Challenges

I appreciate a good challenge. The challenge to better myself is one reason why I am working on getting in shape, why I am walking all those miles in weird ways. Walking while doing knee lifts, walking while doing hamstring curls, walking from side to side with bent knees. Now you see why I walk in my house, because if I walked like that outside people would really wonder about me. Not that they don't wonder already. But I digress.

I appreciate the challenge of teaching six children at home. The challenge of teaching six children who are on very different levels. One is taking two advanced sciences at once along with Pre-Calculus. One is gifted, but very auditory in learning style, two who would rather be doing anything else BUT schoolwork, one who is sweet and teachable, but gets tired of school before I am ready for him to quit. One who is just beginning to learn his letters and has yet to enter the wonderful world of reading.

All of whom are dealing with a teacher who is a little too laid back when it comes to school. But that is another challenge.

Right now I am appreciating a different kind of challenge. A creative challenge. A challenge in an art field I am obsessed with. A scrapping challenge.

Over at the ScrapOrchard there are different daily challenges 28 days a month. You have all month to complete any of the challenges you choose to, and depending on how many you complete in any given month there are coupons given for %off at the Scrap Orchard Market. How cool is that? I love doing something I really enjoy AND getting a deal in the bargain!

I have been thinking about dabbling in art journaling. It is outside of my comfort zone. It is a challenge. I made this layout in more of an arty style as my take on the Scrap That Tune challenge at the Orchard.

Granted it isn't art journaling, per se, but it's a first step, maybe.I love the colors, the torn papers, the elements that all have something to do with Mary-Saphrona. A good first step.

Another challenge that is new this month is the Anything Goes challenge. Which for this month meant scrap about yourself, about things you love or hate, about a part of who you are. As I read the challenge a song popped into my head that I haven't heard in probably 30 years or more, I Love by Tom T Hall. And it made me happy. So I used the lyrics for my journaling. I found some bright, cheery papers and elements to use with pictures of the people and places that I love. I put it all together on a template from Scrapping With Liz's Traditional Templates II set.

I had a totally different color scheme going up until it was time to hit save for the very last time (see above) when I thought,'I wonder how it would look if I did this?' And the layout changed. I used my NEW Intuos 4 tablet to make the word art for the title, which was a lot of fun.

 Now it reminds me of a quilt using 30's fabrics and I love those, too, so I kept this version of my page as the completed challenge.


Credits for True Colors : Studio Remnants collab by Tangie Baxter and SherrieJD; Found Treasures collab by Tracie Stroud and Studio Flergs; One Magic Night Glitters by Studio Flergs.

Credits for I Love : Beauty In The World by Tracie Stroud; Free Your Mind by Designs By Kat; Princess With Attitude by Eva Kipler; Pretty as a Peacock by MLE Card; Fancy Strips by Scrapping With Liz; Traditional Templates II by Scrapping With Liz.