Inky Paws Challenge #105

This biweekly challenge is a:

Sketch Challenge

Create a project using the above 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, September 6, 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 provides us this cheerful, sunny card by water coloring the background in the window and adding the blue birdie from the Raccoon Rascals stamp set and a white window frame. She then stamps the small flower image from the Dainty Daisies stamp set repeatedly on the blue card stock. She adds a yellow flower box and hand draws a wood grain pattern. In that flower box, she adds beautifully shaded daises from the Dainty Daisies stamp and die set. A black gingham bow is the perfect finishing touch.

Ready for some autumn fun?  Debbie Owens shows us that we are never too old to play in the leaves!  She begins her card by creating a bark-like background using the Hardwood stencil. She then creates a cloudy background using the Clouds stencil and die cuts using the Frames & Flags die set.  She adds the kitty hanging from the branch from the Newton Hangs Out stamp set adding foam tape to the kitty's bottom to make him look like he is swinging out to land on the pile of leaves from the Wagon of Wishes stamp set. She finds the perfect sentiment for her scene from Newton Unwinds stamp set.

Diane Morales combines stamps set to create this fabulous summer card. She creates an orange/yellow distressed background on which she stamps a sentiment from the Cat-itude stamp set. She tucks several palm fronds from the Toucan Party stamp and die set behind this panel. These fronds go perfectly with the surfboard her kitty is holding from the Newton's Perfect Wave and die set which Diane colors wonderfully!

Sue T. designs a tranquil ocean card that any friend would be thrilled to receive. Using the Frames & Flags scalloped edged die, she creates a frame from a blue polka dotted pattern paper. For her center panel, she uses the Sea Borders die set and the Sunscape stencil to create a peaceful place for the seagulls from the Gull Friends stamp and die set to hang out. Sue adds a speech bubble from the Speech Bubbles die set to capture the sentiment.

Becky Noelle designs this refreshing citrus card using one amazing stamp set--Lemon Twist!

She customizes her background by repeatedly stamping & embossing lemon slices. For her center panel, she uses a white-dotted vellum piece with a white bottom on which she adds the sentiment. Her focal point is a lemon and lemon slice from the same Lemon Twist stamp set. With a twine bow as the final embellishment, Becky shows us the power of using just one stamp set!

Create a project using the sketch above with NND products

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Inky Paws Challenge #104 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 #104  Winner!

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

Vannessa creates this masculine card by finding non-floral papers in the challenge colors. She stamps the trio of felines from the Newton's Birthday Trio stamp set. She adds a coordinating banner and enamel dots for her final touches.  

Congrats to Vannessa!  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 #104 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!

Becky's FAVE

Twiddler's Nook creates a soft subtle background on which she adheres her darling llama from the Loveable Llamas stamp and die set. She shades the blanket on the llama in the challenge colors. she stamps the fun sentiment and adds Nuvo Crystal Drops throughout her card.  For her final touch, she adds glossy accents to the llama's nose!

Bobbi's FAVE

Meghan K.  creates a fabulous autumn card just in time for pumpkin spice lattes!  She creates a fun background for her mugs using leaves in the challenge colors. She adds various mugs
using the Cup of Cocoa stamp set.  She adds her sentiments in adjacent corners for a nice balance to her card!  

Debbie's FAVE

Amy Tsuruta cuts strips of paper in the challenge colors for a dramatic background. She die cuts a window and adds the sentiment from the Lemon Twist stamp set.  She then colors the lemon from the Lemon Twist stamp and die set in shades of yellow and adheres with dimensional tape.  

Diane's FAVE

Using the Newton Scoots By stamp set, Mugdha creates an amazing autumn scene with rolling hills, puffy clouds, and tall grasses. It looks like Newton is riding back to his home on a purr-fect autumn afternoon! 

Sue's FAVE

Dandi83 creates a wonderful background by sponging distress inks with the Argyle stencil set. She then colors the fun image of Newton hiding behind some pumpkins from the Autumn Newton stamp set in the colors of the challenge.  She fussy cuts and adds foam tape to make the image pop!  Just love her teal bird!

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 #104 Reminder

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

Here'a a refresher.
Color Challenge

Create a project using the colors: 

Yellow, Teal, Orange, and Brown.

Today I have some more inspiration for this Challenge!

Becky Noelle creates a spectacular background on Kraft card stock and the Hibiscus stencil set. Her hibiscus are shaded in yellow and oranges with teal leaves.  She then uses the sentiments from the Simply Sentiment stamp set on striped vellum. She stitches the vellum to the card to give an extra special touch to this beautiful card.

Bobbi Lemanski brings us this refreshing card by heat embossing the lemon slices from the  Lemon Twist stamp set with white powder on orange, teal, and yellow squares.  She then rounds two adjacent corners  of each square before adhering in a 3 x 2 arrangement. She embosses another lemon and sentiment from the Lemon Twist stamp set on a brown rectangle with two rounded corners.  She adds two glasses of lemonade from the Cocktail Mixer stamp and die set to complete her amazing design.

Debbie Owens creates a bright yellow sky using the Sky Borders die set for her golfing friends to play a few rounds.  She creates white hills using the Land Borders die set. Those cute bears were colored in the challenge colors and are from the the Winston's Tee Time stamp set. Using the  Frame & Flags die set, she cuts a banner and adds a sentiment from the  Winston's Tee Time stamp set. She finishes her card with some orange and white twine.

Diane Morales is back with another amazing tag!  This one begins with her using the Pineapple stencil set with Versamark and clear embossing powder on a yellow background. She then adds the sweet corgi from the Corgi Beach stamp and die set. She heat embosses the sentiment from Oink stamp set in white on a banner from the Frame & Flags die set. A delightful summer tag!

Sue T. is getting us ready for the upcoming autumn season by using the challenge colors with the Shades of Autumn stamp set. After stamping the leaves several times, she die cuts with the Framework die set and adds dimension tape. She then cuts out a section and stamps the sentiment on the card base. She adds several jeweled embellishments to complete her beautiful card. 

I hope these projects have inspired you to play along! Remember, you have until this Friday, August 23, 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 #104

This biweekly challenge is a:

Color Challenge

Create a project using the colors: 

Yellow, Teal, Orange, and 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, August 23, 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 creates an amazing adventure scene by splattering some orange on the background and distressed waves using the Sea Borders die set. She then fussy cuts the kraken and the ship from the
Message in a Botttle stamp set.

Bobbi Lemanski creates this bright, refreshing card. She creates a watercolor background. Then stamps the lemons from the Lemon Twist stamp set on white card stock and adds tree stems and branches.  She layers the teal and yellow challenge colors to create her greenish leaves. She die cuts the lemon design into a focal circle and adds the phrase to the side.
Lemon Twist

Debbie Owens creates the wood grain background using the Hardwood stencil before die cutting it using the Framework die set.  She then uses distress inks to blend a watery sunset background which she die cuts in a circle.  She embosses the sentiment and firefly and adheres to the background.  She then colors and fussy cuts the canoe image from the Winston's Lake House stamp set and adheres with dimensional tape.  A fabulous way to spend a summer day!

Diane Morales creates this stunning tag by splattering white on her teal background. She then adds a two-tone sun and a bottom border using the Sea Borders die set which she turns upside down. Her focal point are those sweet California seagulls from the Gull Friends stamp and die set. She adds white ribbon. Whether used as a tag or a bookmark, this is a fabulous project!

Sue T. uses the challenge colors to make a super cute Halloween card!  She uses the Newton's Bootiful Night stamp set and stamps two images on her white card base.  She colors the pumpkins in teal, yellow and pumpkin and her kitties and bird in brown.  She then stamps the sentiments and die cuts them using the Speech Bubbles die set.  She die cuts her white base using the Framework die set.  A delightful way to celebrate Halloween!

Create a project using the colors: 

Yellow, Teal, Orange, and Brown.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Inky Paws Challenge #103 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 #103  Winner!

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

Ishani creates this serene coastal scene using the Aloha Newton stamp set. After playing in the sand, Newton takes a nap in his hammock between the shady palm trees.  Anyone want to join him?

Congrats to Ishani!  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 #103 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!

Sue's FAVE

Twiddlers Nook creates an amazing watermelon-like background using water colors She uses the newly released Newton's Watermelon stamp and die set.  Newton looks like his is enjoying his melon.  The watermelon seeds as raindrops make for the perfect final touch!

Becky's FAVE

Angie creates this spectacular CAS card with Newton from the Newton Scoots By stamp and die set

zooming off with the exhaust fumes swirling behind him!  Angie adds the birthday sentient form Newton's Birthday Flutter stamp set along with some shimmering stars for her final touches!

Bobbi's FAVE

Who wants to join this party in the sea?  Mary Reiner creates this fun party using the newly released 
Shrimp Cocktail stamp and die set. She creates some rays of sun and places the sentiment on a fluffy cloud!  For her water, she uses the Waves & Splashes stencil.  Such a fun, bright card!


Debbie's FAVE

Twiddlers Nook creates this fabulous underwater card!  She uses a wood grain paper for her background then adds a porthole with a nice metal-looking frame.  Looking through the porthole, you spy Newton from the  Scuba Newton stamp and die set enjoying the delights of the sea!

Diane's FAVE

Ava Williams shows us just how much fun one can have on a floaty! Ava creates a subtle cloudy blue sky then adds some fun waves using the Waves & Splashes stencil. She then adds her sweet goat from the Floaty Goat stamp and die set with dimensional tape! Time to play!

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 #103 Reminder

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

Here'a a refresher.
Theme Challenge

Create a project using the theme--Summer.

Today I have some more inspiration for this Challenge!

Sue T. takes us to the lake for the summer with this sweet card.  She dies cuts her scallop-edge layer using the Frames & Flags die set and a blue & brown plaid pattern paper. She then die cuts a white layer using the Frames & Flags die set again.  She creates her green hills and watery waves using the Sea Borders die set.  She adds cattails, a lily pad, and Winston rowing his canoe from the  Winston's Lake House stamp and die set.  She stamps her sentiment on a white circle that was die cut using the Frames Squared die set.

Becky Noelle splatters white paint on her Kraft base to give her card some texture.  She then stamps and vibrantly colors the hibiscus flowers and pineapples from the Tropical Fringe stamp set. She then uses circle dies to create the ring which she adheres to the edge of her base.  She stamps the sentiment inside the ring. Such a creative way to use the Tropical Fringe stamp set.

Bobbi Lemanski creates a bridge card to celebrate the joys of summer.  She amazingly distresses a vibrant sunset background with twinkling stars.  She stamps several silhouette palm trees from the Paradise Palms stamp set to finish the perfect setting for the corgis from the Corgi Beach stamp and die set to perform a dance at an evening luau.  She then uses the Tropical Fringe stamp set and cuts it out in a circle and stamps her sentiment.

Debbie Owens creates this watery card perfect for these surfer felines to enjoy!  Using the Frames & Flags die set to create the scallop-edged base, she uses the  Waves & Splashes stencil and distress inks to create some fun waves as well as a sandy beach.  She then adds two surfing images from the Newton's Perfect Wave stamp.  She embosses the sentiment and adheres a sand dollar and shell from the Vitamin Sea stamp set.

Newton is checking out the "Sandy Bottom Club" in Diane Morales fabulous underwater card. Using the Clouds and Waves & Splashes stencils, Diane creates a remarkable underwater background which Newton in his scuba gear (Scuba Newton stamp and die set) spies some shrimp from the Shrimp Cocktail stamp and die set partying! This is all adhered to a white scallop-edged base using the Frames & Flags die set.

I hope these projects have inspired you to play along! Remember, you have until this Friday, August 9, 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!