Category: Creativity Prompts and Tips
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Draw On An Unconventional Surface
For today’s Creative Play Challenge prompt, we’re going to pull out the paint pens, markers, pencils, and paint, and draw on an unconventional surface. Your inner perfectionist might quake at the thought of drawing on something that is not in the paper or canvas family, but pushing yourself past “normal” surfaces to draw on will…
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Illustrate a To-Do List (For Your Creative Life)
This week we’re going to create a to-do list for our creative lives. This works well for fighting creative slumps, if you’re trying to build more creative time in your life, or if you’re trying to form a new better-for-you habit. Personally, I decided I wanted to cut back on sweets so I chose to…
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Get Organized!
Let’s get organized! Our craft rooms, boxes, cupboards, et al can be MESSY (am I right?) Let’s take some time this week to organize a bit so we can really play with our creative stuff this year—instead of being overwhelmed by it! This week’s prompt for The Creative Play Challenge is all about organizing our…
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Creative Play Challenge Prompt: Collaborate
It’s a new year, and The Creative Play Challenge is back with a new prompt: collaborate. As with this whole series, you can either click the link above to join our private Facebook group and share how you used the prompt this week, leave a comment here on this blog post to share, or do…
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Give Your Art Away
Hello! Our prompt this week is to give your art away. It’s great to make things for yourself. And it’s fine to sell them too. (Of course, I support creative businesses since I am one!) That said, there’s also a place to give your art away. No strings attached. No guilt or expectations involved. Just…
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How to Make Artist Scratch Off Coins
Learn how to make artist scratch off coins to add spark to your creative life! I recently checked out Oh Joy!: 60 Ways to Create & Give Joy from the library and had fun flipping through the pages of projects to try. One in particular stood out for me—making homemade scratch off cards. I never…
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Craft Room Organization: The Myth of the Craft Room
Like that title? I think many of us have this idea that craft room organization begins with having a beautiful craft room or studio, preferably well-lit so we can photograph our projects for Instagram. Oh wait, is that just me? 😉 Seriously, though, many of us do think that more space will equal more organization,…
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Creative Goals: How to Set Goals for Your Creative Life
Have you ever thought about setting creative goals? These goals specifically revolve around your creative projects or hopes and dreams for your creative life. How many years have you been telling yourself you wish you could ? This is a practice I started a couple of years ago and though it might seem obvious, I…
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This Was October
Hi everyone. This post is going to be a little different from my typical monthly recap post. Usually I recount the projects I’ve been working on throughout the month but today I’m going to share some recent scenery pictures as well as thoughts I had from attending The Hello Sessions this month (a workshop-based conference…
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Art Books You and Your Kids Will Love – Lab Series
One of my favorite places to frequent at a book store is the crafting/art section. I’m sure you guessed that, right? I love pulling out the tomes on specific subject matter and learning new techniques. In the world of crafting, much of what I’ve learned has been through reading tutorials and carefully following the directions…