Lookie what I got in the mail this week ---> Claudine Hellmuth's latest creation: The Scrapbooker's Creativity Kit! This kit is complete with a book of unique design ideas -and- two card decks for prompts. One deck is full of colors. The other deck is full of words. The idea is to draw one card from each deck. Or you might choose to draw an additional color card as Claudine did in the example below. She drew Food + Pink + Red. From there, she created a project that included these three elements. Of course, they need not be literal interpretations of the words...they're just ideas to get your brain warmed up.
Claudine says this word prompt technique is tried and true. And she knows her stuff because she is famous. Hahaha! OK, it's not because she's famous (although she IS famous)....it's because she is a truly talented artist. I know this for sure because I took one of her collage workshops, which was WAY wonderful. One look at her art and I think you'll concur.
If you're not a scrapbooker, you could still use this kit to spark ideas for collages, greeting cards, mixed media projects, paper crafting, paintings, or whatever. Let your creative juices persuade you! They always know the way.
After I posted this, Claudine mentioned me..mentioning her..on her blog. Check it out here. Now I'm famous too!!
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Word and color prompt cards
Claudine's collage = Food + Pink + Red
Layout examples by contributing artists. The book is full of sample layouts using additional word and color combos. This one is Change + Blue-Green + Celery Green.
