Category: Tips

  • Make Your Own Artist Powerup Rewards Cards

    Make Your Own Artist Powerup Rewards Cards

    Artist Powerup Rewards Cards might just be the key to getting out of the creative doldrums! They’re also just plain FUN to make! Welcome to our second week of The Creative Play Challenge! This week we’re going to be making Artist Powerup Cards. Maybe you’re thinking, “What in the WORLD is an Artist Powerup card?”…

  • How to Come Up With Blog Post Ideas

    How to Come Up With Blog Post Ideas

    “How do you come up with blog post ideas?” is one of the most asked questions I see in Facebook groups for bloggers. Most of us start a blog with a million and one ideas but then within a few months we begin to struggle. If you’re a DIY or craft blogger, you might hit…

  • What Creativity Looks Like: Meet Emily

    What Creativity Looks Like: Meet Emily

    Welcome back to our What Creativity Looks Like series. Every week this summer (and now fall!), I’ve been introducing you to some amazingly creative women. My hope is as you read these interviews and virtually meet these ladies, you’ll be inspired to create more in your own life. Let’s get started! What’s your name (and…

  • Write a Personal Creative Manifesto

    Write a Personal Creative Manifesto

    Have you ever written a personal creative manifesto? I love writing these because often, they’re the exact words I need to hear when I’m feeling down about my creative life. Sometimes I write them in moments of inspiration and clarity and then they later prop me up when I’m frustrated and blurry-feeling. When I initially…

  • What Creativity Looks Like: Meet Julie

    What Creativity Looks Like: Meet Julie

    Welcome back to our What Creativity Looks Like series. Every week this summer (and now fall!), I’ve been introducing you to some amazingly creative women. My hope is as you read these interviews and virtually meet these ladies, you’ll be inspired to create more in your own life. Let’s get started! What’s your name (and…

  • Introducing: The Creative Play Challenge

    Introducing: The Creative Play Challenge

    Update: Hey guys, The Creative Play Challenge is now finished. However, you can still access many of the prompts we completed here on The Creative Play Challenge page. I don’t know about you, but September is my January. It’s the beginning of the school year (or was the beginning back in the olden days) and…

  • What Creativity Looks Like: Meet Kim

    What Creativity Looks Like: Meet Kim

    Welcome back to our What Creativity Looks Like series. Every week this summer (and now fall!), I’ve been introducing you to some amazingly creative women. My hope is as you read these interviews and virtually meet these ladies, you’ll be inspired to create more in your own life. Let’s get started! What’s your name (and…

  • 17 Ways I Save on Craft Supplies

    As an artist, I’ll admit to going through a fair share of art supplies in my lifetime. I’ll also admit to my happy place being the aisles of a good art store; so many possibilities! It always blows me away how such beauty can start with the simplest of materials. The only problem is the…

  • My Blog Bullet Journal

    My Blog Bullet Journal

    First of all, thanks for all the comments and emails on my bullet journal post from last week. I’m so glad I’m not the only one who has loved the idea of a bullet journal but has found the lovely Pinterest versions a little much. Within a few days of starting this method, I decided…

  • What Creativity Looks Like: Meet Joyce-Ellen

    What Creativity Looks Like: Meet Joyce-Ellen

    Welcome back to our What Creativity Looks Like series. Every week this summer, I’ve been introducing you to some amazingly creative women. My hope is as you read these interviews and virtually meet these ladies, you’ll be inspired to create more in your own life. Let’s get started! What’s your name (and business name, if…