Full Deck. Dex?

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I really enjoy making Altered Playing Cards! Their small size is the perfect mini canvas for our Art Journaling. Especially for making quick projects! I’ve heard of “Full Deck” before, completing art projects on a full deck of 52 playing cards, and of course it lines up perfectly with our 52 weeks in a year. I’ve always made Altered Playing Cards true junk journal style, using cards from partial decks found lying around my house. But thought this might be a good “year long” project—quick and easy, to keep the mojo up. (But I don’t hold myself to making 1… Continue reading →

New Year Striving. Stop!

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Shocker for this week! I don’t choose a WOTY, Word of the Year. I would have already had 3 or 4 this year. If you haven’t guessed, or been following me long enough to know, I’m a free spirit at heart, and I’ve just been coming into the joy and True Freedom of that fully in the past several years. I’m still a work in progress—in following my God-led heart, not thinking I need to fit into the systems of people. A huge time that a “system” rears its head is as the New Year approaches. “What goals are you… Continue reading →

New Creation—Meditation & Tutorial

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What do you believe about yourself? If you are a follower of Jesus, spiritually reborn, He has much to say about who you are. You are a New Creation—in Him. Start the New Year off with a positive and healing step, through this Mixed Media Meditation* on who you are in Jesus the Christ. This video will lead you in a healing devotional and therapeutic mixed media art process that will help you see yourself as God sees you, when you are in Christ, and shed those false beliefs you have of yourself. Supplies: Download Freebie. 20 Truths from God’s… Continue reading →

New Creation

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Start the New Year off with a positive and healing step, through this Mixed Media Meditation* on who you are in Jesus the Christ. The healing devotional and therapeutic art process video of this make — along with a Freebie download—will be up next! #mixedmediameditation #faithartjournaling #mixedmedia #therapeuticcreativity #freelywholecreative Come along with me on this healing path of creativity by subscribing here, and joining my Creative Communities and Courses. Living Coram Deo & freely wholeSDG!~ Liberty Subscribe to my email list in the sidebar, to not miss any posts Join me on Facebook, Like & Follow my Freely Whole public page. And YouTube (creativity)… Continue reading →

Winter Birthday Wishes {tutorial}

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I had no chance to make any Christmas themed projects this year, but an almost New Year’s birthday gave me a chance to use one of my new Tim Holtz winter themed dies. Yippee! Although it’s been decades since I’ve ice skated, I fell in love with this die when it came out. I patiently waited for it to go on a good sale, and Black Friday didn’t disappoint. But then I needed an occasion to use it—for more than just in my inventory catalog. Card making time! All those Distress Spray Ink backgrounds I did for my Pray &… Continue reading →

A Joyful Heart

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I found this post lurking in my Drafts—from this past August (8/31). My spicy brain is conflicted over whether to back date this to then, or just post it now. So it’s now for now, but I may need to put it back in proper order later. 😊 But either way, my brain says these past posts need to be caught up before the New Year bells chime. Sometimes a Joyful Heart is the furthest thing from our reality. We are living with a broken spirit, that “dries up the bones”. Soul crushing harm and trauma does literally cause health… Continue reading →

Pray & Play 1

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{post 2 in this series} Taking some “time out”, during the busyness before the holidays, to just Pray & Play* was indeed needed, and ended up being a fruitful decision. Playing with Tim Holtz Distress Sprays is a favorite fun way to intuitively create, and get some wonderful backgrounds to use as foundations for finished creations. So that’s where I began. As I added layer upon layer, of inks and other mixed media textures for the backgrounds, inspiration came for taking them to the next step. And finalizing with words of inspiration and focal points. My first start for the… Continue reading →

‘Tis the season—for Organizing

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‘Tis the season—the week between Christmas and New Year’s—when I mainly work on organizational projects and putting things away, decluttering etc.—after the explosion all the holidays bring. One of my primary goals is usually to find my creative studio again. Many Christmas projects are usually done, with a time crunch, and yes, it looks like paper exploded in there. So it’s now time for everything to find its home again. I also usually pack away the specifically Christmas products and supplies. This year they weren’t even touched. 😢 But that doesn’t mean I didn’t make a whole lot of Christmas… Continue reading →

Comfort & Joy?

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We’re in a season now that can be super busy. We can find ourselves lacking in the peace, comfort and joy that this season is supposed to be about. I’ve been enjoying all my music concerts and performances (4 just this past week, plus attending another of a friend’s), loved hosting Thanksgiving, was so excited to attend my coaches retreat—even though it resulted in an injury that laid me up for a while. I greatly look forward to celebrating Christmas with much of my family. And of course, there’s always work to pay the bills, classes to attend and to… Continue reading →

Thankful—Birthday Cards

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Creating took a hiatus for the majority of this month when first I was gone for a week for a Retreat (where I only took yarn and needles with me, for super portable creativity,) and then I fell on ice in the mountains, thankfully just before I came home. Bilateral injuries to my wrists, hands, and arms prevented doing much of anything, let alone crafting. Thankfully, I finger pecked to get my ThanksGiving daily posts done, on Facebook. Check those out! And Thankfully, again so much to be Thankful for!, now 2 weeks more past, I was able to catch… Continue reading →