Quiet/Light/Pieces/Echoes and Fleeting: Creative Prompts 19 & 20
Our final two creative prompts as the 'These Moments Matter' month of challenges come to a close
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Welcome to the final prompts for what has been a very busy month of challenges!!
We have been creating around the theme of “These Moments Matter” all month long and we have been in awe of the flurry of creativity you have treated us with!
If you haven’t been following along and this is new to you we have noted the finer details below1
NEW RELEASE FRIDAY
If you’re here for our new releases keep scrolling to the bottom to find those, but first, here are today’s challenges featuring our final two creative prompts!
QUIET/ LIGHT /PIECES/ECHOES (a challenge from Rachel)
Nothing too taxing from me for this final prompt, the requirements are loose and abstract. My challenge to you is to simply use one of these (or more if you like) single words as a jumping off point somehow to create a page or project. It might inspire the theme, the colours, or the overall design of your finished work. Surprise us!
I found this super cute photo of Keaton in my stash of photos yet to scrap and just love how his little face is lit up with that big smile.
I therefore used the ‘Light’ prompt but I also used it in the context of keeping my background light and fresh, and also in keeping the dimensional elements ‘light’ on this page. I wanted lots of fun movement, as this photo was one of many taken during a walking exploration of the holiday park.
I used ready made stamps from my template, a few more from the kit and created this diagonal cascading flow which reminded me of our trail and all the steps we took during our fun walk.
Colours have been kept to a minimum and have been picked from his shirt and the sky using the dropper tool.
The word ‘quiet’ resonated very much with Lynn, who has just got back from a trip to Japan. The crowds and the bustle of Tokyo were a huge contrast to the snowy landscape of the park below their apartment in Sapporo, and it made her realise how much she treasures quiet walks in nature above the noise and excitement of big cities.
The word ‘chill’ here carries two meanings!
She went with ‘quiet’ colours too, and lots of white space representing the breathing space the quietness of the park gave her.
FLEETING (a challenge from Lynn)
This is your chance to document something that has been and gone, but you still remember well.
It might be a short but meaningful period of your life in the past, or it might be a hobby you no longer take part in. Perhaps it was a relationship (of any kind) that ‘had its moment’, or even a short-lived job.
To prompt your journaling, perhaps think about what it meant at the time, how do you feel about it now and what, if anything, did you learn or gain from it?
My fleeting memory is of a few days I spent alone in London. It was also the first time I had travelled alone for decades, and the first time I had left behind any family responsibilities. Completely free to wander wherever I chose and for however long I wanted, I could feel myself becoming ‘me’ again with every step.
Rachel has taken the ‘fleeting’ prompt a little abstractly and has interpreted it in the context of how short life can be and when looked back on in retrospect, how long periods of time can actually feel ‘fleeting’ as if they have passed us by so quickly . . .
Her page contains a very old and somewhat fuzzy photo of a day out with her dad at the Severn Valley Railway. She’s stepped back into the comfort zone of hiding her journaling from us on this page by creating a digital stamp from her handwriting, and then using it as a design element. It represents her personal thoughts and feelings about grief, losing her dad at such an early age and that sense of lost time.
Watch how Rachel has manipulated a photo from Hear My Voice Growing with the ‘select and mask’ tool in Photoshop in her video below, and if you have time, you can watch her embellish her page afterwards too.
She felt it’s important to show you that it’s normal to not have a plan, to go back and forth between element choices, to experiment and put things on a page and then change your mind and take them off again, so this watch me scrap style video is a little longer than normal, even though it’s been edited and sped up in places!
Watch the video here (9mins)
More tips on Selecting and Masking
More tips Creating Digital Stamps
Designated Chat Threads for today’s Challenges + Deadlines
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.
You have until the 6th of February to complete any outstanding challenges that you wish to create.
The winners for the Passes and Prizes will be announced on the 7th February - to read more about our premium content see this post here.
Share your pages for challenge prompts 19 & 20 in the following chat threads:
To share your ‘Quiet/Light/Pieces/Echoes‘ pages post them in this thread here
To share your ‘Fleeting’ pages post them in this thread here
For help with participating in Substack’s 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.
NEW RELEASES : COLOR PLAY | MEMORABLE TEMPLATES/ EIDOS UNPACKED
And finally, a quick note about new creative assets you can find in our stores this weekend.
It’s the last Friday of the month, and that means it is ‘ColorPlay’ time at Oscraps. Lynn has been playing with leaves, ferns, ink and paint to create the new “Felices” collection:
Meanwhile, at The Lilypad, Rachel has ‘unpacked’ her Eidos collection that was offered as a grab bag last week, giving you the opportunity to grab papers, elements, mixed media, and a cool template separately or she’s combined the core elements and two paper packs as a Kit option too . . .
And Lynn has a versatile new pair of page templates which she used to make pages highlighting that contrast she talks about above between the quiet of frozen Sapporo with the colourful bustle of Tokyo!
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 final two creative prompts for the These Moments Matter Challenges, we can’t wait to see what you create.
Also, ensure you have caught up on our recent ‘So What’s Next?’ article outlining our plans for 2025, we are looking forward to creating with you and connecting with you more in this exciting new year :)
Rachel & Lynn