June Monthly Muse - Week #1 - Coat of Arms

Sorry- was pretty occupied yesterday. Just seeing it today. I think it's a great challenge!! No worries here, @Dalis

 

@michelepixels Coats of arms have been representing families, clans for centuries. Maybe you can think of your family- or even research your family's regalia. That is part of keeping history.

 

This is a first try - I can't find a background I'm happy with. This might be because I would like each section to be a different color, but I don't remember how to do that. Also, I can't remember which option posts the image with a link to the gallery?

 

Dalis, I appreciate that - but the shape is quite different. This would mean starting over. Which I might do, as I seem not very good at "selecting" the sections on the one I used. Frustrated but glad for the challenge.

 

I gave up on selecting, and just cropped each part of the template/image, then painted and copied/pasted the elements. I think I do like this better with the color.

EDITED TO ADD: I appreciate this challenge, for making me think, learn something new, and identify the strengths that I have and need right now. I feel reassured. Thank you.

 

Fun challenge! I went for symbols.

 

So now I'm eager for the next step. Any hints?

 

I included my maiden name. We have done research, and there are Knights Templar and a castle in my ancestry. The name means "strength", so it was appropriate for the challenge, haha!
Really cool challenge for AJ styling!

 

Here is mine. I was inspired by the color chart & traits represented by each color. I selected the ones I thought best fit me, used that as the backdrop of my shield. Added some word art (perhaps more for my sanity) and a few symbols.

 

OMG this was so much fun and I went round and round on how to approach. I even got back into my ancestry research and found really interesting coats of arms for two of my ancestral names (Mum's side). Then I went the animal route and chose four animals that I have an affinity for - long stories, other things to journal about in the future. Found that these animals are associated with traits that I need to get through this current situation. Also had to add in my "weapons" a paint brush and pencil to do art. Have never written this much, but needed to share.

 

Super cool idea Dalis and loving the inspiring coat of arms that everyone has created so far!!!!

 

Went very simple with my design:

 

First of all my scrapping mojo is very low this year (and last year too) so my lack of participation would be mostly due to that.

But also, yes, I saw lots of references to battling in the first several posts and totally missed the idea of talking about our strengths.

Sorry I didn't see this yesterday -- I hope you didn't worry -- I never even visited TLP yesterday. Maybe I will do some scrapping today. Thanks for running this!

 

I've done it!
I started by brainstorming a list of my strengths and I came up with 9.
Then I found one of the sign custom shapes in Photoshop that I think looks like a shield. I created an outline of it on a new layer and added some lines. At this point I thought I was going to put one strength per section of the shield, but ended up dropping that idea quickly.
It was hard to find symbols for my words so I wrote them too because I want to be able to remember what I was thinking of!