A Pineapple a Day Card by Amanda Bodine

Pretty Pineapples!

Happy Friday! Who's ready for the weekend!? Today's card by Amanda will help you wash your cares from the week away! She created this fun and colorful card using our Pineapple Delight stamp set! She inked those pineapples up using two tones of ink to create that fun look! Then she trimmed them them out and added green tops using the coordinating Pineapple Delights Die Set! I love the added glitter to the pineapple tops! She added them onto that super fun bright blue watercolor card base along with some little swirls and the "A Pineapple a day keeps the worries away" sentiment, also from the Pineapple Delight stamp set! The bits of gold washi tape give it the perfect finishing touch! 

Thanks for the fun inspiration today, Amanda! To see more of her beautiful coloring and projects, visit Amanda over at her blog,  RutabagaPie Designs!

Have a great weekend!

Cupcake Challenge Celebrates 400!

Have you heard of the Cupcake Inspirations Challenge? For each challenge they post a YUMMY cupcake photo and color combo for inspiration! Everybody likes cupcakes, right? This week we are helping the Cupcake "Sweeties" celebrate their 400th Challenge! That's a LOT of Cupcakes & Cute cards too! 

The Challenge is, of course, a Birthday Challenge: 

We're sponsoring this challenge so If you head over to their blog and play along you have a chance to win a $25 store credit to our store at newtonsnookdesigns.com! How awesome is that?

Of couse, I wanted to play along too! Here's what I created:

Of course, I HAD to use our Newton Loves Cake Stamp set! It just seemed so perfect for this! I had so much fun coloring this image of Newton with the giant stacked cake! I used inktense watercolor pencils and a water brush. Then I trimmed out the image using the coordinating Newton Loves Cake Die Set. Since the image is fairly large and detailed I kept the card simple, using a dark blue base and white layer over that. I added some washi tape in teal and lime and a scalloped edge cut out with our Sky Borders Die Set. Then I added on the kitty image with some foam adhesive to give it a bit of dimension. I stamped the "Happy CAKE day" sentiment next to the kitty! This sentiment cracks me up! So cute! And to finish it off I added a bit of blue and white bakers twine! Simple and fun! 

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!

Thinking of You Card by Tatiana Trafimovich

Spring Garden of Blooms!

The lovely garden of blooms on this card by Tatiana is sure to inspire you to think Spring!  She created all those lovely flowers using our new Cottage Garden stamp set! She stamped the sweet pink and purple tulips, green leaves and tiny blue flowers and trimmed them all out using the coordinating Cottage Garden Die Set. Then she added some extra little white dots onto the images to add some fun detail!  Then she assembled all the little pieces onto a kraft cardstock base along with a fence! Of course she had to add the bunny to the scene, also from the Cottage Garden stamp set.  The bunny is sitting on a cute stitched hill that was die cut using the Land Borders Die Set too! 

If you love this card make sure you visit Tatiana on her blog, Tatiana Craft and Art to say hello see more of beautiful creations!

Happy Spring Card by Naki Rager

A Sweet Wreath for Spring!

Our Design Team is definitely thinking SPRING this week! Today we have this lovely Spring wreath card by Naki! She used two fun Spring stamp sets to create this card. The pretty floral wreath is from the Happy Little Thoughts stamp set and the sweet bunny is from the new Cottage Garden stamp set. She embossed both the images with white embossing powder and trimmed them out with their coordinating die sets. Then she added soft colors onto both images. Since the bunny is a bold stamp it remained mostly white but she added a little pink and green to the ears and flower decoration on it. Doesn't that look so pretty? Then she added the images to her card with layers of stitching and vellum and a lovely leaf background! All these elements combine so perfectly to create a wonderful Spring card!

Make sure you head over to say hello to Naki  and see more of her beautiful creations at her blog, Notes from Naki!

Rain or Shine Card by Holly Endress

Rain or Shine!

Have you had rainy spring weather where you live? It's been rainy here at NND headquarters lately so this adorable card by Holly has totally brightened our day!

Holly created this awesome card using our new Newton's Rainy Day stamp set! It's so cute how she colored the image of the kitty and his little duckie friend. Then she paper pierced the umbrella with pink polka dot paper that matches the background! What a fun idea! She also used our new Land Borders Die Set to create the fun stitched curve shape! 

Here's a video by Holly showing you how she created this fun card:

Thank you, Holly, for inspiring us today! You can find more of Holly's beautiful creations and say hello to her over at her blog, Hollybeary Creations or visit her YouTube Channel for more fun videos!

Wish You Were Here Card by March Guest Designer Eloise Blue

Hello everyone! Eloise here and today I'm here with my last post for being a guest designer for Newton's Nook. It's been such a great month, I've loved creating with these stamps and thank you to Newton's Nook for having me this month!

For my card today I'm using the Newton's Summer Vacation stamp once again and doing a fun bubble watercolour background.

To start off my card today, I stamped out little Newton in the floaty ring, coloured him in with some Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers and then fussy cut him out.

For my background, I did the bubble watercolour technique. For this I just used a bowl, some water, dishwashing liquid and then some Dr. PH Martins Hydrus Watercolours. I first mixed the water and dishwashing liquid in the bowl, grabbed a straw, blew some bubbles, added some colour on top of the bubbles using the dropper included with the bottle of watercolours, blew more bubbles using my straw and swiped my watercolour cardstock through and pounced it on top. I repeated this several times to get the intended look. I then dried it off with a heat tool and you get this fun watercolour bubble look.

Once my background was dry and my image was coloured, I adhered the image onto my background with foam tape and then stamped the 'wish you were here' sentiment with black ink directly onto the background. I then adhered the entire panel onto a white card base and the card was complete.

Super simple card for today but I absolutely love this background look, I love this technique!

Thanks so much for stopping by today and for Newton's Nook for having me this month! I had a lot of fun playing with your stamps. :)

- Eloise

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A Blog Named Hero - 5th Anniversary Celebration

Today I'm hopping along with the 5th Anniversary Celebration for A Blog Named Hero!

If you haven't heard of them yet, A Blog Named Hero is a fun challenge blog where participants use Hero Arts stamps in combo with other companies products to create fun challenge designs! They featured Newton's Nook Stamps last April (see more here).

Today they are celebrating their 5th Anniversary so when they asked us to play along we couldn't resist! Today is the first day of their TWO DAY blog hop! There are going to be FUN prizes on both day too - including one today from us at Newton's Nook Designs! You can head over to the A Blog Named Hero for more details on the prizes and view the whole hop list!

Here's what I created:

Most of the best celebrations include cake, right? So I thought it would be fitting to get out our Newton Loves Cake stamp set to play along! I created this sweet card using the image of the kitty sneaking a bit of cake! I stamped the image onto watercolor paper with archival jet black ink and colored the image using inktense colored pencils and a water brush. I also stamped the hat and colored it the same way. Then I trimmed out both images using the coordinating Newton Loves Cake Die Set. I added the image to a white panel with some dimensional foam adhesive. I kept the card pretty simple to focus on the cute image, leaving the bottom all white except for a few fun sequins and the "Did someone say cake?" sentiment, also from the Newton Loves Cake stamp set. Then I cut a piece of purple heart paper using using the stitched curve from our Land Borders Die Set and put that across the top with some pink and white bakers twine! 

Purr-fect for a celebration, don't you think? 

If you are new to us, you might not know that Newton is our real kitty! You can follow us on facebook or instagram to see lots of photos of him! 

If you haven't checked out this set yet, here's an image

of the  Newton Loves Cake stamp set:

Hope you enjoyed this celebratory cake card today! 

The next stop on the hop is  Sindhura

Info on the giveaway from A Blog Named Hero:

A Blog Named Hero is so thankful for our wonderful sponsors and collaborating companies! Several companies decided to help us celebrate our fifth anniversary with giveaways and they were so generous that we decided to spread the love over both hop days with different prizes to be won each day! Giveaway prizes total more than $500! To win, leave a comment on each hop stop. We will select winners randomly from different blogs so the more blogs you visit each day, the greater your chances of winning! And be sure to visit A Blog Named Hero on Sundayfor the list of Sunday hoppers and prizes! Comments must be left before 11:59 PM EDT on Tuesday, March 28th and winners will be announced on March 30th.

Today's prizes include the following: $50 gift card to Hero Arts
$40 gift card to Pretty Pink Posh
$35 gift card to Lil' Inker Designs
$25 gift card to Newton's Nook Designs
$25 gift card to Paper Smooches
$25 gift card to Winnie and Walter
$25 gift card to The Ton 

$20 gift card to Right at Home

One Online Card Class of your choice

Good luck and happy hopping!!**

Lucky to Have You Interactive Card by Ellen Haxelmans

This is our second blog post today - if you're looking for our post for the Coffee Lovers Blog Hop, scroll down or click here. 

You'll be surprised at what's inside!

Do you ever decorate the inside of your cards? Today's project by Ellen might inspire you to think about how much fun the inside of cards can be! She started out with an adorable card front featuring the kitty in the mailbox from our  Newton's Happy Mail stamp set! She colored him so sweetly and trimmed out the image using the coordinating Newton's Happy Mail Die Set and then added the image into a pretty distress ink circle.

Then you open the card to find this amazing pop-up scene:

She created an awesome scene using a bunch of different stamp sets! She created hills and grass using our new Land Borders Die Set and a cloudy sky using the new Sky Borders die set! Then she added in the cute kitty holding the umbrella for his ducky friend from the new Newton's Rainy Day Stamp set. She also added in some trees from the Fox Hollow Stamp set and the fun little red bus in the back is from the Newton Dreams of London Stamp set. Then she finished it off with the "Lucky to have you" sentiment over the grass from the Newton's Pot of Gold stamp set! Wow! What a fun way to combine a ton of stamp sets to create a unique scene! It would be so fun to get this in the mail and open it up!

If you love this card you can visit Ellen over at her blog Crafty Ellen to see more of her lovely creations!

Spring Coffee Lovers Blog Hop!

Today I'm playing along with the SPRING 2017 Coffee Lovers Blog hop!

There are going to be TONS of fun prizes too - 

including a $25 store credit from us at Newton's Nook Designs! 

You can head over to the Coffee Lovers Blog for more details on how to play along! 

Here's what I created:

Of course I HAD to use our Newton Loves Coffee stamp set since it features two of our favorite things: Newton & coffee.  I chose to use the image of the kitty hugging a to-go mug from this set.  I colored the image with copics making the kitty orange (like our Newton) and gave the mug a fun teal wrap. Then I trimmed out the image with our coordinating Newton Loves Coffee die set! I added it to a circle cut from kraft colored paper. 

To make the card base, I started with Kraft colored cardstock and then layered a piece of dark brown cardstock and stamped the little coffee mugs and beans, also from the Newton Loves Coffee stamp set randomly over it using ground espresso distress ink (quite a fitting color name, right?). Then I assembled it together, adding a strip of teal paper to match the mug and the "we make the purr-fect blend" sentiment". Then I finished off the card with some twine in a bow. I think it has a nice coffee shop feel!

If you haven't checked out this set yet, here's an image

of the  Newton Loves Coffee stamp set:

If you are new to us, you might not know that Newton is our real kitty! You can follow us on facebook or instagram to see lots of photos of him! By the way - Newton really DOES LOVE COFFEE! I can't leave it unguarded or he will come stick his paw into the mug and then lick it! Silly kitty!

Hope you enjoyed this coffee card today! Make sure you head over to the Coffee Lover's Blog to find out how you can link up your card to play along -- There are a TON of prizes, including one from us at Newton's Nook Designs!

Pineapple Thank You Card by Samantha Mann

Pineapple Thank You!

Today we have this bright and cheerful pineapple card by Samantha! She used that adorable pineapple from our Pineapple Delight stamp set and inked it up with distress inks! She also used the coordinating Pineapple Delight Die Set to trim it out! She added it to her card with a fun blue distress ink background and layered the "thank you," also from the Pineapple Delight stamp set, embossed on black cardstock and trimmed out using the little banner from the Garden Window Die Set. The black and white polka dot washi tape she added up the side gives this card the perfect finishing detail! 

Thank you Samantha for awesome thank you card today! To say hello to Samantha and see more of her awesome creations, you can visit Samantha's Blog, Sam's Scrap Candy!

Easter Basket Card by Juliana Michaels

Easter Basket filled with Eggs! 

Get ready for some Easter cuteness today by Juliana! She used the fun new swirly eggs images from our Beautiful Spring stamp set, stamping them with Versamark on different colored papers and embossing them with clear embossing powder! So pretty! Then she trimmed them all out with the coordinating Beautiful Spring Die Set and added them to her basket, made with woven strips of paper! What a fun idea! To add some more fun, she added in bits of grass between the eggs, trimmed out using our new Land Borders Die Set! Then to finish it off she added the "Happy Easter" sentiment from the Beautiful Spring stamp set, tied on with some kraft colored twine! So cute!

To see more details on her project today you can visit Juliana over at her blog, 17 Turtles!

Rain or Shine Shaker Card by Maria Russell

Rain or Shine Shaker Card!

Today we are sharing a sweet spring shaker card by Maria! She created a sweet shaker card  using our NEW Newton's Rainy Day stamp set and coordinating Newton's Rainy Day die set! She also added on an adorable bow to that umbrella using the bow from our Pines & Holly Die Set!

Maria created a card similar to this one last week for our new release blog hop and her fans liked it so much they asked her to do a video to show how it's done! So, of course, she has a lovely video over on her blog and YouTube Channel today featuring her process for this card and a quick review of our entire March release! Make sure you to head over there and check it out!

To see more beautiful projects by Maria, visit her over at her blog, Maria Russell Designs and don't forget to subscribe to her YouTube channel too!

Relax Card by March Guest Designer Eloise Blue

Hello everyone, Eloise here again and today is my third post for Newtons Nook. Today I'm using the Newton's Summer Vacation to create a simple beach scened card.

To start off my card today, I first stamped and coloured Newton laying on the beach with some Memento Tuxedo Black Ink and using my Copic Markers. I then trimmed him out with my scissors and put him to one side. I then pulled two pieces of watercolour cardstock, and cut one piece towards the bottom with my scissors, creating a wavy border, and then that piece in half again using my scissors, to create another wavy border.

Once my borders and background were ready, I then pulled some Distress Inks out, Tumbled Glass, Salty Ocean and Mustard Seed and coloured each of the pieces using an ink blender. I used Tumbled Glass for the main sky piece. Then used Mustard Seed for the bottom wavy cut piece for sand, and then the left over piece for the water above the sand. Once everything was coloured, I dried the pieces quickly with a heat tool.

Now that my pieces were ready to go I could assemble my card. I first pulled a white card base and adhered down my background sky piece flat to the base. I layered up my other pieces - the water and sand and lined them up. Then before adhering them down I used the 'relax' sentiment from the same Newton's Summer Vacation stamp set and stamped that directly onto the background using some black ink. I then used foam adhesive and adhered the water and sand pieces down onto the bottom of my sky piece. Once my background was adhered I went ahead and also adhered my image down using foam tape also.

For a last finishing touch, I die cut some clouds out of white cardstock and also adhered those down to the background with some foam tape. I felt like the background needed a little something extra.

I hope you enjoyed my card today, I love this set it's so super cute and easy to make quick and easy scenes with it. I'll be back next week with my last card for the March Guest Designer. Thanks so much for stopping by!

- Eloise

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March 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

March 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 blogs and the comments were chosen using random.org.


Winner of the Winston Takes Flight stamp set from the Samantha's blog: 

Winner of the Loveable Laundry stamp set from Ellen's blog: 

Winner of the Cottage Garden stamp set from Larissa's blog: 

Winner of the Newton's Rainy Day stamp set from Jennifer's blog: 

Congrats to the Winners! Don't forget - you have 5 days from today to to e-mail us at info@newtonsnookdesigns.com with your full name and shipping address and the name of the set you won to claim your prize.

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

March Reveals - Day 4 - Newton's Rainy Day

Today is our last reveal day for our March Release! Today we have a new Newton feature, Newton's Rainy Day stamp set and coordinating die! We are giving this stamp set away one lucky winner so make sure you read all the way to the bottom of this post to see how to win!

Newton's Rainy Day

When it's going to rain, make sure to pack your umbrella! This sweet 3 x 4 stamp set features Newton sharing his umbrella with a cute little duck! Color this adorable image and use it with the included sentiments to make encouraging cards for friends! This sweet image will brighten anyone's rainy day!

Here's some info on the Newton's Rainy Day stamp set:

• 3 x 4 photopolymer stamp set 
• Includes 6 stamps: 3 images and 3 sentiments
• Coordinating Newton's Rainy Day purr-fect die set (sold separately) includes 3 dies 
• Available for purchase in our online shop starting Friday, March 17th

Have a splash with these adorable cards by our Design Team!

Check out all the awesome projects below from our Design Team! Then, make sure to click through to all their blogs for details on their cards - you will find a few extra cards on some of the DT blogs and you might even find a fun video or two along the way! Make sure to comment on all the blogs for a chance to win! Details on the giveaway are at the bottom of today's post.

This cheerful card is by Juliana ! Those bright colors are sure to cheer up anyone on a rainy day!

Tatiana created this lovely blue and yellow card Watercolored card! She used the new Sky Borders Die Set (Revealed on Monday's Post) to cut out waves from the scallop border! So cute! 

Maria created this charming shaker card! I love how she added the image on top of the clear window and filled the background with beads and rainclouds! So pretty!

Larissa used the little frog as the focus of her card! She added him to a summer scene using our Paradise Palms stamp set and the lily pad from the Hoppy Days stamp set. She also used the new Sky Borders Die set (Revealed on Monday's Post) to cut out the waves from the scallop border! 

This dreamy rainy day card is by Naki! She created a fun background using the words and then did some soft, no-line coloring on the image of the kitty and duck under the umbrella! How sweet!

Ellen created an a delightful scene on her card! She nestled the kitty and umbrella image underneath some clouds created with the new Sky Borders Die Set (Revealed on Monday's Post). and used the Land Borders Die Set to create a hill and grass too. The frog is so cute peeking from behind the grass!

The bright red and white umbrella on this card by Amanda is perfect for brightening up a rainy day! Isn't it cute how she added a frog on the top of the umbrella too!?

Samantha used the sweet frog and duck to create this adorable card. She fussy cut them out and then added them in front of a heart cut out with the Darling Hearts Die Set. The distress ink gives the perfect rainy day feeling too!

Jennifer created this sweet rainy day card! She colored the image in soft colors and added raindrops falling out of a cloud that she created using the new Sky Borders Die Set (Revealed on Monday's Post).

This cheery card by Holly is sure to brighten your day! She did some paper piercing on the umbrella to add adorable stripes to it that go perfectly with the background papers! So cute and colorful! 

Would you like to win the “Newton's Rainy Day” 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 reveal 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 March 16th at 9pm CST to comment  -- winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday, March 17th

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

Newton's Nook Designs

Amanda Bodine

Holly Endress

Ellen Haxelmans

Larissa Heskett

Samantha Mann

Juliana Michaels

Naki Rager

Maria Russell

Jennifer Timko

Tatiana Trafimovich