I am delighted to have been
asked to be a Guest DT at the Path of Positivity
Challenge. If you have never come across this wonderful and uplifting
challenge you are missing out on a real treat. Lisa who runs it is a wonderful
lady and gives so much of her time to promote others. I am truly grateful to
have such a lovely friend.
The theme for this challenge is
‘Thoughtfulness’
There are
lots of lovely prizes for the entrants to win as follows:-
·
Ten digital images
from Creative Bug Digitals for the person out of the top seven who receives the
most votes during voting week.
·
Three digital
images from Ike's World for the post or project that the DT deems most
inspiring of the bunch.
·
$7 gift certificate
from Pickled Potpourri Designs, our guest sponsors this month, for a
person chosen in a random draw based on all eligible entrants.
·
One digital
designer paper from Décosse's Dynamite Doodles for one lucky voter who leaves a
comment.
·
One digital
sentiment for every single person who enters the challenge from Décosse'sDynamite Doodles as well.
This is my post for the halfway point and I was very
fortunate to be able to choose an image from Ike’s Art to work
with. I have used this fab image ‘Cognitive Thoughts’ which I was drawn to. I
love the expression on the face of the character and although I haven’t really
delved into the whole world of ‘Steampunk’ I just really liked how part of the
head is cut away to see the cogs churning inside our minds. I knew immediately that I had the perfect
paper to go with it. The swirly almost psychedelic nature of the pattern to me
was a direct relation to how our thoughts swirl in our mind. Also the black and
white colouring of the paper helps to make the subtle colouring of the image
spring out more. There was a lot of flesh with this one and it took a lot of
shading to get right.
The sentiment is a freebie word art from Random
Thoughts At Linda’s Place. I have been a follower of her blog for years and
she give so many freebies away, so very generous just like our own Lisa at DDD J
For this challenge
we want to see your projects and blog posts on the theme of Thoughtfulness.
This card is specifically made with a situation in mind
that happened to me in the last week and serves as a reminder that the person
who we should be most thoughtful towards is ourselves.
We all have inner voices, a good one and a bad one. The
bad one is where our negative self image lies, it festers and brings down our
confidence. It especially gets stronger when we are ill and tired, it waits for
cracks to appear in our armour and insinuates itself into our minds, constantly
churning up our thoughts and if not very careful can place such self doubt into
us that can take a long time to reverse. If we think bad thoughts about
ourselves it can be very damaging.
One person’s thoughtless comment to me on Tuesday caused
so much self doubt at a time when I felt ill equipped to be able to brush it
off. I became very upset and was reduced to tears at work. It had taken me days
of taking stock and thinking about the situation to realise that most of what I
felt was due to being ill. I have suffered with colds for 6 weeks since the
start of the year and I am so very tired.
The good voice had been drowned out by the bad voice and they
were having such a battle inside my head, the pattern in the paper really was
how my head was swirling. Having issue with mental health I know how much we
have to be kind to ourselves both body and mind. Sometimes when we are busy we
forget that and I was guilty of putting other people and situations first and
not giving myself chance to re-charge. Lesson learnt!
I’m okay now and have put it all into perspective.
However, it was a good reminder of how we all need to be thoughtful towards one
another. What to one person may be a flippant and off the cuff remark could be
the very thing that shatters someone else. Please be thoughtful towards one
another and think about what impact you are having on other people.
Materials
Used in this Project are as follows:-
Card
size – A5
Digi
Image – Cognitive Thoughts
from Ike’s Art
Sentiment
– Random Thoughts At Linda’s Place
Paper
– Papermania Licorice Pad
Embellishments –
moon and stars trim from local market haberdashery, felt and gem butterflies
from Poundland
I
would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical
Order):-
- Bunny Zoe – Monochrome
- Challenges 4 Everybody – #39 Anything Goes
- Crafty Hazelnut’s Patterned Paper – March Anything Goes
