Welcome to Week 2 of our July challenges. Our word prompt for July is COURAGE.
I also found a few meaningful quotes that I'd like to share:
* "You must learn to be strong in the dark as well as in the day, else you will always be only half brave."
George MacDonald
* "Knowledge without courage is sterile."
Baltasar Gracian
* "Courage in danger is half the battle."
Plautus
* "Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it."
Mark Twain
* "The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow."
Jim Hightower
Here's a mood board that I put together for you. I loved some of these images and some additinal quotes I found. It always helps me get my creative juices flowing when I start searching for quotes and inspiration pictures to include in my posts.
Here's my sample page, that I hope will be helpful in your creative process. The first quote about being strong in the dark, really hit home for me. I don't do very well at night - when I'm alone. That's when the emptiness and the sadness sneaks in.
You can choose to do a single page 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 COURAGE.
Challenge Rules:
You have until 11:59 p.m. CST on JULY 31st to complete your pages for this challenge.
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.
I also found a few meaningful quotes that I'd like to share:
* "You must learn to be strong in the dark as well as in the day, else you will always be only half brave."
George MacDonald
* "Knowledge without courage is sterile."
Baltasar Gracian
* "Courage in danger is half the battle."
Plautus
* "Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it."
Mark Twain
* "The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow."
Jim Hightower
Here's a mood board that I put together for you. I loved some of these images and some additinal quotes I found. It always helps me get my creative juices flowing when I start searching for quotes and inspiration pictures to include in my posts.
Here's my sample page, that I hope will be helpful in your creative process. The first quote about being strong in the dark, really hit home for me. I don't do very well at night - when I'm alone. That's when the emptiness and the sadness sneaks in.
You can choose to do a single page 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 COURAGE.
Challenge Rules:
You have until 11:59 p.m. CST on JULY 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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