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 Newest challenge here on the Inspired By…Blog. Fall Mugs #IB410 is the theme and we have a fun colors and lots of inspiration from the inspiration photo.

Let’s get started:

I was inspired by the theme Coffee Mugs and the colors.  I made a simple card. I used a Pretty Pink Winter Mug Dies set and ran the mug die through my die-cutting machine with white cardstock. I then ink blended it with Walnut Stain Distress ink, Rusty Hindge Distress Oxide ink, and Tea Dye Distress ink. This set has a leaf so I ran that through my die-cutting machine too with white cardstock. I ink blended the leaf with Peeled Paint distress ink. I was harsh on the coffee portion of the mug I was going for realistic. I would love a coffee right now!

I had some digital pattern paper printed in my stash and to me it looked like some of the colors from the inspiration photo. I popped up my mug with fun foam and applied it to my pattern paper. Sentiment strip was from my stash and popped it up with a foam strip. I added a few brown sequins and that finishes this card. 

It’s your turn now! I can’t wait to see your card and How you are inspired?

Crafty Hugs

Von Marie

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