Hello, my friends!! Have you been enjoying our topic this month? I am really liking going through the gallery and seeing all of your takes on the challenge! It's amazing to see the different avenues each of us take. I especially love it when you take me an unexpected place with your pages!!
This week, I'd like you to focus your thoughts on something out of the ordinary that you are grateful for. Sometimes we don't take a deep dive and figure out all the things in our lives that we are grateful for. Whenever I'm asked the question, I seem to always go to God, My family, my friends, our house...stuff like that. However, today when I was thinking about what I was going to do, all of the sudden I felt a surge of gratefulness for my country and the freedoms we have to have an opinion, and express it. I am so grateful for the gift of voting, and having my voice heard, and grateful for the fact that we as Americans can disagree on beliefs, yet still be civil. If my beliefs don't win in this election, well...there's always next time! I am happy for those people who strive to always be grateful and mindful of our privileges and who strive to create unity.
Here are some quotes to get you thinking:
“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.”
“I am happy because I’m grateful. I choose to be grateful. That gratitude allows me to be happy.”
“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”
“I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude.”
“Being grateful does not mean that everything is necessarily good. It just means that you can accept it as a gift.”
Here is an inspiration board to get your mind thinking even more:
Here is my page:
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.
I can't wait to see what you have to share about the prompt {gratitude}
Challenge Rules:
You have until 11:59 p.m. CST on November 30 to complete your pages for this challenge.
This week, I'd like you to focus your thoughts on something out of the ordinary that you are grateful for. Sometimes we don't take a deep dive and figure out all the things in our lives that we are grateful for. Whenever I'm asked the question, I seem to always go to God, My family, my friends, our house...stuff like that. However, today when I was thinking about what I was going to do, all of the sudden I felt a surge of gratefulness for my country and the freedoms we have to have an opinion, and express it. I am so grateful for the gift of voting, and having my voice heard, and grateful for the fact that we as Americans can disagree on beliefs, yet still be civil. If my beliefs don't win in this election, well...there's always next time! I am happy for those people who strive to always be grateful and mindful of our privileges and who strive to create unity.
Here are some quotes to get you thinking:
“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.”
“I am happy because I’m grateful. I choose to be grateful. That gratitude allows me to be happy.”
“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”
“I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude.”
“Being grateful does not mean that everything is necessarily good. It just means that you can accept it as a gift.”
Here is an inspiration board to get your mind thinking even more:
Here is my page:
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.
I can't wait to see what you have to share about the prompt {gratitude}
Challenge Rules:
You have until 11:59 p.m. CST on November 30 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
The first two came so easy and wonderful that this bump in the road stalled me. I'll try again tomorrow.