Inky Paws Challenge #59 Winners

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

at the Newton's Nook Design blog!

This biweekly challenge was a Color Challenge!

Inky Paws Challenge #59 Winner!

We've chosen one RANDOM winner using random.org to receive a $20 Store Credit to 

Newton's Nook Designs!

I love how Gail has used  Hoppy Days stamp set for a Christmas card! What a clever way to stretch your stamps!

Congrats to Gail  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 #59 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!

Zsofia's FAVE

Irene  creates a darling Christmas tag using Loveable Laundry stamp set!  The striped washi tape with the polka dotted onsie work perfectly together!

Diane FAVE

Marianne's pattern paper captures the challenge colors wonderfully!  I adore the stripes on her Newton from Newton's Holiday Mischief!  Just a delightful card!

Andrea's FAVE

Lisa Bzibziak creates this fabulous tag featuring Sweater Weather stamp set and Cameo Frame die.
I love the plaid paper--so festive!


Debbie's FAVE

Tracie creates such a playful snowy night scene!  I love this dachshund from Holiday Hounds stamp dashing through those sparkly snowflakes!

Emily's FAVE

The snowflakes on Sue's card provides a great textual element!  It really makes her spectacular coloring on Newton from Santa Paws Newton stamp set really pop!

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 #41 Color Challenge

Create a project using mint, pink, yellow, and white!

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, March 3rd, 2017 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?

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!

Several of our Design Team Members decided to play along - check out all the awesome cards they created, inspired by this fun color palette ! Read the description below each card to see who made it.

Jess Gerstner created a birthday card with a soft pink sky for the flying Newton from Newton Dreams of Paris and the sentiment is from Simply Seasonal.

Ellen Haxelmans made an sweet card featuring a whole bunch of adorable sets including Newton Loves Coffee, Newton's Book Club, and Love & Chocolate stamp sets. 

Debbie has created a fun pastel heart background with this cute dragon from Magical Dreams stamp set sitting on the heart from the Darling Hearts die set.  

Amanda Bodine made an adorable love themed card using the Darling Duos stamp set and Darling Hearts die set.

This sweet card from Samantha Mann features the bunny from the Hoppy Days stamp set. 

Maria Russell created this soft beautiful card with the Sweater Weather stamp set.

This gorgeous clever card from Tatiana Trafimovich features a 3D heart balloon using the Darling Hearts die set and Newton Dreams of Paris stamp set.

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Inky Paws Challenge #33 - Ombre

This month's challenge is:

create a project using ombre!

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, July 8th, 2015 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 IPC33).

• 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 Ombré cards they created! Read the description below each card to see who made it.

This gorgeous card is by Larissa. She created ombré birds using the bird image from the Darling Duos stamp set mixed with the die cut feathers from the Points & Plumes die set! I Love the dipped gold edges too!

Jess created a beautiful purple ombré coffee cup background using the little coffee cups from the Newton Loves Coffee stamp set. Then she colored two cute kitties with their coffee cups too! 

Crafty Math-Chick used some awesome ombré background paper featuring watermelons and then added on that cute watermelon stamp from our Sweet Summer Stamp set! I love how that yummy melon slice pops off the card!

Lydia created this sweet pink ombre background and then added on the butterfly and sentiment from the Beautiful Wings stamp set. I love the soft pink and vellum together!

This sweet card by Samantha features the kangaroo and joey from our Hoppy Days stamp set. I love how they're hopping through that gorgeous ombre watercolor background!

Danielle created a sea of sharks from our Shark Bites stamp set  in a blue ombre pattern! All you need is a bold stamp and a couple of shades of ink to make your own ombre patterns!

I love the gorgeous ombré background on this card by Yuki! The flower from our Beautiful Blossoms set and butterfly from the Beautiful Wings set really pop the background off so nicely!

Here's what I created. I used different shades of blue cardstock to create the ombré and cute them freehand with a scissor to make them look like waves. The shell stamps and "Seas the Day" sentiment from our Tranquil Tides Stamp set were stamped in ombré inks and trimmed out with the Tranquil Tides die set.

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Inky Paws Challenge #29- WINNERS!

Inky Paws Challenge #29 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 COLOR THEME! 

It seems like everyone had  a ton of fun with our colors this month!  THANK YOU to everyone who entered! All the awesome entries always make it difficult to choose the winners! 

Top picks for Inky Paws Challenge #29

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 top pick is this adorable card is by Dawn E! We love how she used the color combo to color that stack of blankets for the kitty image from the Newton's Naptime stamp set!

Our second top pick is this sweet spring card by Vicki! Winston is so cute with his garden of flowers to water. I love how she used the colors too with just a pop of red! She used our Garden Whimsy stamp set to create this card!

Congrats to Dawn and Vicki! 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 #29 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!

This Get Well card by Mary Gable made us smile! I love how poor Newton is a little bit "green" in the face! Hope he's feeling better now!! Those cute images are from the Newton's Sick Day stamp set! 

This card by Barbara is so sweet. We loved how she used the color combo on the blankets and card base with just a pop of red on the hearts!  She also used our fun Newton's Naptime stamp set.  

And one more favorite - We loved the way Lindsey created a fun scene using the color combo! Such an adorable card! She used our  Hoppy Days Stamp Set for the cute kangaroos and sentiment!

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 play along again next time! Our next Inky Paws challenge will begin in a couple weeks - on Friday, March 25th!

Inky Paws Challenge #28 - Love Theme

This month's challenge is a Theme Challenge! 

create a project that is all about Love!

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, February 5th, 2015 at Midnight CST. The winners will be announced on the NND blog on Monday, February 8th.

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 IPC28).

• 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 birthday cards they created! Read the description below each card to see who made it.

Here is an adorable Valentine by Jess! She used the cute frog image and "Hoppy Valentine's Day" sentiment from our Hoppy Days Stamp set!  I love how the colors pop off the black background!

Samantha used the cute pup from our Fetching Friendship stamp set for her love-themed creation! Pet lovers will definitely agree that LOVE is a four-legged word! 

Here is delightful Valentine by Yukari! That sweet kitty image, eiffel tower and hot air balloons are from the Newton Dreams of Paris stamp set. I love the scene she created with them! Then she added the "Happy Valentine's Day" sentiment using our Simply Seasonal stamp set! 

Here is an adorable Love card by Stephanie featuring our elephant image from the Wild about Zoo stamp set. I love the big pink bow and the  "Will ZOO be mine?" sentiment on the wood!

This sweet card by Danielle is purr-fect for Valentines Day! This image from the new Darling Duos stamp set is perfect to go with the "I just want to Snuggle" sentiment that Danielle created!

The rainbow hearts on this card by Kimberly look good enough to eat! She used our new Darling Hearts die to cut out the hearts and the "thinking of you" sentiment is from our Whispering Pines stamp set!

And lastly, here is what I created. I used the love birds from our new Darling Duos stamp set and colored them bright colored copics. I cut them out with the coordinating Darling Hearts die set. I also added the small heart & "love" sentiment from the die set. 

Now it's your turn! What will you create? Link up below:

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