Friday, March 31, 2006

A challenge

So Amy Maher has been participating in Rhonna Farrer's hugely successful 21-day art challenge. I've been checking in on Amy's awesome creations and felt completely inspired by this new challenge. I usually do scrapbook layouts, composition books or cards, but have been wanting to do more random art stuff using all my supplies. I bought a huge blank book 2 years ago, then decorated the outside of it last year, but hadn't put anything inside it until today. I took the book with me to Michelle's house today and we both ended up creating pages that went along with the Day 1 quote of Rhonna's challenge. We're not posting on her site, but figured we'd post them on our own blogs just to share them with you all. Check out Michelle's blog for her page too.

I fear my page didn't scan really well. It's an odd sized paper, but I suppose it's good enough for you to be able to see what I did. It was a real stretch for me to use my own handwriting, and definitely a stretch to just start sticking things down without planning everything. It was fun, and only took about an hour and a half (very fast for me).

**What do you think?**

Here is the original quote that my page was based on.

"I am thoroughly convinced that if we don't set goals in our life & learn how to master the technique of living to reach our goals, we can reach a ripe old age and look back on our life only to see that we reached but a small part of our full potential. When you learn to
master the principle of setting a goal, you will then be able to make a great difference in the results you attain in this life."
M. Russell Ballard

{Click here to see the outside cover of my art notebook.}

7 comments:

michelle said...

Love it, love it, love it! I'm so proud of us for finally taking the plunge.

amy gretchen said...

this is awesome. I really like it and am glad you are doing it. Isn't it liberating? Hope to see more.

jt said...

LOVE it! I love how free both of the pages are.. I love it. Very "doodley"! I want to start the challenge, but I don't have nay kind of book or money to buy a book. I think I will copy the quotes for later use...

Amie said...

I am tempted...as usual...

It turned out really good and I am glad I got the chance to see it in person. You should post a picture of the whole book, I really liked the book you are using!

becca said...

I Love it! What a great challenge, what a fantastic way to express yourself!

everything pink! said...

Jill. i love it. i am extremely jealous of you and michelle having a date and time to do this together.

Green with envy!

jenn said...

really great and different from you! keep posting.