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I'm going to be doing a 30 day art challenge for the rest of the month. Feel free to join me in this! :D I started on July 2nd but you can join in whenever. I have a board titled Art challenge where I will put my Inspo photos, and my attempts. I did not make the challenge but I did make this background (:
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📖 Book Title: GET REAL ABOUT THRIVING IN 2025 ✍️ Author: Jennifer Barrette 2025 isn’t just another year—it’s your chance to redefine your life and silence the chaos around you. 🌟 Whether you're juggling financial challenges, reassessing friendships, or just trying to find your balance, this empowering guide has got you covered! 💡 What’s inside? ✅ Resilience strategies to rise above negativity. ✅ Practical tools for transforming your finances, relationships, and goals. ✅ Creative exercises to spark your potential and success. ✅ Witty insights to tackle life’s challenges with humor and confidence. 🔥 With a fresh take on silencing distractions and redefining priorities, GET REAL ABOUT THRIVING IN 2025 will help you unlock your power and turn challenges into stepping stones
Well I have some exciting news......drum roll please...... This is my first card as a Creative Creations Challenges Design Team Memb...
Morning all. It's time for a new challenge at Creative Craft Challenges This time our theme is.... Mother's Day Our sponsor this ...
✍️ Author: Jennifer Barrette 2025 isn’t just another year—it’s your chance to redefine your life and silence the chaos around you. 🌟 Whether you're juggling financial challenges, reassessing friendships, or just trying to find your balance, this empowering guide has got you covered! 💡 What’s inside? ✅ Resilience strategies to rise above negativity. ✅ Practical tools for transforming your finances, relationships, and goals. ✅ Creative exercises to spark your potential and success. ✅ Witty insights to tackle life’s challenges with humor and confidence. 🔥 With a fresh take on silencing distractions and redefining priorities, GET REAL ABOUT THRIVING IN 2025 will help you unlock your power and turn challenges into stepping stones toward greatness.
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The world of art is undergoing a seismic shift as artificial intelligence (AI) continues to reshape the creative landscape. As we step into 2025, artists must navigate a new array of challenges and opportunities regarding copyright and ethics in the realm of AI-generated art. Here’s an overview of what you need to know to protect…
Good Morning Everyone, I hope you are well. Welcome to the next Creative Colour Challenge. I love playing around with colour combinations...
Good Morning Everyone, I hope you are well. Welcome to the next Creative Colour Challenge. I love playing around with colour combinations ...
Good Morning Everyone, I hope you are well. Welcome to the next Creative Colour Challenge. I love playing around with colour combinations ...
Good Morning Everyone, I hope you are well. Welcome to the next Creative Colour Challenge. I love playing around with colour combinations ...
Good Morning Everyone, I hope you are well. Welcome to the next Creative Colour Challenge. I love playing around with colour combinations ...
Hi everyone and Happy New Year to you all! I have some exciting news to share with you. I have been asked to be a member of the Creative C...
It's time for my very first challenges as a member of the SU Creative Crew over at Splitcoaststampers. I have had TONS of fun creating my projects and truly hope many of you will find some inspiration to take part in a challenge or two (or four!) yourselves. September is Self Improvement Month "The best thing you can do is get good at being you." - Dennis the Menace "My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me." - Steve Maraboli CCREW0913DF - DSP/Color Focus: Our journey of self improvement begins with Eastern Elegance designer papers or the colors crushed curry, coastal cabana, smoky slate and whisper white. Make a project using these colors for someone you admire. Tell us why this person is significant to you. I wanted to incorporate as many of the colours as I could but didn't want to overwhelm my project with too many busy patterns. The ideal answer was a small amount of each! So out came my mosaic ensemble and here is the result: Materials used: stamps - Really Good Greetings (MDS) card - whisper white, smoky slate, Eastern Elegance dsp (MDS) other - mosaic embossing folder, Big Shot, mosaic punch, dimensionals, rhinestones This was made with both of my girls in mind. I admire them both so much for working so diligently towards their dreams and goals in life. CCREW0913CF - Catalog Focus: use any of the stampsets on pages 111-119 in the annual catalog. Make a project in a new way to you by using a technique you've never tried or a special fold never used by you before. Continue to use at least two of the colors from the color focus, crushed curry, coastal cabana, smoky slate or whisper white. This one was a real challenge and my first three or so attempts at a new technique ended up in the bin! So I changed focus and tried a different tack and was finally happy with the result. The technique new to me is collage stamping; my stamp set from p111-119 is My Friend; and I've used all four of the challenge colours. My sentiment stamp was picked to carry on the Self Improvement theme - to live optimistically and not focussing on the dark parts of life. Here's my project: Materials used: stamps - My Friend, Collage Curios, Lovely Little Labels, Pursuit of Happiness, Medallion, En Francais card - coastal cabana, whisper white, basic black other - dimensionals, cloudy day embossing folder, Big Shot, 3/4" circle punch, 1" circle punch, 1 1/4" scallop circle punch, clear embossing powder, heat tool You can check the Splitcoaststampers Resources forum for ideas for new techniques at this link: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/C88/ CCREW0913HF - Holiday Focus: 911 Remembrance. It's not a holiday, but it's a day that has been imprinted on our minds. Make a project with the Big Shot that allows you to remember a day from your past. If you wish to share the significance of this day, we'd love to read about it. Well, this one posed so many possibilities - there's no shortage of significant days to remember. Then I read Steve Maraboli's quote (above) again and knew immediately that my project would be about DD15, who was diagnosed with Type 1 (insulin dependent) diabetes 7 1/2 years ago. She most certainly lives up to that quote, refusing to let the disease define her or rule her life - she is determined to live life on her terms and her diabetes has to fit in with that, not the other way around. If you've been a regular reader over the years you may remember a jelly bean card I made for DD a while back (see here). Jelly beans are what she takes when she is having a hypo (hypoglycaemia) to bring her blood glucose levels back up to a safe number. So for this project I used my Big Shot to make her a little purse full of jelly beans! I used clear window sheet so the lovely colours of the jelly beans would show through and embossed it with the fancy fan E/F for a bit of texture. The "jelly bean " brad at the front features tiny love hearts to show my love and support for her every step of the way. Materials used: stamps - none card - window sheet other - petite purse die, Big Shot, jelly bean brads (retired), subtles brads (retired), fancy fan embossing folder, sticky strip CCREW0913SF - Scrapbook and More Focus: Make a gift for a good neighbor as you celebrate National Good Neighbor Day (September 28th). Although we don't have NGND here in Australia, I love the idea of it. We have a young neighbour who feeds our cats for us while we are away and so this was the perfect opportunity to make an extra special thank you for her. My project isn't so much the gift as the gift wrapping - hope that meets the challenge criteria! This bag is made from one piece of 12"x12" designer paper plus a couple of pieces of cardstock. Very simple and quick. The instructions were from a U Stamp with Dawn and Friends project (Year End Blow Out 2010) and were designed by Danielle Daws. Materials used: stamps - Chalk Talk card - pumpkin pie, very vanilla, basic black, Modern Medley dsp, Polka Dot Parade dsp other - chalk talk framelits, Big Shot, gift bow die, pumpkin pie and basic black 1/8" taffeta ribbon, 1 1/4" circle punch, 1 3/8" circle punch, crop-o-dile, sticky strip, bone folder, corner rounder punch, dimensionals non SU - black button If you do make a project for any of the challenges, use the Blue codes when you post your project on your blog or on SCS. Phew! That was a post and a half, wasn't it?! Thanks for sticking with me to the end and do please visit SCS and take a look at the other projects made by my fellow design team members for your inspiration (click HERE). And check back there regularly during September to see what everyone who is taking part in the challenges comes up with! Thanks for stopping by. Cheers Kez
Looking for a new reading challenge? This reading challenge is similar to PopSugar's Reading Challenge. This year we have a two part reading challenge. Part 1 has 20 regular prompts to help you pick new books, genres, or authors you wouldn't normally read. Part 2 is themed around '25' and the year 2025. Get creative and find your next read for the new year!
How can you balance creativity with business in order to have a profitable, long-term author career? What were the successes and challenges of the Author Nation conference? Joe Solari shares his perspective. In the intro, the money episode [Ink In Your Veins]; WISE for multi-currency banking; creative planning tips for 2025 [Self~Publishing Advice]; Surprising Trends
