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Exploring Joy

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Exploring Joy #faithjournaljuly2025 starts in less than a week! Yippee! 🥳 And I’m a Guest Creator for it! Yippee! 🥳 I’m getting my Joy on! Would you like to Explore Joy, understand Joy better, grow more in Joy? I’ve got a great opportunity for you to join a Fabulous, Fun, Free group of Christian creators doing just that, the whole month of July! “What if true joy isn’t a fleeting feeling, but a deep unshakable strength found even in life’s toughest moments?” Join us for “Exploring Joy in the New Testament” — “a transformative 5-week online Bible study designed to… Continue reading →

Stones of Remembrance

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Great is God’s Faithfulness! In Joshua’s 4:6, he commands, as YHWH has directed him, that stones of remembrance be placed. Today’s Mixed Media Meditation is a short one, with a much quicker creative make. My stacked stones represent things in my life that either I’ve lost and God has gotten me through, or other things He’s provided that give me His Abundant Life in the midst of chaos and loss. All of them are things that I look back on and remember His faithfulness. 💖 I encourage you to seek your heart for “stones of remembrance” in your life, when… Continue reading →

Shalom Shalom

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Does your mind always stay in perfect peace? Mine neither. How’s that peace even possible? Isaiah 26:3 tells us it is. By keeping our mind focused on God and trusting Him—in every circumstance. Having peace in our souls as the storms of life rage around us. This isn’t something we can do in our flesh. It only happens by God’s Spirit at work in our spirits. I’ve been mediating on Psalm 23 recently, for a new creative course I’ll be releasing later this summer. So that influenced my thoughts on this passage also. We’ll dig deep into those Psalms 23… Continue reading →

Shine Bright

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Hide it under a basket? No! I’m gonna let it shine! I’m still meditating on Matthew 5:14-16, (see April 26th and May 4th posts) and coming up with new ways to Bible Journal it through mixed media Faith art. Thank you to Kim Pepper’s FaithFest 2025 for inspiration. As soon as I started meditating on verse 15 in a visual way, I knew I wanted to incorporate a woven “basket” into the design of a layout. I also knew I wanted a lamp stand of some sort. And to incorporate my beloved multi-mediums background. The background for this page started… Continue reading →

Keeping Creative on the Fly

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I feel like I’m coming back to civilization. 😄 Back to my creative supplies. I love flying, but hate that without paying for checked bags (and lugging them around,) I don’t have room to bring my usual tools of creative transformation. My most happy place for soul care. My phone’s camera lens was my main creative outlet on this trip. The Blue Ridge Mountains and Lake Junaluska were beautiful, and I saved those gorgeous images digitally, as well as in my mind. I moseyed though the retreat’s craft station, where they provided a variety of supplies and instructions for several… Continue reading →

Love Letter 2.0

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Sometimes in life, you just need a do-over. Through no fault of your own, things just didn’t turn out “right”. Sometimes we just have to move on from there. Other times we can take a second chance, and when we know better we do better. Sometimes those things have no or low importance in the grand scheme of things. Other times they are of great importance. And that second chance, to make things better, can make a big difference in our lives and the lives of others. This do-over is very low in significance. But it still was a learning… Continue reading →

Love Letters

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Up today is another page in my Greatest of These is Love journal. This one was inspired from a cardmaking session. I used the same techniques. Same basic theme. Similar colors. But ended up with a totally different look. ‼️😊 The instructor’s card was softer and floral. And my make—😮 I started with blues, instead of her blue-greens, since I already have more than one blue-green page in this journal. So that changed my tone-on-tone stenciling from her leaves to my stars. Of course, I had to adjust her portrait card layout for my long and narrow journal page—and I… Continue reading →

Grow in Love

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Growing in love is one of our greatest aspirations, as we seek to become more and more like Jesus, and is evidence of His Spirit’s fruit growing in our lives. We are to “in love, grow in every way into him who is the head — Christ.” And, “I pray this: that your love will keep on growing…” Since daisies are one of my two favorite flowers, it seemed fitting to add one to this mixed media spread in my Greatest of These is Love journal. I love everything about this page—from the colors to the techniques to the elements I used…. Continue reading →

Love with All Your Heart

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I am LOVING working in this Greatest of These is Love Journal! God not only says, but commands us to “Love with all your heart.” And He tells us exactly what/Who we are to love—Him. Our highest calling in our lives is to love Him because He first loved us. And to love others as we love ourselves. A simple command, but not always easy to do. A simple command worthy to be put simply on this spread. This spread has a simple focal point and simple message, on a multi-layered, colorful background with rich depth. The layers began with… 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 →