Three Things : Creative Books (+ a giveaway)

...my "favorite creative technique" these days - if to call it technique...
Laying transparent shrinky dink onto parts of photos/ grafics, copying the main lines, baking and and put them after it together (onto scrap page, cards... not decided yet) with these photos...
Ali, thanks so much for sharing your life and ideas, it since a couple of week that I found your blog (and found that there are so much people who loves this peronal-memory-design-crafting-thing), I'm always looking forward each 1 or 2 days to see which new ideas you post!
Love from raining Germany to you all

Hi Ali
You are amazing with your all inspiring ideas and the give aways are always an added bonus!!! My most creative outlet is photography - just using the pictures in fabric quilts, scrapbooking and everywhere in my house!!! Can't get enough of it!!
Nicky

My favorite technique that I have been playing with lately is trying new things with my photo program. Doctoring up my pictures has been fun. I still print them as originals most always, but this has been a fun creative outlet for me.

I love your letter to Simon -- excellent idea and thank you for sharing!
Lets see, my favorite technique these days has been stamping. I know its an oldie -- but I think its a goodie!
Tricia

I saw some of KellyRae's works from her website. I absolutely love the way she portrays and paints art. :) my favourite technique is simply just drawing and doodling what I felt like doing that moment. simplicity is beautiful.

these days needing to keep it simple!
I like just marker doodles and acrylic paint.

Hi Ali,
I've been experimenting with adding acrylic paint to photos to wash out backgrounds or distracting items and allowing the main subject to stand alone. It gives the photos a sureal, floating look. I quite like the effect. Works well for encorporating contempory photos into mixed media art/collage.
Yvette

My favorite techniques recently is layering card stock. I love layering them to create a 3 dimentional look and feel...especially with my die cuts. Here's a card I made with this technique http://scrapsimplescraphappy.blogspot.com/2008/08/simple-yet-fun-greeting-cards.html
The cupcake is 6 layers of cardstock!
-Annie

These books look so inspiring! I totally want to check them out!

I'd love to be entered into the giveaway, thanks!
My favorite technique is slathering gel medium onto watercolour paper and then painting with acrylics. Or paint, gel, paint, gel... until I feel like it's finished.

My favorite creative technique right now is definately photo editing. I am loving how to create "different" looks and to add text and frames oh my! It gets me all excited just thinking about it! :o)

Thanks for inspiring us. Your letter to Simon today was so sweet. Simon is very lucky to have such loving parents.
Lately, I've been experimenting with using fabric as frames for photos in a layout. I just started trying to paint these frames for a different kind of look. I'm still experimenting. It works well sometimes and sometimes not.

Hands down, I'm a visual journal type girl!! :)

My favorite thing to do in scrapbooking right now is draw a doodled border around my journaling.

I would love to add this book to the collection of books on creativity I have been reading. The latest is Ansel Adams: An Autobiobraphy.
Thanks for the suggestions.

Pick me, Pick me !
My favorite creative technique right now is photo tinting in photoshop CS2. My baby girl has amazing blue eyes.. and I love desaturating her pics and making her eyes the focus of the picture.
p.s. Congrats on your new little one to be.

Right now I'm practicing using textured layers in photoshop on my photos

it's writing. pages on pages on pages. Journaling for scrapbooking, prose, fiction, or just writing about what's going on in my life these days. Not you're typical technique, but i think my work is benefiting from it.

I'm not sure if organization fits this topic or not, however, what organization has done for me is made me be able to be more creative BECAUSE I can find what I need when I need it!

Hi Ali! Write now my favorite technique is scrapbooking related... I'm loving playing with acrylic paint and personalizing my embellishments and letters. Thanks! Sharyn :)