Inky Paws Challenge #111

This biweekly challenge is a:

Sketch Challenge

Create a project using the 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! 

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 creates this cabin-in-the-woods holiday card. Using the  Framework die set, she chooses a plaid paper for her base.  She layers on a dark red layer using the Frames Squared die set. Then using the Frames & Flags die set she adds a banner using a coordinating gingham paper. She builds her scene by adding the cabin from the Winston's Lake House stamp set and the car with the Christmas tree on top from the Snow Globe Scenes stamp set. She stamps the sentiment from the Holiday Stockings stamp set and uses the circle die from the Frames Squared die set.

Diane Morales brings us this festive square card using the Frames Squared die set for her base. She continues with this die set and cuts her scallop-edged layer from pattern paper. She adds a vellum circle on which she adds a red banner using the Frames & Flags die set . Using the Snow Globe Scenes stamp and die set, she creates a fun, holiday scene including Santa and his eight reindeer.

Using some beautiful autumn papers, Sue T. designs this darling fall card. Using the Framework die set, she cuts her background layer. She adds a burnt orange square and golden yellow banner. For her focal image, she selects the sweet mouse on the pumpkin image from the Autumn Mice stamp and die set. She colors the image so beautifully.

Becky Noelle creates a pretty textured background by using the Petite Snow stencil. She adds a black and tan striped ribbon and layers on a darling winter scene framed with a black border. Her wintery scene was created using the Snow Globe Scenes stamp set. She adds the Believe sentiment using the Main street Christmas die set.

Bobbi Lemanski creates an amazing fall scene featuring the girl with her coffee from the Pumpkin Latte Stamp Set, She colors her with lovely fall colors on her boots and scarf and cuts the image out with the coordinating Pumpkin Latte Die Set. For the background adds in a hand drawn fall scene. She finishes off the card to match the shape of the sketch with some ribbon!

Create a project using the sketch above.

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Inky Paws Challenge #110 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 #110  Winner!

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

Prudence created this fun tag that is sure to dress up a holiday gift! She used the image of the lama carrying gifts from the Llama Delivery Stamp Set and colored it using the colors of the challenge on kraft paper! The special delivery added along the bottom also adds the colors again in a fun way!

Congrats to Prudence 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 #110 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

Jen creates this soft and pretty winter card showcasing the color palette perfectly! She uses the Argyle Stencil Set to create a soft argyle pattern in pink and green. Then she layered the image of the kitty peeking around the snowman from our Newton's Curious Christmas Stamp Set! I think that kitty is both naughty and nice!

Sue's FAVE

Amy creates a holiday card filled with sweet sparkles! She starts with a lovely background of sparkly ornaments using the Ornaments Stencil and adds a postage edge using the Framework Die Set. This is perfect setting for Newton hanging from the ornament on the Ornamental Newton Stamp Set. 

Becky's FAVE

Mugdha created a winter wonderland complete with an unexpected pop of pink on the kitty! That sweet image of the kitty on the scooter is from the Newton Scoots By Stamp Set. What a fantastic winter scene!

Bobbi's FAVE

Amanda creates a festive holiday card using the color palette! She starts with the image of the girl shopping from the Christmas Haul Stamp Set and adds in a gorgeous background pattern with the Gingham Stencil! Isn't Christmas so pretty in pink and teal?

Debbie's FAVE

Fikreta creates a holiday card with a fun twist! She features the images of cacti in coffee mugs from our Cuppa Cactus Stamp Set on the front of this fun shaker card. Then she added on Santa hats in pink to create a fun holiday theme! This would be great to send to a friend who spends their holidays in a warm climate!

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 #110 Reminder

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

Here'a a refresher.
Colors Challenge

Create a project using the colors--teal, green, pink, and white.

Today I have some more inspiration for this Challenge:

Bobbi Lemanski has a special talent of hand drawing her backgrounds. This beautiful square card features a wintery scene filled with birch trees. In her foreground she adds glitter card stock for her children to sled on. Those amazing silhouette children are from the Winter Memories stamp and die set. Bobbi selects the perfect as she has captured the magic of the season in her card!

Debbie Owens is back with another flamingo-themed card. This time it's for Christmas! She creates the background with the scallop-edged frame using Frames & Flags die set. She then stamps the flamingo images from the Festive Flamingos stamp set in different directions multiple times. She adds the scallop-edged tag using the Fancy Edges Tag die set with a very tired sloth from the Slothy Christmas stamp set dreaming of a pink Christmas.  The dream bubble is from the Speech Bubbles die set and the little flamingo is from the Cozy Campers stamp set.

Diane Morales brings us this delightful card.  Her teal background filled with the fluffy heart-shaped clouds (Tumbling Hearts stencil) makes for a wonderful background for the cute little pig from the Oink stamp and die set.  She die cuts this background with the Frames & Flags die set to give it the scallop edges. Using the Land Borders die set, she creates rolling hills for the little guy to play on.  She finishes by stamping the "Hogs & Kisses" sentiments!

Sue T.'s card is filled absolute sweetness. Beginning with a pink card base, she adds the white scallop-edged frame (Frames & Flags die set) and cuts a large circle out. She pops this layer with dimensional tape. In the circle which is also popped up, she adds pale green trees using the Forest Scene Builder die set. Her pale teal sky is dotted with snowflakes from the Sweater Weather stamp set. The ballerina mouse from the Nutcracker Squeak stamp and die set takes center stage! Adorable!

Becky Noelle creates a more traditional Christmas card by stamping and coloring poinsettias in all four corners of her card. The amazingly colored flowers are from the Poinsettia Blooms stamp set. Don't you love the touches of teal that Becky adds?  She then die cuts the sentiment in dark pink using the Holiday Greetings die set. Elegant and festive!

I hope these projects have inspired you to play along!  Remember, you have until this Friday, November 15, 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 #110

This biweekly challenge is a:

Colors Challenge

Create a project using the colors--teal, green, pink, 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, November 15, 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!   

Bobbi Lemanski makes this delicious square card using the
Cup of Cocoa stamp and die set. She creates a striped circle and stamps a a holiday sentiment from the Ornamental Wishes stamp set.  The colorful whipped creams and dimensional dots creates an amazingly fantastic holiday card!

Debbie Owens brings holiday joy using the Holiday Fringe stamp set. Using the  Frames Squared die set, she adds a scalloped frame beneath. She adds holly leaves and pines from the Pines & Holly die set before adding the kitty peaking from his box from the Purr-fect Present stamp set. She cuts the Joyful sentiment from the Main Street Christmas die set multiple times and stacks them to give dimension to the sentiment. She adds a jewel to dot the J for her final touch. Fun and festive!

Diane Morales' Merry & Bright shaker card is so festive! She uses the Frames Squared die set to create her card base. Using the challenge colors in bright hues, she wonderfully shades the Holiday Fringe stamp set image and die cuts a heart in the middle. She adds sequins for her shaker elements. Using the Frames & Flags die set, she creates a mini banner and adds the holiday sentiment.

With the weather getting colder, Sue T.'s card will inspire you to pull out your snuggly sweaters to embrace the season!  Her light snow showers in pink and teal were made using the Petite Snow stencil. She adds two little critters wrapped in their sweaters from the  Sweater Weather stamp and die set. Such a sweet card!

Becky Noelle creates this amazing card using a combination of dies and a stencil!  Her beautiful background using the Holiday Foliage stencil is the perfect setting for the teal ornament (Ornament Shaker Die set).  Pairing the Holiday Greetings die set with the
Pines & Holly die set, Becky adds accents to the ornament. Great job, Becky!

Create a project using the colors
Teal, Green, Pink and White with NND products

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

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 #109 Reminder

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

Here'a a refresher.
Theme Challenge

Create a Halloween, Thanksgiving, or Christmas project!

Today I have some more inspiration for this Challenge:

Becky Noelle creates wrapping paper for her "present" card. She uses the Snowfall stencil with red foil and her Minc machine. She adds red ribbon with white stitching on the edges. For the present's tag, she cuts her tag using the Fancy Edges Tag die set. She stamps the sentiment from the Christmas Haul stamp set as well as the present-laden lady. She colors the image in red, greens, and blues and finishes with a big red ribbon bow!  Darling!

Bobbi Lemanski shows us the magic of gingham with her trio of holiday tags!  She creates her backgrounds using the Gingham Stencil. She uses the big sentiments from the Sentiments of the Season stamp set. She adds the super darling puppy images from the Winter Woofs stamp set. She adds gingham ribbon bows at the top of her tags. Her use of red, white, and black makes for super festive holiday cards! 

Debbie Owens creates a darling Christmas card using nontraditional colors. She begins with a black card base and adds an olive green gingham frame using the Framework die set. She then uses the Music stencil and pink deco foil to create a textured layer which she die cuts using a die from the
Frames & Flags die set. She colors the trio of kitties from the Caroling Newton stamp set in olive green, pink, and teal and adheres with dimensional foam.  She then heat embosses the sentiment from the Ornamental Wishes stamp set and die cuts using the Speech Bubbles die set.  Fun colors for a holiday card!

Diane Morales creates a bright, delightful Halloween card!  She creates her background using the Cascading Stars stencil. She used texture paste and sprinkled Holographic powder on it while it was wet (but didn't use a heat gun).  Love the sparkle!  She then die cut the fence in white using the Fence die set. She added grass using the Land Borders die set.  Those cute critters are from the 

Boo Hoo stamp and die set. Just love those little speech bubbles!

Sue T. creates this dark, mysterious card using lots of black layers! She uses the Framework die to create her postage-stamp edge and scallop-edge layers.  She uses  Pick-a-Pumpkin die set to cut Jack-o-lantern faces multiple times on one of her black layers. She then heat embosses the sentiment in white using the Newton's Perfect Pumpkin stamp set. She adds dimensional tape to adhere to an orange-glittery backdrop.  Spook-tacular!

I hope these projects have inspired you to play along!  Remember, you have until this Friday, November 1, 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 #109

This biweekly challenge is a:

Holiday Mix-Up Card Theme Challenge

Create a Halloween, Thanksgiving, or Christmas project!

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, November 1, 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!  

Becky Noelle's card will have you singing "Christmas in the Caribbean" with this darling Christmas card!  First she creates her round card base and does a lot of masking!  She adds a bit of ocean in the foreground and adds the sandman from the Sun Soaked Christmas stamp set. She adds the palm trees with the stockings hanging between them again using the  Sun Soaked Christmas stamp set. What a fun way to celebrate Christmas!

Bobbi Lemanski creates the perfect pumpkin patch with her star-filled night sky !  She frames her sky with falling leaves from the Pumpkin Latte stamp set. She stamps a lot of pumpkins and hand draws in the grass around them. She adds her pumpkin-laden girl from the Pumpkin Latte stamp and die set.  She adds a speech bubble using the Speech Bubbles die set and stamps the pumpkin spice sentiment. To finish, she adds the birthday sentiment from the Birthday Essentials stamp set. Spectacular!

Debbie Owens keeps it very CAS with this sweet one-layer card. She stamps her background scene using elements from the Snow Globe Scenes stamp set. She then adds the little mouse from the Caroling Newton stamp set. She finishes by distressing light blue for her sky and adding snow to the ground and trees using Nuvo Crystal Drops.

We all know cats sleep away most of their lives, but have you ever wondered what they dream about? Well, Diane Morales shows us with her darling card with a Thanksgiving twist. She begins with her card base and pattern paper in colors of fall. She adds the kitty from Newton's Antics stamp set and colors the box in green for a pop of color to coordinate with the veggies on the plate. Using the Speech Bubbles die set, she adds two bubbles and places food images from the Newton's Thanksgiving stamp set. Now we know, cats dream of turkey and pie!

Sue T. creates this Halloween card in grays, creams, and teals, and it is just beautiful!  She repeatedly stamps the Happy Halloween sentiment from the Halloween Trio stamp set in dark gray. She lightly distresses over the words in a lighter gray to give her card a shadowy effect. Using the Newton's Boo-tiful Night stamp and die set, she selects the kitty in a pumpkin patch image. She colors the pumpkins in creams and teals, and her little kitty in gray. She pops her image using dimensional tape.  She scatters some enamel dots to finish her card! Lovely!

Create a Holiday Card using the NND products.

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