CED Challenge Check-In: July 13 – 19

July 13th, 2009

Welcome, Creative Every Day Challenge participants!

This weekly post is a place for CED participants to share their creative activities.

Ways to share: Leave a comment on this post and/or use the "Mr. Linky" widget below to link to a post (or posts) about your creative activities during the days of 7/13/09 - 7/19/09.

The widget below is an optional method of sharing your creativity that makes it easier for others to check out what you're up to. You can use it to link to a blog post (or posts) during the week listed. Or if you have a bunch of posts and don't want to link to all of them, you can link to your main blog page once. Do it in a way that makes sense and is fun for you! (If you're reading this in a RSS reader or email subscription, you will not see the "Mr. Linky widget", so click on over to the blog to use it.)

You can also take advantage of the great CED flickr group to post your images and see what others are up to.

Join in the Challenge: To find out more about the Creative Every Day Challenge check out the details here.

If you want to sign up to be a part of the challenge, leave a comment on this post or email me to let me know. When you contact me, please let me know how you'd like to be listed in the list of participants, which resides in the right sidebar (I can list you as your name or as a link to a blog if you have one. A blog is not required to participate!) Please email or comment to let me know you're participating before you start posting links in the comments or on the "Mr. Linky" widget.

Theme: The (totally optional) theme for July theme is self. I'll be posting about the theme throughout the month. You can find out more about how you can use the self theme here.

Happy Creating!

Update: The Mr. Linky widget disappeared for a bit (new server switch), but it should be all set now!

Each of us, even the least complicated of us, is a vastly complex, endlessly fascinating creature, and the secret to creating art is to gain access to that creature and all that it knows. It is my suspicion that what appears to be talent is really just a doorway to a larger consciousness. As artists, we want to keep the door wide open all the time. -Cay Lang in "Taking the Leap"

Posted by Leah on July 13th, 2009 in creative every day 2009 | Permalink | 27 Comments |

27 Responses

Playing around with Grunge Paper. I think I’m really liking this material!

Posted by: sherry goodloe | Jul 13, 2009 at 12:36 am |

I’ve been busy creating new jewelry and posted a few of my new pieces.

Posted by: Regina | Jul 13, 2009 at 1:11 am |

I’m playing with UTEE and think I am addicted!

xoxo

Posted by: Vicki | Jul 13, 2009 at 8:42 am |

wow, the year’s half gone! ced has been great at helping me focus on doing SOMETHING creative every day, even when it seems there’s no time. do hope to have time for self this month (the reat of it anyway!). thanks for everything leah- the encouragement, ideas & your generous spirit-

Posted by: marianne | Jul 13, 2009 at 9:56 am |

I have been collaging a lot more. I wrote about that in my blog entry in my link. I am loving the perfect imperfection in my study of self this month.

So much glorious ground to cover.

Posted by: Julie Jordan Scott | Jul 13, 2009 at 1:13 pm |

Dang!! I’ve been creative everyday this whole summer and never thought to add my little blog to your list till now.

Duh!!

Peace & Love.

Posted by: Connie | Jul 13, 2009 at 3:25 pm |

This topic is fun! I did 4 self portraits and am now ready
to explore another facet of self. Thanks so much for your
inspiration and encouragement.

Posted by: Gina | Jul 13, 2009 at 9:14 pm |

I am working a lot with photos and layers. I find that my soul soars when I capture a moment with my camera. Adding the layers just makes it “deeper.” I am finding peace within and discovering things about myself in the process.

Posted by: Caroline | Jul 14, 2009 at 1:14 am |

I’ve just posted the first in a series of vlogs about making handmade books — for art, for fun, for sharing content. Anyway, just started today with how to get a 16 page mini book out of one piece of 8.5 x 11 paper. Hope you find it helpful — and inspiring!
miracles,
k-

Posted by: Kara aka Mother Henna | Jul 14, 2009 at 5:07 am |

Thanks for being here, even in the dry seasons.

Posted by: Karen Miedrich-Luo | Jul 14, 2009 at 8:14 am |

Hi Leah and Everybody! I’ve missed the last couple of weeks. I’ve been doing something creative every day. I just didn’t get it posted. Still doing a doodle a day and wc painting some, but this week I’m sharing a new painting tool that I found by experimenting. The post before this one is showing Birdie’s new glasses. She’s a new doodle character that emerged out of my randomness. Hope you enjoy!

Looking forward to seeing your posts! Have a wonderful week!

Posted by: Sharon | Jul 14, 2009 at 11:19 am |

I just wanted to add that I think each of my quirky doodle characters has a little bit of mySELF in them. LOL

Posted by: Sharon | Jul 14, 2009 at 11:21 am |

I’d like to join in the fun!

Posted by: Sara | Jul 14, 2009 at 3:20 pm |

My latest blog post is on challenges…I’ve really stretched myself this year by embarking on lots of new things.