Inky Paws Challenge #92 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 Sketch Challenge.

Inky Paws Challenge #92  Winner!

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

Ginadapooh designs this fun coffee-themed card which features this adorable sloth

 from the Slothy Coffee stamp set. She places him on a coffee-colored distressed background. She adds additional coffee cups and pots on her card which makes for a really fun coffee card!

Congrats to Ginadapooh! 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 #92 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

Dandi93 creates this crisp and clean card by using a portion of the Argyle stencil in shades of blue. She then colors the blankets in greens, yellows and blues before coloring her kitty from the Newton's Naptime stamp set in pale gray with dark gray stripes.  

Sue's FAVE

Charlotte  creates a vibrant plaid using the Plaid stencil which she pairs up with 
a tropical kitty from the Aloha Newton stamp set. The juxtaposition of plaid (a wintery thing to many of us) with the tropical kitty makes for a fabulous card!

Becky's FAVE

Anna uses an unexpected color combination that just looks fabulous.  She uses a combination of polka dotted papers and adds a slice of softly colored watermelon from the Sweet Summer stamp set (retired) and embosses the sentiment on a small banner. 

Bobbi's FAVE

Donna wowed us with her beautifully blended distressed background which she places on an embossed circle layer. Her two drinks from the Cocktail Mixer stamp and die set look delicious!  She adds a sewn strip of sequins for a bit of bling. A wonderful tropical card for all of us tired of winter and longing for either a tropical vacation or summer!  

Debbie's FAVE

Amy keeps her card very clean by only water coloring the cats from the Caffeinated Cats stamp set with coffee! Her use of browns and reds paper creates a nicely designed card!  

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 #46

Create a project using this 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! 

You have TWO WEEKS to play along - Deadline to enter is Friday, May 12, 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?  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 sketch! Read the description below each card to see who made it.

Just in time for planting your flower garden, Jess inspires us with this gorgeous card
featuring Garden Starter.

Just in time for Teacher Appreciation Week, Newton's shows off his scholarly side in this card by Debbie featuring Newton's Book Club. 

Amanda captures the essence of summer with her watermelon card featuring  Sweet Summer.

 Larissa creates this precious card to welcome a new baby featuring Lovable Laundry.

Samantha creates this delightful card using Made from Scratch. Just love her amazing watercoloring background.

Naki creates this delightfully distressed card using Flower Garden.  I just love all those different layers.

Tatiana combines Simply Relative and Lovely Blooms to create this vibrant and beautiful card. 

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Inky Paws Challenge #33 - Ombre

This month's challenge is:

create a project using ombre!

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, July 8th, 2015 at Midnight CST. The winners will be announced on the NND blog.

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

• Create a NEW project (card or other paper craft item).

• 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, Pinterest, or splitcoaststampers (on splitcoast please use keywords newtonsnook and IPC33).

• 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. 
• TIP: Please make sure your photo in focus  - We can't pick you as a winner if we can't see your card clearly because your photo is blurry! 

Here's some inspiration!

Several of our Design Team Members decided to play along - check out all the awesome Ombré cards they created! Read the description below each card to see who made it.

This gorgeous card is by Larissa. She created ombré birds using the bird image from the Darling Duos stamp set mixed with the die cut feathers from the Points & Plumes die set! I Love the dipped gold edges too!

Jess created a beautiful purple ombré coffee cup background using the little coffee cups from the Newton Loves Coffee stamp set. Then she colored two cute kitties with their coffee cups too! 

Crafty Math-Chick used some awesome ombré background paper featuring watermelons and then added on that cute watermelon stamp from our Sweet Summer Stamp set! I love how that yummy melon slice pops off the card!

Lydia created this sweet pink ombre background and then added on the butterfly and sentiment from the Beautiful Wings stamp set. I love the soft pink and vellum together!

This sweet card by Samantha features the kangaroo and joey from our Hoppy Days stamp set. I love how they're hopping through that gorgeous ombre watercolor background!

Danielle created a sea of sharks from our Shark Bites stamp set  in a blue ombre pattern! All you need is a bold stamp and a couple of shades of ink to make your own ombre patterns!

I love the gorgeous ombré background on this card by Yuki! The flower from our Beautiful Blossoms set and butterfly from the Beautiful Wings set really pop the background off so nicely!

Here's what I created. I used different shades of blue cardstock to create the ombré and cute them freehand with a scissor to make them look like waves. The shell stamps and "Seas the Day" sentiment from our Tranquil Tides Stamp set were stamped in ombré inks and trimmed out with the Tranquil Tides die set.

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Inky Paws Challenge #23 Winners

Inky Paws Challenge #23 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 a Summer Theme Challenge! 

We had a some great SUMMER cards entered into this challenge! THANK YOU to everyone who entered! All the beautiful entries always make it SO HARD to choose the winners! 

Top picks for Inky Paws Challenge #23

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!!

Our first winner is this beautiful fully colored beach card Tatiana! She colored in all that sand and waves with copic markers! Amazing! She used the images from our Newton's Summer Vacation stamp for the cat on the beach blanket, castle and sand bucket.

Our second winner is this fun shark card by Tammy! We loved how the shark in front is ready to share a "bite" with you and there are two more fins in the back too! She used our  Shark Bites stamp set for the fun shark images.

Congrats to Tatiana and Tammy! 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 #23 Favorites

Since there were so many great cards with this sketch 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!

Heidi created this fun summer dream scene using our new Newton's Naptime stamp set and die. I love how she added a summer scene into his dream bubble!

This fun trio of summer fruit by Corilyn was so fun! We love the watercolor and bright colors. She used the Sweet Summer stamp set for those yummy fruit slices! 

We loved the fun background on this colorful summer card by Diane. Such a fun layout too! She used the Newton's Summer Vacation stamp set to create this fun summer card. 

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 play along again next time! Save the date: the next challenge will begin on August 21st.

Inky Paws Challenge #18 - Just ONE Layer!

This month's challenge is to a Create a project using just ONE layer!

 

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 6th, 2015 at Midnight CST. The winners will be announced on the NND blog on Monday, March 9th.

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

• Create a NEW project (card or other paper craft item).

• 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 , Pinterest, or splitcoaststampers (on splitcoast please use keywords newtonsnook and IPC18).

• 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. 
• TIP: Please make sure your photo in focus  - We can't pick you as a winner if we can't see your card clearly because your photo is blurry! 

Here's some inspiration!

Several of our Design Team Members decided to play along - Scroll down to see how they added hearts into their projects and then enter your project at the bottom of the post! Read the description below each card to see who made it!

This adorable one-layered scene was created by Yukari Yoshioka. She used our Newton's Daydream stamp set.

I love the fun way Samantha repeated the words over and over around the flamingos from the Flirty Flamingos stamp set! So fun!

 Danielle created this fun strawberry card using the Sweet Summer stamp set! Love the watercolor mixed with gold foil! 

This card by Jess has so much dimension you can hardly tell it's just one layer! She used the Bunny Hop stamp set and a fun sunburst technique! 

This stunning one layer card is by Kimberly!  I love the look of the gold and black on the Kraft card base. She used the  Falling into Autumn stamp set! So fun!

Lydia got some extra mileage out of some fall themed stamps for this spring card! She used the spooky tree from the Spooky Street Halloween set and the dots from the Falling into Autumn stamp set to created the fun leaves. Then she added the sentiment from the Newton's Daydream stamp set.

Here is a fun and playful one layer card is by Crafty Math-Chick! She even added fur to the koala from the Hanging Around stamp set. I also love the mint green circle she sponged around the words!

Larissa created this fun one-layer scene with lots of creative masking (although she did break the rules a bit by mounting it on another piece of cardstock -lol!)  She combined stamps from Bunny Hop, Versatile Vases, Winter Tails and Newton's Daydream.  What an adorable scene! 

Here was my try at a one-layer card. I stamped the flowers from the Love Grows stamp set and used the "heartfelt" from the Simply Sentimental stamp set. I added a bit of watercolor flicked onto it to add texture!

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Inky Paws - FLASH CHALLENGE - Thank you Theme!

We had a few extra days on our blog this month without anything scheduled so we thought it would be the perfect time to throw in a little Flash challenge! 

If you've played along with our challenges before this ones a bit different for these reasons:

It's only 3 days long  and we're picking a RANDOM winner

You are not REQUIRED to use Newton's Nook Designs stamps (but we love it when you do)

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! 

If we get more than 20 participants, we will choose TWO winners so be sure to tell your friends to play along! 

You have THREE DAYS to play along. Deadline to enter is Saturday, January 10th, 2015 at Midnight CST. The winners will be announced on the NND blog on Monday, January 12th.

Are you ready to play along and get your paws inky? Here are the rules:

• Create a NEW project (card or other paper craft item).

• Your project DO NOT have to use Newton's Nook Designs stamps but we'd love to see them if you have them (check out our free digital stamps - I just added the "thank you" one that's shown in the graphic above to our Freebies page).

• Post your project to your blog or to an online photo gallery such as Flickr, Pinterest, or splitcoaststampers (on splitcoast please use keyword newtonsnook).

• 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.

• Please - only ONE entry per person. Since we are picking a RANDOM winner this time, we want to keep it fair!  

Need a bit of Inspiration? 

I threw this idea out to our Design Team and several of our talented ladies jumped at it right away -here's some thank you themed creations from them:

 

Card by Jess using Sweetheart Tails and Simply Sentimental stamp sets

Card by Samantha using the "thanks" from Simply Sentimental, and the the teeny tiny flower and leaf images from Versatile Vases, Basket of Wishes, Newton's Day Dream, Winged Wishes and Easter Scramble!

Card by Yukari using the Versatile Vases and Simply Sentimental stamp sets

Card by Stephanie using the Love Grows and Simply Sentimental stamp sets

Card by Crafty Math-Chick using the Sweet Summer stamp set.

Card by Lydia using words from the Simply Sentimental stamp set and stars from Newton's Curious Christmas stamp set.

Card by Larissa using Simply Sentimental and Sweetheart Tails stamp sets.

Card by Kimberly using our "thank you" digital freebie  - you can download this stamp here. 

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