Sloth-some birthday card by Ka!

Sloth-some Birthday Card by Ka! 

Today we have a feature by our guest designer for February, Ka Slagoski. Check out this awesome sloth card and info below from Ka!

Hello and Happy Leap Day! 

I am sharing this fun birthday card I made for my husband's birthday. Don't you just love this cute sloth and sentiment from the In Slow Motion stamp set? I absolutely love him and think he is the perfect critter for a masculine card.

For this card, I wanted to create a tropical rain forest sunset scene with a mountainous silhouette behind the sloth and I think I achieved the look I was going for.

I started out by creating a mountainous mask using a wavy metal dies and masking paper. I first blended the upper part of a white cardstock and then went back to blend the mountainous silhouette. While I waited for the background to dry, I stamped, colored and fussy cut the sloth out. I stamped the sentiment in Jet Black StazOn Ink onto a piece of acetate cardstock. I decided to create my own nature sequins mix using an assorted colors and sizes from Pretty Pink Posh. After arranging everything to its proper place, I assembled the shaker and adhered the entire shaker to an Olive card base.

I don't know how anyone could pass up this stamp set. The set includes different types of critters and I love how you can use the critters for all sorts of occasions and different types of projects. So head over quickly to the Newton's Nook Shop to grab yours if you haven't already!

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you enjoyed today's card!



Wasn't that amazing? Special thanks to Ka for being our guest designer this month! We really enjoyed having you and your projects were so cute!! If you like her work, you can continue to follow Ka on her blog, stamping smiles designs.

Leap Day Sale! 

Since today is LEAP DAY we thought it would be fun to have a little one day sale in celebration! Stock up today and get FREE Shipping with a $29 purchase to US addresses (or $3.50 off international orders). Today only at www.newtonsnookdesigns.com

Love No Bunny Butt You Card by Nina-Marie Trapani

Fun Bunny Butt Card!

Today I'm sharing an adorable bunny card by Nina-Marie using our Bunny Hop Stamp Set!  I love the way she colored the bunny and eggs and added fun hand-drawn grass too! What a fun little spring scene! She also used the "love no bunny but you" sentiment, also from the Bunny Hop Stamp Set! I love the added bunny background paper too!

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

ONE WEEK LEFT to Enter our Inky Paws Challenge #29 - COLOR Challenge

Have you checked out our latest challenge? You have until Friday, March 4th at Midnight CST time to enter our current inky Paws Challenge. All you need to do is create a card or project inspired by theme Red, Light Blue, Lime Green and White 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.

Neon Spring Eggs by Danielle Pandeline

Get ready for Spring with Neon Eggs!

Wow! Checkout the fun bright neon colored eggs on this spring card by Danielle.  She used our fun cracked eggs from our Easter Scramble stamp set stamped them in fun bright neon colors. Then she added the cute chick to one of them! The fun background and sunshine and clouds sets a perfect scene for this fun, cheery spring card! I know I'm definitely ready for a sunshiny spring day!  The "think spring" sentiment is also from the Easter Scramble stamp set !

To see more fun creations by Danielle you can head over her blog, GirlRacerScrap and say hello!

Happy Mother's Day Penguin Card by Jess Gerstner

Sweet Penguins for Mother's Day! 

Awww! What mom wouldn't love this adorable mother's day card by Jess? She used the sweet little penguin mother and chick from our Wild Child stamp set and fussy cut them out to add to her card! I love the colors on this card. The basic black and white with the pop of bright pink and red on the oval really creating a stunning combo!

For the sentiment she used the fun big "happy" and "mother's day" from the Simply Seasonal stamp set! This set is one you can use all year long to make custom sentiments for any Holiday or Occassion! Just mix and match the different "happy" stamps with all the included words!

If you haven't had a chance to check out the Simply Seasonal stamp set, here's an image of it: 

Thanks for the fun inspiration 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 fun crafty videos!

Sending Hugs Kitty Spinner Card by Crafty Math-Chick

Send some hugs with this sweet Kitty Card!

Today we have a super FUN spinner card by Crafty Math-Chick! She thought that the image of the kitty on the enormous ball of yarn from our Newton Unwinds stamp set would make a fun spinner card and we definitely agree! It's super cute how cut out the kitty with Newton Unwinds Die Set and has him spinning across the card on the ball of yarn with a bunch of colorful yarn behind him. Her coloring on this image is so cool too - I love how she created a variegated yarn with blue, yellow, and grey and the fun stripes on the kitty! She finished it off with the "sending hugs" sentiment, also from the Newton Unwinds stamp set.

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

Happy Everything! Rose Card by Jennifer Jackson

Happy Everything! 

I had so much fun playing with watercolors and our Love Grows stamp set to create this card! I stamped several of the roses and leaves on a piece of watercolor paper using waterproof black ink. Then I used distress  inks to color the roses  and the teal background and splattered some ink over them to get the fun watercolored droplets! I love how this turned out. 

Then I stamped the "happy everything" sentiment using words from the Simply Sentimental stamp set on some Vellum. I added the vellum to the card with a piece of gold dotted washi tape (it's always so hard to figure out how to adhere vellum!). Then I added on some wooden heart embellishments and a piece of gold twine to finish it off and added it to the card base!

I love how this card turned out - it's a nice "general" card to have on hand - I could use it for a birthday, anniversary, or even for a wedding card!

Cupcake Inspirations Challenge Sponsor!

Have you heard of the Cupcake Inspirations Challenge? This is such a fun Challenge Group! For each challenge they post a YUMMY cupcake photo and color combo for inspiration! Everybody likes cupcakes, right?

The current challenge going up today features this yummy image:

We're sponsoring this challenge so If you head over to their blog and play along you have a chance to win a $20 store credit to our store at newtonsnookdesigns.com! How awesome is that?

I was inspired by this challenge to get out our Versatile Vases stamp set and create a floral card. I haven't used this set in awhile and I really love the little jars and vases in it! I stamped the image of the Jar and flowers onto watercolor paper with waterproof ink. Then I added some color with Inktense watercolor pencils. The "hello" sentiment is also from our Versatile Vases stamp set!

I tried to keep it simple - I like the airiness of the inspiration photo so I left a used a lot of white on the card. I embossed a piece of white with a flower embossing folder to add a bit of texture. For a bit of color on the base, I used a piece of patterend paper from my stash that had just a tiny bit of sublte blue pattern on it. I love how this turned out!

Make sure you pop over to the Cupcake Inspirations Challenge blog to see more fun today. We have several other NND Design Team members featured as "Guest Sweeties" for this challenge and a bunch of the regular "Sweeties" (that's what they call their Design Team -- cute, right?) are featuring Newton's Nook Designs stamps too!

Inky Paws Challenge #29 - Color Challenge

This month's challenge is a Color Challenge! 

use the colors Red, Light Blue, Lime Green and White

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, March 4th, 2015 at Midnight CST. The winners will be announced on the NND blog on Monday, February 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 IPC29).

• 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.

Yuki created a fun kitchen window scene using our new Made from Scratch Stamp set and Made from Scratch Die Set! What an adorable birthday card!

Danielle created this adorable scene using sever NND sets. The kitties are from our Newton's Antics stamp set and the trees are from the Whispering Pines stamp set. She also used the fun "meow" die cut shape from our new Newton Unwinds Die set!

What a beautiful shaker card by Larissa! I love how she used our new Made from Scratch stamp set and Made from Scratch Die Set to create this awesome kitchen themed card!

Our February Guest Designer, Ka Slagoski played along with our Versatile Vases Stamp Set! I love the pop of red on the flowers in the center! So pretty!

Here's one by me (Jen) - I also used the new Made from Scratch Stamp set and Made from Scratch Die Set! I added some images to a watercolored background and added the red gingham bow to add to the kitchen feel!

An InLinkz Link-up

Life's a Garden Card by Yukari Yoshioka

Life's a Garden! 

Who's ready for Spring? This cheery spring garden card today by Yukari has definitely given me a bit of spring fever!  She created this adorable garden card using our bear, Winston with his watering jug from our Garden Whimsy stamp set! I love how she created a little scene with him watering that cute little flower! The colorful inked background is so pretty! The "Life's a garden" sentiment is also from our Garden Whimsy stamp set! 

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

Whisking You a Happy Birthday Card by Samantha Mann

Pretty in Pink - in the Kitchen! 

I'm LOVING this adorable PINK card today by Samantha using our brand new Made from Scratch stamp set. I  love how she stamped all the fun baking tools in black and added pink distress ink over the top! If you look closely you can see fun little white details added in too! The vellum bar with the "whisking you a Happy Birthday" sentiment adds the perfect finishing touch! I love how quick and easy it would be to make cards like this. As much as I LOVE coloring stamped images sometimes it's nice to have a quick and easy alternative that's pretty too! 

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! 

Meow You Doing? Kitty Card

Meow you doing? 

I had so much fun playing with our new Newton Unwinds stamp set! I love this image of the kitty playing with his ball of yarn! To make this card I stamped the kitty on some watercolor paper with waterproof black ink. Then I colored him using zig clean color markers - I love the fun bright colors these markers have. I mixed an orange, brown and black to give the kitty a soft of natural looking multi-colored fur pattern. I love how it turned out! Then I gave him a bright blue ball of yarn! I used the coordinating Newton Unwinds Die Set to cut out the kitty!

To make this into a card, I added the kitty image on top of a white circle and added in some fun pattern papers with clouds and flowers from my stash (I admit, I'm a bit of a patterned paper hoarder!)   I found a piece of bright green paper and added on the "Meow you doing?" sentiment, also from the Newton Unwinds stamp set. To finish it off I also added a bit of striped washi tape and some orange yarn. I thought the yarn tied nicely in since the kitty has his own yarn! LOL! 

Hope you enjoyed this card today! You can find these fun new products now at newtonsnookdesigns.com.

Le Meow Kitty Card

le meow!

I hope everyone had a good Valentine's Day! I wanted to share one more "love" card today. This card could easily be a Valentine but you could also use it anytime of year or for any occasion. I used one of my personal favorites, Newton Dreams of Paris and stamped the image of the kitty in the hot air balloon as the focal point of my card. I colored the image with copic markers using the red and black color theme for the hot air balloon and adding on a few darker stripes to the yellow kitty! I added on the "le meow" sentiment, also from the Newton Dreams of Paris stamp set. Then I added some distressing to the edges with a sponge and some distress ink.

To make the image into a card, I chose some simple black and white striped and newsprint papers and added them to the red card base. I also inked the edges of the patterned papers a bit. For the finishing touch, I added some black and white bakers twine. I love how this turned out!  Hope you enjoyed it! 

February Release 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

February 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 Made from Scratch stamp set from Yuki's blog: 

For the Newton Unwinds stamp set from Kimberly'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! 

February Reveal Day 2 - Newton Unwinds Stamp Set + Die

Today is our first reveal day for our  February Release and we are featuring the new Newton Unwinds stamp set + Coordinating Newton Unwinds Die Set! We are giving the stamp 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! 

Unwind some fun with this 4 x 6 stamp set showcasing Newton, our favorite feline! This set features fun playful kitty images paired with inspirational sentiments that are sure to make you smile! Send hugs and uplifting cards to all your kitty loving friends.

Here's some info on the Newton Unwinds stamp set:

• 4 x 6 photopolymer stamp set 
• Includes 10 stamps: 5 images and 5 sentiments
• Available for purchase in our online shop starting Friday, February 12th

This set also has a coordinating die - Newton Unwinds Die set:

• This die set coordinates with Newton Unwinds Stamp set and has 6 dies 
• Available for purchase in our online shop starting Friday, February 12th

Let's unwind some great cards from our Design Team & Guest!

Check out all the amazing projects below from our Design Team & Guest Designer 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.

This first card is by our February Guest, Ka Slagoski. I love the brilliant blue yarn and the fun polka dot background! 

I love how Kimberly created a room for her kitty to play in - and the no-line coloring on that kitty image is so pretty! 

This square card by Yukari is so sweet! I love the two-toned background with all the heart and the cute kitty popping out of the corner with this giant ball of yarn! 

It's so cute how Nina-Marie  created a bunch of yarn for the kitty to play in! She also used the "sending Snuggles" sentiment from the Darling Duos Stamp Set. 

I love the fun teal and gold background on this card by Samantha! I also love how she created a the "meow you doing" sentiment using the big die-cut meow. 

I love the bright colors on this card by Stephanie! The ruler paper and added yarn add the perfect finishing touches! 

This card by Danielle is so sweet! I love the fun floral background paper and the "sending hugs" sentiment with the little heart cut-out! 

Crafty Math-Chick created this fun and playful kitty card. That background paper is the perfect match for this fun kitty image! 

Jess created such a fun background using the bonus "meow" die cut from this new set! I love how she colored the kitty on kraft paper too! 

Lydia stamped the yarn onto felt to create this soft and sweet kitty card! Such a fun way to add a special detail! 

Lastly, we have this sweet shaker card by Larissa! I love all the shaker window and all the fun red yarn for the kitty to play with! So cute! 

Would you like to win the “Made from Scratch” Stamp Set?

This set will be given away to ONE lucky winner! 

Here's how to win: 

Comment on the NND blog and Design Team 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, February 11th at 9pm CST to comment  -- winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday, February 12th. 

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

Newton's Nook Designs

Lydia Evans

Larissa Heskett

Samantha Mann

Crafty Math-Chick

Jess Gerstner

Stephanie Muzzulin

Danielle Pandeline

Nina-Marie Trapani

Kimberly Rendino

Yukari Yoshioka

Ka Slagoski - Guest Designer