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

Bling-kin-eck!!

Well what can I say about this talented lady's blog - It's crammed full of inspiration for sure...

Chris is funny, witty and makes amazing creations from digi layouts to mixed media pieces with some stunning cards thrown in for good measure!! Her cards are bold and beautiful with bright colours and wonderful cut elements.
There are also lovely papers and images which Chris created and you can download them for free - How great is that!

So pull up an arm chair and stop on by Chris's blog HERE - you'll love it....

Card made using some of Chris's downloads

Check out Carol's BEAUTIFUL Creations!!

I'm so happy that I found Carol's wonderful Alcoholinky blog today. As you can tell by the creations shown she is so talented and I had a very difficult job deciding what to feature because I really was spoilt for choice.

Click HERE to see more of Carol's Inspirational creations

Hanna's Amazing Blog....

Look at this Beautiful Beaded Dolphin..

Beautiful Pocket Card

Well crafters! I would like to introduce you to a very talented young lady called Hanna.
Hanna lives in Sweden and is 12 - yes! 12 years old and makes the most wonderful cards.
When I first visited her blog I couldn't believe the creativity and wonderful colouring. If this is what Hanna is creating now I can't wait to see what she makes in future.
Her posts are wonderful and so well written - Certainly a blog for my following list..
So hop over and say Hi to Hanna HERE and prepare to be amazed.

A big Thank You to Heather who nominated Hanna for Inspirational.

Meet Vintage Wil.......

Wil is a wonderfully talented lady who is up for most challenges!! She produces work on a daily basis and every piece is interesting and varied. How's this for an Easter Display?

Actually I don't know if it was made for easter because the challenge was called crazyamigos!!

I love the "white on white" and the intricate layers of lace and texture on this wall hanging.


But it was these bottles on Wils blog that originally caught my eye. It is the detailing and work put into making these bottles such a rich deep walnut brown that has made me check back daily for any new wonders of the world.

To visit Vintage Wils blog please click HERE.

Savitri's STUNNING Creations

Savitri has a wonderful blog, her creations are truly inspirational and she has also made some really helpful digital tutorial videos.

Click HERE to visit and make sure you are sitting comfortably as I think you'll be there a while

A Inspirational Artist

For those of you who have never heard of Wendy Vecchi, she is an inspiration to many stampers and altered artists. I love the work she does and her blog contains some of her gorgeous art. Here is what she says about herself
"Here's what keeps me busy... designing stamps... Maya Road DT and tim holtz-idea-ology DT. I'm an exclusive demo artist for Ranger Industries. I also demo at conventions for Stampers Anonymous. I travel around the country teaching stamping classes and in my spare time, I make ART! "
So spend a little time getting inspiration from Wendy's blog, and do check out the previous posts too!
Jennie

Have you seen Eva's blog?

I recently came across Eva's blog and I fell in love with her work. Check this card out - and here's a close up of the detail -

Eva has a great deal to see on her blog, some amazing work!! You can visit her blog here to see more.

Sharon

CLOSED!! Would you like to join the Inspirational Team?

I am looking for several new members to join the Inspirational Team so if you like to blog hop this would be perfect for you.

I would ask for you to feature at least one creation per week if possible ~ obviously if you find more - all the better ;)

Everyone who joins the Inspiratonal Team will become 'Authors' of the blog...... so if you see a creation on somebody's blog that WOWS and INSPIRES you ~ you would simply email them or post a comment on their blog asking if you could feature one of their creations on Inspirational - It is as simple as that.

Being a team member you would get a fancy 'Inspirational Team Member' banner for your blog like this one (although there is a choice of four)

I would also put a link to your blog in the sidebar.

If you would like to join please leave a comment here with a link to your blog so that I can contact you.

I will announce who the new team members are on 30th March

If you have any questions you can post them here or email julesallain@aol.com :)

Paper Therapy!!!

I love this blog, PAPER THERAPY! Karolyn has the most beautiful cards!!!

Take a look at some...Be sure to visit Karolyn's blog as she also has wonderful treat bags, and gift ideas as well!!

Her quote at the bottom of her blog says -

"Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything."

~ George Lois

DEANNE

Nicole's BEAUTIFUL Creations !!!

As you can see by the examples I have featured Nicole's creations are gorgeous and her blog as a whole captivated me. Click HERE to visit Nicole and you will see what I mean :)

I want to share with you my first inspiration ...

the fabulous TIM HOLTZ

and I am sure that he has been the inspiration and continues to be the inspiration for many, many, many other crafters too!

I took some classes at my LSS and was introduced to Distress Pads, wow these were just so versatile and just perfect for grunging, distressing and making layouts look vintage. I have recently started to use them in colouring stamped images. I then very quickly started using Stickles I just adore the subtle or in your face effect these glitters can give you, and now Tim has brought out Distress Stickles in all colours of the Distress pads, ooh I am in heaven. Pop over to Tim's blog to get inspiration, tips and techniques on how to use all his products

I was checking out his blog the other night! Boy that man is busy he has been to so many shows, classes, demos, workshops, etc. all over the world.

He has an amazing new feature added to his website, Demo Vids which will show an amazing bunch of new techniques and product videos. I had a look and they are fantastic, clear and easy to follow, some of them take a little while to up load as they are coming from You-Tube, but please do be patient, they are so worth the wait!

As Tim hasn't been in his studio a lot just recently, (he has being doing a lot of traveling) I have decided to showcase some of his amazing 12 Tags of Christmas!

And just a couple up close ....

and just a few more projects that he has created (I love the Santa one, and he has used my new favourite weakness Distress Stickles, I just love that bling, lol)

All the above projects have a full set of photos, materials and instructions on how to make these amazing projects on his blog!

So if you have never visited Tim's blog, what are you waiting for?? Click here to be inspired to get messy, lol