Welcome to the December Art Journaling Challenge, Week 1. Our word prompt for this month is ILLUMINATE. This word signifies bringing light to the darkest days, symbolizing hope, warmth, and clarity amidst the year's end. It evokes reflection, spiritual awakening, and a rekindling of purpose as the world transitions toward renewal.
To illuminate is not just to light up but to transform the way something is perceived—bringing clarity, beauty, and deeper understanding to what might have been obscure. It carries profound implications of growth, insight, and awakening, both personally and universally.
Here are some synonyms for the word "illuminate":
Quotes about "Illuminate"
Here is my layout. I opted for a double page for this week.
You can choose to do a single page/tag/TN each week, or do a divided template - one part for each week. If you don't have the Divided Template and would like to have it, you can get it here at Dropbox. Thank you to Ona @wombat146 for providing the template choices for us! If you do the template, we would love it if you would post it incrementally. Post one done in the first week, post an image of the two together on the second, and three on the third, and then the finished page on the fourth week.
Again - the template is NEVER a requirement to use, just something fun and different if you want to use it.
Everyone who participates in any of this month's challenges will be entered into a drawing for a $5 gift certificate to Oscraps. You can receive up to four entries into this month's drawing.
I can't wait to see what you have to share about the prompt ILLUMINATE
Challenge Rules:
You have until 11:59 p.m. CST on DECEMBER 31 to complete your pages for this challenge.
Adding a linked layout from the Gallery to a thread:
Upload your layout to the gallery first. In your forum post click the Gallery Embed icon (little camera).
This will open your gallery, simply click on the layout you require, then scroll down to the bottom of the screen and click the Continue button.
Your linked layout is now in your post, the image will appear once you have clicked the Post Reply button
To illuminate is not just to light up but to transform the way something is perceived—bringing clarity, beauty, and deeper understanding to what might have been obscure. It carries profound implications of growth, insight, and awakening, both personally and universally.
Here are some synonyms for the word "illuminate":
- Light up
- Brighten
- Enlighten
- Clarify
- Highlight
- Reveal
- Explain
- Shed light on
- Illuminate
- Shine
- Emblazon
- Enhance
Quotes about "Illuminate"
- "Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel." – Socrates
- "The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. Illuminate your mind, and the world brightens with you." – Marcus Aurelius
- "It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light." – Aristotle
- "A single candle can illuminate an entire room; a single kind act can illuminate a soul." – Anonymous
- "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that." – Martin Luther King Jr.
- "To shine your brightest light is to be who you truly are." – Roy T. Bennett
- "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." – Henry Adams
- "Light gives of itself freely, filling all available space. It does not seek anything in return; it asks not whether you are friend or foe." – Michael Strassfeld
- "We are all broken, that’s how the light gets in." – Ernest Hemingway
- "In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present." – Francis Bacon
Here is my layout. I opted for a double page for this week.
You can choose to do a single page/tag/TN each week, or do a divided template - one part for each week. If you don't have the Divided Template and would like to have it, you can get it here at Dropbox. Thank you to Ona @wombat146 for providing the template choices for us! If you do the template, we would love it if you would post it incrementally. Post one done in the first week, post an image of the two together on the second, and three on the third, and then the finished page on the fourth week.
Again - the template is NEVER a requirement to use, just something fun and different if you want to use it.
Everyone who participates in any of this month's challenges will be entered into a drawing for a $5 gift certificate to Oscraps. You can receive up to four entries into this month's drawing.
I can't wait to see what you have to share about the prompt ILLUMINATE
Challenge Rules:
You have until 11:59 p.m. CST on DECEMBER 31 to complete your pages for this challenge.
- To qualify for the drawing, you need to use 80% Oscraps products that are currently in the store (non-Oscraps products or retired O designer products can be used whether the designer is selling elsewhere or not).
- You need to credit all the products used on your page.
- You cannot use a page you create for this challenge for another Oscraps challenge.
- Upload your page to the Art Journal Gallery and then add your layout to the challenge thread. (Below you will find instructions on adding your page to this thread.)
Adding a linked layout from the Gallery to a thread:
Upload your layout to the gallery first. In your forum post click the Gallery Embed icon (little camera).
This will open your gallery, simply click on the layout you require, then scroll down to the bottom of the screen and click the Continue button.
Your linked layout is now in your post, the image will appear once you have clicked the Post Reply button
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Its not even cause I fear the scrap police but because the layout is so flat even I wouldn't comment on it 
