✨ The Brilliance Report - Issue No. 19
Clarity, calm, and purposeful action to steady your week.
Hi Reader!
December has its own rhythm that’s fast, full, and often louder than we expect. But here’s something I’ve been reminding myself lately: you can meet a busy season with intention, not urgency. Even small shifts in how you focus can completely change the way the rest of your week feels.
💡 This Week’s Thought:
You gain the most momentum when you direct your energy, not when you spread it thin.
🎨 In the Studio:
This week I’ve continued refining my winter PLR templates and organizing what’s coming for early 2026. I’m also part of a bundle, Unwrap the Magic , a special December collection filled with resources to bring more ease and creativity into your life and work. If you’re looking for support during a full month, it’s a great place to explore.
🌸 Business Strategies for Makers + PLR Sellers:
- Audit your visibility channels. Check where your traffic actually comes from whether it be from Pinterest, Etsy search, email, or socials. Then, prioritize the top two this month. Focus beats scattered posting every time.
- Add one “value touchpoint.” Share a tip, a behind-the-scenes step, or a quick win your product helps create. It builds trust and positions your work as a solution, not noise.
- Prep January now. Choose one product or idea you want ready by the first week of the new year and outline the steps. Future-you will thank you.
🌼 Inspiration for Everyone:
- Choose one thing to simplify today. A drawer, your inbox, or a habit. Clarity grows in cleared spaces.
- Set a boundary that supports you. Say no where you need to, and yes only where it aligns.
- Trade perfection for completion. Done creates relief; perfect creates pressure.
🌸 Creative Nudge:
Switch environments for 20 minutes. Go to a different room, visit a coffee shop, or even make a new playlist. A fresh setting often unlocks new ideas and makes stuck tasks feel lighter.
🌼 Mini Reflection:
“Action is the foundational key to all success.” — Pablo Picasso
🌸 Wrap Up:
You don’t have to match the pace of the season. You get to set your own. Choose what matters, let go of what doesn’t, and give your attention to the work and moments that truly move you forward.
✨ You’ll find a few favorite tools and offers below to help you stay focused and give you a fresh spark of inspiration.
Until next time,
Melinda
Art Brilliance Studio | Thoughtful resources for purposeful living and business
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🎨 Affiliate Corner:
Here are resources from people I trust + products I love that you might find helpful:
🦋 For my faith-based friends:
1) Shannon from Digitally Yours Today is offering an Advent Bundle for Personal Use. A peaceful and purposeful resource for busy women who want to keep Christ at the center of their hearts during the holiday season so they can experience more calm, connection, and joy as they prepare for Christmas.
This Mega Pack includes a 30 Day Advent Devotional Journal, a 27 page Mini Workbook to Prepare Your Heart for Christmas, 25 Advent Prayer Cards, 11 Christmas Games and 6 Advent Coloring Pages.
Add a meaningful touch to your holiday season with the Hearts Set on Jesus: Advent Bundle — a soul-refreshing collection of devotionals, prayers, and faith-filled activities designed to help you slow down, reflect, and keep Christ at the center of every day leading up to Christmas. Get it here.
2) The Prayerful Planner. If you are looking for a gift for someone or yourself, I wanted you to know about a planner I truly love to use every year. I even like the emails that are sent every month to help you use your planner. I’ve already purchased mine for this coming year and another as a gift for my sister.
The Prayerful Planner I purchased comes in different sizes and patterns. I have chosen different styles of this prayerful planner over the past couple years and really love each one I chose. It’s a mixture of a Christian planner and a prayer journal. Check it out here.
🦋 Freebies:
1) Rebecca/That PLR Girl is hosting Unwrap the Magic and I’ve teamed up with a group of creative business owners for this fun, festive digital gift event.
Each day in December, a new gift unlocks: planners, downloads, printables, art, and more! 🎁 (I’ve contributed something I know you’ll love!)
These are high-quality, full products made with love by indie creators (like me!). I’m excited to be part of it!
It’s completely free to join. Just sign up once and get more than 25 digital surprises delivered throughout the month. ✨
These aren’t boring freebies. These are full-value products generously gifted for your personal use. Sign up here.
2) Carmen from Simply Couture Designs has a 12 Days of Christmas Gifts and Deals Event happening.
🎁🎄12 Days of Christmas gifts and deals from Carmen include: PLR Canva templates, Mockups, Clipart, PLR Notion template, PLR Spreadsheet, Coloring pack, Custom GPT, training + courses and more.
All designed to help you create and sell printable products faster and easier! The event is from Friday December 12th, 2025 to Tuesday December 23rd, 2025. Sign up here.
3) Shannon from Digitally Yours Today has a FREE Christmas Clipart Gnomes Lead Magnet MRR. Grab this Christmas Gnomes Clip Art Pack and get 9 high-quality PNG images with Master Resell Rights — so you can create polished products without starting from scratch.
Whether you're creating PLR templates, Etsy listings, or TPT resources, these seasonal designs will save you time and elevate your offers. Get it here.
4) Crissy Herron from IndieBizChicks has a new FREEBIE.
Winter Wellness PLR
Get an 18 page done-for-you workbook on Winter Wellness. This covers everything from staying healthy during cold and flu season to seasonal depression, and more!
You get PLR Rights. You can edit this, brand it, and use it as your own product or lead magnet. Get it here.
5) Carrie from Peaceful Passive Income has a new FREE Christmas Clipart set that is perfect for any last-minute holiday products you are creating.
The Christmas Gifts Clipart Set features 25 adorable trees, presents, ornaments, stockings, and bows. All in a super cute style with Master Resell Rights included! Get it here.
6) Natural Life. I love Natural Life & think you will too! They make the cutest treasures & clothes. Not exactly a freebie but a good discount! Here's 20% off to use on your first order! Enjoy!
🌼 For my PLR + small business friends:
1) The Aimee K Agency’s 3rd Annual 12 Days of Gifts is here. 🎁
Today is the last day unless you purchase the VIP pass. From December 1 to 12, you can sign up to receive a brand-new digital gift every day. Each gift features valuable resources such as trainings, DFY blog posts, clipart, and commercial-use Canva templates with Private Label Rights (PLR) to support your business. Most of the PLR templates & clipart packs featured during the event are brand new products! Every gift is available for 24 hours only, so joining early ensures you don't miss a day! Do not miss these free gifts. Sign up now here and check out today’s gift.
Missed a gift or joining the 12 Days of Gifts event late?
The VIP Access Pass gives you instant access to all 12 gifts for only $10, no matter which day you sign up. You will have until January 30 2026 to redeem everything at your own pace.
You will also receive these VIP bonuses:
✨ Option to add all gifts to your account for lifetime access
✨ A Google Tracker with direct links to each gift (value $9)
✨ One DFY Blog Post Pack from The Aimee K Agency shop (value $10)
✨ A coupon to use toward templates or clipart in The Aimee K Agency shop (value $37)
Do not miss your chance to grab every gift and enjoy the bonuses!The VIP Access Pass is available until December 12 at 11:59 PM ET. Get the VIP pass here.
2) Shannon from Digitally Yours Today is offering Sizzling $7 Deals until Dec. 21st. Here are some of her most popular PLR products that are also perfect for the New Year. Use Coupon Code 20OFF to get them for only $7 each (Regularly $27).
Budget Planner
Healthy Habits #1 - Track exercise, fitness goals, weight loss, mood and more.
Healthy Habits #2 - Track food, water, mood and more.
Reading Log (for kids)
Reframing My Thoughts Journal
3) Shannon from Digitally Yours Today is offering an Advent Creator Kit with Master Resell Rights. The All-in-one Advent PLR bundle for Christian content creators is for those who want to offer their audience meaningful, faith-filled resources — and do it with ease, purpose, and peace this holiday season.
This Mega Pack includes a 27 page Mini Workbook to Prepare Your Heart for Christmas, 25 Advent Prayer Cards, 11 Christmas Games, 6 Advent Coloring Pages, 16 Beautiful Wall Art, 22 Scripture Cards and 20 Bookmarks.
Add a meaningful touch to the holiday season with the Advent Bundle — a soul-refreshing collection of wall art, Scripture cards, prayers, and faith-filled activities designed to help your customers slow down, reflect, and keep Christ at the center of every day leading up to Christmas. Get it here.
4) Carrie from Peaceful Passive Income has a Bookmark Bundle. If you want to fill your Etsy shop with beautiful bookmarks, without designing them all from scratch, this is your chance to grab the entire stash of printable bookmark designs!
The 720 images included were created in Midjourney and painstakingly edited for quality. These images come with Master Resell Rights. Sell them as-is as physical bookmarks, or add your own twist (like a bookmark saying) and sell your designs with PLR rights.
The 36 different sets included here are not available for individual sale.
Combined value of at least $612, so the $127 Printable Bookmark Bundle represents an 80% savings.
Until Dec. 19th, you can use coupon code BOOKMARKBUNDLE to get them for ONLY $67!
That's nearly 90% off their $612 value! Get them here.
5) Carrie from Peaceful Passive Income has a new Crafting Clipart Mega Set. As with all of her clipart sets, this comes with Master Resell Rights, so you can use it even if you sell PLR!
Through December 15th, you can get this clipart set here for 50% off with code CRAFTING.
OR... you can get it as one of the three new clipart sets in the Cute Clipart Club this month!
All new clipart sets added to the Cute Clipart Club each month get added to the Clipart Vault. Which means you get access to ALL of the clipart inside. Not just that one month's worth!
The Cute Clipart Club currently includes...
- 3 new clipart sets each month (100+ images worth $44/month - this month it was over 150 images though!)
- Access to the Clipart Vault (with 4000+ images currently worth $1280)
- Monthly bonus content (PLR templates, trainings, etc.) (worth $9 – 37 / month)
- Monthly opportunities to promote products you create using clipart from the membership!
- Join here.
A little about myself:
My name is Melinda. I am a mom to my beautiful, talented daughter, and I also have a feisty little white dog. I am an artist, and my faith is important to me. I love gorgeous sunrises and sunsets, yummy dark chocolate, pretty flowers, and colorful butterflies. I have always loved art! I am a Certified Creatively Fit Coach (CCFC) and have collaborated with my fellow CCFC friends to become a published coloring book illustrator! I have an Etsy shop with personal printables, PLR templates and print on demand products - many of which contain designs from my original artwork! I am a digital content provider. I believe we are the artists and creators of our lives!
My artistic endeavors have given me the wonderful opportunity to connect with creative people from all over the world, including YOU!
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