Inspiration everywhere...

Lately I have actually been feeling like I want to scrapbook ...

...its been a long time since I did anything ... scrapbook wise....creative wise....

Yes I have been doing Project Life and I have been loving it! If you haven't heard about it or seen it (first crawl out of that cave you must have been living in ) and go check it out on Becky Higgins site. Fabulous product that makes scrapbooking very easy and it has gotten me to take more pictures (something I have been struggling to do for some time now).

So that being said though I wasn't doing anything else - nothing really was inspiring me, until..... I was listening to Paperclipping Roundtable one night on the way to Ottawa. In one of their podcasts (LOVE!) they were talking about Get It Scrapped and Masterful Scrapbooking Design and an upcoming event called True Scrap. So I had to check these out....

A few days later I signed up for Masterful Scrapbooking's March edition (and got a free edition as a part of a promo they were doing ). The March issue was all about Inspiration - and just a few days of looking at these new sites, listening to more podcasts I was inspired to sit down and create something! Love that - love listening to creative people be passionate about what they are doing and wanting to encourage others to just get out and create. So it was a simple creation - birthday cards for some April birthdays, but it was something. I also got caught up on Project life, did a few layouts for it and started putting together scripture journals for April and I.

I was excited, I was creating!


(Photo - one of the cards I created)

I found that by listening to the podcasts from Paperclipping Roundtable, Paperclipping Digi, Creative with Jamie, and audio from Masterful scrapbooking I was getting really excited about my hobby again. I even found a way to get my iPod shuffle to work in a set of speakers so I could listen while I was in the shower and getting ready in the morning!

I started looking into the True Scrap event - and was excited to see that it ran in between April and mine birthdays - bonus as we were trying to figure out what to do. So we signed up and created our whole birthday celebreation around this online scrapbooking event from April 7th - 9th. Each day had hour long classes with videos and q&a times and teachings on a variety of subjects including inspiration, journaling, stamping, photography, etc.


(Photo - screen shot from one of the classes)

It was great. It made me think about my own scrapbooking style - what is it? how to figure that out? what do I use to get me inspired? what are my methods? what are my favourite design principles? Lots of great questions!

So I am enjoying this process right now of falling in love with this hobby again - loving the creative flow, the people involved in it and how it can relax me after a stressful or eventful day. I will continue to examine what my style is, where I get my inspiration and how do I go about putting together a page or project. One thing I am starting to try out is an inspiration journal - just a place to put all of my thoughts, quotes, ideas, sketches, techniques, products, etc down in one place.

Looking forward to this time of being creative!