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This week’s Inspired By Challenge celebrates the soft beauty of springtime in bloom! 🌼 Fresh yellow blossoms, delicate greenery, and a charming teapot vase create a scene that feels light, airy, and full of new beginnings. The gentle palette of soft mint, sunshine yellow, and earthy green brings a sense of calm while still feeling bright and cheerful.

Will it be the fresh spring colors, the delicate flowers, or the unique teapot arrangement that sparks your creativity? Perhaps the clean, minimal styling or the simple shapes will inspire your design.

However you interpret it, let this fresh and cheerful image guide your project and bring a little springtime inspiration to your craft table!

Join the fun with #IB378 and be sure to tag your creations with #inspiredbychallenge so we can see what inspires you! 🌿✨

Von Marie

MarDi

Kelly Schirmer

Cathy Harper

Amy Tsuruta

Laurel Seabrook

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My project was inspired by the newest Inspired by Challenge: Sweet Caterpillar

I was inspired by the theme and loosely by the sketch. My card features the following products:

• Pixi Dust Designs – You’re A-Dough-Rable | dies
• Picket Fence Studios – Hello 3.0 Word Topper | dies
• Spellbinders – Nested Postage Labels & Tag | dies
• Daiso – Pink Felt
• Pretty Pink Posh – Be Mine | shaker beads

There’s lots of texture on this one!

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

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Hello everyone.  Von Marie here and I’m so excited to be on the blog today with the New Inspired by…Challenge Sweet caterpillar #IB375. And New Card Sketch too.  

Let’s Get Started:

I was inspired by the photo with the donuts,  caterpillar, colors, and the pink foil. I didn’t attempt the card sketch today but it is really fun.

I looked in my stash and could not find a caterpillar image so I chose to make a donuts caterpillar like the photo.  I used a stamp and die set from Honey Bee stamps called Love You S’more. I stamped a bunch of donut images with Memento tuxedo ink on Neenah Solar White 110 lb. and colored them with my Copic alcohol markers. I tried to do pink, white, and brown donuts like the photo.  A Little Donut Fact-I love donuts Apple Fritters are my favorite and Cinnamon Rolls are my next favorite.  I cut out all my donuts with the coordinating die.

 I cut out some branches for the legs for my donuts caterpillar using a Lawn Fawn Pivot Pop Up Die Set.  I cut them out with a cream colored cardstock and inked them with Vintage Photo Distress ink.  I cut a gold foil strip from a Michaels 12 x 12 Specialty paper pad, I didn’t curl it as I wanted my card flat but I do love it curled on the photo.  I got out my googly eyes and also made a woodgrain layer to lay my donuts caterpillar on just using kraft cardstock and Vintage Photo ink, just swiping the ink pad on to my cardstock. I also stamped a sentiment from the same stamp set with black ink on white cardstock.  I used the die to cut out more die-cuts to layer my sentiment on to.  I then glued everything to a gray mat layer 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 and then to a matching A2 card base.  I had fun making this card.  I think it’s cute for kids to make too.  

You still have time to join us!

How to participate: 

How to join this challenge? Create a card inspired by the photo or Card Sketch or both.  Link your card to the Inspired By..Blog. Every Thursday starts a New challenge so you have less than a week to link up your card.  Show us your card in our FB group too.  We would love to see. 

Crafty Hugs

Von Marie

Sweet Caterpillar is the theme this week, so what image does that evoke in your mind? I don’t think my first thought would be donuts but they certainly do make a cute caterpillar as they are displayed in the inspiration photo. This one stumped me a little at first but once the wheels started turning, I had a lot of fun coming up with my A6 card design. Inspiration came from the sweet donuts, whimsical caterpillar, and the sketch. As you can see, my caterpillar has morphed into a darling little butterfly, ready to consume these delicious donuts.

To create my card, I used Pink and Main Box of Donuts Dies, Whimsy Stamps Beecause stamp set, Catherine Pooler Small Doily Die and Sweet word die, and the hope your birthday is was taken from an MFT Stamps sentiment set.

We would really like to see how this theme, photo, or sketch has inspired you to create. We hope you’ll join us this week. Happy crafting! ~MarDi

Thank you for playing along last week. As a tea drinker I really loved seeing the variations of the tea theme in the gallery! Truth be told though, I like my tea in a big mug LOL real tea cups are much too dainty for my big hands 😉

Wanda Cullen

The beautiful colors and those gorgeous flowers kept drawing me in! How pretty! Congratulations Wanda! Hope you play along again!

Don’t forget to play along this week!

Happy Saturday everyone! What a fun challenge this one is! It took me a bit to come up with an idea for this one. All I could see was the caterpillar and I just had nothing that would work with it. A friend took one peek and found the perfect SVG file from Doodlebug. I turned it into a shaped card which are some of my favorites to create. All those little sprinkles took me just a bit to glue on…but oh so cute. We can’t wait to see what you create! ~Cathy

When I saw this week’s challenge I knew it would be a good excuse to use my new Pink and Main Box of Donuts Dies. thus I was inspired by the donuts 😊 I had fun putting this together as it gave me an excuse to use some of my beads and confetti that has been sitting in my stash just waiting for the right project.

Can’t wait to see how you are inspired!

This week’s Inspired By Challenge is a colorful celebration of sweets, smiles, and imagination! 🍩🐛 With its sprinkle-covered donut “body,” googly-eyed face, and pretzel stick legs, this whimsical caterpillar is too cute to eat—but perfect for sparking creativity! 🎉

Will you take inspiration from the candy-colored sprinkles, the bold party vibes, or the charming bug-eyed expression? Maybe it’s the layered look, the circular shapes, or the joyful feeling that catches your eye.

Whether you go bright and bold or soft and sweet, we can’t wait to see how this sugary little critter inspires your design!

Join us for #IB377 — and don’t forget to tag your creations with #inspiredbychallenge so we can cheer you on! 💕

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:

Von Marie

Kelly Schirmer

Laurel Seabrook

MarDi

Cathy Harper: Inspired By… Sweet Caterpillar

Amy Tsuruta

Now it is your turn, can’t wait to see what you create.

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My project was inspired by the newest Inspired by Challenge: Tea Garden

I was inspired by the theme and loosely by the sketch. My card features the following products by Concord & 9th:

• Afternoon Tea | stamp
• Afternoon Tea | die
• Berries and Jam | stamp
• Quilted Card Front | die
• Pink Lemonade | cardstock + Ink
• Spiced Cider | ink
• Avocado | ink
• Honeycomb | ink
• Nutmeg | ink

I love that sentiment from the Berries and Jam set.

The sentiment has been stamped in Avocado on a Pink Lemonade cardstock strip.

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