Tiny Elements and Needed This: Creative Prompts 13 & 14
Go small but mighty with your element choices, plus document those moments when you realise how deeply you needed something
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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And here are today’s challenges . . .
TINY ELEMENTS (a challenge from Lynn)
How small can you go?
On the theme of ‘the smallest things matter’, today’s challenge asks you to use tiny elements on a page.
Create a scrapbook page or mixed media artwork using small and delicate elements – this could include tiny marks and ink splatters, little buttons, tiny flowers.
The options are limitless and the guidelines loose, but the challenge is to keep any elements you do chose small – probably smaller than you normally would.
You may want to keep your photo small as I did here, or perhaps you want to play around with the contrast of a large photo combined with delicate, small elements. I chose to keep the photo small partly because it is quite a powerful and personal one in its significance so I was more comfortable with that.
I considered using just a white paper background, but in the end settled on a paper (from “The Past is Another Country”) with a very minimal pattern which filled in the white space, but not in an overpowering way.
This was somewhat a challenge for Rachel, she focused on stamps and ephemera to achieve a look she was happy with and just a few little elements and confettis. She made them much smaller than she would normally.
To help her layout feel balanced she cropped a tall thin but somewhat understated patterned paper to bring through a little more white and to add a ‘little extra something’ - it also helped to anchor the photo and elements in that area. Plus she added extra doodles here and there and chose a painted background to add additional visual interest to the area with negative space on the right hand side.
NEEDED THIS (a challenge from Rachel)
Have you ever had one of those moments where you didn’t realise you needed something so deeply until you were actually in the moment?
Your challenge is to create a page or project that focuses on one of those moments and your gratitude surrounding it.
Zapped for time this week I had a fun time working with some of Lynn’s gorgeous templates to speed up my process and I enjoyed mixing our designs together.
I documented a weeks holiday we took in the Autumn, at a time when we don’t normally take a family holiday but we booked it spontaneously to celebrate or 20th Wedding Anniversary and it was honestly the little break we didn’t know we needed!
We had such a fun family time, made loads of memories and we all came back feeling refreshed.
For Lynn, it was the opportunity to document a much needed summer break in France, the first since Covid and a very special time. She used yellow-based paper and paints from “Hear My Voice: Renewing” to reflect the optimism and sense of renewal she felt.
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 13 & 14 in the following chat threads:
To share your ‘Tiny Elements‘ pages post them in this thread here
To share your ‘Needed This’ 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.
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You’ll find they are well suited for this weeks challenges and those from our past challenge prompts too ;)
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Don’t hesitate to reach out to us with any questions or difficulties you may have with the challenges and look out for new creative prompts on Friday!
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.
I lvery much appreciated the Needed This challenge as it made me realize that what I think I need is often not what I really need! Great prompt :)
I really wanted to participate more in your challenges and I only did a few. I guess it’s more than I scrapped before. Life gets in the way of fun.