We made it through April! For that, I am grateful. We adore the art you share. Keep it up!
A Year of Gratitude Challenge 9
To read more about the power of gratitude, visit my original blog post here.
How To Participate
- Check my blog and Ranger's blog each month for the prompt.
- Create a piece of art inspired by the prompt.
- Post your art anytime during the month on Facebook and/or Instagram, using the hashtag #showusyourMEdia
- Full challenge rules are at the bottom of this post.
The Ninth Prompt
I am grateful for stillness. Seems like that is all we are lately...still. Still isn't something I do very well. My mind is always racing, my hands always doing. Lately I want to appreciate this opportunity to be still. To be quiet. To think. To create. To center. The stillness can seem like a prison, or we can embrace it and just let ourselves be still.
Brief description of how I created this page: Brush Sky paint onto the pages, and add a few sprays of Turquoise gloss sprays. Add some lines with a scribble stick. Stamp the face from Fierce with Jet Black archival ink onto white cardstock. Color with metallic scribble sticks and any other colors desired, and cut into a square. Cut circles from a piece of the Collage Collective or any other painted you have. Use ultrathick gel to glue the circles and the circle negative onto the page. Add journaling with the Fudeball pen. Add the chipboard shape. Speckle the page with gloss sprays.
Quick description of what I did:
Make a quick painted background with a few strokes of Magenta, Lemon, and Turquoise paints. Stamp the girl from the stamp set multiple times on white cardstock and on old book paper. Cut out. Paint some sticky back canvas with circles of Night paint. Cut into strips. Paint some cheddar dots onto a sheet of plain collage tissue. Use the stamped images, strips of sticky back canvas, and torn pieces of the plain collage tissue to create a layered collage. Glue pieces with Ultrathick Gel Medium. Add journaling with the Fudeball pen.
Challenge Rules Recap
I want to put the “me” back in mixed media. All art is personal, whether it be a card or an art journal page or a painting. Join me as we begin a series of monthly challenges and prompts that will fuel your creative spirit and help you delve into the ME of MEdia.
- We will announce monthly challenges on the Ranger blog on the first Wednesday of each month.
- Use at least one Dina Wakley Media product in your project. If your product is not obvious (like paint), please list the colors you used.
- You can make anything you like—a card, an art journal page, a tag, a canvas, anything!
- Interpret each challenge any way you like. You can be literal or you can use it as a springboard and see where it takes you. Let the challenge inspire you and stretch you.
- Try to journal on your piece. Write your thoughts about each prompt. You can write a little or you can write a lot, but do your best to incorporate your thoughts and feelings into the piece.
- When you complete a challenge, please share it on your blog and personal social media account(s) (Instagram/Facebook) with the tags #showusyourMEdia and #rangerink. When you share on your personal FB page, be sure to make the post public so that it shows up in our hashtag search. You can share in the art groups, too, but those posts don't show up in the searches if the groups are closed or private.
- We will do two random drawings each month for a prize. We will search the hashtag #showusyourMEdia on Instagram for one winner, and then on Facebook for the second winner. To be clear, you must use the hashtag #showusyourMEdia on either Instagram or Facebook in order to show up in the search and to be eligible to win. You have until the first Tuesday of each month to complete the previous month’s challenge.
- We will announce the previous month’s winner AND the new challenge on the first Wednesday of each month.
Note this challenge does not take the place of the monthly challenges we have in the Dina Wakley Media Tribe Facebook group. If you're not a member of the tribe, please join us! Artists in the group post lots of cool art and inspiration.
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