Where do you go for inspiration?

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NatalieKW

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After working on our new house for almost three weeks, I'm finally in and we have the internet! Yay!! However, since it's been so long, I'm struggling with my mojo. I have been using templates, pretty much exclusively for the past two months as I was guesting for a template designer, but now I'm itching to jump back into not using templates exclusively. As much as I love templates, I also love keeping about half of my pages original. KWIM? :)

Anyways, I've been scouring the gallery, but I'm struggling with being inspired. Not that there is any lack of inspiration, but I prefer finding one person's gallery and just sticking to that for inspiration and then moving to the next person's gallery. So, who's galleries do you go to for inspiration? I obviously know all the Babes' galleries...anyone, including Babes, have other people they love to go to for inspiration? They don't need to be digi galleries either. Sometimes the most inspiring pages for me is when I take a something small about a paper page and turn it into something (better :thumbup:) in digi form. However, I'm totally lost on good paper galleries to go to.

I already have lots of kits to use this week and three weeks of make up to do, so hit me up with lots of inspiration...please?! :D
 
Lately I've been hitting up pinterest for inspiration... but not only to look at scrapbook pages!
I like looking at pattern (such as quilting blocks or illustration) as a start for a layout:
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This one is inspiring a layout I'm doing now...
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As far as paper scrappers go, I adore drooling over Christine Middlecamp's pages... they are so vibrant, full, rich and detailed.
 
Every summer we travel for at least 10 days, and when I get home, I'm always rusty. The first layout I make when I get back is like pulling teeth. It always takes me forever, and I never love it, BUT once I sweat my way through that first one, I usually find my groove again pretty quickly.

So my advice is to take some pictures that you love, find a kit that makes you happy and push your way through it. You'll get your mojo back pretty soon.
 
I feel the same way, we bought a new house and moved in a little over 2 weeks ago and it's been weeks since I've scrapped (unless you count the page I was about 90% done with that I started a month ago, lol). It's crazy how fast your creativity can leave you! I agree with the Pinterest suggestion. I'd also check out some of the challenges. As weird as it may seem, sometimes I just look through my own gallery.
 
tanyiadeskins said:
I like the variety of checking out my friend's Pinterest boards for scrappers! That way there is a lot to see and when I see a style I like I can also then click it to go to the original source and check out that person's gallery. If you wanna see my Layouts Concepts board it is here: http://pinterest.com/tanyia/layout-concepts/
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Tanyia i just saw your concept board and saw you pinned one of my recent pages you just made my morning :wub:
 
Thanks everyone!! All the advice was great! I was really inspired today!! :D

Here's my layout I did because of the inspiration I was given:


If anyone else has galleries or pin boards, link me up. You can never have too much inspiration.
 
Going through older stashes of photos (the kid's baby pics in my case) and looking at what I haven't scrapped inspires me. Also web developer sites, paper scrap sites and craft sites are a good source of inspiration.
 
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