Deck the Halls with Inky Paws - Day 1 - Sandy Allnock

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

Each day this week we will have a new awesome featured guest and then a BIG blog hop on Friday, December 4th (with some give-aways, of course!) So make sure you come back and visit us every day!

Today's Featured guest is
Sandy Allnock

Sandy Allnock is an artist and avid cardmaker who’s a bit of a coloring nerd! She has a popular YouTube channel full of videos to teach others the joy of coloring with any number of mediums - Copic markers, watercolor, pencils, and more. Sandy just adores creating little scenes with her stamps, and surrounding them with an atmosphere for them on her cards. She lives in Washington State with her two elderly kitties - Punch and Tsuki.
http://sandyallnock.com/

Here's what Sandy created!

Sandy created this adorable kitty Christmas card using our Newton's Christmas Cuddles Stamp set.  I love how she created this sweet little scene, adding in a log for the kitties to sit on too! She used the no-line coloring technique - isn't it amazing? I love how this looks like it was painted free-hand! Make sure you head over to sandyallnock.com to see a video too and get all the details on how she created this card!  

Thanks so much, Sandy for being our guest today! She will be back for our Deck the Halls with Inky Paws blog hop on Friday, December 4th. Until then, you can visit her at her blog, Sandy Allock to read more about her adorable projects and say hello! She also has a video on her youtube channel here! 

Tomorrow we will have special Guest Amy Kolling from Stamp-n-Paradise 

so make sure you take some time to come back and visit us again! 

Don't forget - today is CYBER MONDAY and the last day of our Big Sale!  

Head over to newtonsnookdesigns.com to save 20% off all orders
until Midnight CST tonight (November 30th) 

This is a great time to pick up some gifts too!

Happy Winter Card by Nina-Marie Trapani + Black Friday Sale

Today I'm sharing this card by Nina-Marie using our Fox Hollow Stamp Set! If you follow Nina-Marie at all you know she's amazing at creating beautiful scenes and this card is a great example of that! She used that sweet fox and trees from our Fox Hollow Stamp Set and cut them out with the coordinating Fox Hollow Die Set! I just LOVE how she colored those trees with the variations of color! The added texture is so pretty! If you look closely you'll also see tiny bits of texture added to the snow too. I just love all the detail she adds in. Oh, and in case you're wondering, the cute little birdies are from the Holiday Smooches stamp set.

Thanks, Nina-Marie for the fun project today! To see more details and other projects, you can visit her blog, Nina-Marie Design.

Don't Miss our BLACK FRIDAY sale!

Are you heading out to the stores today to shop? Or do you prefer to stay home in your PJ's and shop online? If you're doing any online shopping today, We've got a BIG SALE today in our shop!
Head over to newtonsnookdesigns.com to grab your favorites and pick up some gifts too!

Shop early - TODAY only - all orders are 25% off  - Use code FRIDAY25 

Sale continues all weekend - all orders are 20% off - Saturday through Monday - Use code THANKYOU20

Happy Thanksgiving Card by Danielle Pandeline

Happy Thanksgiving!

Today I'm sharing this super cute Thanksgiving card by Danielle. She used our favorite kitty, Newton, from the Newton's Antics stamp set and the "happy" and "Thanksgiving" words from our  Simply Seasonal stamp set! I love all the tiny colored dots behind the words! This is such a simple way to add color to the card and it looks so fun! It's super cute how she added a few dots onto the kitty too to tie him in!

Make sure you head over to Danielle's blog, GirlRacerScrap to see more of her work and say hello!

BLACK FRIDAY SALE tomorrow + Savings ALL weekend!

It's our biggest sale of the year! Make sure to head over to newtonsnookdesigns.com tomorrow to save! Shop early - Friday November 27 only - all orders are 25% off  with code FRIDAY25

Sale continues all weekend - all orders are 20% off Saturday Nov. 28 through Monday Nov. 30
with code THANKYOU20 

Happy Holidays card by Jess Gerstner

Happy Holidays! 

Here is a super sweet Holiday card by Jess! She used our fun new Simply Seasonal stamp set to stamp the "Happy" and "Holidays" and added to the letter y to create a place for the cute kissing birds from our Holiday Smooches stamp set! This is such a cute idea! I also love all those pretty snowflakes stamped in white on the kraft cardstock! That cute little snowflake is also part of the Simply Seasonal stamp set! This set is so fun with the big words and the added in little images - I love how versatile it is!

Thanks for the awesome card today, Jess! You can see more of her projects on her blog, Jess Crafts  - and you can also follow her Jess Crafts youtube channel to see more fun videos!

Merry Sparkles Card by Crafty Math-Chick

Merry Wishes!

Today I'm sharing a super fun and sparkly card by Crafty Math-Chick! She was inspired to use Kraft Paper and Sparkle by our current Inky Paws Challenge! She used the word "merry" from our Holiday Wishes stamp set and added in the little birds from the Winged Wishes stamp set in pretty red glitter! I love how the images pop off the black background! I also love how she added green glitter stripes on the kraft paper background! Such a lovely combo!

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

Enter our Inky Paws challenge #27:
Kraft Paper + Sparkle

We hope this card inspired you to get our your glitter and enter our current Inky Paws Challenge! You have until Friday, December 4th at Midnight CST time to enter. All you need to do is create a card or project with KRAFT paper + SPARKLES and use & 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.

Holiday Cards by Guest Designer, Tatiana Trafimovich!

Beautiful Holiday Cards by Tatiana! 

We have TWO amazing cards today by our November Guest Designer, Tatiana! She is going to WOW you again today with her beautiful cards for the holidays!

First up is this beautiful watercolor card using our Winston's Home for Christmas stamp set. She used the image of Winston driving his car filled with holiday gifts and goodies and watercolored the whole image and the background with gorgeous muted tones! I love the soft feel this had and the beautiful multi-colored sky! What a stunning card!

For her second card today, Tatiana chose to use our Newton's Christmas Cuddles stamp and cut them out with the Newton's Christmas Cuddles Purr-fect Die Set. It's so pretyt how she colored those kitties with the no-line coloring technique! Aren't they so adorable? I also love the intense purple sky she created, with he moon peeking off the edge! Another little detail she added is the sleigh in the sky from the Newton's Curious Christmas stamp set. What a beautiful Christmas card! 

A BIG thank you to Tatiana for being our guest designer this month! Make sure you continue to follow her work over at her blog, Tatiana Art and Craft!

Inky Paws Challenge #27 - Kraft & Sparkle

This month's challenge is a Photo Challenge! 

create a project using Kraft + Sparkle!

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, December 4th, 2015 at Midnight CST. The winners will be announced on the NND blog on Monday, December 7th.

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 IPC27).

• 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 - check out all the awesome birthday cards they created! Read the description below each card to see who made it.

Here's a gorgeous card by our guest Designer, Tatiana! I love those gorgeous gold tags and  and the gold embossed words. She used our new Jolly Tags stamp set and Tags Times Two die and the sentiment is from our new Simply Seasonal stamp set.

Here's a sweet little pillow box by Larissa! I love the red sparkle she added on the snowflake tag from the Jolly Tags stamp set! She also used red sparkle on the word merry from the Holiday Wishes stamp set. 

Danielle created this adorable penguin Holiday card! she used our new our new Simply Seasonal stamp set for the big "happy Holidays" and added the sweet penguins from the Wild Child stamp set - so cute!! I love that gold background too!

Here's a beautiful snowflake card by Jess! I love the embossed white on the Kraft paper - it makes the white really pop off! What a fun way to showcase our Beautiful Blizzard stamp set!

I love those sparkly snowflake tags on this card by Samantha. She used our new Jolly Tags stamp set and Tags Times Two die set!

Here is an awesome Happy New Year Card by Kimberly! I love the gold countdown on the side of the card!! She used our Years of Cheers stamp set for the numbers and champagne glasses and added the sentiments from the new Simply Seasonal stamp set.

Nina-Marie created this awesome winter scene using our Newton's Curious Christmas stamp set for the main images. She also used the sentiments from the Newton's Christmas Cuddles stamp set. If you look close you can find some snowflakes from the Fox Hollow stamp set and gifts from the Holiday Wishes stamp set! I love that gold striped background too!

Here's what I created! I used the Beautiful Blizzard stamp set to create gold and white snowflakes over a Kraft background and then added the "Happy Holidays" sentiment from our new Simply Seasonal Stamp set. 

Now it's your turn! What will you create? Link up below:

An InLinkz Link-up

Happy Howl-idays Card by Yukari Yoshioka

Happy Howl-idays!

All the puppy lovers out there will love this sweet holiday card by Yukari using our Canine Christmas stamp set! I love her color combo of neutrals with the pops of forest green and red! That scottie dog is so sweet bring you some happy mail for the holidays! I love the way she colored him to match her papers. So pretty! This stamp set has a bunch of different dog images so make sure you check it out if you like dogs!

Thanks so much to Yukari for the awesome inspiration today. You can head over to Yukari's blog, Handmade by Yuki and see more details about her project. 

Peace on Earth Card by Samantha Mann

Peaceful and sweet fox!

Here is a beautiful card by Samantha Mann using our adorable fox from the Fox Hollow stamp set. I love the sweet watercoloring she did on the the fox and the fun soft vellum! The background she created is so gorgeous too! I love the way she used the little snowflake image embossed in white and the fun ombre distressed sky!  

Thanks, Samantha for the fun inspiration today! For more details on her project and to see what else she's creating, you can visit Samantha's Blog, Sam's Scrap Candy! 

25 Tags of Christmas Tags!

Today we are excited to part of the 25 Days of Christmas Tags with Tracey McNeely. We are now on day 17 - so make sure you visit her blog to see all 25 days along with beautiful inspiration! Today she's Featuring the Newton's Nook Design Team on her blog so make sure you head over there to see some more beautiful tags using NND products! 

Here's what I created to play along:

I used our new Jolly Tags Stamp set to create this super cute little holiday milk bottle! I found this fun bottle and straw at the local craft store and knew it would be an awesome way to showcase those cute tags! I stamped the snowman on Kraft paper and colored him with colored pencils! I love the look of white on Kraft paper. I added in some white snow with a white pico embellisher. The tag was cut out with our Tags Times Two die set.

I love how this turned out. Wouldn't it be so fun to make these as place settings for a festive Holiday dinner party? Fill them with a favorite drink and you would have such a cute table! 

Inspired? You can play along - link up a tag you've created at Tracey's Blog Here!

She's giving away some awesome prizes too, Including one from us at Newton's Nook Designs! 

More Jolly Tags Inspriation

Tons of Tags!!

Hello and Happy Monday! This is Jen here today with a few more tag projects using our NEW Jolly Tags stamp set and coordinating Tags Times Two die set. Once I started working with these tags I kept thinking of more ideas of how to use them and I ended up with a whole bunch of fun little projects! They are really so fun to use and put together little gifts so quickly! The photo above is of a cute little set of pillow boxes! I stamped on the boxes using the little snowflake from our Simply Seasonal stamp set and then assembled them and tied them with some red twine. For the tags, I stamped the images from our Jolly Tags stamp set onto watercolor paper and cut them out with the coordinating Tags Times Two die set. I colored them with zig clean color markers and added them onto the little pillow boxes. So quick and easy!

For the next project I created this fun snowman card! I used the snowman image from the Jolly Tags stamp set and again stamped him on watercolor paper and cut it out with the coordinating Tags Times Two die set. Then I colored him with zig clean color brush markers and added a fun bit of lace ribbon. For the card base I used a chevron stencil and some sparkly embossing paste to create the fun background. Then I added a couple of flags using blue polka dot and blue glitter paper. I added it all to the card and used the "Snow-one else like you" sentiment from the Frozen Friends stamp set.  

Hope you enjoyed today's post. Make sure to come back tomorrow as we take part of the 25 tags of Christmas blog hop with Tracey McNeely!!

November 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 new products are now available at newtonsnookdesigns.com

Plus - we just added a new die sets to coordinate
with previously released Beautiful Blizzard stamp set! 

Beautiful Blizzard Die Set

This coordinates with our Beautiful Blizzard stamp set.

November 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 the blogs and the comments were chosen using randomnumbergenerator.com.


For the Jolly Tags stamp set from Jess's blog: 

For the Simply Seasonal stamp set from the Newton's Nook Design's blog: 

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 shipping address to claim your prize.

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