Inky Paws #19 - WINNERS!

Inky Paws Challenge #19 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 to create a project with a USE WATERCOLOR! 

This was a tough one, for sure, but we were AMAZED by all the creative things everyone did with just one layer! The challenge entries were so awesome this month! THANK YOU to everyone who entered!  It's always hard to choose a winner!

Top picks for Inky Paws Challenge #19

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!!

Our first winner is this gorgeous trio of Tags by Tatiana! We love how she tried watercoloring them in different ways - they all turned out so beautiful!! She used the Basket of Wishes and Bunny Hop Stamp sets. 

Our second winner is this awesome card by Dawn from the little mennonite. We really love the intense colorful background she created with watercolors! It's so bright and fun! She use our Newton's Summer Vacation stamp set. 

Congrats to Tatiana and Dawn! 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 #19 Favorites

Since there were so many beautiful heart 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!

This adorable card by Melissa made us smile - we love how the pig is flipping across that fun watercolor background! So Adorable! The stamps she used are from the Farmyard Friends stamp set. 

We love the "spotlight" technique that Anja did on her card - using grays for most of the card and then spotlighting with bright colors inside the heart! What a fun idea!! She used the Just say Cheese and Newton's Antics stamp sets to create this card. 

This card by Vicki is also has some really fun watercoloring going on - we loved that background with the layers and splotches of watercolor! She used our cute little birdie stamp set - Tweet Talk. 

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 April 24.

Inky Paws Challenge #8 - Sketch Challenge

Happy Friday and the the first day of #08 Inky Paws Challenge!  

This month's challenge is a sketch challenge!

I've been seeing fun diagonal cards lately so I thought it would be fun to see what everyone would do with a diagonal layout! Base your card on this sketch and use any Newton's Nook Designs Stamps! 

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! 

You have two weeks to play along. Deadline to enter is Friday,  April 11th, 2014 at Midnight CST. The winners will be announced on the NND blog on Monday, March 14th.

Are you ready to play along and get your paws inky? 

• Create a NEW project (card or other paper craft item) based on the sketch above.

• 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 Flickr or splitcoaststampers (on splitcoast please use keywords newtonsnook and IPC08).

• 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. 

Here's some inspiration!

Several of our Design Team Members and Guests decided to play along - Read the description below each card to see who made it!

Guest Designer Michelle Lupton created this fun layout with distress inks and our Winged Wishes Stamp set! 

Guest Designer Katie Brooks created this fun card, turning the layout sideways! Love the burst showcasing the cheese from the Just Say Cheese set! 

Valerie created this fun card using the wizard from the Magical Dreams set. Lots of layers and gloss plus sparkle and sequins = very magical!

Such a pretty basket of Garden Tools by Larissa using our new Basket of Wishes Set! I love the metallic silver! 

Samantha created a WHALEY fun birthday card - using the Whale from our SEAson's Greetings Set! 

I used the cute little frog from the Magical Dreams set to create this fun card (and the clouds are from Spring Showers and Winged Wishes) 

Now it's your turn!

Use the widget below to add a link to your project! Don't forget to tell your friends to play along too - If we get more than 15 participants we will pick TWO winners!

An InLinkz Link-up