Inspiration Station: The Cutting Edge

Handmade paper crafts (including greeting cards) continue to be a popular pastime among rubber stampers, scrapbookers, and other creative types. I find inspiration in some of the imaginative designs, as well as get ideas for composition and laying out my own design elements. Here are some sites I like to visit for inspiration:

Embellish Magazine (Blog)
An on-line publication devoted to handmade paper crafts. In addition to information and ideas, they host regular challenges where they give a theme and a color scheme to be used in making cards. A lot of fun!

Starving Artists Stamp Gallery
A group of designers showcasing their work. I totally adore their whimsical designs. If you’re looking for ideas that appeal to kids of every age, you need to visit this blog.

Paper Smooches
Another design team that does great work.  The artistic style is reminiscent of doodles, very loosely drawn but clean, and extremely sweet.

Morgue File
Something for the photographers! Morgue File is a public image archive hosting hundreds, if not thousands, of high resolution photos that are free for personal or commercial use (according to their license, which you can read here).