Inky Paws Challenge #133 Winners

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

This Biweekly Challenge was a Theme Challenge.

Inky Paws Challenge #133 Winner!

We've chosen one RANDOM winner using random.org to receive a $20 Store Credit to Newton's Nook Designs!

Farhana S. uses the Fall Fringe stamp set to create this bright, bold, and beautiful card.  After stamping the image, she cuts the image in strips and distresses each one in a beautiful autumn color.  She adheres with dimensional tape in an artsy pattern.  She stamps the sentiment from the Fall Roundabout stamp set in white.  A creative way to use this stamp set!

Congrats to  Farhana! 

 Don't forget to send us an e-mail at info@newtonsnookdesigns.com to claim your $20 store credit! (It's easiest if you already have an account set up in our shop)

Inky Paws Challenge #133 Favorites

Our Inky Paws Challenge Inspiration team has chosen a few of their favorite challenge entries from this challenge! If you see your card below, contact us if you'd like to get a "favorite" badge for your blog!

Diane's FAVE

Anushree makes this darling tag that could easily double as a lovely bookmark! She uses the Dainty Daisies stamp set and shades them in autumn colors. She creates a tag and adds a craft tag behind. The touch of teal splatters and enameled dots add a wonderful touch!  Just darling!

Sue's FAVE

Bhavya features bright colors of purple, pink, golden yellow, and orange for her fabulous fall card. She showcases the gray tabby kitten from the Autumn Newton stamp set.  Doesn't he look adorable in those colorful leaves on the distressed background?  A lovely way to celebrate fall!

Becky's FAVE

Angie Cimbalo creates a striking autumn CAS card.  Her water coloring of the leaves from the Beautiful Leaves stamp in autumn colors are just gorgeous.  She uses the coordinating die to cut them and add them to the card.  Fabulously done!

Crystal's FAVE

Farhana delights with her lovely autumn card featuring the flowers from the Sunflower Days stamp set.  Her combination of pink and yellow with the sunflower is a beautiful color combination!  She adds some pearls for an added touch of elegance!  Beautiful!

Debbie's FAVE

Claire L.'s CAS pumpkin spice card is just darling. She uses the pumpkin image from the Pumpkin Latte stamp set and some creative masking to add more pumpkins to the coffee-lovin' lady's arms. Her distress background adds a nice contrast. Don't you love the pumpkins falling from the stack?  I can so relate! 

Hope everybody is doing good, can't wait to see what you guys do for the next challenge.

Thank you for playing!

Thanks again to everyone who entered - It's really so much fun to look through all the entries and see everyone's ideas! If you didn't win this time, we hope you'll play along again next time! You can always find our most current challenge here.

Inky Paws Challenge #108 Reminder

Today I'm sharing some more inspiration 
for our current challenge! 

Here'a a refresher.
Sketch Challenge

Create a project using the sketch.

Today I have some more inspiration for this Challenge:

Sue T. brings us this softly colored autumn. Beginning with an ivory card base, she adds  a combination of fall pattern papers. She stamps a bunch of leaves and sentiment using the Autumn Mice  stamp set on her tan tag using the Fancy Edges Tag die set. She colors her leaves in oranges, yellows, and greens. She then adds the mouse chances the leaves from the Autumn Mice stamp and die set. To finish her card, she adds an orange gingham ribbon on her tag. Darling!



Amid a background of evergreen trees, Becky Noelle has Winston in his teal-colored jalopy from the  Winston's Home for Christmas stamp set driving home with his holiday tree!  Those evergreens were made using the Evergreens stencil. She then adds a pink plaid stripe that coordinates with Winston's scarf. She then uses the Frame & Flags die set to cut a banner on which she stamps the sentiment. The snowflakes she added by splattering white paint add the perfect touch!

This bold, bright, beautiful card by Bobbi Lemanski combines the colors of autumn with navy blue!  For her background, she blends Distress Inks and splatters water and white ink on top.  She heat embossed and stamped the leaf images using the Beautiful Leaves stamp set on navy paper. She also stamps the leaves in black, colors, and die cuts using the coordinating Beautiful Leaves die set. For her tag, she uses an actual seed packet on which she stamps the grateful sentiment from the Thankful Thoughts stamp set and adds blue twine for the bow. 

Using a color palette of teals, gray and tan, Debbie Owens designs this darling Halloween card. With a light teal background, she adds an embossed houndstooth tan layer die cut using the Framework die set. An ivory tag is added using the Fancy Edges Tag die set on which she adds the pumpkin sentiment from the Newton's Boo-tiful Night stamp set. She opts to place the stripes from the sketch in front of the tag instead of behind. She uses the Fence die set as well as the Land Borders die set for the grass. For her main attraction, Debbie selects the pumpkin trio image from the Newton's Boo-tiful Night stamp set and colors the pumpkins in gray, tan, and teals. Her gray, striped kitty looks darling peeking out from behind the pumpkin stack!

Diane Morales uses orange and teals for this spectacular fall card!  She creates her background using the Plaid stencil set. Look closely and you'll see a bit of shimmer in those stripes!  She then adds a black panel and adds a teal banner using the Frame & Flags stamp set. She adds a scallop-edged oval on which she adds the girl and a couple of pumpkins from the Pumpkin Latte stamp and die set.  Fabulous!

I hope these projects have inspired you to play along!  Remember, you have until this Friday, October 18, 2019 to enter. There's a prize involved too, so don't delay - view all the entries and see more inspiration on our Inky Paws Challenge here!

Inky Paws Challenge #107

This biweekly challenge is a:

Color Challenge

Create a project using the colors: Moss green, Orange, 

Chocolate Brown, and Ivory.

Are you ready to get your paws inky with us and play along to win a prize? We will chose a RANDOM entry to win a $20 store credit to our Newton's Nook Design online shop! We will also highlight our favorites from each challenge the following Monday so all entries have a chance to be featured on this blog! 

You have TWO WEEKS to play along - Deadline to enter is Friday, October 4, 2019 at Midnight CST. The winners will be announced on the NND blog the following Monday. 

Are you ready to play along and get your paws inky? Make sure you check the challenge rules page before you link up your project. 

Here's some inspiration!

Need to get inspired? See what our Inspiration Team created with this challenge!  

Diane Morales creates this playful Halloween card using the Pick-a-Pumpkin die set and creating an ivory and orange Jack-o-lantern.  She adds moss green leaves using the Flower Trio Die Set.  For her background, she selects a bold pattern paper with a brown layer that she die cut using the Sky Borders die set.  She selects a sentiment from the Fall Fringe stamp set and embosses it in white.  Delightful!

Sue T. creates a lovely card using the image from the Dainty Daisies stamp and die set.  The daisies look wonderful in ivory and orange. She pairs her flowers with a couple of pattern papers that coordinate  fabulously. She adds her banner with the sentiment stamped on it and lightly distresses the edges.  Again, lovely!

Becky Noelle's card is timed perfectly to kickoff the pumpkin spice latte season! She begins by using the Tree Rings stencil to create a textured background. She stamps the sentiment using the Pumpkin Latte stamp. She adds a layer of brown, plaid paper and wraps twine around it and ties with a bow.  She then adds the two coffee-laden gals from the Pumpkin Latte stamp and die set. She colors these gals wonderfully!

Bobbi Lemanski cuts several ivory rectangles and distresses them before adhering to the kraft card stock. She then cuts several leaves using the Beautiful Leaves die set. She then colors the leaves in the challenge colors. She also stamps the flowers from Dainty Daisies stamp and die set. After coloring them, she layers the flowers and leaves and adds them to her background She stamps the sentiment form the Thankful Thoughts stamp set and adds a splattering of sequins to create an amazing autumn card!

Debbie Owens creates a Halloween card in nontraditional colors. Using the Framework die set, she cuts her background from a vintage library-card pattern paper. She adds a green stripe and cuts the label from the Framework die set in orange. She stamps the sentiment from the Happy Howl-oween stamp on the label and adds a twine bow. For her main attraction, she colors the canine duo from the Happy Howl-oween stamp set in the challenge colors.  Super cute!

Create a project using the colors: Moss green, Orange, 

Chocolate Brown, and Ivory.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Inky Paws Challenge #101 Reminder

Today I'm sharing some more inspiration 
for our current challenge! 

Here'a a refresher.
Color Challenge

Create a project using the colors-red, pink, lime green, light brown.

Today I have some more inspiration for this Challenge!

This fun split-card design by Debbie Owens features pink, fluffy clouds (Cloudy Sky  stencil) peeking through the open, middle section. For the front of the card, she showcases animals from the from the Oink and the Moo stamp sets.  For the bottom section of the card, she adds hills using the Land Borders die set which she fences in using the Fence die set. For the top section, she creates clouds using the  Sky Borders die set with the birthday sentiment stamped on a die cut from the  Speech Bubbles die set. She scatters some flowers from the Dainty Daisies stamp set.

Using the Frames & Flags die set to create the base, Diane Morales brings us this sweet card with it's mindful sentiment from the Woodland Picnic stamp set.   She uses colors the deer and bunny again from the Woodland Picnic stamp and die set.  She adds pink butterflies from the Bitty Bunnies stamp and die set for her final touch!

Sue T. has created an adorable birthday card starting with her pink clouds using the Cloudy Sky stencil and die cut using a die from the Framework die set. She stamps her birthday sentiment from the new Cat-itude stamp set.  The main attraction is Newton from the Newton's Birthday Balloons stamp set soaring by with his enormous bouquet of balloons.   Sue added extra balloons using the Balloons Stencil.  (Don't you just love how see added the kitty face to the cat balloon!  CUTE!)

Becky Noelle shows off her creativity by using the challenge colors for an underwater adventure.  Beginning with a Kraft card base, she creates the seaweed by flipping the Waves stencil sideways, doing a lot of masking, and texturing in lime green.  She then adds pink coral and starfish from the Tranquil Tides stamp and die set along with a large red starfish, crab, and seahorse.  She stamps her sentiment and adds some white splatters to complete this amazing card!

Bobbi Lemanski creates this beautiful card by combining several stamp sets. On a red background, she adds a lime green layer with a pink vertical stripe. She then stamps several tiny background flowers from the Loads of Blooms stamp set. She adds several leaves from the Beautiful Leaves stamp and die set on which she places the pretty vintage typewriter from the My Type stamp and die set. Wonderfully designed!

I hope these projects have inspired you to play along! Remember, you have until this Friday, July 12, 2019 to enter. There's a prize involved too, so don't delay - view all the entries and see more inspiration on our Inky Paws Challenge here!

Inky Paws Challenge #84 Winners

Thanks so much to everyone who entered our last Inky Paws Challenge at here at

 the Newton's Nook Designs blog! This Biweekly Challenge was a Theme challenge-Use Burlap or Twine.

Inky Paws Challenge #84 Winner!

We've chosen one RANDOM winner using random.org to receive a $20 Store Credit to Newton's Nook Designs!

Silvia designs this sweet card using the Slothy Christmas stamp and die set. Her wonderfully distressed background. She adds pine cones and holly using the Pines & Holly die set and adds a red twine bow. To add a bit of sparkle, she adds several sequins!

Congrats to Silvia ! Don't forget to send us an e-mail at info@newtonsnookdesigns.com to claim your $20 store credit! (It's easiest if you already have an account set up in our shop)

Inky Paws Challenge #84 Favorites

Our Inky Paws Challenge Inspiration team has chosen a few of their favorite challenge entries from this challenge! If you see your card below, contact us if you'd like to get a "favorite" badge for your blog!

Emily's FAVE

Milene is creates two wonderfully designed cards using the Holiday Stockings stamp set. 

She festively embosses the white backgrounds then uses navy plaid pattern paper. She then strings those fun stockings with their fluffy white texture with a little twine.  Darling!

Sue's FAVE

Bobbi  creatively combines numerous NND sets to create this spectacular card!  She creates her birch trunk background by hand. Using the Adventure Awaits stamp set, she stamps arrows on the wide burlap stripe. Die cutting leaves and an acorn from Beautiful Leaves die stamp, she distresses them and adds veins by hand. She layers on more leaves from the Pines & Holly die set. She colors the foxes from the Fox Hollow stamp set and adds a sentiment from the Thankful Thoughts stamp set

Becky's FAVE

Not only is Silvia our lucky gift certificate winner, but she is also a favorite!  Her wonderfully colored sloth from the  Slothy Christmas stamp and die set looks content on that wonderfully distressed distressed background. Silvia adds pine cones and holly using the Pines & Holly die set, adds a red twine bow, and finishes her card with sequins!  Super cute!

Debbie's FAVE

Fikreta use of all those colorful autumn leaves make for a purr-fect background to showcase this playful kitten from the Autumn Newton stamp set on a distressed colored scalloped circle. She stamps the sentiment on a little tag and adheres with black and white twine. 

Diane's FAVE

Andrea finds this fabulous fall pattern paper to create her background. She then layers with brown paper to frame her autumn sky. Using elements from Harvest Tails stamp and die set, she colors that sweet deer and wagon full of pumpkins and assortment of gourds! The twine bow is a wonderful finishing touch!

Thank you for playing!

Thanks again to everyone who entered - It's really so much fun to look through all the entries and see everyone's ideas! If you didn't win this time, we hope you'll play along again next time! You can always find our most current challenge here.

Inky Paws Challenge #81 Winners

Thanks so much to everyone who entered our last Inky Paws Challenge at here at

 the Newton's Nook Designs blog! This Biweekly Challenge was a THEME challenge-Fabulous Fall!

Inky Paws Challenge #81 Winner!

We've chosen one RANDOM winner using random.org to receive a $20 Store Credit to Newton's Nook Designs!

Teri 

Newton's Boo-tiful Night

Congrats to Teri ! Don't forget to send us an e-mail at info@newtonsnookdesigns.com to claim your $20 store credit! (It's easiest if you already have an account set up in our shop)

Inky Paws Challenge #81 Favorites

Our Inky Paws Challenge Inspiration team has chosen a few of their favorite challenge entries from this challenge! If you see your card below, contact us if you'd like to get a "favorite" badge for your blog!

Becky's FAVE

Bobbi creates this fabulous card using  the Beautiful Leaves and

Thankful Thoughts stamp sets. Her use of these yummy fall colors and fabulous coloring of the leaves makes this just spectacular!  

Debbie's FAVE

Dandi creates this bright, CAS card using the Newton Loves Coffee and

Pick-a-Pumpkin stamp sets. She creates her orange stripe to look like gingham and prints the sentiment to go around her die cut square. She draws little pumpkins for her latte cosy. So cute!

Diane's FAVE

Andrea brings us this delightful card pulling in the colors of fall using different paper designs. Using an image from the Autumn Newton stamp set, Andrea colors the basket and kitty wonderfully and adheres it to her distressed background.  

Sue's FAVE

Teri's use of fun textures with the falling leaves on her CAS design makes this a delightful card. Her pencil coloring of the kitty and pumpkins from Newton’s Nook Boo-tiful Night stamp set is superbly done

Thank you for playing!

Thanks again to everyone who entered - It's really so much fun to look through all the entries and see everyone's ideas! If you didn't win this time, we hope you'll play along again next time! You can always find our most current challenge here.

Inky Paws Challenge #35 - Burlap and Lace

This month's challenge is:

Create a project using burlap and/or lace!

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, September 9th, 2016 at Midnight CST. The winners will be announced on the NND blog.

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 Flickr, Pinterest, or splitcoaststampers (on splitcoast please use keywords newtonsnook and IPC35).

• 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 - check out all the awesome burlap and lace cards they created! Read the description below each card to see who made it.

Naki created an awesome pumpkin card using burlap and lace with our Pick-a-Pumpkin stamp set and Pick-a-Pumpkin Die Set! Such a perfect look for Fall! 

This simplicity on this card by Samantha is so lovely! She used burlap and a lace doily along with the butterflies from the Beautiful Wings stamp set and coordinating Beautiful Wings die set. 

Kimberly created this awesome Autumn card using our new Beautiful Leaves stamp set and coordinating Beautiful Leaves die set! I love the burlap leaf that she cut out with the oak leaf die! 

Crafty Math-Chick used burlap as a fun background for the die cut deer shape from our Splendid Stags Die Set. Then she added the "Happy Birthday" from the new Raccoon Rascals stamp set. What a great masculine birthday card! 

Of course I had to play along too! I used the images from the Beautiful Leaves stamp set and embossed them on kraft colored paper in gold, white and brown. Then I trimmed them out with coordinating Beautiful Leaves die set. The tag was cut out using our Tags Times Two Die Set.  I added some burlap behind the tag and a strip of lace too! 

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