YouTube Inspiration

Recently I have been inspired by a few crafters who have taken the time to make video tutorials, upload them to YouTube and generously share their knowledge.  I thought I'd post some links to my favourite crafters:

• thefrugalcrafter Lindsay Weirich
  Lindsay has masses of tutorials on hundreds of different crafts, I really like her enthusiasm (it's kind of contagious!) I watch a tutorial or three of hers at least once a week.
  
  

• CraftKlatch
  CraftKlatch has a tutorial titled 'Recycle Nail Polish Jewelry Craft' which I really enjoyed and found quite inspirational. She has lots of tutorials which I haven't watched yet but are on my to do list!
  
  

• jennibellie
  Jennibellie has some really great tutorials including a long informative one on paper bead making which was very helpful when first learning to make paper beads. I also spotted one yesterday about turning paper towels with paint all over them into paper here which I am going to try one day soon.
  
  

• Janice Mae
  Janice Mae has some very interesting tutorials on paper bead making and is currently involved in a project called "Bead the Earth" which looks quite interesting.
  
  

Hope these links are as inspirational to you as they have been to me!

Attitude Of Gratitude Journal Pages

Above are three pages which have evolved over the past month (I often start a page and then leave it part way through coming back to it when I have time and inclination). Each of them is in my Attitude Of Gratitude (AOG) journal.

Inspiration

I think I may be getting the hang of this!

You see inspiration keeps hitting me everywhere I go and with every webpage/blog/website I visit I come away with even more ideas and/or knowledge.

I can't believe I look forward to the junk mail being delivered just so that I can rat through and look for images/words which I can cut out. I happily spend my evenings cutting out the images/words or splattering paints onto pages, then waiting patiently for the paint to dry or glue to take so that I can get on with creating.

I don't always like the results, but I do enjoy the process. What I don't like I come back to later and try something else. Silhouettes, colours, words/test, prompts, paints, stencils, pencils, gel pens, fonts, stamps, glitter, inks, photos, pictures,  threads, patterns, doilies, textures, serviettes, pencils.... I could go on.... and on.

Often I make notes in my diary at work during lunchtime when ideas come out of no where so that I don't forget them and I'm going to get a small journal for my bedside table for when inspiration hits at 3am as it's beginning to.

Plain and simple I think (but don't tell anyone) that I may just be Addicted to Art!