Or in public? I'm recently obsessed.
If you have a Starbucks near you with outdoor seating, I highly recommend setting up shop.
My way of shipping inspiration from my brain to yours.
thanks for the last two photos, Hollie.
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Or in public? I'm recently obsessed.
If you have a Starbucks near you with outdoor seating, I highly recommend setting up shop.
My way of shipping inspiration from my brain to yours.
thanks for the last two photos, Hollie.
Posted by Amy Lapi on November 28, 2010 at 11:52 AM in art, artist inspiration, inspired. | Permalink | Comments (11) | TrackBack (0)
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Two pieces of exciting news... ONE ... The Creative Type is back in action and I've signed on for another season of challenges & play :) TWO... We are currenly running a design team call! So many wonderful scrapbookers and art journalers are blog readers... why not give it a whirl?! You wouldn't believe the talent residing on this team... Check it out here. I would love to see you all play along!!
This month's prompt was to lift a fellow DT member, and here's my layout and description...
I am in awe of EVERY member of our DT, but I chose to lift someone new-- Steph from living room floor. I think she's fantastic! You can see her original layout here. I started with white cardstock, layered some patterned paper along with my photo, then added small heart stickers. I misted the background with Ranger inks. Then (after the mist was *pretty* dry) I pulled off the heart stickers. I added the letter stickers to the bottom. For the "united", I handcut a title out of white cardstock. When I added it to my layout, it didn't seem to *pop* enough off the page (I wanted it to be a really bright white) so I painted over it carefully with a generous amount of gesso. Voila! Layout took me about 15 minutes... you can totally do this! :)
Posted by Amy Lapi on October 16, 2010 at 01:40 AM in art, artist inspiration, creative type DT, scrapbooking | Permalink | Comments (6) | TrackBack (0)
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Posted by Amy Lapi on March 09, 2010 at 08:46 PM in art, artist inspiration, friends, travel | Permalink | Comments (14) | TrackBack (0)
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Posted by Amy Lapi on March 07, 2010 at 12:38 AM in artist inspiration, friends, travel | Permalink | Comments (12) | TrackBack (0)
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Posted by Amy Lapi on February 24, 2010 at 04:57 PM in art, artist inspiration, fashion, friends, inspired., links, lists, movies, personal, photog, ramblings, you asked for it | Permalink | Comments (9) | TrackBack (0)
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soo, mom was never able to fly out yesterday... something about flights being delayed from mexico (more on that later). i think it was the flight gods who heard my secret wish for more time with my mama. anyway, i took her to the airport at six o'clock this morning, which honestly feels like three days ago at this point (1:30 pm, same day.)
so i'm tired.
luckily, work today has been semi-lax. i've been watching a movie with most classes and reading with others. if you guys are fans of house, which i am (there should be a verb for "am" meaning 'very, very much so", instead i'll just say "i am a fan of house, very, very much so." see.. tired...) you should totally watch stuart little. watching hugh laurie in this movie is hilarious! he is so soft-spoken and clean-shaven and it is just funny.
and he is so sexy as house, no?
i hate needles and doctors, but i surely wouldn't mind being pricked by him. (...?)
if i haven't scared you enough with my randomness today, or even if i have, i suggest you check out a couple (semi) newly discovered blog friends of mine. they are both quite lovely.
elizabeth with whom i have an insane amount in common.
rose with whom i would like to meet + create with for a million hours straight.
inspiration? yes, please.
one more thing. on reader:
if you are like me, you have an ungodly amount of inspirational blogs filling up your reader and NO time to get to all of them. here's what i've done: separate blogs into three folders. one for everyday reads (my "blog friends" and my top, let's say, five favorite blogs i like to hit each day.) one for when i am in need of serious inspiration (famous fashion and home blogs). and one for mostly art related blogs... allllll the rest of them. for when i have time. which is never. another cool thing about reader is that instead of clicking each blog, click on the folder name and scroll down. this will automatically lower the number of unread posts (yes! almost as good as crossing things off the to-do list!) and you can "star" the posts that you really like, to come back to later when you have time (or never.) i hope this advice is helpful.
Posted by Amy Lapi on February 22, 2010 at 02:18 PM in artist inspiration, inspired., links, personal, ramblings | Permalink | Comments (11) | TrackBack (0)
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Posted by Amy Lapi on February 21, 2010 at 01:50 AM in artist inspiration, home/decor, inspired., links, playing dress*up | Permalink | Comments (6) | TrackBack (0)
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lots of comments/questions re: the postcard i used in my fall album. the artist is anne taintor; i've mentioned her here before (i love her). she is one of my favorite artists. she mixes my love for vintage ladies and my obsession with sarcastic wit. she makes gifts, like notepads, magnets, and calendars (i buy one every year). you can find some of her goods for purchase here.
here is a photo of the wall in my bathroom. most of these images are postcards, and pages ripped out of some books i purchased on ebay. i used masking tape to hang them.
sorry i couldn't get a better angle; it's an awkward wall.
and here are some more of my favorite prints of hers:
Posted by Amy Lapi on January 21, 2010 at 10:44 AM in art, artist inspiration, inspired., links, photog, shopping | Permalink | Comments (7) | TrackBack (0)
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beautiful, lovely, amazing kurt hasley. he's incredibly inspiring to me... take it in:
Posted by Amy Lapi on November 17, 2009 at 10:23 PM in art, artist inspiration, inspired. | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
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