Three Things : Creative Books (+ a giveaway)

Right now I love using scrapbook supplies in my work environment (university campus housing). Bringing a personal and creative edge to my interactions with college students. Would love a copy of this book in helping to grow the students' creativity.

Lately I've had a severe lack of creativity. I am hoping to try scrapbooking more soon.

I love to use acrylic paints and stamps on scrapbook pages & modge podge on certain projects. Congrats to you and your sister on your special upcoming arrivals. Thanks for this awesome giveaway.
Have a great week.

My creative thing lately has been ttv photography. Basicly, you shoot an image of the viewfinder of a vintage camera. I use a Vintage Kodak Duaflex II as my bottom camera. It has a very large viewfinder on the top of the camera. Then I record the image with a Canon Digi Rebel.
Here's a website that explains it better.
http://www.russmorris.com/ttv/
The photos are wonderfully grungy and distorted.

i have been doing a lot of hand cutting of patterned paper, something i never felt comfortable doing in the past, i didn't want to "waste" the paper by cutting it up...so i let it all go and i like the results

My favorite technique is layering. I love coming up with new ways to organize my paper on my layouts. I have also been really into altering items, especially pencil holders lately :-)

my favorite thing right now is stamping and also using some digital elements on my scrapbook layouts.

I'm actually really into painting right now and experimenting a lot with masks. I have a couple Heidi Swapp masks of hibiscus flowers and I'm creating a mini album of my Hawaiian vacation with them. I'm having a good time creating cool color blends but I can't seem to keep all the papers from warping from the paint. Any suggestions?

I am in love with anything having to do with paint and foam stamps. I can not get enough of either!
Congrats to you and your sis! Each child is a gift from God!
Thanks for all of your inspiration.
Sarah in TX

thanks Ali for sharing with us the three books and how they inspire..."Taking Flight"...i love the title, the sound of it and its meaning and potential! yay, may our creativity take flight!!!

My favorite thing right now is stamping into polymer clay and adding mica powders. I am enjoying the color combinations and using the pieces for mosaics. I would love to win the Taking Flight book.

I am just getting into digital scrapbooking! I also love to do iron on projects with my daughter's art.

Thanks for the opportunity to win this book, sounds most awesome! I am a brochure, ticket stub, receipt, etc. collector and always try to use them in my scrapbook pages. I wanted to try something different so I used a framed canvas and TIm Holtz Fragments and made a great collage from the "stuff" I collected on my last trip to Alaska. It's my new favorite!!

I am expanding my use of acrylic paints in my memory art :) Thanks!

I'm a pastel painter, and have always disliked the framing aspect of paintings---particularly pastels, so have been experimenting with painting pastels on canvas and working with pva size to "fix" the pastel paintings = no glass or frame needed! This is truly my latest creative technique and I am soooo jazzed!! Thanks for the opportunity to win Taking Flight---it seems to be a great book for all creative directions!

I have been reading a lot of books on art journaling with collage. I especially like the transfer techniques using simple clear shelf paper.

Thanks for the chance to win! I'm doing a lot of painted scrapbook pages these days!

Letting go and embracing new philosophies -- a requirement for me as I'm in a beginning drawing class at the community college with 18 year old students (I'm so WAY older than them, and even the instructor, I think ;-)). The other thing is not comparing myself to the talents of others -- most students draw way better than me, but this is a beginning class so I'm in the right place -- stretching my wings and learning new stuff like the Nicolaides method -- and having a great time in the process.

Right now my favorite technique is using watercolor crayons and paints in a lot of my projects.
Thanks!

Scrapbooking is my main focus - but playing with words has been a lot of fun lately - finding creative new ways to use words to tell my story. Wordart, poetry, typography, and other journaling techniques.

I am a scrapbooker, and my favorite creative technique lately seems to be layering. I like layering embellishments, papers, etc... This book looks like it would be very inspirational. Thanks for the great give-away..

My favorite creative technique of the moment is my long love crochet. Doing a blanket right now.. ideal to be sitting under while reading... yep, books!

Creative technique: at the moment it's coloring with my almost two year old. She loves pencils, I can't get her to care about crayons or colored pencils so I use color and she uses my mechanical pencils.

OOh love all these books, thanks for sharing them. Right now I am just getting into acrylic albums, really love the look of them but have been wary of working with them until now.

Lately I've been trying to concentrate on my words and emotions on my scrapbook pages. I struggle with that a lot. Taking Flight seems to be just what I need to help me along.
In a few weeks my teenage daughter and I are taking a online mixed media class by Paulette Insall. Her paintings are fabulous and inspirational!