Goal Setting: Creativity as a Prompt

A few weeks have gone by since most of us were setting goals or New Year’s Resolutions for 2020. Has it been a struggle to stay on target with your goal? Or are you still feeling really motivated and passionate about your resolutions?

Personally, I’m finding some of my goals and habits easy to manage and others more difficult. I tend to procrastinate so it’s taking extra effort to ensure that I stay on track. So the question I have for you today is how do we keep moving forward to stick to our goals for this year?

A Creative Way of Keeping Goals Visible

An important part of trying to achieve my goals this year is making my goals visible and accessible. In my self-care process this week, I decided to create a tag that would help me remember my goals. My intention is to use it as a bookmark in the books that I have chosen as part of my book list for this year. Every little reminder is going to be helpful so that I can continue to work on these goals throughout the year.  

The Tag

This tag uses a variety of techniques- acrylic marbling, stamping with ink, layering color with ink, rub-ons and altering embellishments with watercolor paints and ink. I hope that you find this video helpful. Please let me know if you have any questions or would like to see a further breakdown of any of the specific techniques. I hope that you have a great time creating this tag or bookmark and that it will be helpful reminder of your personal goals.  

Supply List

• Acrylic Paint: Tim Holtz Distress Paints Picket Fence, Mermaid Lagoon, Candied Apple, Lucky Clover. Golden High Flow Acrylic Dioxazine Purple.
• Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Cracked Pistachio, Faded Jeans, and Mermaid Lagoon.
• Stains: Tim Holtz Distress Stains Salty Ocean, Peacock Feathers and Cracked Pistachio.
• Watercolor Paint: Winsor & Newton Cotman Watercolors Cerulean Blue Hue, Turquoise, Ultramarine, Prussian Blue, Yellow Ochre, Chinese White and Payne’s Grey. Windsor & Newton Watercolor Iridescent Medium.
• Stamps & Dies: Stamper’s Anonymous Tim Holtz Collection Fabulous Flourishes CMS070, Heartfelt Creations Once Upon a Time Collection.
• Embellishments: Tim Holtz Flash Cards, 7 Gypies “Time” Rub-ons and Tim Holtz Ideaology Linen Ribbon.
• Pens: Skaura Gelly Roll Classic M#49 Black
• Other Materials: Distress Mixed Media Tag #8, Tim Holtz Distress Sprayer, Stampers Anonymous Acrylic Block, Ranger Mini Ink Blending Tool and Foams, Dymo Label Maker and tape, Thermoweb Zots Glue Dots, Watercolor Brushes daVinci Cosmotop Spin, Lee Valley Precision Scissors, Ranger Heat It Craft Tool, Scotch Advanced Tape Glider, US ArtQuest Matte PPA Glue.