✨ The Brilliance Report - Issue No. 33
Encouragement and clear steps to move your creative work forward.
Hi Reader!
Have you ever had a week where your creative energy feels just a bit scattered? I know the feeling! Before we dive in, I’m thrilled to share that the Martha 2.0 Faith-Based Bundle is now live, and my product is included! You can check it out here right now and explore all the offerings.
💡 This Week’s Thought:
Small, intentional steps add up. Knowing where to step is what brings momentum.
🎨 In the Studio:
Lately, I’ve been channeling that energy into refining new products. One is coming this September! Plus, I’m already working on yet another exciting collaboration. Stay tuned for more soon!
🌸 Business Strategies for Makers + PLR Sellers:
- Focus on what your audience asks for most. Is your next product already in demand?
- Refresh one key listing with updated visuals. First impressions drive clicks.
- Build anticipation: tease your next offer or bundle early. Build curiosity over time.
🌼 Inspiration for Everyone:
- Sometimes the path becomes clear only after you begin walking.
- A new season always brings fresh possibilities. Keep your eyes open.
- You can be both excited about what’s next and at peace with where you are now.
🌸 Creative Nudge:
Sketch or jot down your next big idea without judgment. Sometimes starting on paper is the first step toward making it real.
🌼 Mini Reflection:
“Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.” — Chris Grosser
Whatever season you’re in, remember: the seeds you plant now can grow into something beautiful. I’m excited to see what’s next for you. I’m right here to help along the way.
🌸 Wrap Up/Your Next Step:
Check out the Martha Faith Based Bundle here now while it’s live. My product, 30 Day Inspirational Prayer Cards For Moms, is inside along with amazing resources!
There are resources for the days when you have plenty of time and others for the days when you barely have a few quiet minutes. Both can matter.
Also, keep an eye out. Another great bundle is on the horizon, and I’ve got a new product in the works for September.
Until next time,
Melinda
Art Brilliance Studio | Thoughtful resources for purposeful living and business
You’ll find my favorite tools and resources below to support your journey.
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:
🌼 For my PLR + small business friends:
1) Faith Lee from Faith’s Biz Academy has Jesus Loves The Little Ones. Create sweet, faith-filled products for children with the Jesus Loves The Little Ones Sticker & Journal Bundle, a versatile commercial-use collection designed around colorful Bible verses and encouraging Christian messages little ones can understand and enjoy. Includes 25 unique stickers in 300dpi in both PNG files and Canva templates, plus 2 sets of Gratitude Journals for preschoolers and elementary students in fully editable templates.
ONLY $12 with coupon code JESUSLOVES until Sunday, August 23rd. Regularly $27.
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2) Faith Lee from Faith’s Biz Academy also has Ask Faith.
Ask Faith app is your searchable library for trusted business answers, practical guidance, and proven strategies from her years of teaching, coaching, and real-world experience.
ONLY $67 with coupon code ASK67.
$130 savings until Sunday, August 23, 2026. Regular price $197.
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3) Rachel from Rural Meanings has the Printables Course Passport.
Wondering how to turn your ideas into more and actually get your offers seen? The Printables Course Passport brings all 22 of Rachel's (Rural Meanings) courses together in one handy library, covering printable creation, repurposing, email marketing, collaborations, and affiliate marketing. Simply pick the course that fits what you’re working on right now, follow the trail, and keep your Passport handy whenever you need a fresh idea, a little direction, or help getting unstuck!
Only $117 USD ($150 off, total value $680 USD) until August 30, 2026 at 11:59pm PST.
👉 Grab the Printables Course Passport here.
Not ready for the Passport? You can still shop the collection with 50% off individual courses!
👉 Grab 50% off courses here.
4) 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.
5) 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.
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.
🦋 Freebies:
1) Rebecca Brockman has the Cozy Seasons Collection Bundle. This one is made for moms, homemakers and families. It's filled with cozy fall and holiday resources, things like family activity kits, gratitude challenges, holiday party planning and seasonal journals. Over $450 of seasonal gifts.
👉 Sign up for here for the FREE Bundle from August 20 to 28.
2) 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.
3) Shannon from Digitally Yours Today has The Martha 2.0 Faith-Based Bundle. You don't need to become less busy before you make room for God. You can begin right where you are. The goal isn't to see how many bundle resources you can finish. It's to find meaningful ways to spend time with God in the life you're already living. Don’t wait for the perfect schedule or the perfect quiet-time routine. Start with the time you have today.
👉 Get access to all 28 Christ-centered resources FREE here.
🦋 For my faith-based friends:
(These are the same resources listed in detail above under the other sections).
1) Shannon from Digitally Yours Today has The Martha 2.0 Faith-Based Bundle.
👉 Get access to all 28 Christ-centered resources FREE here.
2) Faith Lee of Faith’s Biz Academy has Jesus Loves The Little Ones. ONLY $12 with coupon code JESUSLOVES
👉 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!
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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