NEWTON'S NOOK DESIGNS' ~ 2 YEAR ANNIVERSARY!!

Welcome to Newton's Nook Designs Second Anniversary Blog Hop!
Newton’s Nook Designs is so excited to be celebrating their TWO Year Anniversary - two whole years of getting our paws inky!  To celebrate we have an AMAZING blog hop featuring our Design Team and some AWESOME Special Guests! You are going to love all the fun inspiration they're sharing using Newton’s Nook Designs Stamps!

I know I am so happy for Jen, Jeff, Newton & Hobbes.  Not only is Jen wicked talented and the creator of fun images and now DIES for us to create with, but they are all wonderful people as well.  It has been such an honor as well as a pleasure to design for such a fabulous company with terrific people behind it -- thank you so much for this opportunity!  I am humbled...  

In honor of NND's TWO YEAR (WOOT!) anniversary, I thought it would be fun to include small images from many of Jen's other adorable sets in my hop cards.

When I first saw Newton's Naptime, one thing instantly came to mind - The Snuggles Project.  It is a charitable organization that contacts shelters around the globe (yes, it is worldwide) and asks if they would be interested in receiving handmade blankets for their shelter pets until they are adopted, as some of them have never felt the touch of something soft under their paws, to help provide them with a greater sense of safety and security and comfort, which will increase their chances of adoption as well.  If you are interested, you can read more about the Snuggles Project HERE.  As my NND bio mentions, I enjoy knitting and crocheting, making blankets for animals in shelters helps combine my love of animals and adoption advocacy with my enjoyment with playing with yarn - win-win!!  So when I saw Newton sleeping peaceful on top of that stack of blankets...  I just HAD to use it to create a card to give to the shelter volunteers when I drop off the blankets I've made:

Newton's Naptime is the focus, using NND's new Newton's Naptime Purr-fect DIES to cut out both Newton, his dream bubbles and the teenie red hearts.  I tried coloring in the blankets in colors of yarn I have used/have in my stash and plan to use for the shelter blankets.  I also thought of the things a shelter kitty might dream of (a home, love, food, toys, etc...) and looked for images in Newton's other sets to act as accessories.  Can you guess all the sets I used?  ('love' is from Flirty Flamingos, the yarn ball, fish bone & wind up mouse are from Newton's Antics (the first NND set I every purchased - had to pay homage to that on their 2nd anniversary!), and the house is actually a birdhouse from Tweet Talk - I used a marker to outline the outside of one of the birdhouses and then added a door and inked up a portion of the 'home tweet home' sentiment to accompany it).  I decided to substitute sequins in place of the tinier thought bubbles for a little flair.  

When I first saw the Message in a Bottle dies I was psyched because they are SO VERSATILE!  You could use them to show off all kinds of images!  To demonstrate I created another card for you:

I used three additional NND sets in addition to the new Message in a Bottle to create this card: the rose is from Love Grows, the long stem is from Easter Scramble (you easily could have used the cracked egg tulips for this card as well!), and the 'thinking of you' sentiment came from Versatile Vases (could easily use the flowers in that set for this card too!).  Frist I stamped the flowers and leaf (some masking occurred) and colored them in using Copic markers (four different shades of red were used).  The bottle was die cut from vellum cardstock and then stamped; I colored in part of the image with a light blue markers to create the appearance of water.  

So, which of my 2nd year anniversary cards do you prefer?  Are you a crocheter or knitter as well as a papercrafter too?  How would you like to WIN a credit to NND to pick up some die & stampy goodness of your own?!!

Celebrate with us and enter to win!

Would you like to win a $20 Store Credit to spend at Newton's Nook Designs online ship?

Here's how to win:

Comment on the Design Team Member and Guest blogs (see list below)! One lucky winner will be chosen at random from the collective blogs in the blog hop. 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 Sunday, July 19th at 9 pm CDT to comment -- the winner will be announced on the blog post on Monday, July 20th. We are running a giveaway on our Facebook page too so make sure to enter there for another chance to win!!

Special Guests:
Jennifer Ingle
Tessa Wise
Shellye McDaniel
Simon Says Stamp

Design Team:
Lydia Evans
Larissa Heskett
Samantha Mann
Crafty Math-Chick  (<-- You are here)
Jess Gerstner
Stephanie Muzzulin
Danielle Pandeline
Nina-Marie Trapani
Kimberly Rendino
Yukari Yoshioka

Next stop on the hop is Jess Gerstner, I am sure she has created something spectacular for you to see!  Don't forget to comment - and visit our FB page too for another chance to win!  Happy Two Year Anniversary Newton, Jen & Jeff!

~ Crafty Math Chick