We LOVE research and learning as a way to get inspired and boost ideas and creativity!! So, Kenzie and I are going to be sharing the inspiration that we collect here in our second newsletter…. once a week!!!

Here’s how it works:

We provide the inspiration. You interpret it however you wish… any medium, any size. It is meant to inspire lettering and floral art combined together. But, you can:

• Just do the florals, just do the lettering, or combine them together.
• Use the provided quote for your piece or select your own.
• Use colors from one of the inspiration images or select your own favorites
• Create the floral art… as a still life in a vase, a single flower, a border, a pattern, a bouquet

Hope you will create with us and post your work at #wordsandwildflowers2026 and tag @lorisiebert.studio and @snippetsofwhimsy

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Quote of the week…

“I want to paint the way a bird sings.”

— Claude Monet

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Inspiration of the week: Caroline Rennequin

Caroline Rennequin (born 1970) is a multi-disciplinary French visual artist, painter, and set designer who lives and works in Paris. Her eclectic work is highly regarded for its vibrant color blocks, organic/botanical motifs, and a distinct aesthetic sensibility deeply rooted in 1970s utopias. Alongside her independent studio practice, she maintains a prominent career as an artistic director in the luxury fashion world.

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Hand lettering inspiration of the week:

More lettering from France. I can’t help myself from taking pictures of type everywhere I go!

We LOVE research and learning as a way to get inspired and boost ideas and creativity!! So, Kenzie and I are going to be sharing the inspiration that we collect here in our second newsletter…. once a week!!!

Here’s how it works:

We provide the inspiration. You interpret it however you wish… any medium, any size. It is meant to inspire lettering and floral art combined together. But, you can:

• Just do the florals, just do the lettering, or combine them together.
• Use the provided quote for your piece or select your own.
• Use colors from one of the inspiration images or select your own favorites
• Create the floral art… as a still life in a vase, a single flower, a border, a pattern, a bouquet

Hope you will create with us and post your work at #wordsandwildflowers2026 and tag @lorisiebert.studio and @snippetsofwhimsy

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Quote of the week…

“If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.”

— Dolly Parton

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Inspiration of the week: Marin Montagut

Marin Montagut is a French artist, illustrator, and designer known for his whimsical watercolors and his signature Parisian boutique.

Background and Early Life

Marin Montagut grew up surrounded by art and antiques. His grandmother was an artist, and his mother organizes antique fairs. 

He studied at Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London and is now an interior and set designer, film director, producer, and illustrator.

Montagut worked for 15 years traveling the world, making documentaries, and collaborating with major luxury and design houses. 

He created Bonjour City Map Guides, which are illustrated pocket guides highlighting secret spots in cities like Paris, London, and New York. 

In June 2020, he opened his flagship store at 48 rue Madame in the 6th arrondissement of Paris. 

Under his eponymous brand, he creates objects that celebrate the Official Marin Montagut History and “celebrate his favorite neighborhoods with elegance and accuracy.” 

He splits his time between his vibrant Parisian life and a 19th-century cottage in Normandy. This rural retreat serves as his main source of inspiration and primary design studio.

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Hand lettering inspiration of the week:

I’m in France teaching a retreat. Here are a few lettering examples that grabbed my eye!

We LOVE research and learning as a way to get inspired and boost ideas and creativity!! So, Kenzie and I are going to be sharing the inspiration that we collect here in our second newsletter…. once a week!!!

Here’s how it works:

We provide the inspiration. You interpret it however you wish… any medium, any size. It is meant to inspire lettering and floral art combined together. But, you can:

• Just do the florals, just do the lettering, or combine them together.
• Use the provided quote for your piece or select your own.
• Use colors from one of the inspiration images or select your own favorites
• Create the floral art… as a still life in a vase, a single flower, a border, a pattern, a bouquet

Hope you will create with us and post your work at #wordsandwildflowers2026 and tag @lorisiebert.studio and @snippetsofwhimsy

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Quote of the week…

“I accept the great adventure of being me.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

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Inspiration of the week: Janet Hill

Janet Hill can do it all. As beloved as she is as a children’s author, she is also an incredibly talented, masterful painter. Her work is both elegant, yet whimsical, often with an underlying narrative that instantly captures the imagination. Her painting style evokes a sense of nostalgia, mystery, humor and comfort. She has works displayed in private collections throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia, and she holds a client roster that includes the world-renowned Tiffany & Co. 

Janet lives in Stratford, Ontario, where she keeps an in-house artist’s studio, along with her husband, John, an independent bookseller, and their cat and dog.

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Hand lettering inspiration of the week: Nina Greif-Reitzenstein

The colorful crew is a conscious contemporary clothing label which was founded in 2016 by paper artist & creative director Nina Greif-Reitzenstein.

Working with paper accompanied Nina since her school days. She studied Product Development for the Fashion Industries at London College of Fashion and Arts & Illustration at the University of Westminster. In her work, the artist processes themes that inspire her in her everyday life.

Poetic, very personal pieces with a clear message arise, while working with her favorite material PAPER. This is how collages, sculptures and objects come to life.

For her contemporary fashion label she brings colorful (handmade) paper art on organic t-shirts, sweaters and accessories. Her designs are fresh, and modern READY TO WEAR pieces, that are simultaneously fun to wear.

Our manufacturers are Oeko Tex 100 certified. Some of our suppliers are also certified within the Fair Wear Foundation.

We LOVE research and learning as a way to get inspired and boost ideas and creativity!! So, Kenzie and I are going to be sharing the inspiration that we collect here in our second newsletter…. once a week!!!

Here’s how it works:

We provide the inspiration. You interpret it however you wish… any medium, any size. It is meant to inspire lettering and floral art combined together. But, you can:

• Just do the florals, just do the lettering, or combine them together.
• Use the provided quote for your piece or select your own.
• Use colors from one of the inspiration images or select your own favorites
• Create the floral art… as a still life in a vase, a single flower, a border, a pattern, a bouquet

Hope you will create with us and post your work at #wordsandwildflowers2026 and tag @lorisiebert.studio and @snippetsofwhimsy

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Quote of the week…

“The arts can transform health, wellbeing, and human connection.”

— Professor Daisy Fancourt

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Inspiration of the week: 1960’s/70’s fabrics

I have a thing for the era of crazy floral prints in weird color combos. These are a few that recently caught my eye!! They are such happy fabrics!

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Hand lettering inspiration of the week: Hand Lettered Signs

I LOVE taking pics of hand lettered signs wherever I go. I thought these were super fun!!

We LOVE research and learning as a way to get inspired and boost ideas and creativity!! So, Kenzie and I are going to be sharing the inspiration that we collect here in our second newsletter…. once a week!!!

Here’s how it works:

We provide the inspiration. You interpret it however you wish… any medium, any size. It is meant to inspire lettering and floral art combined together. But, you can:

• Just do the florals, just do the lettering, or combine them together.
• Use the provided quote for your piece or select your own.
• Use colors from one of the inspiration images or select your own favorites
• Create the floral art… as a still life in a vase, a single flower, a border, a pattern, a bouquet

Hope you will create with us and post your work at #wordsandwildflowers2026 and tag @lorisiebert.studio and @snippetsofwhimsy

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Quote of the week…

“There’s a healing power in the act of creating.”

— Unattributed

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Inspiration of the week: Sarah Raphael Balme

Sarah Raphael Balme is a British artist whose richly patterned paintings explore narrative, colour, and dreamlike imagery. Inspired by folk art, nature, and storytelling, her work features figures, animals, and plants across painting, ceramics, and textiles.

A graduate of Chelsea College of Art, she has exhibited internationally and collaborated with design brands, creating vibrant, layered compositions that balance decorative surface with imaginative, often surreal themes. Her oil paintings with a narrative theme are mainly done in oil sometimes gouche.

She grew up surrounded by artists, her mother was a painter and her dad wrote academic books. Her childhood was spent in a bohemian North London house that influenced her career as an artist.

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Hand lettering inspiration of the week: Olga Shevolya

Olga Shevchenko Shevolya is a contemporary Russian artist. 

Currently she is engaged in painting and illustration, creating paintings with light and spontaneous subjects that reveal the depth and poetry of life. She enjoys working with watercolors, transparencies, embroidery and experimenting with printing inks. When creating illustrations, she loves to play and experiment with form and texture. She expresses her admiration for the beauty of the plant world, its uniqueness and diversity. It fascinates, inspires and fills her with delight. Her illustrations are about the relationship between nature and man and about the human soul through the prism of the plant world.

We LOVE research and learning as a way to get inspired and boost ideas and creativity!! So, Kenzie and I are going to be sharing the inspiration that we collect here in our second newsletter…. once a week!!!

Here’s how it works:

We provide the inspiration. You interpret it however you wish… any medium, any size. It is meant to inspire lettering and floral art combined together. But, you can:

• Just do the florals, just do the lettering, or combine them together.
• Use the provided quote for your piece or select your own.
• Use colors from one of the inspiration images or select your own favorites
• Create the floral art… as a still life in a vase, a single flower, a border, a pattern, a bouquet

Hope you will create with us and post your work at #wordsandwildflowers2026 and tag @lorisiebert.studio and @snippetsofwhimsy

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Quote of the week…

“An artist is an explorer.”

— Henri Matisse

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Inspiration of the week: Dafne Ederveen

Dafne Ederveen has been a photographer for 20 years. Evolving from analog to digital photography, moving images & video and now we are here, a new skill, creating Ai generative images, with a photographic eye, mind & expertise gathered over the years, blending this all into a new tool. 

She graduated from the Royal Academy of Arts (KABK) in The Hague, and started her own photo studio in 2002 in Amsterdam. She works as a freelance photographer for several magazines and company’s. 

Early 2023 she started creating Ai generated images with Midjourney. “It’s a completely new world, where I can let my creativity flow freely, everything is possible and nothing is wrong or weird. I started a new instagram account, because I don’t want to confuse people with this as my photography work, because it’s different, so my alter-ego Miss D Daydreams was born. 

I look at Midjourney as a new tool to create images. I use several techniques to create these images. I use my own pictures, text to image and image blending. Looking at this new tool as a photographer and really enjoying this, I embraced it as a new art-form and I think we’re only at the beginning of this new way of creating images and mostly curious what the future will bring.”

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Hand lettering inspiration of the week: Angela Smyth

Angela Smyth is a self taught artist based in a small town in West Yorkshire, where she has a studio not far from her house. She has been painting professionally for over a decade, and in the time she has exhibited widely, both in the UK and abroad, and is published by Aquarelle Publishing Ltd. 

She loves people watching and can sit for literally hours at a cafe table watching the world go by. Her pictures are inspired by the things she sees every day, and the interactions that take place. Even her animals are just an extension of the people she sees on a daily basis, or they represent something more personal to her, but they are never just animals in a scene. The cityscapes she paints always have something hidden in them, it makes her happy knowing that there’s an element to her work that isn’t obvious and it’s a lot deeper than people think. Her little secret. 

She is dyslexic and over the years she has used text in her work more and more. Sometimes she spells words the right way, and sometimes she doesn’t but she has stopped correcting the text now, and the mistakes stay in.