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!
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Hello everyone. Von Marie here and I’m excited to be on the Blog today. We have a New challenge this week for Inspired by…blog and the theme is Fish #IB391. There’s also a fun card sketch and color inspiration. Let’s Get Started: Here’s how I was inspired. I chose to make my card according to…
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I think it’s pretty apparent that I was inspired by the photo, colors, and sketch in this week’s FISH challenge. It’s always nice to find fun ways to create masculine cards. I used Concord and 9th FISH FRIENDS STENCIL PACK to create gray fish and dusty blue fish and then fussy cut them since I…
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Lovely takes on last week’s inspiration! Inkblissbyjb She really captured the inspiration in so many ways! Love all the little details! Congratulations 👏🏻 Don’t forget to play along this week
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I’m late to the party this week, but I couldn’t resist posting a card inspired by the awesome wooden FISH! It gave me some time to use some new products that were perfect for this challenge. I used The Greetery’s new Hey Honeycomb: Fish but embossed it with a woodgrain embossing folder instead of adding…
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Something so cheerful about this little fish and this fun little card was inspired by the fun coastal color palette by this week’s challenge. I loved the soft blues and ocean feel and just wanted to go with the fish theme. So a fishbowl card it is. I created a layered fishbowl design filled with…
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Hello, Laurel here sharing my take on this week’s challenge. I was immediately drawn to the colors and I love a haphazard sketch so I was loosely inspired by it too. The new Save the Date collection from Echo Park is absolutely gorgeous and it worked perfectly for the color palette. The background woodgrain paper…
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This week’s Inspired By Challenge is making a splash with a charming coastal-inspired design! With layered wooden fish in soft weathered blues, driftwood-inspired neutrals, and warm natural wood tones, this inspiration photo captures the relaxed feeling of a seaside retreat. Whether you love beach décor or simply appreciate the clean shapes and calming colors, there’s plenty here…
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My project was inspired by the Inspired by Challenge: Kitchen Display I was inspired by the colors +theme. My card features the following Pretty Pink Posh products: The card base is Spellbinders ColorWheel Alabaster. The photos don’t really show the true copic colors: The cake is strawberry matcha. I can’t wait to see how you’re…
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Hello everyone it’s Von Marie with you today and I’m so excited for this weeks challenge well they are all great right? This week it’s Kitchen Display #IB390. There is a fun inspirational photo and New Card Sketch. Let’s Get Started: I was inspired by the Kitchen Display Theme, Card Sketch, and Colors. I used…
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Kitchen Display is our theme this week and it was a great opportunity for me to pull out the wonderful “Go Wild” set from Power Poppy and water color my kitchen window scene with Distress inks and Catherine Pooler inks. I confess that I had a very slow start with this one. I really didn’t…
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