Inky Paws Challenge #182 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 Colors Challenge!

Inky Paws Challenge #182 Prize Winner!

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

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

Tracy Grauer showcases the Autumn Oval stamp set in such an elegant way.  She uses the Oval Frames die set to cut various ovals including an orange gingham oval using papers from the Autumn paper pad.  The black card base and scallop-edged oval add a dramatic effect that is just beautiful!

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

Inky Paws Challenge #182 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!

Diane's FAVE

Tracy Grauer  is not only our randomly chosen winner of the $20 store credit, but she is also Diane's fave! Her black background and scallop-edged oval (Oval Frames die set) add a nice contrast to the orange gingham paper pulled from the Autumn paper pad.  Inside her center oval is the beautifully colored image from the Autumn Oval stamp set. The added twine and pearls add nice touches of texture!  So lovely!

Sue's FAVE

Kristi uses the Autumn Leaves die set in a beautiful way.  With a black background, she inlays different leaves in the challenge colors. She then pulls a sentiment from the retired Shades of Autumn stamp set.  The overall effect is so bold and very stunning!

Amy's FAVE

Amy Gross showcases lots of bones in her fabulous card!  She uses all the skeletal images from the Spooky Skeletons stamp set to create her background.  She then stamps the little pumpkin images from the same set in orange and the stars in yellow!  Fabulously done, Amy!

Claire's FAVE

Andrea creates this lovely card that has a nice cozy, rustic feel.  She showcases the darling kitten (colored like Andrea's very own fur baby) from the Newton's Crate stamp and coordinating die set. She then adds paper with a linen pattern that is distressed and stamped with stitching.  The brown gingham paper continues the coziness of this charming card!

Debbie's FAVE

KT Fit Kitty shows off her creative thinking with this very non-traditional Christmas card!  She embosses snowflakes on her cream card base, then adds a pretty pattern paper in the challenge colors. She adds that sweet lamb from the Fleece Navidad stamp and die set on an orange ornament using the Ornament Shaker die set. The black bow was cut using the Pines & Holly die set. For her black element, she embosses the sentiment on a little banner.  So lovely!

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 #131 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 Color Challenge.

Inky Paws Challenge #131 Winner!

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

Glitter and webs, oh my!  Amy T. designs a glamorous spooky card!  With her teal glitter card base, she adds a scallop-edged panel die cut using the Slimline Frames & Porthole die set and adds dark purple cobwebs using the Spiderweb stencil.  Using the Slimline Frames & Porthole die set again, she cuts the porthole panel using the glitter card base. She adds costumed critters from the Newton's Costume Party stamp and die set and Boo Crew (retired) stamp set. The sprinkling of candies from the Hoppy Halloween stamp add the perfect finishing touches!

Congrats to  Amy 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 #131 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!

Crystal's FAVE

Cardogram uses the challenge colors for her gorgeous leaves from the Shades of Autumn 

stamp set for a spectacular autumn card. She stamps the grateful sentiment and adheres the panel to a deep orange card base.  Beautiful!

Debbie's FAVE

Dandi93 takes us to the mountains for some fresh chilly fun!  She adds some purple behind her hills then adds her snowboarding moose from the Moose Mountain stamp and die set. Don't you love his teal snowsuit with the orange accents.  A very fun, crisp card!

Diane's FAVE

Rachel creates a shaker card which features the Spooky Roundabout stamp set in all three of her windows. Her fun coloring and teal banner look fabulous on the purple card stock.  Love how the ghosts look like they are floating about in the windows!

Sue's FAVE

Claire L. showcases Newton from Batty Newton stamp and coordinating die set flying in front of a bright full moon!  Her distressed midnight background looks fabulous with the shimmering stars and scary embossed bats!  

Becky's FAVE

Amy T. is back with another glittery Halloween card!  Beginning with a purple glitter card base, she adds a purple-teal distressed panel die cut using the postage-edged frame die from the Framework die set. She uses glow-in-the-night glitter paste with the Ghost stencil to make those shimmery spooks. Atop a purple glimmer stripe, she adds a teal circle using a die from the Circle Frames die set.  Her orange tabby poking out of that striking boot is from the Witchy Newton stamp and die set.  Using the bat die from the Halloween Trio die set, she adds 3-D bats!  

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 #109 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 #109  Winner!

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

Tracie C.  creates this darling Halloween card by selecting wonderful fall papers. She then layers a big spider web before adding the gray layer using the Frames Squared die set and stamping a little spider in the corner.  For her main attraction she stamps and colors the kitty and his Jack-o-lantern from the Newton's Perfect Pumpkin stamp set. A super fun card!

Congrats to Tracie C.  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 #109 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

Jess creates a wonderful wintery sky in beautiful shades of purple and blues with splatters of white for snowflakes. She then adds Newton on his fuschia scooter the Newton Scoots By stamp set. Love how he is going up a slight incline with the holiday sentiment underneath!  Such a clever way to use this stamp set!

Debbie's FAVE

Amanda creates this amazing slider card that works perfectly with the Autumn Mice stamp and die set.

Her color combination of olive green and purple go wonderfully together. Also love how she adds leaves around the wreath with the pumpkins at the bottom.  Just so cute!

Diane's FAVE

April combines two different stamp sets--Peony Blooms and Newton's Birthday Flutter -- to create this spectacular card. She uses beautiful fall colors, orange and yellow, for her peonies and places them on a large wreath. She adds some dots of orange and yellow and a sweet little birdie to balance her card  Just beautiful!

Sue's FAVE

Dandi93 has us all wondering, "Why didn't I think of that?' She let's a single candy corn from the Candy Corn stamp set take center stage. His little smile just warms your heart. Combining him with the sassy sentiment makes you chuckle!  A fabulous CAS card!


Becky's FAVE

Ishani wows with her arrangement of leaves. She stamps leaves from the Shades of Autumn stamp set using ombre inks.  She adds Nuvo drops to add interest around the leaves. She adds this to a peach card base and adds the sentiment. A wonderful 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.

Inky Paws Challenge #104 Reminder

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

Here'a a refresher.
Color Challenge

Create a project using the colors: 

Yellow, Teal, Orange, and Brown.

Today I have some more inspiration for this Challenge!

Becky Noelle creates a spectacular background on Kraft card stock and the Hibiscus stencil set. Her hibiscus are shaded in yellow and oranges with teal leaves.  She then uses the sentiments from the Simply Sentiment stamp set on striped vellum. She stitches the vellum to the card to give an extra special touch to this beautiful card.

Bobbi Lemanski brings us this refreshing card by heat embossing the lemon slices from the  Lemon Twist stamp set with white powder on orange, teal, and yellow squares.  She then rounds two adjacent corners  of each square before adhering in a 3 x 2 arrangement. She embosses another lemon and sentiment from the Lemon Twist stamp set on a brown rectangle with two rounded corners.  She adds two glasses of lemonade from the Cocktail Mixer stamp and die set to complete her amazing design.

Debbie Owens creates a bright yellow sky using the Sky Borders die set for her golfing friends to play a few rounds.  She creates white hills using the Land Borders die set. Those cute bears were colored in the challenge colors and are from the the Winston's Tee Time stamp set. Using the  Frame & Flags die set, she cuts a banner and adds a sentiment from the  Winston's Tee Time stamp set. She finishes her card with some orange and white twine.

Diane Morales is back with another amazing tag!  This one begins with her using the Pineapple stencil set with Versamark and clear embossing powder on a yellow background. She then adds the sweet corgi from the Corgi Beach stamp and die set. She heat embosses the sentiment from Oink stamp set in white on a banner from the Frame & Flags die set. A delightful summer tag!

Sue T. is getting us ready for the upcoming autumn season by using the challenge colors with the Shades of Autumn stamp set. After stamping the leaves several times, she die cuts with the Framework die set and adds dimension tape. She then cuts out a section and stamps the sentiment on the card base. She adds several jeweled embellishments to complete her beautiful card. 

I hope these projects have inspired you to play along! Remember, you have until this Friday, August 23, 2019 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 #84 Reminder

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

Here'a a refresher.
Create a project using Burlap or Twine.

Today I have some more inspiration for this Challenge! 

Emily Lauritzen uses a soft color palette for this darling car. She adds a subtle background using the Falling Leaves stencil which she die cuts using the  Framework die set and adheres it to a pastel orange background. She die cuts a burlap circle and adds a smaller circle featuring that sweet black kitty peeking behind those pumpkins from the Newton's Pumpkin Patch  stamp set. Using the banner die from Frames & Flags die set, she adds her sentiment.

Sue T. captures the essence of autumn with her beautifully shaded leaves from the Shades of Autumn stamp and die sets. She adds a banner with a sentiment from Autumn Newton stamp set. All of this is layered atop burlap which adds a perfect amount of texture.

Becky Noelle creates this amazing backdrop by using textured paste and the Tree Rings stencil on burlap!  She them stamps her sentiment from the Newton's Pumpkin Patch stamp set on the banner using the Frames & Flags die set. The sweet deer and his wagon load of pumpkins are from the Harvest Tails stamp set.

Debbie Owens creates this playful scene by beginning with the Framework die set to create the background. She the embosses using a polka dotted folder. She adds the burlap trees by die cutting them with the Forest Scene Builder die set. She adds a twine rope in which the sweet sloth from the Slothy Christmas stamp set to slide upon. The leaves from the Autumn Leaves die set work well as tropical leaves. To finish she adds the sentiment to the banner using the Frames & Flags die set.

Diane Morales gives us a fabulous project just in time for Thanksgiving!  That fabulous orange burlap ribbon sparked the idea for these utensil holders. She uses the cute turkey (Can turkeys be cute?) from  Newton's Thanksgiving stamp set and stamps the sentiment on goldenrod card stock. She adds all these elements to her utensil holders made from these amazing autumn papers!  

I hope these projects have inspired you to play along!  Remember, you have until this Friday, November 9, 2018 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 #82 Reminder

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

Here'a a refresher.
Create a project using the colors:  Lime Green, Yellow, Orange, and Purple. 

Today I have some more inspiration for this Challenge! 

Debbie Owens uses pencils to color this contented kitty from the Newton's Nap Time stamp set. She adds this fun sentiment from Thankful Thoughts stamp set which she puts on a banner from the Frames & Flags die set and adds a green background. She again uses the Frames & Flags die set to cut the scalloped background from purple gingham. She adds an orange twine bow to pull everything together.

Diane Morales creates this playful tag that is just spook-tacular!  Using the Newton's Perfect Pumpkin stamp set, Diane repeatedly stamps the spider webs to make her background. She then colors the kitty witch and pumpkin in the challenge colors. To top off her tag, she creates that fun tassel!

Emily Lauritzen creates this stunning marbled background which she cuts using the Frameworks die set. She adheres it to purple card stock which showcases it beautifully.  Then she stamps the leaves in yellows using the Shades of Autumn stamp set.  Her thankful sentiment is from the Thankful Thoughts stamp set.

Sue T. water colors her strip in shades of purple and stamps that scary tree from the Spooky Street stamp set. She then colors this Halloween feline from the Newton's Perfect Pumpkin stamp set.  She adds the bats and moon to finish this fun Halloween card!

Becky Noelle purple background with flying candy corns makes for a fabulous scene for this furry, feline witch. Those candy corns are from the Candy Corn stamp set and the witch is from the Newton's Boo-tiful Night. Using the Tags Times Two die, she hangs the sentiment from Creepy Cameos stamp off the broomstick. The added sequins, vellum clouds, and twine are purrfect touches! 

I hope these projects have inspired you to play along! Remember, you have until this Friday, October 12, 2018 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 #81

This biweekly challenge is a:

Theme challenge

Create a project using the theme: Fabulous Fall

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, September 28, 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! 

Becky Noelle begins this amazing card by using the Falling Leaves stencil to create her background. Then she does a lot of ink blending and stamps the teeny leaves from the Fall-ing in Love stamp set on top of the ink blending. She then fussy cuts all of those leaves out and arranges them around the poem. Her labor of love definitely pays off because this is a spectacular autumn card!

Debbie Owens begins with a Distress Oxide background and layers on her die cut frame. She then adds a plethora of autumn critters by combining the just released Harvest Tails stamp set and the Autumn Newton stamp set. To finish her card off, she uses the Autumn Leaves die set to add add some fallen leaves.

Diane Morales creates this sweet card featuring this adorable critter from the Hedgehog Hollow stamp set and coordinating die set.  She places him atop a pile of  leaves from the Autumn Leaves die set. (Don't you just love the light blue leaves?! Her layer of light tan plaid paper was created using the Frames & Flags die set.

Emily Lauritzen
(Will be back soon!  She is adjusting to her new live as a new mommy of a beautiful baby girl! Congrats!)

Sue T. creates this beautiful autumn card with lots of amazing textures. Using the dies from the Shades of Autumn die set, Sue cuts leaves from felt, cork and embossed paper. She then uses the Framework die set to cut her background and embosses it with a gingham pattern.  She adds a sentiment from Autumn Newton stamp set. A sprinkling of enameled dots finishes off her gorgeous card!

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