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*** Winner Announced *** March 2026 - Art Journal Muse Challenge

Gaelle

Gaelle

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Hello ! Welcome to the March Art Journal Muse Challenge ! I'm very excited to host my first challenge here.

I would love to celebrate the month of March by layering your favourite black silhouette over a vintage paper collage background, evoking renewal, or early spring vibes like budding nature.

Here are a few examples that inspired me to take on this challenge :
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For our challenge this month:
1. Create a collage background paper, we need to see the different layers of paper. Pre-made collage papers are not allowed.
2. Place a large black silhouette (person or animal) on your collage. It's okay to desaturate an element to make it black.


my page :

Quietly watching

Quietly watching

Art Journaling Muse Challenge | March 2026

credits :
Rachel Jefferies & Lynn Grieveson : Hear my Voice 31 | Watching . collection
Rachel Jefferies : Messy Threads 06
Hear my Voice 31 | watching . collection https://the-lilypad.com/store/hear-my-voice-31-watching-digital-scrapbooking-collection/
Messy Threads 06 https://the-lilypad.com/store/messy-threads-6/


Our shop has some fun silhouette product if you are looking :

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https://the-lilypad.com/store/a-caught-snowflake-brushes/


joycepaul-wildwood_tales-preview-bsc-1.jpg

https://the-lilypad.com/store/wildwood-tales-cutouts/


lgrieveson-flutterbys-ep-preview.jpg

https://the-lilypad.com/store/flutterbys-brushes-and-stamps/


rjefferies-inglewood-stamps800-TLP-1.jpg

https://the-lilypad.com/store/inglewood-botanical-stamps-and-brush-set/



Challenge requirements:

  • Follow the challenge rules listed above.
  • Your creation can be all digital or hybrid.
  • As always you need to include TLP products on your page and meet the requirements to post in the TLP gallery - Layouts must contain at least 50% TLP products; Uploads must be less than 250k; List all credits; no off-site linking allowed.
  • Please post your layout to the Art Journaling Gallery prior to Midnight EST 31 March 2026 and then post it in this thread. (Directions below on adding a layout to this thread.)
We will draw a winner at the beginning of next month for a coupon !! Every page you create is equal to one entry in the random draw. So, if you create 1 page you are entered once, if you create 2 pages you are entered 2 times and so on. (Maximum of four entries.)

Now go have fun and I can't wait to see what you create.



How to add a linked layout to this thread :

Please link pages in the forum threads for challenges with the Copy GALLERY BB code


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Gaelle! I went over all the challenges yesterday, real quick. I like to ponder them for a bit and then begin creating! This challenge woke me at 4:47am! I usually am up at 5am, but I awoke knowing what I wanted to do! Thank you, what a fantastic beginning to a long time as a POLLY and inspiring others to create from their heart! I had a blast!
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I spent hours this morning walking away and then coming back. I had a blast. My life in Christ...
 
AnneofAlamo said:
Gaelle! I went over all the challenges yesterday, real quick. I like to ponder them for a bit and then begin creating! This challenge woke me at 4:47am! I usually am up at 5am, but I awoke knowing what I wanted to do! Thank you, what a fantastic beginning to a long time as a POLLY and inspiring others to create from their heart! I had a blast!
all-things-give-thanks-aj-challenge-march-copy.jpg

all-things-give-thanks-aj-challenge-march-copy.jpg

I spent hours this morning walking away and then coming back. I had a blast. My life in Christ...
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So happy you liked my challenge ! Thank you for your kind comment.
 
Here is mine Gaelle, thanks for the challenge! :)

The background collage was made with the following papers:
Polka dot - Sprout Paper
Floral - Bedtime Stories
Script (bottom left) - Season's Greetings
Plain (bottom right) - Bedtime Stories

All credits are in the gallery.

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wombat146 said:
Here is mine Gaelle, thanks for the challenge! :)

The background collage was made with the following papers:
Polka dot - Sprout Paper
Floral - Bedtime Stories
Script (bottom left) - Season's Greetings
Plain (bottom right) - Bedtime Stories

All credits are in the gallery.

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beautiful, except you forgot to link to the gallery.
 
this is what happens when you search your stash for "paperpiece" (credits in gallery). I did use Joyce Paul's sketched characters from the Between the Lines collection, I added a layer on top of it and painted in with just a black brush -- I let some of the bottom sketched lines remain visible. It was an experiment.

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For the March Art Journaling Muse challenge...
 
Thank you ladies for all your beautiful pages.

This challenge is closed, I will come back very soon with the name of the winner.
 
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