Category: Inspired By

  • Thanks for Being So Sweet

    Thanks for Being So Sweet

    A new Inspired By Challenge is up and this week I was inspired by the berries. I used this Clip Art Image – Chocolate Valentine’s Day as I needed something quick and these were just so yummy looking.

    I just felt like making a tall skinny card as it had been awhile and I dug into some hoarded old CTMH paper – love this set and now I don’t have much left. The sentiment is from The Stamps of Life. Of course I mounted the strawberries and sentiment on foam squares.

    Here’s the Clip Art image if you are interested:

    Now we would love to see how you are inspired!

  • Happy Heart Day Envelope

    Happy Heart Day Envelope

    Hey everyone, Laurel here. I am excited to share my take on this week’s Inspired By challenge. I was inspired by the theme and the envelopes. I used the Be Mine collection for the pattern paper and ephemera. To create the envelope, I used my envelope punch board from WR Memory Keepers. Love that it can make so many different sizes. The heart die is from Elle’s Studio and I cut the XO with my Silhouette I figure I could tuck a gift certificate into this.

    I hope you come and play along with us!

    I am also playing along with the following challenges:

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  • Just Sayin’

    Just Sayin’

    Hey everyone, I wanted to share my card for this week’s challenge (though I am sure I will be doing at least one more – such a sweet inspiration photo). I was inspired by the theme and came up with this card. Funny thing is I had the heart background and the just sayin’ already done as I didn’t use them on a previous project so this went together quickly. Both the pattern paper and the cute stamp is from Unity. The other sentiment, I printed out on my computer. The little cup die I have had for many years, I think was originally from PTI. I added a heart confetti to the mug.

    The image and sentiment is mounted on foam squares for some dimension. Isn’t she cute?!

    Now we would love to see how you are inspired! I am also linking up to the Simon Says Monday challenge – Have a Heart

  • Warm Winter Wishes

    Warm Winter Wishes

    Happy Thursday, you know what that means… another Inspired By Challenge and I am combining it with my guest designing card for JUGS as this week is stencil week. I have used the Simon Says Stencils and Die Warm Mug and Everything Nice set. I was inspired by the mittens, colors and loosely the sketch in the Inspired By challenge. Once again too, I embossed the background with a snowflake embossing folder so I am playing along with the SSSIG challenge – Use an Embossing Folder. Also the Simon Says Wednesday challenge – use Stencils.

    Can’t wait to see how you are inspired and of course be sure to play along at the JUGS challenge too!

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  • Hot Chocolate Kind of Day

    Hot Chocolate Kind of Day

    I am back with another card inspired by the Inspired By challenge. For this card I was inspired by the colors, sketch and the theme and pulled out an old CTMH stamp set and background die and started colouring. I don’t have any purple paper in these colors so I am going to have to change that because this light shade of purple (lilac, one of my favorite plants) is one of my favorite colors!

    I did emboss the main panel with a snowflake embossing folder before topping it with the circle die. The sentiment is from a Newton’s Nook stamp set Cup of Cocoa.

    Now since I don’t have the right cardstock colors, I colored a bit of white cardstock then punched out the snowflakes so that they coordinated with the stamped images.

    Have you played along with us over at Inspired By yet? I am also playing along at the Paper Players challenge – Signs of Winter

  • Ski Pass

    Ski Pass

    The new Inspired By Challenge is up and I was inspired by the colors and winter theme. I used a new image from Angie Blom Designs along with some papers from Simple Stories. I had the die cut frame laying on my desk for a previous project so I incorporated it and added a bit of glitter to it. I was going for the look of walking around a winter ski village (here it would be Whistler, which is on my bucket list one day to spend a weekend there). To add even more detail to the card I embossed the white cardstock and then finished off the card with some snowflakes.

    Now here are the Inspired By images, we would love for you to play along!

  • Inspired By and Guest Designer for JUGS

    Inspired By and Guest Designer for JUGS

    Happy New Year!

    It’s Thursday so that means another Inspired By Challenge. But I was also asked to be the Guest Designer on JUGS this month and I am pretty excited about that. This week I decided to combine the challenges. I was inspired by the snowmen and the sketch on Inspired By and on JUGS we were to use a cover plate die. I dug through my die collection and found a couple of neglected stitching frame dies from Stamplorations and CTMH and they were perfect. I also used the Hello die from I think MFT.

    I paired it with the cute Clip Art snowman which is part of a cute set. Check it out HERE

    Check out the snowmen clipart:

    Now here is the Inspired By Inspiration:

    And be sure to hop on over to JUGS and check out what the others have done and of course play along!

  • Cheers

    Cheers

    I am playing along with the Inspired By Challenge again using the colors and the theme. I thought the Beer Me stamp from Unity would work well for this too (It’s probably how my hubby will be celebrating New Years 😉) And yes the stamp set is on sale!

    I paired it with some paper from Stampin’ Up and the dies are from PTI and MFT I believe. I mounted the image on foam squares and added some glitter gel to make it look more like foam on the top.

    Now to grab this fun image!

    and of course come play along at Inspired By!