“O God, listen to my cry!Hear my prayer! From the ends of the earth. I cry to you for help when my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the towering rock of safety,for you are my safe refuge, a fortress where my enemies cannot reach me. Let me live forever in your sanctuary, safe beneath the shelter of your wings!"
Psalm 60:1-4
Today I'm over on the Creative Retreat Blog sharing a bible journaling page using the May Faith Art Box. To read more head over to the Creative Retreat Kits page bleow:
"Love the Lord you God with all your heart and with all your soul." -Matthew 23:7
Did you know there are over 40 other verses in the bible that say to "Love the Lord your God"? To read more about it and check out my post over on the Creative Retreat Blog click the link below:
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Hello, and welcome to the Mixed Media Attic! I wanted to share with you all a little canvas that I just finished working on this afternoon. The verse Psalm 23:5 says "My cup overflows with blessings."
I had an idea to take that verse and use it on a canvas with some stacked tea cups. I decided to use some card stock paper from the Illustrated Faith collection "She Blooms". I used my Silhouette Portrait Die Cutting Electronic cutting machine, to cut out the tea cups. I stacked the tea cups on the canvas before starting, just to make sure there were enough for the height of the canvas. I like to take pictures of the way things are arranged, so when they get moved later I will remember the order that they were in by looking at the picture taken. After making sure there were enough tea cups to stack, I covered the canvas in some printed tissue paper using Liquitex Matte Medium. After it was dry, I added a light coat of white gesso over the canvas. Gesso works great as a primer for your surface.
I let the canvas dry a few hours before painting. I used some of the Illustrated Faith Acrylic Paints and blended them together using a damp baby wipe.
For some added texture I used Ranger's black archival ink and some Illustrated Faith stamps around the canvas.
Next I used Liquitex matte medium to glue down the tea cups, being sure to go over the top of the tea cups as well, with the matte medium to help secure them onto the canvas and seal them on. This will help later when I go around the tea cups with a Faber-Castell Big Pitt Brush marker for shadowing. Next I used some of the Illustrated Faith Home Spun Alpha's to read Psalm 23:5 being sure to go over them with the matte medium to help adhere them to the canvas.
Once the canvas was dry, I went around the tea cups using the Faber Castell markers. These are great for adding shading. They are archival quality ink, but you have some time to blend them with your finger before it dries.
Last I used a fine line sharpie pen to go around all the letters and the tea cups to help them to stand out on the canvas.
This is such a great verse to help remind me of God's many blessings over my life. Thanks for checking out my canvas today!
Hello friends! Happy first day of summer to you! I'm not sure what part of the world you are reading this from but here in Southern California we kicked off summer with a heat advisory and Temperatures hitting the 120's today... Yuck! This summer I will be joining the Illustrated Faith community and attending their summer Revival Camp. I was asked by a relative where it was at and how long. I giggled a bit to my self, and replied with a smile "It is online and in my craft room for the next 12 weeks."
The Workshop comes with lots of printables, and a packing list. How cute? I like that the packing list included a color pallet of the colors that are in the printables. It made it so easy to pull pieces from my stash, from other things I had already on hand. I love that one of the printables was an insert to make your own travelers note book for "field notes" and, three different covers for your notebooks with the Revival Camp Logo on them.
I made two travelers sized notebooks with the printables included with the workshop. The first one I used the field notes printable and printed about 6 pages front and back, next I cut down the paper to size 8.5x8.5 , followed by printing and cutting down the cover on a sheet of white cardstock (for added weight). I put the cover on top of the field note sheets and made sure every thing was even and straight to be folded in half long ways. Last I opened up the folded paper and took a long arm stapler and stapled 2 staples one at the top center and one at the bottom center of the pages. I took some washi tape and applied it along the spines of the note books the cover the staples and add some layers to it.
I did the same thing to make my second travelers sized notebook, except for taking blank copy paper and cutting it down to size and using a different color for the cover. The purpose for the blank pages in this notebook are for me to be able to add the weekly devotional and printable embellishments to the pages along with some journaling. This summer during my hike with God through this journey I want to also do some bible journaling that corresponds to the weeks scripture. Week one spoke from the book of Nehemiah, and about what ignites our passions.
So Here I sit packed and ready for revival camp. Ready to soak in the teachings from this workshop and dig deeper into his word all while creating and crafting to glorify His great name! I hope you will all join me around the camp fire this summer along with the Illustrated Faith community!
Hello friends, just a quick post updating you with a few weeks of my #100dayproject that I'm participating in. I have decided to illustrate a worship song in my praise book from Illustrated Faith. You can find me on instagram with my own hash tag for the project which is: #100daysofillustratedworship
Day 7
Day 08
Day 9
Day 10
Day 11
Rend Collective - My Vision
Day 12
Day 13 and Day 14 Lauren Daigle "I will trust in you"
Day 15
Day 16
Day 17
Day 18
Day 19
Day 20
Day 21
Day 22
Day 23
Day 24
Thanks for stopping by and checking out my latest project!
Hello, and welcome to the Mixed Media Attic. I wanted to share with you all something fun and exciting that I will be starting on later today. Some of you may already know about The 100 day Project, and have seen people sharing about it on Instagram via hashtag #The100DayProject , and some of you may have no idea at all, what it is that I'm talking about. So below at the end of the post I have a link with some more information on the Project and exactly what it is all about. For the next 100 days I have decided to use my beautiful Illustrated Faith Praise Book that I have been hoarding, afraid to use the last 2 months and turn it into my 100 Days OF Illustrated Worship Book.
Every day I listen to praise and worship music and I find myself wanting to use lyrics to a worship song in my bible journal but there are times that I do not know what verse fits the lyrics. Each day I want to pick a song from now until July 27th to Illustrate and journal in my Illustrated Faith praise book. I will be posting my projects for each day every Sunday. Stay tuned to see what the next 100 days will bring.
What Is the 100-Day Project? It’s a celebration of process that encourages everyone to participate in 100 days of making. The great surrender is the process; showing up day after day is the goal. For the100-Day Project, it’s not about fetishizing finished products—it’s about the process.
Hello friends! As Lent comes to an end I wanted to share with you the rest of my pages in my journaling Bible, that correlated with the She Reads Truth Lent Devotional. You can check out their site below:
A few weeks ago I ordered some Illustrated Faith stickers, and die-cuts along with their new Beautiful Devotional Kit by Valerie Wieners. I ended up using quite a few of my new goodies to create many of my pages these last few weeks.
I wanted to make a little door to go with the verse below.
Keeping it simple using some washi tape, stamps, and alpha stickers.
The start of Holy Week: Palm Sunday
"Hosanna in the highest."
Below I used the tag that was in the Illustrated Faith News Letter, where a free set of Printables was included. I wanted to try out the new Illustrated Faith Pebeo Acrylic Paints. I swiped some paint onto the page using an old gift card with three different colors, next I watered down some paint and added it into the areas where I still had white showing. I added some alpha stickers for the verse and outlined them with a pen. I love the watercolor look from the paints.
On Tuesday this past week as many of you know there was an attack in Brusseles, Belgium. I wanted to pray tribute to the horrific events of the day, and it really went with a verse from the Lent devotional.
"Then he said to them, "Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be great earthquakes, and there will be terrors and great signs from heaven." (Luke 21:10,11)
Here I wanted to draw an alabaster jar. This verse reminded my of a song by Rend Collective. I wanted to share it with you all here below:
"I am broken at Your feet
Like an alabaster jar
Every piece of who I am
Laid before Your majesty
I will bow my life
At Your feet, at Your feet
My lips, so lost for words
Will kiss Your feet, kiss Your feet"
Here I used up some of the free printables from the Illustrated Faith News Letter, and added some journaling of the verse to the margin.
Using more of the free printables and some alpha stickers for my Good Friday page. I journaled some Lyrics to a Chris Tomlin song that I thought, the words go perfect for Christ sacrafice on the cross for us.
"At the cross
At the cross
I surrender my life
I'm in awe of You
I'm in awe of You
Where Your love ran red
And my sin washed white
I owe all to You
I owe all to You Jesus"
Last is my page for Easter Sunday.
Now the stone was rolled away, and Christ is risen. He is risen indeed!
Hello, and welcome to The Mixed Media Attic! I have been doing the She Reads Truth Lent Devotional these last three weeks now. If you missed my post from the first week of Lent and would like to check it out, I have the link posted below:
The last three weeks I have been digging deeper into the word, and spending more time with God. During the second week, I did fall behind as the flu bug got me that has been going around. Feeling better now and ready to share with you all some of my pages from my Journaling Bible. On Day 8 I had posted my photo on my instagram account. As many of you may know of Illustrated Faith, well all Glory to God.... My photo was featured on their Instagram feed! I was so stoked!
One of my favorite prayers
On day 12 I wanted to try my own hand lettering, something that I do not like. I went out on a limb and decided to try lettering without doing it in pencil first. After laying down the ink, of course I was unhappy with my hand lettering. But what I want to show you here is, I tried. I may not like my results but its imperfect, and that is ok.
Same here on day 13 I wanted to try my own hand lettering, I was happy with the results, except for the I in Him, but after looking at it and grumbling and fussing with the imperfection in my lettering I realized that I was getting better and I took my time rather than rushing like the day before.
Again trying my luck with my own lettering, I opted out of using pencil first and going over it later with a pen, and dove right in with ink. I regretted that decision yet again. Imperfections are what makes my journaling bible unique right?
Here was my first attempt at trying to paint messy flowers.... I got the messy down.
7 day series of in the book of Jonah
I love to listen to praise and worship music while journaling in my Bible. One song I found my self listening to that went with day 15 was a hymn called "I Need Thee Every Hour" I found a beautiful version of this on YouTube done by Joey and Rory that I have shared with you all below,
Hello friends and welcome to the Mixed Media Attic. This past Wednesday as some of you may know was Ash Wednesday. It is a day of fasting, prayer, and repentance. It is the first day of Lent in Christianity. Lent begins on Ash Wednesday and last about six weeks leading up to Easter. During this time the Churches are devoted to fasting, abstinence, and penitence in commemoration of Christ's fasting in the wilderness.
This year I have decided to join the She Reads Truth Lent Devotional.
Each day there are a few different verses to read and reflect on. After my readings I like to go into my journaling bible and create an entry to correlate with one of the readings for that day. I also have a travelers notebook that I have been journaling in as well to correlate with the day's readings.
Ash Wednesday: Day 1
Day 3
Day 4
Day 6
Day 7
On days 2 and 5 I choose not to do any bible journaling and instead I journaled in my travelers Lent notebook.
During this first week of Lent we read that we serve a merciful and loving God. We fall short of his commandments, which is why he sent His son here for us. God wants us to come to him with humbled hearts, with repentance for all of our evil ways. Our God is a sovereign God, who forgives those that truly seek it. When we repent of our sins and ask God to forgive us, he washes our sins white as snow, and seasons of refreshing can begin. I encourage you to devote some time during this Lent season to dig into God's word. Draw near to Him.
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