Tags

Just like many of you, sometimes I have to do warm up exercises to get my creative juices flowing. Journaling, finishing up a half done project sitting on on my table, or as I am showing you here, making tags.

Yeah!

Quick little mini-projects that get you rolling and if they end up disasters,

who cares?

I had a hard time getting into  Christmas projects. Now that I am into them, I am on a whirlwind of holiday art craziness. But back before Thanksgiving, it was a tough switch over from fall to glittery holiday fun.

So I took out some tags and some stamps and just played.

I even took one tag I made and added it to a base and made this simple card.

Now I know these aren't these fancy tags- like some of Tim Holtz's mini-masterpieces. But they're not meant to be- their warm up exercises that I am quite pleased with.

So what are your warm up exercises?

I also made another discovery while trying to get into the holiday art spirit this year.

I need a bit of mess.

I had cleaned up my studio after the Halloween blitz and man,

I just found myself frozen.

Like the white page syndrome- which normally I can just make marks on a page and get rolling.

But a clean space...

I had to make a mini mess.

Now I also know that if it gets too messy-

I am just as stuck. Frustration kicks in when I can't find things.

Funny little personal quirk.

Now that I have been on a holiday art bliss,

the mess is HORRIBLE!!!!

I have 2 weeks off at Christmas and I am hoping after the Christmas frenzy wears down, I can CLEAN! PURGE! and get ready for a creative new year.

Do you have any art plans for the new year?

Or maybe any Holiday Projects you're finishing up?

Enough of me chatting.

Have a super day and hope you'll be back soon.