Joy's Amazing Creations

Aloha to everyone!!! I'm really sorry for MIA for a long time. But anyway, I'm here today and glad to share with you a fabulous blog full of inspirations. Today I want you to meet Joy at A place to be me... I found her blog last year when I was searching Hawaiian crafters. When I first checked her blog I fell in love with all her amazing creations. Since then I follow her blog and everytime I visit her blog she inspired me with her creativity. She's so kind enough to share us her wonderful tutorials.


I love these purse, they look so real. She's so talented and so creative. If you want to give this a try then please ask her the instructions on how to make them.

Look at these Hello Kitty cute purse. I love the design and the color combo. Please check out her blog for more Hello Kitty projects.

These are desktop post it holder. These are so cute! For more design please visit her blog.

Ok these are my favorites the shaker cards. She made the best shaker cards ever. Please check out more in her blog. I really want to give this a try.

Her cards are brilliant. I love her coloring she always put the right combo together.

I hope you all enjoy what I share with you today. Please visit her amazing blog and get more inspiration. I'm pretty sure that you'll love what you see as much as I do.

Thank you and have a wonderful day!

Introducing Lean do Ruiter

Lean is from the Netherlands, and makes the most beautiful mini albums, I fell in love with her work as soon as I saw it - just look at all the detail, yummy ribbons, and embellishments

Who would have thought that cows would make such a pretty album.....
Love the way the cows look as if they are gazing intently at the butterfly and flower......

scraps of lace, pompom braid, adorable!

Go HERE to see more of Lean's beautiful work - look out for the cat album..

Introducing Lori Roop...

Happy Tuesday everyone! Today I would like to show you some of the work of Lori Roop. She amazes me with the way she combines the most beautiful images together with ribbons and bows and makes the whole of the finished project so magical.


Check out her beautiful creations for yourself at the The Paper Yard. Such beautiful work you can't help but be inspired. Just take a look at this gorgeous bird house and the fabulous friendship card that follows.


Don't just take my word for it visit Lori's blog The Paper Yard for yourself to see more of her fabulous creations and maybe leave her a kind word or so to make her Tuesday an extra happy one.

Meet Anita aka Neeta :)

I'm very happy to introduce you to the oh-so-talented Anita:)
I must admit that I find it a bit hard to write this, as I just don't know where to start...
This started out wanting to write about her scrapbooking, but looking through Anita's blog I got fascinated by her cards and then I descovered her art journaling - wow!

I think I'll start with her beautiful layouts:)
Anita has a way to capture an emotion in her photo and use papers and embellishments to make the emotion stronger.

She often makes her own backgrounds, or put details to readymade ones to make them better. It's so clever how she has used glimmermist (?) on this one to make it look like she have used two different papers for her background:


OK - this is not a good thing, but I have to admit that I don't pay much attention to card makers.
It's not that I think less of them, it's more that I don't find it that intersting. But after seeing Anita's work I think I have to change my mind. Her cards is artwork!

This is a Christmas card you should frame and put up every Christmas - it's a small present in itself.

I also have the little giraffe stamp, but the way Anita colour it makes it look totally different from mine. Anita is a master in colouring her stamped items!!!
In her blog you can find a step-by-step tutorial how to use distress ink to give life to stamped items.

This Valentine card is just sooo cute! I wonder if it's possible to get my husband to make one of these ;)


After looking through Anita's blog, and seeing her wonderful art journal I have tried to start my own art journal. I find so much inspiration in her pages - just look:


It's a shame to have these in a book, they should have been framed and put in a gallery!








And, as usual, my favourites:)
I had to pick two this time, one layout and one page for art journaling.

I just LOVE the way Anita has made her own background here.
It's so playful, and just so beautiful!


This art journaling page really captured my eye.
I love the effect of the photo with the letters behind, and the butterflies are so beautiful!


Thank you so much Anita for all the inspiration you give us!
Make sure to visit her blog and leave some nice comments:)

Kirstens blog

Hi everyone..


Sorry it's been a while, but I'm sure you know how things are! Thankfully, the lovely Julie who owns the blog has had some patience with me and let me stay.. I'm sure it won't be so long next time.. lol.

Anyway, I have a corker of a blog to show you this morning. This blog belongs to the wonderful Kirsten and boy has she got some fantastic little boxes and cards on here. The quality of her work is outstanding, and the colouring and finish to her projects is second to none.

Enough of me waffling on, why not visit her blog HERE and I'll see you all again very soon.

Here are some of her beautiful projects.

Pagan beauty..............

I stumbled across "a gem" of a blog last week, I was so excited when I found it....did a little happy dance! The super talented Rowena's cards have that "wow" factor!! She is a lady after my own heart too......stamps and paper....in all their gorgeous'ness!

Each of Rowena's cards are beautiful and little works of art! So I will stop yacking and let her creations speak for themselves............hope you enjoy her blog as much as I have!

Hugs Mandyxx

Anja's Artefakts...

Morning Everyone!

Yesterday I came upon Anja's wonderful art work and was blown away by the stunning pieces she had created. Amazing texture and colour and the backgrounds are painted and coloured so intricately. I LOVE the Marilyn card especially. Want to see more?? Hop over and visit Anja HERE

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Teri's Blog Spot

I haven't posted anything for quite awhile but like everyone else, summer is super busy. Today I'd like you to meet Teri.
When you take a look at her blog you are going to think, how does she take care of a husband, 3 children and 2 beautiful dalmatians? She manages and does an awesome job.



Take a look at this Matchbox Advent Box. I love this and look at those beautiful colors. Most of her work is very bright but one of my favorite pieces is the card and gift bag below. I adore these soft colors that fit perfectly together.



When I saw this next 2 pocket card I wanted to run to my scrappy place and create. Look at the detail of that flower. Beautiful!!!



I fell in love with this little bunny. He is adorable and just look at those colors!!!



I think I picked this last card because it reminds me of my daughter. She is a little farm girl and loves nothing better than planting flowers and gardens. I think she just loves to watch them grow.



There is so much more to see so hop on over and spend some time with Teri. She will definitely inspire you.
Thanks Teri for allowing me to share a small part of your world with the rest of the world.

Check out Monicas blog

And see her fantastic cards. To make this one she has used an old page from a book, papers from Dream Street papers "Secret Garden-Botanical", rubons from Melissa Frances, stamps from Heidi Swapp and distress cracle paint from Tim Holtz. Check out her blog and see a lot of beautiful cards!

Jenny from the block but better!!

Not just any Jenny from the block, Jeja has as much if not more style than J-Lo herself!!
You only have to look at the little details like the wired birdcage on this card to know that this lady has something special!

All three of Jejas' most recent layout have got my "wows" going and then as I looked backwards through her blog I discovered she can do altered boxes too.....yay I love admiring these!! No wonder Graphic45 have just chosen Jeja to be a guest designer.

These three layouts use the latest Webster Pages products..........

If you are into the technical side of "paperology" then check out her fan banner......because Jenny can fold paper like nobody I know and it was this technique that has made me such a "fan" of her work!!

To visit Jenny/Jeja and become a fan of her blog I mitt pysselrum click HERE.

Meet Glenda of ....

I would like to introduce Glenda Bailey of TwoCoolTexans. Glenda is a Mixed Media artist and teacher from Dallas U.S.A

I had difficulty in choosing what images to use from her vast aray of art pieces which can be found here .

Glenda loves to use a variety of mediums in her artwork, so without further ado, here is a small selection of her work:

I hope you enjoyed the small selection of Glenda's work ... do stop by here for some more eye candy.

Evana's Blog

Hi, I would love to introduce you to Evana Willis, an amazing scrapbooker and like me - an Aussie. I found her blog while surfing and immediately fell in love with her amazing work. Check this out -

Gorgeous isnt it? I love all the different layers to see and yet still keep the phot as the focus. Check out this one as well -

You can see tonnes more beautiful work work at Evana's blog "I am just me...e" by following the link here.

I highly recommend the trip, I know I will be going back to check out some more of Evana's work.

BARBARA'S DESIGNS

Look at these two fabulous cards from Barbara Foster - so completely different but they really caught my eye. You'll find the shabby chic one here. The other card uses a gorgeous stamp which Barbara has called Halloween Diva I adore this stamp and Barbara has shown some other fabulous cards using this image including a Wedding Card. Maybe it was something in the name that caught my eye!

Do check out Barbara's site for some lovely work - and go look for those Halloween Bird Houses!

Magickdiva

Ann and Her Creative Antics

Hi everyone! Hope you are having a great weekend. The weather is perfect and warm (not hot) here in Northern California.

Time for me to bring you another one of my favorite paper crafters. Ann Cox of Creative Antics is a queen of the clean and simple style of card making.

I've been following her work for over 9 months. She's very inspirational and I'm sure you will love seeing her work too.


This fushia, black, white, and olive colored card is perfection! Wow.















Doesn't her butterfly card want to make you pull out your Martha Stewart butterfly punch and get to work? Cute.








I love Ann's use of vellum, ribbon, and embroidered embellishments.

Just simply elegant and beautiful! Perfect clean and simple.

Please stop by Ann's blog today and tell her you saw her on Inspirational. Have a good one!

Tab's Crafty Creations

Well after my blog hopping rounds yesterday I visited Tab's wonderful blog and it is crammed full of delightful, cute images which she colours to perfection with her Polychromo Pencils. The colours and gorgeous papers she puts together are just perfection. Her cards really made me smile, I loved them especially the altered Paint Pot - Way To Go Tab!!

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So hop on over to Tab's and feast your eyes on all the different cute images.

Pattie's Art

When I get the time, I always blog hop in so many directions that I lose sight of where I am, and often get lost, but yesterday I hopped right onto Patties Page, and was bowled over by her gorgeous work! Altered keys, beer mats, and a gorgeous little bird. It speaks for itself, and I urge you to delve deeper, and get inspired. Thank you Pattie for letting us in your world!
Jennie