Image from Color Collective

Image from Color Collective

Sometimes it is easy to find inspiration, and sometimes not.  Lots of things inspire me – my children’s art work, changing seasons, craft group and their fabulous projects.  For those who need a little colour inspiration now and then there is a real trend of web sites and blogs dedicated to colour pallettes.  I love these.  They can give us a jolt, open our eyes to the beauty in simple things and help us to think about colour and its affect on us physically and emotionally.  And they are so pretty.  I have a couple of favourites.  The latest on my radar is Color Collective.  Lauren Willhite has an inspiring blog full of interesting and beautiful photos and she creates colour pallettes based on these photos.  Definately worth a look.  You won’t be dissapointed.

Up above I have used some of Lauren’s colour pallettes as an inspirational guide for a new garland.  The brights in row 3 really spoke to me.  Miss Viking liked the soft rainbow second from the bottom.  Do you have a favourite?  Leave a comment if you like and I will make the most favourited up for a giveaway.

Inspiration board.

You may (or may not) have noticed the little grey button down there to the right.  I have been taking Holly Becker’s ‘Blogging your Way’ course for the last couple of weeks.  I cannot say exactly why I am loving it so much, prehaps the soul searching, the creativity, the homework that pushes you to challenge yourself a little in areas where you might not tread or the connecting with lots of others from all over our creative planet.  I am learning so much and most of all I’m on a path to find my voice and create a  more beautiful, inspiring blog.

Anyway, here is my inspiration board which is this week’s homework.  I loved finding the special things here in the house and putting the colours together.  The blue patterned soap box was my starting point and it grew from there.  Good soap is my one weakness.

Bela and Sophie are two sisters who live in the States.  These are off to hang around in their rooms with them.  Pretty, Pretty.  They are a custom order via the Etsy Shop.  It is very quiet today except for the men on the roof installing new gutters.  These things have to be done, kinda like dental check-ups.

Hello and welcome.  It’s really nice to be here.  I would like to start with a big thank you to Lyndsay from White Pixels for her magic in setting up this fab place. 

My vision is that Paperklip will be a nice place about paper, that you just might want to come back to now and then.