Welcome to Week 2 of the May Art Journaling Challenge. Our word prompt for May is RENEW. I don't do a "mood board" very often, but I found some quotes with corresponding inspirational pictures (which I happen to love). Feel free to use any of these quotes, or none of them, it's totally up to you. If I had to say which of these influenced me the most, it would have to be number 4. I love the quote: "The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind". The mind isn't always so easy to silence and I'm still waiting for my soul to know what to do. Meanwhile, I have to take heart in this particular quote.
Here's my layout, which I hope shows some semblance of the emotional journey to renewing myself that I've been on and continue to be on. My thought process, while I was creating it, was that I started off being sad, with tears falling. As I moved down the page, I tried to interject some more positive quotes, then when I got to the bottom of the page, I used the uplifted palms with the words "You lifted me up" arising from them.
I used:
Because You Loved Me by Karen Schulz Designs: Digital Scrapbook Pack | Because You Loved Me Collection by Karen Schulz Designs | Oscraps
Dreamers Journal March 2022 Bundle by Sarapullka Scraps: Digital Scrapbook Pack | Dreamers Journal March 2022 Bundle by Sarapullka Scraps | Oscraps
Angels Amongst Us by Rachel Jefferies Angels Amongst Us - The Complete Mixed Media Collection by Rachel Jefferies | Oscraps
You can choose to do a single page 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.
I can't wait to see what you have to share about the prompt RENEW.
Challenge Rules:
You have until 11:59 p.m. ET on May 31st to complete your pages for this challenge.
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.
Here's my layout, which I hope shows some semblance of the emotional journey to renewing myself that I've been on and continue to be on. My thought process, while I was creating it, was that I started off being sad, with tears falling. As I moved down the page, I tried to interject some more positive quotes, then when I got to the bottom of the page, I used the uplifted palms with the words "You lifted me up" arising from them.
I used:
Because You Loved Me by Karen Schulz Designs: Digital Scrapbook Pack | Because You Loved Me Collection by Karen Schulz Designs | Oscraps
Dreamers Journal March 2022 Bundle by Sarapullka Scraps: Digital Scrapbook Pack | Dreamers Journal March 2022 Bundle by Sarapullka Scraps | Oscraps
Angels Amongst Us by Rachel Jefferies Angels Amongst Us - The Complete Mixed Media Collection by Rachel Jefferies | Oscraps
You can choose to do a single page 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.
I can't wait to see what you have to share about the prompt RENEW.
Challenge Rules:
You have until 11:59 p.m. ET on May 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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Fantastic layout Cheryl! xxx
since I'm pretty much often confused.