Inspired By All The Little Things Featuring Barb Ghigliotty

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...

Barb Ghigliotty

I first "met" Barb when she started leaving wonderful comments on my blog posts and after I made a comment on one of her posts about wanting a particular die that she had used, she very generously sent me some die-cuts of the dies - all the way across the world!  I asked Barb to share a bit about herself...

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

My blog is Barb’s Studio Creations (https://barbsstudiocreations.blogspot.com/), which I started in October 2013. Prior to that, my friends in the Hero Arts Flickr Group strongly encouraged me to start a blog, and I’m so glad I did.

2. What is your style of card making?

My style is primarily clean & simple but sometimes a card will become ‘clean & layered’...in general, the more white space I have on a card, the more I like it! I enjoy stamping flowers and creating scenes with critters, and I also love using watercolors and Copic markers to color images. 

3. Who inspires you as a designer?

I’m inspired by so many card artists, that it would be too difficult to list all of them here. I love perusing blogs, and often meet (then follow) some really talented artists!

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

I am an avid ‘Challenge Junkie’! I love using sketches, inspiration photos, code words, and cards designed by other artists to get my juices flowing.

  

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

I am currently retired, and during my career I was a Nurse Practitioner. I worked in a very busy high risk prenatal clinic, and my specialty was caring for pregnant women with HIV...believe it or not, I miss it a lot!

Here is Barb's 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/

LauraJane- http://ahiaf.blogspot.com/

Leigh Penner - www.leighpenner.blogspot.com  

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

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

Wanda Cullen-http://cullen-arycreations.blogspot.ca/

And, finally, a card from me

We hope you will play along with us!

The linky will close on Thursday, 13 October 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!

Inspiring Stand Outs for Challenge #26

Thank you all so much for joining us this week for the Inspired by Challenge #26.  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 Lori for being our Creative Guest this week! 

Both Lori and I have chosen our stand outs!

Lori Turner's Choice: Teresa Kline

Teresa's card caught my eye right away...I love the CAS design and with that pop of white and the twine is the perfect finish! Congrats, Teresa!

Lesley's Choice: Bonnie Sharp

Bonnie captured the inspiration photo beautifully! I love the way she used part of the die cut to mimic the artwork! 

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!

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 Lori Turner

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 my dear friend, Lori Turner! Lori is the manager of the Merry Monday Challenge and a talented designer! We met many years ago online and she has always been such an upbeat and giving person! 

Lori Turner

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

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

My blog name is Caffeinated Creativity. The link ishttp://caffeinatedcreativityblog.blogspot.ca/ It was originally called Inkingly Yours (for approximately 13 years), as I was only showcasing my card making, however, I decided that since I am also an avid crocheter, and my days are started off with my extremely DEEP love of coffee, that Caffeinated Creativity was a better name for my blog. 

2. What is your style of card making?

Hmmmm…I don't think I have one particular style. I really enjoy making CAS cards, but I also do like layers, bold designs, pretty designer paper, die cuts and pearls/gum drops! I also enjoy coloring with Copics and mostly whimsical or cute images.

3. Who inspires you as a designer?

Oh boy…this is a hard question for me to answer. I have many, many designers who inspire me when it comes to cards. To name a few: Lesley Croghan, Sheri Gilson, Jenny Peterson, Jessie Rone, Sarah Gough etc., etc., etc., I could go on and on - there are so many amazingly talented designers out there and I thank each and every one of them for all their inspiration! xoxoxoxo

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

I think the things that inspire me the most as a card maker are colors and sketches. Sometimes I peruse other designers work to get some ideas and new "brain storms" but I like to have a color combo and a sketch to start me out 

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

Something you may not know about me is that I can whistle like nobody's business! Not the cute little "whistle me a tune" type whistle, but the fingers in the mouth, "loud as heck and everyone pays attention" type of whistle! ;) I used it on the farm when the kids would be out playing far from the house and when they heard that whistle, they knew it was time to come in or I wanted their attention. Now I use it in their sports - sometimes it's not so appreciated, but I love to do it anyways! I am my own cheering section....

Here is Lori's 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/

LauraJane- http://ahiaf.blogspot.com/

Leigh Penner - www.leighpenner.blogspot.com  

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

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

Wanda Cullen-http://cullen-arycreations.blogspot.ca/

We hope you will play along with us!

The linky will close on Friday, October 7th at 12:00pm. (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!

Inspiring Stand Outs Challenge #25

Thank you all so much for joining us this week for the Inspired by Challenge #25.  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 Bonnie Sharp for being our Creative Guest this week! 

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's Choice...

Ardyth #5 

 

Ardyth's watercolouring is so bright and vibrant.  The ombré just pops right off the paper!

 

Tracey's Choice...

Carol #6

 I adore Carol's beautiful and perfect no line coloured bloom set off with a few random stamped splatters and sitting on a pretty scalloped die cut!

 Congratulations ladies and make sure you grab your badge.

Thank you so much Bonnie for joining me as my guest this challenge. Join Lesley here in an hour for Challenge #26.

Inspired By All the Little Things featuring Bonnie Sharp

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!

Tracey here as your hostess this week with this gorgeous autumn inspiration. Are the leaves starting to turn where you are? They are starting to here, at eye level it is still summer but if you look up to the tops of the 200' trees on my lot they are turning yellow and orange and red, it's coming... 

This week I have invited Bonnie Sharp to be my guest designer!

The Lucky Clucker

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

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

My blog is called The Lucky Clucker which I began in September 2007. 
 
I had been making cards all summer and when I started searching (figuring out!) the web and seeing so many awesome card making blogs - well I jumped in!

2. What is your style of card making?

 I get asked this a lot and I have yet to find out - I really have no clue about my style.  I try a lot of things- except really messy stuff - not into that at all.

3. Who inspires you as a designer?

Oh boy - there are so many - but Michele Boyer with her copic colouring is one of the first I really started following, and then of course Nicole Heady (I was one of the first to purchase from Papertrey Ink-honestly I should have stock in that company haha!)

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

I am definitely inspired by photos - give me a great floral picture and I'm on it like bees on honey!

  

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

Oh wow, I have shared most everything on my blog - uhm....I guess I could tell you that I am pretty much a keep to myself kind of person.  If I put myself out there, I cringe inwardly for days. That is probably why a blog is so great - I can get out of my comfort zone - comfortably- by doing something I love!
 

Thank you Bonnie for sharing with us today.  Here is Bonnie'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/

LauraJane- http://ahiaf.blogspot.com/

Leigh Penner - www.leighpenner.blogspot.com  

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

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

Wanda Cullen-http://cullen-arycreations.blogspot.ca/

...and one from me Tracey McNeely- http://inmycreativeopinion.blogspot.com

 

We hope you will play along with us!

The linky will close on Thursday, September 29th 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 Stand Outs for Challenge #24

Thank you to everyone who played along with our coffee-themed challenge this week - your creations were so inspiring, and I adored all of the aqua/greyish tones in your creations!  Allie & I have each chosen our Inspiring Stand-outs for this week, winners are welcome to post our badge on their blog:

For her Stand-out, Allie has chosen: #2 Tenia Nelson!

"I really admire the simplicity of Tenia's design. Her mixed media cup offers a beautiful pop of aqua and her subtle embellishments add to the effectiveness of her design."

And for my Stand-out, I've chosen: #13 EK Gorman!

 "The muted colours with the pop of turquoise, the textured woodgrain background and the 'faded-newsprint' type of distressing really reflected the inspiration photo for me!"

Congratulations, ladies!  And a huge thank-you to Allie Kostiuk for being a wonderful Guest Designer this week - you're a big inspiration to me & my crafting :o)  Come back in another hour, and Tracey will have a brand new challenge to share with us!

Inspired By All The Little Things featuring Allison Kostuik

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! *We are also welcoming the talented Wanda Cullen to our design team this week! 

 Hi everyone! I'm Wanda Cullen and am so excited to join the Inspired by team as a challenge designer!  I live in Stuarts Draft in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley in VA and my spare time passion is cardmaking when I'm not working full-time as a vocational rehabilitation RN.  My style is typically clean and layered with lots of color and florals.  I'm also a pun lover as evidenced by my blog name: Cullen-ary Creations.  I look forward to inspiring others to play along with this fun challenge blog!

 Scroll down to see what she & the rest of the design team have to share with us!

As my Guest Designer this week, I have invited...

Allison Kostiuk!

(this is a photo of Allie and I cardmaking this summer!)

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

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

All You Need is Love in the Kootenays. I started my blog in 2013 to showcase my cards and kitchen creations. It was tricky coming up with a blog name and I was working on my computer beside a sign in my home that said, “All You Need is Love”. I do love that song by the Beatles so I decided to incorporate it into the blog name with the area in which I live.

2. What is your style of card making?

I try to stay fairly clean and simple, but enjoy trying out different techniques.

3. Who inspires you as a designer?

My Auntie Karen! I love her CAS designs and talented colouring and watercolour painting.

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

I often like to work with a sketch, but I also enjoy using an inspiration photo. Tic-tac-toe challenges can be lots of fun, too!

  

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

I am currently taking my Master’s of Educational Technology. It can get busy teaching full time and doing my schooling on the side, but I try my best to find some crafting time too :)

Here is Allie's card using this week's inspiration!

The challenge designers 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!

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

LauraJane- http://ahiaf.blogspot.com/

Leigh Penner - www.leighpenner.blogspot.com  

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

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

Wanda Cullen-http://cullen-arycreations.blogspot.ca/

And here are a couple of cards from me:

We hope you will play along with us!

The linky will close on Thursday, September 22nd 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!