A review of: 'How to Make Polymer Clay Beads' by Carol Blackburn - step-by-step techniques for creating beautiful ornamental beads.

Tammy Moody is from Missouri and is a full-time artist and illustrator. She is the top designer on Greeting Card Universe. This is an interview-style article about her and her creativity.

Cultivating the 'what if' question can always kick-start your ideas process and get your creativity into action.

We are all different in the way our creativity needs to be expressed - some of us are happy with the 'doing' of it, some with the end result of itself, some need to make things to give, and some need to make things to sell. GCU is an outlet for your creativity which covers all these needs.

You need to encourage your creativity to flower, especially if you’ve been in the habit of suppressing it due to critical people, self-doubt or simply because life's got in the way.

You need to respect your own creativity in order for other people to respect it too.

Without creativity, humans wouldn’t have survived at all. That is, we need to create just as much as we need to eat and drink.

Limericks can disperse bad temper and make you laugh. They are also an excellent jumping off point for other areas of creativity.

Make a start on your own art card collection, whilst at the same time sparking off a whole new stream of creativity.

Artist trading cards are brilliant sparks to our creativity - whether we collect others' creations or make our own.