April 30, 2008 Free Creativity Prompt
It’s time to enjoy all of life’s moments, whether big or small. In today’s prompt, Wide Open author, Randi Feuerhelm-Watts, allows you to take a peek into a seemingly insignificant moment that encourages her to journal her life in an entirely new way. To read the rest of the prompt, pick up your Wide Open card set.
If you want more live-life-in-the-moment prompts, pick up your copy of Wide Open by Randi Feuerhelm-Watts. Each card in this deck focuses on a technique that goes beyond the norm (such as experimenting with photo decay) and encourages you to explore an edgier side of your work. The accompanying notebook has blank space to record observations, as well as colorful artwork and inspirational quotes and prompts sprinkled throughout the pages.
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April 23, 2008 Free Creativity Prompt
Instead of grabbing a soda and a candy bar, beat your afternoon slump by grabbing some paper and a pencil, or pen, or crayon or whatever writing utensil you prefer and jumpstart your creativity with this prompt from Caffeine for the Creative Mind by Stefan Mumaw and Wendy Lee Oldfield.
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April 16, 2008 Free Inspiration Project
Bring new life to dominoes, marbles, vintage letters and more with this found-art necklace by Sally Jean Alexander. Here she describes finding the objects for this necklace featured in her book Pretty Little Things:
If we could have a bowl of found objects, it would have to be a crystal one where the light can shine through. It would also have to be a chipped one, as only something unwanted by others could coddle small objects so tenderly. Piled in the bowl would be a single granny earring—the clip-on type—where its mate long ago lost. Maybe a small metal pill box, rusty with age. A domino found in the seat cushions of the sofa, long after the game it belonged to was sold for 5 cents at that garage sale you had last summer. Here is the pretty bowl, one-of-a- kind, two-of-a-kind, and handfuls of tiny treasures await their next adventure in life. It is with the objects in my bowl (not crystal—but definitely tarnished and bent silver) that I discovered the little treasures that found new life around my neck.
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April 9, 2008 Free Inspiration/Creativity Project
What’s your secret obsession? Chocolate, boy bands, reality TV? This week we double-dog dare you to share your guilty pleasures. So loosen up and let your freak flag fly. You’re not required to share your creations exposing your guilty pleasures, but we’d love to see the results in our gallery.
This prompt was inspired by the challenges in We Dare You, a book designed to really get you to think about your life, your art, yourself.
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April 2, 2008 Inspiration and Creativity Project
Spring is a great time of year to get in touch with all of your senses—the sight of green grass, the feel of falling rain, the smell of blooming flowers, the feel of cool breezes, the taste of fruit and vegetables from the farmer’s market. In Living the Creative Life, Rice Freeman-Zachery encourages you to record a day’s worth of sensory experiences.
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