Hello everyone, Happy New Year and welcome to our first challenge for 2023! This month our challenge is all about TIME. You can find our challenge details below as well as links to the latest issue of our digital magazine - Artful Pages - more details below.
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It's About Time
Let's take a look at this month's art journal challenge! We have simplified the challenges this year and the challenge no longer has two parts. Instead we have one main theme to inspire you and this month it's all about TIME.
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We can't wait to see what you do with our challenge prompt this month and if you need more inspiration, you might find our new magazine useful. Inside there are weekly prompts if you need them as well as details of where to download the free printables available for this month's challenge.
Please note that we have made the decision to drop the Mini Challenge from our schedule, due in part to the decline in entries. Are you sad about the demise of the Mini Challenge? We'd love to hear from you! If there is enough interest we may consider bring it back.
Artful Pages January 2023
As mentioned at the top of the post, we are excited to share the
latest issue of our new digital magazine - Artful Pages - which is a
new way of looking at our challenges and inspiration, as well as being
able to add more value for our readers which we are not able to do in
our current formats. So here's a look at our latest issue which
is available to flick through online just like a real magazine.
The magazine contains more about our challenge this month, our Design
Team inspiration,Guest Designer interviews, free printables and
more! Check it out and see for yourself - we would love your
feedback!
Design Team Inspiration
Let's see what our lovely new Design Team have created this month. If you love their projects this month, please visit their social links and follow them on your favourite social media.
ANN CHUANG
Visit Ann: BLOG - FACEBOOK - PINTEREST - INSTAGRAM
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ELLE - EOTC
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HEATHER MCMAHON
As time passes, one day we will be in those old photos of the
ancestors in our families, like this gorgeous one from ArtStacks.
I wonder what sort of world we will leave behind and what future
generations will know about us. We are all links in an endless
chain.
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HEIDI MATTESSICH
Here is my inspiration for the January Challenge. A little quote from
the Steve Miller Band was my inspiration.
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KAT PALECZNY
Hello, my page for the January challenge. In it I used the motivational slogan "don't waste time, the power is inside you". The beginning of the year can be a good time for any resolutions, so let's try to take action.
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KOUNELI
When I saw the theme, I immediately thought of the rabbit from Alice
in Wonderland.
So I drew this rabbit that runs after time. I made my background with stencils "clocks", structure paste and
spray inks. As I found the set a bit empty, I added a princess and in
opposition to the running rabbit, I put a snail.
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LENA BLANKENSTEIN HOLMSTROM
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LISA OXLEY
" Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and
precious life? "
This quote from a Deb Weiers Artstacks pack, evokes in
essence, the importance of TIME. I have symbolically
represented the theme, using various time pieces, throughout
the page.
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MATILDE FAB
Hello! Here is my page for the January Challenge. I didn't use
any clocks but I was inspired by the beautiful sentence - "Time is
a companion that goes with us on the journey. It reminds us to
cherish each moment because it will never come again. What we
leave behind is not as important as how we lived". I'd like to
emphasise this so I used some old photo and vintage colour
combo
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RACHEL MARTIN
When I saw the theme of the month, I thought of what is
timeless for me. First, I thought of childhood, then of the
friendship that lasts over time.
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SHARON FRITCHMAN
When I saw the theme for this month, I thought of Christmas because
everything about it is timeless to me. And I used a sweet ArtStacks
image as the focal point of my art journal page to go along with the
theme.
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SUNILA MAHAJAN
Time flies, it stops for no one. Year after year things happen
until one day when we wonder how we got here. In this journey, I
think it is so important to slow down and appreciate the little
things, as little as our morning coffee.
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Prizes & Special Guest Designers
This year we are very happy to welcome
ArtStacks Designs
as our prize sponsor.
ArtStacks will be donating one of their fabulous DigiStacks to the overall winner of each of our challenges this year. This will be a digital prize of one DigiStack to be downloaded from their online shop.
(This prize is not transferable or exchangeable for non-digital products.)
In addition, one or more participants, handpicked by our team, may be invited to be our Special Guest Designers, to be featured on our blog and promoted in our magazine and social media.
ArtStacks will be donating one of their fabulous DigiStacks to the overall winner of each of our challenges this year. This will be a digital prize of one DigiStack to be downloaded from their online shop.
(This prize is not transferable or exchangeable for non-digital products.)
In addition, one or more participants, handpicked by our team, may be invited to be our Special Guest Designers, to be featured on our blog and promoted in our magazine and social media.
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Thanks everyone for having me. I just stopped by to see if the new magazine was up. You all made such amazing pages about TIME! hugs-Erika
ReplyDeleteI'm leaving my first entry on the January theme. Thank you Elle for informing me about your challenges. Happy January everyone xx
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