What inspires you when you are crafting?
Today the design team was asked to take inspiration from an artist. Scroll on down to see all their creations and learn their inspiration. Then leave a comment for a chance to win a Your Next Stamp stamp set of your choice.
Simply leave a comment on this post by May 24th and you will be entered in the draw. The winner will be announced on May 26th, right here on the YNS blog.
The artists inspiring the team are of a wide variety. What inspires you?
YNS Supplies: One in a Chameleon | Mud Splatter | Gumdrops
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Kendra was inspired by Jackson Pollock
YNS Supplies: Mud Splatter | Got Mud? | Paint Swooshes and Splatters | Scripty Happy Birthday Die Set | Holly Berry Red Ink | Pumpkin Orange Ink | Sunflower Yellow Ink | Olive Green Ink | Blue Curacao Ink | Gumdrops
YNS Supplies: Fangtastic- Halloween | Milk and Cookies Matte Gumdrops
Martha took inspiration from work by Charles Willson Peale
YNS Supplies: Premium Dye Ink Pad – Black Olive | From My Garden| Premium Dye Ink Pad – Purple Passion
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Lisa took inspiration from work by Andy Warhol
YNS Supplies: Ellie Loves To Bake | Insanely Happy | Cool Tag Four Die Set | White Sugar and Sparkle Gumdrops |Premium Dye Ink Pad Black Olive
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Vicki, May Guest with her take on Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night Over the Rhone
YNS Supplies: Woodland Cuties
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YNS Supplies: Fairy Dust | Stitched Rectangles | Double Stitched Hill Die | Crystal Clear and Sparkle Gumdrops | YNS Ink
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Cassie took inspiration from Sunflowers by Vincent Van Gogh
YNS Supplies: Flower Blossom Trio Die | Crystal Clear & Sparkle Gumdrops | Sweet Little Sentiments
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YNS Supplies: Life’s A Hoot stamp set | Life’s a Hoot Dies
We also have a surprise sale for you today! Today is Karen’s son’s birthday and to celebrate take 22% off everything in the YNS Store using the code below!
Please leave a comment before you go for your chance to WIN a YNS stamp set of your choice! Let us know what inspires you.
You have until May 24th at midnight EST to leave a comment and be entered in the draw. The winner will be announced on May 26th.
Thank you so much for stopping by! Wishing you a day filled with inspiration!
–Karen
Fabulous way to I find inspiration – love all of the cards – and I am gong to find some art to inspire me this week!
What a great source of inspiration! Nothing like learning from the best.
WOW! Fantastic designs from all the DT members… love their creativity! I also wanted to wish BRANDON a very HAPPY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY! I hope it’s a FUN filled day just for you! 🙂
Theresa
Theresa’s Crafty Creations
Great cards, so much talent! Thanks for the chance to win!
WONDERFUL cards and INSPIRATION!
… I’m inspired everywhere I go, from the amazing patterns, textures & colours of nature to clothes people are wearing as they pass by, as well as sketches and colour combos from challenges too … I confess, I’m always scribbling down bits of inspiration everywhere I go, with my handbag filled with creative snippets 🙂
Thanks for sharing all these inspiration cards, everyone did a fabulous job! Most of my inspiration comes from challenge themes, but also from my Pinterest boards, and colors that I see when I’m out and about. Thank you for the Birthday sale as well!
Wonderful inspiration projects by the DT. Great job ladies.
My inspiration comes from nature, from challenges and much more.
Happy Birthday to your son, Karen.
Thanks for the chance to win.
Hugs, Valerija
Well hello!! What a fun challenge for the DT. A delight to see their interpretations of their chosen artist. Thanks so much for this wonderful and fun post. Happy Birthday to your son Karen. Hugz
Oh my gosh – thank you sooo much for this wonderful lineup of DT cards based on our world’s art !! Even two of my favorite painters are here and the DT’s take on them are perfection. I’m smiling from ear to ear !!
A great job by all of the DT!
Happy Birthday to your son Brandon, Karen!
Such a creative way to find inspiration. I love them all. And of course, Deborah’s is just hysterical!! 🙂
Happy Birthday to Brandon – and thanks for the sale!
OMG!! Amazing creations! Great job design team!!
All the ladies did a great job on their cards…so much great color! I especially love the donut and soda cards.
These designs are all fantastic. What a great way to find inspiration for cardmaking.
Fantastic cards by the DT! Love all of the inspiration they used and gave me! When I create, I’m inspired by the products I’m using and the colors around me.
I’m inspired by all the designers work. I always see fresh ideas that I can use and of course more products that I MUST have!
Very original idea, different and great results!
Wow!! Some very different & fun cards by all!! I’m usually inspired by design & color when I’m making cards!!
Wonderful cards everyone, love seeing what inspired each one! I’m inspired by colors most of the time.
Wow! These cards are amazing. I’m especially taken with Karen’s graffiti card.
Love the fun DT inspiration today and Happy Birthday. I am inspired by Claude Monet works, they are so dreamy and soft:)
Just like visiting an art gallery, without leaving home. Thanks for the tour. I’m mostly inspired by fabrics and papers. Often I pick a few different textiles and see where it goes. I keep paper scraps of like colors in baggies, as a challenge I will grab a bag and create with only the papers in that bag. (stamps, dies, inks and other products are allowed) Give it a go it can be fun.
Thanks for the fun inspiration! I get a lot of my inspiration from other card makers.
So many fun inspiring cards! Thanks, DT. I am often inspired by a DT card I see, but my starting point for inspiration is nearly always a sketch – so I am a big fan of sketch challenges!
I’m in awe of these talented people who share their creations with all of us. Today, my favorite is the one made with Woodland Cuties. Adorable!
Wow what a fabulous challenge for your designers! Great work! I’m inspired by designs I see on Instagram and blogs. The layout of the elements rather than the exact pieces used.
What a cool way to find inspiration! And what a fabulous job your team did with their adorable cards! Love! I find inspiration everywhere, outdoors walking, fabrics, patterns, etc.
Haven’t used pictures as an inspiration for my cards.
A great idea though. Need to start paying more
attention to things around me.
thanks for sharing some fantastic ideas.
WOW!!
awesome job ladies!!!
My surroundings inspire me…im always looking around.. lol
Wow the DT have really been inspired by the chosen artist’s painting!! Beautiful cards everyone!!
These are awesome! The team did a phenomenal job creating off their chosen inspiration pieces. Loved EVERYTHING ♥
AMAZING ideas! All are so interesting and nicely done. The card interpretation of Van Gogh’s Starry Night by Sue Taylorhill is masterful! Thanks for the inspiration ladies.
Fabulous projects! Sometimes I find inspiration on Pinterest or Instagram and sometimes inspiration comes from a challenge.
Wow, so much colorful cards and designs!! 🙂 Amazing inspiration!
Happy 9th Birthday to Brandon!
Fabulous projects!So creative!
I get inspired by products but also by posts on Pinterest or random things I see around me! Inspiration is everywhere when we are relaxed and keep an eye open.
Great cards. I am always amazed at the results from the inspiration. No one interprets it the same and they are always wonderful! Seeing other’s takes always makes me look at things in different ways. I find inspiration in the person the card is for as well as the materials. Often I look at other cards for a boot in the butt to get me going.
Such amazing cards and samples
Great gallery of cards. Love the interpretations. I find inspiration everywhere…in nature, in photos, on IG, etc…and then apply it to what I need/want to create. Happy birthday, Brandon!
I really love the inspiration and the cards all turned out awesome!
I always love the themes that y’all come up with! Very cute cards 🙂
Love the fun cards and their inspiration sources.
Shows we cardmakers can look everywhere and anywhere and be inspired.
Thanks.
Love your design team and all of their ideas!!
Love this challenge! What amazing designs
Love all the cards. It’s certainly interesting to see how they took the inspiration from the paintings. I will have to try this.
What a fun idea! Love these cards and it’s so cool to see the inspiration behind them!
So original! Love do much this idea. Great creations ladies!
My inspirations focus on sick children. Im a reitred RN and feel I must do something for others and pray that I can bring a smile to the too many sick kids out there and their
blessed parents! I dont have kids or family so I try my best to do for others. THIS IS THE BEST PLACE to find great and cute kids stamps and I wish I more opportunity to keep
buying and buying! I thank you, Karen, and your great artists!!!
Awesome look at what
inspires people. I like
colorful and shiny
things!
Carla from Utah
The chameleon stamp set is adorable.
O M G. There are a lot of talented people out there. Such INCREDIBLE cards. To be that talented!!!! Keep on creating
So much fun to see the interpretation of older art and make it modern!
Lots of talented designers. Was very fun!
Love all the cards
Lots of inspiration! The row of soda bottles is so cute. I have used your monsters several times and love the simple, fun designs of your stamps.
I am inspired by all artist. I take a lot of inspiration from color and am currently mesmerized by the artists who do acrylic pourings.
Wow how beautiful these cards are.
Wow they all are so beautiful
I get inspired by looking at other people’s cards. I save the ones I like in my photos. That way I always have them at easy access! Your card samples are great and I saved those!
I love this idea of using artists for inspiration. Nice interpretations!
I love seeing all the cards and the inspiration behind them….they are all so unique.
Now I am feeling inspired…Thanks
My inspirations are always the people I care for and am creating for, but no doubt the awesome designers on the blogs give the ideas to match with my people.
I really enjoyed the inspiration projects. Thanks for sharing your ideas with us. It is definitely motivating to work with my stamps.
What a creative team there, beautiful work!!!!
What awesome cards. The artists are so very talented and creative. I love YNS, too. Thank you for the inspiration and great samples.
Looking at work and colours other use and strangely enough my own imagination.
So much beauty around us to inspire creativity. Thanks for reminding me!
HAPPY B-day Brandon and thanks for sharing your special day with me!
Loved all the ideas. Never thought about using works of art for inspiration. Love all of your stamps.
Happy Birthday to your son, Karen!!!
I’m new on crafting and I make cards for some special events like birthdays or Holidays. I’m very impressed from all these stunning cards!!!
Amazing projects. I find find most of my inspiration on Blogs or Pinterest. It could be a card, drawing, painting or photograph. Thanks for the inspiration and the chance to win. Good luck everyone.
great examples, I especially love the one with the apple on the monster’s nose. I get inspiration from the DT’s on blogs like this one, and sometimes the graphics on TV commercials and store window displays.
Love seeing what everyone created after being inspired by these artists.
WOW. What a fun challenge and fabulous creations from the DT.. Love them all.
Great post today! I love seeing how people are inspired! I always find inspiration from the colors of nature, even in winter! Color is all around us, even on the rainy days when everything looks gray.
So much creativity! I love the items that served as inspiration. They’re quite challenging. You all did an awesome job!
This was a really wonderful post…loved seeing what inspired the DT! It was great to see them take the inspiration piece and translate that into their own project.
Happy Birthday to your son Karen!
These are great cards. . .love the art/card adaptations. They are such fun to see. My inspiration comes from such wonderful card blogs. . .but if I were going to design a art adaptation card, it would imitate Renoir’s “Girl with a Watering Can”–so many possibilities. Thanks for sharing this idea.
what a great post–love seeing the inspiration art and the new projects! I love pinterest and blogs for inspiration, like yours!
wow, great inspirations and amazing creations!
I am trying to get inspired by the nature, from card blogs, I also like art – van gogh is among my favourite painters …
Wow! I can’t even choose a favorite. So many beautiful cards. Especially love the backgrounds inspired by VanGough and impressionist paintings.
I looooooooove the One in a Chameleon stamp set! It inmediately takes me back to Rapunzel the movie By Disney.. Great stamp to say ‘Hi’ !
This takeoffs from out are so cool! My inspiration… usually comes from everywhere, blogs, work friends do, Pinterest, etc.
I find most of my inspiration in blogs like yours and seeing the many talented cardmakers who share their creations with the rest of us..
WOW – super impressive – I really loved seeing how the designers found inspiration in Art!! I am so impressed, everybody is so super talented!!
Wow! These are amazing. So fun looking at the original and resulting creations.
These are super! Each one brought a smile to my face and what a fantastic idea for inspiration.
What inspires me is passion. I love the passion that people show in their crafting abilities and it inspires me to do better. I love these latest creations. Keep creating
This is giving me so much inspiration. The soda-licious card is the best! Thanks for so many great ideas.
Wow! I love seeing all the inspiration and resulting creations! They are fabulous! I usually get inspired by art I see and find in my Facebook groups and Pinterest. Sometimes I get inspired by pretty patterned paper or fabric. You can find inspiration anywhere!
Such beautiful cards from the insiprations.
I’m so glad I found ur website…the troll I got were so dang cute. Love the paint splatters too. Thanks for the chance.
I love the creativity shown in all of the cards.
So many cute cards. Love the soda bottles.