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 is from Stampin Up!

I started by fussy cutting the flowers from one of the pattern papers. I then layered the background papers until I was happy with the loo. Once the flowers were down (the middle on is on foam squares. I tucked the sentiments here and there simulating the sketch. The white hearts were the negative image from a heart border that I have had just waiting for the right project and this was it. The XOXO is from Lawn Fawn and then to finish it off I added some Enamel Dots.

I can’t wait to see how you are inspired.

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 to spark your creativity.

Will you be inspired by the fish shapes, the layered arrangement, the rustic wood textures, or the soothing palette of blue, gray, and brown? Perhaps you’ll create a nautical-themed card, a beachy scrapbook layout, a mixed-media project, or something completely unexpected. Let the image and sketch guide your imagination and see where the inspiration takes you!

Check out what the design team have created

Von Marie

Cathy Harper

MarDi

Laurel Seabrook

Amy Tsuruta

Now it is your turn. We can’t wait to see your interpretation of this seaside-inspired challenge. Join us for #IB391 and don’t forget to tag your project with #inspiredbychallenge. After linking up, be sure to also share your creation in our Facebook group so everyone can enjoy and celebrate your inspiration too

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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:

• Tea Time | stamp + die
• Scallops Pierced Plate | die

The card base is Spellbinders ColorWheel Alabaster. The photos don’t really show the true copic colors:

• E01 | R01
• YG63 | G94
• G21 | G24
• E08 | E09
• E000 | YR30
• E74 | E77

The cake is strawberry matcha.

I can’t wait to see how you’re inspired!

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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 a New to me stamp that was wanting to get used from Hero Arts. I have had this stamp for awhile now, so glad to use it. This stamp and cut is called What’s Cookin?  I stamped my images onto white cardstock and stamped them with Memento Tuxedo black ink.  I colored my images with my Copic Markers.  I tried to focus and just use colors shown on the inspiration photo but I just had to use orange on the cheese.  LOL. I then used the dies to cut everything out for me except for the sentiment I stamped that and cut it using my paper trimmer.

I found some Lawn Fawn woodgrain pattern paper in my stash I think it’s from into the woods? So, I cut it according to the card sketch.  The What’s Cookin? die set has a die to have the mouse hold things so I loved glueing the apron and adding a big cuppa coffee in its hands.  I used my white gel pen for eyes on my mouse and everything was glued to a A2 card base 4 1/4 x 5 1/2.

Now it’s your turn!

You still have time to join this challenge.  Simply add your card to the Ininkz Party that’s at the bottom of the first day of the challenge.  You can choose the theme or card sketch or both.  Have fun!!!

Don’t forget to tag inspired_by_challenge on the socials. #inspiredbychallenges and post in our FB Group.

Crafty Hugs

Von Marie

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 have a direction, just some wood veneer paper and a textured brick background panel in may stash that I knew I wanted to use in some way. The muted colors had me stumped but I think I found a good compromise by using the wood, brick, and greenish gray panel for the background to my focal piece.

It’s not called a “challenge” for nothing. This really was challenging for me but that’s a good thing, right? When I told my doctor I was retiring last year, he asked me what I was going to do to keep my mind sharp. I told him not to worry about that, I had it covered.

We hope you’re inspired to join us this week. We would love to see how you’re inspired by Kitchen Display. ~MarDi

Fun fact, though I don’t like wasps, I love bumblebees… that big, round, plump, cute body, maybe I should tell myself I am a bumblebee LOL

Danni

There were so many fabulous cards it was hard to choose, but this happy bee just kept drawing me in! Congratulations Danni!

Don’t forget to play along this week

As I find with every new challenge photo, I am immediately inspired by one aspect, but end up finding inspiration from the WHOLE photo! This week, the heart-shaped copper spoons caught my eye first…

I used The Greetery’s “”Mini Boxwood Wreath” with eucalyptus leaves (like in the photo!) and embossed the detail image in copper. That plaid towel jumped out at me next, so I stamped the “Open Plaid Background” in black ink on off-white cardstock.

Keeping with the color scheme and the simplicity of the canister sets, I added a sentiment from “Laid Back Sentiments” and a “Sweetest Frame: Capsule Edition” surrounding my wreath. . To finish my card, I cut a “Capsule Basics” oval and embossed it with the “Rosemal Reflections” embossing folder. I feel like this little framed piece would be a perfect addition to place in this charming kitchen display!

Now it’s your turn to play along!. We can’t wait to see what you make!

Charming kitchen display are my favorite and this week’s Inspired by Challenge immediately had me reaching for the classic farmhouse elements with playful twists.

I created a pair of layered box cards from Lori Whitlock, designed to look like little kitchen canisters and decor pieces to sit on your counter. I love to make box cards, so much dimension and so fun for your recipient. Keep in mind that they fold flat for mailing too and make such a statement.

Thanks so much for stopping by today. I hope these kitchen inspired box cards inspire you to create with this challenge and then share with us.

Cathy