Inky Paws Challenge #248 Week 4

 

We are in the last days of the current challenge. What will you create? 

Use Cinnamon Red, Soft Pink, Lilac, and Buttercream White with at least 1 NND stamp!

You have until Friday, January 30, 2026 (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.  

We are in the final days of the January challenge using these fun colors. This week the IPC team used lots of different layout dies and papers for five very cute, yet different, Valentine's cards!  Yes, the team was definitely in the mood for some "love!"  What are you inspired to create?  We can't wait to see!

Debbie Owens has a delightful Valentine's card that you might really dig!  She uses the A2 Layout 2 die for her layout with petite heart paper from the Lovely Hearts paper pad. She creates her landscape using the Land Borders die set with a trio of heavy equipment from the Love Quarry stamp set. She stamps the punny sentiment on a heart (Heart Frames die set). Super cute!

 Kelly Santi repurposes a puppy from the Christmas Time Dogs stamp and coordinating die set by adding conversation hearts in his paws, which she carefully cut from paper from the Love & Woofs paper pad. She then designs lots of layers using papers from Lovely Hearts and Love & Woofs paper pads and dies from the Essential Tags, A2 Card Layout 2, and Frames & Flags die sets. Such a delightful way to extend one's Christmas stamp sets!

Amy Tollner also repurposes the  Oink stamp and coordinating die set for a Valentine's card. To create her V-Day card, Amy uses the Fractured Card Layout die with heart paper from the Lovely Hearts paper pad. She uses the XOXO die from the Valentine Word Trio die set with pink glitter paper from the Cheerful Brights Glitter Cardstock Assortment. Love the little piglet!

Claire Lamb uses the Card Layout 4 die to create her coffee-themed card. She uses heart paper from the Love & Meows paper pad. She places her sentiment on a distressed heart using the  Heart Frames die set. At last, she adds those pretty coffee mugs from the Love Cafe stamp and coordinating die set.  Coffee and Valentine's Day are a perfect combination for a card!

Danni Bindel also was inspired by love and coffee!  Yum! For her card, she uses the A2 Card Layout die for her layout with heart paper from the Lovely Hearts paper pad. (Does that paper look familiar?  See Amy's card above!) Danni places her coffee mugs from the Love Cafe stamp set layered circles using the Circle Frames die set. For her sentiment, she creates a banner using the Banner Trio die set. Love all those hearts!

Don't forget you have until January 30, 2026 

to use these fabulous colors! Remember you can enter up to 4 different cards!  

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Inky Paws Challenge #219 Winners

 

Thanks so much to everyone who entered our last

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

Inky Paws Challenge #219 Prize Winner!

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

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

Lori Kobular uses such soft, beautiful colors and papers with her fawn from the

 Woodland Spring retired stamp set. A beautiful way to celebrate the spring season!

Congrats to Lori Kobular!   Don't forget to send us an e-mail at

 info@newtonsnookdesigns.com to claim your $20 store credit! 

Inky Paws Challenge #219 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

Tracy Grauer's darling card features the puppy from the Puppy's Reading List stamp and coordinating die set. She showcases him on a pawprint embossed card base and papers from the Coffee House Stories paper pad. The overall effect is total cuteness!

Claire's FAVE

Fikreta uses such bright, cheery colors for her spring card!  She uses the cute, little lamb from the \Woodland Spring retired stamp set as her focal element.  A perfect card to brighten one's day!

Crystal's FAVE

Jennifer K. uses such soft, sweet colors and papers for her amazing spring card. She features the Hello Spring retired stamp set and does a beautiful job of coloring the image!  Fabulously done!

Danni's FAVE

Katrina Trapani uses a wonderful seletion of papers that make her card so bright and cheerful.  She uses the Hedgehog Hollow retired stamp set who is looking quite content in his blue coffee mug!  Nicely done, Katrina!

Debbie's FAVE

Meghan K. uses teal and red for a wonderful "love card!"  She features two of the construction vehicles from the Love Quarry stamp and coordinating die set. Her fun selection of papers adds to the overall fun!

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 #190 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--Love

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

Claire Lamb uses the little heart die (a lot) from the Heart Frames die set to create this rainbow card filled with hearts!  For her sentiment, she uses white embossing on black to make it look fabulous!  The sentiment is from the Thankful Thoughts stamp set. What a wonderful way to utilize your dies!

Debbie Owens uses three trucks from the Love Quarry stamp set for this sweet card just perfect for a little boy!  She places her vehicles on little squares made using the Slimline Frames & Windows die set, and those heart filled hills were made using paper from the Love & Chocolate paper pad and the Land Borders die set.  Super fun!

Diane Morales's card will have your taste buds yearning for one of those scrumptious strawberries!  To make this amazing card, she uses the Heart Frames die set for her card base. She adds the pink striped paper from the Love & Chocolate paper pad, and those strawberries are from the Love & Chocolate stamp and die set.  Yum!

Amy Tollner's card showcases the smitten kittens sharing a bottle of milk from the Newton's Sweetheart stamp and the coordinating die set. She uses the Frames Squared die set to create her red card base, and the Heart Frames die set for her red heart.  She uses the coordinating paper from the Love & Meows paper pad.  So cute!

I hope these projects have inspired you to play along!  Remember, you have until this Friday, February 3, 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 #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 #165 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'a a refresher.

Create a project using the challenge sketch.

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

Claire Lamb has her kitten making snow angels on a snowy day! With a pretty snowy sky and hills of snow made using the Land Borders die set, Claire adds a rainbow scarf and coordinating hat to her kitten from the Snow Angel Newton stamp and die set.  She adds banners using the Frames & Flags die set. A darling way to spend a day!  

Debbie Owens' card has Newton aiming for twinkling stars. She creates her starry sky using the Starfield stencil and gold foil. She continues the gold theme by die cutting a gold frame using the Framework die set.  Flying across the sky is Newton from the Newton's 4th of July stamp set. A fun sentiment from the Cosmic Newton stamp completes her fun card!

Diane Morales creates a fun Valentine's card just perfect for a little (or not so little) boy! She uses the Tumbling Hearts stencil to create her background of hearts. Then uses the  Circle Frames and the Frames & Flags die sets to create the black banner and circle frame.  She features the backhoe and safety cone images from the Love Quarry stamp and die set. A darling interpretation of the sketch!

Sue T.'s card is just so pretty with all the pink!  She uses the Tumbling Hearts stencil for her center panel and adds the playful kitty from the Newton's Valentine stamp and die set. The polka-dotted heart is so cute!  To complete her card, Sue uses the Frames & Flags die set for her white panel layer and her pink banners. She uses a die from the  Speech Bubble die for her sentiment. So Valentine-y!

Amy Tollner gives us a beautiful snowflake card in blues and silver! She uses silver glitter paper for her banners (die cut using the Frames & Flags die set) and background layer. Using the Beautiful Blizzard stamp set, she heat embosses the fragile snowflakes in white and distresses the background in shades of blue.  She heat embosses the sentiment on a little banner using the Banner Trio die set. Such a beautiful, sparkly card!

I hope these projects have inspired you to play along!  Remember, you have until this Friday, January 28, 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 Winners #140

 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 Color Challenge.

Inky Paws Challenge #140 Winner!

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

Kimberly Curphey showcases the Monarchs stamp set and Hibiscus stencil set in the challenge colors.  The shimmer and glittering background provide a wonderful setting for her pink butterflies as they flutter about!  Wonderfully done!

Congrats to  Kimberly Curphey!  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 #140 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

Ildi wows with her spectacular background!  Love the teal curtains and sliding glass door!  Her sweet kitten from the Newton's Naptime stamp set looks quite content on his pile of pink and red blankets!  Amazingly done!

Debbie's FAVE

Mary Reiner combines the Holiday Post and the Llama Delivery stamp sets to create a delightful scene!  Her coloring of her critters looks amazing as is her use of the challenge colors.  A fabulous card that is sure to bring a smile to one's face!

Diane's FAVE

Meghan Kennihan uses the Tumbling Hearts stencil to create a festive background in pinks and red. She adds the cement truck from the Love Quarry stamp and die set. Doesn't it look wonderful in the challenge colors?  This fun Valentine's card is sure to win over some lucky person!

Sue's FAVE

Valerie uses the Tropical Leaves stencil and distresses in shades of pink. She then uses the challenge colors to shade her toucans from the Toucan Party stamp and die set. Using nontraditional colors adds a whimsical touch to these toucans.  Fun and fabulous!

Amy's FAVE

Beverly Sizemore's lovely bouquet using the Lovely Blooms stamp set really wows!  Set upon a quilted background, her red and pink flowers are so bright and colorful. Her pop of teal for the water and twine bow look fantastic!  A wonder way to celebrate a loved one's special day!

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.