Just wanted to give you all a heads up on a art challenge currently going on at Cloth Paper Scissors — the Back-to-School Composition Book Challenge.
Some of you may have altered composition books from our recent notebook prompt that may fit this challenge’s theme and rules. Deadline is next Friday.
This week’s creative prompt is Breath.
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Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. 
Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts.
I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart: I am, I am, I am.
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Get creative by interpreting this topic through art, words, photography, however you feel moved to express yourself. Post it on your blog, then leave your link* in the comments section of this post so we can go check it out.
* To ensure it is easy for us to find your work, please provide a link to a static page that will always show your submission, and not your website’s main page. Help! What’s a static page?
This week’s theme is Notebook. Alter or embellish a notebook (take advantage of back-to-school sales!), use a sheet of notebook paper in a collage, create a still life drawing of a stack of notebooks, or whatever you may be inspired to create.
Ideas + Inspiration
· Altered Notebook Tutorial
· Free Class: Summertime Notebook by Karenann Young
· Do it Yourself Notebook Paint Job (for the brave at heart only!)
· Torn Notebook Sculpture (more at Flickr)
· Moleskine Reloaded (or, How to Rebind a Moleskine Notebook)
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Get creative by interpreting this topic through art, words, photography, however you feel moved to express yourself. Post it on your blog, then leave your link* in the comments section of this post so we can go check it out.
* To ensure it is easy for us to find your work, please provide a link to a static page that will always show your submission, and not your website’s main page. Help! What’s a static page?
This week, your challenge is to Create Against the Clock. Get out your supplies, set a timer and do your creative thing for 10 minutes. Scan or snap a photo of your work. Then, with the same supplies, set the timer for 1 hour and let the creative juju flow again. Snap another photo and share both with us. How do the two compare? Is there a contrast — unfinished and raw versus complete and finished? (Depending on your particular craft, you may wish to adjust the timer; just be true to yourself and pick a very short time followed by a longer period of time.)
O, great creator of being, grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives.
Even though it may only take one hour to produce a great work of art, there are years of nurtured vision and feeling in every stroke.
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Get creative by interpreting this topic through art, words, photography, however you feel moved to express yourself. Post it on your blog, then leave your link* in the comments section of this post so we can go check it out.
* To ensure it is easy for us to find your work, please provide a link to a static page that will always show your submission, and not your website’s main page. Help! What’s a static page?
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