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Post by Sassenach on Feb 5, 2016 8:18:53 GMT
For years my scrapping inspiration has come from blogs and online galleries. Now there are so many options, but I don't want to spend all day on the internet...
How do you get your daily dose of inspiration? Are more people using Instagram? Facebook? Blogs? Pinterest? YouTube? All of the above?
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Post by TracieClaiborne on Feb 5, 2016 8:42:14 GMT
It is a time sucker but I do enjoy finding inspiration in all those places.  I love to follow people who post their entire layout on Instagram. I'm trying to do that more. I also love certain blogs: Ali Edwards, of course, Marie Lottermoser, Crafty Jen Schow, and I also love a lot of manufacturer blogs but I don't go to those all that much. I still enjoy Pinterest for finding inspiration but I only visit it about once a week. Mainly I use it as a holding place for everything I see elsewhere on the web. I guess it boils down to this: My main source of inspiration comes from my favorite scrappers and I follow them in all the places they post. |
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Post by Sassenach on Feb 5, 2016 9:07:47 GMT
It is a time sucker but I do enjoy finding inspiration in all those places. I love to follow people who post their entire layout on Instagram. I'm trying to do that more. I also love certain blogs: Ali Edwards, of course, Marie Lottermoser, Crafty Jen Schow, and I also love a lot of manufacturer blogs but I don't go to those all that much. I still enjoy Pinterest for finding inspiration but I only visit it about once a week. Mainly I use it as a holding place for everything I see elsewhere on the web. I guess it boils down to this: My main source of inspiration comes from my favorite scrappers and I follow them in all the places they post. Do the people you follow post different content in each acct? |
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Feb 5, 2016 11:20:09 GMT
Really, I'm here and I look on Pinterest.
If someone links a blog here in a thread, I usually check it out, but I know within a minute or so if I want to continue looking.
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Post by paperpilekitten on Feb 5, 2016 12:11:51 GMT
I use Instagram for almost all my inspiration. I'm not only following scrappers but also magazines, fashion brands, artists, etc. Love it! I'm on Instagram far more than I should be. It's a timesucker, for sure.
Then I go to Facebook to chat with friends. Love Facebook groups and pages!
I rarely go to Pinterest these days. They kind of ruined it when they wouldn't show pins from people I follow, but mostly 'picked for you' and sponsored pins. I think they try to back on that strategy and they probably are better now, but I haven't been able to rekindle the love. I mostly go there for searches now.
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Post by ellewood on Feb 5, 2016 12:50:38 GMT
I absolutely cannot handle Pinterest, even for wedding stuff! It's just too much of a rabbit hole. I use bloglovin.com to keep up with all my blogs. You make a following list and the new posts come up like an RSS feed! It keeps me on top of CT posts and shop releases. I will also say they do kind of spam you so you have to opt out of that. I also love Instagram but I need actual information in addition to a pic. So if Instagram leads me to a blog, I follow it. If I'm looking for something specific I google it! Hope that helps  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2016 12:51:35 GMT
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Post by alissa103 on Feb 6, 2016 2:46:54 GMT
Pinterest has been annoying me for about a year. My feed is just too cluttered with random bits and ads. If I go over there just looking for scrapping inspiration, I wish I could edit what it's showing me from people I follow to JUST show me scrapping stuff. I don't want to weed through the ads, preschool activities, home decor etc of the other people I follow. That's why I started my scrappy-only Instagram account, I'm now following manufacturers and scrappy friends, designers, etc. Yes there's some other stuff peppered in if a person I follow also posts other stuff, but it's MUCH more streamlined. I really, really like it! And I'm following some fun refupeas, so that's pretty great too I still have my personal Instagram as well, but none of my RL friends on Insta scrap. So I just felt kind of weird using it more to post layouts. Having two accounts is the solution for me! |
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Post by danimakesgood on Feb 6, 2016 2:51:37 GMT
Mostly instagram. I have a scrapbooking/artjournaling only account as well. I love that I can go to that account strictly for scrap/art inspiration.
Pinterest is frustrating... even when I search I don't feel like I really find what I'm looking for. If I use it for inspiration, it's because of what I've actually saved to my inspo boards.
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Post by katlady on Feb 6, 2016 3:23:15 GMT
I am mostly on Instagram and I follow blogs through a blog reader. I go to Pinterest only about once a week, or less.
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Post by anniefb on Feb 6, 2016 5:03:54 GMT
Mostly Instagram now. I used to always pin stuff on Pinterest, but haven't in a while - just been too busy. And those recommended for you pins drive me crazy!
I used to visit a lot of blogs but find I can see what everyone's up to on IG much easier and in one place. It seems to me there's a lot less happening on blogs. I certainly haven't updated mine in a while because it's a lot more work to post there than to take a quick photo, write a few words and do it all from my phone. I follow a mix of manufacturers, DT members, fellow peas and other crafty friends, as well fashion/lifestyle accounts.
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Post by TracieClaiborne on Feb 6, 2016 7:03:34 GMT
It is a time sucker but I do enjoy finding inspiration in all those places. I love to follow people who post their entire layout on Instagram. I'm trying to do that more. I also love certain blogs: Ali Edwards, of course, Marie Lottermoser, Crafty Jen Schow, and I also love a lot of manufacturer blogs but I don't go to those all that much. I still enjoy Pinterest for finding inspiration but I only visit it about once a week. Mainly I use it as a holding place for everything I see elsewhere on the web. I guess it boils down to this: My main source of inspiration comes from my favorite scrappers and I follow them in all the places they post. Do the people you follow post different content in each acct? Let me think about that. I actually do not share my IG pics to Facebook because I want to give people a reason to follow me on IG. I am not a big fan of people sharing all their IG to FB because then why am I following them in both places if I'm just seeing the same thing? KWIM? But most "big" people do that. I'm trying to think of people I follow and what they do...Let's see, Crafty Jen Schow will show a sneak of what's she's doing on her social media and then on her blog she has pics and writing about her project and an embedded video but I guess if you were someone who just went to YouTube, you could just watch her latest video and not need to see the rest. I think some people pop over to YouTube daily. I kind of only go when I am alerted that someone I follow has posted something new. I would say Nancy Damiano blogs regularly and shares a layout but she ALSO puts the entire layout on Instagram. Probably because she knows that people just don't read blogs much anymore. I like the way Ali Edwards does it. She shares photos on IG and then her actual projects you can only see on her blog. That gives me a reason to go to her blog. I guess I said before that I like it when people put the whole layout on IG but the more I think about it, maybe I really do prefer having to go to a blog post and read about it. I tend to just quickly overlook something on IG where as I really take in a blog post. I guess what I do is just go to a few places each day and then it adds up to being inspired. So like I always start my day scrolling Instagram and then I go to Facebook because I host a group there so I have to check in there and then sometimes I look through FB and sometimes I don't because FB annoys me because there's so little original content. It's all "shares" and I'm over it. Something will spark an idea of a person and I'll go to their blog and then maybe once a week I peruse Pinterest. It all adds to too much time online, that's for sure! LOL! |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2016 17:30:25 GMT
All of the above.
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I love to follow people who post their entire layout on Instagram. I'm trying to do that more. I also love certain blogs: Ali Edwards, of course, Marie Lottermoser, Crafty Jen Schow, and I also love a lot of manufacturer blogs but I don't go to those all that much. I still enjoy Pinterest for finding inspiration but I only visit it about once a week. Mainly I use it as a holding place for everything I see elsewhere on the web. I guess it boils down to this: My main source of inspiration comes from my favorite scrappers and I follow them in all the places they post. 
