New Craft Blog Love

Found a new craft blog that I had to share for my crafty readers out there: Clean and Simple Stamping. (It can also be found in my blogroll.)

These girls get it. They describe "clean and simple stamping" as consisting of three things:

1. clean design and balance
2. quick to produce
3. wow factor

Isn't that what we're all looking for when it comes to making cards? I made three cards today in less than an hour - that might be a new record. The girls provide sketches, tips, tricks, hints, and samples of cards that are straightforward, creative, simple, and beautiful! I am so inspired by their ideas, and it's just the kick in the pants that my crafting needed; I've been bogged down as of late with wedding designs (which consist of pink, brown, cream, and/or cherry blossoms...), so my creative mojo was suffering. Consider my mojo revived!

Each of these cards was inspired by one of their layout sketches:

Fall-To Layout #24Hooray for $1 bin stamps at Michaels! Fall-To Layout #34The bunny is colored with basic colored pencils that coordinated with the paper colors.

Fall-To Layout #6

Happy (early) Easter my peeps!

For my fellow stampers or paper crafters, you absolutely must check out this blog!