Small Victory and Go For it: Creative Prompts 17 & 18
Two upbeat creative midweek prompts + Midweek Specials
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
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If you’re here to read about our Something Old Something New Sale offerings this Wednesday at the LilyPad you’ll find them (reduced in price by 50%) at the end of today’s email!
But first, here are today’s challenges!
SMALL VICTORY (a challenge from Lynn)
In the spirit of celebrating all the moments of life, this challenge reminds us that not all our wins need to be big ones.
My challenge to you is to create about a small win that deserves to be celebrated, no matter how minor, or prosaic or even if it is something that matters only to you.
My small victory actually is one we love to boast about and does impress people! In October we marked the milestone of ocean swimming all the year round. We started swimming in October of the previous year (which is Spring here), not intending to go right through winter, but we just kept going. And once we got well into the colder months, we challenged ourselves to finish the year.
Wearing a puffer jacket and beanie down to the beach to swim is not something I ever saw myself doing!
Rachel embraced this challenge as an opportunity to celebrate a mini milestone: her son coping wonderfully with a trip to the cinema (a big deal for him). She discovered the fantastic Autism friendly screenings hosted by her local cinema once a month, which made watching Moana 2 possible during the quiet lull between New Year's celebrations and the return to school.
Created somewhat on the fly, Rachel’s choice of paper highlights the power of our ready made Mixed Media. With much of the design already laid out in the painted background paper, she simply layered her photo over the painted area and negative space, and added a thoughtful selection of elements and stamps to enhance the page.
GO FOR IT (a challenge from Rachel)
Create a page or project around a moment where you took a risk or made a bold decision, a time where you maybe embraced spontaneity, those moments that come from saying yes . . .
Back in 2016, whilst on holiday, I agreed to complete an aerial rope course which finishes with a zip wire over the lake. Hmmm quite out of character for me, not something I’d normally do or like anything I’d ever done before, but with the encouragement of my Brother In Law, and a pact - “if you do it I will” off we went!!
I tell you the world sure looked different from ‘up there’ and I didn’t expect it to be quite so high up ha! But we did it, we clambered around the trees and made it across the other side of the lake in one piece!
Lynn’s layout is about a massive life change that sprung from suddenly saying ‘Let’s just go for it”, during a walk with her husband. After regular weekend trips on the ferry to the island where their friends lived, they upended everything and moved there themselves.
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 17 & 18 in the following chat threads:
To share your ‘Small Victory‘ pages post them in this thread here
To share your ‘Go for it’ 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.
SOMETHING OLD SOMETHING NEW SALE - ITEMS REDUCED IN PRICE
Hand picked by us both are some wonderful items that have been reduced in price but only for today, 29th JAN 2025.
We kept this weeks and past weeks challenge prompts in our minds when making our picks so we are sure you will find them ideal for pages or projects you will have in the works!
We hope you’ll have fun shopping, Click here, or click the button or image below to go shopping at the LilyPad.
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 the half price offers today and we’ll see you on Friday for the final prompts!
Rachel & Lynn