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[Final Notification] He Restores My Soul

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Just a friendly reminder about He Restores My Soul—a transformative Faith+Art journey through Psalm 23! Early Bird pricing ends tonight!  👩🏻‍🎨 I’m so excited to invite you to my He Restores My Soul soul- transforming Faith+Art course! 🎨 This course is all about exploring Psalm 23, and the restoration of our souls that Jesus provides. We will work through the meaning and application of each verse in this Psalm, and then in response, express our worship and prayers to God through the soul-transforming creative process of Mixed Media Art.  🫟 Early Bird Special price: $47 until Sept 1! Coupon Code for discount… Continue reading →

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 →

How Mixed Media Ruined My Art

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How Mixed Media Ruined My Art… But brought healing to my soul. Perhaps you can relate in some way. Are you being held back from creating because you think you can’t do it? Won’t be any good at it? Don’t have any natural talent for it? Can’t take the time to do it if it doesn’t turn out great? Were you driven to perfectionism as a child? Or did an abuser shame you into it as an adult? Were you an overachiever? Put that pressure on yourself? What holds you back? My Journey Creating with a goal of perfection came… 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 →

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 →

Dry Bones

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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 →

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 →

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 →

The Power of Creativity

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People tend to think of Creativity as a hobby—or a job, if you’re super skilled and have great marketing. Something you are skilled at so you do it—or not. Something you love doing and do well—or not. They are thinking in terms of Fine Art. A painter who brings color to life in beautiful landscapes. A sketch artist who draws lifelike portraits. Or a sculptor who mimics Michelangelo. Creativity can lead to that—for a relatively small number of people. But creativity (and art) are so much more. They are for everyone! Creativity is an innate part of everyone of us…. Continue reading →

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 →