Category Archives: Inspiration

My top five sources of collage inspiration

April 23, 2009 – 5:44 pm
By Carla

Children’s cabinet cards, old books, Victorian trade cards, maps and old family letters are great sources of collage inspiration

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Flower power and wishes

April 22, 2009 – 7:10 am
By Carla

Inspiring me today…

Don’t you just love the colours of Spring flowers?
UPDATED: Jamie Ridler is having a Wishcasting Wednesday today. Well, my ultimate wish is that my new, very exciting but somewhat uncertain business project will succeed. Which, in terms of steps, translates into me having the gumption and the guts to make it work.

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Inspiration of the week: old wrought-iron bed header

March 16, 2009 – 12:57 pm
By Carla

I was up in the mountain at the weekend, making the bed, when it suddenly struck me. Our old wrought-iron bed header with its sinuous curves and slightly peeling paint, would make the perfect stencil for a background. I can’t believe I haven’t noticed it before. I have been staring at it for an entire [...]

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Inspiration of the week: Victorian imagery

February 4, 2009 – 1:29 pm
By Carla

The best find of my snowy flea market trawl was a Victorian-style metal box.
When I was younger, I used to dismiss Victorian imagery as cloyingly sweet. Age has changed me. I find that now I respond a lot more to oh-so-pretty colours and pictures, and have grown tired of edgy and bold—in the same way [...]

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