Inky Paws Challenge #236-Week 4

 

  Our January Challenge Continues!

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 a few more days to get creative with these colors and your NND Products!

You have until 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.  

There's so many ways to use these colors with your NND paper pads, stamps, and dies.  Are you in the mood to make wedding cards, birthday cards, spring cards?  With these colors, you can't go wrong. Let's see how the colors inspired the IPC team:

Amy Tollner starts us off with this delightful Valentine's card featuring the canine from the Puppy Heart stamp and coordinating die set. Goodness, he is so cute!  She creates her card layout using the Fractured Card Layout die with the puppy pawprint paper from the Love & Meows paper pad. A darling way to send Valentine's love!

Claire Lamb's coffee first card speaks to a lot of our morning hearts!  Her coffee-themed card showcases the horizontal cups from the Coffee Delights stamp and coordinating die set atop a partially distressed background. She adds the die cut sentiment using the Coffee Frames die set. Just love the pops of red on her cups!

Crystal Minkler, too, was inspired to use the canine from the Puppy Heart stamp and coordinating die set. She uses dies from the Basic Frames and the Circle Frames die sets to create her layers using papers from the Love & Woofs paper pad. Just love those little puppies in the background with their little hearts!  

Danni Bindel takes us to the ocean to send some Valentine's love! She uses the Frames & Flags die set to create her zigzag frame and paneled frame. She then places two darling aquatic friends in the panels to send a pinch of love. Those darling critters are from the Tides of Love stamp and coordinating die set. Too cute!

Debbie Owens shares a card that sends sympathy to one who has lost a fur baby. She showcases the sentiment and the pawprint heart from the Furr-ever Friends stamp set with a canine die cut using the Dog Silhouette die set. She places these atop of rectangle panels using papers from the Pastel Basics and the Lovely Hearts paper pads. For her background, she uses the Petite Pawprint stencil. A nice way to support a loved one who is grieving. 

Don't forget you only have a few days left! 

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Inky Paws Challenge #236-Week 2

 

  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 3 more weeks to get creative with these colors and your NND Products!

You have until 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 fun Valentine's, flowery spring, or beautiful birthday cards. There's so many ways to combine them.  Let's see how the IPC team used them:

Danni Bindel creates this darling Valentine's card using the sweet puppy from the Puppy Heart stamp set. She uses papers from the Love & Woofs paper pad to create the panels made using the Frames & Tags die set. She die cuts (Heart Frames die set) a large heart in which she has embossed puppy paws using the Pawprints stencil. The overall effect is puppy cuteness!

Debbie Owens was also inspired to use the Frames & Tags die set to create her card layout. She frames it with the scallop-edge die from the Frames & Flags die set. See those little hearts in the background? Those were made using the Petite Hearts stencil. Deb scatters different images from the Valentine Postage Sampler stamp set. She adds sentiments pulled from the Heartfelt Love stamp set. A wonderfully designed "love" card!

Amy Tollner was also in the Valentine mood. For her sweet card, she uses the heart paper from the Lovely Hearts paper pad. She then uses the recently released Charming Hearts Frame die and adds some white and shimmering red hearts to it. She continues with the XOXO sentiment from the Valentine Words Trio die set. A fabulous combination of products!

Claire Lamb opts for a coffee-themed card. She uses the Coffee Frame die set atop red polka-dotted paper from the Christmas Basics paper pad. She then adds her sentiment with each word in a challenge color. This fabulous sentiment is from the Thanks a Latte die set. A fabulous way to send thanks to a loved one!

Crystal Minkler also goes with a coffee-themed card! She embraces the turquoise and browns of the challenge with a splash of red on her coffee mugs!  Crystal creatively combines papers from the Coffee Shop paper pad. She creates her different layers using dies from the Framework die set. She uses the Coffee Silhouettes die set to create her trio of mugs and follows up with a sentiment from the Newton Loves Coffee stamp set.  A wonderful coffee-themed 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 #216 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 the challenge sketch with your NND products.

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

Crystal Minkler creates a pair of darling Valentine's cards using papers from the Love & Meows and the Love & Woofs paper pads. She then uses the images from the Newton's Heart stamp and coordinating die set and the Puppy Heart stamp and coordinating die set for the focal point on each card. To create her different scallop-edged layers she uses dies from the Frames & Flags and the Circle Frames die sets.  Don't you just love the paper-pieced heart on each card?  Super cute!



Danni Bindel's spectacularly colored gnome from the Gnome Garden stamp and coordinating die set is looking amazing on his little mushroom!  Danni pulls papers from the Springtime paper pad that make for a spectacular spring backdrop!  She uses the Frames & Flags and the Oval Frames die sets to create some layers.  So cute!


Debbie Owens is showcasing not one, but two, mischievious kitties enjoying themselves with some indoor plants!  These little felines are from the Naughty Newton and the Newton's Hanging Basket stamp sets. She uses the Frames & Flags die set to create her scallop-edging on papers from the Spring Blooms paper pad. How can two bad kitties look so adorable?!



Amy Tollner designs a brilliantly bright birthday card in greens and blues! She pulls the green present paper from the Birthday Party and the pawprint paper from A Cat's Life paper pads. She creates a balloon background on her banner using the Bokeh Balloons stencil set. The fabulous trio of felines are colored amazingly. These little critters are from the Newton's Birthday Trio stamp and coordinating die set. Wow!



Claire Lamb also creates an amazing birthday card featuring a trio of puppies from the Birthday Barks Stamp and coordinating die set. She adds a bright yellow confetti background using paper from the Birthday Party paper pad. The fun polka-dotted red paper is from the Meowy Christmas paper pad. So much canine cuteness on this card!

I hope these projects have inspired you to play along!  Remember, you have until this Friday, February 16,  2024 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 #215

 

  Welcome to a new Inky Paws Challenge!

This is a color challenge.

Use the challenge theme--Pink, Teal, Ice Blue, Cookie Dough Brown with your NND products. 

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 2, 2024 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 uses the challenge colors to create a serene, wintry forest scene. Her trees and pink birds were created using the Forest Scene Builder die set. For her snowy hills, she uses the Land Borders die set. She finishes with a sentiment from the Scandi Christmas die set. A beautiful scene!




Crystal Minkler uses the Caffeinated Cats stamp set and spotlights a few of the kitties using the Circle Frames die set. Her panel was die cut using the Framework die set to create the postage edging. So pretty and creative!



Danni Bindel showcases papers from the Love & Woofs paper pad using the Heart Frames and the Frames & Flags die set to create the many layers. She then features the darling puppy from the Puppy Heart stamp set. All those fun patterns make for such a playful Valentine's card!



Debbie Owens also features a Valentine's card. For her background, she uses the Tumbling Hearts stencil. She makes a jar using the Jar Hot Foil Plate & Die and fills it with converstation hearts using the Candy Heart stamp set. She pulls a sentiment from the Love & Chocolate stamp set. A super sweet card!




Need a mid-day pick up? Amy Tollner's coffee-themed cards is packed full of caffeinated cuteness! She creates her scallop-edged panel (Frames & Flags die set) using the Mugs Stencil. She creates her scallop-edged heart using the Heart Frames die set and stamps the Heartfelt Coffee heart-shaped image. She colors all those mugs and cups using the challenge colors. Her sentiment is placed on a banner using the Banner Trio die set.

Use the challenge colors with your Newton's Nook Designs products.

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