Mon 26 Jan 2009
Where do you get your ideas and inspiration for craft projects?
Posted by echan76 under Hobbies & Crafts
broke joke asked:
I love going to etsy for inspiration, but i feel as though i’m just copying someone else’s idea ..there are soooo many talented people out in the world.. i’m in love with the creativity that i discover from others around the world.
I love going to etsy for inspiration, but i feel as though i’m just copying someone else’s idea ..there are soooo many talented people out in the world.. i’m in love with the creativity that i discover from others around the world.
Where do you get your ideas and inspiration for projects?
I get my inspiration from the world around me. I might see a building I like and decide to translate it into a quilt. Or I’ll see a person with a great face or interesting fashion sense, and make a doll. Sometimes I see a leaf and decide to make polymer clay earrings.
My house was drafty so I invented something that has made me a lot of money.
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I look every magazine I can get my hands on and zoom in the one thing that “calls” to me. I sketch it and shot it from all angles. From there I rearrange and create my own chez d’oeuvre.. Of course pretty is the eye of the beholder and choice of color can either make or break it
For me, I am familiar with the crochet.
I always go to window shopping, there art so expensive to buy something I want.
So I think what can I do, If I could crochet it, and pattern is coming out from my mind, then projects is mine.
Sometimes I read a lot magazines and books.
It is ok to have same ideas with other, just different pattern or different style, then the projects is yours.
I believed you could do it too.
It usually comes from necessity. to solve a daily problem. also from the need to create like a inventor making some thing totally new and never seen before. to make things better than they already are.
You have to determine first what type of craft art you like, then browse in magazines or check out craft products to give you an idea on the “how to”. You’re not copying someone’s idea if you created something entirely different, it may be the same like a “flower”, but if you used different materials, it becomes “your product”.
Some from my thoughts, some from the world around me.
I had wanted to make a picture out of buttons. I didn’t think of it for awhile, and one day was looking through my buttons and saw some that had a slant in the middle that would be great used for eyes with colored thread.
I have discovered a lot of new crafts here.
I look at trade publications and try to keep current with what’s popular or innovative. Then, I take the bits I like, throw in the weird stuff that comes to me and make it my own. Of course, sometimes these things just come to me unbidden.
There are loads of ideas on this page at my site:
(…click on the category called *Creativity and Inspiration*…)
They have mostly been written by polymer clayers who’re talking about where they get inspiration and how to be creative (or how to get out of being temporarily “blocked”), but all the ideas would pertain too to any creative craft or endeavor!
HTH,
Diane B.