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Taking Flight: Inspiration And Techniques To Give Your Creative Spirit Wings

Stretch Your Wings, Learn to Soar, Take Flight

In Taking Flight, you’ll find overflowing inspiration–complete with a kindred spirit in author and mixed-media artist Kelly Rae Roberts. Join her on a fearless journey into the heart of creativity as you test your wings and learn to find the sacred in the ordinary, honor your memories, speak your truth and wrap yourself in the arms of community.

Along the way you’ll be inspired by: Step-by-step techniques–learn the most-loved mixed-media methods of the author and seven talented contributing artists, and combine them in fresh and unexpected ways. Thought-provoking prompts and quotes–along with encouraging stories, insights and gentle guidance for finding your bliss, whatever your art or craft. Plenty of eye-candy–pages and pages of the author’s endearing artwork, along with the varied works of the contributors. Of course, learning to fly isn’t entirely a step-by-step process–sooner or later, you just need to take a deep breath and spread your wings. With Taking Flight as your guide, there’s no doubt that when you do, your creativity will soar.

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The Binman’s Guide to Selling: Top 100 selling techniques, words, strategies, tips, scripts & inspirations

Improve Sales, Selling Strategies & Successful Sales Techniques with The Binman’s Guide to Selling. Working in a fast-growing award winning company, Oisin Browne offers a fresh look at selling to the world of business. Oisin has distilled his varied experience into a series of clearly defined recommendations and selling techniques that combine general observations with illustrative examples in an accessible and engaging format. The Binman’s Guide to Selling will be of value to any business professional looking to put a laser focus on their sales techniques. Oisin presents a genuine and distinct tool to empower and position business people to methods that have the potential to transform their career through improved sales communication and applicable relationship-building practices. Oisin shares selling secrets that can be applied to any business; an in-depth look at advanced selling suggestions and word psychology techniques, creating a winning mindset, providing excellent customer experiences, delivering effective sales pitches, running successful sales meetings, developing extraordinary selling skills and interviews with the top sales teams, business owners and consultants from many successful companies.

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The Artist Unique: Discovering Your Creative Signature Through Inspiration and Techniques

Make your mark your way!

Every artist seeks to stand apart from the crowd. But how? Let author Carmen Torbus inspire you to new creative highs in this collection of hands-on techniques and heartfelt stories from 16 artists who have worked through their own artistic struggles and stalls to emerge triumphant, with looks uniquely their own.

Whether art is new to you, or you have been at it awhile and are having trouble discovering your own style, this encouraging book will guide you to experiment with different mediums, techniques and possibilities to make a mark that is exclusively yours. Inside you’ll find: 17 of the artists’ favorite mixed-media techniques shown step by step, with suggestions for how to make them your own Beautiful finished art illustrating how individual artists use and combine these techniques in their own work Easy worksheets to help reveal your artistic skills, strengths and preferences A quick-start guide to various mediums, mark makers and creative paraphernalia Lots of tips and advice for putting yourself into your art Embrace who you are and find out what defines you as an artist. Make your art far from ordinary–become the artist UNIQUE!

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The Art of Enameling: Techniques, Projects, Inspiration

With this lavish introduction to the centuries-old art of enameling, even beginners can effortlessly create imaginative designs. Written with clarity and passion by a leader in the field, it covers all the popular techniques, the fundamentals of setting up a studio, and 14 fabulous projects. The various styles range from traditional cloisonné, champlevé, and plique-à-jour to experimental techniques such as firing enamel onto mesh forms. Even more creative possibilities await in the firing: use copper oxide to create cool color variations or try raku firing for unique effects. All the well-photographed projects, from a vibrantly toned flower ring to an elegant set of buttons with a delicate leaf pattern, encourage novices to use their skills and imagination.

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Polymer Clay Color Inspirations: Techniques and Jewelry Projects for Creating Successful Palettes

Lindly Haunani and Maggie Maggio are renowned for their courses and workshops on color as well as for their outstanding polymer clay work. In this book, they offer instruction and inspiration that focuses on polymer clay as a learning tool that readers can use to explore their own color instincts and preferences and develop their own palettes.

Each chapter investigates a specific color principle, with the discussion supported by a related exercise, a “studio tool” assignment or demonstration, a polymer clay jewelry project, and a profile of a prominent polymer clay artist. Sample topics include:

•The Complexity of Color
•Three Properties of Color
•Choosing Your Palette
•Mixing Colors That Flow
•Matching Colors with Precision
•Games Colors Play
•Orchestrating Color Combinations
•Color Composition: Placement and Proportion
•Playful Patterns
•Tantalizing Textures

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The Sketchbook Challenge: Techniques, Prompts, and Inspiration for Achieving Your Creative Goals

Have you ever bought a new sketchbook, opened to the first page, and thought, “Now what do I do?” Sue Bleiweiss and the talented minds behind The Sketchbook Challenge are here to help.

Imagine a supportive community of artists sharing the innermost pages of their sketchbooks and offering you tips and techniques for overcoming creative blocks. That’s what The Sketchbook Challenge is all about, and the popular blog of the same name has already inspired thousands. Inside this book, you’ll find:
 
· Themes that will motivate you to start your sketchbook—and, more important, keep at it

· Tutorials spotlighting such mixed-media techniques as thread sketching, painted papers for collage, digital printing, and much more

· Strategies to get off the sketchbook page and start creating inspired art—whether you’re into painting, collage, fiber art, or beyond.

· In-depth profiles of artists who have taken the Sketchbook Challenge and used it as a launching pad for their own meaningful artwork

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Channeling Spirits Guide For Psychics: How To Channel Spirits From The Other Sid: Clairvoyance Made Easy With Techniques for Channeling Spirits

“Channeling Spirits Guide For Psychics: How To Channel Spirits From The Other Side” is focused on the process that one needs to go through to be able to get to that point where you are able to effectively communicate with these spiritual beings. It is seen as a taboo topic by many but it is explained in such a way that the reader can have a better understanding of what happens in channeling and come to the realization that it is nothing to fear.

The material is pretty easy to read and understand. Even the novice channeler of someone thinking about learning the art of channeling will be able to make substantial progress with the help of this guide.

The aim of this book is to inform and educate not to scare as some other books that focus on the topic tend to do. Throughout the reader is advised that they are in control of the process and can stop it at any time they feel once the basic set of rules is adhered to. The challenge does not lie in the process in the mindset of the individual that is thinking about trying out the ancient art of channeling..

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Positive Affirmation Secrets — How To Talk To Yourself and Master Affirmations To Get Great RESULTS – Positive Self Talk Techniques That Work Like Magic (Self Help)

Positive affirmations correctly applied can produce dramatic results for anyone. But successful self talk requires the right approach… and that’s where a lot of people have been led astray.

Who we are and the results and circumstances we experience in life are largely influenced by the programming that resides in our subconscious minds.

What’s really unfortunate is that a lot of that programming was placed there by others when we were children and it doesn’t serve us particularly well. To change the program — and in turn change our results — we need to take charge and feed our minds with THE RIGHT WORDS delivered in the right way.

This is exactly what Positive Affirmation Secrets — How To Talk To Yourself and Master Affirmations To Get Great RESULTS – Positive Self Talk Techniques That Work Like Magic helps you to do.

If you’ve tried affirmations before but didn’t get the outcome you hoped for — you’ll discover the underlying reasons and how to use this powerful tool to create dramatic changes and positive manifestations – virtually on demand.

If you’ve never used affirmations before, you’ll learn how to do it the right way from the very start — and increase your ability to turn your words into your reality.

If you’re feeling like you’re always getting the short end of the stick in life.. frustrated because you’re not living up to your full potential… or feeling like you’ve lost control — affirmations can give you the kick-start you need to shift gears and enjoy life to the fullest.

This short book is a crash course in positive affirmations. Positive Affirmation Secrets provides you with simple, clear, step-by-step guidance for creating powerful and positive change through the correct use of words.

With this kind of highly-effective self talk — your desired results inevitably become your reality in ANY AREA of your life.

Health, finances, career, communications, relationships, love, confidence — virtually any result in your life can be completely transformed by affirmations DONE THE RIGHT WAY.

Change the program that’s running in your mind and you change your life. This book will help you get started today.

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300 Affirmations Plus the Essential Techniques to Accelerate Your Results

The only way to get stellar results from affirmations is to do them properly. 300 Affirmations Plus the Essential Techniques to Accelerate Your Results will supercharge your life by showing you how to fine-tune your subconscious to let affirmations in and create massive value and results for yourself.

You get 300 powerful affirmations plus a comprehensive, easy-to-follow guide that teaches you how to create your own affirmations that are perfect for YOU! You’ll be immediately more effective in love, wealth, health, your career, spirituality, your hobbies and life in general.

The affirmations are broken down into seven sections:

Relationships Wealth and abundance Careers and business growth Personal growth and spirituality Memory and academic success Health and wellbeing Sports success

You’ll find out how you can avoid inadvertently sabotaging your affirmations (and your life!) You’ll discover techniques for fighting depression, addiction and cravings, plus tips for neatly integrating affirmations into your everyday life without it impacting on you.

If you have a child at school or university there’s a whole section on improving memory and cognition with over 40 specific affirmations.

You’ll also learn how I cured my insomnia, came top of the class in tertiary education, bounced back from losing everything, saved for a house in six months, built several businesses and more.

This isn’t airy-fairy stuff. You don’t have to be ‘spiritual’ or ‘religious’ to do affirmations; you just need to want to change your life now. You’ll learn the simple, practical solutions I’ve used for the last 18 years that will help you take control of your life. The best thing about this book, though, is that you will be able to make a difference to your friends. You’ll be able to share affirmations with them and teach them.

Most importantly, this book will help you make affirmations a habit that will support your continued success throughout your life. Let’s start creating massive value for you.

Version 2 has been slightly rewritten and has some clarifications based on reader feedback.