Top Picks - Grunge 7/25

Current challenge HERE.

Thank you to all those who played along in our Grunge challenge! What a great challenge from our design team member, Sandie! Here are our top picks:

Wei Wei

 

Wei Wei’s card is just stunning with her skillful ink work and bold color choices!

Tanja

 

Tanja created a beautiful, grunge background for this card! We love the overall design and the unique image!

Becca

 We feel that Becca perfectly captured the spirit of grunge with her card! The bright sunflowers look fantastic against all the distressing and embossing.

Congratulations to our top picks!

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Challenge #87 - Kraft

Welcome back. This week we have a colour challenge - anything goes with kraft.

Let's meet our fabulous Guest Designer -

Bobby 

I'm honored and excited to be guest designing at Inspirational. My paper crafting journey has been a long and varied one.  I started with scrapbooking almost 20 years ago, using digital images from PC Crafter, and then a Cricut.  While researching my Cricut online, I found the cardmaking world and was hooked.  I started my blog 4 years ago to share my cards and with the inspiration of other bloggers and challenges, I delved into stamps, inks, embossing, watercoloring and other techniques.  The friends I have made in Blogland are some of the best, always so kind with their comments and help.  I named my blog "Bits and Pieces" because I am also a quilter and used to do mosaic, which means most of my crafting uses bits and pieces of paper, fabric or china.

Here are some ideas from the Design Team: 

Pia

Marina 

Sandie

Kim

Shauna

Carol

Yvonne

(Pop by her blog after Monday evening, as she has no wi-fi right now!)

Nonni

We will be choosing  a top pick/s from this challenge and inviting one entrant to join us as a Guest Designer. 

We're sorry that we may not be able to comment on cards that are uploaded to galleries where we have to register to comment (eg Splitcoast Stampers), or where word verification is enabled. When we can view your card, however, we will still consider it for our top picks.

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Top Picks #85 - "wild"

Current challenge HERE.

Thank you to all those who played along with us in our "Wild" word challenge! Such an array of interpretations! Here are our top picks:

Hannelie

We loved Hannelie's clean design with the wild colored gecko! Such a fun card!

Kim

 This yeti is cute, darling, and certainly "wild"! Plus the shaker card design is great!

Maura

Maura's savanna scene is so beautifully executed! Beautiful use of color and a great sentiment!

Congratulations to our top picks!

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Challenge #86 Designer's Choice - Grunge

Welcome back. This week our challenge has been chosen by our DT member, Sandie , and the theme is Grunge. 

Here are some guidelines: Grunge is characterized by distressed, worn-out elements and the use of subtle or earthy colours. Think torn edges, textured backgrounds, 'dirty' appearance, splatters, stains, even hand-drawn lines. That said, grunge doesn't always mean "dirty" or subdued colours. A card can have subtle grunge elements in light or soft ink and yet still look clean and simple. Just think of grunge as theopposite of "polished". 

Please welcome our talented Guest Designer: 

Ashwini

Hi, I am Ashwini. A software engineer by profession. I started my card making journey is something I discovered just a year ago (yup, I am very very new to card making!!) when my sister pointed me to Pinterest (yeah..even that's new for me!). I saw the many cards there and I got instantly addicted! 

For a novice like me, when even winning one of the Inkspirational challenge came as a surprise, being asked to be a Guest Designer came as nothing less than a shock - so, thanks a lot Marina, for providing the great opportunity!! To all the participants - best of luck! This is a great challenge to participate in, and I hope you find fun and inspiration and keep coming back for more!

Here's what the DT have made: 

Sandie

Shauna

Marina

Yvonne

 

 Pia

Kim

Carol

Nonni

We will be choosing  a top pick/s from this challenge and inviting one entrant to join us as a Guest Designer. 

We're sorry that we may not be able to comment on cards that are uploaded to galleries where we have to register to comment (eg Splitcoast Stampers), or where word verification is enabled. When we can view your card, however, we will still consider it for our top picks.

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