Welcome to Inspired By Challenge #IB404! 🍓

This week’s inspiration has such a sweet vintage feel! From the stacks of old-fashioned kitchenware and gingham fabrics to the strawberries, florals and pretty shades of red and green, there are so many little details to inspire a card.

Will you be inspired by the vintage kitchen theme, the gingham patterns, the strawberries, the soft red and sage colour palette, or the three horizontal layers in the sketch? You could keep it wonderfully vintage or take just one little element and create something completely different!

Here’s how the design team was inspired:

Kelly Schirmer

Cathy Harper

Von Marie

Amy Tsuruta

MarDi

Laurel Seabrook

We can’t wait to see what you create! Join us for #IB404 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 see and enjoy your interpretation too! 

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Hi, it’s @craftee1 Amy with my card that was inspired by the current challenge: Ice Cream Cones.

I combined the following goodies:

🍦 Spellbinders – Summertime Wade Pool | die
🍦 Spellbinders – Waffle Cone | 3D embossing folder
🍦 Pretty Pink Posh – Fruit Mug Additions | die
🍦 Pretty Pink Posh – Sentiment Strips, Summer | stamp

I had so much fun putting this one together. Of course, I had to add the little fruit! Can you guess the ice cream flavors?

YES, those sweet cones can dance! ‎‧₊˚✧🪩✧˚₊‧

We’re going old school interactive with this design. Do you all still have those self-adhesive foam circles that are like 1 inch tall?

Yeah, same. 😂

Turns out they’re PERFECT for making these cones dance!

Also, did I tell you I got a soft serve machine for my birthday?! Eeeep! I’m hoping to dive into that this weekend.

Now I need to know…

🍦 Soft serve or scooped ice cream?

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Hello everyone.  Von Marie here today and I’m so excited for the Inspired By Blog Challenge this week. Ice Cream Cones #IB403 is the theme and the colors and card sketch are so much fun. 

Let’s Get Started:

I was so excited to use this Ice Cream set I had ordered months ago from Scrapbook.com called Handful of Sweetness. I was inspired by the colors, theme, and Card sketch.

Since this set I used doesn’t have a cone per say it does have a cone die to add it to your ice cream scoop.So I made a waffle cone cup. I cut out 5-6 of those using the waffle die on white cardstock and ink blended with Walnut Stain Distress ink. I cut out 3 scoops for the 3 colors on the Inspiration photo. I also cut out a cup and die-cut for the top of the cup All cut out with white cardstock. I ink blended the scoops with Squeezed Lemonade Distress ink, Picked Raspberry Distress ink, and Salty Ocean Distress ink. The cup was ink blended with Antique Linen Distress ink. Lid die-cut was inked with Picked Raspberry Distress ink .

I used the coordinating Pattern Paper Pad Sugar Rush 4.25 x 5.5. It has solids too. So good. I cut 3 strips approx. 1/4 and a A2 pattern paper panel out. I glued everything to a A2 pink card base and cut out a scalloped circle from purple pattern paper using the Handful of Sweetness Die set. The “yum” word die was cut out with white cardstock. Sentiment was inked with VersaFine Clair Baby Pink ink using Sugar Rush Stamp and Dies set. I layered it on an extra die-cut. That finishes my card. I had so much fun making this card.

It’s your turn how are you inspired?  Every Thursday starts a New Challenge. Share in the FB group too!

Crafty Hugs

Von Marie

This week’s challenge #IB403 is so incredibly sweet! Ice Cream Cones is the theme and the colors in the inspiration photo are so bright and cheerful.

I don’t know about you, but I’m crazy about ice cream. I can’t keep it in my house because I’m too tempted by it. However, occasionally by husband and I will dash to Handel’s for a scoop. He is very particular and usually chooses the same few flavors. I love ALL ice cream and can never decide if I want to go with something chocolate/caramel/coffee or something fruity/tropical. Mint Chocolate Chip is also never far from my mind. I recently tried black raspberry ice cream with chocolate truffle bits and I thought I went to heaven.

My card was obviously inspired by the ice cream cones, but also the colors and the sketch.

I used Papertrey Ink Sweet Americana Dies for the ice cream cones and dolloped them with whip cream from an older Spellbinders set called Have Your Cake. The lemon slice and strawberry are from this set as well but the blueberries are buds from a recent Papertrey Ink Into the Blooms set.

I used patterned paper scraps for all my pieces except the leaves and whipped cream. I kept the background very clean and used a Cuttlebug embossing folder for the dots because it made me think of the pom poms in the inspiration photo. This card has a summer vibe but ice cream is an essential treat year round!

We can’t wait to see how you are inspired! I hope you have as much fun as I did. ~MarDi

A few Halloween cards popped up last week, I am definitely ready to start creating fall and winter cards. But this lovely card has me enjoying my own flowers for a little longer

Jennie M

Such a lovely card. I love the flowers and the texture! Congratulations!

Don’t forget to play along this week

Ice cream cones, rainbow colors, and pom poms? Yes, please! This Inspired By photo is for the birthday party of my dreams! Being born in December, my cakes always seemed to have a little more red and green sneak in than rainbow bright colors, haha!

I used The Greetery’s “What’s the Scoop?” set along with items from the “Hey Honeycomb” suite of products including the “Basics” die set, “Summer” sentiments, “Ice Cream Cone” die set, and the “Tri-Color Tropics” honeycomb balls (with a teeny cherry red pom pom glued on top)!

I also used a “Double Z Fold” card-making technique by Susan Campfield on YouTube. It provided plenty of room for all of the details including many patterns and colors from this paper collection called “Sweet Summertime” from Simple Stories.

We hope you get a chance to play along with us this week! Thanks so much for stopping by!

Hey everyone, it has been a busy week around here with getting a heat pump installed. I didn’t get as much crafty time as I wanted but sure am grateful for the coolness. Of course, that doesn’t mean ice cream isn’t a cooling down option LOL

For this week’s challenge I was inspired by the theme and colours.

The colours in the Craft Room Collection from Echo Park and since the inspiration photo uses pompoms I thought this collection was perfect… so I used it I paired it with the One Scoop at a Time Unity stamp. I stamped on some of the pattern papers, cut out and mounted on foam squares. I then just added the border sticker to the top and bottom. 

Can’t wait to see how you are inspired!

Welcome to Inspired By Challenge #IB403! 🍦

This week’s inspiration is sweet, colourful, and full of possibilities! These whimsical ice cream cones are overflowing with bright pom-poms in pink, yellow, aqua and just about every cheerful colour you can imagine.

Will you be inspired by the ice cream theme, all those fun little circles, the waffle-cone texture, the bright colour combination, or the three-panel sketch? You could even swap the ice cream for flowers, balloons or another trio of images and make the sketch completely your own!

Check out how the design team was inspired.

Kelly Schirmer

Von Marie

Laurel Seabrook

MarDi

Amy Tsuruta

Now it is your turn. We can’t wait to see what you create! Join us for #IB403 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 see and enjoy your interpretation too! 🍦🩷💛🩵

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Hello, it’s Amy @craftee1.  Today’s card was inspired by this week’s sketch:

Merry Mail coming at you via the gorgeous Spellbinders Dear Santa 2026 Collection.

My card duo features:

✨ Dear Santa Postage Stamp | Washi Tape
✨ Dear Santa 12×12 | Paper Pack
✨ Dear Santa Festive Floral Mix | Dies

I also squeezed in the sentiment from the previously released:

✨ Christmas Cracker Etched Dies by Yana Smakula

Let’s chat about the new Dear Santa Collection → SO CUTE. Good grief, the possibilities are endless!

But I need to specifically call out the Dear Santa Postage Stamp Washi Tape because GUYS…do you know one of my biggest pet peeves? Washi tape that sticks to itself and refuses to come off the roll properly.

What’s the point of finding cute washi when you have to fight with the stuff and end up completely frustrated?

This washi is GOOD. It comes off the roll like a breeze but sticks beautifully to the cardstock. No wrestling required.

I mixed in ColorWheel Blush + Gold cardstock for a little extra holiday sparkle.

One card is A2 and the other is 3.5 x 5.5 and BOTH are postal friendly.

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

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Hello everyone. Von Marie I’m so excited for the fun New Challenge this week, it’s Caterpillar. I love the Photo inspiration too. I hope you join us, you have less than a week. New challenges start every Thursday.

Let’s Get Started:

So, I was inspired by the colors and the card sketch. I went halloween on this challenge. I grabbed a green A2 cardstock card base from Hero Arts. Next, I cut out some squares from Solid, pattern, and ink blended cardstock.  The ink blended cardstock is inked with Catherine Pooler Eucalyptus and Peeled Paint Distress ink. The stitched square die I used is from the Not 2 Shabby Shop EZ Wonder Die #3 Add On.

The word and shadow die is I used is from Whimsy Stamps I love the 3 layers. I also used Whimsy Stamps for the secondary pre-printed sentiment from the Grunge Ghosts A2 Quick Card Fronts. I cut out my sentiment from a Fishtail banner die from MFT Stamps. The cute Halloween stickers Mini Icons are from Booville by Doodlebug Design. All was glued to my A2 card base. So much fun. 

Now it’s your turn! How are you inspired? Share your card in our FB group too.

Crafty Hugs

Von Marie