My turn to share my take on this weeks inspiration. This weeks theme was inspired by Hot Chocolate. Yum and what a cold week it has been for most of us. I decided to create a cute little gift card holder with a Starbucks card inside to surprise someone this week. Just to make their week a bit brighter.

You can find the link to the gift car holder here and I used Lori Whitlock’s Echo Park Winter Fun Collection to create it with. That little snowman soaking in the hot chocolate is just too cute.

Thanks for stopping by~ Cathy

Hey everyone, I wanted to share my card for this week’s challenge (though I am sure I will be doing at least one more – such a sweet inspiration photo). I was inspired by the theme and came up with this card. Funny thing is I had the heart background and the just sayin’ already done as I didn’t use them on a previous project so this went together quickly. Both the pattern paper and the cute stamp is from Unity. The other sentiment, I printed out on my computer. The little cup die I have had for many years, I think was originally from PTI. I added a heart confetti to the mug.

The image and sentiment is mounted on foam squares for some dimension.

This week’s Inspired By Challenge is a sweet sip of indulgence and creativity! 🍫☕ With a swirl of whipped cream, rich chocolate drizzle, and a dreamy palette of blush pink and cocoa brown, this image brings all the cozy vibes of winter comfort and Valentine sweetness. Will your creation be inspired by the textures of marshmallows and chocolate shavings, the elegant ombré mug, or the soft, romantic tones? Whether you lean into the decadence or the delicate details, we can’t wait to see what you make. Be sure to tag us and use #IB373!

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.

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 😊

Now for our Design Team’s inspiration:

MarDi

Von Marie

Laurel Seabrook

Amy Tsuruta

Cathy Harper: Inspired By… Hot chocolate

Kelly Schirmer

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My project was inspired by the newest Inspired by Challenge: Mittens

I was inspired by both the photo an the sketch. I went pretty literal with this one.

My card features the following products:

❤️ Pretty Pink Posh – Valentine Banner Greetings | stamp
❤️ Pretty Pink Posh – Mitten Shaker | dies
❤️ Pretty Pink Posh – Box of Chocolates | dies
❤️ Pretty Pink Posh – Banner Greetings 2 | dies
❤️ Spellbinders – Fountain Wishes | die
❤️ Spellbinders – Nordic Noel | embossing folder
❤️ Mama Elephant – Placemat Set | creative cuts
❤️ Waffle Flower – Gingham – Berry Sweet | paper*

*retired

Do you see what I did with the Box of Chocolates dies? The white ‘tag’ on the cuff with the heart, that’s from that set. The interior of that red heart is on the bird. I stacked the ricrac circle and the coordinating circle and punched 2 holes to make it a button.

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

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Hello everyone Happy Tuesday! Von Marie here and I’m happy to be on the Inspired by…Blog today.  This week our theme is Mittens #IB372 and I love the fun photo.  We also have a great card sketch.  

So I was inspired by the colors in the photo.  I love the sketch too but honestly I just started ink blending on white cardstock using this great stencil set from Pretty Pink Posh that’s a Layered Mittens set that I forgot the sketch..oops but that is okay because either photo or theme or both is perfectly fine.  I used inks like Catherine Pooler Stone Blue, Polished, and Pinkfresh Studio Warm Buff to give me those blues, reds, and beige colors on my 3 piece stencil set.

I also used a Mittens Banner die from jaded Blossom Winter Banner Dies that I cut out with white cardstock.  I ink blended it with the same inks.  It comes with a separate mitten die with stitching so that is what I ink blended.  I stamped a cute sentiment on white cardstock with black ink also using Jaded Blossom called Fuzzy Mittens.  My sentiment was cut and my background was cut to A2 size 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 using my paper trimmer. I cut some gingham ribbon from my stash and grabbed a heart button like the image and some red embroidery thread and hot glued them to my card panel.  I had to dust my hot glue gun as it had been a while since it has been used.  All were glued to a gray A2 card base.  

You still have time to join us!  Just link your card to the Challenge post there is a linky there and if you win your photo will be shared and you can get a badge for your blog.  Every week we have a New challenge and they are so fun!! I can’t wait to see how you are inspired?

Crafty Hugs
Von Marie

This week’s Inspired By challenge had me scrounging through my stamp and die sets to find a bird I wanted to use. It’s always fun to rediscover an item from from my stash that hasn’t been used in a very long time. This set from Paper Smooches called Natural Beauties was not exactly what I had in mind when I started my search but, when I discovered it, I knew I wanted to use it.

Inspiration for this card first came from the little birds on the mittens, then the colors and sketch.

What is it about this week’s challenge that inspires you? Is it the mittens, birds, colors, textures, sketch? We hope you’re inspired to play along. ~MarDi

Oh my so many wonderful cards in the gallery last week it was hard to choose a winner!

Renate

Don’t forget to play along this week!

Sharing my take on this week’s inspiration with a mitten shaped card. I was inspired by the colors and the theme. I love to create shaped cards, always been a favorite of mine. This card was created with https://www.silhouettedesignstore.com/mitten-gingerbread-cookies.html. I only used one, and did an outline shape, duplicated it and then welded it to make the card. I used the remaining pieces for the front. Lori Whitlock’s Echo Park Winter Fun collection was used to complete it.