Friday, May 22, 2015

Inky Paws Challenge #21 - Color Challenge

This month's challenge is to a create a project using the colors below
The colors we are Coral, Peach, and Mint

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! 

We have a little bit of extra time this month to play along - We're going to run this challenge for three weeks instead of the usual two! Deadline to enter is Friday, June 12th, 2015 at Midnight CST. The winners will be announced on the NND blog on Monday, June 19th.

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 FlickrPinterest, or splitcoaststampers (on splitcoast please use keywords newtonsnook and IPC21).
  • 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 - Remember the colors are just an inspiration - check out all the ways they used them! Read the description below each card to see who made it!

heartfelt thanks card by Lydia Evans | Fanciful Florals stamp set by Newton's Nook Designs
I love the pretty floral card by Lydia! She stamped the flowers from our Fanciful Florals stamp set in the coral, peach, and mint inks and added in the words from the Simply Sentimental stamp set!
Thank you Rose Card by Samantha Mann  for the Inky Paws Challenge | Love Grows stamp set by Newton's Nook Designs
Here's some fun inspiration from Samantha! I love how she used the colors to create a fun background and then added black and white roses using the Love Grows stamp set. 

Thanks card by Yukari Yoshioka  for the Inky Paws Challenge | Fanciful Florals stamp set by Newton's Nook Designs
  This card by Yuki also uses the bold flowers from our Fanciful Florals stamp set in the coral with minty colored leaves! I love the added sparkle with the silver letters too! She also used the "for everything" words from the Simply Sentimental stamp set!

Happy Bird-Day Card by Danielle Pandeline  for the Inky Paws Challenge | Flirty Flamingos stamp set by Newton's Nook Designs
Here's an adorable one layer card by Danielle! She used our Flirty Flamingos stamp set, coloring flamingos in shades of coral on a minty background! 

Grateful Inky Paws Challenge card by Jess Moyer | Fanciful Florals stamp set by Newton's Nook Designs
This lovely card by Jess uses our blooms from our Fanciful Florals stamp set in a fun bright bold design! 
Congrats Floral Card by Larissa Heskett for the Inky Paws Challenge | Beautiful Blossoms stamp set by Newton's Nook Designs
This lovely card by Larissa uses our our lovely Beautiful Blossoms stamp set. Love all those pretty layers!

Grateful Inky Paws Challenge card by Jennifer Jackson | Fanciful Florals stamp set by Newton's Nook Designs
And here's one more card using Fanciful Florals by me - I tried to do color fade from the coral to the mint.  I'm not the best with color blending yet but I think it turned out ok - sort of a "dip died" type of look.



Monday, May 11, 2015

Inky Paws #20 - Sketch Challenge - Winners!

Inky Paws Challenge #20 Winners! 

Thanks so much to everyone who entered our last Inky Paws Challenge at here at the Newton's Nook Designs blog! This months Challenge was a Sketch Challenge

The challenge entries were so awesome this month! THANK YOU to everyone who entered!  It's always hard to choose the winners each time! 
Inky Paws Challenge #20 - Sketch Challenge - Newton's Nook Designs

Top picks for Inky Paws Challenge #20

Announcing.... our top picks! Read the description below each card to see who created it - and make sure to visit their blogs and tell them congrats!!

Inky Paws Challenge Top Picks - Newton's Nook Designs
Merry Christmas Cat card by Kim for Inky Paws Challenge #20 | Newton's Birthday Bash stamp set by Newton's Nook Deisgns
Our first winner is this beautiful Christmas card by Kim! We love how she used the image of the kitty with the gifts from the  Newton's Birthday Bash stamp set and colored the gifts red and green to make a Christmas card! Her coloring of the kitty is so fun too!  

Winston Bear Garden Card by Lynn for Inky Paws Challenge #20 | Garden Whimsy stamp set by Newton's Nook Deisgns
Our second winner is this fun card by Lynn! We love the cute scene she created with Winston from the Garden Whimsy stamp set watering the flower. The layers of grass in front of him add such fun dimension. 
Congrats to Kim and Lynn! Don't forget to send us an e-mail at info@newtonsnookdesigns.com to claim your $10 store credit and get your winner badge for your blog!


Inky Paws #20 Favorites

Since there were so many great cards with this sketch cards, we chose THREE more as our favorite picks! If you see your card below, contact us if you'd like to get a "favorite" badge for your blog!


Newton's Nook Designs Inky Paws Challenge - Favorite

Kitty Shaker Birthday Card by Nina-Marie Designs for Inky Paws Challenge #20 | Netwon's Antics stamp set by Newton's Nook Deisgns
Nina-Marie turned the sketch sideways and made it into a cute birthday shaker card! So Adorable! She used the Newton's Antics stamp set for the kitty image.

Wish you were here camping bear Card by Indy for Inky Paws Challenge #20 | Campfire Tails and Sweetheart Tails stamp set by Newton's Nook Deisgns
Indy also turned the sketch sideways and created this fun trio of campers using our Sweetheart Tails and Campfire Tails sets. I love the little added "wish you were here" from the Newton's Summer Vacation set too! 

Cat out of the Bag Birthday Card by Tammy Hair for Inky Paws Challenge #20 | Newton's Birthday Bash stamp set by Newton's Nook Deisgns
And our third favorite is this card by Tammy! We loved the bright bold colors over the white and the way she added polka dots to the bag that coordinate with the embossed ones on the layer below! Super fun and bright! She used the Newton's Birthday Bash stamp set. 

Thanks so much!
Thanks again to everyone who entered - It's really so much fun to look through all the entries and see everyones ideas! If you didn't win this time we hope you'll try again next time! The next challenge will begin on May 22.