Coloring Page 2

 

Day 2 of sharing with you my colored images from my Girlie-Girl Coloring book.  On this little gal I added hot pink streaks into her hair along with some words on her bangs.

 

Although, this one isn't that dramatically different as the colored image, she still looks beautiful all colored in and filled with bright vibrant colors don't you think? 

 

I will be adding the Coloring book (which holds 15 of my drawings) to my Etsy page shortly.

www.kellysartjournaling.etsy.com

 

Blessings for your week everyone.

Coloring Book - Page

 

For the upcoming Art/Craft fair I have created a Girlie-Girl Coloring book for women or anyone who desires to color, paint my drawings.  Below is the drawing not colored.

 

I love adding words to my gals, on her neck reads; "The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear?"  Psalm 27:1

 

I used sienna colored Copic Markers for her hair and eyes, blending the different shades.

 

 

I love how different the plain image is from the colored image, it doesn't look like the same gal does it?

 

I hope your week is starting off to be wonderful.

 

Hugs and many blessings to you.

 

A Little Art Journaling

 

 

This week I have had some much needed art journaling time. 

 

On this page I was able to re-use some of my previous art and cut out tiny copies to use as a border.  

 

 

I began this page using ink blots from my Copic Markers all over the page.

For those of you who do not know me, I have a very difficult time with this chaotic, abstract process.  I need to practice drawing out images from the ink blots. 

 

I outlined all the colors with a black sharpee and then doodled on from there.  I used a white-out pen to highlight and make this page 'pop'!

 

Art journaling is such a healing journey... I pray that you will find this through your pages.

 

Hugs and blessings everyone!

 

 

Getting Ready

 

I am prepping my art pieces for cards and prints and a fun Girl coloring book for the art fair this year.

 

 

My crocheted necklaces, paperdolls and charms are all packaged up ready for sale.

 

 

I have colored one of the pages in the Girl Coloring Fun Book I made to show how they look once colored.  In this book I have 15 drawings available for people to make their own and have fun with, all wrapped up in an easy to take apart booklet to work on one piece at a time.

 

I pray that you are all having a great week. 

Many hugs and blessings, praying for everyone on the East Coast of U.S. and other Countries effected by Hurricane Sandy.

 

 

And the winner is...

     Congtations to Laurie from "lone Black Bird" for winning the giveaway of the lace crocheted necklace!

Please email me your address so that I cam mail you your prize.  

Thank you for participating in my giveaway everyone!

Hugs and blessings

GIVEAWAY! Crocheted Art Charm Necklace

 

 

This style of crocheted necklace is called a 'laced bib'.  I just taught myself how to make them last week and I have already made almost 10 of them.  They are very simple to make.  All I did was go to youtube and type in Crocheted Necklace and a lovely tutorial came up on this type.

 

I added a purple bead to the top for a button and then my art charm from my "Girlie-Girl" art piece to the center. 

 

Now it's all ready to be sold for a lovely girl Christmas present at the upcoming Christmas Craft/Art Fair the end of November.

 

Now the question remains, and maybe you could help me, what would you charge for this necklace?  They will come packaged in cellophane envelopes with my business logo. Everyone who comments gets a chance to win this necklace.

 

I will choose from the names of everyone who helps me with giving an opinion of what to charge at the fair for this necklace and will draw a name for a winner this Friday, November 2nd.

 

Thank you for your help.

 

Hugs and blessings.

 

 

Undercover Gypsy: Lets Go Treasure Hunting

 (Kelley Kuhlman)

 

Today I read such a beautiful honest and open post from Kelley Kuhlman from Undercover Gypsy.  In this post she describes her love of the idea of 'treasure hunting' or finding a missing treasure. 

Undercover Gypsy: Lets Go Treasure Hunting

Instantly this verse came to mind after reading her post;
"Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also" Matthew 6:21

So often we get tangled up with the 'things' of this world, we hold closely onto them as though we can take them with us when we die.  The truth, they are just worldly possessions that turn to dust.  Our true treasures are in Heaven waiting for us.

I thank Kelley for her honesty and for her desire to live a life of seeking her treasure in Heaven... it is a difficult process at times and so easy to hold on to the things in this world.  I tend to hoard art supplies, magazines, and other things because of my love of art, but I am learning to use them for the Kingdom more everyday.

Blessings to you Dear Friends, I hope you take the time to go to Kelley's blog and read her post and take in her beautiful art.

Fruit of The Spirit Woman

 

I had a great time with this piece.  I love, love, love drawing

girlie girl art.  When my husband looked at this piece he told me that he liked it, it was full of joy, and then he said, "It's how you want to feel right?".  He knows me so well. 

 

I have been having a difficult time on Lyrica for my FM, it had thrown me into a  very bad depression.  I am starting to feel better a little at a time.  I am waiting for it to clear out of my system.  I am thankful that I was able to create such a joyful piece as this.

 

I pray that you are all having a very blessed week indeed.

Hugs and many blessings dear friends.

 

 

Paper Doll Time!

 

It's that time of year again, craft/art fair preparation!  This year I have drawn and made this paper doll.  It comes with one paper doll, 6 Costumes, 3 brads.

 

This is the "Angel" Costume

 

This is the paper doll.

 

This is "The princess ballerina" costume.

 

This is the "Mermaid" costume.

 

The three other costumes are "Snow White", "Cinderella" and "Belle", I didn't have a picture of them at time of posting.

 

I hope you enjoy.

 

Praying you all have an awesome weekend

 

Hugs and many blessings

 

Graphite Watercolor Pencil - Yummy!

 

 

The other day, at Michael's (using my 50% off coupon) Josh showed me these Graphite watercolor pencils.  I was surprised that he knew about them but so thankful that he did; he has been getting back into sketching and graffiti style lettering. 

 

I had seen these little treasures on blogs before but never knew where to purchase them.

 

They were only $3.99 for two and they came with a sharpener!

 

I was enthusiastic about this process the moment my watercolor brush hit the paper, it blended so lovely and smooth.

 

I know that I will be using them again and again!

 

I pray that your week is going very well.  Today I celebrate 19 years of marriage to my soul mate, we are so very blessed.

 

Hugs and many blessings to you my Dear Friends.

 

The Cover of My "Girlie-Girl" Coloring Doodle Book

As I previously told you, I am preparing stuff for an art/craft fair at the end of November.  This is the cover to my new "Girlie-Girl" Coloring and Doodle book.  I had so much fun drawing this gal with her bright eyes, flowers in her hair and her flower top.  I especially love the Washi Tape border that I picked up at my local Scrapbookers store.  I am not really a scrapbooker anymore but I love some of the supplies and tools that are used for the scrapbooking process. 

Yesterday, at my local Michael's Store, I found the niftiest tool by Epiphany Crafts called a Shape Studio Tool.

 

 

You use this tool with these bubble caps

 

 

It's a little blurry, but I think you can see that I have shrunk down my art and have used this tool to adhere them to the bubble caps, and the tool also cuts the picture perfectly.  The middle one I have placed the bubble cap into a charm holder for a necklace (which I will be doing for all my images).

 

 

It has helped me to expand into a new way of using my art and I always love finding new ways to use my art!

 

For all you Canadian's out there, HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

 

Hugs and blessings for your week.

Getting Ready For My Craft/Art Fair

 

It has been a slow process of getting ready for the craft/art fair this year but I am trudging along.

 

I am printing off my art work and making bookmarks (above) and then cards.  Eventually I will get to printing off prints to go in matt frames.  Last year I was in four fairs, four weekends in a row... this year I am in a total of one and my family will be helping me all the way, I may even recruit a friend to help the fair day.  She has already come over to help me with putting cards together, she is such a sweetheart.

 

I signed up for instagram this week and was able to take the above shots with the nifty borders or edging. I have a lot to learn about instagram.

 

I hope you are all having a wonderful beginning to your fall.  The leaves have all changed into the most exquisite vibrant oranges, yellows and reds and that old familiar chill is in the air.

 

Many hugs and blessings to you dear friends.

 

 

Fruits of the Spirit

 

Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness, Self-Control... this is what we need to strive for.

 

Can you imagine how life would be if everyone lived their lives with the Fruit of the Spirit within them?  This world would be a much better place.

 

I think of our world now and to be honest I do not like what I see.  I hate all the violence, the wars, the famine, the lack of respect; I hate the way many people strive for things that please themselves more than working at helping others; I hate the way the Earth groans in earth quakes, tsunamis, floods and tornados killing thousands and thousands of people - so I hate that we are killing the world with pollution, with overuse of resources pulled from the core of the Earth.

 

When I look around at people I see anxiety, strife, anger and frustration with others; I see a world where we do not know our neighbours and most of our conversations are by text or email.  This world is striving for self ambition and I am not a big fan.

 

That is why the Fruit of the Spirit is within me and I strive everyday to produce good fruit out into the world.  Placing goodness out there, well, can only be good.  So today, I choose to put forth these good thoughts...

 

Joy

 

Peace

 

Patience

 

Kindness

 

Goodness

 

Faithfulness

 

Gentleness

 

and Self-control

 

What will you put out into the world today?

 

I wish you all these things and more.  Many hugs and many blessings.

 

~Kelly~

In This World

 

 

In This world we will have trouble,

but take heart, I have overcome the world... Jesus.

 

It saddens my heart to realize that no matter how much we let our lights shine out to the world, how ever nice we are, how ever much we try, try and try again to be Jesus to those in and of the world... there will always be those who take advantage, who hurt us and who deny us goodwill.

 

It hurts deeply when this happens, cutting to the heart.  Sometimes that pain lasts for a long time, however, we must be strong and believe in the Lord that He will heal our wounds; He will and does as we rely on Him.

 

There are also times when this pain comes back, triggered by events out of our control, or people... then once again we turn to the Father, the only One who can heal us.

 

This might seem like an arduous task because it is almost a guarantee that as long as we live in this world there will always be people who hurt, disappoint or attack our hearts... but take heart dear friends...

 

God is waiting, He will never leave us nor forsake us.

 

Today, tomorrow, and always allow Jesus to take our pain.

 

Hugs and blessings to you.

 

 

 

 

A Friend Loves At All Times



My new piece "Friendship" The verse on this piece means a lot to me, it truly describes how real friendships should be; they should love at all times; they should be there for you at the beginning, middle and end of your troubles; you should be confident in knowing that your friend would lay down their lives for you. God's idea of real friendship, someone who will be there no matter the circumstances.

 

Friendship is loving someone and it goes very well with 1 Corinthians 13:4-8

⁴ Love is PATIENT, love is KIND. It does NOT ENVY, it does NOT BOAST, it is NOT PROUD. ⁵ It does NOT DISHONER OTHERS, it is NOT SELF SEEKING, it is NOT EASILY ANGERED, it keeps NO RECORD OF WRONGS. ⁶ Love does NOT DELIGHT IN EVIL but REJOICES WITH THE TRUTH. ⁷ It  ALWAYS PROTECTS, ALWAYS TRUSTS, ALWAYS HOPES, ALWAYS PERSEVERES.  ⁸ Love NEVER FAILS.

 

In all my friendships I try to be all these things; patient, kind, not envious, not boastful, not proud, not dishonoring them, not self seeking, not easily angered (forgiving), not remembering wrongs they have done.  Not delighting in evil, so letting my light shine always and making our friendship based on pure truth.  I protect my friends and trust goes both ways, I hope for my friend and believe for them that they are under God's protection, I also pray for them.  I persevere with them in all circumstances... and by doing these things my love for them never fails.

 

Sometimes a friend comes a long that does not do all the things I try to do for them... I continue to let my light shine and am all those things to them regardless.  However, sometimes you have to determine if a friend is a real 'friend' or they are an acquaintance... if you have done all that you can do for them and still they are not there for you... then maybe it is time to dust your feet off at the door and leave your friendship to God.  If it is meant to be then it will be and they will come back ready to build a true friendship based on the foundation of God.  Continue to pray for them if they do not.

 

I have had to set up many boundaries in my friendships in order to protect myself from painful emotions that arise from 'friends' using me.  I believe this is important so that you do not have an emotional burn out and so that you realize that the friendship is not good for you to maintain.  Never stop believing that one day they will SEE, and never stop praying for them.

 

Remember, FRIENDSHIP takes two people loving from both ends to blossom.

 

I pray that all of your friendships are blessed.

 

Many hugs and blessings to you.

 

What I have Been Thinking about lately

 

 

There are a lot of hurting people in the world, I am one of them.  I have physical pain every day, I have gone through years and years of hard, deep, dark depression... but I know without a doubt that God is in control.  I know without a doubt that there is a reason I am the way I am and I know it is because of God's intense love for me, His daughter.

 

This world teaches us to think that God is a hateful God that loves to just watch us suffer in this world... that is so far from the truth. 

 

You just need to look at the beauty in the world to see how much God loves His creation. 

 

One of my favorite things to do is to sit out on our back deck and watch the birds twitter from one tree to another... I watch the Robins pecking for worms in the grass... the butterflies flittering here and there... the bunnies being born in the spring and then making their home underneath our deck...

 

It is all because of God that I am allowed to see the beauty of His nature.

 

Whatever happens in this life, whatever circumstance I may find myself in... well... I am content.  My God will sustain me.  He will sustain you through whatever you are going through to, you are HIS beloved.  Reach out for Him and He will be there.

 

I place my trust in HIM the maker of Heaven and Earth.

 

Hugs and blessings my Dear Friends... you are in my thoughts.

Up To Date With My Blog Pages To Share

Hello my lovely friends here.  Thanks so much for coming by.  I have had an extremely busy summer (as you can probably tell from me not posting since August 1 :0)

I do not usually let things go like that!

On another more lovely thought... the above page was done for my big Sister Kathy.  She has requested from me a piece with an Angel using iced blue colors.  The scan really does not do this page justice, it looks so much better in person!

I completed this piece while RV'ing in my girlfriends RV while they were out of town, I guess you could say I was RV-sitting;)

I finished this one also while at the RV.  You can't really call in camping as we were watching "Gilmore Girls" while I art Journaled.  Yep, that was an awesome quiet, peaceful time.



Today I have worked on a page about my Jesus, my Savior.  I just feel Him calling me closer, calling me to go deeper into Him.

I long for Him, I need Him,

He is my strength and my shield.

I pray that your strength and your shield is standing firm over you.

Have a blessed day.

The Eyes of Shame

I worked on this page last week and wasn't sure what it was going to turn into... then I went to Church and Pastor Phil was speaking on the topic of "Shame". I began to see where this piece was going as eyes poked out behind all the beautiful flowers I felt like it was depicting how we can sometimes hide in life and "Shame" is the culprit. It steals our real identity in Christ. Having experienced this and having to constantly work this out with God and give it over to Him, Pastor Phil's sermon really spoke to me.

 

When I got married I was full of shame carried over from my past ~ I had all the characteristics of someone holding onto shame.  I was shy, self-conscious, vain and passive.  I cared so much about what other people thought about me that I would spend hours getting ready just to be perfect on the outside.  I felt stupid, uneducated, not good enough.  I didn't trust my husband...

 

The shame I carried wasn't only from the things in my life that I did and regretted (of course I had those things)... but also I held onto shame that wasn't even mine.  When I was little I was sexually abused, I was left alone, I was made to feel stupid and worthless (not necessarily put on me by my parents), as I grew up again... abusive boyfriend who cheated and was a compulsive liar (feelings of low self worth grounded into me until I was so little and useless on the inside).  Many things contributed to the shame I carried with me everywhere.

 

Today, I am free of many of those things, Jesus has set me free.  I no longer believe that I am stupid nor do I have low self-esteem (at least not to the extent I had).  I can take steps on my own and am independant in things that I never used to be.  Shame is a heavy burden, one that we are not meant to carry.  Jesus died for our shame!  He took our shame and bore it on the cross that we might live lives free of it forever.   Now we just need to give it to Him and believe that He can take it from us.

For the first time in my life I can breathe a breath of fresh, fresh air.  I can hold my head up high and see the sun, the blue sky and hear the birds chirping away...

 

When you are consumed with fear you cannot see/hear or experience anything else.  Give it to Him and see the life you were meant to live.

 

I pray for you all, may you be very blessed.