
There are many creativity boosters, and many websites designed to help or motivate creativity. Whether you call yourself an artist or simply a crafter - sometimes you just need a boost to get you on track or inspired again!
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Boost Your Artistry
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Sign up for a monthly dose of artist-inspired prompts. The current issue (at time of making this link) has a nice article on procrastination.
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Register for this online artform - (although US based). This is based on the RAK principles, but members leave behind artworks for someone to find. I based my first ever circle journal on the same principle. See this in my gallery (Tag You're It).
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An online ezine / community of cyber artists. Lots of inspiration, and topics as varied as different digital art creations to photography.
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Boost Your Work Output
Goals, rewards, and more goals and motivation.-
Take a look at Keri Smith's site for boosts to get you working again, even if from her wacky creativity soup illustrations.
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Faith, Hope and Spirtual Thinking
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Sign up for a newsletter which comes regularly with tips and advice that will spark your creativity - and joy.
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Click on a word, and receive the definition.
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Creativity, Inspiration, General good feelings from Sark's books and this website.
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Creativity Shots
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This Yahoo Group sends out one or two journaling prompts to you a day, via a newslist.
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A pdf file of a spin the wheel page, to boost your creativity.
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This site is about printing graphical designs - newsletters, logos etc. But even looking at the images onsite is really inspiring for a scrapbooker.
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Sign up for a daily newsletter to provide poems or quotes from literary or historical figures having birthdays that day. Some quotes or poems may just be the inspiration you need.
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If you've enjoyed those challenges on forums where they give you an advertisement or artwork as inspiration for a layout, then this personal geocities site is for you. Nancy has put up 10 pages of adverts etc, for inspiration.
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Check out this website for articles and illustrations to inspire you to keep creating. This is a fun site, with a fun blog also.
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Sign up to participate in this site's challenges. Every Friday you are mailed a new topic and have a week (until Friday) to illustrate it - in any way you care to. Upload your challenge to a website and link into it from the Illustration Friday website.
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This was the originator of Illustration Friday - challenges weekly for your photo-taking skills. Fill your blogs with these challenge shots, and use them to inspire your own creativity.
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Categories of creativity, arts & crafts and writing. Many feature articles, and projects.
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Random products, random descriptions - the combinations can be interesting, and perhaps helpful in getting you to think creatively.
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A webpage of archives by Robert Alan Black - look up some interesting creativity challenges from years gone by.
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Galleries of advertisements to use to inspire your layout designs.
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Heather Blakely's site - not just for writers anymore, Soul Food Cafe has depths to it that can leave you browsing for hours - from visual journals to a community of writers.
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Huge site - bookmark this - articles on creativity, how to journal, success stories for artists, tips, tutorials, printables for writers, artists and crafters.
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Jill Badonsky's website - author of "The 9 Modern Day Muses (and a bodyguard)"
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