Fostering meaningful creativity for the everyday creators to live with joyful intention. We operate mostly online, and any in person experiences are by request.
✨ A gentle reminder: you already have everything you need to create. 🖌️Your brushes, your pens, your journal, your imagination and your inner voice, they’re more than enough. 🌸
Stop waiting for the “perfect” time, tools, or moment. The time to express yourself is NOW. 🎨
Every mark, every color, every word is a step closer to reclaiming your creative spark. 💫
Start small, but start today.
💭 Ready to take this further? Join me in my Private Journaling Class or Intuitive Painting Class, a safe space where you’ll learn to create freely, release blocks, and connect deeply with your creativity.
🌿✨Tap the link in bio to begin your journey.
06/08/2025
🌿 How to Enjoy Art in Nature 🎨🍃
Nature is a beautiful teacher—when we slow down and listen, we start to see it differently.
Here’s how you can turn your outdoor moment into a mindful sketch ritual:
🧘♀️Observe in stillness – let the moment guide your senses.
📓Bring a sketchbook + 0.1 fineliner pen – keep it simple and light.
🌱 Breathe in green – inhale inspiration, exhale distractions.
🌀 Draw loosely – follow the flow, not perfection.
🎨 Take note of shapes, patterns, and colours – nature is full of design cues waiting to be noticed.
This is one of my favourite ways to reconnect with my creativity and I practice this almost every morning.
🖌️ Have you ever tried making art outdoors? Or do you have your own ritual? Tell me below! 👇
28/07/2025
🪷The process matters more to me than the finished piece- it’s where I feel most alive.👇
There’s something magical about creating without needing a plan… just following the marks, colors, and emotions that rise up from within.
This is where intuitive painting lives- in the freedom, the flow, and the trust.
🌀 Have you ever wanted to experience creative freedom for yourself?
When you start your own intuitive painting ritual, you get to reconnect with your creative spirit- no rules, just your inner voice guiding the way.
✨ Drop me a DM me if you’re curious how to stART.
15/07/2025
🌿Morning Walk Art ✍️ Share/Save this!
Take your creativity outside. Let your morning walk become a ritual of observation, art, and presence. 👇Here’s how:
✨ Bring a sketchbook
✨ Bring a 0.1 fineliner pen
✨ Draw what you see
✨ Make notes
✨ Describe your experience
✨ Breathe and observe
You don’t need to go far. Just slow down, sketch a cat, a leaf, a tree- and connect with yourself through what you see and feel.
This is how we make art out of everyday life.
06/07/2025
🌸Save these reminders for your emotional growth and well-being.
02/07/2025
🌸Your magic has always been there- it is not something that you need to find, but something to remember.
We often give away our power without even realizing it… through self-doubt, through seeking validation, through forgetting our own strengths.
These reminders are gentle truths to guide you back to your Self.
To your light.
To your creative soul.
🌿 Save this post when you need a soft nudge back home to who you are.
✨ Which one speaks to you the most right now?
23/06/2025
Inspiration is sacred, but it needs form. Without action, it fades into nothing.
True creative living is a daily practice.
It’s less about waiting for the muse, and more about building the habit to welcome her in.
This is where art is born.
💫 Save this if you needed this gentle reminder today.
👉Subscribe to ‘Intuitive Art Rituals’ on Substack- link in bio.
✨Discover how you can nurture your creativity with art journaling or intuitive painting. 1:1 classes available!
15/05/2025
Self-empowerment doesn’t always look like big wins or morning affirmations. Sometimes, it is subtle — the way you speak to yourself, or the way you reclaim your power after a hard day.
I don’t have a perfect daily method, but these 8 truths are what I return to again and again.
They’ve helped me through self-doubt, and limiting beliefs that shows up even in my creative practice. If you’re navigating any of that too — this post is for you.
✨ Save this as a reminder.
✨ Come back to it whenever you need.
✨ And be gentle with yourself.
03/04/2025
🎨12 Colours for a Watercolour Travel Palette. 📌Save/Share this!
🌈 I enjoy making art on the go. I find little ways to pack a little art-to-go kit even if it’s just a sketchbook with a pen holder tucked away in a booksleeve.
Here, I have put together my own watercolour travel kit. These colours are based on Alpha Artists Watercolour tubes. With so many colours to include, I have decided to stick to some basic tones while I allow room for mixing the colours.
FYI, these colours are based on my own choice, including colours that I used the most. You can do the same if you are not sure which colours to pack.
29/03/2025
✨ Visiting an arts & crafts market isn’t just about shopping—it’s about connecting with the makers, hearing their stories, and supporting their creative journey. 💛
Next time you’re at a market:
🛍️ Follow the maker-vendor on Instagram.
🎨 Chat with them about their work.
💡 Ask about their creative process.
Every like, comment, and support makes a difference to a maker. Let’s celebrate handmade! 🎨✨
Tag your favorite local artist or maker below! ⬇️
03/03/2025
✂️Starting a Junk Journal is Easy. A junk journal can be anything you want it to be.
Really it isn’t complicated. There’s no theme, no structure, not even a right or wrong way doing it. That’s what makes it liberating!
You can start junk journaling instantly. You just need a notebook or a scrapbook of some kind, even envelopes or pamphlets. Gather daily ephemera from anywhere and anything you see. Start sticking in your journal, make notes, write poetries and quotes. The rest is a form of intuitive art making.
Anyone can do it! ↗️Share this post.
16/02/2025
🎨🌀Art as a Self Care Tool👇READ
✏️Art has a profound way of helping us go inward and spend some quality time with ourselves in a fun, colour and therapeutic way.
✨So if you are the type of person who values spending alone time, and you want to incorporate some tools to assist you in your process, Art as a self-care tool definitely can be highly beneficial for you.
How Art can help with Self-Empowerment
✨Assisting conversations with yourself
✨Connecting with your inner-child
✨Helps with rediscovering your passion
✨Permission to be yourself
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The Artsy Craftsy is a Malaysian arts and crafts platform to help you be creative, make art, stay crafty (and love handmade!) via creative arts and DIY crafts resources. Here, we celebrate the artists, crafters, makers and creative hobby-lovers!
Hi! I’m Shia Lynn, Creator of The Artsy Craftsy. I created The Artsy Craftsy in 2008, as an arts and crafts blog to help people discover their inner artist and joy of creation while supporting the local creatives. With the years of networking with artists & crafters, my aim is to contribute to the growth of the creative community, and to empower people to be creative.
How The Artsy Craftsy Started
Originally started off as a blog in 2008 when there were no local craft blogs, The Artsy Craftsy's mission was to help people discover their inner artist and the joy of making through stories about the creator's personal creative journey, DIY craft tutorials and creativity tips on overcoming creative blockages. As an inspiration, the blog also featured some of the Malaysian artists, crafters and makers. In 2015, it became an arts and crafts platform to cultivate creativity through online and offline activations. Thanks to the support of our community, we are grateful that we are still one of the popular names in the Malaysian arts and crafts community
CONTENT
We enjoy creating content featuring some of the most inspiring topics on creative Malaysians, creative biz guide, arts and craft tips, creative life advice and craft projects and ideas
CREATIVE SERVICES
We offer a variety of offline creative services for corporate brands and companies, depending what our clients are looking for. Some of the services that we offer range from demos, on-the-spot personalisation, to workshops, team building and make & takes, designed for corporate events and corporate activities.
SPONSORSHIP & PARTNERSHIPS
We work with brands, companies and small creative businesses through several arrangements like sponsored post product collaborations and giveaways. Once in awhile, we take on fun projects through partnerships and collaborations that can benefit the Malaysian arts and craft community. We have collaborated with brands such as Craft La, Craft Haven and In Real Life, and have worked with several renowned brands for B2C experience, with names such as Spotlight, Etsy, Pelikan Malaysia, Plaid Crafts and Toyota Global.
CRAFT COURSES
Learn a creative skill from us through the creative classes that we offer perfect for hobbyists to create an artful living. We also offer MAKERS CONSULTATION a consultation service for emerging Malaysian craft business owners who are looking for tips, advice and guides.
CRAFT ACTIVITIES
Our mission is to bring the creative community together through arts and craft, whether it is a craft gathering, an art jamming session or creative meet ups, we hope to inspire people to be creative together!
NETWORKING
Our inner-circle called The Artsy Craftsy Friends is where we gather like-minded crafter-friends to collaborate and connect them to opportunities like event participation and passion projects. Our goal is to create a connection with our close friends for support & inspiration during get-together.
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The Artsy Craftsy Home Studio is located in Bukit Jelutong, Shah Alam.
