Category: Creative Life
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Memories in Your Hand Map
What is the path you walked to get where you are today in your creative life? We are all on a journey and our paths start, well, they start at the very beginning! Our influences can stem from family members, early childhood experiences, books we’ve read, and a thousand different places. Today we’re making a…
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How to Make a Button Barrette (Upcycled!)
Learn how to make a button barrette! I’m sharing an upcycled version of this simple craft that I think you’ll really love. I never would have believed it had you told me how many clothes would come in and out of this household in the last four years. As in, how many baby and little…
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17 Cute St. Patrick’s Day DIYs
Well, it’s officially March and time to think about cute St. Patrick’s Day DIYs, right? I was brainstorming some ideas for the blog one day and was coming up with nothing other than filling a jar with chocolate coins (that’s a craft, right?) and then I thought of all the other amazing people out there…
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Stretch Yourself Creatively: Read a Book
This week in The Creative Play Challenge should be nice and relaxing because we’re all going to read a book. Specifically, a book that is in a different genre than what we typically read. If a completely different genre makes you uneasy, then read an author you’ve never read or a book that you’ve always…
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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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Make a Valentine: 10 Cute Valentine Ideas You’ll LOVE
For today’s Creative Play Challenge, we’re going to make a Valentine. I’ll start off by sharing a quick tutorial of a valentine I made this weekend and then end with 10 cute Valentine ideas (many of them include free printables!) So let’s get started. Last weekend I was playing around with my art supplies and…
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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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Here’s a Valentine’s Day Mini Book for You!
Who will you give your Valentine’s Day Mini Book to? It’s almost that lovey time of year when we buy chocolates and roses and sweet nothings for our sweethearts. My parents used to make a special dinner for my sisters and I complete with a “menu” and candlelight on Valentine’s Day. However you celebrate Valentine’s…
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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…