P. Kelly Smith
Welcome to Freebie Friday! I hope you’ve been enjoying our week-long promotion of World Card Making Day, both here and on the Moxie Fab World blog. If you haven’t yet boarded Cath’s “Moxie Fab Express”, today her magical train is touring the grand ol’ U.S.A. We’re making some picturesque stops in Cardstock City, Ribbon Falls and beautiful Buttonville, so make sure you board early to get a good seat!
I still can’t believe that tomorrow is the official day! This little holiday just keeps getting bigger and bigger. It seems more people are recognizing the need for a day that celebrates the art of card-making. We’d like to thank all of our loyal readers who have embraced World Card Making Day and have been so willing to share their time, talents and enthusiasm for this holiday.
Have you ever wondered if the Paper Crafts editors celebrate World Card Making Day? Well, we most certainly do and today we’re revealing our plans!
Jennifer: I’m unveiling my newly designed and organized craft area – it’s amazing what a difference it makes in my creativity and ability to actually make projects instead of just think about making them. Hop on over to my personal blog tomorrow for the big reveal!
Brandy: I can’t think of any better way to spend World Card Making Day than curled up on the couch with a cookie sheet on my lap. Let me explain. Some of my holiday cards are already designed, the pieces pre-cut and my handsome husband is sure to be at my side (he’ll just be watching TV instead of trimming paper). I’m going to make my cards assembly line style so I can get them done in a holiday hurry (that means efficiently and with a big smile on my face).
If you love this card featuring American Crafts’ new Merriment collection, check out the CKC web site. A holiday card class featuring this very project (designed by yours truly) just might be coming to your town!
Home for the Holidays Card by Brandy Jesperson
Cath: I’ll be spending the day mass producing some of my favorite cards from my old card business, Cards by Cath. This wedding card was a top-seller and I still love it!
I Thee Wed Card by Cath Edvalson
Susan: In my house, every Saturday is an opportunity to get creative, but this Saturday I’ll be making Christmas cards in honor of World Card Making Day. I’ll also be watching the college football game between Michigan and Michigan State. M go Blue!
Here's a toast to my favorite team!
Kelly: My sister happens to be in town this weekend, so we’ll spend part of the day driving through her favorite mountain canyon. After I’m sufficiently inspired, I plan on finishing the friendship cards I still owe our card group!
Who wouldn't find inspiration in these surroundings?
Well, now you know how the Paper Crafts editors will be celebrating World Card Making Day. We hope that in whatever country you call home, you’ll find some time to be inspired and create a card or two. For today’s giveaway, I have two prize packages featuring Little Yellow Bicycle’s Zinnia collection and a copy of Holiday Cards & More, Volume 4. Leave a comment telling me how you get your creative juices flowing. Music? Chocolate? Blog Hopping? All comments must be received by midnight on Sunday, Oct. 4
Two lucky winners will each take home this prize package!
Happy Friday!
Kelly
P.S. Make sure you join us tomorrow for a special Saturday blog post! We’ll be celebrating World Card Making Day by giving away one giant jackpot of a prize! Will you be the lucky person who strikes gold?
P.P.S. Paper Crafts Go-to Gal Maren Benedict is a guest blogger today over at Creating Keepsakes! Click HERE to read her fun post!
I’ll be blog hopping and making cards…! =)
I love blog hopping and looking at magazines. Sometimes it is the person that I’m making the card for…they inspire me!
I get my creative juices flowing by visiting Archivers store. They have so many sample cards around the store and they are always getting new products in.
My inspiration comes when my 5 children are all in bed – ahhhh! I just love that time of the day for creating!
My creative juices start flowing with the music on and the fingers looking thru magazines.
I blog hop and look at magazines (papercraft or regular ones too) for inspiration. Friends are great at making suggestions on how to jazz them up.
Reading some magazines and music always help be get rolling.
I definitely get inspired when visiting different blogs and forums. So much talent out there nowadays that Im just in awe!
I get inspiration from stamps and paper themselves. Also any sort of craft magazine inspires me from quilting, knitting, scrapbooking etc. The arrangement of different textures and colours in their photos usually make me feel creative!
I fire up my computer, turn my media player on, then cruise some design blogs, craft blogs, check in on my social sites and remind myself that I’m on here to get an idea, not fill out a survey! That’s when I decide it’s time to leave the internet alone and clear a space in front of my monitor for my sketch book and dig out my trusty lead-holder to doodle me a design. hehe
i get inspiration from forums, challenges and blogs. I love blog hopping because I get to learn new ideas and techniques. I do read magazines too. And of course my son is my ultimate inspiration.
As many others have said, I get my inspiration from magazine and blogs, especially challenge blogs, publication blogs, and papercrafting products’ blogs. I love to blog hop. I really love blogs with videos, too. That’s an added bonus prize! lol
What gets my creative juices flowing??? I like to look through Paper Crafts at night before I go to bed and by morning my brain has cooked in all its yummy creative juices and I can’t wait to create!!!!!!!!! After all that… all I need is time………. hmmmmmmm. {LOL}
Happy World Card Making Day everyone!
Char in So Cal
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Loved hearing how you all get your inspiration. I like to blog hop for inspiration but sometimes a sketch or a theme inspires me just as much.
Kat x
Hi,
I get my inspiration from the Disney Park, when I’m in a slump I just hop to Disney World and let the Magic of Disney jumpstart my creativity.
Sea World park is the ultimate for colour combos. Their garden and the colours they put together is among any best garden in England. By the time I leave the parks I have taken so many colour combo pics and texture etc..
Next time you are at a theme park take a look at the colours they were specifically chosen by expert to convey certain moods
Thanks for the prize.
Maggie
http://cuttlebugchallenge.blogspot.com
blogs and music get me going – and sunshine!
I get inspired when visiting different blogs!
My creativity comes from everyday life..When I get stuck, I usually sit in the bathtub and think of all the projects I have going on and then something pops in my mind..I have so many talented friends, just looking back at all of their work will give me an idea for a sketch, colors, or techniques..That is what I love about the crafting world..You can make anything out of a small idea..
My inspiration as got to e blog hopping!.. so many creative crafters outthere are sure to set magic upon me!
What gets my juices going? Definitely blurfing… especially challenge sites…put a challenge in front of me and I WILL create SOMETHING
This morning my inspiration will be coming from a folder marked ideas that has been lingering unchecked for months!
My inspiration come from blogs and looking at magazines and looking for different color combo’s and sketches. Love looking at different ways to use the same stamps.
I love checking out several blogs regularly. My bookmarked blog list has grown with this WCMD tour and I have discovered some incredible talent that I might not have found otherwise! Thanks!
DeniseB
Penn Valley, California
I Love to blog hop and peruse magazines fro my inspiration.
Cheers Sally
I surf the web-it’s the Fort Knox of inspiration for me. I have to admit it’s usually the whimsical or funny that sparks my creativity.
I get my inspiration checking in with everybody on my blog roll. There are tons of new ideas daily on all my scrappy favorite blogs.
COFFEE!! Just kidding but it does help in the a.m.!! I like to combine a color challenge and a sketch challenge if I really need to get something done in a hurry (most of the time!). I make cards for specific occasions and people so I think about what they would like and just have at it. For wedding/anniversary cards I try to use the wedding colors or a picture or detail from a save the date or invitation. LOVE to put the person’s picture on the card if I have one. Last but not least, blog hopping!
Most of my inspiration comes from blogs or magazines. I just got my newest Creating Keepsakes and can’t wait to scraplift!
Right now I’m loading new music for my iPod – yep, music helps get the creative juices flowing. And in a bit I’m off to my local store to see what’s going on for World Card Making Day!!
Music, chocolate, blog hopping? Um, yes! These all help get my juices flowing. That and plopping my kids down in front of a movie so I can have some peace!
My inspiration comes from silence and the chance to play with gorgeous papers! Happy WCMD!
My inspiration comes from blog hopping and my grandchildren.
I usually just have to go in my craft room to be inspired. BUT when my creative juices have stopped flowing I go to a collection of items I have gathered from magazines, websites, crops I have filed in my Inspiration drawer! It works every time!
I have about 20 favorite blogs I look at for inspiration. Most of my stamping is done for challenges so the rules and sometimes the elements are already chosen which helps me get started.
I love any day that celebrates crafting and being inspired!! I love that we are all coming together and sharing our love of card making.
Barbie
The most inspiring thing for me is online challenges. I especially love sketch challenges!
Blog hopping, looking through my magazines, fashion magazines or just simply things I see during my day… and quiet is what usually works for me… no music needed!
Whenever I clean up my desktop or decide to re-organize my supplies I always find something that instantly brings an idea to my head and most of the time I stop and tackle it right then and there. It’s always good!
I definitely get inspired from seeing other crafters wonderful creations!
Most of my inspiration comes from blog hopping. There is so much talent out there in cyber world. When I am not checking out some of my favorite blogs I am sure to be looking through my magazines and books for ideas. I find that my older mags can still trigger new ideas, so I keep them all.
I get my creative mind going with blog hopping and music when I am actually creating.
Thanks for the chance to win.
Rading Paper Crafts, blog hopping, catalogue perusing, re-organizing supplies, inspiration is everywhere!
I get my creative juices flowing by looking at all my beautiful stamps and picking the one that catches me eye!
I love blog hopping! The talent out there is amazing & I love creating cards from a sketch. Happy world card making day
My inspiration comes from just looking around, I look at the color or a theme of something and just go from there. I also read other blogs to get inspiration too.
I get my inspiration from blog hopping or just flipping through my piles and piles of card making magazines. Before long I’ve got my stamps and paper out! Thank you for the chance to win!
usually surfing the web or looking through a stack of photos
The two biggest boosts to my mojo are probably challenges and shopping! I love having new”stuff” – whether it’s a stamp, a piece of pretty ribbon or new paper to play with.
Inspiration comes from many places. Just being out in nature and seeing all the natural colours together. Perusing card magazines and of coarse, blog hopping. To see what the trends are and what everyone else is doing out there.
Leslee in MT
I love to blog hop!