“The Vision Card Project” is one of the projects that we’re working with in The Creative Explorer’s Club and each month we get to pick a word that resonates with us and make a card as a visual representation of the word.

For February I’ve used the word “Heart” and tried out some fun new techniques to make my card. Although February is traditionally the month of the heart, I’ve used it in a slightly different context for my card; more as a way to remind myself that everything I do, whether in my personal life or in my business life, should be approached with an attitude of love and gratitude. It’s easy to forget that when you find yourself doing stuff that isn’t quite so much fun but still a necessary part of life and business like taxes and housework.

I remember as a child I used to love playing with paper dolls and would spend hours carefully cutting out the doll and all the little pieces of clothing that came with it. Then more hours of playing with the doll and imagining a life where I got to wear all those beautiful paper clothes in the far away places of my imagination.

Well, this paper doll is nothing like those of my youth but I’m enjoying the experience of learning to color “outside the lines” and work from a place of artful interpretation. In some ways this reality is much better than those of my childish imagination.

You can see my other Vision Cards for the year here and here, and more about The Creative Explorer’s Club here.

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