HERE and Favourite Colour: Creative Prompts 15 & 16
Two new creative challenges as we enter the home stretch - plus scroll down to see our new creative assets and templates
Welcome to the month of challenges, creating around the theme of “These Moments Matter”.
Over the month, we will be setting four challenges a week that anyone can play along with. Find the finer details below1
We are also celebrating our Quarterly Sale at the LilyPad, find all of our creative assets on sale - scroll to the bottom for more details + New Releases!
But first, here are today’s challenges!
HERE (a challenge from Rachel)
Show me or journal about what your ‘here’ looks like right now. It could be a page or project that’s centered around what’s going on in your life right now, or what your typical day or routine looks like, it could be a candid shot of your morning walk, anything at all about your ‘here’!
My here right now is a box of tissues and having cold and flu medicine at hand and my energy levels haven’t allowed me to create my layout for this prompt yet. Instead, I have this beautiful example from my talented creative team member Robin . . .
Her journaling talks about her Son spreading his wings and leaving the nest and her gratitude for spending precious time together when he comes back for breaks - even if that means eating ice cream outside in the winter weather!
Lynn decided to make a digital collage of three photos that sum up her ‘here’ right now.
That includes a butterfly visiting the milkweed plant that self-seeded beside the house and has provided months of enjoyment from caterpillars, to cocoons and now butterflies. It’s the little things!
Her honest journaling reveals it’s not all as idyllic as it looks. But still worth celebrating.
FAVOURITE COLOUR (a challenge from Lynn)
Colour matters.
It’s not a little thing, it carries emotional weight and messaging.
Your challenge is to create a largely monochrome page in your favourite colour.
Any photo(s) should be black and white.
You can add black or white elements and papers as well, and you might have some touches of other colours that are in the papers or elements you use - but (almost) everything else you use should be in tones of that favourite colour.
I found it quite hard to decide what colour to go with. I love using yellow and orange, and muted mauve is a contender. So I decided to scroll through my past digital layouts and see which ones really caught my eye and made me happy, and it was the ones using this royal blue:
I used paper and paints from my “The Blues” along with some elements from “Hear My Voice: Healing”. If you are creating digitally in photoshop, you may want to do what I did to ‘mute’ some of the other colours that were in the papers and paints. I simply painted with a soft brush in royal blue on the layer above the area I wanted to change, and put in on ‘hue’ blend mode.
In Lieu of Rachel’s layout is this gorgeous example from talented creative team member Roxana . . .
I always find limiting a colour palette works incredibly well when scrapbooking masculine pages and it can really help to stretch your stash - it may help you to look at a themed kit in a new way.
Mixing lots of black and white with a single colour pop has worked wonders here, the high contrast of the black is incredible and whilst there are only seven or so pops of blue it really stands out!
(Blue is winning today!)
Designated Chat Threads for today’s Challenges
Remember, in order to be eligible for the drawing for a chance to win exclusive premium content and goodies here at Pixels, Paper and Paint - Life in Pictures by Lynn and Rachel, you will need to share your finished pages or projects within the designated ‘chat threads’ for each challenge so that we can can keep track of them and validate your entries.
Share your pages for challenge prompts 15 & 16 in the following chat threads:
To share your ‘HERE‘ pages post them in this thread here
To share your ‘Favourite Colour’ pages post them in this thread here
For help with participating in Substacks Chat feature see here, and if you get lost and lose these links, you can find all of our chat threads here.
A few of you have found a little quirk when you click through to the chat thread from the e-mail in your inbox and are welcomed with a message with an error saying the page is private. This is because you are not logged in when arriving to the substack platform. You need to be logged in before you can view and participate in the chat threads - let us know if you have any problems!
PS don’t forget you can always pop to the site to keep up to date with the challenges. There is a designated section there for you which you can find here.
The LilyPad’s Quarterly SALE - Jan 24 - Jan 27
It’s a great time to purchase items that you’ve had on your wish list or find new treasures that are new to you!
You’ll find 30% off everything in our shops (50% off Commercial Use) including bundled collections that already had discounts applied! Plus spend at least $15 to receive a LilyPad Collaboration Kit as a free with purchase gift. (Add a LilyPad Collaboration Kit of your choice to your cart, spend $15 or more on other Products and your chosen LilyPad Collaboration will be a gift from us.)
We couldn’t resist creating some new items for you too . . .
Rachel has her ‘Eidos’ Collection and she has generously packaged up five product packs into one money saving grab bag collection offer - she’s reduced it in price by almost 60%!! It will be unpacked next week and the pieces available at different pricing so grab it now for the best offer!
With Eidos document not just what you see, but how you feel, and interpret life. Whilst creating with this digital scrapbooking collection consider the layers of meaning behind your photos and memories. Eidos will help you blend intuition, perspective, and add a mixed media twist to your scrapbook pages and projects.
Lynn has ‘Messy Pockets Gridded No5 Photobook Templates’ which are a set of digital scrapbooking page templates to mix and match and create a photobook of travel or event layouts.
Fill all the spots with photos, or mix with journal cards to create a fun pocket scrapbooking layout! She’s had so much fun starting to document her Japan travels and adventures with this new set of versatile templates.
Don’t hesitate to reach out to us with any questions or difficulties you may have with the challenges and what not and look out for a bonus e-mail from us on Sunday with more inspiration from our talented creative team members that we hope will give you lots of page design ideas for this weeks challenges.
At the end of the challenge month, participants who have completed all 20 Challenges/Creative Prompts will be entered into a draw to win a ‘forever’ pass to access exclusive premium content and goodies here at Pixels, Paper and Paint - Life in Pictures by Lynn and Rachel.
Runners up and participants who didn’t manage to complete all of the 20 Challenges/Creative Prompts will be entered into a drawing to win spot prizes for passes with limited access to exclusive premium content and goodies here at Pixels, Paper and Paint - Life in Pictures by Lynn and Rachel.
In order to be eligible for the drawing for a chance to win exclusive premium content and goodies here at Pixels, Paper and Paint - Life in Pictures by Lynn and Rachel you will need to:
Ensure you are subscribed to this publication when the draw takes place in February.
Ensure that at least 75% of each finished page or project used digital art from either Rachel Jefferies Designs or Lynn Grieveson Designs. You can find our creative assets at The Lilypad and Oscraps.
Share your finished pages or projects within the designated ‘chat thread’ for each challenge. You’ll find the links for each thread where you can share your pages and projects posted with it’s associated challenge.
Please note that whilst our digital assets are available to purchase at the LilyPad and Oscraps, these Challenges and Creative Prompts are not associated or affiliated with either store, and so by sharing them in the designated threads here, we are able to efficiently keep track of your participation to validate your entry into the drawings at the end of the challenge month.You are very welcome to, and encouraged to share your pages and projects in our designer galleries at the LilyPad and/or Oscraps. We will be checking into our galleries throughout January and awarding some spot prizes of coupons to spend in our shops! When posting your pages and projects in the galleries please note in the description box ‘Created for the ‘These Moments Matter’ Month of Challenges by Pixels, Paper and Paint - Life in Pictures by Lynn and Rachel.
Enjoy the creative prompts and shopping the sale and have a wonderful weekend!
Rachel & Lynn
How funny Roxana and I both went with such a similar blue hue. I need to work with that colour more :-)