Week 2-Where U BE Now? challenge AJ

Welcome BACK to the July Art Journaling Chat and Challenge!
Once again I want to give a shout out to this month's sponsors:

The YaYeahs!

These two talented ladies, Christine and Aja create wonderful designs that are perfect for art journaling too!
Ya Yeah Designs is the artistic vision of creative duo Aja Abney and Christine Honsinger.
With a focus on imaginative elements, whimsical color choices and hand-made, hand-drawn art, Ya Yeah create scrapbooking kits that help you tell your stories, one page at a time!

I love their blog too! See it HERE

They describe their designs as digital trinkets for creative storytelling! Is not exactly what we do?

If you want a free taste of their style, go to their facebook page

and LIKE them (that is easy) and then look for the Free Gift button.

They are guesting here at the-Lily Pad and are such a perfect fit, I hope you enjoy them too!

They will be providing a participation gift to all that complete the months challenge, and a Gift Certificate to one lucky randomly generated participant that also has completed the 4 challenges.

Now, the challenge!
Thank you to Dalis for stepping up and being so awesome in hosting the chat, and I hope you all love her as much as I do, and enjoyed her too!
I will be back tomorrow!


This months challenge is the brainstorm of a woman I greatly admire as an artist in the art journal world. Her name is Edeena, and you may know her as naughtsncrosses. She put this together, really, and has great inspiration for us.

The title for the challenge:

Home is where the HE♥Art is! Heart and Art, kinda play on words! Get it? Yeah I take advantage of words whenever possible!

So, we are going to be building houses some of the weeks,and doing something else to completely throw us into creativity and happy on the others. Keeping you on your toes is part of the challenge!

This week, we begin with another house.
But not just any house, an alter house that represents the home you are in right now, as where you are sitting as you read this!

Edeena made these cool example for you to choose from. Pick one of the houses if you want:

You can save the image and cut out, or make your own house template.

I just made an arrow and had it pointed it up and it was the perfect template for me.
The shape should be like a house! A triangle on top of a square or rectangle.
Here is my representation of the house I am in right now! With all it's craziness

and here is dear Edeena's masterpiece:


You can make it as big or little as you want, but NO, please, I repeat, NO background!
I am getting tough! Bhwaahha...the house is the challenge, and you MAY need this house in the weeks to come.

These don't have to be literal houses - you don't need to go cutting up photos to find doorknobs, doors, windows, etc unless you want to. These can be emotional representations. They can be photographic memories. They can be anything you'd like, as long as they represent this stage of your home, YOUR Childhood home.

Trawl through your TLP stash - remember, you need to keep your journaling pieces compliant with the gallery rules:



Everyone who completes the 4 in one challenge will receive a gift from the lovely YaYeahs! this month!All entries are to be completed by July 31rd, 2013, midnight EDT. Please post your Entries in the Art Journaling gallery HERE

and to make prize handouts easier for me, I have made a
thread for your page parts also right here. I will use that thread to keep track of those that complete in order to send the participation prize and to RaNDom Generate a number for the big winner of gift certificate!

If you have any questions, pop them here, I will check it often and try to help, encourage and smile!

 

bwhaha....Anne is ecstatic about rules being broke! lol....just back from vacation going thru the gallery and reading the forums and email over dose! lol

 

tee hee...christa is putting up a whole neighborhood! lol

 

You can reorientate any way you desire...enjoy and create!

 

woo hoo! and a big ol' Welcome to the Lily-Pad! can't wait to see your house!!