The beginning of the year always seems to be about change; we want to change something about ourselves. It might be a new diet, or exercise, or some kind of emotional change. We all do it. However, for me, this year I chose to do something that fits more with this month's theme: Perspective
I realized that all of the things that I wanted to make better in my life necessitated a perspective change! So it's been something that I've been working on for a few months. Even so, it was a real challenge for me to come up with a way to express myself through art. This is one part of my art journaling journey that I still have a hard time with. I can use the tools, but sometimes choosing the right ones to impart a feeling are difficult. This page came out of a realization that my perspective needed to change about the way I look at challenges in my life. Instead of being immediately defeated about it, I have learned to sit with things for a bit and figure out how I will accomplish something rather than just throwing up my hands to the air and say, "I just can't do this!!" This change has really helped me accomplish things these past few months that typically would be hard for me.
I offer these quotes and a mood board to hopefully help you start the thinking process for this page. You already have a great stat in Sonja's intro to week 1. If you haven't read it, go back and check it out. There is so much there to help you get started, and with my additions, maybe the muse will start working for you!!!
Some Quotes I found about Perspective:
1. The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don't have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it.
2. It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." - Henry David Thoreau.
3. It's our perspective that determines our happiness, not our circumstances.
4. If you nurture your mind, body, and spirit, your time will expand. You will gain a new perspective that will allow you to accomplish much more.
5. In order to understand ourselves, others, and the world around us, we need to be able to change and adapt our perspectives. - Albert Einstein
A few synonyms:
angle · aspect · attitude · context · mindset · prospect · viewpoint. Strong matches. headset · landscape · objectivity · overview
Here is a mood board to get some juices flowing!
Here is my page:
And 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 March 31st to complete your pages for this challenge.
I realized that all of the things that I wanted to make better in my life necessitated a perspective change! So it's been something that I've been working on for a few months. Even so, it was a real challenge for me to come up with a way to express myself through art. This is one part of my art journaling journey that I still have a hard time with. I can use the tools, but sometimes choosing the right ones to impart a feeling are difficult. This page came out of a realization that my perspective needed to change about the way I look at challenges in my life. Instead of being immediately defeated about it, I have learned to sit with things for a bit and figure out how I will accomplish something rather than just throwing up my hands to the air and say, "I just can't do this!!" This change has really helped me accomplish things these past few months that typically would be hard for me.
I offer these quotes and a mood board to hopefully help you start the thinking process for this page. You already have a great stat in Sonja's intro to week 1. If you haven't read it, go back and check it out. There is so much there to help you get started, and with my additions, maybe the muse will start working for you!!!
Some Quotes I found about Perspective:
1. The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don't have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it.
2. It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." - Henry David Thoreau.
3. It's our perspective that determines our happiness, not our circumstances.
4. If you nurture your mind, body, and spirit, your time will expand. You will gain a new perspective that will allow you to accomplish much more.
5. In order to understand ourselves, others, and the world around us, we need to be able to change and adapt our perspectives. - Albert Einstein
A few synonyms:
angle · aspect · attitude · context · mindset · prospect · viewpoint. Strong matches. headset · landscape · objectivity · overview
Here is a mood board to get some juices flowing!
Here is my page:
And 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 March 31st 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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