Welcome back to another monthly Just Two Midwest Girls scrap challenge! Before we dive into April's challenge, let's announce the winner for March! March was all about getting sketchy. And the winner is Heather Adams! Go check out Heather's project on her blog. Heather, please email me your mailing address at heather.sweet12@gmail.com so I can get your lovely prizes into your craft room! And, just a little reminder, this was the prize up for grabs:
Okay, now to get on to this month's challenge. For my birthday, Kelly sent me a mixed media spiral notebook, clear gesso, and a mini mister...because she is sweet, thoughtful, and awesome!
When Kelly and I first met as pen pals, we wrote about how we both wanted to start art journaling. Well, a year later, Kelly put our creative dreams into action! When she sent me this lovely birthday package, she had a note in there that said something about just diving right in. I thought our challenge this month would be the perfect starting point to my art journal: creating with an inspirational quote.
My first ever art journal page! I can't even begin to tell you guys how much fun I had when creating this page. It really is freeing to just get messy. Besides the perfectionist side of me freaking out about art journaling, another aspect I will have a difficult time with is not using dimensional elements as much. But, I can use layers, lots and lots of layers!
I thought this quote, from Mary Oliver, would be a great way to start my art journaling journey. If you can't tell, I'm also trying to dabble with calligraphy, but I need to practice and get better with my flourishes.
So, this month's challenge is to use any quote as an inspiration to your creativity. Create anything! It doesn't have to be an art journal page. It could be a layout, a card, canvas art, anything! Kelly and I want to see what quotes are inspiring you creatively!
How to Play Along
- Create a new project inspired by a quote you love.
- Link your project to my comments section on this post OR Kelly's comments section on her post OR onto our facebook page, which can be found in my side bar.
- Link up your project by 8 PM CST Thursday, May 1st for a chance to win this month's prize.
April's Prize
A Teresa Collins Memorabilia Collection Kit is up for grabs!
Coming Soon
Kelly and I will be creating a Just Two Midwest Girls Scrap Challenge blog! We were thinking that hosting a challenge on two blogs may be confusing and a barrier to participation, so we thought creating a scrap challenge blog would be a great solution. We will be working on the new blog this month and will launch it with our May challenge.
What this Means All of the Just Two Midwest Girls scrap challenges will be hosted on the new blog. You can still read about our projects on our respective blogs, but anything having to do with Just Two Midwest Girls will be linked back to that blog. We will still have our facebook page. When playing along with us, you can link your project to just one blog, without having to scroll through blog posts to find the scrap challenge post.
Okay, now hop on over to Kelly's blog to see how she was quotably inspired! And don't forget to play along! You just may win (insert prize)!
xoxo,
Heather
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