Welcome to Week 2 of the December Art Journaling Challenges. Our word prompt for December is ILLUMINATE. Here's a definition I found, in the American Heritage Dictioary:
Here's my example layout, which features one of my own photographs in the background.
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 31st to complete your pages for this challenge.
Illuminate /ĭ-loo͞′mə-nāt″/
transitive verb
1. To provide or brighten with light.
2. To decorate or hang with lights.
3. To make understandable; clarify.
I put together a mood board, using images and quotes that really spoke to me about the word ILLUNINATE. What particularly stood out to me was the word "path" as in "to illuminate your path. I even added one of my own photographs to the mood board; of my front path that I illuminated with lights along the path. I used it as the starting point for my example layout below. I hope that one of these pictures or quotes speak to you as well. As always, you don't have to use one of them; but you can. They're simply for your inspiration.
2. To decorate or hang with lights.
3. To make understandable; clarify.
I put together a mood board, using images and quotes that really spoke to me about the word ILLUNINATE. What particularly stood out to me was the word "path" as in "to illuminate your path. I even added one of my own photographs to the mood board; of my front path that I illuminated with lights along the path. I used it as the starting point for my example layout below. I hope that one of these pictures or quotes speak to you as well. As always, you don't have to use one of them; but you can. They're simply for your inspiration.
Here's my example layout, which features one of my own photographs in the background.
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 31st 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.)
- 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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