Welcome to the July Art Journaling Challenge, Week 1. Our word prompt for this month is COURAGE. The word "courage" means the ability to confront fear, pain, danger, uncertainty, or intimidation. It is often regarded as a quality that allows individuals to face difficult situations with determination and bravery.
On a deeper level, courage involves:
Moral Courage: The strength to stand up for what is right, even in the face of opposition or personal loss. It is about adhering to one's principles and values, regardless of the consequences.
Emotional Courage: The ability to confront and embrace emotional challenges, such as vulnerability, grief, or rejection, allowing oneself to experience and process difficult emotions.
Intellectual Courage: The willingness to challenge accepted ideas and beliefs, seek out truth, and think independently, even when such actions may lead to conflict or criticism.
Physical Courage: The bravery to face physical pain, hardship, or danger, often associated with acts of heroism.
Synonyms for courage include:Bravery,Valor,Daring,Fearlessness,Boldness,Audacity,Grit,Tenacity,Fortitude,Resolve...Each synonym emphasizes different aspects of courage, such as fearlessness (bravery), persistence (grit), or strength of character (fortitude).
Here are some powerful quotes
These quotes illustrate how courage and resolve intertwine, emphasizing the inner strength needed to face challenges, pursue what is right, and persist despite obstacles.
My sample layout is this. I chose the synonym "Resolve" as my inspiration. As a Powerful Imagery I Incorporated a watercolor image of a sturdy oak tree to convey the idea of facing challenges with determination and unyielding strength.
I prefer displaying my layouts in a travelers notebook, but you can use whatever format you like.
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.
On a deeper level, courage involves:
Moral Courage: The strength to stand up for what is right, even in the face of opposition or personal loss. It is about adhering to one's principles and values, regardless of the consequences.
Emotional Courage: The ability to confront and embrace emotional challenges, such as vulnerability, grief, or rejection, allowing oneself to experience and process difficult emotions.
Intellectual Courage: The willingness to challenge accepted ideas and beliefs, seek out truth, and think independently, even when such actions may lead to conflict or criticism.
Physical Courage: The bravery to face physical pain, hardship, or danger, often associated with acts of heroism.
Synonyms for courage include:Bravery,Valor,Daring,Fearlessness,Boldness,Audacity,Grit,Tenacity,Fortitude,Resolve...Each synonym emphasizes different aspects of courage, such as fearlessness (bravery), persistence (grit), or strength of character (fortitude).
Here are some powerful quotes
- Nelson Mandela "I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."
- Winston Churchill "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
- Maya Angelou "Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently."
- Mahatma Gandhi "Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."
- Aung San Suu Kyi "You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right."
- Mark Twain "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear."
- John Quincy Adams "Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air."
- Amelia Earhart "Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace."
- Helen Keller - "Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing."
These quotes illustrate how courage and resolve intertwine, emphasizing the inner strength needed to face challenges, pursue what is right, and persist despite obstacles.
My sample layout is this. I chose the synonym "Resolve" as my inspiration. As a Powerful Imagery I Incorporated a watercolor image of a sturdy oak tree to convey the idea of facing challenges with determination and unyielding strength.
I prefer displaying my layouts in a travelers notebook, but you can use whatever format you like.
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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