Cre8tive Compass Magazine is ALL about exploring, creating and most importantly LIVING the creative life… 

Our mission is simply to inform, enlighten, encourage, delight and entertain you. Our vision is to spark creative ideas that allow you and your family to enjoy every minute of your creative life and lifestyle. Movement toward the edge of what’s possible…we care, we listen…

Cre8tive Compass Magazine

Stay a while an be inspired to create your best life!!

Here what’s going on at Cre8Tive Compass dot com…

TV & RADIO SHOWS	CLASSES	FREE STUFF	CRE8TIVE BISTRO	SHOPS
Mixin’ It Up with Rebecca Live WEB TV Mixed Media Explorations Radio Shows Artistically Speaking Talk Show every artist has a story…we tell them here FAMM Live Fiber Art & Mixed Media	Classes. courses, workshops, retreats, tutorials and much more… Do What You Love WEBucation PhotoShop e-courses Fine Art e-courses Creativity e-courses Teleseminars & Webinars Blogging/Social Media Retreats The Artist as a Spiritual Explorer Cre8Topia	FREE things, Giveaways and oodles of great stuff… FREEbie Friday Gifts in a Mason Jar Recipes	Cre8Tive Bistro…the cyber hangout for digital painters, photographic and mixed media artists PhotoShop Goodies Textures Backgrounds Brushes Actions Recipes Texture Tuesday Most Tuesday’s find a new texture or texture pack for $2	The Shops of C8C Designer pARTy Shoppe we put the ART in party…designer printables for your next soiree Cre8Tiva’s ever so Elegant Illustrations, Paper Creeations & Gifts Boutique Cre8Tiva Rebecca’s Etsy Shop

about C8C in depth…

Cre8tive Compass Magazine is also about enjoying your creative journey to a place we call Cre8Topia. In Cre8Topia there is always movement toward the edge of what’s possible. Your compass is in your heart…your map is in your soul. Therefore, know that you have always been prepared to embark on your journey…

C8C is growing and evolving into the daily dose of inspiration for the creative soul…a dynamic, ever-evolving web experience! Based on internet averages, cre8tivecompass.com is visited more frequently by females who are in the age range 25-34, have children, are college educated and browse this site from home.

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Cre8tive Compass Magazine is YOUR magazine…the first totally interactive magazine on the web! Why is it so different? This is a truly interactive site where YOU can participate in the news by leaving comments and feedback. You can also submit reviews and talk to the columnists…while you enter the contests, exhibit your artwork, join the community and so much more.

The Magazine is updated daily with timely articles, noteworthy columns, streaming video, expert training, teleseminars, FREEBIES and other interactive elements.

C8C is about collaboration, not competition between artists…we are co-creating a community of ongoing discovery and sharing…YOU and I together. It is about finding a ROI…Return on YOUR Imagination. And imagination is the key. We believe in sharing so there are plenty of tutorials and free stuff for you to grab. If you have something to share, please let us know by clicking CONTACT above.

The collective energy of friends who support, encourage and inspire each other is life changing!

We delight in your feedback…

Every article has a space below it to leave a comment. Just share you thoughts, ideas, suggestions, or a question for the author. It’s that simple!!! Or you can use the Contact Form.

about Cre8Topia…

Cre8Topia is the Nirvana of artists, crafters…all creative souls. It is that place that transcends judgement and self-doubt and allows your creativity to flow through you without conscious effort. A place where artists of all genres are encouraged to explore and connect with their unique visual voice and discover the art they were born to create. Once we find that voice, the artists continue the journey toward the edge of what’s possible by learning to share that voice with confidence and stand in their own magnificence.

So come along on the journey to Cre8Topia – 

where creativity and intuition meet to form intuitivity!

 

C8C is a dynamic, personalized Web experience!!!

REP MEdia is the publisher of Cre8Tive Compass Magazine. The magazine is an online publication only, artsy and contemporary in look and appeal. Quality art content is the constant goal. The magazine will be entertaining, newsworthy, and thought provoking. It will appeal to a broad creative readership. No magazine like it is available today.

REP MEdia will also publish e-books with the possibility of softcover and hardcover books at a later date. Educational artistic themes will prevail, particularly those that deal with the demands placed on both business and family life by today’s business climate.

REP MEdia understands that online publishing is very different from print publishing. In a world of instant gratification, our publications deliver deep and rich content to new subscribers within minutes of signing up. This content is available 24 hour a day, 7 days a week, with new articles continually being added.

An online magazine should also include functionality that is impossible to deliver in print. This will give you an immediate and sustainable advantage over your print competitors. This functionality includes:

• Provide news and information in real time. In a world of rapid change and instant gratification it is the information sources that react quickest to events that will become most popular. Print cannot compete with the speed of online publishing.
• Streamed Audio and Video – We produce professional audio and video clips that can be streamed from the website.
• Digital Downloads – Downloads of podcasts, e-books, reports, and art prints.
• User Created Content – Users are encouraged to provide content and other contributions such as comments about articles, ratings, and forums.
• All content is archived in a searchable database, which can be accessed at anytime by readers. This is a superb and valuable resource for subscribers which builds loyalty and repeat visits.
• Members Only Area – We will build a community and create loyalty by special promotions, contests, and exhibition opportunities.
• Members can interact with each other through discussion groups, forums, online seminars and classified ads. This turns passive readers into contributors and community members. Print publications have no way of enabling real time interaction.
• The website is always on and available 24 hours a day. No publication date restrictions on access.

about our Founder, Publisher, Editor and Chief Creative Force–Rebecca E. Parsons

Rebecca on the set of Mixin' It Up with Rebecca Live TV on The Cool2Craft Network

Creative entrepreneur Rebecca E. Parsons is described as a “smart, successful, savvy and more than a little sassy business woman,” …what she laughingly calls an S4 Entrepreneur. The award-winning artist founded, ran and sold multiple 6-figure creative and artistic businesses during the last twenty-five years. She graciously shares her unique business model through her new venture REP MEdia, parent company of Cre8Tive Compass Magazine and affiliated media: TV Show , Radio Talk Shows, Community and Cre8Tive Entrepreneur University. (from American Painting Magazine article.)

Dear Comfort Zone: Starting my ascent into 2011. Seat belt fastened. On time. All clear for takeoff. Turbulence will pass. Choosing to SOAR on this journey….

Your editor and fellow creative journeyer, Rebecca E. Parsons is a digital and photographic mixed media R-tiste, Retreat Leader, Dreamer, Possibility Coach, Lifelong Communicator & Blissful Wordsmith and Cre8Tive ShowOff…just one inspired creative soul on a journey to Cre8Topia…

I care about the creative journey we each find ourselves on…this one wild adventure we were born to explore and embrace and embody!!! That, my dear ones, is the search for Cre8Topia…

She is passionate about helping others embrace the artist within and create a life around their passion…I believe that every dream is possible and possible is everywhere! So meet me at the corner of Intuition and Creativity.

Credentials:

Rebecca E. Parsons is CEO of REP MEdia, Publisher & Editor-in-Chief of Cre8tiva Compass Magazine and affiliated media: Live TV Show, Radio Talk Shows and blogs. She is an award-winning artist and graphic designer, having won awards for design of the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Form the meagre beginnings of a little decorative painting company called ‘faux is me studios,’ her artwork landed in The White House, the Smithsonian, in numerous magazines and opened the doors to appearances on HGTV, TLC, DIY and so much more. She teaches art and creativity workshops throughout the world and 2011 will see the launch of her spiritual creativity retreats for artists – Cre8Topia TM and The Artist as a Spiritual Explorer TM. Rebecca is a featured Designer at FaveCrafts.com and is featured on Craft Gossip and Cresendoh. She is a regular columnist for Inspirista blog and Vintage Allies Variety (VAV) Magazine where she does regular interviews for VAV Broadcasting.. She is an accomplished writer, motivational speaker and a Christian Spiritual Director. Ms. Parsons has a total of 35 years experience in design and publishing. Her clients have included Fortune 500 corporations, Kimberley-Clark, IBM, Prudential, Scientific Atlanta, Bell South, Peachtree Software, Ernst & Young, Siemens, GTE, and The US Olympic Committee. She is passionate about helping others embrace the creative soul within and create a life around their passion. She says “I believe that every dream is possible and possible is everywhere!”

Redear’s Digest Bio:

R-tiste Rebecca E. Parsons is a Deliberate Creator you may know as Cre8Tiva, her alter ego. Rebecca/Cre8Tiva have been on a blissful journey to Cre8Topia for decades leaving imaginative artwork and creatively inspired students strewn throughout the world.

To meet her is to get swept away by the whirlwind of creative passion and enthusiasm she exudes. She radiates caring warmth with a true desire to see you succeed. Her motto is…it is no harder to do what you love than to do what you don’t…. You can’t help but be inflamed to succeed as an artist.

Rebecca’s award-winning art is mixed media personified. From doodles to digital paintings, from murals to custom designed purses and accessories her creations are magical fights of fancy that make you want to join in her quest for Cre8Topia.

She shares this passion for creativity through workshops and retreats, A Live TV Show, two radio Talk Shows for artists, Cre8Tiva’s Blog, Cre8tive Compass Magazine/Blog, and as a Creativity Retreat Leader and Holistic Coach/Mentor to Artists. Rebecca has written and self-published five books for creative people and is writing her 6th, “Curate YOU…showing people who color outside the lines how to make a living doing what they love!”

Her artists’ statement reads: “Early in life I knew I was creative as I would draw, dance, write and sing the day away. My box of broken crayons was my greatest treasure. I love to explore and push the limits of tools and products creating and experimenting with wild abandon. My work has evolved, as has my life, to embrace my love of the human form, nature (especially the ocean), vintage images and my spirituality. You will find my work is figurative and whimsical and I always hide a trademark bubble in my artwork! My propensity to use texture, especially little treasures I find, stems from the roots of my love for decorative painting (commonly called faux finishing).”

to read a more in-depth story of Rebecca’s life journey click here…