✨ The Brilliance Report - Issue No. 32
A fresh perspective for saying yes to what matters
Hi Reader!
Have you ever caught yourself saying, “I’ll do that when I’m more prepared… when I have more time… when I know exactly what I’m doing”?
It sounds responsible, but sometimes “getting ready” quietly turns into waiting.
There are certainly times when patience is wise. But there are also moments when an opportunity, idea, or invitation deserves a yes before we have every detail figured out.
Maybe there’s something in your life right now that doesn’t need another month of thinking. Maybe it simply needs a decision.
💡 This Week’s Thought:
Being ready isn’t always a feeling. Sometimes it’s a decision to trust what you already know and learn the rest along the way.
🎨 In the Studio:
Speaking of saying yes to opportunities, I’m so excited to share that Art Brilliance Studio is participating in another upcoming bundle! I love being part of these events because they bring together so many creative resources and give you an opportunity to discover something new.
I contributed to the Martha 2.0 Faith-Based Bundle and the waitlist is officially open through August 16! So join it now so you’ll be among the first to hear when the bundle goes live!
Everyone who joins the waitlist will receive the bundle host’s Prayer Junk Journaling Bundle ($37 value) FREE right away, before the full bundle even opens.
Sign up on the waitlist here.
I’m excited about this one and can’t wait to share more with you!
🌸 Business Strategies for Makers + PLR Sellers:
- Test before you invest. Have a product idea but aren’t sure your audience wants it? Share the concept, ask a question, or create a smaller version first. Let actual interest guide how much time you invest.
- Give every promotion one job. Before creating an email, pin, or social post, decide what you want the reader to do: click, join, download, buy, or reply. One clear objective makes your message stronger.
- Create a reason to act now. Don’t assume customers understand why timing matters. If there’s a deadline, bonus, seasonal benefit, or limited opportunity, clearly explain it. Helpful urgency is very different from manufactured pressure.
🌼 Inspiration for Everyone:
- You can be excited about an opportunity and nervous about it at the same time.
- Give yourself permission to change your mind when new information gives you a better direction.
- Sometimes saying yes creates possibilities you couldn’t have planned from the sidelines.
🌸 Creative Nudge:
Try something slightly outside your usual creative routine this week. Use a color you normally overlook, photograph something from an unusual angle, try a different type of printable, rearrange a room, cook something you’ve never made. Anything that interrupts your usual pattern.
You aren’t trying to create a masterpiece. You’re giving curiosity a little room to play.
🌼 Mini Reflection:
“Do one thing every day that scares you.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
You don’t have to say yes to everything. You shouldn’t. But when something meaningful keeps tugging at you, don’t automatically assume you need to feel completely ready before you begin.
Sometimes the opportunity itself is how we become ready.
🌸 Wrap Up/Your Next Step:
Think about one thing you’ve been keeping in the “maybe someday” category.
Ask yourself:
Am I waiting because the timing truly isn’t right or is it because I don’t feel completely ready?
Those are two very different answers.
And speaking of opportunities, don’t forget to join the upcoming bundle waitlist above. If you enjoy discovering creative resources and useful new finds, I don’t want you to miss what’s coming.
Until next time,
Melinda
Art Brilliance Studio | Thoughtful resources for purposeful living and business
You’ll find some of my favorite resources and offers below if you’re looking for something that can help, inspire, or simply make life a little easier.
My email at times contain affiliate links. If you purchase through my links I may receive a small commission at no cost to you.
🎨 Affiliate Corner:
Here are resources from people I trust and products I love that you might find helpful:
🦋 Freebies:
Crissy Herron from Indie Biz Chicks has her FREE Birthday Bundle!
She’s having a birthday, and through August 23, she’s handing out a five-item bundle for free:
What's In The Free Birthday Bundle?
This bundle has five done-for-you tools and resources:
- Community Growing Challenge Planner — a full done-for-you challenge planner, and this one comes with PLR rights, so your people can rebrand it and sell it as their own
- Time Budget Tracker — a spreadsheet that shows where the hours actually go and builds a minimum viable week
- Content Planning Spreadsheet — plan content ahead instead of staring at an empty caption box on a Tuesday
- Leaving Money On The Table Workshop — a recorded workshop on the revenue already sitting inside a business
- Customized Fall Marketing Plan — answer a few questions, get a twelve-week plan running September through Black Friday
👉 Grab it here.
🌼 For my PLR + small business friends:
1) Carrie from Peaceful Passive Income has a new course Turn Clipart Into Cut & Paste Printables. It teaches you to dissect clipart images using Photopea (a FREE image editing program) to create fun and engaging cut & paste activities that get better results than AI and is more than you can do in Canva.
You'll learn some great Photopea skills that you can apply to other products as well:
- How to crop your clipart into shapes like circles, triangles, hexagons, stars, or any other shape.
- How to use the pen tool in Photopea to draw custom shapes - even if you have ZERO art skills!
- How to use Boolean operations to add and subtract custom shapes together to get more complex custom shapes.
- And how to add dashed outlines to show where the missing element goes!
It will regularly be $47, but you can get it for 50% off through Friday August 21st, Midnight Pacific with coupon code CUTANDPASTE.
👉 Get it here.
2) Rachel from Rural Meanings has created the PLR Geometric Easel Card. Turn simple geometric shapes into playful, interactive easel cards that actually stand up for display. This fun format makes them more than just a printable, giving kids a hands on way to explore shapes, colours, patterns, and simple geometric concepts while crafting.
It’s a paper craft + learning activity + standing display all in one!
Only $6 (regularly $12) until August 16, 2026 at 11:59pm PST.
👉 Grab it here.
3) Shannon from Digitally Yours Today has a Laced-Up Doily Watercolor Backgrounds Creator Kit. It's a 5-in-1 Creator Kit with Square Images, Letter-Sized Images, Sayings, Bookmarks and Seamless Papers.
👉 Get it for here for only $17 (Regularly $135) until Aug 17th.
4) Shannon from Digitally Yours Today also has the DYT Clip Art Membership.
Her goal is to help you spend less time wondering what to do next and more time creating products, listing them, and growing your business with confidence.
That's why her membership now includes 4 beginner-friendly guides, a PLR Content Calendar, a searchable Q&A Library, Custom GPT Assistants, and her UNSCATTERED Method, all designed to help you move forward without feeling overwhelmed.
And of course, you'll continue receiving new clip art and a bonus product every month, in addition to the vault of 43 clip art sets!
The membership price will increase this fall, but you can lock in the current price today.
Join for only $11/ month or $110/year!
👉 Get it here.
5) Faith Lee from Faith’s Biz Academy has launched her new program, Stand Out Sales System™ .
Built from eight years of real entrepreneurial experience, Faith’s SOSS will help you create your own personalised Business Operating System that is anchored upon your business mission, and will give you a new found sense of clarity and confidence to navigate future opportunities that will best fit your business growth, regardless of how the market changes.
As a Founding Member you'll receive:
✔ Complete SOSS Program
✔ Proprietary AI Assistants
✔ BONUS: 14-Day Implementation Sprint
✔ BONUS: 3 Months of Implementation Support
✔ BONUS: Ask Faith App (worth $197)
Bonuses are unlocked when you choose the one-time payment of $397.
Or you can choose to join the program for just $85 today with the split-pay option.
The next time you see the SOSS being offered, it will be at least $497.
Launch Price: $397 through August 16th, 2026
👉 Get it here.
6) Heather Ritchie from Writer’s Life for You has the Weekly and Daily CEO Planner 👉 Get it here.
She also has The Repeatable Content AI 👉 Get it here & The Social Content System. 👉 Get it here.
🦋 For my faith-based friends:
1) Shannon from Digitally Yours Today has The Martha 2.0 Faith-Based Bundle. The waitlist is officially open through August 16!
Everyone who joins the waitlist will receive her Prayer Junk Journaling Bundle ($37 value) FREE right away, before the full bundle even opens.
👉 Sign up on the waitlist here.
2) Faith Lee of Faith’s Biz Academy has an Abide and Build Fellowship:
The purpose of the Abide & Build Fellowship is to provide a safe space for female Christian entrepreneurs from all over the world to forge friendships and support each other on the journey of online entrepreneurship while placing God at the center of business endeavors.
There have been three fellowship sessions so far and you are invited to join our upcoming one!
It's FREE. All are welcome.
Come as you are. =) 👉 Sign up 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!
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