Inky Paws Challenge #186 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 Sketch Challenge!

Inky Paws Challenge #186 Prize Winner!

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

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

Lynn H. is our lucky winner with this darling card featuring Winston, our charming bear, with his holiday tree. Winston comes from the retired stamp set, Winston's Home for Christmas.  The light blue sky of her tag looks great against all the red and white of her papers!  Fun and festive!

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

Inky Paws Challenge #186 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

KT Fit Kitty's hot chocolate card is filled with cuteness!  She uses the Mugs stencil to create her background. She adds a tan vellum layer and adds a pretty white doily.  Combining the gingerbread man (Ginger Snap stamp and die set-retired) and a mug of hot chocolate from the Cup of Cocoa stamp and die set makes for a scrumpdillyicious card!

Diane's FAVE

Lynn H. is back as Diane's favorite! Making the sketch with a pocket for a tag was a fabulous idea!  She features Winston (Winston's Home for Christmas retired stamp set) in his dashing red & white sweater.  The red & white papers are so festive as is the snowflake!  

Amy's FAVE

Billie A.'s card is filled with feline fun!  She uses papers from  A Cat's Life paper pad for her layers.  Then she adds her darling gray kitten from the Newton's Antics stamp and die set.  Her added toys around the box, especially the paper pieced mouse, are wonderful additions to her card!

Claire's FAVE

Papierelle's super CAS card uses the sketch in the most creative way!  Using the snowboarding moose from the Moose Mountain stamp set, she has him enjoying some slopes using the angles of the sketch!  Seriously creative!  

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 #137 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? 
Today I'm sharing some more inspiration for our current challenge

Here'a a refresher.

Create a project using the colors: 

 Lime Green, Grass Green, Red, White

Today I have some more inspiration for this Challenge! 

Debbie Owens combines the Slimline Frames & Windows and the Slimline Frames & Porthole die sets to create the frames in red and lime green. Using the Plaid stencil, she makes a fun plaid background that she die cuts for the windows. She adds a banner in the center window with the sentiment from the Sentiments of the Season stamp set. On the ends she adds the darling Winston images from the Winston's Home for Christmas stamp set.  Totally sweet!

Don't those reindeer behind Santa a wonderful touch to Diane Morales' holiday card. Using a Kraft card base, Diane uses the Reindeer stencil to ink on the critters which she die cuts using the postage-edged die from the Framework die set. She adds a scallop-edged circle using the Circle Frames die set. On top of it, she adds the sentiment. She adds the sweet feline from the Santa Paw Newton stamp and cuts with the coordinating die. She adds the directional sign just in case Santa drinks too much eggnog!  Just too cute!

 You might be tempted to sing along with this darling trio!  Sue T. creates this musical card beginning with the pretty green paper with snowflakes. She adds the musical notes using the Music stencil and die cuts using the rounded rectangle die from the Frames & Flags die set.  She wonderfully colors her kittens from the Caroling Newton stamp and die set and adds speech bubbles die cut from the Speech Bubbles. Delightful!

 Time to holiday decorations!  Becky Noelle adds a beautiful white background using the Holiday Foliage stencil. {sigh} She then die cuts a tag using the Fancy Edges Tag die set and tucks a bit of green from the side.  She adds the lady from the Christmas Trimmings stamp set die set. The red and white twine and white on red sentiment from the Sentiments of the Season stamp set add a lovely touch of color to this fabulous CAS card!

Crystal Komara creates a shadow box/tunnel card that is filled with lots of holiday cheer!  On the front, she adds a white, scallop-edged panel using the Framework die set. She adds lime green pine tree using the Forest Scene Builder die set and the Merry Christmas sentiment from the Sentiments of the Season stamp set in red and the other in black. Inside, you'll find a downtown scene all decked out in holiday colors!  Crystal uses the Main Street Christmas stamp and die set for her city scene and adds the vintage car from the Destination Christmas stamp and die set. More pine trees, a splattering of red snowflakes, and a banner with a sentiment from the Main Street Christmas stamp set.  Oh holiday happiness!

I hope these projects have inspired you to play along!  Remember, you have until this Friday, December 4, 2020 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 #108 Reminder

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

Here'a a refresher.
Sketch Challenge

Create a project using the sketch.

Today I have some more inspiration for this Challenge:

Sue T. brings us this softly colored autumn. Beginning with an ivory card base, she adds  a combination of fall pattern papers. She stamps a bunch of leaves and sentiment using the Autumn Mice  stamp set on her tan tag using the Fancy Edges Tag die set. She colors her leaves in oranges, yellows, and greens. She then adds the mouse chances the leaves from the Autumn Mice stamp and die set. To finish her card, she adds an orange gingham ribbon on her tag. Darling!



Amid a background of evergreen trees, Becky Noelle has Winston in his teal-colored jalopy from the  Winston's Home for Christmas stamp set driving home with his holiday tree!  Those evergreens were made using the Evergreens stencil. She then adds a pink plaid stripe that coordinates with Winston's scarf. She then uses the Frame & Flags die set to cut a banner on which she stamps the sentiment. The snowflakes she added by splattering white paint add the perfect touch!

This bold, bright, beautiful card by Bobbi Lemanski combines the colors of autumn with navy blue!  For her background, she blends Distress Inks and splatters water and white ink on top.  She heat embossed and stamped the leaf images using the Beautiful Leaves stamp set on navy paper. She also stamps the leaves in black, colors, and die cuts using the coordinating Beautiful Leaves die set. For her tag, she uses an actual seed packet on which she stamps the grateful sentiment from the Thankful Thoughts stamp set and adds blue twine for the bow. 

Using a color palette of teals, gray and tan, Debbie Owens designs this darling Halloween card. With a light teal background, she adds an embossed houndstooth tan layer die cut using the Framework die set. An ivory tag is added using the Fancy Edges Tag die set on which she adds the pumpkin sentiment from the Newton's Boo-tiful Night stamp set. She opts to place the stripes from the sketch in front of the tag instead of behind. She uses the Fence die set as well as the Land Borders die set for the grass. For her main attraction, Debbie selects the pumpkin trio image from the Newton's Boo-tiful Night stamp set and colors the pumpkins in gray, tan, and teals. Her gray, striped kitty looks darling peeking out from behind the pumpkin stack!

Diane Morales uses orange and teals for this spectacular fall card!  She creates her background using the Plaid stencil set. Look closely and you'll see a bit of shimmer in those stripes!  She then adds a black panel and adds a teal banner using the Frame & Flags stamp set. She adds a scallop-edged oval on which she adds the girl and a couple of pumpkins from the Pumpkin Latte stamp and die set.  Fabulous!

I hope these projects have inspired you to play along!  Remember, you have until this Friday, October 18, 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 #102 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 #102  Winner!

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

 Miss Boo is this challenge's lucky winner with this fabulous Christmas card.  Using a red, green, and cream color scheme, Miss Boo uses festive holiday patter papers to create the challenge sketch foundation. She then stamps and colors Winston from the Winston's Home for Christmas stamp set. as well as the sentiment. She finishes with a couple of banners and cream ribbon.

Congrats to Miss Boo!  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 #102 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

Andrea W.  was also inspired to create a Christmas card using the challenge sketch. She uses a fabulous collection of holiday pattern papers that provides a festive background for the Santa image from the 

Santa Paws Newton stamp and die set.  She adds the North Pole image to her smaller circle and stamps the sentiment on a small banner. 

Sue's FAVE

We just love the bright, citrus colors of Mary's card which is so cooling for hot weather. She begins with a yellow base panel on which she adds a green/yellow green pattern paper. She then adds rays of sunshine peeking out from a white circular layer. Her main attraction is a lemon and lemon slice from the newly released Lemon Twist stamp set. She adds the sentiment on a white banner. 

Becky's FAVE

Amy T .'s creations will have you longing to visit the beach!  She begins by adding a shimmery texture using the Seashells stencil on which she adds a brown and a pattern paper layer.  She creates her banner using the Frames & Flags die set and adds the sentiment from the 

Newton's Summer Vacation stamp set. The heart of her card are the two circle that features the kitty and bucket from the Newton's Summer vacation stamp set.  She uses gold glitter and gold glitter paste for the sand that adds an amazing amount of bling!  

Bobbi's FAVE

Kimmie B.  gives us a fabulous birthday card using the Llama Delivery stamp and die set. She begins with a dark blue base and adds coordinating pattern papers. She colors her darling llama in the same color scheme before adding a trio of blue birds from the Newton's Birthday Flutter stamp set. She also adds the sentiment from this set. She balances her card by adding a stack of packages from the Llama Delivery stamp and die set.


Debbie's FAVE

Kimmie B. brings us another superb card. This time she wows us with her color combination as well as the combination of pattern papers. Behind the cute shrimp, she uses a light brown distress ink with  the Serene Stripes stencil. She adds the little shrimp Shrimp Cocktails stamp and die set using a spinner so he turns! She a porthole trim to frame him. She adds little shells from the Corgi Beach stamp set. She finishes with the sentiment on a banner!

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 #60

This biweekly challenge is a: 

Theme challenge

Create a project adding some Sparkle!

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, December 1, 2017 at Midnight CST. The winner and DT favorites 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? Grab your favorite NND stamps to play along and 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! 

Looks like Newton is spying on Santa!  Debbie Owens combines Cosmic Newton and Newton's Curious Christmas stamp sets and creates this fun, playful card!

Emily Lauritzen brings us this elegant and  sparkly masterpiece!  Her amazing background uses Snowfall stencil.  She embosses Joyful Tags stamp set and die cuts them with Tags Time Two dies.  She then uses Pines and Holly dies to add the finishing touches.

Andrea Shell's shimmery background using Snowfall stencil is perfect for her wonderfully colored village! She showcases Snow Globe Scenes stamp set and combines the sentiment from Winston's Home for Christmas stamp set.  What a wonderful card, Andrea!

Oh wow! Diane Morales brings us this amazing urban holiday scene by combining two stamp sets--Newton Dreams of New York and Snow Globe Scenes (and dies set)! The fabulous sentiment is from Sentiments of the Season. I love how Santa is flying over the cityscape on this tall card!

Zsofia Molnar delights us with this darling Santa Paws card! I adore the silver with the red and light blue!  She is showcasing Santa Paws Newton and  a sentiment from Snow Globe Scenes.

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Inky Paws Challenge #52

This biweekly challenge is a: 

Sketch challenge

Create a project using this sketch. 

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, August 11, 2017 at Midnight CST. The winner and DT favorites will be announced on the NND blog the following Monday. 

Are you ready to play along and get your paws inky? Grab your favorite NND stamps to play along and 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! 

Emily Lauritzen inspires us with her fun shaker card featuring Newton Loves Cake.  Her artistic interpretation of the sketch along with her fashionable color scheme make for a wonderful card!

Andrea Shell is inspiring us to get a jump start on our Christmas cards with this delightful card using Winston's Home for Christmas!

Diane Morales' card is sure to brighten up a birthday! The fun embossing and bright colors showcase Winston's Birthday wonderfully!

Zsofia Molnar creates a bright, crisp birthday card using Newton Loves Cake!  Those chocolate sprinkles are a purr-fect touch!

Who wouldn't want to find this kitty? Debbie Owens uses Newton Rides West to great a Western-themed card.

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Inky Paws Challenge #38 - Color Challenge

This month's challenge is:

Color challenge

Create a project using Teal, Red, White and Green!

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, December 16th, 2016 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 IPC38).

• 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 cards they created, inspired by this fun, festive color palette ! Read the description below each card to see who made it.

This sweet winter card by Yukari features our bunny, Lily, dressed in a Christmas colored sweater from the Sweater Weather Stamp set! She used the color combo on the sweater, leaving the bunny white and added a bunch of fun mittens in the background too! The "Season of Joy" sentiment is from the Beautiful Baubles stamp set. 

Samantha used the fun color combo on this card featuring Winston driving his car full of gifts from the Winston's Home for Christmas stamp set. She used the red and green on the car, gift and trees and added the teal as a watercolor background on white paper! 

Kimberly created this adorable card by embossing the trees from our Festive Forest stamp set in white over red cardstock! She added in the "Thank you" from our Vegetable Garden stamp set and a just a little pop of teal!

This sweet fireplace scene by Larissa uses red and green on the rug and fireplace swag while keeping a white card base. Then she added some teal in the background to help this lovely scene op off the card! This sweet image is from our Fireside Friends stamp set.  

Jess created a flurry of snowflakes from our Beautiful Blizzard stamp set using the chosen color combo! I love how pretty this looks! She added an extra pop of teal up the sides too! 

This gorgeous wreath shaker card by Naki uses the color combo in the form of sequins inside the shaker! She also used the red and green on the wreath which was made with our Pines & Holly Die Set, and added an extra pop of teal with a teal tag using our new Joyful Tags stamp set! Such a fun card! 

This cute forest scene by Danielle features our cute kitty in a sweater from the Sweater Weather Stamp set! She used the green, red, and teal on the sweater, leaving the kitty white! So cute! 

This card by Stephanie features our adorable doxie from the Holiday Hounds stamp set twisted up in some holiday lights! She kept her color palette focused on the red green and white with just little teal accents!

Here is another lovely snowflake card using the color combo with  Beautiful Blizzard stamp set. Crafty Math-Chick created this one, using white for the base and added the snowflakes in the other colors of the challenge! I love the simplicity of this with the added sequins for a bit of bling! 

Here's one created by me! I used Winston dressed in his sweater from the new Sweater Weather stamp set and colored his sweater using the color combo! The colors really pop off the white card base! 

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