Sunday's Little Blessing - Rose

Hello Friends,

This week I made a rose for you. I hope you like and can use it on some of your projects, now or in the future.

Blessing hugs,
Teresa

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Wonderfully Made

Hi Friends,

What touched me the most about the Take Me Deeper devotion today at His Kingdom Come was the beautiful song, "Wonderfully Made". I had never heard it before and now I can't get enough of it. It is based on Psalm 139:14. Have a listen.

Think about it. You are God's masterpiece - the crowning achievement of his creation. You were not a mistake and you have a divine destiny - a reason for being on this earth. You are beautiful and you are loved. He loves to see your face; he longs to hear your voice.

I used Dylusions spray inks on my background and my "God's Girls - Creativity" stamp set from the Faith Art Shoppe at HKC. I stamped onto two different kinds of wrapping paper, which I cut out. I also mounted my girl onto dark green card stock.

I painted my girl and easels mainly with acrylics. I also doodled around some of the hearts with marker pens.

I wrote words in some of the hearts and "wonderfully made" at the bottom, which is the title of the song.

One really nice thing about the FaithArt stamps is they are very flexible and very sticky. I was able to bend the straight "His Masterpiece" stamp into an arch. I added my thumb print with Versa Mark ink and heat-embossed it with ultra-fine black powder.

Thank you for visiting my blog today. I do hope with all of my heart that you have at least at inkling of how very precious you are to God.

Blessing hugs,
Teresa

Challenges:
Art Journal Journey - Music is the food of love
Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - Have a heart
Paint Party Friday - paint
Creative Moments - ATG/Love
Path of Positivity - Desire
Crafting by Designs - ATG
Word Art Wednesday - ATG

Oil in My Lamp

Dear Friends,

Isn't it lovely how we get to inspire each other in so many ways through social media these days? I gleaned inspiration for this art journal page from several sources. A number of online friends (many at His Kingdom Come) have shown how they prep their pages for taking sermon notes. Another source (I can't remember it) suggested painting random shapes and doodling frames around them; later, notes can be written in the shapes. (I added my notes later.)

The Time Warp Wife has a You Tube video where she shows how to easily create beautiful roses and banners. I adore drawing the roses. I finally stopped myself from drawing more.

The real star of the page is my lamp. It started with a random doodle that I really liked, though it took me a while figure out what it was. Once I envisioned it as a lamp shade, I went to work cutting out a base for it out of black card stock. I dry and heat embossed it and then glued my lamp onto my page, adding the only scripture that came to my mind about a lamp.

During our family worship time last night the Lord brought to my mind Jesus' parable of the 10 virgins in Matthew 25. Five brought extra oil for their lamps and five did not.

Family worship is not something we have been doing for very long. In fact, we started just this past summer and sometimes we miss. Sometimes we don't feel like doing it and our resolve is weak. Last night I sensed the Lord wanted to affirm us in this, even though we don't do it perfectly or even consistently.

This DESIRE puts me in mind of an old song:
Give me oil in my lamp; keep me burnin'.
Give me oil in my lamp today.
Give me oil in my lamp; keep me burnin, burnin, burnin.
Keep me burnin 'til the light of day.

Thank you for visiting my blog today. I appreciate your visit and look forward to reading your comments.

Blessing hugs,
Teresa

Challenges:
Word Art Wednesday - ATG (anything goes)
The Outlawz Color Challenge - Colour inspiration plus add a heart
We Love to Create - anything creative/mixed media
Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - Have a Heart
Path of Positivity - Desire
Art Journal Journey - If Music be the food of love