Inspirational Craft Raffle

It is now time to decide who will be the winner of the lovely handmade crafts that you can see in the picture, I have deliberately tried to not show them completely as I don't want to ruin the surprise for the winner but at the same time I wanted to show the beautiful creations that I received.

There were only 6 entries for the craft raffle but it is quality that matters, not quantity and believe me the winner will be very pleased with the beautiful creations that will be coming their way.

Thank you so much to Dawn, Gina, Juliet, Lorna, Sheila & Zandra for joining in with the first craft raffle on Inspirational.

I am now going to put all six names into a list randomiser on random.org and whoever is at number one will be the winner so I will do that now before publishing this post

Congratulations Sheila you are the lucky winner !!

Thanks once again to all of the participants :)

Meet One HapE CraftE MomE

There are people in this world that their demeanor is so sweet, and their spirit is so joyful, that you are drawn to them. Chelsea is one of the dearest, most genuine people I know. Her style is so graceful and beautiful. What comes to mine is classic. Her style matches her personality, and her layouts reflect the life that she has been blessed with. Every project that she creates, she pours herself into and she definitely leaves her mark. Chelsea loves to add texture and dimension to her projects by using the Making Memories Edger, Colorbox Chesnut Roan Chalk ink and her sewing machine. They never fail her! Make sure to drop by her blog HapEMomE, and I hope that you will bookmark her and keep returning. She is such a faithful Christian woman, who stands convicted in her faith. She is such an inspiration to me daily. Thank you Chelsea for being you, and thank you for showing people Jesus' love for the world. The world is a brighter place with you in it :)
Here are some of her absolutely gorgeous projects. She does mainly do layouts, and you will see why :)
















I hope that you have enjoyed meeting Chelsea. Make sure to go by her blog for more of her wonderful work. Thank you for taking the time to stop by.

Shaped cards - pure joy...by Peet!

I know Peet at Scrapalbum was featured on Inspirational last August, but how could I not show these incredible shaped cards that she has created recently. They are just way too good to miss.

From crowns to circles to stunning stars Peet's creations just blow your socks off with their incredible style. I have just picked out one or two of my favourites, but you must visit Peet's blog Scrapalbum to check out her amazing work.

She is truly 'inspirational'.

Meet Hannapanna:)

I have just come across this oh-so-talented Norwegian scrapbooker, Hanna, who calles her self Hannapanna.
She's not the girl who post many, many layouts in her blog, but when you are so talented as her, just a few will do to give you lots of inspiration:)


This is one of her newest work. Look at the little details like the one in the top right corner, and the black stripes around the pattern paper - just brilliant!

This is a different style for Hanna, as she mostly scrapbook in a kind of vintage layered style or in a quite colorful layered style. I hope we will se more of the simple style though, as she masters it SO well.

Hanna just won one of the challenges at the blog Scrapping the Music Norway with this layout.
What just capture my heart in this is the way she has taken the closeness between the persons in the photo and emphasizes it through the torn paper across the photo and the flowers. It's just beautiful!


Hanna is very good at finding good colours to create feelings at those who look at her layouts.
Like this one, from her bachelorettparty. Doesn't the colours just make you feel the happiness and love from her girlfriends?

The lace and roses makes the layout very feminine, and that's what a bachelorettparty can be - after all it is a girls night out:)

In Norway our national costumes are kind of sacred, and treated with lot of respect for their history and their beauty. In this layout Hanna shows off one of the costumes from the west cost.
Her choice of colours and embellishments makes an ancient feel about it.

I also love the little detail with the eyelets and flipped paper (just below the title) as this reminds me of how many of our national costums actually looks like (see photo below...)


Hanna has a beautiful daughter, and she makes bright and fun layouts with her.
This green and red one really catched my eye:


This one of her daughter in a crocodile costume is just way too funny!
The photo is just sooo fun, and the embellishments kind of make me think about toys - very clever!


She also make more delicate layouts.
I love this one!



And this is possible my favourite layout:


I just love the picture of her daughter sticking two fingers up her nose.
Haven't we all seen a kid do this? And the title says: "Are you digging for gold?"
It's just too funny:)

So all of you - go and visit sweet Hanna. Enjoy her work and give her the credit she deserves:)

Featuring the lovely Debbie Moore...

Debbies A card is for life blog is full of beautiful creations and she is now producing her own stamps, one of my favourites is the 'race for life' image shown especially as Debbie is generously donating a portion of the money earned from this stamp to cancer research

Click HERE to visit to Debbie's blog

Diane's Wonderland...

Adorable Love Birds

Beautiful Lockets

Diane has been featured before on Inspirational but I just HAD to show you her latest creations. As soon as I saw them they just brought such a huge smile to my face, the cute boxes and adorable robins are just wonderful. Diane's illustrations and pictures feature the most gorgeous characters, all drawn with such detail.

Diane has just recently designed stamps for Sugar Nellie and I can't wait for those to be released

So take a trip through Diane's Wonderland HERE

The Squareheaded Stamper

When I first spotted the creations of Brandi Wiggins-Côté (The Squareheaded Stamper) last year, I was hooked. Unlike me, she's the perfect mix of paper crafter; both stamper and scrapper. She lives in Québec. I love how she always ends her blog entries with the phrase "Ske-doosh."

Look at this first project. She altered an inexpensive box and created a gorgeous recipe box for her friend, Annabel.

I also admire Brandi's scrapbooking talent. She makes it look effortless. I wish I had some of this talent.

I love this card; it's perfection.











Brandi made this next mini-album for her mom. It is stunning! I only included one photo, but you must check out the rest of the project here!

And finally, look at this mini-page; isn't her son adorable? I love how she incorporates stitching and doodling. Please stop by Brandi's blog today and tell her you saw her on Inspirational. Have a good one! To quote Brandi, "Ske-doosh!"

Want some storage ideas .....

Isn't that just amazing, I was speechless when I saw it, I followed a link to Joan's blog and WOW!!!! These are just a few of the photos that Joan has on her blog of her storage systems, how I wish I was this organised!!!!
And some photos of her creations ......

If you want to be amazed by storage systems, speechless at beautiful layouts and go WOW at cards, then pop over to Joan's blog Butingting and Everything