Welcome! At Inspired By, we believe creativity can spark from the simplest things—a cozy photo, a fun sketch, or a seasonal theme. Each week we share a fresh inspiration image and a coordinating sketch to get your ideas flowing. Whether you’re into cardmaking, scrapbooking, mixed media, or any type of project, you’re invited to interpret the challenge your way. There’s no right or wrong—just inspiration and creativity. We can’t wait to see what you create!
Current Challenge
Thank you for playing along last week. As a tea drinker I really loved seeing the variations of the tea theme in the gallery! Truth be told though, I like my tea in a big mug LOL real tea cups are much too dainty for my big hands 😉
The beautiful colors and those gorgeous flowers kept drawing me in! How pretty! Congratulations Wanda! Hope you play along again!
Don’t forget to play along this week!
I fell in love with the adorable caterpillar made of donuts (doughnuts?!)! I told my husband that I am putting in a request for one on my birthday…in December! 😂 He better start practicing now!
Until then, I decided to make my card with a donut character theme, too. I settled on talking donuts. The perfect way to line them up…a waterfall card, revealing their secret message!
I placed the waterfall mechanism on the front of the card. My donut image is from The Greetery’s “Sweet Tooth” with my own paper googly eye additions. I cut up a sentiment from the set and added a word to each panel, as well as a bow from “Sweetest Frames.”
I had never made a waterfall card before. YouTube has amazing tutorials! My favorites were by Gina K (Gina K Designs), Lisa Curcio (Lisa’s Stamp Studio), and Sam Calcott (Sam Calcott UK) …so helpful and clear!
The inside of the card has one more talking donut, along with a sentiment that I cut with my little Cricut Joy (also used to cut “sweet” used on the front of the card).
I hope you get to have a little fun playing along with us this week! For now, I’m off to the kitchen. I’m suddenly feeling hungry for something sweet! ❤️
Happy Saturday everyone! What a fun challenge this one is! It took me a bit to come up with an idea for this one. All I could see was the caterpillar and I just had nothing that would work with it. A friend took one peek and found the perfect SVG file from Doodlebug. I turned it into a shaped card which are some of my favorites to create. All those little sprinkles took me just a bit to glue on…but oh so cute. We can’t wait to see what you create! ~Cathy
When I saw this week’s challenge I knew it would be a good excuse to use my new Pink and Main Box of Donuts Dies. thus I was inspired by the donuts 😊 I had fun putting this together as it gave me an excuse to use some of my beads and confetti that has been sitting in my stash just waiting for the right project.
Can’t wait to see how you are inspired!
This week’s Inspired By Challenge is a colorful celebration of sweets, smiles, and imagination! 🍩🐛 With its sprinkle-covered donut “body,” googly-eyed face, and pretzel stick legs, this whimsical caterpillar is too cute to eat—but perfect for sparking creativity! 🎉
Will you take inspiration from the candy-colored sprinkles, the bold party vibes, or the charming bug-eyed expression? Maybe it’s the layered look, the circular shapes, or the joyful feeling that catches your eye.
Whether you go bright and bold or soft and sweet, we can’t wait to see how this sugary little critter inspires your design!
Join us for #IB377 — and don’t forget to tag your creations with #inspiredbychallenge so we can cheer you on! 💕
How are you inspired? Create a project and in your post, let us know what inspired you from the photo, and don’t forget to display our inspiration photo and link back to our challenge 😊
Now for our Design Team’s inspiration:
Kelly Schirmer
Laurel Seabrook
MarDi
Now it is your turn, can’t wait to see what you create.
My project was inspired by the newest Inspired by Challenge: Tea Garden
I was inspired by the theme and loosely by the sketch. My card features the following products by Concord & 9th:
I love that sentiment from the Berries and Jam set.
The sentiment has been stamped in Avocado on a Pink Lemonade cardstock strip.
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Hello everyone Happy Tuesday! Von Marie here and I’m so happy to be on the Inspired by…Blog today. This week our theme is Tea Garden and we also have a fun card sketch. I would love to go have some Tea especially at a Tea Garden. My favorite Tea is Matcha. What is yours?
Okay Let’s Get started:
I love the theme so much and the card sketch. How are you inspired?
I have this older retired Hero Arts Stamp and Die Set called Mouse Tea Party. I stamped my images with Memento Tuxedo ink on white cardstock and colored them softly to match the inspiration photo. I then used the coordinating dies to cut them out.
I then cut squares of pattern paper using my paper trimmer trying to mimic the dark purple flowers in the photo and use the card sketch. I then used an embossing folder from Simon Says Stamp called Drifting Flowers that I ran through my Spellbinders Platinum six with creme colored cardstock. I sprayed my paper with water before running it through. I stamped a sentiment from the same stamp set with black ink and cut it out with my trimmer. Everything was glued to a A2 card base 4 1/4 x 5 1/2.
You still have time to enter. Link your card to the original challenge post on this blog. It’s fun to be a winner as your card is shared so I hope you play along with us.
Crafty Hugs
Von Marie
I love the inspiration for this week’s Inspired By challenge. There’s something so charming about tea time in the garden. It was fun combining this cute Colorado Craft Co Tea Time Fun mice set with the lovely Altenew Delicate Garden set to create this A7 card. Once again, I used watercolor and colored pencil for my coloring media.
I started by stamping the mice and laying them out on the panel according to the sketch, then masking them. Next, I stamped the floral images from the Delicate Garden set and applied a light watercolor wash using Catherine Pooler Be Mine ink for the flowers, and then water colored everything else with Distress inks. Then I went over the mice images with Prismacolor pencils for more definition and to outline. The scalloped mat is Honey Bee stamps Scalloped A7 dies. The sentiment is from a Hero Arts card kit called Bows & Beyond.
What inspires you in this week’s inspiration photo? The tea pots and tea cups, the garden? We would love to see what you come up with. ~MarDi
So many yummy creations last week. Made me hungry for some berries! I am so looking forward to the fresh berries growing in my yard, but of course that will be awhile yet.
Erin T
It was hard choosing a winner this week but this pink mug kept calling my name. I love how there is a pretty flower in it and all of the texture. Congratulations Erin!
Don’t forget to play along this week
Happy Sunday! Time for a little tea (but isn’t it always?)! I love this week’s inspiration photo entitled “Tea Garden.” It reminds me of the tea parties my Mom, aunt, older sisters, and cousins had when I was young. My aunt was very particular about her tea and said, “always in a teacup, never in a mug!” 😄
For my card, I used a patterned paper collection called “Pressed Flowers” by Carta Bella Paper Company to make some bone china cups of my own…
I used products from The Greetery for this card. First, the “Sips Tea” die to cut the cups, with the “Tipsy Strip” adhered behind them. When you stack the cups, they tilt back and forth…much like the hanging cups and pots in the photo, I am sure!! Could be a wobbly accident causing you to “Spill the Tea!” The “Brew-ti-ful Day” stamp set has perfect sentiments for tea-drinkers. My flowers are “BotaniCuts: Forget-Me-Nots.” The scene is tucked inside a “Capsule Basics” oval embossed with the “Rosemal Refections” embossing folder.
Whether you are tucked inside your home on the East coast awaiting the “bomb cyclone”/ blizzard, or sipping an iced tea in a warmer place, may you make some time for tea today! Thanks so much for stopping by!
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