Inkspirational: August 2025

Saturday, 23 August 2025

Top Picks Challenge #347 and Reminder Post - Challenge #348 - CAS (Optional Twist - Flowers)

Welcome to our two part post.

**First, a reminder that you have until Friday, August 29 at 11:59 pm (GMT) to play in Challenge #348 - CAS (Optional Twist: Flowers) - found HERE.

**Second, the gallery was filled with 15 creative interpretations of the Mood Board. As always, narrowing the field to three Top Picks when the selections are all amazing is difficult but...choose we did.

Our Top Picks:

Deb H

Deb's circles, paired with pretty butterflies, is a wonderful take on the mood board.

Nance

Nance has taken the colours from the mood board and translated them into this delightful quilt and snuggling kitty. Sweet!

Bobby

Bobby's field of wildflowers captures the colours from the mood board beautifully.

Congratulations to our Top Picks; please take your badge.

Saturday, 16 August 2025

Inkspirational Challenge #348 - CAS Optional Twist - Flowers

Welcome to Inkspirational; we're delighted you're joining us.

For the next two weeks, we invite you to play along in our Clean and Simple (CAS) Challenge with the optional twist of Flowers.

To help you out, here's what we'll be looking for on your Clean and Simple designs:

✅ One main focal point

✅ Lots of OPEN space (doesn't 'have' to be white)

✅ Minimal Layers

✅ Minimal Embellishments

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Inspiration from the Design Team:

We look forward to seeing your CAS creations - with or without the twist - in the gallery.

NOTE: In the spirit of being supportive of other challenges, please consider heading over to AAA Cards Challenge and Simply Clean and Simple Challenge where CAS is their specialty. You'll see fabulous inspiration from their teams - as you do with ours. If you decide to join the AAA Cards Challenge, a new one begins on Aug. 17th. At Simply Clean and Simple, the theme is always Anything Goes, with optional twists; they run for a month. If you share at either of these challenges, please be sure to share with us, too

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The Link will be open until August 29 @ 11:59pm (GMT)

We will be back on Saturday, August 23 with a Reminder Post and Top Picks from Challenge #348.

Saturday, 9 August 2025

Top Picks Challenge #346 and Reminder Post - Challenge #347 - Mood Board

Welcome to our two part post.

**First, a reminder that you have until Friday, August 15 at 11:59 pm (GMT) to play in Challenge #347 - Mood Board - found HERE.

**Second, the gallery was filled with 61 delightful birthday cards/projects. Plenty of people celebrating birthdays will be smiling when these wonderful cards arrive in their mailboxes. Once again, narrowing the field to three Top Picks was a challenge, so we opted for four!

Our Top Picks:

Helen

Helen's watercolour flowers are ever so lovely; a pretty field of blooms to celebrate a birthday.

Steph

Steph has created a beautiful window scene with her pretty plants and lovely blue sky view.

Denise

Denise's silhouette images of football/soccer players paired with the postage background scenes is nothing short of masculine marvelous. Perfect for a sports-loving guy.

Sharon

Sharon's hedgehog, speeding along to deliver birthday balloons and wishes, is adorable - and all more sweet in that the colours match those found on her patterned paper background.

Congratulations to our Top Picks; please take your badge.

Saturday, 2 August 2025

Inkspirational Challenge #347 - Mood Board

Welcome to Inkspirational Challenge #347; we're delighted you're joining us.

For the next two weeks, we invite you to draw inspiration from the mood board below.

So much to dive into with this image: from the dreamy colours to a fun layout, to techniques like ink smooshing, splattering or painting. Think textures, circles and even the warm, dreamy vibe that hints at sunrises or sunsets... and that’s just the beginning!