Crafting Creativity: 52 brilliant ideas for awakening the artistic genius within

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Infinite Ideas, Mar 21, 2008 - Self-Help - 272 pages
Remember when you were a kid, and would happily spend hours creating a collage to present to your mum and dad? Children are often happiest when left alone with creative materials – they let their imagination take over and come up with some wonderful ideas. But as we grow up we often lose touch with our creative side as 'real' life takes over and we find we have no time to do the washing up, let alone sit down and create something beautiful just for its own sake. Creativity doesn't just fade away though, and increasingly people are turning back to their favourite childhood arts and crafts skills in order to relax and rediscover themselves. Crafting creativity is the perfect handbook for anyone looking to expand or re-awaken their creative side, and is packed with inspiring ideas and advice for creating something really special, whatever you're into – the only limits to what you can create are those in your imagination!
 

Contents

1 So thats why they call it a craft
1
2 Go forth and multiply
5
3 Start a new arts and crafts movement
9
4 The scrapbook of your mind
13
5 Playing with your food
17
6 A promise a commitment a dream
23
7 Cartoon character in a carton
27
8 Confused by colour? Get in a spin
31
29 Target practice
133
30 A room with a view
137
31 Devise a deck and deal in design
141
32 Mixing and matching
145
escape into shape
149
34 Sharing it with the group
153
35 Patterns to set your pulses racing
157
36 If life is a journey am I on the right train?
161

9 Creator as curator
37
10 Take yourself out of the picture
41
11 Brave new tabletop worlds
47
12 Taking the rough with the smooth
53
13 Different dimensions strange new worlds
57
14 The joiner at his workbench the potter at her wheel
63
15 Go nuts for dough
67
16 No man is an island
71
17 Putting a brave face on it
75
18 When words fail you whats a picture worth?
79
19 Solo exhibition
83
20 Concentration capturing the essence
87
21 Works like a charm
93
22 Painting with daylight
97
23 Spelling it out the JOY of colourful language
103
24 Take a tip from the top
107
25 Take a leaf out of natures book
113
26 Just close your eyes and youll see
117
27 Pulling the strings hand in glove
123
28 Same bird different feathers
127
37 Judging a book by its cover
167
38 Breaking the sound barrier
171
39 I had a brilliant idea but I lost it
175
40 Telling a triptych tale
181
41 Fabric softener
185
42 Chocolate teacups and plasticine chairs
189
43 One two three oclock four oclock rock
193
44 Making an exhibition of yourself
197
45 Textile treasure trove
201
46 One craftsperson many crafts
205
47 Manageable makeovers
209
48 Get pixelated
213
49 Help yourself to some history
217
50 Space the final frontier
221
51 The most important thing youll ever make
225
52 All dressed up and somewhere to go
229
The end
233
Index
235
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