We're celebrating our 200th challenge this week and ending the 2021 Inspired By year by shining the spotlight on our 2021 challenge winners!! Yes, that's right we are all so inspired by the wonderful talents that YOU crafters share with us each week!
Each member of the IB Design Team has chosen a card from the winners and attempted to make it our own! Wish me luck - I chose Ashwini's card from January 2021 IB#159! But there was NO WAY I could hand draw my bird as Ashwini did!
Here is a reminder of the prompt from that week:
Ashwini's gorgeous card:
Of course, I was inspired by her darling bluebird!! Here is my attempt at recreating her lovely card, while giving it my own spin...
Since my DT card that week featured a Bluebird, I've chosen another favorite feathered friend! This little Chickadee was created using a PTI Feathered Friends 2 die set. All I had to do was paint it to look like a Chickadee - I turn to Cornell's Lab of Ornithology's All About Birds for wonderful photos of birds!
I found a pretty grey, and rustic painted wood design paper from Craft Consortium in my stash. My sprigs are compliments of The Stamp Market, the Hydrangea blooms from SSS, and both were 'splat painted' with some watery inks, and a small piece of acetate.
Have you noticed yet that the only stamped bit on either of our cards is on the sentiment?? Mine is an old label stamp set from Altenew but never goes out of style.
I loved CASEing Ashwini's card - but believe me, I would have loved recreating ANY of your beautiful winning cards!
So! Ready to play along?? All you have to do is choose one of the winning cards from the tab at the top of the Inspired By blog, tell us what inspired you to choose it, then recreate, but make it your own! We are so excited about this challenge that we're giving you until January 5th to make your card[s]. There are prizes that will be randomly chosen from those playing along*! Until then, happy holidays my friends!!
Let's go see who inspired the rest of the team, shall we?
=] Michele
* I am giving away one of my all-time favorite die sets... the Altenew 3D Poinsettia that was used to create this card... good luck! But be sure to tell me if you already own it! wink!
