A Little Inspiration Can Spark Something Wonderful!
Whether you’re exploring digital design, creating scrapbook pages, experimenting with color, or discovering a new art technique, CREATE is a place to let your imagination lead the way.
Explore creative ideas, helpful tutorials, and fresh approaches to art and design. Sometimes inspiration comes from learning a new technique, sometimes from seeing an everyday material in a different way, and sometimes from simply giving yourself permission to play!
Find an idea that inspires you, give it your own creative twist, and see where it takes you!
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But I Might Need That Someday! — Confessions of a Creative Hoarder
Why do creative people save everything? From baby food jars I’ve kept since 2000 to my family’s IKEA scissors rule and beautiful scrapbook supplies that are too precious to use, I’m sharing my confessions as a creative hoarder. Sometimes our collections inspire us, sometimes they overwhelm us, and sometimes we really do need that thing…
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Life Is Too Short for Just Green Trees!
From a childhood box of crayons and my dad’s advice to use ALL the colors, to music-inspired artwork influenced by Kandinsky, color has always been at the heart of my creativity. Rediscovering an old college art paper reminded me how my love of color has shaped my artistic journey—and why I still believe life is…
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My Home Art Studio – Where Do You Create?
My first real creative workspace after college was a corner of my bedroom in an apartment I was renting. The apartment was in a historic home that had been divided into smaller apartments, and one of its wonderful features was an unusually large bedroom. That gave me just enough room to set up a drafting…