Inspired by All the Little Things - Featuring Jinny Newlin

Hello and welcome to Inspired By All The Little Things! This is a weekly inspiration challenge blog and each week we feature a wonderful designer who inspires us as an artist!

This week I asked the sweet Jinny Newlin to be our guest. The first project I remember seeing by Jinny was in CARDS Magazine! I've been a fan of Jinny ever since! Her style is fresh and homespun.  She's an amazing designer and better than that, one of the sweetest people you'd ever want to meet! 

Jinny Newlin 

I asked Jinny to share a little bit about herself...

1. What is the name of your blog? When and why did you start it?

The name of my blog is Soaring. I started it, in September of 2009, at the encouragement of a fellow, papercraft friend, to showcase what I’d been creating and share some of my family’s day-to-day with extended family and friends.

2. What is your style of card making?

I don’t like to put labels on my card making style. It is always morphing and changing to fit my current likes, but I can tell you that I currently love splatter painting, watercoloring, cute images, and playful puns; and I’ve always enjoyed playing with textures, layers, and bold colors and can’t resist a fabulous print and/or pretty trimming.

3. Who inspires you as a designer?

I couldn’t possibly pick one or even two people that inspire me the most. I’m inspired by the papercraft community at large. The small handful of designers’ styles that I am drawn to today may change tomorrow, but I always adore designers who aren’t afraid to just be themselves and whose designs are clean and well-pieced together.

4. What sort of things inspire you as a card maker? Photos? Sketches? Other designers?

Inspiration is everywhere! I’m inspired by a well-dressed room, a book/magazine cover, and even the contents of my closet. I’m also completely inspired by the hand of my Creator, whether it be in the hues of a Kansas sunset, the smell of a wheat field ripe for harvest, the warm touch of my children’s kisses, or the sweet sounds of a whistling breeze racing through the Colorado mountains. Online challenge blogs and websites, too, tend to keep my style from getting too stuffy and stretch me out of my comfort zones.

5. Share something about yourself that we may not know?

I’m truly an open book and wear my feelings on my sleeves. So, if you’ve been a follower of mine for any length of time, there’s probably not much you don’t know about me. However, in the spirit of playfulness, not many people know that I can totally rock a hula hoop.

Here's Jinny's beautiful card inspired by the photo this week!

Jinny Newlin

And some inspiration from our brand new design team...

Kimberly Lackenbach

Keeway Tsao

LauraJane

Leigh Penner 

Marcie Sharp

Sheri Gilson

Lesley Croghan

and finally :) a project by me!

Jeanne Jachna

We hope you will play along with us!

The linky will close on Thursday, April 14th at 11:55pm. (PST)

Some simple rules to keep things organized and enjoyable:

1. Please use the graphic for your post and link back to this post.
2. Any posts that are offensive will be removed.
3. Please comment on the submissions of others...we all love the support!
4. Yes you can combine with other challenges but NOT other inspiration challenges please.
5. Have fun and challenge yourself!

Link up your newly created projects here...

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Inspiring Stand Outs for Challenge #9 from Lesley

Thank you all so much for joining us this week for the Inspired by Challenge #9. Lesley here! We loved seeing how you were inspired in all of your creative projects. I was blown away by all the gorgeous cards created! Thank you!

Nancy Leppek

A special thank you to Nancy Leppek for being our Creative Guest this week! 

Both Nancy and I have chosen our stand outs!

These are the submissions that have earned a special Inspiring Stand Out badge this week. Please go ahead and display the badge on your blog!

Nancy's Choice: Nancy Penir

This was so tough! The cards are gorgeous! I love Nancy Penir's card! This is stunning and beautiful and any other adjective I can think of! The flowers are so vibrant and have so much detail, the two toned sentiment looks fabulous too! I think you did a great job capturing the photo, Nancy!

Lesley's Choice: Tae Eun

Tae Eun's card was a real stand out for me this week. The gold embossing, mixed with the vibrant colours made this card so elegant and unique. I love the spray of colour and the scripty font of the sentiment. 

Congratulations ladies and thank you to everyone who played along with us this week! We will be back in one hour with a brand new challenge!  

The next challenge goes live at 5:00 am PST.

Inspired by All the Little Things -featuring Nancy Leppek

Hello and welcome to Inspired By All The Little Things! This is a weekly inspiration challenge blog and each week we feature a wonderful designer who inspires us as an artist!

This week I have invited the lovely Nancy Leppek to be our Guest! Nancy is a dear friend of mine and I love her passion for art! She always creates the most beautiful and creative projects. 

Nancy Leppek

I asked Nancy to share a bit about herself...

1. What is the name of your blog? When and why did you start it? 

             

I started my blog Scrapper@heart back in June of 2008.  I picked that name because scrapbooking was my first love.  In fact, I loved it so much I became a consultant for Creative Memories years ago and did that for quite a few years.  I still adore their products to date.  Then a friend of mine introduced me to card making and scrapbooking got pushed to the back burner.  I started my blog so that I could participate in challenges, plus I have always had a passion for writing and I thought it would be a good way to keep track of my personal journey through life and card making.  

2. What is your style of card making?  

My style of card making is kinda all over the place. If I had to narrow it down to what I do the most, that would be…. clean and layered. Although, as you will see by my card, I just recently started using watercolors and I really love it!  

3. Who inspires you as a designer? 

This is a very tough question and the common and most HONEST answer is EVERYONE out there in blogland inspires me and makes me strive to be a better card maker. There are so many of you to thank, and hopefully by now you know who you are!!  However, I think this wold be a great time to mention the two people that inspired me at the VERY beginning of this journey that I still stalk, I mean follow today!  That would be Laurie Schmidlin of Just Give Me Stamps  and Julee Tilman of Poetic Artistry, and the owner of Verve.  I would also like to mention that Lesley (our fabulous hostess) took a big chance on me when she trusted me to take over (Seize the Birthday), one of her many established challenge blogs she founded, and I will forever be grateful!  Thanks so much Lesley! 

4. What sort of things inspire you as a card maker? Photos? Sketches? Other designers?  

            

All of the above!!!  I sure hope I am not the only one that has a group of blogs and or challenge blogs that I follow on a daily or weekly basis.   I am so addicted to these sites, that when I am away for a few days and I return, I have to make sure I visit each and everyone to see what I missed.  Please tell me you get me?  I love to start my card making with sketches and or a color palette, it sure speeds up the process.  I am a very slow designer…. so my hubby has mentioned. ;)

5. Share something about yourself that we may not know? 

I am 6 feet tall, and despite having height that usually works as an advantage,  I am very uncoordinated when it comes to sports. I think there is just to much of me to control. LOL!

Here is Nancy's gorgeous card using this week's inspiration!

The challenge designers have also created a card for this week's inspiration! These ladies just inspire me SO much!!! I hope you will play along with us this week! We would love to have you join us!

Kimberly Lackenbach-http://kimcreate.blogspot.ca/

Keeway Tsao-https://kiwikoncepts.wordpress.com/  

LauraJane- http://ahiaf.blogspot.com/

Leigh Penner - www.leighpenner.blogspot.com  

 

Marcie Sharp- http://cardmakinchaos.blogspot.ca/

Sheri Gilson-http://papercraftyscreations.blogspot.ca/

We hope you will play along with us!

The linky will close on Thursday, April 7th at 11:55pm. (PST)

Some simple rules to keep things organized and enjoyable:

• Please use the graphic for your post and link back to this post.
• Any posts that are offensive will be removed.
• Please comment on the submissions of others...we all love the support!
• Yes you can combine with other challenges but NOT other inspiration challenges please.
• Have fun and challenge yourself!

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Inspiring Standouts by Weekly Stand Outs for week #8 from Tracey

Thank you all so much for joining us this week for the Inspired by Challenge #8.  We loved seeing how you were inspired in all of your creative projects. These are the submissions that have earned a special Inspiring Stand Out this week. Please go ahead and display the badge on your blog.

A special thank you to Stephanie Klauck for being our Creative Guest this week! 

Both Stephanie and I have chosen our stand outs!

These are the submissions that have earned a special Inspiring Stand Out badge this week. Please go ahead and display the badge on your blog!

Stephanie's Stand Out for the week!

Karren J

I love the pop of colour on Karren's succulents against the grey and black background and the added Wink of Stella on the succulents almost looks like water... cool effect.

Tracey's Stand Out for the week!

Betty Wright

I love how Betty created a beautiful mixed bouquet that mimics both the flowers and the succulents from the inspiration piece. Her two toned and inking and having some of the elements popped up adds such dimension! 

Congratulations ladies and thank you to everyone who played along with us this week! We will be back in one hour with a brand new challenge!  

The next challenge goes live at 5:00 am PST.

Meet the New Design Team Members!

Hello and welcome to Inspired by All the Little Things! Recently we held a Design Team call and we were blown away by the submissions. Thank you to everyone who applied! You made our decision very challenging! We decided on 6 designers to start with us on April 2nd. They will be with us until the end of July, 2016.

Without further ado, please welcome our new design team members!

Keeway Tsao-https://kiwikoncepts.wordpress.com/  

Hello, My name is Keeway or some of friends also call me “kiwi”.  I’m a Southern Californian gal that loves drawing, painting, and crafting. I've been in love with arts and craft since I was just a little girl, but I started my adventure into paper crafting in 2015 when I stumbled upon some youtube videos that really sparked my interest. Since then, I have become obsessed! When I'm not working or crafting, I make frequent visits to Disneyland, the happiest place on earth!

Kimberly Lackenbach-http://kimcreate.blogspot.ca/

Hi, My name is Kim and I'm from Connecticut,USA. I've been married for almost 35 years, have 2 wonderful daughters and the sweetest grandson in the world. I started playing with paper when my daughter made a scrapbook of her a trip to Europe and I wanted to try it. I quickly switched to card making and love to create cards for family and friends. I enjoy reading all avenues of social media related to crafting. When not in my craft space I like dining out, movies, home decorating and travel.

LauraJane- http://ahiaf.blogspot.com/

Hello! I've been making cards to retain my sanity for the past 4 years. Truly, an introvert, addicted to creating with Floral stamps and dies. Learning new techniques shared by other bloggy crafters and on youtube is a passion. I LOVE Instagram too. Happily married for 24 yrs. SAHM to 6 kids, living in Illinois near St. Louis. Baking, Crochet, Homeopathy, Homeschooling, are a few of my other interests.  Looking forward to playing with all my toys together for the Inspired By all the Little Things Challenges:)

Leigh Penner - www.leighpenner.blogspot.com  

I’ve been married to my husband for twenty years and we have three awesome kids. I work as a substitute teacher in southern Manitoba, Canada. I've been scrapbooking since 2003 & started stamping/making cards five years ago. When I'm not working or stamping, I love spending time with my kids -- either cuddled on the couch watching Netflix or reading books aloud. 

I also love riding my bike, going to the beach and doing taekwondo
(I’ll be testing for my 3rd degree black belt next month!)

Marcie Sharp- http://cardmakinchaos.blogspot.ca/

I'm a fun-loving, outgoing card-maker living in rural Ontario that also loves to read, socialize and in general, enjoy life! Currently I am lucky enough to be able to stay at home with my kiddos while hubby travels for work. This leaves me plenty of time for creating. If I'm not making cards I can be found geocaching with my family, curled up with a good book and leading the monthly book club at our local library, or happily daydreaming.  

Sheri Gilson-http://papercraftyscreations.blogspot.ca/

Hi! My name is Sheri and I live in California just north of San Francisco.  I have been married to my best friend and high school sweetheart for 22 years and we have a 16 year old son.  I am a SAHM who loves to create!!  I was first introduced to stamping when my sons babysitter invited me to a Stamping Up! Party…I was immediately hooked.   I love spending time with my family when I’m not hiding out in my craft room.

Inspired by All the Little Things - featuring Stephanie Klauck

Hello and welcome to Inspired By All The Little Things! This is a weekly inspiration challenge blog and each week we feature a wonderful designer who inspires us as an artist!

Happy Saturday! Tracey here as your hostess for this week. I will be the hostess on the forth week of every month. The photo I have chosen as my inspiration is a gorgeous succulent bridal bouquet. I am a little bit crazy for succulents right now and when I saw this photo and the colours I new it was perfect for my debut challenge.

This week I have invited the amazingly talented Stephanie Klauck as my guest. You may already know her from the My Favorite Things Design Team and her fantastic videos on YouTube. I am so happy to have her join us as my guest this week. 

I asked Stephanie to share a bit about herself...

1. What is the name of your blog? When and why did you start it?

The name of my blog is Round Here. I started it after I got more involved in the online craft world and wanted to be able to share my scrapbook layouts and cards with online friends and fellow crafters.

2. What is your style of card making?

It's pretty much clean and simple... I love white space. But I do like to mix it up a bit and I'm always up for trying new techniques and design ideas. I love clear sequins (with silver Stickles centers) and use them on almost every card I create. 

3. Who inspires you as a designer?

There are so many designers that inspire me... way too many to name. I think the biggest inspiration to me are designers who create because they love to create. There is nothing more inspiring to me that seeing another designer create something and want to share it with the world because they truly enjoyed the process and ended up creating something they loved. That, to me, is inspiration.

4. What sort of things inspire you as a card maker? Photos? Sketches? Other designers?

Anything and everything. Ads in magazines, home decor, fashion, nature. Inspiration is literally everywhere. You just have to slow down long enough to see it. ;)

5. Share something about yourself that we may not know?

When I started paper crafting, I was strictly a scrapbooker. The first time I walked into a craft store that carried stamps (and not just the rolls of stickers that I was obsessed with lol!) I looked at my husband and said... 'I can't believe people pay this much for stamps. I will never be a stamper.' 

Now, I don't think I create anything without something stamped on my project. ;)

Thank you Stephanie for sharing your story with us.  Here is Stephanie's card she created for us using this week's inspiration as a cue!

I have also created a card for this week's inspiration! I hope you will play along with us this week! We would love to have you join us!

We hope you will play along with us!

The linky will close on Thursday, March 31 at 11:55pm. (PST)

Some simple rules to keep things organized and enjoyable:

• Please use the graphic for your post and link back to this post.
• Any posts that are offensive will be removed.
• Please comment on the submissions of others...we all love the support!
• Yes you can combine with other challenges but NOT other inspiration challenges please.
• Have fun and challenge yourself!

An InLinkz Link-up

Inspired by "Inspiring Stand Outs" {Our Weekly Winners}

Thank you all so much for joining us this week at Inspired by #7!

Before we get to our Inspiring Stand Outs, we want to let everyone who applied to our Design Team Call know that the team has been selected and contacted. Thank you to all who applied!

What a gorgeous array of cards in our gallery this week!  Choosing standouts was not an easy job.  A special thank you to Bonnie Joynt for being our Creative Guest this week! 

Both Bonnie and I have chosen our stand outs!

These are the submissions that have earned a special Inspiring Stand Out badge this week. Please go ahead and display the badge on your blog!

Bonnie Joynt's Choice for Stand Out this week is:

Allie Kostiuk

Allie created a beautiful card that played nicely with the inspiration photo.  I love when people go out of their comfort zone and try a new technique.  Isn’t that what this challenge is all about; a simple photo inspiring creativity.  Allie’s hand painted watercolour tulips are beautifully showcased in the bucket.  The distressed background papers give the card an old world look that compliments the antique wooden chair in the photo.  Well done Allie!

There were so many beautiful cards to enjoy.  Thank you to all those who entered cards.  I hope you continue to be inspired by the photos that are presented in each challenge.  Happy crafting and I certainly look forward to many more challenges.  Thanks Karen for giving me the opportunity to be your guest. ~ Bonnie

Karen's choice for Stand Outs this week are:

Leigh Penner

This little blue bucket caught my eye in the gallery every time!  Leigh's style is so clean & sharp, yet she still managed to convey the shabbiness of the wooden chair with that little strip of woodgrain paper.  Gorgeous, Leigh!

And because it was too hard to just pick one... I'm also highlighting:

Kelly Szafron

Kelly's card looks like a piece of art to me - it would be amazing in a frame or on a stand.  Her painting of the tulips is just stunning (view it large, her background is so subtle & gorgeous!).  Her hint of grey in behind is reminiscent of the fabric in the photo, and the twine adds just a touch of shabby chic!

Congratulations ladies and thank you to everyone who played along with us this week! We will be back in one hour with a brand new challenge!  

The next challenge goes live at 5:00 am PST.

Happy Stamping!
Karen