Cats, Love & Boxes Card by Samantha Mann

Cats, Love & Boxes!

Today Samantha has created an adorable card filled with kitties and boxes! If you own a cat, you know how much they love boxes and our Newton Loves Boxes Stamp Set is the perfect way to share that love! 

We love the neutral color palette that she choose for this card and how she added shades pink for the boxes! She stamped and colored all those cute images of cats squeezed into boxes from the Newton Loves Boxes Stamp Set, adding white highlights with a gel pen. She cut the images out using the coordinating  Newton Loves Boxes Die Set.

For her card base she created a textured background using our Meow Stencil with white texture paste. Then she cut out the frame using our A2 Card Layout 2 Die Set and layered it over the textured panel. She arranged all of her images into the windows of the frame and tucked in the sentiment, also from the Newton Loves Boxes Stamp Set. 

This card is guaranteed to make any cat lover smile! 

To see more fun cards by Samantha you can visit her over on her blog, Sam' Scrap Candy!

Congrats on Your New Home Card by Jennifer Jackson

Happy New Home!

Hello! Jen here today and I'm sharing a fun card that I created for a friend who recently moved into a new home! My friend also has several kitties so I thought it would be purr-fect to create a card using our Newton Loves Boxes Stamp Set. 

I started by stamping the images of kitties playing in boxes from our Newton Loves Boxes Stamp Set onto Bristol paper. Then I colored the kitties and boxes using zig watercolor markers. I cut the images out using the coordinating Newton Loves Boxes Die Set. 

Next, I knew I wanted to create a scene for the kitties that looked like it was inside a house. I cut out a stitched rectangle for my scene using our Frames & Flags Die Set and then I masked off the top and added brown ink to make a floor. Next, I used our Serene Stripes Stencil and to add stripes to  the top section of the wall. Doesn't this pattern look a little like it could be wallpaper?

I then arranged all the images over the scene and added the sentiment "congrats on your new home!" onto a white banner that was die cut using our Banner Trio Die Set. 

I framed the whole thing with some heart patterned paper from our Coffee House Stories Paper Pad, cutting it out with our Frames & Flags Die Set to give it a scalloped edge. I love how this turned out and I think the new home owners enjoyed it as well! 

I hope this card has inspired you to be creative and find ways to create fun and unique scenes on your cards!

New Home Kitty Card by Samantha VanArnhem

New Home!

Do you know anyone who has recently moved?  Today we have an adorable kitty card by Samantha that is perfect for sending happy wishes to a new home owner!! She started out by stamping two images of kitties in cardboard boxes from our Newton Loves Boxes Stamp Set. She colored them in neutral colors, adding stripes to the gray kitty and used the Newton Loves Boxes Die Set to cut the images out. 

For her card she started with a white card base. For the scene she cut out a panel using the stitched rectangle from our Frames & Flags Die Set. She then cut the top again using our Sky Borders Die Set. She added layers of clouds on the top half using our Clouds Stencil and inked a green grass area on the bottom. This simple background gives the kitties such a lovely setting! 

To finish the card, she added the sentiment "Congrats on your new home" from the Newton Loves Boxes Stamp Set. New home owners are sure to adore this card, especially if they have cats! 

To say hello to her and see more of her beautiful creations you can visit Samantha over on her blog, Sam Van Designs!

Cat in Box Scrapbook Layout by Samantha Mann

Cats & Boxes!

Today we sharing an amazing scrapbook page by Samantha that any cat owner will appreciate! For this gorgeous page, she used our Meow Stencil along the edges of the layout and on the right side where she planned to add the photo, with white texture paste. Once the paste was dry she added watercolors in pinks, reds, oranges and yellows on top. This frames the photo and the page perfectly and is such a beautiful effect! She also added the images of the kitty in a box, just like the kitty in the photo, from our Newton Loves Boxes Stamp Set and from our Newton's Antics Stamp Set. Adorable!

Here is a close up so you can see the texture: 

If you like to scrapbook, we hope that you are inspired to try our stencils and stamps on your pages! 

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

Cupcake Inspirations Challenge #500!

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?

The Cupcake Challenge has currently challenge is currently celebrating reaching its 500th Challenge!  How cool! This is also a perfect reason for a birthday themed challenge to celebrate!

We're sponsoring this challenge too so if you head over to their blog today you can see more inspiration! Don't forget to play along you have a chance to win a $25 store credit to our store at newtonsnookdesigns.com! How awesome is that?

Of course I had to play along -- here's the card I created:

If you are anything like me, I never have enough birthday cards on hand so I was excited to play along with the challenge theme of BIRTHDAY! I grabbed the one of my favorite kitty stamps from the Newton Loves Boxes Stamp Set to create a fun birthday card. I colored the image of the kitty in the stack of cardboard boxes using copic markers. This set doesn't have a birthday hat in it so I grabbed one from the Newton Loves Cake Stamp Set to add onto the kitties head! The images were cut out using the coordinating Newton Loves Boxes Die Set and Newton Loves Cake Die Set.

For the card, I kept it simple, using our Pawprints Stencil with orange and yellow distress inks over the white card base to create a fun cat themed background pattern. Then I added a strip of yellow cardstock across the bottom and added the sentiment from the Newton Loves Boxes Stamp Set. A little bit of white bakers twine is the finishing touch! This card was so simple to make and will be great to have on hand for a birthday greeting for any cat lover! 

I hope you enjoyed this card today! 

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 some of the regular "Sweeties" (that's what they call their Design Team -- cute, right?) are featuring Newton's Nook Designs stamps too! And don't forget to create a card with the birthday theme  and link it up over there for a chance to win our sponsored prize! 

Newton's Nook Designs 7 YEAR Celebration Blog Hop!

Newton’s Nook Designs is so excited to be celebrating our SEVEN Year Anniversary
- WOW - That's seven years of getting our paws inky!

We want to take a moment and say that we are so THANKFUL for all of you, our amazing fans and customers! Your enthusiasm for our products and support of our small business has really been the silver lining in what was otherwise a very challenging year! We really appreciate every order and are so happy that we are able to continue to run our small business from our home with everything going on in the world! If you didn't receive our email this morning you can read our letter about the last year here. 

To celebrate, we have a big blog hop today! Make sure to scroll down to the end of the post to see the hop link list and leave them some sweet comments for a chance to win prizes (details at the end of this post).

Every stop on the hop is sharing cards made with our products and I made a card to share today too! For my card I created a slimline card featuring all the kitties!


In the center of the card I stamped the two kittens in a box from our Newton Loves Boxes Stamp Set, coloring them to look like our NEW kittens, Marlowe and Toulouse! The darker brownish gray kitty on the left is Marlowe and lighter pale gray is Toulouse!  Both of our new kittens have distinctive "M" markings on their foreheads so I tried to add that on as well. I'm not very skilled at coloring gray kitties yet but I'm sure I will do much more practicing in the future!

I also wanted to add on the kitties we lost during this last year so I included an orange kitty on the left to represent Newton and colored the one on the right to look a bit like Hobbes! For Newton I used one of our very first Stamp Sets, Newton's Antics. I will always continue to color orange kitties like Newton, since even though he as passed he was a special kitty and remains our company namesake!

The kitty images were cut out using the coordinating Newton's Antics Die Set and Newton Loves Boxes Die Set.

For the slimline card I used an 8.5" x 3.5" card base from Kraft colored cardstock. Then I used our new Slimline Frames & Portholes Die Set to cut out the white scalloped border. The square frame with the three windows was cut out using the Slimline Frames & Windows Die Set in lime green. I also used the same die set to cut out the inner squares. I cut a set from yellow and a set from a strip white of paper that I had stenciled colored paw prints onto using our Pawprints Stencil. I arranged the kitties over the three windows and added the sentiment "You're the Best!" from our Thankful Thoughts Stamp Set onto a banner, also cut out using the Slimline Frames & Windows Die Set. I thought that sentiment was fitting because we DO have the BEST FANS!

I hope you enjoyed this project today! Make sure to visit all the blogs listed at the bottom of this post for below for more fresh inspiration today!

And if you feel like shopping, check out our SALE this weekend!

We're celebrating seven years of NND with 20% off your order! 

Now through Monday, July 20 with code: 7YEARS

Shop now at newtonsnookdesigns.com

Celebrate with us and enter to win!

To celebrate 7 years Newton's Nook Designs is giving away a $20 store credit to spend in their online shop to 7 lucky winners!

Here's how to win:
Comment on the NND Design Team blogs (see list below)! The winner will be chosen at random from the collective blog hop 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 Monday, July 20 at 9pm EST to comment. Winners will be announced on NND blog post on Tuesday, July 21 and will need to contact us to claim their prize so make sure you check back to see if you've won!

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
Amanda Wilcox

Miss You Card by Nakaba Rager

Miss You!

This sweet card by Naki features kitties stuck in boxes, just like many of us are stuck in our houses right now! It would be the perfect for sending to someone who you miss to let them know you are thinking of them. She created this sweet card using the kitties in boxes from our Newton Loves Boxes Stamp Set. She colored the images using soft pencil colors and then cut them out using the coordinating Newton Loves Boxes Die Set. 

For that gorgeous heart background she repeatedly stamped hearts using the little bold hearts from our Furr-ever Friends Stamp Set in a rainbow of colors, leaving an opening in the upper left corner for the sentiment. She added some shimmer spray over the whole background to add a bit of sparkle. 

To finish this adorable card, she embossed the sentiment using our Stowaway Newton Stamp Set.

We hope this card by Naki has inspired you to create a card to send to someone you miss!
If you like this project you can see more of Naki's work over on her blog, Notes from Naki. Stop by and say hello!

A Set of Stamped Background Cards by September Guest Designer Sindhu Prajay

Hello everyone! Sindhu here. Today happens to be my last GD post for Newton's Nook Designs. I'm so grateful for this opportunity and wish to thank Jen and Samantha again for inviting me over. :) My post for today is all about stamped backgrounds. I enjoy creating my own patterns by stamping backdrops for my focal images. Here is my first card...

I used Newton's Summer Treats and Summer Scoops stamp sets. I stamped images from the Summer Scoops set on a piece of Neenah Solar White 110 lb cardstock in light grey ink and coloured the images with a grey copic marker. I used W0 since I didn't want the background to dominate my focal image. I used a stitched rectangle die to cut out a rectangular panel. Then, I coloured the image, fussy cut it and adhered it on the panel and then stuck it on the card base.

For the next card, I stamped small images from the Newton's Birthday Bash Stamp Set in the background with coloured inks. Then filled a few of those images with colour.

Since the background has so much colour, I decided to tone it down a bit by layering vellum behind my focal image which is from the Newton Loves Boxes Stamp Set. I added sentiment on a pice of white cardstock layered on red cardstock. I assembled the card on the card base.

For the last card, instead of stamping images in the background, I stamped text. Text backgrounds are so much fun. I used only a single stamp called 'Classy Teachers'. I didn't use any ruler or stamping tool for help but if you want a perfect background, one of them is recommended.

Here is a close up..

I used a stitched rectangle die to cut out a rectangular panel. Then, I coloured the image, fussy cut it and adhered it on the panel and then stuck the panel on the card base. Here is picture of the three cards together..

I also wanted to share a picture of all the cards I made for posts this month. :)

I thoroughly enjoyed playing with the adorable stamp. I hope you like the cards too. Thank you for visiting and commenting on my posts throughout this month! 
Hugs.. Sindhu.

Newton Loves Boxes Duo of Cards by September Guest Designer Sindhu Prajay

Hey everyone! Sindhu here. and I'm back with a couple of cute cards. I absolutely love the Newton's Nook Newton Loves Boxes' stamp set. There are four adorable images with many fun sentiments in the set. Both my cards today are very CAS. Here is the first one-

To make this card, I started by making a circular window on a piece of cardstock measuring 4.25"×5.5". On the card base, I sponged ink through the brick stencil very lightly.

I adhered the card panel with window making sure not to apply adhesive at the back of the lower side of the circular window to make it easy to tuck in the coloured, fussy cut images. I finished the card with three die cut hearts. Here is the next card... I took the circular die cut which I got from making a window on the first card, sponged ink through the same brick stencil and stamped the sentiment. I adhered the coloured and fussy cut images. I also added die cut hearts for a little pop of colour. I adhered it on the card base with foam tape.

A close up..

Here is picture with both the cards together. :)

I hope you like these cards. Will see you next Monday. Have a great week.
Hugs.. Sindhu.

Mew Home Card by Samantha Mann

New Home Card with Kitties!

Do you know anyone who is moving or just purchased a new home? This card by Samantha is perfect for just that occasion! She created  this adorable card using the image of the two cute kitties snuggled inside a box from our Newton Loves Boxes Stamp Set. She colored them using watercolors and then fussy cut them out to add to her card. She also stamped the cute little rows of houses from our Snow Globe Scenes Stamp Set and colored them in fun bright colors with watercolors. She fussy cut the houses out and layered them behind the sentiment "congrats on your new home" from our  Newton Loves Boxes Stamp Set. Then she added the kitties in front with some dimensional tape. She also created the fun pawprint background using our Pawprints Stencil! This card would be so perfect for a new homeowner who also loves kitties!

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

Newton Loves Boxes Cards by Larissa Heskett

Cats + Boxes = CUTE!!

Happy Friday! Today we have TWO adorable cards by Larissa using our Newton Loves Boxes Stamp Set! She created two adorable creations by mixing this new set with some old favorites!

On her first card she stamped all four of the images of the kitties in boxes from the Newton Loves Boxes Stamp Set and cut them out using the coordinating Newton Loves Boxes Die Set. She added in some fun details onto all the boxes too! She stamped the words "cat's meow" and some fishbones, both from the Newton's Antics Stamp Set, on the sides of the box on the right. For the center box she added "in the sea" from the Tranquil Tides Stamp Set on the box front. The box on the left has a cute little feather added on from the Newton's Birthday Flutter Stamp Set. Then she added in a ball of yarn and little wind up mouse in front, both from the Newton's Antics Stamp Set. 

For her background she created some fun pawprints using the Pawprints Stencil and added the sentiment "I love you more than boxes" from the Newton Loves Boxes Stamp Set. The cute little ticket frame was cut out using the Framework Die Set.

For her second card today she created a fun interactive pull tab card! She stamped two images of the kitties in boxes from the Newton Loves Boxes Stamp Set and cut them out with the coordinating Newton Loves Boxes Die Set and then she stacked them over each other, attaching the top kitty to a pull tab so the recipient gets to pull to reveal the second kitty beneath! 

How fun is that!? She also added on some fun box decorations, again using the fishbone from the Newton's Antics Stamp Set and the word "nom" from the Shark Bites Stamp Set. She snuck a little mouse on the orange kitties head too, masking him from the Santa Paws Newton Stamp Set. 

For the card background she created a fun room with pawprint wallpaper (created using the  Pawprints Stencil) and some cute little framed pawprint pictures. For the frames she die cut the postage edge and ticked shapes using our Framework Die Set and added in the pawprints and words from the Newton's Antics Stamp Set! So fun and creative!

Thank you, Larissa, for the stunning creations today! To say hello to Larissa and see more of her creations, visit her over at her blog, Larissa Heskett Designs.