Aug. 30th Prompt #42

Hello! Welcome to the Gutter! This prompt is not hosted by any one design team member, and so I thought it would be cool for all of YOU to choose!! We're calling this prompt,
FREE CHOICE! What does that mean for you?
PROMPT:
Choose title or "prompt" to start.
SONG:
Pick a song of your choice that matches your prompt. (or the other way around.)
PRODUCT/TECHNIQUE:
Choose something you've never done or used to try on your layout!!
Here's what the girlz created!
GLENDA:
I chose the song "Can't be tamed" by Miley Cyrus and used the lyrics that say "I wanna fly, I wanna drive, I wanna go, I wanna be a part of something I don't know" and did my layout on my love of seeing new places, traveling and having an adventure. I hope to be able to travel more and see new places the older I get. My technique is paint (I painted on my transparency) and my product is transparency.

PATTI:

MARGRETHE:

The song Margrethe used was from Patti's idea to use the song A place in this world, by Taylor Swift and a Map for her product/technique.
I used Studio Calico's Documentary collection, and their map patterned paper has Norway on it, and the part where I live, so I used that as a detail. For a long time I've felt I've been behind where I should be. I was 23 when we got our own place. I was still in school. I hadn't had a proper job. But over the last year, things changed. I'm still in school, but I'm about to start working on my masters dissertation. I've got a part time job. And I'm not scared of turning 25 (in a month). I may not have a cookie-cutter life, but I'm living my life as me.
NIKKI:
I just did this page of my hubby and I recently with the song You make me smile by Uncle Kracker in mind...I love the words to this song! I typed the lyrics in different places on the background paper and then used bits and pieces of scraps to finish it up! :) I actually did one of AJ as well with the same song in mind.


CHRISTI:
The prompt: Baby Love
The song: Everybody by Ingrid Michaelson
The product/technique: Seed beads
I just love these pictures of my two oldest children (taken 10 years ago!) and decided to use them as my inspiration for the prompt. Which is kinda backwards, but that's just how I am. The song "Baby Love" was running through my head the whole time I thought about this page, but since that one's a little outdated, I chose a love-themed song by Ingrid Michaelson instead. The seed beads just seemed the perfect touch.


Take this "prompt" and inspire US this month!! See you on the 15th!
Can't wait to see what you create!!

Aug. 15th Prompt #41

Our prompt this time!
THE PROMPT:
Life and the Dream
THE SONG:
Where the Green Grass Grows by Tim Magraw
PRODUCT/TECHNIQUE: Grass
NIKKI
This was a tough prompt for me....I didn't have anything resembling grass whatsoever, so I decided to paint my grass and some sky and went with more of an art journally feel to this one....It's one of my favorite songs from Tim and I was super excited to see it as the prompt for this month!

SUSAN
I did an art journal page this month. A week ago was my original sobriety date. It's not my sobriety date but it is when I first decided to lay down my shovel & go to AA and try something different. 5 years later I live in California. Have my life and "the" dream intermingled? Yes, but certainly not in the way I had imagined them and that is what my journaling is about. Dream big always but don't be attached to the package the dreams come in and you just might be surprised at how many do come true.

BECKY
for this challenge I wanted to us a picture of my grandmothers house and altered the picture to reflect “where the green grass grows”

RACHEL
We recently moved to the country... and we love it there. I've always loved this song by Tim, and when I remembered I had a photo of the old rocker facing west that was sitting in the yard when we moved in, I had to use it to convey this prompt. We are living our dream... and taking life slowly. Where the green grass grows.

Can't wait to see what you create!!