Travelingmama

I have been a big fan of Tina AKA Travelingmama for a while. Her photography is beautiful and her cards always stunning.

Check out her latest project there are only a few pictures but do pop over to her blog as she has added some fab videos of this gorgeous book! Her cards are always simple but so beutiful and varied.

Beautiful Pages by Hegeal

This scrapbooker (and occasional cardmaker) just has to be the most talented I have come across in a long time. Hegeal has such a delicate, almost vintage style which is very original. The attention to detail is wonderful and each layout she produces is breathtaking.



The majority of her work features pinks and girly themes, but as a mother to two boys and just one girl, she has to venture into the masculine themes sometimes, with outstanding results.



Although Hegeal is from Norway, her photo's do all the explaining and even if you don't speak her language you will simply be captivated by her style.

In Hegeal's words, she loves 'to use different color combos, anything to create a contrast. I'm addicted to rough the edges of my work. It doesn't matter if it is a cool boy page or a sweet girly page. I don't follow any "rules" when it comes to putting flowers on boy pages or on a winter page. I just use whatever I think looks cool...'

Many of her pages feature 'unusual' embelishments such as the money and in this page below and the corrigated card above.

To view an uncountable number of gorgeous pages just like these, visit Hegeal's blog. I can promise you that you'll never visit just the once.

Joining the Inspirational Team are.....

Nancy

Emeline

Ann

Sarah

Gro aka Emrille

Dragon (Frankie)

Marcea

Crafty C (Claire)

Anthonette

Bonnie

Ceal

Rleen

Shonna

Calv

Mandy (Crafty Angel)

Danielle

Sonia

Lou Collins

Julie Jacobs

Ewonne

Gillian

Welcome to the team,

Please email inspirational.blogs@gmail.com and I will send you all the information that you need and invite you to become authors of this blog :)

Thank you so much to everyone who asked to join the Inspirational Team there will be more chances in the future and I hope you'll continue to visit here

Julie x

Easter at Ellys'

My first gasp when I stumbled upon this stunning blog became oohs and aahs for page after page as my breath was taken away.
The talented Elly makes the most beautiful miniature houses, felt cuties, altered projects and scrapbook layouts. Her vibrant blog is like something straight out of a House and Home magazine!!

Elly likes to arrange everything in her Dutch cottage beautifully, depending on the season and her recent Easter creations are a gorgeous example of her work.

I have admired her star shadow boxes that she made last Christmas and her Easter 2008 banner. In fact I loved everything in between too!!


Often using her favourite colours.....(I think you can safely guess which ones they are )....Elly turns her hand to paper crafting as well. Layouts and the most intricate mini-books feature alongside the occasional magnolia card and more pretty photos of her warm and inviting house.


There is still so much more I haven't discovered yet..........so if you'd like to discover Elly for yourself and spend Easter exploring her everyday things click HERE and start the adventure now.

Julia's Creative Makes...

I loved this lady's blog - it's crammed full of wonderful cards, wall hangings and gorgeous colours.

Julia's cards have amazing layers and her colouring is just superb..

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I just had to feature her recent wall hangings they are just so beautiful.
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Beautiful Wooden Heart Chain

Click HERE to see some more of Julia's creations in more detail - you won't be disappointed for sure...

The great Mee...

Hi everyone.

I would love to introduce you to Sarah Mee and her fab blog Sparkle Cards.

I have known of Sarah's work for quite a while now, after being featured occasionally in magasines and on a craft website. Her work is so very pretty, and the use of colour and layout is fantastic. I just love her work. It is so fresh and clean, but also pastel, but modern.

Take a peek at her blog, you'll love it. Thanks to Sarah for letting me share.

So go.... go now.... visit Sarah's blog.. you know you need the inspiration - and there's alot of it here!

A Crafting Journey with Linda Elbourne

Stunning set of ATC's

A beautiful canvas which you'll find on Linda's blog HERE

This wonderful pen holder started life as a baked bean can !! You will find it on Linda's blog HERE

I have been an avid follower of Linda Elbourne's 'A Crafting Journey' blog for some time now and I'm always in awe of her beautiful creations. Click HERE to visit her wonderful blog !!

A blog to watch out for ....

ARTful Wings is a relatively new blog run by Polly. The creations that she makes are stunning, this blog is well worth adding to your Bloglines or Blogroll as I am sure as time goes on there will be some beautiful and inspirational work to see. I have just added a few images of Polly's different creations.

Polly has been bitten by the colouring in of images bug, she must of got some bite as her colouring is amazing!

Polly loves vintage as these few pieces show, I love the images she has chosen. The jigsaw piece is just adorable.

Polly had the good fortune of meeting Tim Holtz and attending a demo run by him recently, lots of lovely photos on her blog to see.

This tag has been inspired by the great man!

I love the way the heart dangles from the bottom.

So pop on over to ARTful Wings and say hi to Polly and welcome her to the blogging community.

xxxx

Shelly's Lily Eden

Isn't this dress just beautiful - Visit Shelly to see her daughter Lily wearing it!

I came upon Shelly's blog a few days ago and was blown away by the gorgeous fun creations she makes using wonderful bright colours. Shelly also makes the most wonderful fabric pieces from a dress for her cute little daughter to wonderful cushions. There is just so much to see, pendants,rings all so beautifuly made. I was scrolling back through her blog for ages.

Stunning Mother's Day Card

My head was spinning trying to decide which photos to feature.. but you can go see everything in it's full glory HERE

Here they go!

Butterfly Pendant

Just Lilla...

Vintage Cuff

Stunning Vintage Bag

Beautiful Quilted Glasses Cases

Lilla comes from Honolulu and has such an eclectic mix of wonderful creations on her blog.

She creates gorgeous projects from fabrics, loves using lace and there are so many vintage inspired pieces too. I loved her beautiful quilted glasses case.

There is so much to feast your eyes on. It was so hard to choose just a few photos.

If you love fabric, lace and mixed media too then pop over and visit the talented Lilla HERE

One wonderful crafter...

Hi everyone.

Today, I'd like to introduce you to a wonderful crafter called Kathy B. This lady has been in my favourites for what seems like ages, and I always take forever looking through her blog. It is full of amazing projects, not just cards, but 3D, mini books and loads of other things.. and it is all so colourful and fresh.

Kathy also runs her own sketch blog, which you can freely use as inspiration.

Here are some of Kathy's projects.

Why not pop over to Kathy's blog and take a peek. I'm sure you won't be disappointed.

A little plea........

I have just received an email warning me that the bandwidth on my Photobucket account is close to being exceeded

This is because so many of you lovely people are displaying the Inspirational banners on your blogs ~ Thank you x

I wondered if you'd be kind enough to upload the banner onto your own Photobucket account/image hosting site otherwise the banners will stop working. It will simply be a case of uploading the Inspirational banner to your photobucket and then replacing my photobucket code with yours

If you don't know how to do this, lets not panic...... I'm hoping that those that do know how to do it will outweigh the ones that don't lol

Lets see how we go

Thanks once again for you all your support for the Inspirational Blogs

Julie x

Prepare to be amazed !! Elaine's Wonderful 'Magic Boxes'

Gasp !! Aren't they amazing!! Elaine has taken the 'exploding box' one step further by using strips of acetates to make these boxes 'magical'. To find out more about these wonderful boxes you can visit Elaine's 'Magic Boxes' Blog HERE

Thank you Yvonne for bringing Elaines beautiful blog to my attention