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

 Hello everyone Von Marie here and I’m so excited for the Inspired by…Blog Challenge this week. Guess what the theme is??? It’s Coffee Mugs#IB408 and you know I love coffee. The inspiration photo is so great too!!!

Let’s Get Started:

I was inspired by the theme, colors, and card sketch. I love the Inspiration photo so much it gave me first a Alice in Wonderland and theme park Vibe. So fun. I started out with a A2 white cardstock panel 4 1/4 x 5 1/2. I used A Colorful Life Designs Layered Cups Stencil(use VonFan10 to save) It has 2 stencils. I inked up the stencil with Catherine pooler inks in Do Si Do, Serenade, and Glitz. On the second stencil I used a heavier hand to get the designs on the mugs. I stamped a sentiment from Jillian Vance Design retired coffee stamp with the Do Si Do ink on white cardstock and then fussy cut it out.

I used Concord & 9th Bake Shop Dies for the mugs. I cut them out with white cardstock and layerd them on a additional mug for depth, I then ink blended them with the same ink colors to match. I tried to incorporate the card sketch on my card. I black scrap was perfect and I glued my card panel to a A2 card base. I had a additional Mug so I glued that inside my card. I also noticed I could have did only 4 mugs…Oh well it was so much fun!!

Now it’s your turn! I can’t wait to see your card.

Check out my Video Process here on making this card

Crafty Hugs

Von Marie

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