What a year (and one month). How have you enjoyed the Year of Gratitude challenge? Your art has been a visual feast, and I hope that it has lifted you up as you created it. This is our final challenge. We'll be back in 2021 with a new #showusyourMEdia challenge.
A Year of Gratitude Challenge Final Challenge
To read more about the power of gratitude, visit my original blog post here.
How To Participate
- 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 Final Prompt
As we end the Year of Gratitude, I feel reflective. I am grateful for reflection, for the chance to look back and process, learn, let go, and be inspired. I tend to be a bit of a worrier, and for me, reflection is not worry. It is looking back, learning your lessons, and moving on. It is being a better person now because of what happened then.
Brief description of how I created this page: Spilled some Turquoise Gloss Spray across the page. Let dry and journal on the lines with the Fudeball pen. Create a little collage on a tag with collage fodder and words from the new Just Words Collage Paper Tissue set. Stamp 3 faces from Change stamp set on my plain Collage Paper Tissue and tear out. Staple on the page with the accompanying tag.
- 6x6 White Journal
- Ultra Thick Gel Medium
- White tags
- Gloss Sprays
- Black Fudeball pen
- Collage Tissue
- Stamp set: Change
- Collage Tissue: Just Words
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.
- 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 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 Tuesday, Oct 6th to complete this final challenge.
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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