Archive for the ‘Inspired’ Category

Art by Sara Broski

In: Inspired

6 Sep 2010

Isn’t the minimalist look & white space in this just so inspiring?

Shining

In: Inspired|Scrapbook It.

5 Sep 2010

Warning: blatant self promotion post ahead. This weekend I launched a new range into the store at Oscraps: Shining.  At the moment there are Shining Words: Described and Shining Frames: Vintage.  As you can see, the name is pretty self-explanatory – the range is just shiny stuff! Grab this freebie if you wanna try out [...]

More amazingly talented digital collage from Javier Piragauta:

Go and check out pemorama!’s Flickr stream – amazing use of digital layering, stamping etc.  Very talented!

Todays inspiration is brought to you courtesy of designs by two of my favorite lovely ladies – Liz of Paislee Press and Peppermint, a.k.a One Little Bird Designs. Both of these gorgeous layouts are by Crystal.

If you’re someone who struggles to come up with just the right design, you should definitely consider turning to the web for help.  There are amazing sites and pieces all over the web, designed by fabulously talented designers and artists.  Here’s an example – a piece I spotted on Flickr of a website design/layout.  Perfect [...]

I just found this fab blog today.  Tonya Doughty is a photographer, scrapbooker, and amazing designer, by the looks of things. I love some of her design pieces, like this: But even more than that, I love this – it’s a concept I’ve thought about myself for ages now, but I’ve never seen anyone else [...]

Color

In: Inspired

5 Jun 2010

Don’t forget to check out the the color me pretty posts when they come up on Decor8.  They’re gorgeous

Just the one pic today.  It’s been a while!  This blog shall now be more regularly updated and used to showcase my personal designs here and there, though I prefer to have it showcase all sorts of other things too

It’s funny how, even in something as creative as craft & design, it becomes hard to innovate.  Sometimes, we are so surrounded by the pretty things we’ve seen people create that we forget all about creating something new, or creating something for us because of what we think is beautiful.  The time and the effort [...]


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  • Trude: Nice! I was hoping there'd be an automated way to do that, but hadn't gone looking yet. :) [...]
  • Trude: LOL love that first piece! Thanks for sharing! [...]
  • Karen: Thanks for this post! I love this and feel inspired to go play!! [...]
  • Karen: Hey! I'm a photographer who came across your site the other day and am now in love! Alice in Wo [...]
  • KathrynWilson: Gorgeous - thanks for the link! [...]