I wanted to give you a little bit more information regarding my Project Inspiration project. Many, many moons ago I created the flower pots below. Inside the pots I made 'flowers' for products and techniques I wanted to use. They were reminders of what supplies I had and techniques I wanted to use. For new projects I will pull 2 or 3 flowers to work from. It really helped to limit my choices. Unfortunately the posts were broken in a move.
So enter Project Inspiration, Part 2. I actually started the project a couple of years ago....but just ran out of time. Now we are settled into our new home and I have a perfect home for theses ATC holders. I have a wall in my craft room that I can line up 6 to 8 of these holders. So I will be creating an ATC card for each topic this year and adding them to my inspiration wall. :)
Why do this project? How often do we say....if I can't see something I won't use it. Which means we often have a hard time putting things away. Unfortunately it is hard to work in a room when everything is 'out'. This was a happy middle ground for me.
I will be talking more about Project Inspiration in the My Creative Life 2014 class. Be sure to join us for this free class.
See you in the classroom,
Jeri Parks
I remember your flowerpots - seems like a long time ago! I have a 3 ring notebook filled with inspiration and even some directions on how to create certain techniques, probably would be a good thing to open it now and again - LOL.
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ReplyDeleteThat is why mine is going up on the wall. Otherwise it just becomes out of sight, out of mind. :)
I love these ideas for inspiration. I think I will make some flower tops and drop them into a container and pick out 3 random ones when i am struggling with what to do :)
ReplyDeleteThere is a good deal of research that suggests limiting our options increases our creativity. I find this to be very true. We will be talking more about this in the class.
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