Inky Paws Challenge #122

This biweekly challenge is a:

Color Challenge

Create a project using the challenge colors-Coral Pink, Mint Green, White, and Black.

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, May 8, 2020, 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!   

Diane Morales creates an amazing square card using the Frames Squared die set and a coordinating bookmark using the Fancy Edges Tag die set.  Using the Floral Fringe stamp set, Diane uses the challenge colors to shade the flowers. Don't you love the black-eyed Susans?  

Sue T. creates this amazing spring card by cleverly combining sets. She uses the Frames & Flag die set to create her center panel and adds the bubbles from the Bokeh stencil set.  Those lovely coral flowers are from the Easter Lily stamp and die set. She places them in the watering can from the Hop Into Spring stamp and die set. Using the banner die from the Frames & Flag die set, she stamps a sentiment from the Dainty Daisies stamp set. 

 Becky Noelle combines elegant with cuteness with her card. Starting with texture paste with the Hardwood stencil on a mint card base, she adds a lattice frame on which to display the kitty peeking out of his boots from the Newton's Rain Boots stamp set.  Her coral-colored flowers coordinated beautifully with the twine. The black banner (Frames & Flags die set) with it's white embossed sentiment from the Woodland Spring stamp set provides a nice pop of contrast.  {sigh}

Crystal Komara creates a gorgeous peony card using the Peony Blooms stamp and die set. The coral flowers go so perfectly with the mint ribbon and mint gingham paper. Sparkly rhinestones giving it a extra special touch of sparkle!

 Debbie Owens was inspired by the bicycles as well as the colors in the challenge photo. She creates a little country scene using the Cloudy Sky stencil with glittery embossing paste and the Land Borders die set for the hills and grass.  She scallops the edges using the Frames & Flags die set. The main attraction is the darling kitty zooming on his scooter from the Newton Scoots By stamp set. Sprinkle in a  few flowers from the Newton's Valentine, twine, and a black speech bubble with white embossing from the Speech Bubbles die set.  Sweetness!

Create a project using the challenge colors-Coral Pink, Mint Green, White, and Black.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Inky Paws Challenge #121 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 #121 Winner!

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

Daria designs this darling birthday card using the Pug Hugs stamp set. Her blue window with balloons floating up provides a wonderful background with her pug decked out in his birthday hat!  So sweet!

Congrats to Daria.  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 #121 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

Gentle Crafting  creates this darling slimline birthday card with 3 Polaroid picture frames showcasing images from the Sending Hugs stamp and die set.  She creates distressed backgrounds in different colors and has each critter holding a little gift!  Just so cute!

Diane's FAVE

Beverly's use of bright, bold colors makes her card stand out!  Her blue background with the embossing adds great texture for her kitty from the Newton Scoots By stamp set.  The chartreuse green and red accents really pop against the blue!  Darling!  

Sue's FAVE

Elle Kay re-purposes this stamp image from the Naughty Newton stamp and die set by having him holing a bouquet of colorful balloons and floating away.  Her paw print background in a rainbow of colors makes her card so festive and fun1

Becky's FAVE

Amy Tsuruta creates a pink lemonade-colored background that looks spectacular with the large lemon from the Lemon Twist stamp and die set.  On a black frame, she white embosses her sentiment, which is a combination of words from the Newton Dreams of London and Lemon Twist stamp sets.  A beautifully designed CAS card!

Crystal's FAVE

Mugdha pulls the circles from the challenge image to create a bokeh-like background in bright colors.  She add a vellum circle on which she adds the feline scootin' by from the Newton Scoots By stamp set.  The party hat is a purr-fect addition to this darling card!

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 #121 Reminder

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

Here'a a refresher.

Create a project using the Theme-Birthday:

Today I have some more inspiration for this Challenge:

It's all about long and skinny with Debbie Owens' cards!  Using different monochromatic color schemes, she uses the ladies from the Holding Happiness stamp set for her CAS style birthday cards. She embosses two sentiments from the Birthday Essentials stamp set.  A strip of black and white diagonal washi tape and some glossy accents provide her finishing touches!

Diane Morales has an amazing talent making circle cards, and this one does not disappoint!  Her little scene shows Newton cleaning up after the celebration!  She uses the vacuuming Newton from the Newton Cleans Up stamp and die set and confetti and hat from the Newton Celebrates stamp and die set.  With the punny sentiment, this card will bring a smile!

Sue T. wonderfully combines elements for a well-balanced CAS card! She creates a circle full of fluffy clouds using the Clouds stencil. She then stamps the sentiment partially outside the circle and offsetting it with the sweet birdie from the  Newton's Birthday Flutter stamp set.  Totally sweetness!

 Becky Noelle's spinner card is packed full of birthday fun!  For her spinning element, she has Newton on his balloon from the Newton's Birthday Bash stamp set twirling around. Her background has light, fluffy balloons from the Clouds stencil with rainbow foil confetti Confetti stencil falling from the sky!  Using the Frames & Flags die set, she stamps her sentiment. 

Crystal Komara's blue monochromatic color scheme is just spectacular! For her circular background, she adds sparkly balloons using the Balloons stencil flying across her blue distressed background, She adds Newton from the Newton's Antics stamp and die set popping out of his box. The birthday hat and blue balloon accents are from the Fabulous Frenchies stamp and die set and are just purr-fectly combined!

I hope these projects have inspired you to play along!  Remember, you have until this Friday, April 24, 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 #121

This biweekly challenge is a:

Theme Challenge

Create a project using the theme--Birthday.

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, April 24, 2020, 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. Remember you can only link up 3 different projects to be eligible for the prize. 

Here's some inspiration!

Need to get inspired? See what our Inspiration Team created with this challenge!   

 Want to hold a Zoom birthday party?   Debbie Owens shows how to capture the Zoom spirit using a plethora of Newton images.  Starting at the top left, you will spy Newton from the Newton Rides West stamp set with a flirty feline from the Newton's Perfect Wave stamp set to the right.  Those little palm trees are from the Paradise Palms stamp set. Moving to the next row, you'll see Newton from the Newton Celebrates stamp set giving a birthday toast.  For a bit of musical entertainment, there's a feline from the Aloha Newton stamp set. On the bottom row, you'll see a British kitty from the Newton Dreams of London stamp set.  Finally, there's a furry friend from the Newton Dreams of New York stamp set. With the whole gang together, how could you not have fun at this virtual birthday party?

Diane Morales splashes a bit of blue water coloring on her card to create her ocean scene. She uses the Scuba Newton stamp and die set to add coral, seaweed, and fish for Newton to enjoy as he swims by to wish someone a happy birthday! Such a fun way to celebrate a birthday while still social distancing!

Sue T. use of sparkly gold paper provides the perfect elegant accents for her birthday card. Using the Bubbly stencil, she adds some golden bubbles as the cork is popped off the champagne bottle from the Wine A Little stamp set.  Sue does a bit of fussy cutting from the kitty the Newton Loves Cake stamp set.  Instead of enjoying a layered cake, this feline goes for a more sophisticated way to celebrate!  She adds a golden cheers die cut using a sentiment from the Cocktail Mixer die set.  Cheers!

 Becky Noelle creates this amazing card using a clear card base and deco-foiling balloons from the Balloon stencil in a rainbow of colors!  She adds the playful pooch from the Paw-some Birthday stamp and die set with his tall stack of presents worthy of anyone celebrating a special birthday!  

Crystal Komara uses complementary colors, purple and yellow, that will definitely brighten someone's special day!  For her background she adds shades of purples as well as little puppy prints using the Say Woof stamp set. She adds yellow grass with more fun prints. She adds two sweet puppies from the Fabulous Frenchies stamp and die set. Don't you just love those little party hats and the bow tie?  The big balloon shaker uses the Balloon Shaker die set. The purple sentiments inside come from the Birthday Essentials stamp set and the Paw-some Birthday stamp set.  A bright and brilliant card!  

Create a project using a Birthday Theme!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Inky Paws Challenge #120 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 #120 Winner!

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

Shushutaylor's sweet Easter card features Hop Into Spring stamp and die set in pastel blue, lavender and pink. 

Congrats to Shushutaylor.  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 #120 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!

Crystal's FAVE

Priscilla creates a porthole allowing us to see the pretty mermaid from the Mermaid Crossing stamp set . She adds ocean-theme paper and a red banner for a nice splash of color. 

Debbie's FAVE

A. Rose keeps it clean and crisp with the use of the bright pink and lime green pattern paper. She stamps the bunny and eggs from the Bunny Hop stamp set in the circle and balances them out with the sentiment.


Diane's FAVE

Jennifer R. perfectly layers her elements to make this fabulous autumn card. Those ladies are from the Pumpkin Latte stamp and die set, and they look wonderful in the fall colors.  The kraft doily, gingham ribbon, and burlap banner are wonderful elements!

Sue's FAVE

Amy T.  coordinates all her elements for a perfect blend!  The little hearts on the coffee cup from the Hedgehog Hollow stamp and die set compliment the pattern paper die cut using a die from the Framework die set. She then distresses hearts from the Bokeh Hearts stencil set.  The little lady bug is a perfect finishing touch!

Becky's FAVE

Amy T.  is back again with amazing attention to detail and use of coordinating elements. For this card she uses the hot air balloon image from the Newton Dreams of Paris  stamp and die set and adds Paris-inspired pattern paper. She adds glittery clouds using the Cloudy Sky stencil with some little hot air balloons in the distance. For her sentiment, she uses one of the dies from Speech Bubbles die set. 

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 #120 Reminder

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

Here'a a refresher.

Create a project using the challenge sketch:

Today I have some more inspiration for this Challenge:

Crystal Komara creates this bright, cheerful card just in time for Easter. Using pink, yellows, and greens, she layers elements. Her central element is the sweet bunny from the Hop Into Spring stamp and die set playing in the green grass made using the Hills & Grass stencil. So clean and sweet!

 Debbie Owens delights with this pair of pink flamingos from the Flirty Flamingos stamp set. She pairs them with flamingo pattern paper and die cuts using the scallop-edged die from the Framework die set. She cuts her circular element out of vellum and heat embosses palm trees from the Paradise Palms stamp set in white.  A banner of burlap wrapped in twine and a splattering of sequins finishes her card. 

Diane Morales also features another bunny from the Hop Into Spring stamp and die set . This little fellow is holding a brightly died Easter egg and sits atop a big egg distressed with a pink pattern using  the Mountains stencil.  This is all set atop blue grass from the Land Borders die set and a white scalloped layer using the Framework die set. The Plaid stencil set was used to create the black and white background that adds a wonderful element!

Rejoice in spring is a perfect sentiment for Sue T.'s beautiful card.  Sue stamps and colors several floral images from the Easter Lily stamp set. She grounds her beautiful flowers with yellow and green pattern papers. A beautiful card to celebrate spring!

 Becky Noelle also showcases the  Easter Lily stamp set. She creates a textured white background using the Tropical Leaves stencil and adds a burlap banner.  The elegant flowers paired with the burlap make for a lovely combination. 

I hope these projects have inspired you to play along!  Remember, you have until this Friday, April 10, 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!