Winners...Inspired By IB181 Fintastic Birthday

           We are back with winners from IB181 Challenge: Fintastic Birthday

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It was a lot of fun seeing ideas from our members this week for IB181 & IB181C. Everyone is so talented and it is so fun to see where the inspiration will take you! It is also fun to see the Christmas inspiration being shared, it will make sending and delivering paper hugs a lot easier at Christmas time (a very busy time of year for all of us)! 

The winner, chosen by a DT member, of the Fintastic Birthday challenge is this incredible card from Elizabeth.  We love her interpretation of the challenge and love the surprise through her portholes.  Imagine "sea-ing" this card in person (sorry had to), what an incredible paper hug it would be!  Thank you for inspiring us this week to "dive deeper" and "tri-open" something new :) 

 

The honorable mention, chosen by a DT member, of the Fintastic Birthday challenge is this CUTE card(s) from Nancy.  She created two of the cutest cards for Christmas, and this just feels like Christmas in August!  Thank you for inspiring us this week!

  

 Congratulations Elizabeth and Nancy!

We can't wait to see more of your cards!

We hope you'll join us in this week's challenge: MIC.KEY m.o.u.s.e

  

Inspired By...IB182 MIC.KEY m.o.u.s.e

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

We are introducing a new annual feature to the challenge blog from August-December.  We know that there are a lot of amazing sites to choose from when seeking inspiration, and we ALL only have so much time in any given week to create.  We want to offer challenges that will spark an idea for a card for any occasion you may need, but also spark an idea for a Christmas/Holiday card for your friends, co-workers or loved ones.  It is so busy from July-December, we want to encourage you to create/work "smarter not harder" (insert big smiley face), and if our challenges can give you inspiration for both, maybe you will have inspiration to motivate ALL of us to have some handmade Christmas/Holiday cards or tags come Holiday time!  

So,  each week we can't wait to see if you are inspired by the photo "IB" challenge, the Christmas/Holiday photo "IBC" challenge, or the sketch (you can use the sketch ANY way you like, and we have great sketch interpreters among us!)

Ready to take a look at the photos? (As always, the sketch is at the end of the inspiration from the DT).

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                  How are you inspired this week?  Are you inspired to create a card inspired                          by the IB photo or are you inspired to attempt the IBC photo?  And                maybe you love sketches, and will be inspired to interpret the Sketch below?  We                                                                          can't wait to see!

                          Colors? Mouse? Mickey? Mickey's Clothes? Cookies? Sketch? Minnie? 

                               Christmas/Holiday?Balloons? Kids' Birthday? Disney?

            We welcome your submissions for this challenge until Wednesday, August 18th, 11:55pm pst. The winner of each challenge is announced on                   Sunday after the new challenge opens.

Here is how our IB team was inspired this week:

Danni Reid

IB182

 

Danni Reid

IB182C

 

Michele Ferguson

Laurel Seabrook 

Lisa Elton

Cindy Beach

 

LeAnne Pugliese

Silke Ledlow

#IB182 C 

This week's sketch

(You can use any shape to create the elements in the sketch, for additional questions regarding sketch, please see sidebar)

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

Inspired By...IB181 Fintastic Birthday

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

                    We are so excited to be back and creating paper hugs!  We have spent July with family and friends, and are ready to be back at our desks creating with                                                             all of you! 

We are introducing a new annual feature to the challenge blog from August-December .  We know that there are a lot of amazing sites to choose from when seeking inspiration, and we ALL only have so much time in any given week to create.  We want to offer challenges that will spark an idea for a card for any occasion you may need, but also spark an idea for a Christmas/Holiday card for your friends, co-workers or loved ones.  It is so busy from July-December, we want to encourage you to create/work "smarter not harder" (insert big smiley face), and if our challenges can give you inspiration for both, maybe you will have inspiration to motivate ALL of us to have some handmade Christmas/Holiday cards or tags come Holiday time!  

So,  each week we can't wait to see if you are inspired by the photo "IB" challenge, the Christmas/Holiday photo "IBC" challenge, or the sketch (you can use the sketch ANY way you like, and we have great sketch interpreters among us!)

Ready for the first peek at the photos? (As always, the sketch is at the end of the inspiration from the DT).

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                                                          How are you inspired this week?

                        Colors? Kids' Birthday? Tropical Santa? Tropical? Sharks? Fish? Ocean                                                  Theme? Sketch? Tropical Christmas/Holiday?

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

Here is how our IB team was inspired this week:

Danni Reid

IB181

Danni Reid

IB181C

Michele Ferguson

Cindy Beach

LeAnne Pugliese

Laurel Seabrook

Lisa Elton

Silke Ledlow

This week's sketch

(You can use any shape to create the elements in the sketch, for additional questions regarding sketch, please see sidebar)

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