Monthly Muse April 2017 -Week 2

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  1. Dalis

    Dalis Jose Cuervo is NOT a good friend

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    Welcome to the Art Journaling Monthly Muse!
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    Muse:
    verb: to reflect deeply on something

    noun: the source of artistic inspiration

    Hi everyone! I am posting in Kimberlee's behave since she is having some internet issues.

    In January we introduced a little taste of our new Monthly Muse Challenges. In simple words, 4 weeks = UP TO 4 challenges to help you dig into your soul or just have fun. This month Kimberly picked a very special MUSE....

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    Our Muse for this month: Mother Earth/Earth Mother​

    This week's inspiration is... Texture (stitches, gesso, woodgrain)

    Here is my page for this week, I hope it inspires you to take a chance and make a page.
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    Available still are the template set from @Scrapping with Liz if you decide to go the "Skinny" route, but of course you don't have to you could make a full page. If you do decide to go for the Skinnies but haven't got the template from last month, you can find the templates available HERE. In addition @cfile created one cool triangle template that you could use (Christa's awesome template is HERE on PSD- let us know if you need any other format!).

    Once you are ready to share your page make sure you added to the Art Journaling Gallery HERE and then post it in this thread. To do so, copy the 3rd link on the right hand side of your LO, the one that reads :
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    and just paste the copied link into your text
    in the post DO NOT use any icons, no need to click on anything, just copy on the link, then paste it here in your text! :) Thanks to Margaret @londoncuppa for calling attention to this!
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    We will draw a winner at the beginning of next month, even more incentives for your inspiration! You can use any products in The Lilypad store, make sure you follow our gallery guidelines. Pages are due last day of the month.

    If you have any questions at all, feel free to ask!!!
     
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  2. dancingJaye

    dancingJaye Well-Known Member

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    Love it! I have ideas swirling in my head, I just need to get them down.
     
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  3. Pups_r_Paps

    Pups_r_Paps Well-Known Member

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    My highly textured ATC for this week's challenge:

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  5. flowersgal

    flowersgal I have big ears and wide arms

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    Week 2 is upper right hand square.
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  6. Dalis

    Dalis Jose Cuervo is NOT a good friend

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    My week #2:

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  7. Mylinn

    Mylinn What's that old bat up to now??

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    *blissful sigh* I so love this challenge!
    And I confess, hand on my heart, I flat out stole the idea of overlapping a yet unfilled skinny from @tinkerbell1112 without doing any damage to my wrist or brain, lol. Ty @tinkerbell1112 !

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    tinkerbell1112 Offical Ambassador of the Magic Kingdom

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    KAPOH Well-Known Member

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    WEEK 2'S ATC:
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    WEEK 1'S ATC:
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    sbpoet Well-Known Member

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    tinkerbell1112 Offical Ambassador of the Magic Kingdom

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    @Dalis other than wood grain, nature, and stitching the theme can be anything? or is it sill strong women/women's strength?

    I just went with my gut - Wanted to finish before I had to go to the school, golf, swimming...sigh.

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    dotcomkari The Deaf Superstar

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  13. mimisgirl

    mimisgirl It's all about ME!

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    The Muse for the month is Mother Nature - so the inspiration for this week - wood grain, texture stitching can go any direction you want - we are just using Mother Nature as a starting place to find inspiration - the women's strength was last week's inspiration - but you are welcome to continue to incorporate it if you like - we are going for flexible

    And I think your take is perfect!
     
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  14. Dalis

    Dalis Jose Cuervo is NOT a good friend

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    Our MUSE is still Mother nature and now you are adding texture. You can let it inspire you in which ever way it does.
     
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    tinkerbell1112 Offical Ambassador of the Magic Kingdom

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    @Dalis and @mimisgirl - I think I'm following now. I am NOT a creative person by nature and so a MUSE is a totally new concept (though I do know what they are - I highly doubt anything I've ever really done has been inspired by one. LOL)
     
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  16. mcurtt

    mcurtt give me all the paleo brownies

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    I may have gotten a bit carried away...

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  17. Dalis

    Dalis Jose Cuervo is NOT a good friend

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    We are pretty open in terms of interpretation, I sit down with a MUSE or INSPIRATION in my head but that doesn't mean that is going to look anything like what I am thinking.
     
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    dancingJaye Well-Known Member

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    I just LOVE this challenge!!!
    I didn't get last week's muse done on time, so I'm doing them both now.

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    Electra Shutterbug

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    I'm so glad I found this Art Journaling thread, I am really enjoying this!
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  20. Rikki

    Rikki Next I'm going to look up naughty limericks

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    I tried to seamless continue week 1

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