Bible Journaling Week 2, and 3 of Lent

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:

http://mixedmediaattic.blogspot.com/2016/02/bible-journaling-week-1-of-lent.html

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,

 
Thanks for visiting! 
God Bless, 
Krystal

Watercolor Flowers

Hello friends! Welcome! Spring is just around the corner. My favorite season.  I just love when the flowers start blooming.  Everything is made new again. I wanted to share a quick picture of some quick "five minute flowers" done with watercolors.

For 2016 I have decided to participate in Life Book.  If you don't know about it or want more information on weekly classes jam packed with tips, tricks, and techniques taught by some amazing mixed media artist then go check out Tamara Laporte over at Willowing.

“Life Book, a celebration and honouring of YOU”is a year-long mixed media art classorganised by  Tamara Laporte from Willowing Arts.

http://www.willowing.org/life-book-2016/

 "Five minute flowers" is one of the classes in this weeks Life Book 2016, Inspired by Martha Lever. She has quite a few workshops and online classes on her blog. Not to mention a beautiful calligrapher.  Be sure to check her out!

 http://marthalever.blogspot.com/ 

This seriously is so fun, and addicting. When I first seen what we were doing I thought to myself, "ya right, I cant do this."  Martha makes it so easy to do! I just loved this class. I've made about 10 of these little flower pots so far. I'm practicing before I dive into the lesson with my good watercolor paper. Here is a little sneak peak at one of my practice flowers. 

Bible Journaling Week 1 of Lent

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. 

God Bless,

Krystal 

Altered 7 Gypsies Painter's Tray

Altered Turquoise Painter's Tray

Hello friends and thank you for visiting the Mixed Media Attic today.  This week I have been working on an altered printers tray by 7 Gypsies. The possibilities of what you can do to a printers tray are endless.  There are so many great ideas for inspiration on Pinterest that you can find.  While shopping at my local Michael's store I was rummaging the clearance shelf one afternoon and found this Printers Tray nearly 50 % off the original price.  So of course I couldn't pass up the deal, and have been hoarding it in my stash for months. I can't help buying something when its on sale or clearance.  You can call me a craft hoarder I suppose, but I seem to always find good use for my discounted goods.  Can you tell that I'm tying to make excuses for my self now?

 
Recently while browsing Etsy.com (a website full of handmade, vintage, and other unique goods) for some vintage ephemera and embellishments I found this amazing Shop with the most unique vintage flapper girls.  Head over to Lisa's Altered Art Etsy Shop  to check out some of her digital files.  She also had some coupon codes up on her shop. I wanted to share them with you all. Seriously she has some neat stuff!   

COUPON CODES
Spend 10.00 and get 10% off. Use Code LAA10
Spend 20.00 and get 20% off. Use code LAA20

Here are one of the digital collage sheets that I  have purchased and decided to use.

Supplies Used:

7 Gypsies Printers Tray - White (12 1/8 x 12 1/8 x 5/8) 

Liquitex Matte Medium

Digital Collage Sheet-Pretty in Teal images 

Prima Marketing Shabby Chic Treasures Resin embellishments

Martha Stewart Wood Stain - Beach Glass

Tim Holtz Idea-olgy - Tissue Tape - Journeyman

DCWV Stack - Vintage Essentials 48 sheets

American Crafts Premium Ribbon Lace

Prima Marketing turquoise flowers

Metal and Wooden Embellishments 

Steps:

1. Cut out collage pieces, and cut out squares to fit in each square of the tray

2.  Lined the edges of each square with tissue tape or wahi tape

3.  Adhere the squares of paper with a matte medium

4. Paint the sides of the tray and edges of the squares

5.  Paint all the wooden embellishments

6.  Arrange each of the collage pieces and the embellishment, take a photo of how they are arranged so you remember how they originally were placed.

7.  Glue everything down.

With that I called it finished.

Be sure check out Lisa's Altered Art Esty Shop for some unique finds to add to your latest projects and art. Thanks for stopping by and checking out my blog post today.  I would love to see what kind of altered art you all will come up with.  Leave me a comment.  

  Below I have included a YouTube video for you all so you can watch me create this altered printers tray.  Enjoy!

 Happy Crafting Friends!

November Art Journal Pages - Documented Life Project 2015

The year is quickly coming to an end and here I'am playing catch up with the Documented Life Project 2015. It seems every year around the holidays, our normal routines in life kind of get brushed to the side to prepare for the holidays.  I want to be able to say I finished my DLP this year.  It is now the third week into December and I'm just now starting on this months challenges.  I keep telling myself "I can do it".  Is anyone else finding themselves playing catch up too?  I wanted to share with you some of my pages  from November since I've been seriously slacking on blogging my pages with you. Enjoy!

November Theme

Stencils, Stamps, and Masks
November 7
Art Challenge: Stencils - Made or Bought
Journal Prompt:  On the edge of uncertainty…what are you afraid of?

November Theme

Stencils, Stamps, and Masks
November 14
Art Challenge: Use a Hand Carved Stamp
Journal Prompt:  Tapestries

I just love this quote by Maya Angelou.  It was quite fitting for the challenge.

November Theme
Stencils, Stamps, and Masks
November 21
Art Challenge: Use a Mask
Journal Prompt:  "Mask"arade

What seems ordinary is often the extraordinary.

November Theme
Stencils, Stamps, and Masks
November 28
Art Challenge: Combine the Three (Stencils, Stamps, and Masks)
Journal Prompt:  "Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind."-Henry James

Be kind always to others and most importantly to yourself. 

Practicing my faces...

Thank you all for stopping by and checking out my November challenges for The Documented Life Project 2015!