Welcome to the fourth and final week of the February AJ Challenge! I know my co-hosts have been getting everyone to reflect on what it means to be patient and how to achieve that often elusive inner calm. The quotes and imagery they have picked have helped me to focus on the feeling, at least for as long as I was scrapping. LOL!
So overall, do you think you are a patient person? I sure don't think I am, in fact, I know I am not! I try to overcome the feelings of impatience as well as understanding that I am imperfect and that is 100% acceptable.
Here's this month's thought experiment:
Set a time/use a mental timer. Close your eyes and see how long you can sit in silence.
How did you do?
The next step is to look at your AJ pages from this month's prompts. If you didn't scrap any, that is fine. Pop into the AJ Gallery and browse the pages that others have posted. You can focus on the colors on your pages, the images, the quotes, or all of the above.
When you are ready. come back to this thread and try it again.
Close your eyes, sit quietly, and compare how you feel to the first time you did this experiment. Were you able to sit still with a calm mind a little longer? With a little less resistance? I hope so!
For me Art Journaling helps me get some of the rough emotions out of my mind, or at the least, smooths them a little.
Our hope when we host these challenges is that you get the same benefit too!
Here is my page:
I used a lot of the same elements and imagery as my previous weeks' pages but I also included the number strip to symbolize counting and breathing quietly.
Here are all four weeks LOs put together:
Now...some Housekeeping:
You can choose to do a single page/tag/TN each week, or do a divided template - one part for each week. If you don't have the Divided Template and would like to have it, you can get it here at Dropbox. Thank you to Ona @wombat146 for providing the template choices for us! If you do the template, we would love it if you would post it incrementally. Post one done in the first week, post an image of the two together on the second, and three on the third, and then the finished page on the fourth week.
Again - the template is NEVER a requirement to use, just something fun and different if you want to use it.
Everyone who participates in any of this month's challenges will be entered into a drawing for a $5 gift certificate to Oscraps. You can receive up to four entries into this month's drawing.
Challenge Rules:
You have until 11:59 p.m. CST on February 28th to complete your pages for this challenge.
So overall, do you think you are a patient person? I sure don't think I am, in fact, I know I am not! I try to overcome the feelings of impatience as well as understanding that I am imperfect and that is 100% acceptable.
Here's this month's thought experiment:
Set a time/use a mental timer. Close your eyes and see how long you can sit in silence.
How did you do?
The next step is to look at your AJ pages from this month's prompts. If you didn't scrap any, that is fine. Pop into the AJ Gallery and browse the pages that others have posted. You can focus on the colors on your pages, the images, the quotes, or all of the above.
When you are ready. come back to this thread and try it again.
Close your eyes, sit quietly, and compare how you feel to the first time you did this experiment. Were you able to sit still with a calm mind a little longer? With a little less resistance? I hope so!
For me Art Journaling helps me get some of the rough emotions out of my mind, or at the least, smooths them a little.
Our hope when we host these challenges is that you get the same benefit too!
Here is my page:
I used a lot of the same elements and imagery as my previous weeks' pages but I also included the number strip to symbolize counting and breathing quietly.
Here are all four weeks LOs put together:
Now...some Housekeeping:
You can choose to do a single page/tag/TN each week, or do a divided template - one part for each week. If you don't have the Divided Template and would like to have it, you can get it here at Dropbox. Thank you to Ona @wombat146 for providing the template choices for us! If you do the template, we would love it if you would post it incrementally. Post one done in the first week, post an image of the two together on the second, and three on the third, and then the finished page on the fourth week.
Again - the template is NEVER a requirement to use, just something fun and different if you want to use it.
Everyone who participates in any of this month's challenges will be entered into a drawing for a $5 gift certificate to Oscraps. You can receive up to four entries into this month's drawing.
Challenge Rules:
You have until 11:59 p.m. CST on February 28th to complete your pages for this challenge.
- To qualify for the drawing, you need to use 80% Oscraps products that are currently in the store (non-Oscraps products or retired O designer products can be used whether the designer is selling elsewhere or not).
- You need to credit all the products used on your page.
- You cannot use a page you create for this challenge for another Oscraps challenge.
- Upload your page to the Art Journal Gallery and then add your layout to the challenge thread. (Below you will find instructions on adding your page to this thread.)
- Upload your layout to the gallery first. In your forum post click the Gallery Embed icon (little camera).
- This will open your gallery, simply click on the layout you require, then scroll down to the bottom of the screen and click the Continue button.
- Your linked layout is now in your post, the image will appear once you have clicked the Post Reply button
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