2011 Creative Every Day Challenge
December 3rd, 2010
2011 is nearly here and with it, we'll be starting the 4th year of the Creative Every Day Challenge! I've got the new logo up in the sidebar and a new sign-up page for the new year. (I'm using the same format for sign-ups as I did for Art Every Day Month this year.)
The main goal of the Creative Every Day Challenge is to bring more creativity into our daily lives. It's a low-pressure challenge that takes a broad view of creativity to mean anything from drawing to cooking to knitting to welding to telling bedtime stories to your children. I want you to get creative with how you're creative. It will help you see the endless ways there are to be creative in your everyday life.
As with the last couple years, I will provide a (totally optional) monthly theme which you can use if it inspires you, ignore, or do some mix of the two. I will also have a weekly check-in post (every Monday morning) where you can leave a link to your blog or Flickr post showing your latest creative activities.
If you don't have a blog, don't worry! You can still join in and leave comments about what you're up to in the weekly check-in post, share your work on Flickr and/or share your work on Twitter, using the hashtag #ced2011.
To read more about the challenge and the ways you can participate, click here. To sign-up and announce your commitment to a year of creativity, click here.
I'm looking forward to it!
35 Responses
Lovely logo! Thanks for the opportunity!
Posted by: Kelly | Dec 3, 2010 at 6:52 am |
Cheers to a new year filled to the brim with creativity. I love the artwork for this year and will proudly display it! Thanks Leah for leading us on our creative journeys.
Posted by: Kathryn – Collage Diva | Dec 3, 2010 at 7:39 am |
Thank goodness we have you to prod us along, Leah! Looking forward to another great year of creative colaboration with all the nice folks who gather together at CED!!
Posted by: Maron | Dec 3, 2010 at 8:59 am |
Love the new button, so lovely
Glad to be a part of this great creative group. I’m very excited!
Posted by: pavinee | Dec 3, 2010 at 9:33 am |
excellent – looking forward to it…putting your new badge up now.
Posted by: dthaase | Dec 3, 2010 at 10:19 am |
My third year signing up….I’m so excited to be on this creative journey. Thank you so much, Leah!
Posted by: Gina | Dec 3, 2010 at 11:16 am |
Beautiful new logo.
Joining CED this year was one of the best choices I made all year.
Looking forward to CED2011 & continuing to be part of such a fab community!
Kat X
Posted by: Katina Wright | Dec 3, 2010 at 11:17 am |
Love the new logo! Excellent choice
Posted by: Andrew | Dec 3, 2010 at 11:24 am |
Thanks Andrew! (that’s my husband commenting, who helped me choose this one from among the logo ideas I had.)
Posted by: Leah | Dec 3, 2010 at 11:27 am |
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I agree with Andrew, it is a lovely logo.
It is a wonderful Community and I look forward to participating this coming year.
Posted by: rennata | Dec 3, 2010 at 12:33 pm |
Fantastique is your CED2011 painting, love love the colors and all that you envoke with the image itself!!!
It is going to be another wonderfully creative year!
Posted by: RoseAnn Deighan | Dec 3, 2010 at 12:43 pm |
*INVOKE (:
Posted by: RoseAnn Deighan | Dec 3, 2010 at 12:44 pm |
Beautiful new logo!! I loooove that painting you did.
Posted by: Jennifer Lee | Dec 3, 2010 at 1:21 pm |
What a beautiful looking button! I will continue to participate, as I enjoy creating and sharing and I love your community! Hope you are well
Much love ~ Ana (Just signed up yipppeee)
Posted by: Ana Goncalves | Dec 3, 2010 at 1:28 pm |
gret! Done! Looking forward to wonderful 2011.
Posted by: ines | Dec 3, 2010 at 1:39 pm |
Yay! Thank you for doing this yet again. Really looking forward to it.
Posted by: Holly | Dec 3, 2010 at 6:11 pm |
I had a goal for 2010 to be more creative. Then I got sick. Sigh. But I’m better now, and I think this challenge will really help me move toward that goal. Thanks for doing it! And here’s to 2011 being a MUCH better year!
Posted by: CousinLinda | Dec 3, 2010 at 6:19 pm |
Joining in again this year!! Thanks for hosting another wonderful year of creativity
Posted by: Jodi Ohl | Dec 3, 2010 at 10:38 pm |
Last year, I kind of fell off the wagon (so to speak.
) Here’s to being CED in 2011!
Posted by: Cheri H. | Dec 3, 2010 at 11:12 pm |
I’m in!!!! Love the new button. Speaking of buttons… pat the belly for me. *grins*
Posted by: Lille Diane | Dec 4, 2010 at 12:41 am |
Hi Leah, I’m back again and ready to enjoy your inspiration once again. Thank you for continuing this wonderful work
!
Posted by: Janet O’Connor | Dec 4, 2010 at 10:10 am |
Hi Leah! I just signed up put your CED 2011 logo on my blog! Looking forward to spending another year of creativity with all of you!
Posted by: Sharon/MoxieBlue | Dec 4, 2010 at 1:02 pm |
So excited to be creative with this community once again! YAY! YAY! YAY!
Posted by: Julie Jordan Scott | Dec 4, 2010 at 3:40 pm |
Ready for a new year of creating!
Posted by: Susan | Dec 4, 2010 at 4:04 pm |
Yay! I’m planning to be there with y’all.
Posted by: BarbaraB | Dec 4, 2010 at 8:52 pm |
just started a new project: a face a day, so I’m ready for 2011
Posted by: Nelleke | Dec 5, 2010 at 3:43 am |
I joined the challenge. This will be my first year to participate. I love the idea behind it and I’m looking forward to it.
Posted by: Angenita | Dec 5, 2010 at 6:38 am |
Totally loving CED and keeping the momentum going… thanks for hosting this and keeping us all together
Posted by: linda | Dec 5, 2010 at 12:07 pm |
What a pretty little button you made for CED. Even if I wasn’t signing up (which I am) I’d put it on my blog cuz it’s so pretty.
Posted by: Melissa Liban | Dec 7, 2010 at 10:29 pm |
Thanks Leah. I’ve had fun this year.
Posted by: Evelyn | Dec 8, 2010 at 6:02 pm |
I’m looking forward to this year. I can’t wait to find new ways to incorporate creativity in my daily life. Thank you for hosting this challenge!
Posted by: Jean | Dec 9, 2010 at 10:42 pm |
Today I worked on putting away all the art supplies in places where my 3 year old grandson (thinks he’s part raccoon) can’t get to them. His parents are the “talk the kid to death” type of parents and don’t make him believe that no means no. They only come over once a year. DIL has MS, so I figure that I can accommodate them. Did the glorious laundry folding and still managed to make 6 cards today. Fortunately I give my kids and their kids money and the parents do all the work. So I have 3 dolls to wrap from my mom to my grand-daughters and 3 sets of nesting dolls from us to have something besides a card to open. And of course the grandson’s two presents have to be wrapped. Everything is in boxes and the wrap, etc is all lined up. Should take about 30 min tomorrow.
Posted by: Mel 2 | Dec 20, 2010 at 3:35 am |
I joined the challenge. This will be my first year to participate. I love the idea behind it and I’m looking forward to it.
Posted by: Sharron Clemons | Dec 21, 2010 at 4:31 pm |
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