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Crafter's Devotional: 365 Days of Tips, Tricks, and Techniques for Unlocking Your Creative Spirit (The Devotional Series)
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Product Description
There is something elemental shared among artists and crafters, regardless of chosen medium: creative energy. Crafters dabble, collaborate, muse, and make, all in their own way and on their own timeline. For all crafts, there are established techniques to follow but wild, innumerable ways to experiment, using the basics to launch crafters to new heights. Crafter’s Devotional can aid that launch. Each day of the year is given its own focus, on which the reader will find a daily dose of craft content that inspires, instructs, and illuminates.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #33318 in Books
- Published on: 2009-07-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 320 pages
Features
- ISBN13: 9781592535316
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Editorial Reviews
About the Author
Barbara Call Bourassa is a professional freelance writer and editor specializing in crafts, food, and health & wellness. She is the author of five books, including Beyond Scrapbooks: Using Your Scrapbook Supplies to Make Beautiful Cards, Gifts, Books, Journals, Home Decorations and More (Quarry Books, 2006) and a 4-book children’s book series called Get Active! (QED Publishing, 2008).
Customer Reviews
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Barbara Call's Crafter's Devotional: 365 Days of Tips, Tricks, and Technique for Unlocking Your Creative Spirit is everything its title promises it to be.
While there are daily entries, you are able to wander aimlessly through the book looking for whatever inspiration might grab you. I like the idea of just letting the book fall open and letting destiny land you on an entry to inspire you for the day.
I would also like to suggest that you consider taking notes in the margins of the pages so that you can revisit what worked (or didn't work) for you.
The book is a thoughtful collaboration of Barbara's words and the unique, artwork, interviews, techniques and more from over 100 talented artists, designers and crafters.
This book would also be a great service to open minded artists like myself looking for creative spirit recharge or a cure for painter's block...but a Artist's Devotional book might be a great follow up!
Full disclosure: My work does appear in this book but I am not compensated in any way. Because the days are 10 hours shorter than I need them to be, I only contribute work to projects I believe in. Barbara's book, Crafter's Devotional is fully worthy. It also is a great resource for people looking to live more creatively which is a passion of ours [...] .
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A Crafter's Delight!
What a sweet, well-designed book. I'd never seen a "crafter's" devotional, so I had to get this. I'm so glad I did! Each page has something wonderful and inspirational for an artist/crafter.
I'm pretty busy with children, family, and life, but this book is a daily reminder to me that creativity is something that you should always make time for. It's sitting on my drafting table open right now and that way, it reminds me to look through the book at least once a day. It's reasonably priced, too. I've seen plain scrapbooks priced higher and this book is full of great ideas. This would also be a sweet gift for the artistic person in your life.
Recommended!
A must!
Barbara Call's Crafter's Devotional: 365 Days of Tips, Tricks, and Technique for Unlocking Your Creative Spirit is a must for artists, crafters, teachers and more. This book should become a classic. Go out and buy it for every teacher and artist or creative soul you know. Anyone can learn from this book, it is so much more than instruction and pretty pictures. It provides keys to unlock areas in your life that could be joyfully expressed. I plan on buying a many more copies for my crafty friends. I'd like to see Barbara Call speaking with Martha Stewart, Rosie O'Donnell (well known "crafter", I suggest a PBS special) and even Oprah. I truy believe that it would be a huge bonus to any teacher. Every primary educator should be given a copy. I am a Professor of Art and Art History and found each and every page provides me with some inspiration. It holds all from "high art" to a child's delightful unrestrained creativity. Do yourself get yourself a copy, actually get at least 2 and share it, it has already come back to me ten fold. Trust me this should be one every book shelf!
