#72 Kate's Inspiration Jar

This weeks class is from Crafty Kate and what a fantastic idea!  Thanks for sharing it with us Kate :-)

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This is to help you when you have a "Scrapblock".   All of us get them every now and then so hopefully this little jar of inspiration will put an end to that and hopefully it’ll get you using up stash that you may have forgotten about or just haven’t gotten around to using yet.

What you need:

• Any type of Jar/container or box (whatever you have handy).  My jar is from a jar of sweets that I was given and I loved the jar so much that I just had to keep it and use it for something.
• Scraps of Patterned Paper, Cardstock (whatever you have in your scrapbag)
• Punches, Big Shot/ Sizzix Machines, Cricut machine or if you haven’t got any of these you can download a template for a file folder that I used from here http://ruthannzaroff.com/mirkwooddesigns/images/minifolder.gif
  You can use luggage labels too, any sort of tag.

I wrote down some different ideas like “Use paint on your LO”, ”Use 10 buttons”, Use Pencil Lines Sketch #20” and then I thought anytime I was stuck for an idea for a LO, I can pull out a tag or a combination of tags and use the ideas on my LO.

Here are some ideas for labels. You could decorate them too if you wanted.
With this one I just stamped a circle and cut it out

And then I wrote on the other side

Or this is using the file folder

and this is the inside

You could also add flowers, buttons etc. to the jar for inspiration and to make it look pretty!!

Or for another idea you could cut out LO ideas from magazines and put them in the jar.

That’s it!  Really simple, but I hope it will “inspire” you!!

Kate xx

Comments

[Jan]

Great idea Kate!

[Annamarie]

What a lovely idea Kate! I'm always stuck for ideas for layouts, especially titles. Will definately try this! Thanks.

[Julie M]

Fun idea, Kate (and what a great jar - no wonder you had to keep it!!). Thanks for the inspiration.

[Noelle]

I love the jar Kate, where could I get one of those ???? Great idea too, thanks for sharing :)

[Eva]

Kate this is a wonderful idea, really inspirational! Thank you for sharing :)

[Ruth]

Brilliant Kate. Great idea for those creative block moments!

[Mandy]

Fabby idea, going to give this a go later!!

[scrappelise]

Good idea! Sometimes I need a jar like that one. :)

[Kaz]

brilliant idea, I think we all need one of these!!!

[Sandie]

What a wonderful idea!!!! I could use an inspirtation jar at times :)