Practice suggestions

Challenge yourself to recreate existing websites, or find existing websites and re-do them to look better in your own development environment. Sometimes I pick a web site from a site like: http://www.free-css.com.

I'm in the same boat as you. I think the classes and exercises are great but they are training my left brain more than my right. Hard to be creative when I'm busting my butt remembering syntax rules, etc.. Hope you get some responses...

Chip

Practice.

1. Use a text editor.. I use sublime two and follow along typing in the code as they do it. Treehouse offers a "workspace" that can do the same thing. This allows you to get more hands on practice..
2. Just doing it over and over is the best practice. This is what I do.. I follow along with the lesson. If he types 2.3 then I type 2.3 into the text editor. NOW, before I go to the next lesson. I will sometimes mess around with it a little. Change the color or shape of something, just to see what will happen. What happens if you make it bigger or smaller. What is important is that you understand the concept you are learning in that lesson. If you are learning color, try changing the color the different ways they taught. Using color name, then rgb, etc. This helps you remember it better. As you go farther along then you will feel more comfortable doing more. If you haven't done so already, check out the library. It has a lot of cool extras and can help if you really don't understand something. The deep dives are really great to do for learning or a refreshers course!

You can also Google for some practice challenges, here is one such example: CSS Challenges