Friday, 5 March 2021
100 Days of Embroidery Stitches
I committed to doing the 100 Day Project and decided to do 100 Days of Embroidery Stitches. Here are the ones that I have done so far.
The 100 Day project is about choosing an activity that you will do and you can choose whatever you like. A couple of years ago I did 100 Days of Pastel Paintings, it enabled me to spend time with my pastels that I had never used and get familiar with them.
You can join me on Instagram as I share them once every 3 days. There are some that I initially have difficulty with and that is alright, you just have to try your best and come back to it from a different perspective.
For me the main thing is to enjoy the stitches and use them in some of my other stitched projects. Not all the stitches that I am doing will be suitable, but at least I will know how to do them.
I hope you are doing a 100 Project of your own and enjoying showing up for your self.
Stay blessed and be a blessing.
Labels:
100 days of Embroidery
,
embroidery
,
slow stitch
,
stitched projects
,
Stitching
Tuesday, 2 March 2021
Creating in Faith - Relationships and your Creative Journey
How healthy are your creative relationships?
Our relationships can take many forms and we have to nurture them, how are you nurturing the relationship that you have with yourself.
We can often be faced with remnants of the negative aspects of relationships of the past and these can spill over into our adult life and then impact on other relationships that we may have.
The inner critic often gets a lot of exposure as having the biggest impact on all of our relationships, but we have to look at ways in which we can work with our inner critic
In this podcast I examine some of these relationships especially the creative ones and look at ways in which we can find harmony
Labels:
amandatrought
,
art and creativity
,
Creating in Faith
,
relationships
Thursday, 25 February 2021
Recycling a Phone Case - Art Journal
What do you do when you have a phone case that is too big for your phone? Make an Art Journal!!
Phone Case waiting for the magic!
Check out the video to see what I did to transform it
Here are the finished details with a lot of pattern and mark making at the front and back
The interior has been created with water color paper cut to size and then glue bound.
It is always great to have a new art journal on the go and this one fits quite tidily in my bag. I shall be sharing some of the pages in the coming weeks and showing a few processes using both collage material and acrylic paints, so would love you to join me.
Let me know if you have recycled and repurposed an unusual journal.
Stay blessed and be a blessing!
Wednesday, 24 February 2021
Arts and Wellness Café - Matters of the Heart
Come and join me in the Arts and Wellness Café today where we continue on the theme of Heartfelt started earlier this week.
Considering matters of the heart in regards to our creativity. The things that matter most to us, our drive and purpose, why do you do the things that you do and the impact that you want to make in the world.
You can check out the podcast episode
In the video I also share other ways in which you can use creativity to impact on your health and well-being and we look at an art journal page, a sculpture and a book for the week.
Subscribe to:
Posts
(
Atom
)
Labels
creativity
(
490
)
Scriptures
(
240
)
realityarts
(
208
)
words of wisdom
(
139
)
Mixed media
(
127
)
word for the week
(
109
)
mixed media art
(
106
)
365 days of colour
(
91
)
Ultimate Blog Challenge
(
90
)
painting
(
87
)
Creating in Faith
(
78
)
podcast show
(
75
)
30 Day challenge
(
74
)
creative play
(
65
)
gratitude's journal
(
64
)
reflections
(
64
)
artist
(
56
)
31 Art Journals
(
53
)
well-being
(
48
)
Recycled projects
(
44
)
31 days of change
(
42
)
blog boost
(
40
)
motivation
(
40
)
online course
(
39
)
creating
(
38
)
creative adventure
(
38
)
creative activities
(
37
)
recycled materials
(
37
)
Art Journals and Creative Healing
(
34
)
Blog love
(
31
)
Painting of the day
(
31
)
art workshops
(
31
)
tips for carers
(
31
)
childhood memories
(
29
)
Thought for the week
(
25
)
portraits
(
24
)
Try something new
(
23
)
sketches
(
22
)
time to talk
(
22
)
tutorial tuesdays
(
22
)
Bookmark holders
(
20
)
smoothie recipes
(
18
)
videos inspiration
(
18
)
mixed media houses
(
14
)
healing arts
(
13
)
Art pages
(
11
)
Soul Food
(
10
)
Creative Healing
(
9
)
Walking Challenge
(
9
)
art materials
(
9
)
chunky fabric journal
(
5
)
mixed media dolls sculpture
(
5
)
you are worth the time
(
5
)
Sir Karni
(
2
)