Inky Paws Challenge #189 Winners

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Thanks so much to everyone who entered our last

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

Inky Paws Challenge #189 Prize Winner!

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

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

Debbie Frank designs this darling Valentine's card. Her distressed background combined with the designer papers make for a wonderful background for the little owl from the retired Love Owl-Ways stamp and die set.  The wood grain red heart adds a fun texture!  

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

Inky Paws Challenge #189 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!

Amy's FAVE

Melanie H. re-purposes the 2017 Exclusive STAMPember Loads of Love stamp and die set by adding hearts over the pumpkins! The darling puppies and pretty colors make for a delightful Valentine's Card. 

Claire's FAVE

Donna selects the purr-fect papers from the Love & Meows paper pad to coordinate with her gray heart. Donna colors the kitty and her box from Newton's Antics stamp set wonderfully.  The black sentiment banner and added hearts finish off this darling card!

Debbie's FAVE

Amanda opts to use the challenge sketch with a wintry twist!  The striped rainbow paper coordinates wonderfully with the Frosty Friends stamp and die set who are all dressed up in their finery. I just love that their outfits mimic the rainbow of the paper. Super cute!

Diane's FAVE

Jennifer K. creates the cutest caffeinated kitty card by simply using papers from the Coffee House Stories paper pad. She cuts her banners from the paper as well as the little kitty image on his stack of books.  A super fun way to utilize one's papers!

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

Inky Paws Challenge #132 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? 
Today I'm sharing some more inspiration for our current challenge! 

Here'a a refresher.

Create a project using the sketch below.

Today I have some more inspiration for this Challenge! 

 A bit of old-fashion chivalry can be seen in Debbie Owens' fun card. Set amid a starry night made using the Cascading Stars stencil,  the chivalrous owl from Knight Owl stamp set saves a damsel in distress from Love Owl-ways stamp set. Both birds are on branches die cut using the 

Forest Scene Builder die set. The white scallop-edged frame was die cut using dies from Frames and Flags die set. 

Diane Morales has a special talent of turning sketches into circular cards!  Using the Circle Frames die set, she creates her card base and layers. She creates the royal blue sky using the Clouds stencil and adds a couple of black fluttering bats among them. Then she adds the vampire kitty from the Batty Newton stamp and die set. His red wings contrast wonderfully against the sky.  Using the sticker banner from the Banner Trio die set, she stamps the sentiment.  A creative way to use the sketch!

Sue T.'s Halloween card is filled with spooky ghosts!  She turns the sketch on its side and uses the  Framework die set to cut her dark gray layer. Using the Ghost stencil, she distresses the ghost images in white. She uses the Trick-or-Treat die from the Halloween Trio die set and cuts the sentiment twice--one in orange and one in black. She adheres them to create a shadow effect.  For her banners, she uses different Washi tapes in Halloween colors. Spook-tacular!

Becky Noelle creates a cozy scene that reminds me of my college days!  On her pretty background made using the Houndstooth stencil, she adds the two ladies from the Sips and Stories stamp set busily studying from stacks of books and enjoying some coffee! Her scene was die cut using the rounded-corner rectangle die from the Frames and Flags die set.  That little fur ball snuggled in for a nap is a purr-fect touch to this scene!

Crystal Komara's Christmas train fun might inspire you to start decorating for Christmas!  She uses the All Aboard for Christmas stamp and die set and colors the holiday images in red, white, and pale blues. She sets them atop a white background with snowy white hills die cut using the Land Borders die set. Her red scallop-edged frame die cut fro the Framework die set, provides a bright foundation to pull everything together. 

I hope these projects have inspired you to play along!  Remember, you have until this Friday, September 25, 2020 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 #101

This biweekly challenge is a:

Color Challenge

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

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, July 12, 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!  

Debbie Owens designs a clean card (pun intended) using the Newton Cleans Up stamp set. She blends a bit of pink distress ink for her background. She then stamps and fussy cuts an image from the Newton Cleans Up and colors it in the challenge colors. She stamps the sentiment and adds a bit of green bling for a finishing touch.

Diane Morales delights with the amazing lime green background using the Bokeh stencil set. She adds a sampling of ice cream treats in the challenge colors using the Summer Scoops stamp and die set. She stamps her sentiment on a circle to mimic the background pattern. Such a wonderful summer card!

Sue T. creates this precious card by stamping a trio of wreaths from the Happy Little Thoughts stamp set. She adds leaves and flowers around the wreaths using the smaller elements from this set.  She adds a sweet bird from the Newton's Birthday Flutter stamp set.  She stamps the birthday sentiment in light brown from the Birthday Essentials stamp set.  She die cuts using the scallop-edged die from the Frames & Flags die set.

Becky Noelle designs this sweet puppy scene with lime green grass filled with paw prints from the Pawprints stencil.  The puppies who made all those prints come from the Walking Woofs stamp set.

What a romantic scene!  Using the colors of the challenge, Bobbi Lemanski creates a lovely picnic blanket on which the love birds from the  Love Owl-ways stamp and die sets are enjoying a glass of wine from the Wine a Little stamp and die set.  Bobbi creates a hilly background with a hand-drawn forest in the background to complete the romantic scene.

Create a project using the colors-

red, pink, lime green, light brown and Link it up below!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Inky Paws Challenge #93

This biweekly challenge is a:

Theme Challenge

Create a project using 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 22 , 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! 

Sue T. creates this lovely spring card by die cutting the main layer using the Framework die. She cuts a circle in it and adds a rainy background.  For her main attraction, she adds the little girl from the Loads of Bloom stamp and die set. She adds a strip of floral pattern paper and a splattering of flowers and enamel dots. Such a wonderful, spring card!

Becky Noelle's begins by using Kraft card stock and a strip of white paper in which she adds a trio of bouquets from the Lovely Blooms stamp set look wonderful in their glass jars. She adds a happy birthday sentiment from the Simply Sentimental stamp set. As a final touch, she adds jute twine bows.  What amazing spring inspiration!

 Bobbi Lemanski used distressed inks and splotched water on it to created her watery sky. She adds her little girl in her yellow raincoat from the Loads of Bloom stamp and die set. She adds a little blue bird from the Raccoon Rascals stamp set and sprinkles some flowers on the ground. Wonderful spring card!

Debbie Owens creates a fun slider card!  She begins with a polka-dotted foil background and adds a layer of clouds using the Sky Borders die. She uses the Frames & Flags die set to create the scalloped edges. She adds the sliding owl from the Love Owl-Ways stamp set and adds the froggy umbrella from the Umbrella Pals stamp set. She adds the kitten from the Sending Hugs stamp and die set who is also holding a froggy umbrella. Using the banner from  Frames & Flags die, she creates a banner and adds a sentiment from the Newton's Rainy Day stamp set. For an added touch of spring, she adds potted flowers from the Wagon of Wishes stamp set.

Diane Morales created these delightful bookmarks by distressing the background using the Bokeh stencil. She adds her grass using the Sea Borders die. For her main attraction, she colors the spring critters from the Spring Pile Up stamp and die set.  She then adds her fun tassels! Such a fabulous way to hold one's place in a book!

An InLinkz Link-up

Inky Paws Challenge #91

This biweekly challenge is a:

Color Challenge

Create a project using the colors white, gray, black, and pink

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 22 , 2018 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! 

Those cool sunglasses on the llama makes Debbie Owens card delightful! She starts with pink and white layers. She stamps the sweet llama from the Loveable Llamas stamp set and uses the challenge colors on the blanket. She then adds a yummy cocktail from the Cocktail Mixer stamp set, and adds a speech bubble from the Newton's Day Dream stamp set to showcase the sentiment. She adds a bit of washi tape and sequins to finish it off.

Diane Morales creates an oval shaped card with scalloped edges. She uses the Argyle stencil to create the background using pink, white and gray. She adds the banner from Frame & Flags die set and stamps the sentiment. The focal point of her card is the girl holding the big bouquet of balloons from the Holding Happiness stamp set. The added hearts on the balloons are a perfect touch!

Who knew a shark could look so sweet! Sue T. obviously did with this fabulous gray and pink shark from the Shark Bites stamp set! She adds a school of pink fish and a popped-up speech bubble. For sparkle, she adds pink glitter paper and a stripe of white and black pattern paper that she partially die cuts with the Frames & Flags die set to give it a scalloped edge.

Becky Noelle's card definitely has love in the air! She starts her card by lightly distressing th!e background using the Tumbling Hearts stencil. She adds the Eiffel Tower from the Newton Dreams of Paris stamp set and sentiment from the Uplifting Wishes stamp set. She creates the ground using gray card stock and the Land Borders die. She adds two feline images from the Newton Dreams of Paris that she colors wonderfully!

Bobbi Lemanski begins this sweet card by distressing the bubbles from the Bubbly stencil in a darker shade of pink than her card base. She them adds a strip of black and white washi tape. She adds clouds from the Raccoon Rascals stamp set. Her focal point is the pair of gray owls from the Love Owl-ways stamp and die set. She adheres a pink and red heart banner from the branch. Cute!

An InLinkz Link-up

Inky Paws Challenge #90 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 #90  Winner!

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

Erin T. uses the Coffee & Wine stamp set to create this darling card. She colors the images in soft pinks and red and adheres it to a red polka-dotted background. Love the coordinating dots on the coffee cup!

Congrats to Erin T! 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 #90 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!

Bobbi's FAVE

April Hunton creates this CAS-style card using the Love Owl-ways Stamp set. She colors those sweet owls in shades of pinks on a white heart and adheres it to a pretty pink heart. She adds a splattering of hearts and flowers to complete her card.

Debbie's FAVE 

Marianne  creates this delicious card by combining fun pattern papers and coffee and donuts!  The black and pink colors work wonderfully with the images from the Newton's Donut  and Newton Loves Coffee stamp sets, and the red heart with the white embossed sentiment looks fabulous!

Diane's FAVE

Plans and Parcels creates this romantic card by repeatedly stamping images from the Newton's Sweetheart stamp set. She adds a soft, pastel center using Distress inks before add the main attraction--the darling feline pair--using some dimension foam.  The little pink hearts are a purr-fect touch. 

Sue's FAVE

Tracy M. designs this spectacular CAS card by using one of the butterflies from the Beautiful Wings stamp set. The flourish she adds is the perfect amount of bling!

Becky's FAVE

Tonya Graham blew us away with her spectacular coloring on the hot air balloon from the Newton Dreams of Paris stamp set. She coordinates the hearts from the balloon with heart-shaped balloon pattern paper. She adds sequins and white hearts to finish off her design!

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.