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Creative Therapy
The whole feel of the site is open and positive. The team and readers alike share strong emotions from anger to sadness to joy. You get the instant impression that you are in a support group of sorts when participating in the catalysts. As you can see, projects found on the blog involve layouts, mini albums, canvases and even photographs. Some of the design team members create jewelry or quilts. That is the beauty of this site. There are no rules, no standards for your art. It is simply yours and is meant to express your innermost feelings.
Intrigued? Want to learn more about Creative Therapy? Karen Grunberg answered some questions just for us!
What is the overall goal/purpose of this challenge blog?
The goal of creative therapy is to have a weekly "catalyst" (which is what we call our prompts) that allows each person to create a therapeutic piece of art each week. The topics are wide ranging from happy to embarrassing to thought provoking. The goal is to dig deep and create art that leaves you feeling better, even if just a little bit. The idea came after I had a very cathartic experience creating art one weekend and wanted to be able repeat this amazing feeling each week. You can read the full story here: creativetherapy.wordpress.com
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What being a guest designer on this team means to you: I am in awe of the art I have found in this site and I am so honored to be part of it. I think that Creative Therapy is one of the best sites that have been made available to people to encourage creativity and to help us enjoy art in various forms. I would like to thank everyone in Creative Therapy as well as ScrapStreet for allowing me to be part of this wonderful community.
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My Life Art on Canvas by Iris Babao Uy. Supplies: Paper: Teresa Collins, Canvas, Flowers, Brads: Prima Marketing, Letter Stickers: American Crafts, Stamp: Inkadinkado, Paint: Making Memories, Word Plate: Making Memories, Overlays: Hambly Studios, Other: gesso, book page, lace, ribbons, pins.
Journaling: When I was a teenager, I would spend so much time reading books on romance and happy ever after endings. I read and read and daydreamed of that kind of life. The dream was sugar coated, but my life was far from sweet. I been through tough times but I have also been given a second chance. Through God’s grace, I met my husband and we began our own adventure. Now that I am married with two children – my life is just as I would have wanted it to be. We are not rich but we are comfortable. We are blessed and we are thankful. Life will always have its ups and downs but I now have a family who has made the journey worth taking, and the trip more interesting.
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What being a part of this team means to you: Being a member of the Creative Therapy team has encouraged me to tackle questions I might not ordinarily turn to in my art. As a result, I keep pushing myself to create pieces that matter to me, that excite me, and that capture something real and true and meaningful for each catalyst. I love seeing the range of responses each week.
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No Yellow Brick Road by Amy Cowen. Supplies: Other: fabric, fiber.
Journaling: When I thought about this catalyst, I thought about plans and blueprints made throughout the years. I thought about the milestones and markers that might fall in line on a map of living. Has my life turned out as I expected? Maybe not. But from this vantage, it's sometimes hard to look back and see clearly what I expected. Day by day life has unfolded and shifted and changed. Focusing on the moment by moment of living, the changes just get folded in, smoothed out, absorbed. Directions change. Detours are taken and made. We adjust. There is no yellow brick road. There is no pre-determined palette with which my life is to be painted. Instead, it's ongoing. It's a canvas started and yet not completed. It's a cycle, a spiral, and a constant exercise in flow.
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Celebrate Life by Larissa Albernaz. Supplies: Papers: Rouge de Garance, October Afternoon, KI Memories, Webster´s Pages, Cosmo Cricket, Flowers, Bling: Prima Marketing, Alphabet: American Crafts, Buttons, Rub-ons: KI Memories.
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What does being a part of this team mean to you: Being part of this team is simply the best gift I could have ever received. It’s something to which I am weekly thankful because it means, in a gradual way, artistic and personal evolution. The proposed challenges make me work up themes I never imagined, they rake my memory chest of traumas and pleasures…besides that, the group is terrific and it’s impossible not to get involved with the work and the life of each one of my colleagues, readers or special guests. That shows me the incredible therapeutic power of art which brings me maturity and satisfaction.
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