Sunday, January 31, 2021

Winners...Inspired By heartfelt thanks

   We are back with winners from Inspired By Challenge: Heartfelt Thanks

Join us on Instagram  Please use hashtag #inspiredbylaurel and tag us @inspiredbychallenges!

Sandi

The Heartfelt Thanks challenge gallery is filled with the cutest ideas for heart cards. Thank you for the inspiration again this week, so many fun ideas for 
  Sending and delivering hugs.

The winner of the Heartfelt Thanks challenge are these 
adorable bucket cards from Julia.
Her adorable cards for her nieces and nephews are full of love.  You can't help but imagine their faces as they open them up.  We love how you incorporated the hearts into a bucket full of them!  Thank you for inspiring us this week, we can't wait to see more of your cards!

The honorable mention of the Heartfelt Thanks challenge is this awesome XOXO card from Giovana.  Her design, interpreting this week's sketch, is so awesome!  We love her different sizes and patterns of hearts and all the added elements are so pretty.  Thank you for inspiring us this week, we can't wait to see more of your cards!

Congratulations Julia and Giovana!
We can't wait to see more of your cards!

We hope you'll join us in this week's challenge: Tweet Messages



Thursday, January 28, 2021

Inspired By tweet messages


       Sending and delivering hugs, one card at a time...

We look forward to seeing how the photo inspiration will inspire your paper hug this week!

                                   

How are you inspired? 

 bird with florals? sentiment? patterns? splatters? 
colors? love? messages?

We welcome your submissions for this challenge until Wednesday, February 3, 11:55pm pst. The winner of each challenge
 will be announced on the 
Sunday after the new challenge opens.

Check out how the amazing team was inspired this week.





 
This week's sketch
(You do NOT have to use the colors in the sketch and you can use any shape to create the elements in the sketch)




Now we'd love to see your cards, layouts, or projects and 
how you were inspired this week.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Sunday, January 24, 2021

Winners...Inspired By everything is a-bouquet

  We are back with winners from Inspired By Challenge: Everything is A-Bouquet

Join us on Instagram  Please use hashtag #inspiredbylaurel and tag us @inspiredbychallenges!

Sandi

The Everything is A-Bouquet challenge gallery is filled with the prettiest flower cards! Thank you for the inspiration again this week, so many fun ideas for 
Sending and delivering hugs.

The winner of the Everything is A-Bouquet challenge is this absolutely gorgeous card from Caroline.
Her card combined the colors from the challenge graphic and the rows in her background so perfectly, stunning card and sure to make her birthday recipient's heart fill with joy!


The honorable mention of the Everything is A-Bouquet challenge is this
 creative and pretty card from Janet.  Her design, delicate flowers, and beautiful shades of blue in her bouquet are so inspiring!

Congratulations Caroline and Janet!
We can't wait to see more of your cards!

We hope you'll join us in this week's challenge: Heartfelt Thanks




Thursday, January 21, 2021

Inspired By...heartfelt thanks

Sending and delivering hugs, one card at a time...

We look forward to seeing how the photo inspiration will inspire your paper hug this week!  


How are you inspired? 

hearts? sentiment? woodgrain? patterns? texture? colors? 

We welcome your submissions for this challenge until Wednesday, January 27, 11:55pm pst. The winner of each challenge
 will be announced on the 
Sunday after the new challenge opens.


Check out how the amazing team was inspired this week.



 









This week's sketch
(You do NOT have to use the colors in the sketch and you can use any shape to create the elements in the sketch)



Now we'd love to see your cards, layouts, or projects and 
how you were inspired this week.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter


Sunday, January 17, 2021

Winners...Inspired By let's cele-bear-ate

 We are back with winners from Inspired By Challenge: Let's Cele-bear-ate

Join us on Instagram  Please use hashtag #inspiredbylaurel and tag us @inspiredbychallenges!

Sandi

The Let's Cele-bear-ate challenge gallery is filled with the cutest bear cards and cards interpreting the sketch! Thank you for the inspiration again this week, so many fun ideas for Sending and delivering hugs.

The winner of the Let's Cele-bear-ate challenge is this absolutely adorable card from Vicky.
Her card has so many elements from the challenge photo, but to create them, she masked, drew, designed, snipped, and YES, turned a cup upside down, that's inspiring for sure!  Everything about your card stretches the imagination and fun of creating and sending paper hugs, thank you for sharing with us.


The honorable mention of the Let's Cele-bear-ate challenge is this
 creative and fun card from Tonil
Her sweet, wintery scene, and adorable bear with his argyle cup, 
feel a bit like a cherished advertisement, a warm, welcome feeling.


Congratulations Vicky and Toni!
We can't wait to see more of your cards!

We hope you'll join us in this week's challenge: Everything is a-bouquet


Thursday, January 14, 2021

Inspired by...everything is a-bouquet

  Good morning everyone!  
With the new year, we are excited to welcome a couple of new designers. We are VERY excited to welcome the incredibly talented Cindy Beach and Silke Ledlow to the team.  

Cindy has a fresh, creative, fun style, and her use of color is so inspiring!  We look forward to her gorgeous, creative ideas here on the blog. 


Silke creates gorgeous stamped cards, filled with color and fun design ideas.  We look forward to her wonderful, inspiring cards on the blog!


Welcome to the team Cindy and Silke, we are so excited to create alongside you!
 
Are you ready to begin a new year of challenges? We are, let's get started... 

Sending and delivering hugs, one card at a time...
We look forward to seeing how the photo inspiration will inspire your paper hug this week!  



How are you inspired? 
  colors? flowers? bouquets? rows?
 
 The sketch, as always, is at the bottom of the post.  

We welcome your submissions for this challenge until Wednesday, January 20, 11:55pm PST. The winner of each challenge will be announced on Sunday after the new challenge opens.

Check out how the amazing team was inspired this week.


 












This week's sketch
(please see left sidebar if you have questions on how to use the sketch)

Danni Reid

Now we'd love to see your cards, layouts, or projects and 
how you were inspired this week.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Thursday, January 7, 2021

Inspired By let's cele-bear-ate

  Good morning everyone!  Happy New Year!  Welcome to the first of the 2021 season of Inspired By challenges!  The team hopes your year will be filled with crafty goodness, and you'll play along in good health, and good cheer!  
Speaking of good cheer... we look forward to sharing some awesome news in next week's challenge post, stay tuned.

 Sending and delivering hugs, one card at a time...
We look forward to seeing how the photo inspiration will inspire your paper hug this week!  

 could this guy be any cuter??
 The sketch, as always, is at the bottom of the post.  

We welcome your submissions for this challenge until Wednesday, January 13, 11:55pm PST. The winner of each challenge will be announced on Sunday after the new challenge opens.

How are you inspired? 
  colors? bears? cele-bear-ation? winter? stripes? the sketch?   

Check out how the amazing team was inspired this week:

Michele Ferguson


 






This week's sketch
(please see left sidebar if you have questions on how to use the sketch)

Now we'd love to see your cards, layouts, or projects and 
how you were inspired this week.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Sunday, January 3, 2021

Winners... Inspired By Goodbye 2020

 We are back with winners from Inspired By Challenge: Goodbye 2020

Join us on Instagram  Please use hashtag #inspiredbylaurel and tag us @inspiredbychallenges!

Sandi

The Goodbye 2020 challenge gallery is filled with creative new year card ideas.  All of the members each week are so very talented and inspiring, the galleries are filled with fun techniques, designs, and ideas! 

One of the winners of the Goodbye 2020 challenge is this beautiful card from Rosemary
Her card is such a fun interpretation of the challenge and is so beautiful with all the silver and her awesome clockface. 


As one of the winners of this challenge, you have also won this wonderful prize from  DT Michele.  Please see the sidebar to email Danni your email information so we can get your prize to you.

Since this was a two-week, end of the year challenge, we wanted to choose two inspiring cards.  The second card selected this week, is this awesome card from Kate.  Her card has so many beautiful layers and her "faux embossing" adds so much.  This is such a beautiful card to welcome 2021!

As one of the winners of this challenge, you have won the stamp set below.  Please see the sidebar to email Danni your email information so we can get your prize to you.

Congratulations Rosemary and Kate!
We can't wait to see more of your cards!

We will be back on Thursday, January 7th, with our first challenge of 2021.  We can't wait to see how you're inspired this week!