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 #wordsandwildflowers2024 and tag @lorisiebert.studio and @snippetsofwhimsy

Quote of the week…

“Let us develop respect for all living things. Let us try to replace violence and intolerance with understanding and compassion and love.”

— Jane Goodall

Inspiration of the week: Oilily

I was introduced to the GORGEOUS catalogs by this brand years ago by my friend, Amy Butler. I LOVE the use of pattern and color!!

Oilily was founded in the Netherlands in 1963 by Willem and Marieke Olsthoorn, who wanted to create cheerful, colorful clothes for children that stood out from the monotonous fashion of the time. Inspired by traditional folk costumes and vibrant international styles, Marieke developed the brand’s signature look of bold colors, unexpected details, and mixes of materials. The brand experienced bankruptcy in 2009 but was bought back by the founders and is now run by their family, maintaining its unique, creative, and increasingly sustainable approach to fashion for children and women.

Hand lettering inspiration of the week:

I just watched a movie called “Daliland” and was so intrigued with this… Les 687 Tres Riches Signatures de Salvador Dali (originally Les 678 Tres Riches Signatures de Salvador Dali)

• Author: Captain John Peter Moore 
• Content: This book illustrates how Salvador Dalí’s signature changed frequently, with the goal of showing how almost any scribble of “D-A-L-I” could be genuine. 
• Published: 1984 by the Collectors Club of Vienna.