Catégorie : one card a week

One card a week 23

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Lately I take my life back. I stop living as people expect me to do. I don’t try to be the person I am not. I free myself from all this.

14 months ago, I made a promise. I promised my daughter I would be fine. And this is me keeping my promise. I realised that not only I made her a promise but I made myself one too, as I never made a promise to her unless I could keep it.

So this is a promise I make to myself: I will be myself again. I will free my self from anything that prevents me to be the one I am. Because this is the way it is now. And if people disagree, too bad. I am done trying to ignore or to shut myself.

I am worthy, I am strong, and I am the one I am.

So here is your challenge this week: make a promise to yourself and … keep it!

One card a week challenge 23:

Quote: « The most important person to keep your promises to, is yourself.

Pattern: X-Tee

 

Here are the rules of the challenge:

  • Each thursday, I’ll give you a quote and a pattern to play with. You can use both, you can use only one of them, it’s up to you.
  • You have till the next wednesday to make your card and share it with us in the facebook group (just ask to be added, and I will open the doors wide open to you )
  • The goal of this challenge it just to offer yourself a time to have fun with pens and cards, to ponder on words, to enjoy a ME time. We tend to forget about ourselves so easily! And sharing is such a beautiful thing to experiment in our life!

And here is my card:

 

One card a week 22

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We tend to see ourselves as insignificant. While we are more than that. Far more. This is why I do what I do. Sharing my little things, my doodles and quotes I love. This is also why I do doodles, why I look for quotes, why I decided to share my little things: to put some light in my own life. You see, I really feel that we are able to bring a spark even in the darkest times. And in the end, when we look at our past, we only see a trail lit by those sparks. We then realized how far we have gone on our path. We don’t really see the darkness, we only pay attention to those sparks.

So this weeks, this is what we are going to do: let our light shine, switch our sparks on. We are all able to do that, no matter who we are. We are just sparks of life who can light someone’s life.

So here is this week’s challenge:

One card a week challenge #22

Quote: « Even the smallest candle can be seen on the darkest night. Always let your light shine. You never know who might be in darkness. Michael Watson

Pattern: 5C wrapped

And here is my card:

One card a week 21

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Let’s face it, life is not a peaceful road most of the time… Life is hectic, bumpy, but this is what makes it so interesting.

I often think about my life, and what it brought me. And lately, I realised that a lot of good things happened to me. And that all my experiences made me more creative. I am able to create because it’s my way to deal with my emotions. When I feel overwhelmed, I grab a pen, a pencil, a paint brush, a crochet, my laptop… and I let it go. And if I am lucky enough, I share. This is my reason to live, in fact: make a positive thing from a negative event or feeling. And when I create, write, paint, draw, type, share, I feel good. Whatever initiated the process, it is turned into a peaceful smile. And I know my life is worth living.

So here is this week’s challenge:

One card a week challenge 21:

Quote: « You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star » Friedrich Nietzsche

Pattern: anooka

One card a week 20

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It’s almost mothers’ day here in France…. not my favorite day since last year…. But I decided to create a new ritual to make something good from this day. Because I made a promise.

One morning I woke up, and I decided it was enough. Enough pain, enough tears. Emma wouldn’t want me to feel this way. So I decided to start the next chapter of my life. With her, for her, to live, love, laugh. To be alive. To be me, a new me, deeper than before I guess. To be the one she would be proud of. To be the one she would love.

So here is your challenge. i hope you will love it!

One card a week challenge #20:

Quote: « And suddenly you know : it’s time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings. » Meister Eckhart

pattern: satsu

 

Here are the rules of the challenge:

  • Each thursday, I’ll give you a quote and a pattern to play with. You can use both, you can use only one of them, it’s up to you.
  • You have till the next wednesday to make your card and share it with us in the facebook group (just ask to be added, and I will open the doors wide open to you )
  • The goal of this challenge it just to offer yourself a time to have fun with pens and cards, to ponder on words, to enjoy a ME time. We tend to forget about ourselves so easily! And sharing is such a beautiful thing to experiment in our life!

And here is my card:

One card a week 19

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We all are powerfull. We are. When you think about it, we are awesome creatures, who can build a whole world out of nothing. We create, we imagine, we interact, we feel, we love, we can think and elaborate plans. We are powerfull.

Thing is, we sometimes forget about it. Our lack of confidence is our worst ennemy. We then persuade ourselves that we don’t worth anything. But we do. We compare ourselves to others and decide they are better. But they aren’t. We all have this spark within taht makes each of us someone beautiful and unique. And that is the core of who we are.

We are powerfull. And we can change our world just by claiming this power to build our life. It’s up to us. Light this spark, make it shine!

 

Quote: «Believe in the power that is within you »

Pattern: flip-flap

 

Here are the rules of the challenge:

  • Each thursday, I’ll give you a quote and a pattern to play with. You can use both, you can use only one of them, it’s up to you.
  • You have till the next wednesday to make your card and share it with us in the facebook group (just ask to be added, and I will open the doors wide open to you )
  • The goal of this challenge it just to offer yourself a time to have fun with pens and cards, to ponder on words, to enjoy a ME time. We tend to forget about ourselves so easily! And sharing is such a beautiful thing to experiment in our life!

And here is my card:

 

One card a week 18

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This familly trip helped me to put some things into perspective. I don’t know if it’s the fact that we were away from our routine, or the spring that is coming with its promises, but I feel more peaceful.

And I realised that I am done with the guilt. I had to make peace with myself. I love Emma and will always do. She was everything to me. I was so proud to be her mother. But there was nothing else I could do to protect her. Nobody could do it. At least, not yet.

Emma wouldn’t want to see me as sad as I was this last months. And I made her a promise I need to keep.

So here I am, full of good will to change what needs to be changed. Oh, it won’t be a tsunami  of any kind, just a soft wind. I will start with my home, making it the place I know it can be, peaceful and happy. And I will start to take care of myself, doing exercices, meditation and this kind of things that makes you feel good. I will not bring my work things at home. I really need to keep the drama there. There is no place for it in my ‘new life’. So if it means stoping by the gym on my way home, I will. I need to find a new balance. And I will.

So this week, let’s take a time realising that even if we go through hard time, this is what makes us grow… and what better season than spring to experiment that?

Here is the challenge for this week:

quote: « Often it’s the deepest pain which empowers you to grow into your highest self. »

Pattern: quiltz

 

Here are the rules of the challenge:

  • Each thursday, I’ll give you a quote and a pattern to play with. You can use both, you can use only one of them, it’s up to you.
  • You have till the next wednesday to make your card and share it with us in the facebook group (just ask to be added, and I will open the doors wide open to you )
  • The goal of this challenge it just to offer yourself a time to have fun with pens and cards, to ponder on words, to enjoy a ME time. We tend to forget about ourselves so easily! And sharing is such a beautiful thing to experiment in our life!

And here is my card:

One card a week 17

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I am in vacations this week, with my familly. A change in my routine, as well as a change of place. We go to a place that has a heavy meaning for me, as it was where we were supposed to go when Emma was hospitalized for the first time. I still hear her screaming and crying when I told her we had to cancel because she needed to stay longer at the hospital… We never could come back. So it’s the first time I come here since that day… And I really feel a change in the way I see this place. Her not being here is a part of it, of course, but I decided to take it as it comes, and to do everything I do in her memory, as she would have wanted me to do. So I went to the aquarium with my familly, with a goal: seeing ‘grandpa’s fish’ as she named it when she came here with my parents years ago. She told me about this fish so many times, describing it to me, telling me what a blast it was to see her grand father’s face when she dedicated this fish to him. So I went to the aquarium, and met grandpa’s fish. And I could almost hear her laugh as she would have done if she was here to show it to me.

This place and time could have been sad and heavy. But I decided to live them as a token of my love to her, and it changed everything.

So this week, we try to see things a different way, to experiment this sweet feeling.

Quote: « When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”Wayne Dyer

Pattern: harfe

Here are the rules of the challenge:

  • Each thursday, I’ll give you a quote and a pattern to play with. You can use both, you can use only one of them, it’s up to you.
  • You have till the next wednesday to make your card and share it with us in the facebook group (just ask to be added, and I will open the doors wide open to you )
  • The goal of this challenge it just to offer yourself a time to have fun with pens and cards, to ponder on words, to enjoy a ME time. We tend to forget about ourselves so easily! And sharing is such a beautiful thing to experiment in our life!

And here is my card: ( I love the drape effect because of the painting!)

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Une carte par jour /one card a week freebies 2!

Déjà 16 semaines de challenge! Il est temps de faire un petit récapitulatif des 8 derniers!  Voici donc les cartes des 8 dernières semaines, regroupées sur des pages à imprimer. Avec plusieurs propositions: uniquement les citations, uniquement les motifs, et un mix des deux. Et ça concerne les deux challenges, donc la totalité des 16 dernières cartes! A vos imprimantes!

Here is a new set of cards to print! You have several options: quotes only, patterns only, and a mix of both. You can find both the french and the english cards. All last 16 cards! Have fun!

cartes 13 à 16:

cartes 13 à 16

et oui, j’ai modifié le motif de la carte 15, et c’est beaucoup mieux non?

Avant/Après:

cards 13 to 16:

cards 13 to 16

les 8  citations:

cartes 9 à 16 c

les 8  motifs:

cartes 9 à 16 m

quotes:

cards 9 to 16 q

patterns:

cards 9 to 16 p

Toutes les cartes sont dans ce dossier pdf. They all are in this pdf file: cartes 9 à 16

one card a week 16

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I have scars…  some come from my wild childhood, mostly on my knees (what a surprise !) or on my head (and my face…. wild I said!). Some are testimonies of my country’s policy on vaccination, and therefore can link me to my birthplace. Some are milestones of my medical history.  I had an appendicectomy at age 11 which left a scar on my right side.

And I have a scar that is really important to me…  It’s on my left collarbone. I got it when a surgeon proceeded a biopsy… it’s the only memory Hodgkin’s disease left me. 15 years ago, I had to fight a lymphoma. And I won. I won more than a battle against a disease. It was more than a disease. When the diagnosis was put, I was a dynamic woman, about to settle in the other side of the world, getting married a few months later, full of projects and willing to make her life the best possible… When I think about it, Hodgkin’s is the best thing that could happen to me. And when I look or touch my scar, this is what I feel: it took me to a path I couldn’t even have imagined. It gave me the strength to fight death, face to face. It gave me the strength to fight the disease while helping my familly to cope with it. It made me stronger than ever, even if my full body had to go through the worst  time. At the end of my treatment, I gained a lot of weight (thank you cortison!), lost each and every hair of my body (and before that, my hair was really really long, so long I could almost sit on it….), it was really hard for me to go from a place to another one without having to make breaks (remember, I was supposed to make a life on the other side of Earth before that!).

Anyway, Hodgkin’s disease also gave me the strength to fight anything, to face anything, and to trust my gut feelings more than ever. It also taught me I was stronger than I thought, and even maybe stronger than those around me… it made me a strong mature woman. It made me the one I am I guess. And it gave me the strength to face what I had to face these last years. It help my daughter to face her own fight too, especially at the beginning, as we could talk about it without taboo. We talked about my own experience knowing that if my cancer was curable, hers wasn’t. But treatments and side effects were similar, and I could really hear and understand what she felt.

I NEVER saw my daughter as a victim of cancer. I saw her as my daughter. And I think that it made the difference for her. When we were given bad news, we allowed ourselves to cry for one hour… then we set our minds on the fighting mode…

Anyway, I have scars on my body… But the most important one can not be seen. It lays on my heart… It’s there, I can feel it each and every day. But like my other scars, the one people can see, I am proud of it. Because it means I survived. My scars tell my story. And to me, they are really important testimonies, even if the most meaningfull is left unseen. It’s mine, and it’s the one that makes me going on each and everyday for a little more than a year.

This week, we will be proud of our scars!

Quote: « Never be ashamed of a scar. It simply means you were stronger than whatever tried to hurt you.”

Pattern: c-wing

Here are the rules of the challenge:

  • Each thursday, I’ll give you a quote and a pattern to play with. You can use both, you can use only one of them, it’s up to you.
  • You have till the next wednesday to make your card and share it with us in the facebook group (just ask to be added, and I will open the doors wide open to you )
  • The goal of this challenge it just to offer yourself a time to have fun with pens and cards, to ponder on words, to enjoy a ME time. We tend to forget about ourselves so easily! And sharing is such a beautiful thing to experiment in our life!

Here is my card :

While drawing it, with my usual black pen, I really felt something was missing… And then I remembered what I did with the flower heart of my last challenge… so I took my color pencils and played a bit with them… it changed everything!!

Can you see the difference? So fro now on, I guess I will play with them a lot more!

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One card a week 15

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Adversity. Sometimes I really tend to think that I only grow in adversity. And I have to say that I would love to just live my life peacefully… But most of the time, I just face it, learn from it, and grow. I guess this is my path. I accept it. No fear, no anger. But a strong strong will, and some time taken to just ponder about the lessons learned.

And a promise made to myself: when I feel bad or hurt, I just try to craft, draw, write anything that makes me feel good. To turn negative feeling into positive vibes. Because it makes me feel good, it makes me focus on something else, it allows me to ponder on what hurts me while doing something I love… And usually I share it.

Of course, sometimes I just feel the need to lock myself away from anything that can hurt me… but it never lasts long. Because to me, it seems taht without adversity there is no growth… It’s the way it is… the way I learn. And I am ok with it.

Anyway, here is your challenge for this week:

Citation: « Like wildflowers , you must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would. »

Motif: auraknot-bunzo flower

 

Here are the rules of the challenge:

  • Each thursday, I’ll give you a quote and a pattern to play with. You can use both, you can use only one of them, it’s up to you.
  • You have till the next wednesday to make your card and share it with us in the facebook group (just ask to be added, and I will open the doors wide open to you )
  • The goal of this challenge it just to offer yourself a time to have fun with pens and cards, to ponder on words, to enjoy a ME time. We tend to forget about ourselves so easily! And sharing is such a beautiful thing to experiment in our life!

Here is my card : you can also see my firt attempt at drawing a gem!