

Today is the last day of sale for our January Release!

Use code SWEET14 for free shipping to US and $3 off orders to Canada/International! Offer good until Tonight - Monday, January 20th -  at midnight CST!

January Release Now Available + Blog Hop Winners!

Are you ready to get your paws inky with our fabulous new stamps?  Scroll down to see if you won - if not, you can go shopping now and get our new sets at newtonsnookdesigns.com. 

PLUS- we're offering a Shipping special this weekend!

Use code SWEET14 for free shipping to US and $3 off orders to Canada/International!

Offer good until Monday, January 20th at midnight!

January 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.

Note to winners: you have 7 days to contact us with your full name and shipping address.

For the stamp set Love à la Carte from Larissa Heskett's Blog:

For the stamp set Love à la Carte from Danielle Pandeline's Blog:

For the stamp set Sweetheart Tails from Christine Drogt's Blog:

For the stamp set Sweetheart Tails from the Newton's Nook Designs Blog:

Congrats to the Winners! 

If you didn't win- you can shop online now - our new release is up in the store now! 

January Release - Sweetheart Tails

Today is second reveal day for January and we are featuring the set Sweetheart Tails! We are giving this set away to two lucky winners so make sure you read all the way to the bottom of this posting to see how to win! 

Ready to be inspired? 

Get ready to fall in love with the adorable cards that our  New Design Team created with this set! Check out all the adorable cards below! Then, make sure to click through to all their blogs for details on their cards  - Some of the designers have extra cards on the blogs and you might even find a fun video or two along the way! Make sure to comment for a chance to win! Details on the giveaway are at the bottom of today's post. 

Love the the watercolor and vellum on this card by Danielle!
And the fox is colored so pretty too! 

What a fun clean and simple card by Valerie!
I love how she broke the border across the bottom with the words! So adorable! 

These pencil holders by Crafty Math-Chick are such a hoot! What a fun idea for a Valentine for kids! 

This squirrel must LOVE that heart made of acorns! Such a great idea by Larissa!

 Christine created this adorable card with the fun heart background!
I'm loving the contrast of red and black on white with the shiny little hearts!

Eeek! A PINK fox by Tessa! I just love this - what fun colors!  

I love how Taheerah made mirror images of the fox to make a cute little foxy couple! 

This card by Samantha is so cool. I love all the triangles and texture! 

Would you like to win Sweetheart Tails?

This set will be given away to Two lucky winners! Here's how to win: 

Comment on the NND blog and Design Team blogs (see list below)! Two winners will be chosen at random from the collective blogs January release 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 Thursday, January 16th at 9 pm Central Standard Time to comment  -- winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday, January 17th.

Check out all these awesome Design Team Blogs below to enter:

Newton's Nook Designs

Taheerah Atchia

Christine Drogt

Samantha Mann

Larissa Heskett

Crafty Math-Chick

Danielle Pandeline

Valerie Ward

Tessa Wise

January Release - Love à la Carte

Today is our first full reveal day for January and we are featuring the set Love à la Carte! We are giving this set away to two lucky winners so make sure you read all the way to the bottom of this posting to see how to win! 

Ready to be inspired? 

Wow - Our New Design Team really had some great ideas using this set! Check out all the amazing cards below! Then, make sure to click through to all their blogs for details on their cards  - Some of the designers have extra cards on the blogs and you might even find a fun video or two along the way! Make sure to comment for a chance to win! Details on the giveaway are at the bottom of today's post. 

Such a cute little iphone card using the cupcake by Taheerah! Love the speech bubbles! 

Samantha used the cupcake combined with Newton's Antics! Genius + Adorable! 

Love the bright colors on this card using the sugar by Danielle! And the chalky border is super fun! 

Valerie used the swirly border & pumpkin stamps to create this great clean and simple layout! 

Crafty Math-Chick used several of the stamps in this super cool interactive waterfall card! Don't you just love cards that move? 

I love all the colors and texture in this card by Tessa! What a fun Valentine! 

Don't you love how Christine used the border doodle stamp to create a whole rainbow of doodles! So fun! 

Such a fun sweet and simple card by Larissa! I love the subtle colors with that pop of bright teal! 

Would you like to win Love à la Carte?

This set will be given away to Two lucky winners! Here's how to win: 

Comment on the NND blog and Design Team blogs (see list below)! Two winners will be chosen at random from the collective blogs January release 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 Thursday, January 16th at 9 pm Central Standard Time to comment  -- winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday, January 17th.

Check out all these awesome Design Team Blogs below to enter:

Newton's Nook Designs

Taheerah Atchia

Christine Drogt

Samantha Mann

Larissa Heskett

Crafty Math-Chick

Danielle Pandeline

Valerie Ward

Tessa Wise