I am beyond excited to launch these affirmation cards! I can't believe they are done and I am holding them in my hands. I know that I am so lucky to be able to do these things in my life! Check out my new video that I made to show you exactly what they are about!
I have my creative inspiration back! I get in such lows with it and it gets so depressing but I had a spurt recently and I feel very inspired. Let's hope it lasts until I can get all my ideas out!
I have created another set of affirmation cards and I am even more proud of these... I think because it truly reflects feelings and emotions that people are really go through in life! I created a little monster that you see in different situations trying to make the best of each one with the positive affirmation on the card. They are not in the shop yet but I hope to have them up as soon as possible! I shot this photo on a whim last night with that inspired feeling I was having and wrote a little something that correlates with it:
I realize, now as I grown older, how little self-worth I had
while growing up. I wish I would have known that bullies are not worth
the time and stress to worry about, that the mean college ex-boyfriend was just
that and I should have walked away so much sooner and that I would be okay when
my best friends decided to leave my life. Those people broke my identity
down and completely crushed me. I needed to realize that I was worth more
than what I was putting myself through but sometimes it’s so hard to feel that
worth. I wish I would have known that people come and go quickly and that
I would have a few close friends that will forever be so special to me. I
also wish that I knew that life isn’t always going to work out the way that you
want it to and that it’s up to me to choose how to react to it. Life is
hard. It really is. The things that you never think will happen to
you… well they can happen. BUT … life isn’t about looking back and
feeling bad about the past or wishing that it was different and think about what you can’t
change. Life is about letting those shit circumstances form who
you are in a positive way. You are the one who chooses how to move forward
in life so choose the path that you would be proud to take. I refer to my
positive self-worth as magic because, by having it, it has helped me accomplish
things I never thought that I would. I truly think we all have magic
inside of us. We just have to access it by reaching into ourselves and
pulling it out. I created my affirmation cards as reminders of that
magic. The monster on the cards is a representation of our dark and sad
feelings trying to find the light, the good and the happiness in life.
I can’t wait to get these on the site but I do have a few ideas I want to try
to make happen before I officially put them on the shop! In the meantime, I
hope you enjoy the photo!
Below is a photo of the back of the card I designed. I really was so happy with how it turned out!
Here's a sneak peak of some of the cards! There are going to be 31 total with an instruction card so you can pull one everyday for a month if you like!
Sometimes my mind can't find the words to express what I am trying to say and then when I can find the words, moving them from my brain to my fingers can be a challenge all on it's own. I have so much to say and I don't always feel that I articulate it as well as I could/should.
My emotions have gotten the best of me with this project and I am just so so so proud of it. I really want to be out there to make a different and I want to do my art so ... I combined them and made an affirmation card deck. There are 31 cards and one instruction card. They arrive in shrink wrap tucked safely in a black velvet drawstring pouch. I drew each of the unique designs on my ipad through a program called procreate and honestly, I love how they turned out.
I have had a pretty hard year... actually over a year now.
Life is teaching me that it does not care about what plans you had made, that it is going to do whatever it damn well has in mind.
The best way to deal with that (for me) was through my art. Turning my mind to a project that I could create positive feelings from. That is where I came up with the +Mindset box. Please watch the video for more explanation and enjoy the photos of the Etsy listing. I can only buy 5 card decks at a time and will try to stock them as much as possible so bear with me if they get low... I will order more :) I truly hope that if you choose to have these in your life that they make you smile and help you start off your days on the right foot!
I am so very excited to announce that my affirmation cards are now completed and in the shop! You can find them here.
A few of these cards were created during some very sad and dark moments in my life and yet I wanted to create something positive from those times. I have learned that life doesn't really care about your plans and it's going to do what it wants to do with your life... but you can change how you react to that. You can have a positive mindset that helps you start your day on the right foot. I want anyone that is going through a hard time to know that you are not alone in this world and that everything will be okay. One of my favorite quotes is "everything will be okay in the end, if it's not okay, it's not the end" - John Lennon.
My affirmation cards can be used daily to start the day with a positive mindset. There are 31 total so you could pull a different one for each day of the month and the deck comes with 1 instruction card. All artwork was created by me on my iPad using Procreate and an apple pencil. This project took me so long to complete and I poured so much efforted into making them. There were times that I set it down and started and finished other projects but kept coming back to this and I am so happy that I did.
I won't make this a long rambled post and I like to get to the point so here are some photos of what I have created and I hope that you enjoy! Also, check out my Etsy shop to get your own deck! :)
