So now the latest “thing” buzzing around on Facebook is the Gratitude Challenge.
The Ice Bucket Challenge was awesome and all – for a while – and it raised some great awareness for ALS. I did it. Everyone did it. I’m growing a little weary of it.
But now I’ve been “nominated” to do the Gratitude Challenge. I just finished my first post, and I’m still feeling a little bleery-eyed from expressing my gratitude for “my guys” (my hubby and my two boys – well men now – but all the same my guys). Feeling so…… well…… grateful… so full… so blessed.
There is nothing like spending time thinking about things you are grateful for and expressing that gratitude to make you feel good.
There’s a lot of “crap” that results from social media these days. My dad and I talk about it regularly. He’s not such a fan of it all. I’m pretty much into it.
I am in Corporate Communications…..
And I do like to be “social” 🙂
So despite the “yukky” stuff that comes about through social media (which I need not take the time to mention and remind you about), like everything else, social media can be used for good as well as bad.
I’m feeling good about the Gratitude Challenge, and I’m also going to make it a point to send a card of gratitude every day for the next five days to go along with my posts.
The card I’m showing here is one I am submitting for the SUO Challenge #104. This is my first submission for SUO, so wish me luck! Here is the description of the challenge rules:
“Clean and Simple” – also known as CAS – is a style of greeting card that most of us have tried at one time or another. A Clean and Simple card is one that doesn’t have a lot going on with it. It can have layers and it can have embellishments. But basically with a CAS card, anything that’s part of it helps us all focus on the single important element in the card, including in many cases lots of clean space that forces our eye towards that focal point. Your challenge for this SUO Challenge is to make a Clean and Simple card.
I love this SU Blended Bloom Stamp and can get lost in “coloring” it with alcohol markers and just blending and creating shades and highlights and different colors. I hope this card meets the criteria of CAS, as I feel the focal point is the flower and hope your eye is drawn to that when looking at the card.
And…. I am going to send this card to a few ladies that I haven’t met yet, but hear are following my blog, so I am excited to send it with an extra little treat and hopefully bring a few smiles. 🙂 (Hi TSM friends!)
Cheers & Hugs,
Jodi
PS Just in case you are wondering what I posted for my Gratitude Challenge Post #1, here it is:
Gratitude: Day 1
Janet Adams and Joyce Brugnoli both nominated me yesterday to do the gratitude challenge. Every day for five days I am challenged to list three things or people for which I am grateful. On each day, I nominate two people to do the same…. This is just about expressing thanks and recognizing amazing gifts in our lives. The sharing of my first three does not necessarily mean I am… less or more thankful for those things or people that I share over the next days.I could so overthink this as I am grateful for so many things in my life! I am having trouble narrowing down how to begin, so I will keep it easy by just expressing the first things that comes to mind…. 1. Marty (Merv) – the man I met when I was 16 and he was 20 – married when I was 19 and he was 23 – and that I still get to say “I love you” to every day – 35 years later. My rock – the man I cannot imagine my life without. 2. Our first born son, Jake – who changed my life forever by showing me the joy of motherhood 27 years ago. He gives me a hard time as often as he can, but also loves me so powerfully in a way that he and I “get” and enjoy. His intelligence and musical talent blow me away and make me so proud. 3. My “baby” Nick, who brought such joy to our little family 24 years ago when he joined it – all 10 bouncing pounds of him. He balanced us out by making us 4 and continues to balance us out in so many other ways. He charms me into doing anything he wants, gives me honest opinions, thinks like me, understands me, and humors me when the others don’t/won’t.
the creative life in between 