Welcome to the last week of the August Art Journal Challenges. I have thoroughly enjoyed seeing everyone's pages this month. However.
Time for me to 'fess up. This month was very difficult for me. I honestly don't know why this was harder than other months' topics but for some reason, it was.
Whenever I think about my purpose, the first thing that always comes to mind is being a mom. If I drill down to the core of every decision I have made in the last 30 years, the main objective always revolves around my kids. But like many of you who are in some level of empty nesting, that purpose doesn't feel as strong (read: as *needed*
) as it was when my kids were small. Since I felt adrift on a more personal level with regard to the subject, I focused on the quotes that were given. I picked the ones that resonated and thought about how a person's purpose can shift over the years. Over the course of this month, I reflected on those changes and am learning to be more accepting of myself in this period of transition.
For this month's wrap-up, I'd like you to think about the changes in your purpose. These purposes can be your long-term roles in life, the different hats you wear in a short period of time, or perhaps how your layouts for this month changed as you viewed your purpose each week. As I thought about this week's wrap-up, I focused on how the struggle to define my purpose changed my perspective. Each week, I fought with myself but learned a little more about how I view my role in life.
Here is my page:
And all four weeks together:
You can choose to do a single page, double page, tag, TN each week, or use 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 use the template, we would love it if you post incrementally: post one done in the first week, post an image of the two together on the second, and so on until the finished page in the fourth week.
Again—the template is NEVER a requirement, just something fun and different if you want to use it.
Challenge Rules:
We look forward to seeing your art journaling pages!
Time for me to 'fess up. This month was very difficult for me. I honestly don't know why this was harder than other months' topics but for some reason, it was.
Whenever I think about my purpose, the first thing that always comes to mind is being a mom. If I drill down to the core of every decision I have made in the last 30 years, the main objective always revolves around my kids. But like many of you who are in some level of empty nesting, that purpose doesn't feel as strong (read: as *needed*
) as it was when my kids were small. Since I felt adrift on a more personal level with regard to the subject, I focused on the quotes that were given. I picked the ones that resonated and thought about how a person's purpose can shift over the years. Over the course of this month, I reflected on those changes and am learning to be more accepting of myself in this period of transition.For this month's wrap-up, I'd like you to think about the changes in your purpose. These purposes can be your long-term roles in life, the different hats you wear in a short period of time, or perhaps how your layouts for this month changed as you viewed your purpose each week. As I thought about this week's wrap-up, I focused on how the struggle to define my purpose changed my perspective. Each week, I fought with myself but learned a little more about how I view my role in life.
Here is my page:
And all four weeks together:
You can choose to do a single page, double page, tag, TN each week, or use 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 use the template, we would love it if you post incrementally: post one done in the first week, post an image of the two together on the second, and so on until the finished page in the fourth week.
Again—the template is NEVER a requirement, just something fun and different if you want to use it.
Challenge Rules:
- You have until 11:59 p.m. CST on August 31 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.
We look forward to seeing your art journaling pages!
