Creative Blog Hop
Hello everyone! I'm participating in the Creative Blog Hop today! This is a blog hop about creativity and our love for creativity. Each Monday, a few bloggers will post on their blogs to share a little bit about their creativity and will also invite three other bloggers to join and post on the following Monday.
Fun, right?
Waffle Flower is all about making stuff and celebrating each other's creativity. When Katie asked me, I had to say yes.
But besides the three ladies I named at the end of this post, I'm also inviting all of you who have a blog but haven't done this. Why not go ahead and post your answers to these questions on your blog next Monday and invite more friends to join? Frankly, we don't need an invitation to be crafty or creative, do we?
Answering these questions helped clear my head and I hope that they will do the same to you!
I love being creative! I feel very blessed to be able to find this hobby and keep doing it.
Now, to spread the love for creativity, I'm naming the following ladies to join this blog hop!
What am I working on now
My list is long! LOL Waffle Flower releases its Fall collection on October 5 so most of my work is related to the preparation. I wish I could share more. One thing I can share is that I cut, punch and stamp our Thank You tags that go in our packages. I try to do a few everyday so we can keep up with the orders. I used the "Thank You" and heart stamps from our Notions Stamp Set.
How does my work differ from others in my genre?
I didn't think I had a style. My style changes with my design teams. I will do whatever it takes to make the product shine. But stamping and die-cutting is my favorite and my stamped cards are mostly clean and simple. I always try to use a product in a unique, unexpected way. As for product design, I think the versatility of our products makes them different from the others. I consider stamps and dies more as tools than as decorative elements. If I don't have at least 3 unique ideas to use a stamp/die, it will not make it to a stamp/die set. Take our Rock My World Stamp Set and coordinating Die Set for example. I've made strawberry, flower and ghost from them. You can find more samples on the product pages.
Why do I create what I do?
I started the company because I wanted to put together products I could play with. Well, the products are being produced but my "play time" has been limited. Haha! I'm an entrepreneur so I'm totally ok with that. But it does make it extra special every time I sit down at my craft table. I will only make something that will make me happy. To me, creating is about exploring and stretching myself. I've shared this video in this post but I wanted to share it again: THE GAP by Ira Glass from frohlocke on Vimeo.How does my creative process work?
My projects usually start with trying something new... It can be a new product, a new technique , a new type of crafts, or a new combination. Sometimes I will have something very specific in mind but most of the times, I just play and see what I will get. As for product designing, I ask myself often: What haven't been done? How can I make my version different? Inspiration from my other hobbies, my everyday life and my past experience defines my design. For example, I had the song "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" playing in my head when putting together our Riverside Stamp Set and Riverside Die set. And I created this card with the help from our Be My Guest Stamp Set to complete the sentiment.
I love being creative! I feel very blessed to be able to find this hobby and keep doing it.
Now, to spread the love for creativity, I'm naming the following ladies to join this blog hop!
Loved reading more about you, Nina! Your creations are always amazing! :)
Shelly on
I LOVE this post Nina!!!!!! You are such an inspiration!
tsurutadesigns on
Nina, I LOVED this little peek into your creative process! Thank you so much for accepting my invitation and playing along! :)
Katie Gehring on
So fun to read your answers to the questions Nina, love that you invited everyone to play along and looking forward to the next release!
Miriam Prantner on