Deep Calls to Deep

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

That Your Joy Be Full

Today we’re looking at John 15:11, and all the rich context surrounding it, and the Faith Art journaling of my study of it. {Video below.} This section of God’s Word is so rich, deep, and exciting! And Jesus’ disciples just weren’t getting it. Even looking back on it, many times we don’t either. To study this verse, we need to go back and begin reading at John chapter 13, as that is where Jesus starts this discourse—and it continues through chapter 16/17. Judas had just left the Passover meal, to betray Jesus, and Jesus is giving the rest of His… Continue reading

Question—Need Quick Feedback

Tomorrow my Exploring Joy video for #faithjournaljuly2025 goes live! 🎊 I’m so excited about this month long Bible Study + Faith Art collaboration. 25 different creators have come together to present this study, and thousands of others have joined us, as we explore the verses on Joy in the New Testament, and document our findings with Faith Art or in a Junk Journal. And tomorrow I’m the Presenter—on John 15:11! Here’s a Sneak Peek at a small section of my make. Quick Response Question for you You know I’m always learning and trying new things. I’m considering experimenting with my… Continue reading

Sneak Peek

What am I making with these supplies? Tune in here or on my YouTube channel on Monday to see! Hint! It’s Faith Art Mixed Media And it’s my day as Guest Creator day for— #faithjournaljuly2025 #FaithArt #mixedmedia #freelywholecreative Join me on this creative journey. And share YOUR creations with us! 👩🏻‍🎨

This is Joy

Today, I’m opening that new journal I made on Sunday, and starting work on the inside pages. July is here and #faithjournaljuly2025 started today. (Follow that hashtag on YouTube.) If you haven’t seen my previous posts leading up to this, here and here, this event is a Faith Art Bible Study on Exploring Joy. In this collab, a different Guest Creator will present a New Testament verse on Joy along with a junk journal element or other Faith Art make, each weekday of the month on their own YouTube channels. (My day is July 7th.) My clean and simple wildflower… Continue reading

Exploring Joy Journal {tutorial}

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

When the Lights Go Down

Tonight the lights go down. It is the last night of our Frontier Revue show. Although I post a lot about creativity being a huge tool in soul care, most of those posts center around visual arts creativity. But there is another powerful tool for our soul’s wellbeing, perhaps even more important. That is music. Although listening to it is good, creating it—when it comes from your own heart, is even better. I’m not saying you have to be a composer, but rather a producer of music—even if no one else hears it. The healing powers of music range from… Continue reading

Lay Your Burdens Down

The Power of the Cross not only washes away our sins at conversion, but is there for all that Jesus offers for our lives after that. The inspiration for this page, by Natasha Lee, focused on the cross, and as I created, I was worshipping with the song *The Power of the Cross* by Keith & Kristen Getty. As I meditated on this powerful work Jesus the Christ accomplished on the cross, the picture in my mind was from Pilgrims Progress, on Christian’s burden being lifted at the foot of the cross. Jesus’ lifting of our burdens isn’t just that one… Continue reading

Dry Bones

When YHWH set Ezekiel down in the valley full of very dry bones, The Spirit asked him, “Son of man, can these bones live?” Ezekiel replied, “Lord YHWH, only you know.” Dry bones, hear the word of YHWH, “I will cause breath to enter you, and you will live.” The Encounters in Colour Christian art journaling retreat session by Jen Alward focused on this passage, in Ezekiel 37. As I meditated on it and how I wanted to make my faith art page for it, I remembered a time several years ago when I was walking through a valley of… Continue reading

Stones of Remembrance

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