Merry & Bright . . . for Challenge YOUrself and Art Journal Journey Monthly!

 Hi everyone.  It's December and time for a new challenge at Challenge YOUrself:

Challenge YOUrself #132 opened on December 7th and closes on January 4th, 2025:

This month's challenge is Anything Goes.  You can make your page about anything you like, but as always, please remember to include at least one photo of YOU!

Here is the mixed media scrapbook page that I made for this challenge:

When making my scrapbook pages, I  try to create my projects based on a photo or group of photos that mean something to me.  This photo is a memory of a wonderful get-together I had 3 years ago with college friends.  

For the challenge, I used lots pf patterned paper from the Doodlebug Designs "Let it Snow" collection.  I used lots of white die-cut snow flakes, too. 

And I was inspired by a layout I saw on IG, made by Jenny @scrappinhappystudio on November 15th. Head over to IG to see her beautiful page!

I hope you get a chance to check out  Challenge YOUrself this month!  We would love to see YOUR  projects.

I am very excited to have been asked to be the host of Art Journal Journey Monthly for the month of December:

It is my first time hosting and I have been having a blast doing it so far!

Here is a little bit about Art Journal Journey Monthly:

"Each month there is a new challenge theme for you to take part in. Our participants are art-journalers, altered book artists, rubber stamp addicts, and mixed media artists from all over the world. You are invited to take part by linking via the Link tool on their site.  

Please be considerate and remember that greeting cards, ATCs, and tags will not be accepted unless they are part of your journal page, and we will be forced to delete the link.  

However, as of November 1, 2021, we are no longer limiting the size of the journal or journal pages.  If you want to create a mini journal, it will be accepted.  However, it must look like a journal and not a card or tag.

Artwork created in an art journal, altered book, on canvas, or loose pages as well as digital and fabric art of any size are now acceptable."

I chose the theme of SNOW for this month.  As you can see on my scrapbook page, I used lots of examples of snow:  like snow flakes, a snow man, and snow covered trees.   

I hope you get a chance to head over to Art Journal Journey Monthly, not only to participate in this month's challenge, but also to see all of the amazing entries. 

Thank you so much for stopping by my blog today.  Happy December!