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!
Who doesn’t enjoy a frozen treat from time to time? This cute mouse is certainly delighted with his blackberry buckle, double fudge, mint chip ice cream cone.
I used a wonky circles stencil to create a background similar to the inspiration photo and colored this cute mouse image from Art Impressions with copic markers. I was inspired by the beautiful colors of aqua and lavender and the frozen treats theme. How does the photo or sketch inspire you to use your stash? We would love for you to join us this week! ~MarDi
Loving these challenges and playing along. I have been enjoying the winter colors and creating cute winter themed cards. I was inspired by the colors mostly for this challenge and of course that it was a treat. I used a svg file from Lori Whitlock and her new Echo Park Winter Fun collection.
Hey everyone, Laurel here. I was pretty literal with the inspiration this week. I was inspired by the treats, treats, colors and theme. It gave me a good excuse to use my Cake Pop stamp set from Papertrey Ink. The Sentiment and Die are from The Stamps of Life. I realized, when creating this, I don’t have much purple cardstock, in any shades, I might have to change that.
Now I can’t wait to see how you are inspired and remember to share your creation in our Facebook group, so that everyone can see it!
This week’s Inspired By Challenge is dipped in shimmer and sprinkled with sparkle! ❄️🧁 With dreamy pastels, sugar snowflakes, and cool winter tones, these frozen-inspired treats are as sweet to look at as they are to eat. Will it be the minty blue and lilac palette, the snowflake textures, or the candy-coated details that inspire your creation? Let the photo and sketch guide your frosty project—and don’t forget to tag us when you share your sweet spin on it!
For those of you who are new to our challenge, every week we post our inspiration photo challenge and sketch and hope that you will join us by creating a project for our challenge.
Just a reminder, an inspiration photo is exactly that- a starting point for inspiration. Will it be the colors, the overall theme, the texture, the actual items and/or something else that will inspire your card?
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 😊
Hello everyone. Von Marie @vonmariedesign here today taking over the blog and I’m so excited about our New challenge Winter Knits #IB370 and we have a fun New Card Sketch for you. If you are New to this challenge it’s really easy you can be inspired by the photo, card sketch, or both. Link up your card to the linky on the Inspired by…challenge blog.
Okay let’s get started:
I was first inspired by the lovely photo. I love knit hats and especially in the Winter. I don’t own a knit hat with these colors but now it’s on my wishlist. Next, I was inspired by the card Sketch. I love the simplicity of it. On my card, I used 2 stencils from A Colorful Life Designs (use VonFan10) called Scandinavian Quilt 6×6 and I ink blended this stencil first for my background using white cardstock with Pinkfresh Studio ink cubes in Blue Jay, Warm Buff, and Slumber. Next stencil I used Cozy Knit 6×6 and used Blue jay and Warm Buff inks on Kraft cardstock. I trimmed both my background and Kraft cardstock. My background is 4 1/4 x 5 1/2. I placed a strip of white stenciled cardstock in the center of my Kraft to mimic the card sketch.
I also used a retired stamp and coordinating die set from Reverse Confetti and these knit hats were perfect I think. I stamped my images with the same ink colors. I love the strings and pom pom. I inked the eggs of my Kraft hardtack with Warm Buff ink. I glued everything to a A2 top folding Kraft card base and popped up 1 knit hat with foam tape. Since my hats have sentiments it made this card even easier. I had fun with this challenge and I cannot wait to see how you are inspired…
Hi, it’s MarDi and I’m delighted to share my Winter Knits card with you today. My inspiration came a little from the colors, a little from the sketch, but mostly from the textures.
I used a mashup of products for this bear hug in a mug design. This card is full of texture, whimsy, and color pops from the light strands. Where I live, we don’t have extremely cold temperatures so whenever it gets below 70 degrees, we pull out our knits and wear them as long as we can, which is usually until the afternoon.
The background panel was created with the Cable Knit embossing folder from Sunny Studio Stamps. I used two other embossing folders to create texture for the bear’s sweater – Nordic Holiday from Taylored Expressions, and for the mug – Diamond Plate from Spellbinders.
The mug is from a die set by Frantic Stamper called Cocoa Cup and the rest of the dies are from a Spellbinders set called Festive Friends. The sentiment is from a very old club kit from Hero Arts.
I hope that you’re inspired to join the challenge this week. You have until the end of the day on Wednesday to link your project. Hey, if you’re finishing up with knitting or crocheting mittens, socks, beanie, blanket, or scarf, take a photo and link it up via your blog or social media account. We love to see how you’re inspired.
Sharing my take on this fun challenge…first glance at the inspiration and sketch reminded me of a winter knit hat. So that was my jumping point. I used an svg file from the Silhouette store and then from that shape, made the card base. You can find that file here. I really enjoyed creating this card and I used the perfect collection from Echo Park: Winter Fun.
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