Fall Fearless and Fly with Nathalie Kalbach

Fall Fearless and Fly with Nathalie Kalbach!

Headline prompt:  Radical to Mundane and to Radical Again:  What once seemed new that now feels old and boring?  How can you see it as new again?  How do you "jump charge" creativity when you're feeling stuck?
Color:  black & neons - bold contrasts
Quote:  Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.  Bill Moyers

Welcome Nathalie Kalbach!   Thank you for sharing  your journal page with us!


Nathalie: I loved this prompt. I was inspired to think about the quote and also about how things that were once old and boring can feel new and different again. I strive to find new or different lives for my supplies and tools. I tend to try to use whatever I have around in my studio, and combine it with something unexpected. Whenever I feel a product or a tool is not really doing it for me anymore, I try to use it in a different way. Just that playing also jump-starts me in my creativity.  I either find a new way to play with the supplies I have at hand, or at least I invite my muse mojo to start playing, and that sometimes leads to the right mood to create something new.

In this art journal page I played with an old paper overlay.  I had several similar ones, and they have been used in so many projects years ago that I felt them to be overused by me.  Now they come in handy as stencils and masks, and I already see myself using the sprayed, now textured pieces after a while being torn up and used as additions to canvases.

It is the striving to use the things already in hand in different ways that make you find the unexpected and breathtaking new things ... just do ... you will be amazed!

Nathalie Kalbach is a European Mixed Media Scrapbooker. Her layered work is an explosion of texture, dimension and jewel tone colors.
In her many online workshops, called "Uber*Media," Nathalie generously shares her secrets for using paint and ink products to reveal texture, tips and tricks for embedding found objects and embellishments and how to unlock your personal creativity.  Many of her workshops are open right now, including Über*Media -PanPastel, -Acrylic Paint, -Gesso, -Acrylic Ink and -FoamStamplifier.  (I, Carolyn, have taken her PanPastel class and loved it! She is inspiring and a natural teacher!)  Nathalie loves to design, teach and write — doing all of it wholeheartedly. She also loves to read and travel.

Prizes! Everyone who links up their take on challenge 8 by Sunday, January 27th,  will be entered to win a $50 gift certificate for PanPastels!  The PanPastel website is full of videos, techniques and a gallery full of amazing art!  Check out all you can do with PanPastels!







What will you do in response to the eighth challenge?  Did you know it is our last Fall Fearless & Fly?  Here are the rules:

• You may participate in one or all of the challenges.
• Use one, two or all of the prompts.
• Use any media -- art journal, scrapbook, canvas, watercolor, quilting, you name it!  This is "Anything Goes" as far as your creativity is concerned.
• Link up by Sunday, January 27, to be eligible to win a $50 gift certificate for PanPastels!  !   Go over to Jessica's blog to comment, and be eligible for a giveaway there too!
• You may link up to 2 times, but please only link up to work prepared for this challenge.  If not, we will remove your link. Please post the url of your blog post or flickr page that's specific to this challenge, rather than a general blog address.  And please tell us how your work relates to the challenge!
• Each time you participate, visit at least 3 other links and leave loving words!
• All challenge participants are welcome to join our private Facebook group as a place to talk about your journey and whatever is coming up for you as you work on the challenges.   As it is private, just request to join and we'll give you access. 

To recap, here is the 8th challenge:

Headline prompt:  Radical to Mundane and to Radical Again:  What once seemed new that now feels old and boring?  How can you see it as new again?  How do you "jump charge" creativity when you're feeling stuck?
Color:  black & neons - bold contrasts
Quote:  Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.  Bill Moyers

Congratulations to Linda K., the lucky winner of our Fall Fearless & Fly challenge #7, chosen by the random generator at Random.org!   You have won a $35 gift certificate to LuminArte!   Please email your address to acolorfuljourney (at) gmail (dot) com for your prize!

And on Monday, January 28, check in for the winner of this challenge!

Looking forward to seeing your wonderful work!
Carolyn Dube and Jessica Sporn

PS:  We just want to say that we've had a wonderful time hosting this challenge.  Thank you Marcia for giving us this opportunity!  We've met so many wonderful artists and have grown a lot in our own art as well.  In the comments, please let us know if you'd like us to repeat Fall Fearless and Fly next fall, any suggestions you have for the next time, and generally anything else you'd like to share about the experience of participating in Fall Fearless & Fly!

Fall Fearless and Fly Challenge #7

Fall Fearless and Fly with Joanne Sharpe!

Headline Prompt:  Future Imperfect: What is different about your life now than what you once expected it to be?  How is the way it turned out perfect or imperfect.  If your future turns out differently than you imagined in the first prompt, could it still be perfect?
Color Prompt: Yellow
Quote Prompt: "Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present."  Friedrich Nietsche

Welcome Joanne Sharpe!   Thank you for sharing  your journal page with us!

Joanne:  This is a perfect theme for me, as my personal creative life mantra is "she is perfectly imperfect".  No words speak to me greater than these.  There was a time in my life when everything I did had to be obsessively without error or imperfection.  I think having 4 children in 3 ½ years dashed all the reality of living in a perfect state. (In March of 1989 I had a 3 year old daughter, an 11 month old son and brought home twin baby boys!)  I learned that life is messy sometimes, in so many ways and at times demands inner strength that we had no idea existed.

My life IS perfect in it’s imperfections.  I am very blessed.  It’s perfect in all the joys, my family, my career, my home as well as the struggles and disappointments.  Life is what it is, and we make our own perfection.  The word “perfect” has a formal definition: it means entirely without any flaws, defects, or shortcomings.  To me, that certainly doesn’t describe my life!  I think we have to define and own our personal perfection.  Sometimes that perfection is messy, as it is in my current art, where I am much more free with my paint and expression. 

I’m a huge believer of “living in intention;" that we make our own luck and happiness.  My future is determined in my thoughts, hard work and faith.  If I put in the work and efforts that need to make my dreams real, my future is determined by what I imagine.  And on the way to my dreams, I have found that more often than not, bigger and better things come along that I could never have imagined! I embrace my perfectly imperfect life and celebrate my blessings with the power and energy of the color yellow used in this journal page.

Color Prompt: Yellow

In this journal page, I chose to make a collage of “yellow” focusing on the quote.  The message supported my favorite mantra perfectly, “she is perfectly imperfect”.  Every journal page that I create has a message, it’s where I grow my love for hand lettering.
 

“Whimsical art maker” Joanne Sharpe is a colorful mixed media artist and enthusiastic teacher with a passion for art journaling, lettering, doodling and illustration. Joanne’s playful art has been featured in the popular publications Cloth Paper Scissors, Studios, Somerset Studio, Somerset Art Journaling and Somerset Apprentice magazines. In addition to teaching nationwide, she has been licensing artwork to the craft, fabric and giftware markets for two decades. Joanne resides in Rochester, New York.

 
Prizes! Everyone who links up their take on challenge 7 by Sunday, January 9th,  will be entered to win a $35 gift certificate to LuminArte!  Their store is DreamingColor.com.  They are the creators of Twinkling H2O's, Silks, Radiant Rain and more! 
 


What will you do in response to the seventh challenge?  Here are the rules:

• You may participate in one or all of the challenges.
• Use one, two or all of the prompts.
• Use any media -- art journal, scrapbook, canvas, watercolor, quilting, you name it!  This is "Anything Goes" as far as your creativity is concerned.
• Link up by Sunday, January 9, to be eligible to win a $35 gift certificate to Luminarte!   Go over to Jessica's blog to comment, and be eligible for a giveaway there too!
• You may link up to 2 times, but please only link up to work prepared for this challenge.  If not, we will remove your link. Please post the url of your blog post or flickr page that's specific to this challenge, rather than a general blog address.  And please tell us how your work relates to the challenge!
• Each time you participate, visit at least 3 other links and leave loving words!
• All challenge participants are welcome to join our private Facebook group as a place to talk about your journey and whatever is coming up for you as you work on the challenges.   As it is private, just request to join and we'll give you access. 

To recap, here is the 7th challenge:

Headline Prompt:  Future Imperfect: What is different about your life now than what you once expected it to be?  How is the way it turned out perfect or imperfect.  If your future turns out differently than you imagined in the first prompt, could it still be perfect?
Color Prompt: Yellow
Quote Prompt: "Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present."  Friedrich Nietsche

Congratulations to Daire, the lucky winner of our Fall Fearless & Fly challenge #6, chosen by the random generator at Random.org!   You have won  a $25 gift certificate from Blue Moon Scrapbooking!  Please email your address to acolorfuljourney (at) gmail (dot) com for your prize!

And on Monday, January 10, check in for Challenge #8 with the fabulous Nathalie Kalbach-- our very last Fall Fearless & Fly challenge to usher in 2013 -- and the winner of this challenge!

Looking forward to seeing your wonderful work!
Carolyn Dube and Jessica Sporn

Fall Fearless & Fly Challenge #6

Fall Fearless and Fly with Dina Wakley!

Headline Prompt:  Divided by God:  What does "God" mean to you?  How do you access"God" or the divine or the sacred in your life?
Color Prompt: Metallics - gold, silver, copper, bronze, or all of them!
Quote Prompt: "This is my simple religion.  There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy.  Our own brain, our own heart, is our temple; the philosophy is kindness."  The Dalai Lama 

Welcome Dina Wakley and thank you for sharing your fabulous art journal page!

Dina: The prompts asks, "What does God mean to you?" I'm a spiritual person. I feel deeply. My feelings about God can be summarized in the simple phrase, "I am a believer."

My page started with inky blots and stencils on the page. I used a new stencil that I am coming out with, "Church Windows." The designs come from various photos of real church windows that I have taken in my travels. I love to visit places of worship: Buddhist, Christian, Jewish, it doesn't matter. I find it inspiring to be in places where people spill out their devotions and honor their beliefs.

I wasn't loving the way the stencils looked, so I gesso'd over the entire page. The images ghosted through the gesso and are a great, textured background. I added some gold paint over the gesso. I drew the woman on the left with a Stabilo Marks All pencil and filled her in slightly with Titanium white paint. Then I stenciled one of the church windows on another piece of paper with Wendy Vecchi's new Embossing Paste. I inked over it, let it dry, and cut it out. I put the window on the right side of the page spread. My journaling spreads across both pages and connects the woman and the window.  

I cut the hearts from a failed gelatin print. I never throw away my "eh" pieces of art. I cut them up and use them as collage papers.

Dina Wakley lives in Glendale, AZ with her husband and three sons. She started scrapping in 1995 when her first son was 6 months old. Her scrapbooking took an artsy turn when she discovered mixed media collage.

Now, she dabbles in mixed media collage, visual journaling, and encaustic art. Dina has kept a journal since she was nine years old, so combining words and photos and art was a natural progression.  Dina has a line of stencils with The Crafter's Workshop, and her own stamp line with Stampington.  She teaches all over the world, and also offers many online classes.  She is the author of the soon to be released book, Art Journal Freedom:  How to Journal Creatively With Color and Composition, available February 2013.

Dina shares more about her work and life on her blog: Ponderings.   Thank You Dina!!

Prizes! Everyone who joins in will be entered to win a Blue Moon Scrapbooking gift certificate! 

Blue Moon Scrapbooking  has generously provided a $25 gift certificate for this week!  They have a wonderful selection of Dina's stencils and her rubber stamps!  

What will you do in response to the sixth challenge?  Here are the rules:

• You may participate in one or all of the challenges.
• Use one, two or all of the prompts.
• Use any media -- art journal, scrapbook, canvas, watercolor, quilting, you name it!  This is "Anything Goes" as far as your creativity is concerned.
• Link up by Sunday, December 30, to be eligible to win a $25 gift certificate to Blue Moon Scrapbooking!   Go over to Jessica's blog to comment, and be eligible for a giveaway there too!
• You may link up to 2 times, but please only link up to work prepared for this challenge.  If not, we will remove your link. Please post the url of your blog post or flickr page that's specific to this challenge, rather than a general blog address.  And please tell us how your work relates to the challenge!
• Each time you participate, visit at least 3 other links and leave loving words!
• All challenge participants are welcome to join our private Facebook group as a place to talk about your journey and whatever is coming up for you as you work on the challenges.   As it is private, just request to join and we'll give you access. 

To recap, here is the 6th challenge:

Headline Prompt:  Divided by God:  What does "God" mean to you?  How do you access"God" or the divine or the sacred in your life?
Color Prompt: Metallics - gold, silver, copper, bronze, or all of them!
Quote Prompt: "This is my simple religion.  There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy.  Our own brain, our own heart, is our temple; the philosophy is kindness."  The Dalai Lama

Congratulations to Carly at True Color, the lucky winner of our Fall Fearless & Fly challenge #5, chosen by the random generator at Random.org!   You have won a packet of fabulous paper ephemera from Marcia, and a $25 gift certificate from Blue Moon Scrapbooking!  Please email your address to acolorfuljourney (at) gmail (dot) com for your prize!

And on Monday, December 31, check in for Challenge #7 with the fabulous Joanne Sharpe, and the winner of this challenge!

Looking forward to seeing your wonderful work!
Carolyn Dube and Jessica Sporn

Fall Fearless and Fly #5

Fall Fearless and Fly with Marcia Beckett!

Headline Prompt:  Lifelong Fan:  What or who have you consistently valued or looked up to in your life?  What lessons have you learned from people you admire?
Color Prompt:  Your favorite color now or from childhood or both!
Quote Prompt: "Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator; but among those whom I love, I can:  all of them make me laugh."  W.H.Auden
Welcome Marcia Beckett and thank you for sharing your fabulous art journal page!

Marcia: I created a mixed media art journal page using the headline prompt of people I looked up to.  I have always looked up to my teachers and especially my art teachers.  I had a professor in college who really encouraged me to pursue art as my major, although I had never thought I would be able to make art a career.  I decided to major in art education, and the professors I had were amazing.  The courses were really thorough, rigorous and grounded in art education theory as well as practical teaching strategies.  I don't think I would have been prepared at all for teaching without the education I received.  The art education professors I had were very professional and encouraged us to become involved in our own professional development.  They stressed the importance of being involved in art education associations on a state and national level.  With our art ed. classes, we traveled to many art workshops and art educator conferences.

Several years ago, I bought a vintage art education textbook off of Ebay.  I cut out and photocopied two of the images to play around with while doing this challenge.  The first was a poem that read, "Of children so glad they 're learning to draw, aren't they the happiest ones you ever saw?"  The other was a row of children with the text reading "How many historical figures have we drawn?  Let us draw each other." 

I chose the shell image because one of my professors was a ceramicist who used shells in all of her work.  She would press the shells into the sides of her pots and use them as a textural element.  I think it had something to do with where she grew up.  Anyway, she came to my wedding (6 years ago) and as a wedding gift she gave me one of her lovely pots (with shell imprints on the sides), and it is sitting in our display cabinet in our living room. 

I think I have discovered a new theme to explore in my artwork:  creating art about teaching art to children!

Marcia Beckett is an art teacher, mixed-mixed media artist, observer, collector, and dabbler in all kinds of art.  Teaching art and sharing her love of creativity is her passion.  Young children are uninhibited and have the spontaneity and the playfulness we all desire. Her teaching blog, which chronicles her adventures teaching elementary school art, is called Art is Basic.   She hosts a group to bring together artists who blog: Artists in Blogland.  Yes, this site!   It is a fun group that shares artwork each week, hosts challenge (ahem!) and spotlights creative people.  
 
You can  find Marcia in many places!  
Art Teaching Blog: http://vividlayers.blogspot.com
Art Journaling, Mixed Media and more:  http://marciabeckett.blogspot.com
Etsy Shop:  http://www.etsy.com/shop/marciabeckett

She is  also a contributing editor to Featuring, a print magazine.

Prizes! Everyone who joins in will be entered to win fabulous goodies!  We'll randomly draw one name to win it all this week!  From Marcia, we have a packet of paper ephemera (vintage imagery, text, scrapbooking papers and embellishments).  You can check out all her goodies in her Etsy shop here.

Blue Moon Scrapbooking  has generously provided a $25 gift certificate for this week!  They have a wonderful selection of scrapbooking and mixed media supplies!  

What will you do in response to the fifth challenge?  Here are the rules:

• You may participate in one or all of the challenges.
• Use one, two or all of the prompts.
• Use any media -- art journal, scrapbook, canvas, watercolor, quilting, you name it!  This is "Anything Goes" as far as your creativity is concerned.
• Link up by Sunday, December 9, to be eligible to win fabulous prizes!  One winner will receive a $25 gift certificate from Blue Moon Scrapbooking  and a packet of paper ephemera with vintage imagery, text, scrapbooking papers and embellishments from Marcia Beckett!  Go over to Jessica's blog to comment, and be eligible for a giveaway there too!
• You may link up to 2 times, but please only link up to work prepared for this challenge.  If not, we will remove your link. Please post the url of your blog post or flickr page that's specific to this challenge, rather than a general blog address.  And please tell us how your work relates to the challenge!
• Each time you participate, visit at least 3 other links and leave loving words!
• All challenge participants are welcome to join our private Facebook group as a place to talk about your journey and whatever is coming up for you as you work on the challenges.   As it is private, just request to join and we'll give you access. 

To recap, here is the 5th challenge:

Headline Prompt:  Lifelong Fan:  What or who have you consistently valued or looked up to in your life?  What lessons have you learned from people you admire?
Color Prompt:  Your favorite color now or from childhood or both!
Quote Prompt: "Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator; but among those whom I love, I can:  all of them make me laugh."  W.H.Auden

Congratulations to  Tracy and  Missy K the lucky winners of our Fall Fearless & Fly challenge #4, chosen by the random generator at Random.org!   You each have each won a $35 gift certificate to Dreaming Color, the home of Twinkling H2O's and Silks!  Please email your address to acolorfuljourney (at) gmail (dot) com for your prize!

And on Monday, December 10, check in for Challenge #6, and the winner of this challenge!

Looking forward to seeing your wonderful work!
Carolyn Dube and Jessica Sporn

Fall Fearless & Fly, Challenge 4

Fall Fearless and Fly with Maria McGuire!

Headline Prompt:  Security:  What makes you feel safe and secure?  What rattles your sense of security?  Where do you go for comfort and refuge?
Color Prompt:  Cool colors (blues, greens, violets, etc.) 

Quote Prompt: You can't make a place for yourself in the sun if you keep taking refuge under the family tree.  Helen Keller

Welcome  Maria McGuire, and thank you for sharing your heartfelt page with us.

Maria:  I’m so happy that Carolyn and Jessica asked me to Guest Design today.  I think I used a little of all three prompts in my piece.

  

The color was easy. I have been a little addicted to my Gelli Plate lately so I chose a print I had made with the color theme.

Next I decided to use a few of my paper towels that I kept from a day of play with my Gelli Plate for  the first prompt: Where do I feel safe and secure?  My immediate answer: In my home, late in the night, when everyone is sleeping. I feel like the day is finally done and hopefully nothing will happen in the still of the night. I wait for this time everyday.  My home is also where I go when I want to “hide” from the world.

My paper towels transformed themselves into a house. I don’t have a free motion foot (although it is on my wish list), so I just sewed over the pieces the best I could to give the house a little more personality. Then the last prompt—the quote. This is where the sun came from in my piece. This quote really had meaning for me at this time in my life. It reminded me that if I don’t take some chances and let go of the fear, I will always be stuck in the same place.

My letters were all hand cut but I didn’t draw them out first. I think it a good lesson in visualization for myself to try to “see” the letters as I cut them. 

Hands … to me they represent safety, so I wanted them to hold my house. Working off a pair of hands I saw in a magazine, I painted them and slid my house in place.

Mixed Media, Art, Scrapbooking and Designing are a huge part of Maria McGuire's life!  Maria lives in Illinois with her husband and two teenagers.  Visit Maria at her blog: Believe, Dream, Create with Maria.

Thank you MARIA, for your beautiful and insightful take on this challenge!  

Everyone who links up their take on challenge 4 by Sunday, November 25 will be entered to win a $35 gift certificate to LuminArte!  Their store is DreamingColor.com  They are the creators of Twinkling H2O's, Silks, Radiant Rain and more!  As a bonus this week we will have 2, yes 2, winners!  Thank you LuminArte for your generosity!  

What will you do in response to the fourth challenge?  Here are the rules:

• You may participate in one or all of the challenges.
• Use one, two or all of the prompts.
• Use any media -- art journal, scrapbook, canvas, watercolor, quilting, you name it!  This is "Anything Goes" as far as your creativity is concerned.
• Link up by Sunday, November 25 to be eligible to win one of 2 gift certificates from LuminArte!  Go over to Jessica's blog to comment, and be eligible for a giveaway there too!
• You may link up to 2 times, but please only link up to work prepared for this challenge.  If not, we will remove your link. Please post the url of your blog post or flickr page that's specific to this challenge, rather than a general blog address.  And please tell us how your work relates to the challenge!
• Each time you participate, visit at least 3 other links and leave loving words!
• All challenge participants are welcome to join our private Facebook group as a place to talk about your journey and whatever is coming up for you as you work on the challenges.   As it is private, just request to join and we'll give you access. 

To recap, here is the 4th challenge:

Headline Prompt:  Security:  What makes you feel safe and secure?  What rattles your sense of security?  Where do you go for comfort and refuge?
Color Prompt:  Cool colors (blues, greens, violets, etc.) 
Quote Prompt: You can't make a place for yourself in the sun if you keep taking refuge under the family tree.  Helen Keller

Congratulations to Mitzi Zohar, the lucky winner of our Fall Fearless & Fly challenge #3, chosen by the random generator at Random.org!   Please email your address to corspokoli at gmail dot com for your prize!

And on Monday, November 26, check in for Challenge #5, and the winner of this challenge!

Looking forward to seeing your wonderful work!
Carolyn Dube and Jessica Sporn

Fall Fearless and Fly - Second Challenge!

Fall Fearless and Fly with Ronda Palazzari!

Headline Prompt:  Taking a Chance:  When did you take a chance or a leap of faith?  How did it turn out?  What did you learn?
Color Prompt:  What color do you like least? Use it!
Quote Prompt:  "Don't refuse to go on an occasional wild goose chase -- that's what wild geese are for." Anonymous

Welcome to Ronda Palazzari!  We sent her the prompts and she WOW'd us with what she created!
 
Ronda:  As I have gotten older, it seems to me that it seems less of taking a leap and more like not letting fear decide my fate.  There are many times when I worry or am fearful of the outcome, but if I let those emotions consume me I would never get anything done.  Instead I take the “no’s” and “mistakes” as opportunities to learn and grow.  To build my wings and fly.

I took on the color prompt as well as the headline prompt.  I love color but there are ones I always gravitate towards and ones I tend to use less.  Purple is my challenge this go around.  I have a hard time with purple.  Turns out I have a hard time with tints of purple!  I found that if I stick to more of the reddish hues of purple, then I can work well with it.  I also pair it with some of my favorite colors and give it that pop by complementing it with yellow.

On this page you will find layers of color as well as layers of gelatin prints.  I used a variety of stencils on the background along with some splatters & stamps.  I highlighted a few of the stenciled hearts by outlining them with a black pen.  The wings of my potty girl had to be bold.  Insert more purple since I had lots of yellow in the background.  

I love the staggered title, especially with the words “Fear” & “Fate” larger and in the grey color.  I borrowed the title from the song “Kill your heroes” by Awolnation since it resonated my exact sentiments.

Thank you Ronda, for your beautiful and heartfelt take on this challenge and a fabulous prize!   Everyone who links up their take on challenge #2 by October 28th will be entered to win Ronda's stunning book, Art of Layers.  If you haven't read it yet you are in for a real treat.  It is full of gorgeous photos showing you finished projects and techniques with clear step-by-step directions.

Ronda designs with Maya Road, Sizzix, Antiquated Collection, and Purple Onion Stamps.  She has published in Artful Blogging, Creating Keepsakes, Memory Makers, Scrapbook Trends, and Somerset Magazines, among others.  With Ronda, you never know if she will be sewing or getting messy with paints; her craft changes day-to-day.  She continues to teach worldwide as well as providing inspiration and telling her dorky stories on her blog HelpMeRonda.


What will you do in response to the second challenge?  Here are the rules:

• You may participate in one or all of the challenges.
• Use one, two or all of the prompts.
• Use any media -- art journal, scrapbook, canvas, watercolor, quilting, you name it!  This is "Anything Goes" as far as your creativity is concerned.
• Link up by October 28 to be eligible to win Ronda Palazzari's book: "Art of Layers."
• You may link up to 2 times, but please only link up to work prepared for this challenge.  Please post the url of your blog post or flickr page that's specific to this challenge, rather than a general blog address.  And please tell us how your work relates to the challenge!
• Each time you participate, visit at least 3 other links and leave loving words!
• All challenge participants are welcome to join our private Facebook group as a place to talk about your journey and whatever is coming up for you as you work on the challenges.   As it is private, just request to join and we'll give you access. 

To recap, here is the 2nd challenge:

Headline Prompt:  Taking a Chance:  When did you take a chance or a leap of faith?  How did it turn out?  What did you learn?
Color Prompt:  What color do you like least? Use it!
Quote Prompt:  "Don't refuse to go on an occasional wild goose chase -- that's what wild geese are for." Anonymous

Congratulations to  Jenny Grant - the lucky winner of our first Fall Fearless & Fly challenge, chosen by the random generator at Random.org!   Please email your address to Jessica at corspokoli (at) gmail (dot) com and we will get your Crafters Workshop stencils, decorative flag and stickers by Jessica right out to you! 

Check out Carolyn's and Jessica's response pieces in the linky list below.  
And on Monday, October 29, check in for Challenge #3 and the winner of this challenge!

Looking forward to seeing your wonderful work!
Carolyn Dube and Jessica Sporn