Inky Paws Challenge #12 - Beach Theme Challenge

Happy Friday and the the first day of #12 Inky Paws Challenge!  

This month's challenge is a Beach - Theme Challenge!

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,  August 8th,  2014 at Midnight CST. The winners will be announced on the NND blog on Monday, August 11th.

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

• Create a NEW project (card or other paper craft item) based on the beach theme.

• 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 IPC12).

• 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 - Read the description below each card to see who made it!

Don't you just love this fun bright yellow card by Lydia? It reminds me of sunshine! I love how she colored the kitty and sandcastle image from our Newton's Summer Vacation set! Adorable! 

Here's a great beach card by Stephanie! I love her color combo and cut clouds! And its cute how she gave the kitty from our  Newton's Summer Vacation set rosy cheeks! Makes me smile!

Here's a great sweet little beach treat by Tessa! She colored the cute kitty from our Newton's Summer Vacation set and added him to this cute little container of gummy sharks! YUM!

 Larissa created a fun "framed" beach scene using the frame from the Around the House set, the water from the Beach Party set and the Pail of sand from  Newton's Summer Vacation. Love this idea!

More Sunshine from Jess - this time in the form of rays - Super Fun! She used our Kitty on in inner tube from Newton's Summer Vacation and the waves from the Beach Party set. 

Diane created this super fun triple image card  - Newton is on an Island Vacation tour - using stamps from  Newton's Summer Vacation 

Danielle created this pretty watercolor beach scene with the kitty on the innertube as the focus! Love how bright those watercolors are! She used stamps from  Newton's Summer Vacation. 

Samantha used the super cute hula bunny from our Beach Party set and the Wish you were here sentiment from Newton's Summer Vacation. I love how she colored those waves!

Here's one from me (Jen) - I also used the kitty from from the  Newton's Summer Vacation set and I used sandpaper to create the beach along the bottom- Doesn't it look fun? 

Now it's your turn!

Use the widget below to add a link to your project! Don't forget to tell your friends to play along too - If we get more than 15 participants we will pick TWO winners!

An InLinkz Link-up

Inky Paws #11 Challenge - WINNERS!

Citrus Color Challenge WINNERS! 

Thanks so much to everyone who entered our last  Inky Paws Challenge at here at the Newton's Nook Designs blog! This months theme was a Bright Citrus color Challenge! It looked like everyone had a ton of fun creating bright citrus toned cards! Great job & thanks to everyone who played along! 

Top picks!

Since we had over 15 participants we got to pick TWO winners! Read the captions below the photos to see who made the cards! 

Our first winner is this fun striped card by Marina! We love how she created fun stripes using the colors in our color palette with the fun squiggle border and food from our  Love à la Carte stamp set! You can see more of her work and congratulate Marina on her blog, Marina's Craft Space.

Our second winner also used a stripe in her card! This card is by Yukari! We loved the clean and simple style of this card mixed with the bright citrus colored gifts! She used our  Wagon of Wishes stamp set.  You can see cute creations by Yukari on her flickr page.

Congrats Marina and Yukari!! 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 Favorites

Since there were so many beautiful 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!

Love the bright- almost neon colors on this card by Donna using our Sweet Summer Stamp set! 

This card by Caroline using Newton's Birthday Bash really caught our eye with the "shaker" inside the kitty balloon!

The citrus colors in dotted background are so fun on this card by Indy using Newton's Birthday Bash and Wagon of Wishes sets! 

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 try again next month. The new challenge will be posted on Friday, July 25.