Not THIS clogged up, I hope!

Do you think you’re going to run out of ideas for your DYD? Or even your regular pages?  How ’bout some prompts to keep that holiday-addled mind on the straight and narrow, and away from those creative clogs? Being blocked up is no fun, not at all. Wood hurts your feet. Ouch!

Let’s toss the clogs and see what we’ve got to help you out! Give your feet and mind some wings!

Winter Tallies by Allison Pennington – gives you not only phrases but glitzy fun holiday numbers. And you don’t have to take the phrases literally–seriously, “Fruitcakes hidden”? Got some relatives you’re fine with missing this year? Or, for serious, you really DO hide fruitcakes. 

One Little Bird has a fantastic bunch of page title prompts, too. Good for a page a day, don’t you think?

There’s a fun bunch of elements to go along with the prompts in this pack. Any hey, how could you resist the deer with the ornaments in his antlers? Thanks Amy!

And sometimes, you just want to snark about it. I think Michelle summed it up nicely with Family Drama!

Kim Jensen’s Plastic Beads are nice and free form, if you prefer to construct your own prompts.

And last but not least, are Emily Merritt’s cards with 85 journaling prompts! Eighty Five, people! That’s a lot of prompts! Brilliant!

Hopefully you’ll have gained some ammunition against the clogs and blocks of your creativity.

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Mazel Tof, and Peace to All,

Julie Pollywog

Hey all Polly Jewelle here with some good news!  The sketch challenge for iDSD was such a huge success that we are going to be keeping it around for awhile.  Because many of us are documenting our December this month I thought the sketch challenge would be perfect to help out with that!  I don’t know about you, but after doing a huge project like that my brain starts to get mushy, lazy and a bit overwhelmed.  This is where our sketch challenge enters into play.  A sketch can easily boost your creativity when it may be waning to help finish your project.  Now I know some of you are probably thinking, “But I’m not doing a December project!” That is perfectly fine!  Go ahead and still use the sketch for a scrapbook layout, or other project.  All entries are welcome!  For a bit more information on rules and where to post your entries please check out THIS THREAD in the forum.

Its about time I introduce the sketch.  Here we go…

Now before I go I wanted to share some products with you that I think would work smashingly with this sketch.

Lots of pretty cursive words by Liz

This isn’t exactly cursive handwriting, but the way it flows reminds me of cursive.  Heather’s fonts are always perfect to use on a layout!

Allison has a ton of goodies in this element pack that you could use on the sketch!

These clips by Kim could easily hold down your photo for the sketch.

Maybe the stars inspired you from my sketch and you wanted to use Amy’s templates to show off the stars.

Or what if you don’t have a picture? You could easily use one of Amy W’s elements in place of a photo.

And lastly maybe you could build a layout around one of these journaling cards by Peppermint.

I hope the sketch and these products have got your mind stirring.  I can’t wait to see all the ways you use this sketch!