creativity

Create-A-Day: your daily dose of creativity #40 — Art Journal your Bible Study

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Carrie Todd @mystudio13 www.mystudio13.com

Carrie Todd @mystudio13
http://www.mystudio13.com

This week’s creative resources are all about Artist’s Journals and Art Journaling!

Here’s more great resources from two different sources!

Artist and blogger Antoinette shares on God Bless Your Art blog — all about art journaling your Bible Study. She also offers a 31 day challenge for March! No better time than the present to begin!

31 Days of March (2015): Art Journal Your Bible Study

31 Days of March 2015Also, the link below was from March 2014 and there’s no reason all ideas couldn’t be applied to March 2015 (or any other year) as well!  🙂  You might want to start at the bottom of the page and work your way up through the posts on this link to see the process from last year: Continue reading

Create-A-Day: your daily dose of creativity #39 — Art Journal Experience

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Carrie Todd @mystudio13 www.mystudio13.com

Carrie Todd @mystudio13
http://www.mystudio13.com

We continue this week exploring Artist’s Journals and Art Journaling!

Today’s post is an interview with Dianne Marra, a Christian art journaler who did 30 art journals in 30 days. Click here to read about her experience on her art journaling journey! There are also links to her BEaUtiful website, Adore Him Creations.

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Create-A-Day: your daily dose of creativity #38 — Art Journal Resources

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Carrie Todd @mystudio13 www.mystudio13.com

Carrie Todd @mystudio13
http://www.mystudio13.com

This week’s creative resources are all about Artist’s Journals and Art Journaling! Great for creative spirits of all art forms, mediums and genres, and you do not have to be an artist to benefit creatively and spiritually from this practice!

Journal52 is an online art journal workshop to keep you motivated, inspired, and creating all year long. They post weekly prompts, have a Facebook group, and a Flickr gallery. Check out Journal 52 here!

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Create-A-Day: your daily dose of creativity #37 — Resources for Art Journaling

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Carrie Todd @mystudio13 www.mystudio13.com

Carrie Todd @mystudio13
http://www.mystudio13.com

We spent the first week of February looking at journaling through expressive writing. This week’s creative resources are all about Artist’s Journals and Art Journaling! If you’ve had difficultly with writing journals, perhaps this idea is better suited for your personality? Great for creative spirits of all art forms, mediums and genres, and you do not have to be an artist to benefit creatively and spiritually from this practice!

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Create-A-Day: your daily dose of creativity #36 — PSALM Facebook Page

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imagesIt’s another Facebook Friday! A great way to network with like-minded artists, bloggers & creatives!

PSALM (Prophetic Society of Art, Literature, & Music) is a Facebook group that describes itself as: Continue reading

Create-A-Day: your daily dose of creativity #35 — Worship House Media

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Worship house media

Worship House Media provides media resources for the creative church! You can browse and preview a variety of resources including: mini movies, worship tracks, countdowns, worship backgrounds (moving & still), and church worship software, as well as resources specific to small groups, children, youth, and church seasons. They even have a sale section to purchase resources at a reduced cost.

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Create-A-Day: your daily dose of creativity #34 — Creative Process

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Bringing another TED Talk to you today. This one is A Choreographer’s Creative Process in Real Time:

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Create-A-Day: your daily dose of creativity #33 — Music that Heals

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UnknownMusic that brings healing? Some will immediately answer yes to that question; others will be skeptical. I encourage you to read the link I provide today all the way to the end. And to keep an open mind while you do.

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Create-A-Day: your daily dose of creativity #32 — Mark Lawrence Art

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Mark Lawrence is an artist with a heart on a mission! In Mark’s words:

My vision is to encourage and strengthen everyone who views my scripturally inspired art, through sharing the amazing love and grace that God has poured into my life. The closer I grow to God through Jesus Christ, the more I feel compelled to share with others the reality of my risen Lord and Savior.

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Create-A-Day: your daily dose of creativity #31 — Actress Apolonia Davalos

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Apolonia Davalos

Apolonia Davalos

Today I would like to direct you to an interview with Apolonia Davalos, executive producer of APOLONIAD Productions and actress in the movie The Good Book, the first evangelical silent feature to be released since sound was added to movies. Apolonia sat down with Miranda A. Uyeh who conducts interviews on her blog To Be a Person.

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Create-A-Day: your daily dose of creativity #30 — Divine Statues

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I live in Ohio and had no idea this place existed until I read about it in Country Living magazine. The Museum of Divine Statues, located in Lakewood, Ohio, is dedicated to the rescue, restoration and preservation of religious statues and other art from the many Catholic churches that were closed in the Cleveland area in 2009. Here’s the story from Fox8 News in Cleveland:

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Create-A-Day: your daily dose of creativity #28 — 12 Tribes Ministries

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CIndy Fort has the heart of both an artist and a counselor. Her website 12tribesministries.com has great resources that help you explore your creative side, as well as your heart, soul and spirit through the creative process. I will be posting more from 12 Tribes in future posts, but I wanted to point you towards an exploratory process with circles.

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Create-A-Day: your daily dose of creativity #27 — Song Devotionals

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Screen Shot 2014-12-28 at 7.28.20 PMMany of you have been deeply blessed by Matt Redman’s songs. He has a wonderful heart of worship, and I love that his passion for Jesus shines through his work.

He offers many resources but I want to point to two specific resources today. First, he writes and posts song devotionals on many of his most popular worship songs on his website at www.mattredman.com (go to bottom of page to view listing). Continue reading

Create-A-Day: your daily dose of creativity #26 — Benefits of Journaling

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by Louis crartist FlickrWe’ve spent the week exploring journaling. Hopefully as a creative you understand why this is important for you. If not, here’s two last articles on the benefits of journaling.

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Create-A-Day: your daily dose of creativity #25 — Write to Done

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by Louis crartist Flickr This week we are focusing on journaling. Today’s post is geared specifically towards writers and shows how journaling can help you with your writing process.

Mary Jaksch on Write to Done has two articles to help encourage the writer in you: Continue reading

Create-A-Day: your daily dose of creativity #24 — Prayer Journals

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by Louis crartist FlickrNot only do I love how creatively this blog is designed, but the author Eren McKay gives lots of great ideas and practical resources for your journaling journey, as she discusses how to keep a prayer journal. She offers free printables and discusses why journaling is important for your life as a Christian and your study of God’s Word! Continue reading

Create-A-Day: your daily dose of creativity #23 — Journals for Creativity

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by Louis crartist FlickrContinuing our look into journaling this week, posting two articles today which reveal a different look at journaling. If yesterday’s ideas of journaling were a little too “loosey-goosey” for you, today’s are a bit more structured and organized. Ultimately, you have to find the style that works best for you, your ministry, and your creativity! Continue reading

Create-A-Day: your daily dose of creativity #22 — Morning Pages

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by Louis crartist FlickrWe’ll spend the week looking at expressive writing, specifically through journaling. Perhaps you’ve thought about keeping a journal but never got around to it. Hopefully this week will inspire you to do so! Journals are good for artists of ALL genres!

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Create-A-Day: your daily dose of creativity #21 — Prophetic Artists FB Group

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imagesIt’s Facebook Friday!! Facebook is a great way to network with like-minded creatives and artists!

The Prophetic Artists Guild is a Facebook group administered by prophetic artist Sharron Jones who has such an encouraging heart for artists. The group description reads: Continue reading

Create-A-Day: your daily dose of creativity #20 — Moving to Scripture

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CaraMayan was developed by my friend Mary Jones, founder of International Christian Dance Fellowship. CaraMayan is a way of combining simple movement with scripture. This way of moving is sometimes called “embodied prayer,” and I’ll post more about that subject in the future. CaraMayan is very calming and meditative in nature and a great way to help you memorize scripture as the movement often helps the words become more a part of your being.

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