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

Wool and Denim is our theme this week for IB#414. I love the rustic charm of the woven denim basket filled with natural wool yarn balls in the inspiration photo. I struggled to find a direction at first so I just started looking through all my background stamps to see if anything would inspire me. It didn’t take long to find my direction when I laid eyes on the Snow Swirls stamp from Technique Junkies.

Then I remembered the newly acquired mittens dies from Penny Black stamps and everything came together after that. I even had already foiled some winter sentiments with silver foil on navy cardstock, so I had my card assembled in no time.

What do you do when you’re looking to jumpstart the your cardmaking process? Whatever gets you started, we hope you’re inspired to join us this week for Wool and Denim. ~MarDi

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