Create a Digital Vision Board to Boost Your Holiday Sales

The ideas of creating vision boards or dream boards has been around for a long time. They are great daily reminders of our aspirations and goals.

Vision Boards are also great to reinforce a goal you are working toward achieving. That's why creating a vision board to inspire you to boost your holiday sales can help you meet your goal.

A vision board I created for my studio

There are many ways to create vision boards. You can go through magazines and pull out words and photos of things that encourage your goal. You can create a poster, use a canvas, or pin everything to a cork board and change it as needed.

If you prefer you can keep it simple, create a Pinterest board or boards for every aspect of your life, with photos and words of encouragement  to inspire you. There are also many online options for creating vision boards like Digital Dreamboard and O Dream Board.

Another easy way to create a vision board is to create one on your computer. You can do this in programs like photoshop, publisher, PowerPoint, or PicMonkey.com.

Start by choosing a poster size document (16 x 20). It's the perfect size to hang, but if that seems to large choose a size that works best for you. Next find positive images that and quotes that excite, inspire, and motivate you to reach your goal. Once you have all your images you can copy and paste them in a pleasing arrangement on you poster size document.

When you are done you can send your finished document to a photo shop (such as Walgreens or Costco) to have it printed. It's pretty inexpensive to have it printed, usually under $5. If you are working with a smaller document print it out on your own printer.

Hang your vision board where you can see it in you workspace. When you need a boost take a few minutes and look at the images, read the inspirational messages, and get inspired with new ideas.

Creating a vision board is a great way to get clear about your goals for the holiday season. Your vision board will help you make the connections from vision to reality.

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Inspiration For the New Season

Inspiration boards are a great way to gain insight to what trends, styles, or designs are important to you right now.

Creating a board is easy and requires only a few supplies. Their is no right or wrong way, it's all about what inspires you at the time.

You can make your inspiration board any size using a variety of different mediums. Working on a cork board is the most versatile option; you can change it as often as you want, create one for certain projects, different seasons, or the mood you are in at the time.

There are no rules to creating your board. It’s just a matter of finding photos, objects, fabric, examples of texture and colors that you can pin to your board.

Three tips to remember when making your board:

1. Nothing is off limits - keep your eye out for anything that inspires you. Photos, magazine pictures, fabric, personal memories.

2. Follow your instincts -let your subconscious guide you. You don't have to understand why it inspires you at the moment; you just have to find it interesting.

3. Embrace fantasy - ignore realities of everyday life. Again just choose what really inspires, even if it not something you would ever choose.

A small list of sources for inspiration:

European fashion magazines - they push the style envelope, so you will see more innovative and cutting-edge photos.

Home and garden magazines - great source for textures, fabric, patterns, and shapes.

History, old movies, and pop culture - use the web for inspiration.

Celebrity photos - always a rich source of inspiration.

Your favorite web sites and blog - are full of ideas.

Once your board is complete you will want to take a little time to analyze what you have on your board. You may see a pattern or direction you can try right away, or you may find your board is random with no clear pattern. Walking away for awhile will give you a chance to regroup, and when you comeback your theme will be clearer to you.

Creating your board should be fun, and having the option to change it as often as you like will make your board a great source of inspiration.

Have you created a inspiration board?

Blue Inspiration

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive. 
-Eleonora Duse

What is your favorite shade of blue?

Inspiration From Land to Sea

“At first a small line of inconceivable splendour emerged on the horizon, which, quickly expanding, the sun appeared in all of his glory, unveiling the whole face of nature, vivifying every colour of the landscape, and sprinkling the dewy earth with glittering light.” 
- Ann Radcliffe

Goodnight landscape painting by MaiAutumn

Landscape painting pink sky reflection by VictoriaVeedell

October Hills California Autumn by MarshNelsonFineArt

Art print Cityscape series by SilkByLena

Landscape painting by RozArt

Landscape  Painting Beach by ShirleyArt

All of today's art work is from Etsy.com. Click on links to see what each artist has to offer.

Are you inspired by landscapes?

Red Inspirations

“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.”
-Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Weaving Inspiration

“We all have our own life to pursue, Our own kind of dream to be weaving... And we all have the power To make wishes come true, As long as we keep believing.”
-Louisa May Alcott

Black and White Inspiration Board

“We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.” 
 Frank Tibolt