Inkspirational Challenge #341 - Designer's Choice - HOT

 Welcome to Inkspirational and thank you for joining us.

For the next two weeks, Marlena has selected HOT as her Designer's Choice inspiration. Hot weather, hot beverages, hot foods, hot locations, hot colours, hot product trends, hot images (fire, sun, fashion)...plenty of directions to take this one.

Inspiration from the Design Team:

Marlena

Julia

Carol

Pia 

We're looking forward to seeing some HOT creativity in the gallery!

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The Link will be open until Friday, May 23 @ 11:59pm (GMT)

We will be back on Saturday, May 17, with a Reminder Post and Top Picks for Challenge #340.

Top Picks Challenge #339 and Reminder Post - Challenge #340 - Mood Board - Seasonal

 Welcome to our two part post.

**First, a reminder that you have until Friday, May 9 at 11:59 pm (GMT) to play in Challenge #340 - Seasonal - found HERE.

**Second, the gallery was filled with 24 wonderful interpretations of Challenge #339's Mood Board. As always, narrowing the field to three Top Picks is a challenge.

Our Top Picks:

Trina

Trina's bunny and eggs make for an adorable card; a charming take on the mood board.

Maria

Maria's shaker captured colours/shapes from the mood board in a fun fashion.

Hanneke

Hanneke's trio of eggs, nestled atop an embossed background, is a delightful CAS take on the mood board.

Congratulations to our Top Picks; please take your badge.

Inkspirational Challenge #340 - Seasonal

Welcome back to Inkspirational; thank you for joining us.

For the next two weeks, we invite you to draw inspiration from our SEASONAL-themed Challenge. 

Here's a quick description of the challenge:

We invite you to consider the four seasons - Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter - and create cards/projects based on occasions +  images that are 'specific' to those seasons.
For instance:

• Spring: Mother's Day, Easter, flowers, etc.
• Summer: summer vacations, school's out, weddings, beaches, Fourth of July, Canada Day, etc.
• Fall: harvest, Thanksgiving, Halloween, Remembrance Day, etc.
• Winter: Christmas, Hanukkah, winter activities.

These are just a few ideas to get you started; the team also has some fabulous inspiration for you.

Inspiration from the Design Team:

Marlena

Julia

Carol

Pia 

What season + occasion will you share with us? 

Looking forward to seeing you in the gallery.

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The Link will be open until Friday, May 9 @ 11:59pm (GMT)

We will be back on Saturday, May 3 with a Reminder Post and Top Picks from Challenge #339.

Top Picks Challenge #338 and Reminder Post - Challenge #339 - Mood Board - Decorated Eggs

  Welcome to our two part post.

**First, a reminder that you have until Friday, April 25 at 11:59 pm (GMT) to play in Challenge #339 - Mood Board - found HERE.

**Second, the gallery was filled with an assortment (37, to be precise) of cards featuring delightful images and the required prompt of using Two or More SentimentS. Indeed, we couldn't narrow the field down to three Top Picks, so we went with four!  

Our Top Picks:

Jolanda

Birgit

Deborah

Allisa

Fabulous cards; fabulous two or more sentiments!

Congratulations to our Top Picks; please take your badge.

Inkspirational Challenge #339 - Mood Board - Decorated Eggs

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

For the next two weeks, we invite you to draw inspiration from the decorated eggs image you see below.  Since Easter falls on April 20th, it makes complete sense that you may want to create a card/project with an Easter theme or Easter vibe. Alternatively, you may lean towards colours, ovals/shapes or even the intricate designs on the eggs. Perhaps the sprig of greenery catches your eye. Plenty of opportunities in this rather simple board...and we can't wait to see what you'll share in the gallery. 

Inspiration from the Design Team:

Julia

Marlena

Carol

Pia 

Looking forward to seeing how the Mood Board inspires you.

The Link will be open until April 25 @ 11:59pm (GMT).

We will be back on Saturday, April 19, with a Reminder Post and Top Picks for Challenge #338.

Top Picks Challenge #337 and Reminder Post - Challenge #338 - Word Prompt - Sentiments - Use 2 or More

 Welcome to our two part post.

**First, a reminder that you have until Friday, April 11 at 11:59 pm (GMT) to play in Challenge #338 - Word Prompt - SENTIMENTS - Use 2 or More - found HERE.

**Second, Challenge #337 had a small number of entries with each and every one a Sports-themed delight. As always, selecting Top Picks is difficult but three in particular caught our eyes.

Our Top Picks:

Betta Scrap

 

Betta's marathon-themed explosion box card captures many aspects of her running friend's passion. Absolutely fabulous!

Julie

Julie's silhouette golfer certainly speaks to 'sport' and works wonderfully as a retirement card. 

Judy

From the images, to the colouring, to the shaker element, Judy's basketball card is most certainly sports-themed. 

Congratulations to our Top Picks; please take your badge.

Inkspirational Challenge #338 - Word Prompt - Sentiments - Use 2 or More

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

For the next two weeks (March 29 - April 11), we invite you to join us for Challenge #338 , where our Word Prompt is SENTIMENTS. Please notice the underlined S.at the end of the word because we want to see 2 or more SENTIMENTS on your cards/projects. Easy, right? Right!

Inspiration from the Design Team:

Julia

Marlena

Carol

Pia 

 

We're looking forward to seeing your Two or More Sentiments cards/projects in the gallery.

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The Link will be open until Friday, April 11 @ 11:59pm (GMT)

We will be back on Saturday, April 5th with a Reminder Post and Top Picks from Challenge #337.
 

Top Picks Challenge #336 and Reminder Post - Challenge #337 - Designer's Choice - SPORTS

   Welcome to our two part post.

**First, a reminder that you have until Friday, March 28th at 11:59 pm (GMT) to play in Challenge #337 - Designer's Choice - SPORTS found HERE.

**Second, Challenge #336 closed with 42 wonderful Clean and Simple entries, some of which included the 'twist' of using eye-catching transfers/ephemera/rub-ons.  As always, selecting Top Picks is difficult but we narrowed the field to three delights.

Our Top Picks:

Susan

Susan has created a lovely 'twinchies' scene, paired with two trees. An eye-catching clean and simple card, indeed.

Tenia

Tenia's happy hugs tag is ever so sweet and plays wonderfully in creating a CAS design.

Maria

Maria's trio of pompom-tails bunnies couldn't be more adorable! Clean, simple and sweet.

Congratulations to our Top Picks; please take your badge.

Inkspirational Challenge #337 - Designer's Choice - Pia - SPORTS

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

Time to launch a Designer's Choice Challenge. For the next two week, Pia invites you to "play" along with a totally fun challenge: SPORTS.  From sky-diving to lawn bowling, as long as you feature a sport, you're 'on par' with the challenge. Okay...enough trying to "score some points" with silly puns!

Inspiration from the Design Team:

Julia

Pia 

Carol

Marlena

We're looking forward to seeing which sports you'll showcase on your cards/projects.

It's sure to be an A-Game gallery! 

The Link will be open until Friday, March 28th @ 11:59pm (GMT)

We will return on Saturday, March 22 with a Reminder Post and Top Picks for Challenge #336. 

Top Picks Challenge #335 and Reminder Post - Challenge #336 - Clean and Simple

  Welcome to our two part post.

**First, a reminder that you have until Friday, March 14th at 11:59 pm (GMT) to play in Challenge #336 - Clean and Simple (optional twist: use Stickers/Ephemera/Rub-Ons) found HERE.

Our talented Pia has created another CAS card as inspiration; her wintery white background is a wonderful stage for her silhouette sledders. 

  

Pia

**Second, Challenge #335 closed with 23 wonderful Mood Board inspired entries. Your creativity in translating elements of the photo into paper projects is ever so inspiring.  As always, selecting Top Picks is difficult but we've come up with three.

Our Top Picks:

Esther

Esther's beautifully inked bloom and pretty background of patterns and text is an eye-catching take on the mood board.

Pauline

Pauline's snowdrops, paired with the pretty with the inky blue and splatter background, make for a beautiful take on the mood board.

TK

TK's beautifully inked flowers, shimmery panels and outline hexagon are a lovely take on the mood board.

Congratulations to our Top Picks; please take your badge.