{ Okay, this is a question for you scrapbookers out there, sorry to the rest of my readers! }
I want to know:
What ONE scrapbooker inspires you the most?
I know that there are so many wonderful artists out there, all with their own special qualities. I could list probably 25 scrapbookers right off the bat who inspire me on a daily basis, over and over again. I have so many favorites! But who speaks to you the MOST? Who is YOUR favorite scrapbooker?
Who do you look to when you need to jumpstart your own creativity? Or who do you scraplift the most? Or who do you feel helped get your own style where it is today? Give me a name and a reason, if you will!! I'm just interested to see these answers...
Here's mine: Shelley Laming (aka Shelley Sullivan)
I love love love Shelley's work...I've been drooling over her work in the Creating Garden at Two Peas in a Bucket for years now. Her style is simple, straightforward, clean, cute, colorful, fun. I must say that my scrapbook style has come a long long way since I discovered her work. I've learned a lot about composition, about simplicity, about color, about photography. She has helped me to settle deeper into MY own style. A style that is similar to hers, but also very much my own. I also love that the majority of her pages are one-picture pages. Love that. Makes me realize that yes, it is totally okay to do as many one-picture pages as I want!!! Awhile back, Shelley left the Creating Garden and I was so sad when I realized that. Majorly bummed. But she's come back now, and she continues to inspire me...
Now you...tell me tell me!
5 comments:
Sue Thomas and Helen McCain - both ar HOF'ers, amazing artist and genuinely kind women.
I know you said ONE, but I TRUELY have three. Mostly because it depends on HOW I'm stuck...I look to Becky Higgins for her sketches because I can always count my photos, go to a sketch book, arrange the photos and something cool will come to me...I look to Faye Morrow Bell for her vision - I mean this woman finds inspiration in things like a tea towel and a key chain! She really inspires me to see things with fresh eyes. I look to Ali Edwards for translating the three, four, five dimensions of my world in to the TWO dimensions of a scrapbook layout. Her work is essentially FLAT but it is DIMENSIONAL at the same time becuase of the way she uses space....she has a really interesting and unusal eye! Like you, I find MANY scrappers inspiring, but these are the staples of my scrapping diet.
Hmmm....I do look to BH Sketches quite a bit, but I will have to think about which scrapbooker inspires me the most style-wise. Margie Sch. inspired my journaling by getting me to write the journaling on Ashleigh's pages to her, rather than about her. Because they ARE a gift to her...
Style-wise, right now, I'm really diggin GG Rhonda Bonifay. Maybe because she tends to use lots of patterned papers & ribbons and that's what I'm getting into. Less of all the other stuff...
oh this is so very tough!! I *honestly* can't even begin to say.. I am such a scraplifter that I scrap lift anyone that I see a layout and like.
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