#100 Days Of Illustrated Worship day 1-6

Thanks for visiting and following me on my journey with #The100DayProject 

 I have taken my Illustrated Faith Praise Book from Day Spring and turned it into my "100 Days of Illistrated Worship" Book. I will be sharing a weeks worth of pages every Sunday here on the blog from now untill July 27th.  If you would like to see my pages daily you can follow me on instagram: @Krystal_Marie_B

01/100

For the first day of #100daysofillustratedworship I wanted to illustrate the song "Here I am to worship" by Hilsong.  The lyrics say exactly what this whole project is really about for me.  Worshiping our Great God! 

"Light of the world

You stepped down into darkness

Opened my eyes and let me see

Beauty that made this heart adore You

Hope of a life spent with You

Here I am to worship, here I am to bow down

Here I am to say that You're my God

Altogether lovely, altogether worthy

Altogether wonderful to me

King of all days, oh so highly exalted

You're glorious in heaven above, yes You are

Humbly You came to this Earth You created

All for love's sake became poor

Here I am to worship, here I am to bow down

Here I am to say that You're my God

Altogether lovely, altogether worthy

Altogether wonderful to me

I'll never know how much it cost

To see my sin up on that cross

I'll never know how much it cost

To see my sin up on that cross

 Hillsong - Here I Am To Worship Lyrics  

02/100

Day two's song reminds be of the goodness, and the love that our  good Father pours out onto us. Here I used stickers, diecuts, and papers from the Illustrated Faith "She Blooms" Collection 

"You're a Good, Good Father

It's who you are, it's who you are, it's who you are

And I'm loved by you

It's who I am, it's who I am, it's who I am

Oh, and I've seen many searching for answers far and wide

But I know we're all searching

For answers only you provide

Cause you know just what we need

Before we say a word."

Chris Tomlin - Good Good Father - Lyrics

03/100

 I recently ordered these cute little alphabet stamps from Valerie Wieners Art, and wanted to break them in for the first time on day 3 to illustrate Tenth Avenue North's song "Losing".  This song reminds me that Jesus said to forgive those who have sinned against us not 7 times but 7x70 times. We must forgive others just as Jesus has forgiven us.  

 "Oh, Father won't You forgive them?

They don't know what they've been doin' (oh no)

Oh, Father, give me grace to forgive them

'Cause I feel like the one losin'

Well it's only the dead that can live

But still I wrestle with this

To lose the pain that's mine

Seventy times seven times

'Cause Lord it doesn't feel right

For me to turn a blind eye

Though I guess it's not that much

When I think of what You've done."

Tenth Avenue North - Losing - Lyrics

04/100
I blast this song every time I hear it come on my radio.  What an amazing thing as a follower of Christ to know he is coming again soon.  

"Even So Come" - Kristian Stanfill

05/100
A few months ago I picked up Tim Holtz new distress crayons and, they are simply amazing. They were so creamy and blended nicely. I prepped my page with some Liquitex matte medium, before putting down any of the distress crayon.  This helps to prime the page and makes the paper a non porous surface, making the distress crayons able to blend easier, and better.  I wanted to use some of the Illustrated Faith stickers from "His Promise" with the lyrics to Danny Gokey's song "Hope in front of me."

 "I've been running through rain that I thought would never end

Trying to make it on faith in a struggle against the wind

I've seen the dark and the broken places

But I know in my soul no matter how bad it gets, I'll be alright

There's hope in front of me

There's a light I still see it

There's a hand still holding me

Even when I don't believe it

I might be down but I'm not dead

There's better days still up ahead

Even after all I've seen, there's hope in front of me."

Danny Gokey - Hope in Front of Me Lyrics

06/100

I wanted to keep today's simple and quick.  After hearing Unspoken's song "Start a fire" I knew that was the song for the day to illustrate.  The words hit me hard, and were a reminder of a conversation I had earlier that day with a patient at work.  It was an affirmation for me.  

"Over and over again
I hear Your voice in my head
Let Your light shine, let Your light shine for all to see
Start a fire in my soul
Fan the flame and make it grow
So there's no doubt or denying
Let it burn so brightly
That everyone around can see
That it's You, that it's You that we need
Start a fire in me
You only need a spark to start a whole blaze
It only takes a little faith."
Unspoken - Start a fire - Lyrics

Thanks for visiting and checking out this weeks #100daysofillustratedworship

Have a blessed week, 
Krystal 

The 100 Day 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. 

The 100 Days Project with Elle Luna 

https://thegreatdiscontent.com/100days

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.

Blessings,

Krystal Barto

"Gypsy Heart" Mixed Media Canvas

Hello friends, and welcome! Today I want to share with you a little Mixed Media Canvas that I have just finished creating which I've decided to name "Gypsy Heart". 

gyp·sy

ˈjipsē/

a nomadic or free-spirited person. 

 Growing up as a child and into adulthood many times I remember being asked my nationality, and telling people that my family is Hungarian. I can recall many times when people would refer to me as being a gypsy because of my heritage. 

    

Supplies Used:

Bo Bunny craft decorative paper 2 pc (chevron and clocks)

Craft Smart acrylic paints (Robins Egg Blue, Light Pink)

Viva Inka Gold

Liquitex matte medium

White Gesso

Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad (Vintage Photo)

The Crafters Workshop Stencil - (TCW202s Mini Harlequin)

Lisa's Altered Art Digital Collage Pieces (printed and cut)

Michaels flower embellishment (dreamy)

Weldbond glue

Xyron Sticker Maker

metal frame embellishment

Faber-Castell Small Pitt Brush Pen Brown

Scissors/Craft Knife

baby wipes

small paint brush

cosmetic sponge

First I covered the canvas with a piece of Bo Bunnys craft paper by applying matte medium to the canvas with a brush and laying the paper on top of the canvas, then brushing a layer of matte medium over the paper to help seal it to the canvas.

Next I took some white gesso and a damp baby wipe to the canvas to give it a white washed look.  This will help the paints blend better on top of the canvas. 

The same way that I applied the gesso with a damp baby wipe, I also applied the paints with a damp baby wipe putting down color and then pulling up some of the color with the wipes until reaching the colors I wanted.

After getting the color down on the canvas, I used one of the Crafters workshop stencils along with some Viva Inka-Gold and a cosmetic sponge to add some pops of gold harlequin to the background.

I wanted some of the print in the BoBunny craft paper to show thorough in the background.

 I took a piece of lace and ran it through my Xyron Sticker maker to get some adhesive onto the back of the lace, and then stuck it onto the top of the canvas.

After printing out some digital collage pieces from Lisa's Altered Art Shop on Etsy. I cut a few of them out to use on this canvas.  I took the strip of pink and blue harlequin paper and glued it down onto the canvas along with the woman that I though could resemble a gypsy.  

On Lisa's Altered Art Shop I also found some phrase collage sheets, and when I seen the words "gypsy heart" I knew I wanted to use it on this canvas. I applied it right on top of the strip of paper I had glued down. After it was all dry I went around each of the collage pieces with a brown Faber-Castell pitt brush pen and blended it with my finger before the ink could dry. 

Next I took a metal frame embellishment and glued it down around the phrase on to the canvas with some weldbond glue.  I also used the same glue to adhere the flower to the left side of the canvas. 

Last I went around the canvas with some Distress ink to give it a worn look on  the edges.    

Thanks for stopping by and seeing how I created this quick little canvas with some really fun digital collage pieces that were printed and cut out.

I have included a link below so you can check out the Etsy Shop where I have found some of my collage pieces. 

Lisa's Altered Art: https://www.etsy.com/shop/lisasalteredart

 Enjoy this Fleetwood Mac video of one of my favorite songs. "Gypsy" 

Happy Crafting,

Krystal

Week 5 of Lent & Holy Week in my Journaling Bible

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:

http://shereadstruth.com/

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!

God Bless you, and thanks for visiting.

Krystal

Whimsical Mushroom Art Journal Page

Last week I finished up a canvas using The Crafter's Workshop "Whimsical Shrooms" stencil- TCW578 and I used modeling paste to give the mushrooms a raised textured look.  Today I was working in my art journal putting down layers of paint using various other stencils and when I was done I thought to myself what next?  I seen the "whimsical shroom" stencil sitting next to me and thought it would be fun to use it again in my art journal.  

First I grabbed 5 different Tim Holtz Distress Paints with Sponge Daubers on the ends. Next I got out  a variety of The Crafters Workshop Stencils.  I found it was so easy to apply paint with the stencil onto my page using the distress paints since they had a built in sponge on the bottle.  It was really effortless to apply. 

After I had three or four layers of paint on my page I used some Liquid Acrylic to add some purple to the areas where I still had white showing, bringing up some of the color with a baby wipe.  

For more texture I used a couple of Kaiser Kraft stamps along with some archival ink.  

 Next I got the "Whimsical Mushroom" stencil out and traced around the inside of the stencil with a graphite pencil.  Layering the mushrooms.

After I was finished tracing the mushrooms with a pencil, I colored in the mushrooms with a black fude ball pen.  

I then went around the mushrooms with a white paint pen, adding some spots and dots to the tops of the mushrooms.  I then watered down some white gesso and added some paint splatters to the page. 

I added a butterfly to the page putting some magenta acrylic on it for  a brighter color that would pop.  I then went around the butterfly with a black Derwent inktense pencil to add some shadowing.  

 I added a quote from the Tim Holtz small talk Sticker sheet, also going around the stickers with an inktense pencil like I did to the butterfly.

Thank you so much for visiting the Mixed Media Attic.  If you have any questions or comments I would love to hear from you.  

- Krystal Barto

http://store.thecraftersworkshop.com/product/whimsical-shrooms/