Sunday, June 20, 2010

Inspiration!

My friend Andi posted a question not too long ago: 

It's been over a year since I last scrapped. I want to scrap, but I'm having trouble restarting. I never expected this would be an issue. What would you do to get restarted?

Scrapbooking friends gave a lot of great advice:  Start with some recent photos and a sketch.  Try a card first.  Join a challenge for scrapbooking.  Look through some online galleries.  Volunteer to make an entire album for someone with a deadline (not really recommended LOL).  Look at some of your older albums.  Have a baby (definitely inspirational, but I'll leave that one for the younger girls LOL).   Paw through your papers & kits...touch it all! :)

So many great ideas!  So if you are looking for some challenges try this crop over at Simply Obsessed:

Follow this link and join the message board.....then start having some fun scrapping inspirational time! :)  Simply Obsessed

Oh and here's a little peek of something I've created recently:

I saw it on a blog post and wanted to make it right away, but the dimensions were way off.  So I quickly grabbed the closest notecard and re-configured everything.  I love it! 

It has a lid that I was able to use my border punch on, dividers for storing stamps, embellishments for my envelopes and the notecards themselves.  It would make a super cute gift, don't you think?

6 comments:

Nathalie said...

This is very cute Ruth! It would totally make a great and useful gift!

Anonymous said...

Your box and the contents are really cute! That would make a really nice gift

just jennifer said...

the box is very cute!

angie gutshall said...

Great project and very useful!

Carin said...

Yes, a great gift! Very cute!

kateisner said...

Very cute! I am having the same dilemma about scrapbooking. I just cant seem to get back into the "groove" of things. Slowly but surely I am trying to get my mojo back. Good Luck!