Inky Paws Challenge #74 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 Colors!

Inky Paws Challenge #74 Winner!

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

Laura creates this striking ink smooshed background and adds the fun and beautifully colored toucans from Toucan Party stamp and die set. 

Congrats to Laura fromScrappinsweetie's Escape ! 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 #74 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!

Debbie's FAVE

Candice creates a soft, romantic background then adds a jeweled rainbow. She uses Once Upon a Princess stamp set and embosses the sentiment on the stitched banner. She finishes the card with a white stitched frame. Just so pretty!

Diane's FAVE

Sue creates this fun, festive card using Newton's Christmas Cuddles stamp set. We love the unique card design and how she fussy cut Newton poking his head out of the box. The added strip of striped paper pulls everything together!  The sentiment is from Newton's Birthday Bash stamp set. 

Emily's FAVE

Irene created this simple, but totally adorable baby card using Loveable Laundry stamp set and Stitched Onesie die set. We love how she coordinated the lion onesie and the large "Roar" sentiment. So fun!

Zsofia's FAVE

We love how Laura creates this striking smooshed background using the challenge colors. Her softly colored toucans from the  Toucan Party stamp and die set and placed them atop of the background. 

Andrea's FAVE

Rijacki's magical card has Newton dreaming about magic!  Rijacki combines Newton's Book Club, Newton Loves Cake (sentiment inside), and a retired NND stamp set, Magical Dreams, to create this fun card. The background paper works wonderfully to pull everything together!

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 #16 WINNERS!

Inky Paws #16 - Christmas Challenge 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 to create a project with a Christmas Theme! We had a TON of amazing entries this month! It's always so fun to see everyones creations!

Top picks for Inky Paws Challenge #16

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!!

This adorable card by Tatiana is our first top pick! She caught our eye with this fun layout - I love the four squares that show the kitty being "naughty or nice" and the watercoloring is gorgeous!
Tatiana used the Newton's Curious Christmas set!

This adorable card by Vicki is our second top pick! We loved all the extra details she added on this card - the liquid applique on the hat and the paper pierced scarf give it an extra special feel! Vicki used our adorable dachshund from the Holiday Hounds set!

Congrats to Tatiana 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 Favorites

Since there were so many beautiful 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!

Michelle was so creative with her card - she used our wizard from the Magical Dreams stamp set and made him into a Santa! So fun!

We thought this shaker card by Corilyn using the Newton's Holiday Mischief set was super cute! The holly in each corner makes the perfect frame!  

We loved this adorable little ornament by June using the kitty from the Newton's Antics set. This is such a cute idea!

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 try again in January!

Inky Paws Challenge #8 - Sketch Challenge

Happy Friday and the the first day of #08 Inky Paws Challenge!  

This month's challenge is a sketch challenge!

I've been seeing fun diagonal cards lately so I thought it would be fun to see what everyone would do with a diagonal layout! Base your card on this sketch and use any Newton's Nook Designs Stamps! 

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,  April 11th, 2014 at Midnight CST. The winners will be announced on the NND blog on Monday, March 14th.

Are you ready to play along and get your paws inky? 

• Create a NEW project (card or other paper craft item) based on the sketch above.

• 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 or splitcoaststampers (on splitcoast please use keywords newtonsnook and IPC08).

• 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. 

Here's some inspiration!

Several of our Design Team Members and Guests decided to play along - Read the description below each card to see who made it!

Guest Designer Michelle Lupton created this fun layout with distress inks and our Winged Wishes Stamp set! 

Guest Designer Katie Brooks created this fun card, turning the layout sideways! Love the burst showcasing the cheese from the Just Say Cheese set! 

Valerie created this fun card using the wizard from the Magical Dreams set. Lots of layers and gloss plus sparkle and sequins = very magical!

Such a pretty basket of Garden Tools by Larissa using our new Basket of Wishes Set! I love the metallic silver! 

Samantha created a WHALEY fun birthday card - using the Whale from our SEAson's Greetings Set! 

I used the cute little frog from the Magical Dreams set to create this fun card (and the clouds are from Spring Showers and Winged Wishes) 

Now it's your turn!

Use the widget below to add a link to your project! Don't forget to tell your friends to play along too - If we get more than 15 participants we will pick TWO winners!

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Inky Paws Challenge #7 - Go Green!

Happy Friday and the the first day of #07 Inky Paws Challenge!  This month's challenge is Go Green!

photo credit & recipe! 

With upcoming spring weather (I hope) and St. Patricks day just around the corner I thought this green ombre cake image would be fun inspiration! You can use any shade of green on your card (other colors are ok as long as Green is the primary color) and any Newton's Nook Designs Stamps! 

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 14th, 2014 at Midnight CST. The winner will be announced on the NND blog on Monday, March 17th.

Are you ready to play along and get your paws inky? 

• Create a NEW project (card or other paper craft item) based on the color combo above.

• 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 or splitcoaststampers (on splitcoast please use keywords newtonsnook and IPC07).

• 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. 

Here's some inspiration!

Several of our Design Team Members and Guests decided to play along - Read the description below each card to see who made it!

I love the green watercolor background on this card by our Guest Designer, Debbie Owens! She used our new stamp set, Winston's Birthday!

Our Guest Designer, Chrissie Tobas also did a watercolor background on her card featuring Newton's Birthday Bash! I love how this turned out too!  

 Design Team Member Danielle used our Dino Set, Prehistoric Pals to create this fun green scene! 

 This cute kitty card by Samantha Mann makes me smile! I love the sentiment she created to go with the kitty from Newton's Antics! Plus the green box is adorable!

Larissa Heskett is so good at combining stamps from different sets! She use the owl from Sweetheart Tails, the Branch and birdcage from Tweet Talk and the "hey there" from Love à la Carte!

For this fun "green" card Design Team Member Tessa Wise used the fun dragon from our Magical Dreams stamp set! I love the little bits of colored tape too! 

This fun card is by Design Team Member Christine Drogt. Christine used the bear from our Halloween set, Boo Crew and made it into a get well card! Such a fun idea!

Here's one from me :) I used some fun arrow washi tape and gave the kitty from Newton's Birthday Bash a stack of paper pierced green gifts! 

Another one by me - I couldn't resist using the newly- named Winston! I used the Winston's Birthday Stamp set to create this fun green scene!  

Now it's your turn!

Use the widget below to add a link to your project! Don't forget to tell your friends to play along too - If we get more than 15 participants we will pick TWO winners!

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Inky Paws Challenge #03

Do you know what today is? It's the first day of #03 Inky Paws Challenge!

Here's this month's Sketch: 

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! 

Are you ready to play along and get your paws inky? 

• Create a NEW project (card or other paper craft item) based on the sketch above.
• Your project MUST use at least one Newton's Nook Designs stamped image (or free digital stamp -see our First Inky Paws Challenge post to get the freebie).
• Post your project to your blog or to an online photo gallery such as Flickr or splitcoaststampers (on splitcoast please use keywords newtonsnook and IPC03).
• 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. 

You have two weeks to play along. Deadline to enter is Friday, October 4th, 2013 at Midnight CST. The winner will be announced on the NND blog on Monday, October 7th.

Ready for some Inky Paws inspiration?  

Read the description below each card to see who made it!

This challenge card by our guest designer Kim Singdahlsen makes me smile!  I love the cute paper piercing on the ghost kitty from the  Boo Crew stamp set! So fun! 

Check it out - Harry Potter Fans! Design Team Member Samantha Mann played along  by creating this this Harry Potter inspired card using Magical Dreams! 

Design Team Member Tessa Wise played along  by creating this fun Halloween Party Card by combining the bunny from Boo Crew and the party banner from Winged Wishes!

Here's one by me - a quick monochromatic bunny vampire card using  some cute spider web paper and the new Boo Crew Stamp Set.

Another one by me. This time I used the dragon from the new Magical Dreams Stamp Set. I colored him with inktense watercolor pencils on watercolor paper and used a button for the circle!

Now It's your turn!  

Use the widget below to add a link to your project! Don't forget to tell your friends to play along too - If we get more than 15 participants we will pick TWO winners!

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