Wishing You a Slice of Happiness by Danielle Pandeline

Yummy Watermelon card by Danielle! 

I think our Design Team is wishing for summer this week! I have another fun Summery card today - this one is by Danielle!  Danielle used the Sweet Summer stamp set, stamping the citrus slices in yellow to create a fun backdrop for the watermelon slice in the front! I love how the yellow pops off the white! So bright and cheery! Now I want to eat watermelon, how about you?

Thanks so much Danielle for making us think of spring today! Make sure you head over to Danielle's blog, GirlRacerScrap to see more of her work and say hello!

Blog Hop Tomorrow

Tomorrow is May 1st and we're celebrating with a special May Flowers Blog Hop tomorrow! Make sure you come back - there's going to be  awesome projects by the whole team and prizes too! 

Rainbow Surfboard card by Jess Moyer

Rainbow of Surfboards for Winston! 

Today I'm sharing a fantastic rainbow card by Jess Moyer! Jess used the surfboard from the Beach Party stamp set  and colored it in a bunch of rainbow colors. Which one will Winston (our bear) choose to go surfing with?  She also used the "enjoy your day" sentiment from the Newton's Summer Vacation stamp set. 

Make sure to visit Jess at her blog, Jess Crafts  - and you can also follow her Jess Crafts youtube channel to see more fun videos!

Happy Birthday Card by Crafty Math Chick

Happy Birthday Doxie Card

Do need to create a birthday card? This sweet and colorful Birthday card by Crafty Math-Chick is sure to inspire! She used the three sets to create this fun birthday card -  the dachshund  with the ballon on his tail is from Delightful Doxies, the hat & cupcake images are from Winston's Birthday, and the "Happy Birthday" Sentiment is from Newton's Birthday Bash.

Thanks, Crafty Math-Chick for the fun card today! To see more details and other projects, you can visit her blog, Canines & Card Designs.

By the way - Did you notice she used the sketch from our inky paws challenge as inspiration? She turned it sideways and used the fun candles instead of banners! So cool! See challenge info below.

Enter our Inky Paws challenge #20
SKETCH Challenge!

Have you checked out our latest challenge? You have until Friday,  May 8th at Midnight CST time to enter our current inky Paws Challenge. All you need to do is create a card or project based on this sketch and using & NND products! 

The winners of this challenge will get a $10 gift card to our shop! 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 play along - just download and use one of the digital freebies on our freebies page.

Rainbow Floral Thank You card by Nicole Picadura!

Floral Rainbow by Nicole Picadura 

Today I'm sharing another beautiful creation by our April Guest Designer, Nicole! I love the rainbow of flowers she created on this card using our new Fanciful Florals stamp set! Isn't it gorgeous? And the popped out "thanks" sentiment is super fun! 

Nicole also has a video over on her blog today so head over to Scraps n Stamps and to see her video and how she made it!

A Big thank you to Nicole for the fun inspiration today!

Inky Paws Challenge #20 - SKETCH Challenge

This month's challenge is to a Create a project using the sketch below! 

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, May 8th, 2015 at Midnight CST. The winners will be announced on the NND blog on Monday, March 9th.

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

• Create a NEW project (card or other paper craft item).

• 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 , Pinterest, or splitcoaststampers (on splitcoast please use keywords newtonsnook and IPC20).

• 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. 
• TIP: Please make sure your photo in focus  - We can't pick you as a winner if we can't see your card clearly because your photo is blurry! 

Here's some inspiration!

Several of our Design Team Members decided to play along - Remember the sketch is just an inspiration - check out all the ways the interpreted it! Read the description below each card to see who made it!

 This fun card by Yuki features one the kitty from one of our favorite sets, Newton's Antics and the heartfelt sympathy words from the Simply Sentimental set. 

Here's a sweet spring card by Samantha using our Spring Showers stamp set! I love the vellum!

Kimberly turned the sketch sideways and used our cute new Delightful Doxies stamp set! So adorable!!

Stephanie created this cheery card using the flower pot from the new Garden Whimsy stamp set. 

I love the black and white color combo on this card by Larissa. She used our Beautiful Blossoms Stamp set. 

Here's one by me - I used our new Delightful Doxies stamp set.  I just love that cute pup with his butt being picked up by a balloon!

An InLinkz Link-up

Thanks for Everything Card by Yukari Yoshioka

Sparkly Floral Thank You!

Do you love sparkle? Then you will love this card today by Yukari. She used the big bold blooms in our new Fanciful Florals with pretty peach, mint and grey inks - aren't those colors so yummy?  Then she added on those fun sparkly letters. I also love the bit of sparkle on the washi tape! The "for everything" sentiment is from the Simply Sentimental stamp set.  I also love the fun layout on this card - how she left white space on the bottom of the card. 

You can link over to Yukari's blog, Handmade by Yuki and see more details about her card today - Make sure you check out her other awesome work too! 

Happy Bird-Day Card by Samantha Mann

Happy Bird-day!

Today I'm sharing this awesome birthday card Samantha Mann! She used the image of the flamingo wearing an inner tube from the Flirty Flamingos stamp set - love how she colored with the some fun pink speckles! Then she created some really fun watercolor splotches for the background and added in some waves using the wave border from the Beach Party stamp set! This is such a great beachy card to send someone for to wish them a cheerful birthday! 

For more details on this awesome card, check out Samantha's Blog, Sam's Scrap Candy! 

You Lift me Up, Pup!

Up up and away...

I'm back again today with a new card to share - this one uses that cute dachshund pup from our new Delightful Doxies stamp set! I had so much fun playing the the little pups in this set - it's so fun to add the balloon and kite to the strings that they have attached to their bodies! I can just imagine these little guys flying away! So adorable!  For this card I used a tag punch to create a tag for the image to be on and then colored the dog and balloon with copics. I added some washi tape and some fun pattern papers and then the "you lift me up" sentiment was punched out with a circle punch! I love the bright springy colors on this one!

If you haven't checked out our Delightful Doxies stamp set - you can get it in our shop now! It's selling fast so make sure to pop over and get yours!

Clean and Simple Bunny Card

Such a sweet garden bunny!

I can't get enough of this bunny in our new Garden Whimsy stamp set - he's just SO CUTE! To create this quick clean and simple card I stamped the bunny on a piece of white card stock and colored him with copic markers. I left the bunny white, just adding a few tiny highlights in grey.

Then I added the "plant smiles" sentiment and then simply added the panel to the yellow card base, slightly askew with some white stripe washi tape! Then I added a bit of bakers twine because I just love bakers twine!

I'm not usually the best at doing clean and simple cards but I really love how this one turned out! Isn't it fun when you create something that unexpectedly comes out better than you thought it would? That's how I felt with this one!

I hope this bright sunshine-y card makes your Monday just a bit better :)

April Release Now Available + Blog Hop Winners

Are you ready to get your paws inky with our new stamps?

Winners from the blog hop are posted below - scroll down to see if you won

Our stamps are now available at newtonsnookdesigns.com

April 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.


For the stamp set Delightful Doxies from Yukari's blog :

For the stamp set Fanciful Florals from Danielle's blog:

For the stamp set Garden Whimsy from Kimberly's blog:



Congrats to the Winners! Don't forget - you have 7 days to e-mail us at info@newtonsnookdesigns.com with your full name and shipping address to claim your prize.

Remember - you can shop online now - our new release is up in the store!

Follow along for more inspiration!

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April Reveal Day 3 - Garden Whimsy

Today is our first reveal for our April Release and we are featuring the set Garden Whimsy! We are giving this set away to one lucky winner so make sure you read all the way to the bottom of this post to see how to win! 

Get ready for garden season with this 4 x 6 stamp set. Winston and his friends are ready to help you plant your garden and celebrate friendship! This set is filled with sweet friendship sayings that will be perfect for spring and summer cards! The image of the fence is repeatable so you can create cute little scenes and borders.

Here's some info on Garden Whimsy 

• 4 x 6 photopolymer stamp set 
• Includes 17 stamps: 12 images and 5 sentiments
• Available for purchase in our online shop starting Friday, April 17th

Let's get inspired...

Check out all the amazing projects below from our Design Team and Guest Designer Nicole Picadura. 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. 

Guest Designer, Nicole Picadura created this cute clean and simple card with such pretty soft spring colors! 

I love how Kimberly placed Winston to look as if he's just on the edge of the garden gate! Adorable! 

This super fun card is by Danielle - I really DIG the fun bright watercolor background! 

This card by Taheerah will make you laugh - Winston is wondering where his flower went!!

Lydia created this awesome card! I love the way she cut out a circle and used the flowers to frame on the edges to create a focus on the garden tools! 

Yukari  created this adorable scene! I love all the dimension it has with the layers of fence, grass and sky! 

Jess created this cutie - I love the big blue circle she masked behind Winston and all the fun layers of grass!

I love the watercolor background behind the fence on this card by Samantha!

Stephanie added the bunny in front of the fence with some masking - love the watercolor too!

Here's a clean and simple card by Crafty Math-Chick! I love the two little birds looking at each other on the fence!

Such a sweet little scene with the bunny and the fence by Larissa  - I love the flower border too! 

Would you like to win “Garden Whimsy”?

This set will be given away to ONE lucky winner! 

Here's how to win: 

Comment on the NND blog and Design Team and Guest blogs (see list below)! The winner will be chosen at random from the collective blog 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, April 16th at 9pm CDT to comment  -- winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday, April 17th. 

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

Newton's Nook Designs

Taheerah Atchia

Lydia Evans

Larissa Heskett

Samantha Mann

Crafty Math-Chick

Jess Moyer

Stephanie Muzzulin

Danielle Pandeline

Kimberly Rendino

Yukari Yoshioka

Nicole Picadura (Guest Designer)