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Paintstik Rubbings 6: Avoid Two Common Mistakes Making Personal Prints

February 27, 2014 ShellyStokes

by Shelly Stokes, Founder and Creative Mentor As I started today’s post, I realized that I have been working with Paintstiks for nearly 15 years. Holy buckets, Batman! Where have the years gone? In that time, I confess that I have made every mistake in the books – and then some. Worse yet, I made […]

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Paintstik Rubbings 5: Soft and Subtle

February 6, 2014 ShellyStokes

by Shelly Stokes, Founder and Creative Mentor It has been a few weeks since we last checked in on Paintstik Rubbings. Today I want to continue our series with a look at a couple of ways to make softer images. If you have just joined us or want to review, here are the links to […]

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Paintstik Rubbings 4: Detailed Rubbings From Stamps

January 2, 2014 ShellyStokes

by Shelly Stokes, Founder and Creative Mentor In the Part 1 of this series on making Paintstik Rubbings, we discussed how using the side of a paintstik can make a cleaner rubbing. Today, I want to talk about one case where this is definitely not the case. First, let me give you the links to […]

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Paintstik Rubbings 3: Joyfully Messy Rubbings

December 19, 2013 ShellyStokes

by Shelly Stokes, Founder and Creative Mentor Today I want to take a HUGE step away from everything I have ever said about making Paintstik rubbings. Today, we’re going to talk about making “messy” rubbings. And not just a little bit messy — we are going straight for the joyfully messy version! (By the way, […]

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Paintstik Rubbings 2: Sticky Stuff Alternatives

December 12, 2013 ShellyStokes

by Shelly Stokes, Founder and Creative Mentor Last week, we talked about my favorite method for creating clean, clear paintstik rubbings. To do this, I shared my fondness for sticky mats and sticky spray. Well, that’s all and good if you happen to have these items on hand. But what if you don’t? I am […]

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Paintstik Rubbings 1: Clean, Crisp Images

December 5, 2013 ShellyStokes

by Shelly Stokes, Founder and Creative Mentor One of the comments I hear most frequently from readers, students and shop owners is “wow, my paintstik rubbings don’t look anything like that!” Rather than telling you what I think is the right way to make rubbings, I thought it might be a lot more fun to […]

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Finding Inspiration 5: Allow Yourself to FEEL

November 13, 2013 ShellyStokes

by Shelly Stokes, Founder and Creative Mentor As I look back, the two most overused phrases in my 25-year marriage to Jack have been “what would you like for dinner?” and “I don’t know, I haven’t thought about it.” And with that, the inevitable little standoff when neither one of us takes a moment to […]

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Finding Inspiration 4: Learn Your Craft

October 23, 2013 ShellyStokes

 by Shelly Stokes, Creative Mentor, Cedar Canyon Textiles It has been a few weeks since we last talked about finding inspiration or “wooing our muse.” Today, I want to continue this series with some thoughts on one really important strategy that is easy to skip past when we want to jump into a new project. […]

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Finding Inspiration 3: Connect With Others

October 3, 2013 ShellyStokes

A few weeks ago, I posted several articles on finding inspiration, or “wooing our muse.” You can read the earlier posts here: Finding Inspiration 1: Examine the Best Examples Finding Inspiration 2: Explore Other Techniques As you know, ideas come at the craziest times (like the middle of the night) and often seem to disappear […]

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Finding Inspiration 2: Explore Other Techniques

September 18, 2013 ShellyStokes

In last week’s post, we talked about finding creative inspiration – or “wooing our muse” – with our EYES by looking at the best examples we can find. This week, I want to talk about finding inspiration with our HANDS. In a recent blog post, poet Kelly Belmonte at All Nine Muses encouraged writers to read […]

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Finding Inspiration 1: Examine The Best Examples

September 11, 2013 ShellyStokes

Last week, I posted a video about honoring your creative nature. If you missed it, you can see it here. In the video, I made the case that each and every one of us is a creative being, and that we need to make time and space to play, to create, and to feed this […]

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Honor Your Creative Space

September 4, 2013 ShellyStokes

As you know, I’ve been taking a lot of time off this summer to spend on family and personal matters. I was incredibly earlier in the year and I simply needed to make time for myself. I have spent a lot of time with my family, picked out furnishings for my living room, gone to […]

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