Inky Paws Challenge #193

 

   Welcome to a new Inky Paws Challenge!

This is a theme challenge.

Use the theme--Spring. 

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, March 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. 

We have lots of inspiration to get you ready for spring and this challenge!

Diane Morales' butterfly-filled card is just precious! Her cute kitten is from the Captivated Kittens stamp and coordinating die set, and he looks so cute with the butterfly paper from the Springtime paper pad. For even more fluttering fun, she adds butterflies using the Gnome Garden stamp and coordinating die set. Also tucked in there is an scallop-edged oval using the Oval Frames die set. Sure hope this little guy catches one of those cute butterflies!

Amy Tollner fills her background with beautiful pink blooms using the retiring Bold Blooms stencil which she cuts using the scallop-edged frame from the A7 Frames & Banners die set. She breaks up her floral background with a three-panel frame and places all the sweet critters from the retiring Woodland Spring stamp and coordinating die set around the edges. She adds some extra flowers and some bling making this an absolutely darling spring card!

Claire Lamb's card will have you yearning for a nice, warm, sunny spring day to take a relaxing walk with your puppies! Her rays of sunshine were made using the Sunscape Stencil, and the quintet of puppies are from the Walking Woofs stamp set. With tons of masking, Claire makes a floral path using the flowers from the Cycling Friends stamp set. Such a darling and happy card!

Crystal Minkler gives us the flip side of spring--those wonderful spring showers that pave the way for the flowers! She pulls the cloudy paper from the Springtime paper pad and continues with some clouds on her postage-edged frame layer (Framework die set) using the Petite Clouds stencil. The best part of April showers? Getting to wear fashionable rain boots, and her lavender ones are so, so cute! This darling calico kitty and ducky are from the Newton's Rain Boots stamp set and coordinating die set. Dare I say, "Bring on the rain!" LOL

Debbie Owens also showcases the darling kitty and ducky from the Newton's Rain Boots stamp set. Unlike Claire's pretty lavender rain boots, Deb goes for some bold red ones, which are just as cute! Deb uses scraps from the Springtime paper pad to create the fun background which she die cuts using the scallop-edged die from the Framework die set. She stamps her sentiment pulled from the Floral Roundabout stamp set on a banner (Banner Trio die set). A fun, colorful way to celebrate spring!

Use the challenge theme, Spring, with your Newton's Nook Designs products. 

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Inky Paws Challenge #167 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.

Use the colors Sunny Yellow, Spring Green, Taffy Pink, and White to create your NND project!

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

Diane Morales creates a striking card beginning with the scallop frame from the A7 Frames & Banners die set. She uses the Sea Borders die set to create the wavy background blocks. She frames her beautiful flowers from the Orchids stamp & die set with the little scallop frame from the Frameworks die set. She pulls a sentiment from the Heartfelt Roses stamp set. She completes her beautiful card with a couple of pearl dots. Wow!

Sue T. calico kitty is looking so cute peeking from her rain boot!. This sweet kitten is from the Newton's Rain Boots stamp & die set. Sue arranges the kitten in front of her trio of distressed windows created using the Slimline Masking Circles & Squares  and the Petite Flowers stencils.  She scatters some pink baubles. Just adorable!

Amy Tollner's duo of mice will make you smile. Using the A7 Frames & Banners die set to create her scalloped element, she distresses pretty flowers in the background using the Petite Flowers stencil. She arranges the two mice from the Garden Mice stamp and die set around the 3-window frame and strategically places a ladybug and little butterflies pulled from the Gnome Garden stamp and die set and the Newton's Picnic stamp and die set (retiring). Sweetness!

Claire Lamb shows off her amazing distressing skills with her gorgeous background. She adds a duo of circles and embosses the sentiment from the Walking Woofs stamp set. She adds a floral arrangement around the circles using the Flower Trio die set. Just gorgeous!

Set atop a bright yellow gingham background, Debbie Owens showcases one of the French bulldogs from the retiring Fabulous Frenchies stamp set. She adds green hills and grass using the Land Borders die set. She adds some pretty yellow flowers from the Woodland Spring stamp set. She creates a fun shape card using the Circle Frames die set. Her final touch is putting the sentiment in a speech bubble using the Speech Bubbles die set. Simply adorable!

I hope these projects have inspired you to play along!  Remember, you have until this Friday, February 25, 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 Challenge #127 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 #127 Winner!

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

Joyce M.  adds a trio of ice cream treats from the Summer Scoops stamp set for her sweet clean and simple card. Her soft coloring is lovely!  Anyone else have a craving for a cold, summery treat?

Congrats to Joyce M.!  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 #127 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

Amy T.  creates a delightful summer scene beginning with her white glittery clouds using the Cloudy Sky stencil. She adds layers of grass using the Land Borders die set and dies cuts both using the scallop-edged die from the Frames & Flags die set. The bright sun was die cut with the Sky Scene Builder die set. She then uses the Freshly Squeezed stamp set (retired) to stamp and color the lemonade stand and bunny. Look closely and you'll see Winston holding a lemon wedge.  She sprinkles in some flowers and butterflies.  Very refreshing!

Diane's FAVE

Joyce M.  repeatedly stamps the ice cream cone and cherry from the Summer Scoops stamp set for her fantastic background.  The lavenders and green is a fabulous color combination.  For her sentiment, she embosses in white on a black card stock.  A wonderful way to celebrate the summer season!

Sue's FAVE

A. Rose  designs a watermelon slice card base in red and greens. She adds some black seeds as well as one overly large seed featuring the watermelon-lovin' kitty from the Newton's Melon stamp set.  Seeing Newton eating watermelon while "inside" a watermelon is a creative way to celebrate summer!


Becky's FAVE

Mugdha uses her favorite stamp set--Newton Scoots By to create this fabulous summer scene. She adds a baseball hat to Newton as he zooms by a sparkling blue lake on a trail of grass!  Seriously too cute!

Crystal's FAVE

Claire's bright sunny backdrop makes for a fabulous setting for the lady dog walker and her pack from the Walking Woofs stamp and die set. She adds a scallop-edged frame from the Frames Squared die set to break up the yellow and add texture.  Her coloring is just amazing too!  Darling!

Hope everybody is doing good, can't wait to see what you guys do for the next challenge.

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 #105 Reminder

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

Here'a a refresher.
Sketch Challenge

Create a project using sketch #105 

Today I have some more inspiration for this Challenge!

Every dog lover will fall in love with Bobbi Lemanski's card!  Bobbi stamps the image from the Walking Woofs stamp set and shades each puppy uniquely. She selects a red, white, and sky blue color scheme for the lovely lady. She continues this color scheme with the bottom sky blue panel and red twine. She adheres this center panel to a white panel edged with red.  The addition of black prints in the corner as well as the black & white striped washi tape makes for an adorable card. 

Here's a not-so-spooky Halloween card by Debbie Owens. She begins by using the  Bubbly stencil set to create a playful background in lime green. She then creates her center panel using the stitched frame from the Frames & Flags die set.  She adds a lime green strip and black polka dotted washi tape before stamping a subtle crescent moon and Halloween sentiment using the Spooky Skeletons stamp set. She adds a bit of twine. Her focal image is the daring Halloween due from the newly released Happy Howl-oween stamp set.  Super cute!

Diane Morales brings us our second too-cute-to-spook Halloween card. For her scalloped-edge card base, she uses the Frames & Flags die set. She then uses the smaller scalloped-edged frame from the Framework die set to make a white and a black polka dotted layer. She adds her brightly costumed critters from the Halloween Trio stamp and die set and adds a twine bow and a couple of bats to finish her delightful card.

With autumn just around the corner, Sue T. gets us in the mood with this beautiful card. Sue chooses a fabulous fall pattern paper which she die cuts using the Frames & Flags die set. She then creates her center panel using two different wood grain papers on which she stamps the thankful sentiment from
the Thankful Thoughts stamp set. To pull everything together, she adds the fox holding the pumpkin from the Harvest Tails stamp and die set.

Becky Noelle's creation could be called pretty in pink because it is!  She begins by distressing the background in shades of pink using the Tropical Leaves stencil. She adds her second layer by fussy cutting out all those flamingos from the Flamingo Flock stamp set so the leaves can be seen. She adds a dark pink sentiment banner using the Frames & Flags die set on which she white embosses the sentiment.  All that fussy cutting paid off...this is an amazing card!  

I hope these projects have inspired you to play along! Remember, you have until this Friday, September 6, 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 #101

This biweekly challenge is a:

Color Challenge

Create a project using the colors-red, pink, lime green, light brown.

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, July 12, 2019 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 designs a clean card (pun intended) using the Newton Cleans Up stamp set. She blends a bit of pink distress ink for her background. She then stamps and fussy cuts an image from the Newton Cleans Up and colors it in the challenge colors. She stamps the sentiment and adds a bit of green bling for a finishing touch.

Diane Morales delights with the amazing lime green background using the Bokeh stencil set. She adds a sampling of ice cream treats in the challenge colors using the Summer Scoops stamp and die set. She stamps her sentiment on a circle to mimic the background pattern. Such a wonderful summer card!

Sue T. creates this precious card by stamping a trio of wreaths from the Happy Little Thoughts stamp set. She adds leaves and flowers around the wreaths using the smaller elements from this set.  She adds a sweet bird from the Newton's Birthday Flutter stamp set.  She stamps the birthday sentiment in light brown from the Birthday Essentials stamp set.  She die cuts using the scallop-edged die from the Frames & Flags die set.

Becky Noelle designs this sweet puppy scene with lime green grass filled with paw prints from the Pawprints stencil.  The puppies who made all those prints come from the Walking Woofs stamp set.

What a romantic scene!  Using the colors of the challenge, Bobbi Lemanski creates a lovely picnic blanket on which the love birds from the  Love Owl-ways stamp and die sets are enjoying a glass of wine from the Wine a Little stamp and die set.  Bobbi creates a hilly background with a hand-drawn forest in the background to complete the romantic scene.

Create a project using the colors-

red, pink, lime green, light brown and Link it up below!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Inky Paws Challenge #99 Reminder

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

Here'a a refresher.
Theme Challenge

Create a project using the theme--Rainbow! 

Today I have some more inspiration for this Challenge!

Becky Noelle showcases a perfect spring day!  She begins her background using Cloudy Sky stencil and texture paste.  She creates her grassy hills using the Land Borders die set and dry brushing a darker shade of green distress ink to add some grassy texture.  She uses the scalloped-edge frame from the Frames & Flags dies set.  She adds a sentiment from the Walking Woofs stamp set. For her main attraction she colors the blooms from the Loads of Blooms stamp set in all of the colors of the rainbow!

Bobbi Lemanski completely wows with her bright, bold, and colorful background! She then adds the little girl from Holding Happiness stamp and die set and shades the balloons in all the colors of the rainbow. She adds a sentiment from the Loads of Bloom stamp set.  With a sprinkling of sequins, Bobbi finishes her card!

Debbie Owens splatters all the colors of the rainbow to create the background.  She then adds then strips of paper to mimic a rainbow at the bottom of the card.  She stamps the sentiment and adds the kitty on his pile of books from the Newton's Book Club stamp set. She adds glossy accents to the books and a strip of washi tape to the edge.  

Diane Morales creates her background using a die from the Frames & Flags die set.  She adds a yellow basket with colorful towels in shades of the rainbow and a kitty enjoying a little nap from the Newton Cleans Up stamp and die set.  She adds some colorful hearts from the Speech Bubbles die set to finish off her delightful CAS card!

Sue T.'s collection of speech bubbles in different rainbow colors makes for such a fun design! She uses sentiments from the Thankful Thoughts stamp set and embosses them on bright papers which she die cuts using the Speech Bubbles die set.  She adheres them on a white background die cut using the scalloped-edged die from the Frames & Flags die set.  She adds one of the darling mice from Garden Mice stamp and die set to pull everything together!

I hope these projects have inspired you to play along!  Remember, you have until this Friday, June  14, 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!