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2–How Mixed Media Can Transform Your Life

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Part 2 of How Mixed Media Ruined My Art—But changed my Life! Please Read Part 1 first. This healing and freeing process also brought liberty to my creative teaching. I’ve always taught a wide variety of creative endeavors—in many different “mediums”, from fabric to yarn to paper to many others. As you can imagine, I used to only teach what I felt I could do with a completely predictable outcome, a perfect finished product. Through my healing journey, I also discovered that so many people don’t create, not because they don’t want to, but because they think they can’t. They… Continue reading →

It’s Worth It!

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Sometimes you just need to create for the sake of the fun-the calming-the therapeutic benefits. No outcome in mind. No goal. No cares as to whether it’s “pretty” or not. Just creating to create. And it’s worth it! You are worthy to take time to create!Creating just to create contributes to your wholeness—spirit, soul, and body! Last week, I spent creative time just making backgrounds. Experimenting with color combos. Utilizing various techniques. Playing. Practicing. Relaxing. No cares. No holdbacks. No finished product or page as a goal. Just creative time to engage my body. Calm my mind. Refresh my spirit…. Continue reading →

What’s the Difference?

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It seems there’s a plethora of “journaling” types out there these days. Junk journaling. Art journaling. Bible journaling. Mixed Media journaling. Faith journaling. Hymn journaling. Collaging. Neurographic Art journaling. And the list goes on and on…. (Not to mention the way Planners have become so artistic. And I won’t mention them, (in this article.) It can be a confusing mess—like my image below. What’s it all mean? Let’s see if we can sort it out—like in my image below. 😊 The Many Faces of Journaling Recently, I was part of a junk journal video collaboration. But I rarely create what… Continue reading →

Deep Calls to Deep

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Deep calls to deep. God’s Spirit is calling us to go deeper into Him. And the spirit that is filled with God’s Spirit searches the deep things of God. Creating this page reminded me of these truths from God’s Word. I had some trouble getting this make to come together, so I took my own path and reverted to starting with free-drawing neurolines and rounding them, in the way I’m very familiar with. I jokingly call my “off-road” detours I make when following a class “going rogue”. Following and learning from others is how we grow. But we’ve got to be… Continue reading →

Exploring Joy Journal {tutorial}

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My Exploring Joy journal is ready to go! Just in time. I made it yesterday and #faithjournaljuly2025 starts tomorrow. I really wanted a clean, colorful look to this journal, so it’s a departure from my usual vintage, sometimes grungy, style eclectic journals and definitely different than my mixed media journals. My own challenge accepted. I found the wildflowers wrapping paper at Hobby Lobby and decided that was a good starting point. Then I started digging through my digital stash for images that would go well with it. These colorful wildflowers were perfect. I altered and resized them to fit in… Continue reading →

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 →