Always on my Nice List Card by Samantha Mann

ALWAYS on My Nice List!

Know someone who is ALWAYS on the nice list? This card by Samantha is perfect for sending holiday wishes to all your favorite people.

For this beautiful card she started by creating a snowy background over her white card base by using our Snowfall Stenciln with a glittery paste. 

For the star of the card, she  colored the adorable Santa reading his list from our Dear Santa Stamp Set. Isn't it adorable how she made the Santa suit a fun shade of pink instead of the traditional red? She cut the image out using the coordinating Dear Santa Die Set. She layered Santa onto her card with a wreath that was created by cutting out lots of branches using our Pines & Holly Die Set. She added the branches to her card a circle shape with a sewing machine! So cool! Santa appears on one side of the wreath and the message "You're always on my nice list!" is on the other side. The message was embossed onto a vellum banner that was die cut using our Banner Trio Die Set. 

We hope you have enjoyed this gorgeous Santa themed card today! 

To say hello to Sam and see more of her beautiful creations you can visit her over on her blog, Sam's Scrap Candy!  

Deck the Halls with Inky Paws Week - Day 1 - Audrey Tokach

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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 3rd (with some give-aways, of course!) So make sure you come back and visit us every day!

Today's Featured guest is
Audrey Tokach

My name is Audrey Tokach. I am a happily married wife, and mom to two amazing boys. I was born and raised in the Philadelphia suburbs but became a Florida transplant about 17  years ago.  I am an animal lover and coffee addict.  When I am not busy taking care of my boys, or my little animal menagerie,  you can find me making cards or coloring. I have a fun, whimsical style, and I love bright colors and cutesy images. I can’t live without my Copic markers, Distress ink and Oxides, or my watercolors, but I love experimenting with other coloring mediums as well. I am so excited to be joining the Newton's Nook team as a guest this month!  I'd love for you to follow me on social media if you like what you see!  I can be found on Instagram or on my blog, Pink Ink Originals. Thanks so much to Newton's Nook for having me! :)

Here's what Audrey created:

Here comes Santa Claus! This adorable card features our Dear Santa Stamp Set. Audrey colored the image of Santa holding a giant stack of gift. Her color combo is so fun with traditional red and green with added brown kraft wrapping paper and pops of teal and pink! She also added fun white accents using a white gel pen. She also stamped three additional little gifts using the same Dear Santa Stamp Set and colored them to coordinate. For her card today, she fussy cut the images out by hand, but if you don't like to fussy cut, there is a coordinating Dear Santa Die Set available in our shop. 

For her background she created a super fun starry sky using our Cascading Stars Stencil with red ink. She added extra ink to the edges and faded it to the middle to highlight the spot where she added Santa. She also added some gold to some of the stars to give a special shimmery touch! Who doesn't love a little sparkle for the holidays?  The sentiment "Here comes Santa Claus" that was also stamped using our Dear Santa Stamp Set. She used a gold marker to fill in the letters in Santa too, perfect for coordinating with the gold stars! Do you like the little strip of green striped paper up the side? That is from our Meowy Christmas Paper Pad. 

Thanks so much, Audrey for being our guest today! She will be back for our Deck the Halls with Inky Paws blog hop on Friday, December 3rd. Until then, you can visit her at her blog, Pink Ink Originals to read more about her adorable projects and say hello!

Tomorrow we will have special Guest Thi from Lemon Tea Crafts

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

Dear Santa Card by Ellen Haxelmans

Simply Santa!

Today Ellen has created a simple, yet stunning, Santa card! She features the image of Santa with a big stack of gifts from our Dear Santa Stamp Set, stamping it onto a kraft colored rectangle. She then colored the image using colored pencils. Isn't it cool how you color shades of white over kraft paper? 

To frame the image she cut a scallop edged rectangle from light blue paper using our Framework Die Set.  Behind that she added a patterned panel of music, created using our Music Stencil with red ink on kraft paper. So lovely! 

Here is a close-up so you can see her lovely coloring:

Have you tried coloring with colored pencils on kraft paper? We hope you give it a try and if you do, make sure to share your project with us over in our Create & Share Group on Facebook! 

We hope you enjoyed the inspiration today from Ellen! To see more unique creations by Ellen, you can visit her over at her blog Crafty Ellen!

Winter Reveals Day 2 - Snowfall Roundabout

Welcome back for more snowy inspiration from our Winter Release! Today we are featuring snowy fun with a new Roundabout Stamp Set! Scroll down for details. Plus, we are having a giveaway today, so make sure you read all the way to the bottom of this post to see how to win!

Snowfall Roundabout

Create gorgeous snowy cards with this 4x6 Stamp Set! It features one large circle stamp, filled with a variety of beautiful snowflakes! Stamp the image with a colored ink or emboss it for a quick and easy winter greeting! It also includes 5 versatile snow themed sentiments. This set is perfectly sized to fit with the scallop edged circle frame on the Circle Frames Die Set and is perfect for creating circle cards or layering a circle onto any card! The sentiments on this set are all sized to fit on the die cut banners from our Banner Trio Die Set.

Snowfall Roundabout Stamp Set 

• 4 x 6 photopolymer stamp set
• Includes 6 stamps: 1 image and 5 sentiments
• Works with the Circle Frames and Banner Trio purr-fect die sets (shown above right, sold separately)
• Available for purchase in our online shop starting Friday, November 20th

Let's have a Snow Day with inspiration from our Design Team!

Check out all the awesome projects below from our Design Team below! 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.

Created by Larissa. Additional products used: Frames & Flags Die Set , Circle Frames Die Set, Banner Trio Die Set

Created by Amanda. Additional products used: Dear Santa Stamp Set, Dear Santa Die Set, Banner Trio Die Set

Created by Zsofia. Additional products used: Circle Frames Die Set, Banner Trio Die Set

Created by Amy. Additional products used: Snow Globe Shaker Die Set, Circle Frames Die Set, 

 Land Borders Die Set

Created by Maria. Additional products used: Bitty Bibs Die Set, Circle Frames Die Set, Banner Trio Die Set

Created by Samantha. Additional products used: Banner Trio Die Set, Snowfall Stencil, Beautiful Blizzard Stamp Set, Beautiful Blizzard Die Set, Essential Alphabet Die Set

Created by Andrea. Additional products used: Circle Frames Die Set, Ornament Shaker Die Set

Created by Tatiana. 

Created by Ellen. Additional products used: Frames Squared Die Set, Circle Frames Die Set, Banner Trio Die Set

Would you like to win the “Snowfall Roundabout” Stamp Set? 
This stamp 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 November 19th at 9pm EST to comment  -- winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday, November 20th. 

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

Newton's Nook Designs

Ellen Haxelmans

Larissa Heskett

Samantha Mann

Zsofia Molnar

Maria Russell

Andrea Shell

Tatiana Trafimovich 

Amy Tsuruta

Amanda Wilcox

Christmas Card and Gift Set by Ellen Haxelmans

Santa Coffee Card & Gift!
Today Ellen has created a beautiful holiday gift set with Santa and coffee themes!

First, she created an adorable christmas card featuring our new Dear Santa Stamp Set:

For this card she colored the image of Santa from the Dear Santa Stamp Set for the main image. She added in the north pole sign and little mouse from the Santa Paws Newton Stamp Set. The images were cut out using the coordinating Dear Santa Die Set and Santa Paws Newton Die Set to layer onto her card. For the background she used our Cloudy Sky Stencil with gritty white texture paste to create a cloudy sky over a blue inked background. To complete the scene she used our Land Borders Die Set and Sea Borders Die Set to create snow banks. The finishing touch is the sentiment "A Christmas Hello" from our A Kitten Christmas Stamp Set, embossed in gold onto a banner that was cut out with our Banner Trio Die Set. The red scalloped frame was cut out using our Frames & Flags Die Set. 

Next, she decorated a gift box with a coffee theme:

She again used a Santa image from our Dear Santa Stamp Set, coloring it and trimming it out with the coordinating Dear Santa Die Set. This time she layered the image over a fun coffee cup background that was created using our Mugs Stencil with distress inks. She also added in some peppermints from the Dear Santa Stamp Set and a coffee mug from the  Pumpkin Latte Stamp Set, colored to match the holiday theme. Again, she cut a banner using our Banner Trio Die Set and embossed the sentiment onto it. The sentiment "have a cup of cheer" is from our Cup of Cocoa Stamp Set. This whole panel was framed with a red scalloped edge using our Framework Die Set. 

Here is what is inside the box:

Doesn't it look yummy? Coffee and tea treats for someone sweet! She also added the die cut "Cheers!" from our Cocktail Mixer Die Set

Tips on creating this card

Below we have some tips from Ellen on how this card was created:

1. (left photo) First I colored the images from the Dear Santa Stamp Set and Santa Paws Newton Stamp Set with copic markers 
   
   
2. (center photo) I created the backgrounds for the two projects. On a rectangle I created a blue distress ink background. The mug background was created with the Mugs Stencil and darker ink. The cloudy background was created with grit texture paste and the Cloudy Sky Stencil. A stencil pal helps to apply the grit paste.
   
   
3. (right photo) I added the hills (made with the Land Borders Die Set and Sea Borders Die Set). Next I stamped the text in gold on a banner using gold embossing powder and a heat gun.

This card would be a perfect addition to the Coffee Lovers blog Hop, going on this week! You can head over to the Coffee Lovers 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. 

We hope you enjoyed this fun project today and tips from Ellen! To see more unique creations by Ellen, you can visit her over at her blog Crafty Ellen!

Here Comes Santa Claus Card by Andrea Shell

Here Comes Santa Claus!

Get ready for Santa's visit with this amazing card by Andrea! She created a fun scene for Santa delivering a pile of gifts using our Dear Santa Stamp Set. She colored the image of Santa with gifts piled high and cut it out with the coordinating Dear Santa Die Set to add to her scene. To create the scene she added a little row of houses in the background and some trees using our Snow Globe Scenes Stamp Set. Behind the houses she inked up a blue sky and below them she added snowbanks by cutting hills from white with our Land Borders Die Set. Above the houses she added the sentiment "Here comes Santa Claus" from our Dear Santa Stamp Set onto a bubble that was cut out using our Speech Bubbles Die Set. 

The whole scene was cut out using our Frames & Flags Die Set to give it a fun scalloped edge. She also added the word "believe" along the bottom, cut out using the bonus words from our Main Street Christmas Die Set. What a wonderful scene for Santa!

Thank you, Andrea, for the amazing holiday inspiration today! To see more beautiful creations by Andrea, you can visit her over at her blog, Blissfully Scrappy!

Santa Tags for the 25 Days of Christmas Tags

Today we are excited to be part of the 10th Annual 25 Days of Christmas Tags with Tracey McNeely. Today is only Day 3 of this awesome feature so make sure you visit her blog each day to see all 25 days! 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!

I created a fun set of Santa themed tags to play along! Here's what I created:

I started out by stamping two of the images from our Dear Santa Stamp Set. I colored both of the images using copics and then cut them out using the coordinating Dear Santa Die Set. 

Next, I created a duo of tags using our Fancy Edges Tag Die Set. This die set is super fun because it includes little mini border dies that you can use to make custom tag shapes. I cut two tags from kraft paper. I wanted to make my tags a little longer to make room for the Santa and the sentiment. To do this, I just cut my white paper the same width as the tag layered it over the bottom. I also used our Land Borders Die Set along the top of the white paper to add the curved snowy hill shape.  I then stamped the sentiments onto the white snowy layer. Along the bottom I added a red scalloped edge using the scalloped border from the Fancy Edges Tag Die Set. 

For the top of the tag, I used our Tiny Trees Stencil with white texture paste on green paper to make a textured tree background. From this background I cut two tag toppers using the Fancy Edges Tag Die Set. I love how the green ties in with Santa's mittens! I also created the red tag reinforcement shape round the hole using the same die set. A bit of black and white ribbon finishes the tags!

In case you haven't seen these products, here is what I used today:

 Dear Santa Stamp Set and Dear Santa Die Set

Tiny Trees Stencil and Fancy Edges Tag Die Set, and Land Borders Die Set

Check out more fun tags today using Newton's Nook Designs Products by our Design Team:

Ellen Haxelmans

Samantha Mann

Zsofia Molnar

Maria Russell

Andrea Shell

Tatiana Trafimovich

Amy Tsuruta

Amanda Wilcox

Larissa Heskett

Inspired? You can play along and create a tag too! You can find the details and link up at Tracey's Blog Here!She's giving away some awesome prizes too, Including one from us at Newton's Nook Designs!

Holiday Reveals Day 2 - Dear Santa and Nutcrackers Stamp Sets

Today is our second reveal day for our Holiday Release and we today we have two new christmas designs that feature Santa and Nutcrackers! Scroll down for details. Plus, we are having a giveaway today, so make sure you read all the way to the bottom of this post to see how to win!

Dear Santa

Santa Claus is headed to spread holiday cheer on this fun 4x6 Stamp Set. This set features three fun images of Santa Claus, perfect for creating holiday greeting to everyone on your "nice" list! He's checking his list, loading up his gifts and filling the stockings! Pair the images with the fun sentiments to create adorable holiday greetings! 

Dear Santa Stamp Set

• 4 x 6 photopolymer stamp set 
• Includes 9 stamps: 5 images and 4 sentiments
• Coordinating Dear Santa purr-fect die set (sold separately) includes 5 dies
• Available for purchase in our online shop starting Friday, October 23rd

Nutcrackers

Don't be afraid to get nutty this Holiday Season! Our 4x4 Nutcracker themed Stamp Set features of duo of nutcrackers that are so fun to color. Pair them with the sentiments for humorous holiday greetings with a nutty theme! The coordinating die set also includes the bonus words "Pa Rum Pum Pum Pum".

Nutcrackers Stamp Set

• 4 x 4 photopolymer stamp set 
• Includes 5 stamps: 2 images and 3 sentiments
• Coordinating Nutcrackers purr-fect die set (sold separately) includes 7 dies: 2 coordinating dies and the 5 words "Pa Rum Pum Pum Pum".
• Available for purchase in our online shop starting Friday, October 23rd

 

These classic characters are perfect for holiday fun!
Enjoy the inspiration below from our Design Team!

Check out all the awesome projects below from our Design Team below! 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.

Card by Amy. Additional products used: Slimline Frames & Windows Die Set, Ornament Shaker Die Set

Card by Andrea. Additional products used: Music Stencil, Frames & Flags Die Set

 

Card by Maria. Additional products used: Land Borders Die Set, Snow Globe Scenes Stamp Set, Santa Paws Newton Stamp Set 

Card by Zsofia. Additional products used: Frames & Flags Die Set, Frames Squared Die Set

 

  

 Card by Samantha.

 Card by Tatiana. 

 

 

Created by Amanda. Additional products used: Fancy Edges Tags Die Set 

Created by Ellen. Additional products used: Frames & Flags Die Set, Music Stencil

Created by Larissa. Additional products used: Circle Frames Die Set

 

Would you like to win the “Dear Santa” Stamp Set or the “Nutcrackers” Stamp Set? 
We will choose ONE lucky winner for each stamp set!

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 October 22nd at 9pm EST to comment -- winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday, October 23rd.

 

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

Newton's Nook Designs

Ellen Haxelmans

Larissa Heskett

Samantha Mann

Zsofia Molnar

Maria Russell

Andrea Shell

Tatiana Trafimovich 

Amy Tsuruta

Amanda Wilcox