it’s no secret that the internet abounds with amazing inspiration….almost TOO much inspiration.  there are so many amazingly talented crafters & artists & scrapbookers out there who are so generous and share their ideas and their projects and their “how to’s” on the web.  the trick, for me, has been how to handle it all.  previously i had a jumble of bookmarks & some images saved that amounted to a big bunch of gobelty gook that i could never navigate & hence, all that promising creative inspiration went nowhere.

but recently i discovered tumbl’r, and it has been extremely helpful organizing all of my favorite images and tutorials and great ideas from talented crafters and artists around the www in one pretty place.  if you are anything like me, the time you have to sit down & create is pretty precious because there is not much of it to go around.    i’m looking forward to utilizing my tumbl’r more & more going forward so i can really cut down on that whole “ooooooo what do i do??????” when it comes to creating time, and get more productive during my small time window.

so when i got my february kenner road kits, i immediately turned to my tumbl’r & was easily able to find some wonderful inspiration that i quickly turned into layouts.

for example, i tagged this post in my tumbl’r a bit ago.  aside from the fabulous granny square crocheted blanket and the little tutorial for a heart garland for your home, i immediately thought…”hmmm….a little heart punched garland would be super cute on a page”

so….i punched & punched little hearts & had a great time creating this:

one of the other cool things about tumbl’r is that you can “follow” other people who have similar (or interesting or different) tastes as you, so you can benefit from the inspiration & information they find as well.   that is how i found this amazing artist’s flick’r page.  it was just what i needed to finally tackle some photos i had from my nephew’s birthday NYC trip last summer.  i always get stumped by “event” photos for some reason, but a little “moline” patterned paper city was perfect for this page.  i especially loved how “moline” put those tiny black hand cut rectangles on the “buildings” for windows.  SO cool.  creating this page was really fun :)

and one of my favorite aspects of all of this “inspiration saving” is that once i find something wonderful that sparks something creatively, i know exactly where it came from & can give credit where credit is due.   :)

happy creating!  & happy tumbl’ring :)

xoxo

gi

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