Inky Paws Challenge #216 Reminder

 

Don't forget - 
There's still time to play along with our 

latest Inky Paws Challenge!

  

Have you had a chance to make a card for our latest Inky Paws Challenge? 

Here's a refresher.

Use the challenge sketch with your NND products.

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

Crystal Minkler creates a pair of darling Valentine's cards using papers from the Love & Meows and the Love & Woofs paper pads. She then uses the images from the Newton's Heart stamp and coordinating die set and the Puppy Heart stamp and coordinating die set for the focal point on each card. To create her different scallop-edged layers she uses dies from the Frames & Flags and the Circle Frames die sets.  Don't you just love the paper-pieced heart on each card?  Super cute!



Danni Bindel's spectacularly colored gnome from the Gnome Garden stamp and coordinating die set is looking amazing on his little mushroom!  Danni pulls papers from the Springtime paper pad that make for a spectacular spring backdrop!  She uses the Frames & Flags and the Oval Frames die sets to create some layers.  So cute!


Debbie Owens is showcasing not one, but two, mischievious kitties enjoying themselves with some indoor plants!  These little felines are from the Naughty Newton and the Newton's Hanging Basket stamp sets. She uses the Frames & Flags die set to create her scallop-edging on papers from the Spring Blooms paper pad. How can two bad kitties look so adorable?!



Amy Tollner designs a brilliantly bright birthday card in greens and blues! She pulls the green present paper from the Birthday Party and the pawprint paper from A Cat's Life paper pads. She creates a balloon background on her banner using the Bokeh Balloons stencil set. The fabulous trio of felines are colored amazingly. These little critters are from the Newton's Birthday Trio stamp and coordinating die set. Wow!



Claire Lamb also creates an amazing birthday card featuring a trio of puppies from the Birthday Barks Stamp and coordinating die set. She adds a bright yellow confetti background using paper from the Birthday Party paper pad. The fun polka-dotted red paper is from the Meowy Christmas paper pad. So much canine cuteness on this card!

I hope these projects have inspired you to play along!  Remember, you have until this Friday, February 16,  2024 to enter. There's a prize involved too, so don't delay - see more inspiration on our Inky Paws Challenge here!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Inky Paws Challenge #196 Reminder

 

Don't forget - 
There's still time to play along with our 

latest Inky Paws Challenge!

  

Have you had a chance to make a card for our latest Inky Paws Challenge? 

Here's a refresher:

Use your NND products with the theme--Birthday!

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

Crystal O. Minkler creates a spectacular background in analogous colors using the Mugs stencil. She continues her use of greens and yellows with the latte cup that Newton is holding (Newton Loves Coffee stamp set).  Crystal uses the Circle Frames dies set and the Frames & Flags die set for her card design.  The fabulous colors and design makes this an amazing birthday card!

Debbie Owens features the little gnome (Garden Gnomes stamp set) on his big mushroom surrounded by more mushrooms from the Fabulous Fungus stamp set. She places them on a lightly distressed background and stamps the super fun sentiment.  The extra bit of jute adds a nice rustic touch!

Diane Morales creates this delicious masterpiece filled with yummy cupcakes.  On an oval-shaped base (Oval Frames die set), Diane uses the Cupcakes stencil set to create the pink and tan cupcakes.  The front and center is Newton with his paws in the frosting (Newton's Cupcake stamp and coordinating die set). Doesn't he look so sweet and innocent enjoying his birthday treat?  

Amy Tollner creates this beautiful heart-shaped card using the Heart Frames die set.  She pairs it with the floral heart image from the Heartfelt Blooms stamp set.  Her beautiful and bright flowers are filled with the promise of spring.  For her sentiment, she adds a dimensional banner using a die from the Banner Trio die set. Until May flowers bloom, you can enjoy Amy's pretty ones!

Claire Lamb is also featuring the little gnome from the Gnome Garden stamp and coordinating die set. For her card, she places him in a window card (Oval Frames die set) filled with lots of mushrooms from the Fabulous Fungus stamp and coordinating die set.  Her bright colors are a nice contrast to Deb's more rustic ones.  Fabulous fungus, indeed!

I hope these projects have inspired you to play along!  Remember, you have until this Friday,  April 28, 2023 to enter. There's a prize involved too, so don't delay - see more inspiration on our Inky Paws Challenge here!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Inky Paws Challenge #195

 

   Welcome to a new Inky Paws Challenge!

This is a sketch challenge.

Use the challenge sketch. 

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, April 14, 2023 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! 

Claire Lamb's rainy panels look amazing and are perfect for our two new friends with their bright, yellow umbrellas.  These sweet critters are from the new release.  The darling puppy is from the Rainy Day Doxie stamp and coordinating die set. The little  feline is from the Newton's Umbrella stamp and coordinating die set. So much fun on a rainy day!

Crystal Minkler is showcasing the newly released Spring Blooms paper pad and 

the Spring Haul stamp and coordinating die set. Crystal's beautiful card might inspire you to load up your own truck with tons of flowers for your garden!  So fresh and pretty!

Debbie Owens is showcasing the newly released Fabulous Fungus stamp set and the Quatrefoil stencil. The rustic colors and patterns work wonderfully together as does the little mouse with his mushroom from the Garden Mice stamp set. She uses the Slimline Frames & Windows die set for her two stitched squares. Fabulous combination of products!

Diane Morales was also inspired to showcase the newly released Spring Blooms paper pad and the Spring Haul stamp and coordinating die set.  She showcases her truck with a vellum circle (Circle Frames die set) tucked under it.  Such a pretty and cheerful card!  

Amy Tollner features two playful kittens from the Captivated Kittens stamp and coordinating die set.  Amy selects the petite clouds paper from the Springtime paper pad for two of her panels.  She adds some grass using the Land Borders die set for her kittens to play on.  Her other panels feature lots of butterflies for the kittens to catch.  Amy adds additional "toys" for the kittens using the smaller images from the Gnome Garden stamp and die set.  Such a playful and fun card!

Use the challenge sketch using your Newton's Nook Designs products. 

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Inky Paws Challenge #193

 

   Welcome to a new Inky Paws Challenge!

This is a theme challenge.

Use the theme--Spring. 

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, March 17, 2023 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. 

We have lots of inspiration to get you ready for spring and this challenge!

Diane Morales' butterfly-filled card is just precious! Her cute kitten is from the Captivated Kittens stamp and coordinating die set, and he looks so cute with the butterfly paper from the Springtime paper pad. For even more fluttering fun, she adds butterflies using the Gnome Garden stamp and coordinating die set. Also tucked in there is an scallop-edged oval using the Oval Frames die set. Sure hope this little guy catches one of those cute butterflies!

Amy Tollner fills her background with beautiful pink blooms using the retiring Bold Blooms stencil which she cuts using the scallop-edged frame from the A7 Frames & Banners die set. She breaks up her floral background with a three-panel frame and places all the sweet critters from the retiring Woodland Spring stamp and coordinating die set around the edges. She adds some extra flowers and some bling making this an absolutely darling spring card!

Claire Lamb's card will have you yearning for a nice, warm, sunny spring day to take a relaxing walk with your puppies! Her rays of sunshine were made using the Sunscape Stencil, and the quintet of puppies are from the Walking Woofs stamp set. With tons of masking, Claire makes a floral path using the flowers from the Cycling Friends stamp set. Such a darling and happy card!

Crystal Minkler gives us the flip side of spring--those wonderful spring showers that pave the way for the flowers! She pulls the cloudy paper from the Springtime paper pad and continues with some clouds on her postage-edged frame layer (Framework die set) using the Petite Clouds stencil. The best part of April showers? Getting to wear fashionable rain boots, and her lavender ones are so, so cute! This darling calico kitty and ducky are from the Newton's Rain Boots stamp set and coordinating die set. Dare I say, "Bring on the rain!" LOL

Debbie Owens also showcases the darling kitty and ducky from the Newton's Rain Boots stamp set. Unlike Claire's pretty lavender rain boots, Deb goes for some bold red ones, which are just as cute! Deb uses scraps from the Springtime paper pad to create the fun background which she die cuts using the scallop-edged die from the Framework die set. She stamps her sentiment pulled from the Floral Roundabout stamp set on a banner (Banner Trio die set). A fun, colorful way to celebrate spring!

Use the challenge theme, Spring, with your Newton's Nook Designs products. 

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Inky Paws Challenge #182 Reminder

 

Don't forget - 
There's still time to play along with our 

latest Inky Paws Challenge!

  

Have you had a chance to make a card for our latest Inky Paws Challenge? 

Here's a refresher.

Use your NND products with the colors:

Orange, Green, Black, & Cream.

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

Diane Morales uses a trio of the colors to make a striped background die cut using the Frames & Flags die set. She then stamps the beautiful pumpkins from the Autumn Oval stamp set which she frames with a white scallop oval using the Oval Frames die set. Her bold, crisp style is spectacular!

Sue T. uses the challenge colors in a spook-tacular way! She embosses bats on her black card stock (Flying Bats stencil) which she cuts using the postage-edge frame from the Framework die set. She die cuts a circle and has Jack-o-lanterns peeking through using the Jack-o-Lantern stencil. Enjoying all of the Halloween fun is Newton from the Newton's Perfect Pumpkin stamp and die set. She uses a sentiment from the Newton's Boo-tiful Night stamp set stamped on a speech bubble using the Speech Bubbles die set. The added white stars and moons on Newton's hat look amazing!

Hope you're not afraid of spiders because Amy Tollner's card is filled with them! Amy uses spidery paper from the Halloween Meows paper pad and die cut using the postage-edge frame from the Framework die set. She continues the spidery theme using the Spiderweb Oval stamp set die cut using the scallop frame from the Oval Frames die set. Her very brave puppy is from the Pug-kin stamp and die set. Oh, in case you missed it, there's a white spider (Newton's Perfect Pumpkin stamp set) dangling from the web! Eeek!

Claire Lamb is back with one of her amazing backgrounds!!! This one features a very large and spooky full moon! Yikes! She makes this amazing moon using the Circle Frames die set to create a mask for it. She uses greens to make the night sky and the Land Borders die set to make the grass. And who is out and about on such a scary night? Our very own Franken-Newton from the Franken-Newton stamp and die set. Fantastically scary!

To calm your nerves from all that scariness is Debbie Owens with a unique take on the challenge colors. Deb pulls the sweet gnome from the Gnome Garden stamp set and sets him among black-gingham hills and green grass using the Land Borders and Sea Borders die sets. She cuts a scalloped oval from the card base (Oval Frames die set) and has green puffy clouds in the background (Clouds stencil). Great way to showcase these fun colors!

I hope these projects have inspired you to play along!  Remember, you have until this Friday, September 23, 2022 to enter. There's a prize involved too, so don't delay - see more inspiration on our Inky Paws Challenge here!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Inky Paws Challenge #180

   Welcome to a new Inky Paws Challenge!

This challenge is a

Sketch Challenge

Use the above sketch.

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, August 26, 2022 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! 

Claire Lamb distresses an amazing rainy background for her trio of cats from the Newton's Rainy Day Trio stamp and coordinating die set. For raindrops, she adds sequins to her shaker card and adds the sentiment on a speech bubble using a die from the Speech Bubbles die set.  She uses a die from the Framework die set to get the stitching on her center rectangle.  A-meow-zing!

 Debbie Owens uses the Cycling Friends stamp set to create her background which she layers with vellum and die cuts using the Framework die set. For her horizontal element, she adds red/white twine.  She die cuts an oval using the  Oval Frames die set and adds the same cycling critters image with a basket full of presents.  So fun!

Diane Morales designs a little tropical haven for Newton (Aloha Newton stamp and die set) to take a much needed nap!  To create this scene, she uses  the Oval Frames die set for her frame, the Sky Borders die set for the beach, and the Clouds stencil for her puffy clouds.  Diane pulls three designs from the Summertime paper pad that work perfectly with her design!

Sue T. also features the Aloha Newton stamp and die set.  She showcases the darling and talented ukulele playing kitty decked out in her pink flower and lei!  Sue creatively uses the Tropical Leaves stencil to create an oval of tropical leaves surrounding her kitty along with a splattering of pink hibiscus.  Sue keeps her card CAS by simply scoring two lines in keeping with the sketch elements.  Super creative!

Amy Tollner showcases one of the gnomes from the Gnome Garden stamp and die set. She creates a cloudy sky using the Clouds stencil and cutting it with a stitched oval die from the Oval Frames die set. She uses the butterfly paper from the Springtime paper pad and white embosses the sentiment on a black banner (Frames & Flags die set).  Her silver strip adds a nice touch of glitter to this darling card!

Use the above sketch with your NND products!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter