Caring Hearts Blog Hop

Caring Hearts Card Drive is a card drive organized by Vera Yates & Jennifer McGuire with the goal to collect holiday cards for the elderly that lives in nursing home. During this time many of the elderly who lives in nursing homes would really feel the loneliness or missing their family. Wouldn't it be so awesome if we can bring a smile to their face & brighten their holiday season simply by sharing our love of card making? A simple gesture to let them know that they are not forgotten.

The card drive is going on right now till November 28, 2014. If you'd like to send your cards for the card drive please go to visit these posts on Vera Yates or Jennifer McGuire blogs for the card drive details. There are prizes for participating too - including a store credit from us at Newton's Nook Designs - so make sure to send some cards their way!

Since this blog hop is all about holiday cards I wanted to share a fun Winston Holiday card today. I used the image of our bear, Winston, from the Winston's Home for Christmas stamp set - just released a few weeks ago. This image of the bear in his car heading your way to bring holiday cheer is one of my favorite images to color in this set! For this card, I colored the image with distress ink markers  and a waterbrush on watercolor paper.

To create the card, I used a red cardstock base, added some stripy blue paper that matched the color I colored the car and then stamped the "all hearts come home for christmas sentiment, also from the Winston's Home for Christmas stamp set. I also added some sequins - just because they always make the card look pretty!

Make sure you scroll down and check out all the blogs on today's hop - Plus - No hop is complete without prizes - check out the end of this post to see the prize list. Leave comments until comments till midnight CST Saturday, Nov. 8, 2014. Winners will be chosen randomly based on collective comments left on the designers's blogs. So be sure to leave loads of love for everyone!

Here's the hop list:

Vera Yates

Savannah O’Gwynn

Caroline Bredeson

Julee Tilman

Chaitali Narla

Reverse Confetti

Amy Kolling

Amy Sheffer

Sarah Gough

Amber Hight

Lisa Henke

Kathy Martin

Laurie Schmidlin

Susan Liles

Stacey Schafer

Linda McLain

Latina Crafter

Newton’s Nook Designs <-- you are here

Here's the prize list for the blog hop today - remember there are prizes for participating in the card drive as well- click here to see the complete list! 

Online Card Classes – class of your choice! (THREE winners.) 

Simon Says Stamp – $50 gift certificates

Inspiration emporium – $25 gift certificate

Verve Stamps - $30 gift certificate

Latina Crafter - $15 GC

May Arts – 2 rolls of ribbon

Paper Crafts & Scrapbooking - 1 year free subscription to Paper Crafts & Scrapbooking Magazine