Challenge #332 - week of 30th September 2019

I think you all know how much I love the dates in my diary driving my inspiration. It all rather reminds me of a Big Picture Scrapbooking class I did with Elizabeth Dillow - the Scrapbooker's Almanac - did any of you do that class? I still have the book on my shelf and it was a great class.

Anyway, 30th September marks the anniversary of meeting my now husband and this year is a full 21 years since the day fate turned my life around. 

When I was younger, even though in the UK we were already officially an adult at 18, the move from 21 to 18 was still fresh and I got to have a smaller celebration at the age of 21 too. And that got me thinking.

This week, I'd like you to be inspired by becoming an adult.

• What does that mean to you? 
• Did you have a party? 
• Did you mark it in some specific way? 
• Had you been waiting a long time to be "legal" for something or other? 
• How about friends or family? 
• Perhaps this is the time to talk about your first time to vote, have an alcoholic drink or go to a horror movie rated for adults? 
• Or maybe it's time to talk to that younger you who couldn't wait to become an adult and give them some advice. 
• Or can you remember how you felt at that time.
• It might even have been a bit of a disappointment!

As always, I like to have something visual so I fished out two rather old pages now (from 2011 and 2012!) looking back at a much, much younger me at the tender age of 18 - with journaling from a present perspective. Is that really me?

I think there's a lot of different directions you could go this week with an adult inspired page and I'd love to see how you've been inspired.

Whichever way you decide to go, I really hope you'll share. It would be great to see what you make.  You can connect with us in our Facebook group here. Tag your entry with #WMXX so we know exactly which inspiration you've taken.

Have a great day everyone!

Challenge #300 - week of 13th August 2018

300! 

This is our 300th challenge - whoop whoop!

Who would have thought that we would still be going - 300 prompt down the line - when Pam and I set up this little corner of the web all those years ago. 1st August 2011 to be precise, so just over 7 years.

Just the two of us to begin with - challenging each other with little prompts which we decided to turn into a mini community. Over the years, I've become less than regular, although I do try my best! And I really need to get creating - all the prompts I come up with are ones that I have ideas for but somehow, my scrappy life is less than it used to be and I struggle to make the time to create all that often.

But here we are, 300 prompts on and hoping there is someone - anyone - out there reading and finding inspiration!

This week, I'd like you to be inspired by the power of three.

Three photos, visual triangles, groupings of three items, repetition of threes, stories featuring three in some way, three papers or even three pages! Let's make sure we embrace the wonderful world of three. I know that I use it in my clusters, and visual triangles are really something that I work with often so I'm sure you can also find a way to bring three into your life this week.

Here, I added two groups of three stars as well as a group of three circles. There's also a visual triangle.

Again, three stars and a visual triangle. I also used that paint chip die cut featuring shades of pink which is a strong use of "three".

Three photos here which feature on a Simple Scrapper Creative Team page - Story Starter and sketch are both part of the Simple Scrapper premium membership.

How long have you been playing along with Whimsical Musings? We'd love to hear from you and how we've inspired your creative memory keeping!

I hope you can find somewhere to take the prompt this week and that you'll share! You can do that in our Facebook group here. Tag your entry with #WMXX so we know exactly which inspiration you've taken. 

Or simply tell us in the comments where to find you... :-)