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!
Blogs get my creative juices flowing for sure!!!
my inspiration comes from a lot of different places, but if it’s a last minute project i have to get done, i just gather supplies and DO IT!
My plan is to go to the farmers market and then create. I often hit the blogs on my fav list and check out what they are up to. I am always finding loads of inspiration!
Sometimes inspiration merely comes from looking at a little embellishment in my stash that I think would make for the basis for a great card, but if I ever get stuck I like to combine a color combo challenge and sketch challenge (along with looking that the various design team cards) to find that extra push I need to create something great!
My inspiration comes from blogs and magazines. I love seeing what ideas and color combos everyone comes up with
I get inspiration from card magazines, blogs, and galleries. I love seeing what ideas others have using specific stamps or papers that I own.
I am inspired by all the wonderful scrappy blogs available for my perusal.
I usually get my creative juices flowing from looking at the blogs and galleries. Everyone thank-you for sharing your ideas and techniques!
I get my juices flowing by looking at magazines or papper patterns.
I get my inspiration from Papercrafts magazine (of course!), my Stampin’ Up! catalogs and the gallery at Splitcoaststampers.com. Thanks for the chance to win such s terrific prize package!
I love to blog hop and look at my Papercrafts magazine. I like to borrow people’s ideas and use them on my cards!
I love to surf around to all the various blogs that I follow. But my main source of inspiration is to just go down to my craft room and PLAY! Sometimes I have no idea what I want to do, but once I get playing something almost always appears! Oh, chocolate always helps!
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chocolate is always good
Blog surfing & magazines filled with lots of inspiration gets my creative juices flowin!
Lots of fun inspiration and a great giveaway also!!
Ooh, those mountains look very inviting but I do see snow on them. I think it is coming our way so what a perfect weekend to spend in my scrap lounge creating holiday cards. I pull alot of my inspiration from packaging and interior design.
My inspiration comes from everywhere…people I am creating a card/gift for, blogs I read, books I love, nature, magazines, music, movies, a clean stamping room, playing with art supplies,…and more. Inspiration is all around and inside.
Inspiration comes for me when I gather papers, stamps, copics and bits & pieces together and sit down at a clean space.
At the risk of sounding like a brown-noser, I really do pull out old copies of my PaperCrafts magazines! I never cut them up, only put sticky tabs on pages that particularly interest me. When I need a card, I always find something to “lift” for inspiration!
I love to make a run to the library and bring home an arm load of craft/card books. It really inspires me to get back into my craft space and create some art.
I get inspired by nature, by catalogs, by visiting blogs, my world is an oyster.
To get my mojo flowing I flip through magazines or go blog surfing. Seeing other people’s projects definitely makes me want to create my own!
Happy WCMD!!! For my inspiration, I love looking at craft blogs, magazines and online galleries. There are sooooo many talented and friendly artists around the world.
My inspiration comes from looking at blogs from talented card-makers. Papercrafts magazines and old M.E. Home Companion magazines are also an incredible inspiration. Rainy days prove to be my most creative.
My inspiration comes from: My stamps, papers, and the person I’m making a card for. That’s all I need. I like to work in silence so I can really think, pray, and enjoy the whole experience. Thanks for asking.
inspiration came from some fabrics I picked up recently from the quilting shop…lots of great colors and patterns for cards and lots of the fabric will end up on cards and scrapbook pages
Well, since I have to scrap in my living room, I always have the TV on.
Even though I may not watch it..but from the sound out of the TV, it does help me to create my cards or papers (weird, hm?)
Aside from that, I love flipping scrapbooking, cards making magazines as well as blog hopping. It’s great to see what others can do with their papers.. Truly Amazing ~ this world of scrapbooking and cards making we are in….
I use a sketch or look at some wonderful galleries on line.
My “creative juices” flow at their own will. Here lately they seem to come as I try to sleep at night. My brain just refuses to shut down and I find myself waking in the morning with all these ideas in my head. However, I did have some come to me yesterday while shopping.
Ordinarily though I’ll just sit in my hobby room with NCIS or House on in the background, look at a blog or magazine and get busy….
Nothing gets my creative juices flowing like some good music! Then I create for hours!
My creative juices flow when I blog hop and see what others are doing with the same things I have in my own stash. Love to see how creative people can be.
I love to surf blogs and save images of samples of layouts and cards.
i have the images on a loop on my computer so i see them all during the day.
I usually start by surfing my favorite blogs then just head into the studio and start playing. Peace Cynthia
For inspiration I browse – blogs, magazines – both card-making and not, but mainly I find my inspiration by folkes’ sketch challenges – LOVE ‘em!
My No. 1 source of inspiration is definitely blogs…after that I find that just getting some supplies out gets the juices flowing.
Looking through magazines, websites, and blogs are my inspiration! Chocolate is always great too