Inky Paws Challenge #236-Week 1

 

  Happy New Year and welcome to  

Inky Paws first 2025 Challenge!

For the month of January 

we have fabulous colors to play with!

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Use Cherry Red, Turquoise, Buttery Brown, and White with your NND products. 

You have four weeks to get creative with these colors and your NND Products!

You have from Monday, January 6, 2025 to Friday, Janary 31, 2025 (Midnight, CST) to play along. Each DT member will pick a favorite project to showcase, AND one RANDOM entry will win a $20 store credit to Newton's Nook Design online shop!  The winners will be announced on the NND blog the following Monday.  Make sure you check the challenge rules page before you link up your project. 

Here's some inspiration.  

This color combination would make sweet, romantic projects, but don't limit yourself.  How about using these colors for a winter-themed card or a playful birthday card?  So many possibilities!  Let's see what our IPC DT came up with:

Crystal Minkler starts the new year with this love-filled card!  Her darling Siamese kitty is from the Newton's Heart stamp and coordinating die set. Crystal pairs coordinating pairs from the Love & Meows paper pad.  So cute!

Danni Bindel also has a darling Valentine's card filled with cuteness!  She uses the pair of kitties from the Newton’s Sweetheart stamp and coordinating die set. She places them on layered hearts using the Heart Frames die set.  She uses a trio of coordinating papers from the  Love & Meows paper pad for her layers. Danni uses the Frames & Flags die set to create her scallop-edging as well as the sentiment banner.  Love is definitely in the air!

Debbie Owens gives us a more futuristic Valentine's card with the addition of those sweet robots from theLove Bots stamp set. She adds the tiny speech bubbles from the newly released Valentine Postage stamp set. She adds an array of hearts using papers from the Natural Basics, Pastel Basics, and the Lovely Hearts paper pads and die cut using the Heart Frames die set. The overall effect is total cuteness!

Amy Tollner uses the challenge colors for this incredibly cute birthday card featuring the newly released Newton's Cookie Jar stamp and coordinating die set. Amy adds a little party hat taken from the Newton's Cupcake stamp and coordinating die set and adds the birthday sentiment from the Puppy's Cookie Jar stamp set.  For even more birthday cutenss, she created background balloons using the Bokeh Balloons stencil set which she die cuts using the A2 Card Layout die set to create those stitched panels.  Seriously, this is too cute!

Claire Lamb showcases two of the newly released products, and wow it looks amazing!  Those darling hearts where created using the Charming Hearts Frame. Claire then adds the sentiment using the Valentine Word Trio die set. What an amazing Valentine's card!  

Don't forget you now have until Janary 31, 2025 to get 

inky with these fab colors!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Inky Paws Challenge #191

 

   Welcome to a new Inky Paws Challenge!

This challenge is a

Color Challenge.

Use the colors--Cherry Red, Pewter Gray, Daffodil Yellow, and White.

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, February 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. 

Here's some inspiration!

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

Crystal Minkler is making her debut on Inky Paws as our newest design team member! We are so excited to have her creativity with us.  For her darling card, Crystal uses the little envelope paper from the Love & Meows paper pad for her background. She pulls the gray paw print paper from the same set and cut using the scallop-edged circle from the Circle Frames die set. She showcases the recently released kitty from the Newton's Heart stamp and die set.  For a bit of color contrast, she adds a little heart (Springtime paper pad).  Welcome, Crystal!

Debbie Owens uses the challenge color for a nontraditional Christmas card. She showcases the retiring Poinsettia Blooms stamp set (on sale for $7.99!).  Coloring the foliage in gray adds some elegance as does the coordinating sentiment from the  Holiday Greetings die set. A fun take on these colors!

Diane Morales showcases the recently released puppy from the Puppy Heart stamp and coordinating die set. She places him on a circular card base using the Circle Frames die set. Those cute papers are from the A Dog's Life and the Autumn paper pads.  The extra little red hearts are so cute!

Amy Tollner is back with the ever-cute robots from the Love Bots stamp and coordinating die set. She places them on a slimline card base and adds a splattered, scallop-edge frame using the Slimline Frames & Portholes die set. Those trio of hearts were created using the Slimline Masking Hearts stencil set.  The sentiment is embossed on a little banner using the A7 Frames & Banners die set.  Don't you just love the red and yellow accents on Amy's bots?  Darling!

Claire Lamb is also showcasing the sweet puppy from the Puppy Heart stamp and coordinating die set. For her card, she uses the Petite Hearts stencil on the card base to create all those little red hearts. She adds her stitched frame (Frames & Flags die set) which has more little hearts! The little yellow bones and red hearts are darling touches to this heart-filled card!

Use the Cherry Red, Pewter Gray, Daffodil Yellow, and white with your Newton's Nook Designs Products!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Inky Paws Challenge #190

 

   Welcome to a new Inky Paws Challenge!

This is a Theme Challenge.

Use the theme-Love.

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, February 3, 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 creates the cutest Valentine's card using the Newton's Naptime stamp and die set. She creates a mile-high stack of blankets in shades of pinks and reds for her little princess kitty to sleep upon. She adds a red heart (Heart Frames die set) as well as the sentiment on a thought bubble (Speech Bubbles die set). Such a creative way to utilize this stamp set!

Debbie Owens showcases two darling robots from the Love Bots stamp set. She pairs them with designer papers from the Love & Meows paper pad. To create all her layers she uses several die sets. They include: Heart Frames die set, Framework die set, Frames & Flags die set, and the A7 Frames & Banners die set. A darling Valentine's card!

Diane Morales also uses the sweet robots from the Love Bots stamp and die set, but with a caffeinated twist. She adds a latte cup from the Pumpkin Latte stamp and die set for her boy bot to give to his girlfriend! She continues the coffee twist by pulling the sentiment from the Love Cafe stamp set. She uses two die sets. The Circle Frames die set is used for the card shape, and the Land Borders die set is utilized for the grass. Just love the coffee twist!

Amy Tollner is also inspired to use the Love Bots stamp and die set. She, though, pulls the kitty and dog bot images for her Valentine's card who are looking so cute on the red heart (Heart Frames die set). She creates a custom background by stamping the candy heart image (Candy Heart stamp set) repeatedly. She uses two additional die sets. For the postage-edging, she uses the Framework die set. For the little banner, she uses the A7 Frames & Banners die set. So cute!

Use the challenge theme, Love, with your Newton's Nook Designs Products!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Inky Paws Challenge #175 Winners

 

Thanks so much to everyone who entered our last

Inky Paws Challenge  at the Newton's Nook Designs blog!

This Biweekly Challenge was a Theme Challenge!

Inky Paws Challenge #175 Prize Winner!

We've chosen one RANDOM winner using random.org to receive 

a $20 Store Credit to Newton's Nook Designs!

Melanie creates a super CAS one-layer card featuring the two kittens from the Newton's Blooms stamp set.  The texture edging and shadow beneath the pot add depth to this super cute card!  

Congrats to Melanie!  Don't forget to send us an e-mail at info@newtonsnookdesigns.com to claim your $20 store credit! 

Inky Paws Challenge #175 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!

Claire's FAVE

Lori paints an a-meow-zing card with all those coffee mugs in beautiful shades of blue. She uses the ever fun image from the Caffeinated Cats stamp set.  Aren't those kittens the cutest?

Debbie's FAVE

Jennifer combines the Argyle stencil set with a little robot from the Love Bots stamp set. I can just imagine the robot rolling around making those "scuff" marks on the floor!  So fun!

Diane's FAVE

Debbie does some amazing masking to create all seven, yes seven, piglets from the Oink stamp set on her slimline card!  Plus she adds all those puffy clouds using the Clouds Stencil.  Just love how those little pigs are "hamming" it!

Sue's FAVE

Sandi's splatters of blue, pink, and gray make a darling setting for our beloved Newton from the Newton Loves Coffee stamp set to enjoy his latte!  A super fun one-layer card!

Amy's FAVE

Amy creates layers of branches for all her darling toucans from the Toucan Party (retiring) stamp set to perch on.  Her bold colors and added shimmer makes for an adorable one layer card!  

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 #166

 

   Welcome to a new Inky Paws Challenge!

This challenge is a

Theme Challenge

Use the theme-Hearts-

 to create your NND project!

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, February 11, 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! 

Debbie Owens uses hearts to show her love of books!  She selects paper from the Coffee House Stories  paper pad and die cuts using the postage-edged die from the Framework die set. She stamps the Heartfelt Meows image on navy and die cuts using the scallop-edged die from the Heart Frames die set. She adds a banner with the sentiment using the Bookmark die set.  Her main attraction is the kitty atop all those books from the All Booked Up stamp set.  A little cup of coffee (Newton Loves Coffee) is snuggled next to the spectacles.  

Diane Morales' card is sporting all kinds of newly released products!  Beginning with the A7 Frames & Banners die set, she adds panels with little hearts using the Petite Hearts stencil.  Then she adds a trio of robot-kitties from the Love Bots stamp and coordinating die set.  Anyone else in love with these little bots?!

Sue T. creatively uses the Heart Frames die set to create her background for her cement truck from the Love Quarry stamp and die set.  She adds black and white diagonally striped Washi tape that works wonderfully for a road!  She adds a bit of sparkly embellishments next to her sentiment, and voilà...a darling Valentine's card!

Amy Tollner creates a vertical slimline card just perfect for the trio of owls flying by with their Valentine's treats! Her pastel clouds were created using the Clouds stencil and die cut using the scallop-edged die from the Slimline Frames & Portholes die set.  Those super sweet owls are from the Love Owl-ways stamp and cut using the coordinating dies.  Using a banner from the Banner Trio die set, Amy stamps the sentiment.  A sweet, colorful way to send Valentine wishes. 

Claire Lamb's card will have you purring with all it's cuteness! She uses the Meow stencil to create her pastel background. She then stamps and amazingly colors the kittens from the Heartfelt Meows stamp set which she cuts using the scallop-edged heart die in the Heart Frames die set. She pulls the tiny banner die from the A7 Frames & Banners die set and stamps the sentiment!  Purr-fectly done!

Use hearts in your project.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter