Welcome to Week 3 of our AJ Challenge theme of Connections.
We all want to be connected - to feel connected - in some way, shape, or form. Connection provides a sense of belonging, reduces feelings of isolation, and contributes to overall mental and physical health. Having supportive relationships allows individuals to share experiences, process emotions, and feel validated. Connection can foster a feeling of being part of something larger than oneself, whether it's a community, a cause, or a shared interest.
Your challenge for this week is to journal about something that makes you feel connected. I'm looking forward to reading about it!
Synonyms to consider:
links
relationships
relations
relatedness
interrelations
contacts
friends
acquaintances
allies
colleagues
associates
bonds
ties
Quotes to Inspire:
In my deepest, darkest moments, what really got me through was a prayer. Sometimes my prayer was 'Help me.' Sometimes a prayer was 'Thank you.' What I've discovered is that intimate connection and communication with my creator will always get me through because I know my support, my help, is just a prayer away. Iyanla Vanzant
Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. If it doesn't feel vulnerable, the sharing is probably not constructive. Brene Brown
Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact. Martha Beck
While loneliness has the potential to kill, connection has even more potential to heal. Vivek Murthy
A soulmate is someone whom, when you meet, without thinking - without letting your neocortex play into the decision - you feel an instant familiarity, a sense of connection, a longing. Karen Salmansohn
One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. Gaston Bachelard
Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection. Yakov Smirnoff
What brings you closer to God is being in service to others. I think any religion or spiritual way of life will indicate that service to others will lead to a connection with a higher power. Steve-O
Genesis 2:7: "Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature"
This week I have chosen to show how and why I feel connected to nature (creation). Here is my page. Credits are in the gallery.
You can choose to do a single page, double page, tag, TN each week, or use 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 use the template, we would love it if you post incrementally: post one done in the first week, post an image of the two together on the second, and so on until the finished page in the fourth week.
Again—the template is NEVER a requirement, just something fun and different if you want to use it.
Challenge Rules:
Adding a linked layout from the Gallery to a thread:
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.
We look forward to seeing your art journaling pages!
We all want to be connected - to feel connected - in some way, shape, or form. Connection provides a sense of belonging, reduces feelings of isolation, and contributes to overall mental and physical health. Having supportive relationships allows individuals to share experiences, process emotions, and feel validated. Connection can foster a feeling of being part of something larger than oneself, whether it's a community, a cause, or a shared interest.
Your challenge for this week is to journal about something that makes you feel connected. I'm looking forward to reading about it!
Synonyms to consider:
links
relationships
relations
relatedness
interrelations
contacts
friends
acquaintances
allies
colleagues
associates
bonds
ties
Quotes to Inspire:
In my deepest, darkest moments, what really got me through was a prayer. Sometimes my prayer was 'Help me.' Sometimes a prayer was 'Thank you.' What I've discovered is that intimate connection and communication with my creator will always get me through because I know my support, my help, is just a prayer away. Iyanla Vanzant
Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. If it doesn't feel vulnerable, the sharing is probably not constructive. Brene Brown
Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact. Martha Beck
While loneliness has the potential to kill, connection has even more potential to heal. Vivek Murthy
A soulmate is someone whom, when you meet, without thinking - without letting your neocortex play into the decision - you feel an instant familiarity, a sense of connection, a longing. Karen Salmansohn
One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. Gaston Bachelard
Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection. Yakov Smirnoff
What brings you closer to God is being in service to others. I think any religion or spiritual way of life will indicate that service to others will lead to a connection with a higher power. Steve-O
Genesis 2:7: "Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature"
This week I have chosen to show how and why I feel connected to nature (creation). Here is my page. Credits are in the gallery.
You can choose to do a single page, double page, tag, TN each week, or use 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 use the template, we would love it if you post incrementally: post one done in the first week, post an image of the two together on the second, and so on until the finished page in the fourth week.
Again—the template is NEVER a requirement, just something fun and different if you want to use it.
Challenge Rules:
- You have until 11:59 p.m. CST on July 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.
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.
We look forward to seeing your art journaling pages!
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