Inspiring Stand Outs Challenge #23

Weekly Stand Outs

Thank you all so much for joining us this week for the Inspired by Challenge #23.  We loved seeing how you were inspired in all of your creative projects. These are the submissions that have earned a special Inspiring Stand Out this week. Please go ahead and display the badge on your blog.

A special thank you to Karen Davis for being our Creative Guest this week! 

Both Karen and I have chosen our stand outs!

These are the submissions that have earned a special Inspiring Stand Out badge this week. Please go ahead and display the badge on your blog!

Karen's Pick is:  Silke Ledlow #8

I chose Silke's card  from the amazing line up this week. It was the gorgeous layers and colours that caught my eye.

Karren's Pick is:  Estelle #4

Estelle created two beautiful cards for this challenge and I struggled to pick my favorite, but I went with this one.  I just love the die-cuts used and the strip of gold.

Congratulations ladies and thank you to everyone who played along with us this week! We will be back in one hour with a brand new challenge!  

The next challenge goes live at 5:00 am PST.

Inspired By All The Little Things Featuring Karen Davis

Hello and welcome to Inspired By All The Little Things! This is a weekly inspiration challenge blog and each week we feature a wonderful designer who inspires us as an artist!

Hi, my name is Karren Johnson and I am thrilled to join the Inspired By team as a Challenge Creator.  I live in Christchurch, New Zealand and have been stamping for many, many years.  My style has evolved over those years and I am now predominantly a CAS stamper.  I like clean lines and white space and very rarely use patterned paper.  When looking at all the fabulous cards on the many blogs I follow, I'm firstly drawn to the way color is used, then to the layout and images.  Now onto the challenge:

This week I have invited Karen Davis to be my guest.  I first "met" Karen when we were both on the Merry Monday Design Team.  Karen then took a break from blogging and has just recently rejoined the card-making blog world and I'm so delighted to see her gorgeous work again.

Karen Davis

I asked Karen to share a bit about herself...

1. What is the name of your blog? When and why did you start it?

The name of my blog is Karen Creates Cards. I started the blog in 2013 because I wanted to join the wonderful card making community :-)  I recently had a long break from card making and have come back to find an explosion of gorgeousness!

2. What is your style of card making?

My style of card making is anything with layers, nearly always with flowers and leaves, using quite big, bold pieces. 

3. Who inspires you as a designer?

I would find it impossible to choose one, there is so much talent out there. I am very inspired by card makers who have a distinctive, original style.

4. What sort of things inspire you as a card maker? Photos? Sketches? Other designers?

I most love working from a great 'Still-life' inspiration image, especially one that includes flowers and/or cupcakes :)

I am also inspired by other card makers, usually particular elements rather than the whole card.

At the moment I am looking at creatively coloured and laid out sentiments. I mostly do black and white but would like to be more adventurous.

  

5. Share something about yourself that we may not know?

I live in the city of Auckland which is in the North Island of New Zealand. To give you an idea of the size of NZ, it is 990 miles long and 280 miles at its widest point. Population is about 4.5 million. 

Here is Karen's card using this week's inspiration!

The challenge designers have also created a card for this week's inspiration! These ladies just inspire me SO much!!! I hope you will play along with us this week! We would love to have you join us!

Kimberly Lackenbach-http://kimcreate.blogspot.ca/

LauraJane- http://ahiaf.blogspot.com/

Leigh Penner - www.leighpenner.blogspot.com  

Marcie Sharp- http://cardmakinchaos.blogspot.ca/

Sheri Gilson-http://papercraftyscreations.blogspot.ca/

and a card from me

Karren Johnson

We hope you will play along with us!

The linky will close on Thursday, 15 September at 11:55pm. (PST)

Some simple rules to keep things organized and enjoyable:

• Please use the graphic for your post and link back to this post.
• Any posts that are offensive will be removed.
• Please comment on the submissions of others...we all love the support!
• Yes you can combine with other challenges but NOT other inspiration challenges please.
• Have fun and challenge yourself!

Inspiring Standouts for Inspired by #22

Thank you all so much for joining us this week for the Inspired by Challenge #22.  We loved seeing how you were inspired in all of your creative projects. These are the submissions that have earned a special Inspiring Stand Out this week. Please go ahead and display the badge on your blog.

A special thank you to Vicki Burdick for being our Creative Guest this week! 

These are the submissions that have earned a special Inspiring Stand Out badge this week. Please go ahead and display the badge on your blog!

Vicki's pick is:  Wanda Cullen #3

I love Wanda's card, the background is gorgeous and makes the sunflowers really pop. The polka dot DSP brings it all together.  

Lesley's Pick is: Shawna Standish

Shawna's card is so inspiring! I love that she tried to recreate the challenge graphic and the amazing painting that she did.

Congratulations ladies and thank you to everyone who played along with us this week! We will be back in one hour with our next challenge!

Smiles,

Lesley

Inspired by Vicki Burdick {Sunflowers}

Hello and welcome back to Inspired By All The Little Things! We hope you have enjoyed a restful summer with your families! This is a weekly inspiration challenge blog and each week we feature a wonderful designer who inspires us as an artist!

For this week, I wanted to use inspiration that was bright and bold! I hope you are inspired to play along with us!

This week I have invited the talented Vicki Burdick to be our guest!

Vicki Burdick

1. What is the name of your blog? When and why did you start it?

The name of my blog is "It's a Stamp Thing" link is www.tsastampthing-vicki.blogspot.com I started blogging in late 2007 because I wanted a way to share my love of stamping.

2. What is your style of card making?

This is a tough question for me, I have a hard time defining my style, I like clean lines and layers. I love any and all kinds of flower stamps and I especially love to create flowery cards. I do love whimsical and cute as well.

3. Who inspires you as a designer?

So many people inspire me, I love Jodi Collins, she has a style I adore. Connie Collins is a great source of inspiration, she constantly blows me away. If I could be either one of these ladies when I grow up I would be thrilled!!!

4. What sort of things inspire you as a card maker? Photos? Sketches? Other designers?

 I love a good sketch challenge, I always look for those when I need a starting point.

5. Share something about yourself that we may not know? 

I am a Halloween fanatic, I love all things Halloweeny, Well, the fun side of it anyway, I steer clear of the dark spooky stuff!

And here is Vicki's stunning card based on the inspiration!

The challenge designers have also created a card for this week's inspiration! These ladies just inspire me SO much!!! I hope you will play along with us this week! We would love to have you join us!

Kimberly Lackenbach-http://kimcreate.blogspot.ca/

LauraJane- http://ahiaf.blogspot.com/

Leigh Penner - www.leighpenner.blogspot.com  

Marcie Sharp- http://cardmakinchaos.blogspot.ca/

Sheri Gilson-http://papercraftyscreations.blogspot.ca/

Lesley Croghan-http://alwaysplayingwithpaper.blogspot.ca/

We hope you will play along with us!

The linky will close on Friday, September 9th at Noon. (PST)

Some simple rules to keep things organized and enjoyable:

• Please use the graphic for your post and link back to this post.
• Any posts that are offensive will be removed.
• Please comment on the submissions of others...we all love the support!
• Yes you can combine with other challenges but NOT other inspiration challenges please.
• Have fun and challenge yourself!

To link up your card, please CLICK HERE.

Inspiring Stand Outs Challenge #21

Thank you all so much for joining us this week for the Inspired by Challenge #17.  We loved seeing how you were inspired in all of your creative projects. These are the submissions that have earned a special Inspiring Stand Out this week. Please go ahead and display the badge on your blog.

A special thank you to Lisa Elton for being our Creative Guest this week! 

These are the submissions that have earned a special Inspiring Stand Out badge this week. Please go ahead and display the badge on your blog!

 Ardyth's Choice:

#11 ElizStewart

 

I love the way Elizabeth focused on one of the pillows on the bench as her inspiration, creating a totally unexpected, masculine card!

Tracey's Choice:

#8 - Estelle

I love how Estelle was inspired by the theme of the inspiration photo and used the colours to create her pretty by the sea inspired card. The background she created work perfectly with the boardwalk patterned paper.

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Congratulations ladies and thank you to everyone who played along with us this week!

We are taking a break for the summer months of July and August!

Have a wonderful summer! 

We will see you again in September!

Inspired by All the Little Things featuring Ardyth Percy-Robb

Hello and welcome to Inspired By All The Little Things! This is a weekly inspiration challenge blog and each week we feature a wonderful designer who inspires us as an artist!

This week I invited the very talented Ardyth Percy-Robb to be my guest. Ardyth and I have been friends even since the beginning of CASology where we are both designers. From there we found out that we lived within a half hour of one another and the rest is history. Ardyth has a distictive clean and simple style and her designs in my opinion are flawless. I was thrilled when she said she would join us this week.

Ardyth Percy-Robb

I asked Ardyth to share a bit about herself...

1. What is the name of your blog? When and why did you start it?

My blog is called MASKerade. MASK are the first initials (in age order) of my family members. I'm the vowel - the glue that holds it all together! I started cardmaking at a Stampin' Up! party in 2006 and posted on Splitcoaststampers until I started MASKerade in January 2012 (go take a look at my early gallery if you need a smile!).

2. What is your style of card making?

My main style of card making is Clean and Simple. Or Clean and Graphic. But really, I make whatever I feel like at the time! Lately I've been making some not-so-CAS cards with watercoloured images and backgrounds. It's so much fun to try something new, but I can't imagine that I'll ever completely give up white space!

3. Who inspires you as a designer?

Of course I watch all the videos by the 'big names' but I'm also inspired when I notice little details in just about every card I see and think 'hey, I need to try that!'.

4. What sort of things inspire you as a card maker? Photos? Sketches? Other designers?

I get inspiration from so many places. Many of the challenges I own and/or play in are inspiration challenges - either a photo or a card - and I think those are my favourites. I love to look at each element of the inspiration piece, mix them all up and make it my own! 

5. Share something about yourself that we may not know?

Today is my son's birthday. He's 17 and just got his driver's license. He'll be spending the summer getting his pilot's license. He fills me with pride. And a little bit of fear! Parenting is definitely not for the faint of heart, is it?

Here is Ardyth's card using this week's inspiration!

The challenge designers have also created a card for this week's inspiration! These ladies just inspire me SO much!!! I hope you will play along with us this week! We would love to have you join us!

Kimberly Lackenbach

Keeway Tsao

LauraJane

Leigh Penner

Marcie Sharp

Sheri Gilson

...and one more card from me!

Tracey McNeely

We hope you will play along with us!

The linky will close on Thursday, June 30 at 11:55pm. (PST)

Some simple rules to keep things organized and enjoyable:

• Please use the graphic for your post and link back to this post.
• Any posts that are offensive will be removed.
• Please comment on the submissions of others...we all love the support!
• Yes you can combine with other challenges but NOT other inspiration challenges please.
• Have fun and challenge yourself!

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Inspiring Stand Outs for Challenge #20

Well, a big thank you to all who played along with this week's challenge!  I loved your interpretations of the photo - many had a camera, most used the colours, quite a few used some kind of glimmer to represent the flash - and all the results were wonderful.

Also, a huge thanks to Melinda Everitt for taking time in her busy schedule to be our Guest Designer this week.  Melinda has chosen her Inspiring Stand Out:

Melinda chose #2 by Wendie at Monkey loves Oliver - "The random stamping and all of the colors really make such a striking card!"

And I'm choosing #9 Estelle at Scrap of Me - She was inspired by several different aspects of the photo, and cleverly created a card that while nothing like the photo - it beautifully captures the colour, the glimmer, the shape of the flash and the white background - gorgeous!!

Ladies - please go ahead and grab our badge to proudly display on your blog!

Congrats to the winners, and another thanks to all who played along this week!  We will be back in an hour with a brand new challenge!  Challenge #21 goes live at 5am Pacific.