Crafters – How To Deal With Creative Block

If you are like me, you get frustrated when you fail to come up with fresh and engaging ideas for your next creative project.  I love to think about this as being similar to ‘writer’s block’ – any creative person can also get in a rut and run out of creative ideas.  Lately, I have been in the rut and have been searching for techniques to kick-start my creativity again.  You may be interested in what I found at infoandarticles.net – a great site for humanities and crafts. 
 
First I stumbled across The Artist’s Way review which I read with awe and then proceeded to buy the book.  I had heard of this book before but had dismissed it.  I’m glad that I’ve now read it because it has completely modified how I believe about creative capability and capability.  After working my way through the diverse exercises, I discovered some long forgotten interests that when i did them again I gained gigantic pleasure.  I found myself asking why I had stopped doing those things. 
 
The other surprise from the site was the DVD Rubber Paper Scissors with Judi Watanabe review which also led me to buy and I am so happy I did.  For people that do not know, Judi Watanabe is a vet in the rubber stamping industry.  You will have seen her recently on CraftTV doing super scrapbook-related episodes.  For a period of time now, I had been longing for a total instructional DVD on rubber stamping.  You in all likelihood guessed that I used to be a rubber stamper, but still set in all the old strategies.  It is now time to bring myself recent and this DVD is completely full of step by step instructions to help me.  I also must complement the great video and audio production.

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