Category: Inspired By

  • Let’s Go Shopping

    Let’s Go Shopping

    The new Inspired By Challenge is up and it is a fun one. I love the colors. The Cafe made me think of a little cafe in Europe so I decided to use the French Girl collection from Echo Park. I was inspired by the colors and the sketch and instead of a cafe, I have a boutique. Reminds me of when I shopped on the Champs Élysées – window shopping of course because it was much too expensive for me LOL!

    I adhered the stickers to some scrap paper then fussy cut them out so that I could mount on foam squares.

  • Spring Has Sprung

    Spring Has Sprung

    The new Inspired By Challenge is up and it it very fitting for the month of April. A rainbow of gum boots! I was inspired by the gum boots and used the In Full Bloom collection by Echo Park Paper

    The gum boots stamp is from CTMH and believe it or not, I have some pink ones like this, some baby pink Hunter boots…. I mounted all the images on foam squares for some dimension. The Spring die is from Echo Park as well.

    Now I would love to see how you are inspired… come on over and play along!

  • Oh Crop!

    Oh Crop!

    Hey everyone, I am here with my take on this week’s Inspired By Challenge. When I saw the stripes and the bright happy colors I thought of the new Craft Room collection by Echo Park. So many fun things in this collection, perfect for us crafters. When I saw the Oh Crop chipboard element I thought I would make a Oh Crop I missed your birthday but then this came to mind. I used the sketch and created this:

    It also gave me an excuse to use this neglected stamp and die from CTMH that I don’t think I ever used (have you ever purchased something then never used it? 😉😂- pretty sure I am not the only one!)

  • Wishing You a Happy Birthday

    Wishing You a Happy Birthday

    The new Inspired By challenge is up and it is such a pretty one (there’s lovely new graphics too!). I was inspired by the flowers and the colors. I used some of my Stampin’ Up stash, love these beautiful papers. I then used one of my Stampin’ Up stencils for the flowers. I love this stencil so much!

    I started with an aqua card base then topped it with the pretty vellum paper before adding the white and the gingham. I mounted the flowers on foam squares for some dimension and then of course the stamp and sentiment die is from Stampin’ Up as well.

    Now check out this week’s graphic and of course we would love for you to come and play along!

  • 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!