Inspiration is Everywhere…

by Dale Anne Potter

You just have to open your eyes to see!

” By keeping our intuitive channels and our senses open to discovery, we can capture our unique inspiration….Pam Moore”  I LOVE that quote and it is so true.

As an artist, and especially at any exhibitions or shows I am exhibiting at, I am asked where I get my inspiration.  I SEE inspiration everywhere.

From the trees (I have many photos of different trees, even have friends who travel that see different trees & send me photos).

I especially LOVE Birch trees that have such awesome trunks…all those age lines to go along with the branches.  The colouring… I see so many things in trees – whether they have leaves or not, dead or alive, they are my FAVOURITE inspiration.

My Mom once in awhile will send over cake or other goodies over in her cake keeper.  The lid has amazing pattern on it.  And, if I wanted to use it for a rubbing, I know where it is.  Each diamond is so different.  It could be a quilt, a stamp, a stencil…..

Flowers are always GREAT inspiration – no two flowers are ever the same.  The colours, the amount of petals or the shape.  Look at all the shades of yellow in that Yellow Rose.. GORGEOUS.  The drape of those petals – how can I get that on a one dimensional piece or how to shade that in with pencils or paints.

Another AWESOME inspiration for me is buildings.  I LOVE old buildings – whether they are falling apart and are weathered to the gorgeous Architecture in Spain I saw last June.  As I posted in a previous post, this building has inspired so many stamps, and I have drawn a few stencils and will be working on more sketches using this same photo.

I take my camera with me everywhere anymore, because I never know where the inspiration is going to hit me.

I might be the one at the side of the road, or in the middle of the street trying to get a good shot.  I still laugh when I was intent on getting a good shot of a drain cover, that I used my hands to sweep the gravel & dirt off it and then was photographing from all angles, even on my knees and a local woman came by and asked why I was photographing.  I said “I might need this as inspiration some day!” She walked away shaking her head.  People in our town don’t bother to ask me anymore what I am shooting….LOL!

So,

I challenge YOU to look around your room, your home, your street, your town or city – INSPIRATION is Everywhere!!!  You just have to look.

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7 Weeks of Positively Creative Journaling

by Dale Anne Potter

Today is the first day of the rest of YOUR life, how are YOU going to use it???

Have you ever wondered why GOOD things happen to others? Why you feel like your day always starts out wrong?

Would YOU be willing to take some time each day for 7 weeks

to journal yourself to a BETTER FEELING place

and find out who YOUR really are?

Then, join me, Dale Anne Potter, as I guide you daily on this journey of self-discovery and POSITIVITY.

No ART experience is necessary, you will learn some techniques that are basic Journaling techniques during the daily emails, along with prompts that will help YOU journal the POSITIVE into your life. Using a simple SupplyList, you will create journal backgrounds that will be the inspiration for your journaling.

I ran this program as a year long workshop in 2011/2012 – Positive Thinking Everyday and this is a comment I have received from one of my student, Angelika in Germany:

“Your class is so thoughtful and I enjoyed it so much I will gladly give you a comment and hope you will be able to make good use of it.
This online class has been accompanying (hope that is spelled correctly) me now for nearly a year. I loved the way Dale Anne opened our eyes to the ways we successfully keep ourselves from living our creative life to the fullest. What thrills me most of all is to go back to the beginning and look at all those pages of journaling that I created – most of them really bring a smile to my face. This class is giving you a thoughtful and gentle coaching on how to look at life – joyfully and with respect for your own dreams.”

 

This program will have 49 lessons with prompts, journaling background techniques and quotes. Once a week, there will be podcasts thrown in and if you have any questions, this is the time I will answer them. I will send out a deadline for questions ahead of the date.

This program is not about being perfect with your background pages, its about the journaling! Each prompt will guide YOU to journal about YOU!

 

If you are unable to view the embedded video, you can see it HERE.

Positively Creative Journaling – 7 weeks program is $65.00

Buy Now

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Positivity Challenge #5

by Dale Anne Potter

If you are unable to see the embedded podcast, you can hear it HERE.

This week the challenge is about Quotes.

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Using your Creativity

by Dale Anne Potter

To EMPOWER more POSITIVITY into your life.

Even if YOU are not calling yourself an artist, you can still use YOUR creativity to journal YOURSELF to a Better Feeling Place.  If you are already an art journaler, how about adding some more POSITIVITY into your life?

I’d LOVE to help guide YOU!

I created a workshop last year called Positive Thinking Everyday that took the students through weekly lessons (they are presently on Lesson 39) for a whole year.  Using basic art supplies and a journal, they are making journal pages that allow them to reach for a Better Feeling Place.

One student, Angelika from Germany, sent me this:

“Your class is so thoughtful and I enjoyed it so much I will gladly give you a comment

and hope you will be able to make good use of it.
This online class has been accompanying (hope that is spelled correctly) me now for nearly a year. I loved the way Dale Anne opened our eyes to the ways we successfully keep ourselves from living our creative life to the fullest. What thrills me most of all is to go back to the beginning and look at all those pages of journaling that I created – most of them really bring a smile to my face. This class is  giving you a thoughtful and gentle coaching on how to look at life – joyfully and with respect for your own dreams.”

The workshop is now:

Positively Creative Journaling 

will now be a 7 week program – 7 weeks of receiving one email a day starting June 1, 2012.

This is the only time I am offering this program in 2012.

Are YOU ready?

Check back tomorrow for even more information and a video!!!

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Tape Transfer…

by Dale Anne Potter

Who knew that cheap scotch tape would transfer like this? AWESOME!

This is the card I made for my Mom using the CPS265 as my leaping off point.  I believe the scrapbook paper is from K & Company but I’m sorry can’t tell you the line.  The strips are leftover Stampin’ Up cardstock.  The tag and flowers are from K & Company.

Then, I had a dilemma – no Mother’s Day stamp, so I starting thinking about maybe handwriting the words. No, I wanted something different.  What if I printed them – NO, then I’d have the whiteness of the paper to contend with…..hmmmmmm

What if I printed it out and then grabbed our generic matte tape, burnished it onto the ink from our inkjet printer?  I thought I’d see if the ink would transfer onto the tape first….

WAHOO – it did!  *NOTE: I stuck the tape to my shirt first & then to the paper, it took off some of the stickiness.

I only had our printer set on normal so I imagine if I had set it on BEST, it would be darker.

My other thought was to put down the tape and then print on top of the tape and carefully pull it off the printer paper.  Will try that next time.

My challenge for you is to try this tape transfer method and let me know how you did.

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