What do you do when you need to be creative and your muse seems to have gone in search of greater adventures? I came across a blog the other day where the blogger was lamenting the loss of her creativity. She even said she wondered why she even bothered to try anymore. I know how she feels.

Just about every creative person I know has found themselves in her predicament at least once. If we are all being honest we will admit that we have been there MANY times. I have a few tricks I use to try and break the dry spell. I force myself to make something, anything, with a color I don’t like (even if I =know= it will end up in the trash). I clean up my work area hoping that in the process I’ll come across some long forgotten item that will spark my creativity. And now I have a new secret weapon… dive into a couple other projects that have nothing to do with art.

I think I was trying to hard to think arty thoughts and had become my own worst enemy. I started trying to teach myself pMachine and CSS (website building stuff) and the more time I spent learning (and being frustrated) the more I found myself thinking of my waiting art projects. The big difference was that I was thinking of them with honest to goodness ideas about how I could complete them. It sounds totally ADD, doesn’t it?

Oh well, whatever works. So tell me, what works for you?

Although I did some creating this week it is all stuff that I can’t share because it is for future publications. To give you something pretty to look at I’m posting two ATC done by my friend, Jo Berneche. Jo is a very talented artist that I trade with on a monthly basis. These two cards came in today’s mail and were a wonderful surprise. I hope you enjoy them as much as I am.