Crafter's Devotional: 365 Days of Tips, Tricks, and Techniques for Unlocking Your Creative Spirit (The Devotional Series) [Hardcover]

Barbara R. Call (Author), Judy Love (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1, 2009 | Series: The Devotional Series

There is something elemental shared among artists and crafters, regardless of chosen medium: creative energy. Crafters dabble, collaborate, muse, and make, all in their own way and on their own timeline. For all crafts, there are established techniques to follow but wild, innumerable ways to experiment, using the basics to launch crafters to new heights. Crafter’s Devotional can aid that launch. Each day of the year is given its own focus, on which the reader will find a daily dose of craft content that inspires, instructs, and illuminates.

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About the Author

Barbara Call Bourassa is a professional freelance writer and editor specializing in crafts, food, and health & wellness. She is the author of five books, including Beyond Scrapbooks: Using Your Scrapbook Supplies to Make Beautiful Cards, Gifts, Books, Journals, Home Decorations and More (Quarry Books, 2006) and a 4-book children’s book series called Get Active! (QED Publishing, 2008).

Product Details

• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: Quarry Books; 1st edition (July 1, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1592535313
• ISBN-13: 978-1592535316
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.8 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #741,721 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Truth in Advertising, July 7, 2009

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Jenn Mason "author, artist, teacher, designer... (Brookline, MA or www.JennMason.com) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Crafter's Devotional: 365 Days of Tips, Tricks, and Techniques for Unlocking Your Creative Spirit (The Devotional Series) (Hardcover)

Barbara Call's Crafter's Devotional: 365 Days of Tips, Tricks, and Technique for Unlocking Your Creative Spirit is everything its title promises it to be.

While there are daily entries, you are able to wander aimlessly through the book looking for whatever inspiration might grab you. I like the idea of just letting the book fall open and letting destiny land you on an entry to inspire you for the day.

I would also like to suggest that you consider taking notes in the margins of the pages so that you can revisit what worked (or didn't work) for you.

The book is a thoughtful collaboration of Barbara's words and the unique, artwork, interviews, techniques and more from over 100 talented artists, designers and crafters.

This book would also be a great service to open minded artists like myself looking for creative spirit recharge or a cure for painter's block...but a Artist's Devotional book might be a great follow up!

Full disclosure: My work does appear in this book but I am not compensated in any way. Because the days are 10 hours shorter than I need them to be, I only contribute work to projects I believe in. Barbara's book, Crafter's Devotional is fully worthy. It also is a great resource for people looking to live more creatively which is a passion of ours [...] .

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must!, August 18, 2009

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D. Carter "a healing professional" (New York USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Crafter's Devotional: 365 Days of Tips, Tricks, and Techniques for Unlocking Your Creative Spirit (The Devotional Series) (Hardcover)

Barbara Call's Crafter's Devotional: 365 Days of Tips, Tricks, and Technique for Unlocking Your Creative Spirit is a must for artists, crafters, teachers and more. This book should become a classic. Go out and buy it for every teacher and artist or creative soul you know. Anyone can learn from this book, it is so much more than instruction and pretty pictures. It provides keys to unlock areas in your life that could be joyfully expressed. I plan on buying a many more copies for my crafty friends. I'd like to see Barbara Call speaking with Martha Stewart, Rosie O'Donnell (well known "crafter", I suggest a PBS special) and even Oprah. I truy believe that it would be a huge bonus to any teacher. Every primary educator should be given a copy. I am a Professor of Art and Art History and found each and every page provides me with some inspiration. It holds all from "high art" to a child's delightful unrestrained creativity. Do yourself get yourself a copy, actually get at least 2 and share it, it has already come back to me ten fold. Trust me this should be one every book shelf!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Jumpin' your starts..., November 8, 2009

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S. Fishburn (Fort Collins, Colorado, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Crafter's Devotional: 365 Days of Tips, Tricks, and Techniques for Unlocking Your Creative Spirit (The Devotional Series) (Hardcover)

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) tells us that Devotional is an (a.)

Pertaining to, suited to, or used in, devotion; as, a devotional posture; devotional exercises; a devotional frame of mind.

The Crafter's Devotional encompasses a series of art and craft "exercises" and as such, is one of those books that can be gone straight through from beginning to end OR the reader can turn to any page and find either self-contained mini-workshops on techniques from crochet to different methods for creating prints, or prompts and ideas to use for guided explorations in a myriad of mixed-media arts and crafts. Ms. Call has organized the book into a very cool day-by-day breakdown: the Monday prompts and techniques can all be filed loosely under the heading, Journaling. Tuesday is devoted to Recycling, Reusing, and Reviving. On Wednesdays the reader is invited to explore Collections and Materials, while Thursdays are dedicated to delving into one's Personal History. Start the weekends with a little "Noncraft Inspiration" on Friday and finish out the week on Saturday and Sunday Collaborating and Experimenting. While I suspect The Crafter's Devotional will hold a special appeal for those just setting out on their artistic journey, there are invaluable prompts and specific techniques for the rest of us when all we need is a little inspirational jumpstart...With over 100 contributors, including Catherine Witherell, Jane Wynn, Julianna Coles, Lesley Riley, Karen Michel, Kathy Cano-Murillo, Melissa McCobb-Hubbell, Sas Colby, Stephanie Lee, and Teesha Moore.