Bible Art and a Snow Picture

Good evening, y'all!!!!     Sure hope y'all are doing well and that you are still surviving the great "snow in"!     You know, kinda like "lock ins" at church, except we are all snowed in, not just a few of us, but most of us.    In my neck of the woods, we just had what would be called a "little" snow, and we are soooo ready to be done with it.    I can't help but think about all our friends up in the north east and all the snow they are having to dig out of.    It could be June before all the snow mounds melt.    I really hope and pray that all the winter weather is behind us.    On my last post, I mentioned my snow boots had blow outs, and my new ones was hung up somewhere because of the snow; well, I got my new ones and just in case we have more bad weather, I will be able to get out and take pics.   So that's a big Yay on my part!!!!     I did get out of my driveway this morning and went to pay a couple of bills that needed to be paid, so that was wonderful getting out for a few minutes. 

Before we get into my project, I would like to take the time to ask all of y'all to be in prayer for the ones around all of us that are hurting in some way.    There are many that are going thru some heavy stuff.    I just pray for God's mercy and grace and blessings on each and every one.    For some, life is in the balance.   Others are healing from surgeries.    Others are battling cancer.    Lots of children around us are sick with various illnesses, but I know that God is very aware of each and every one of these situations.     So as we lift these people to God, we just pray that His will be done in each life.  

So, this is my next round of Bible Art.    I really love doing these small little pieces of art.     It is perfect for me.    Because I am more of "instant gratification" these days with every thing I do.    It takes very few tools and that alone makes me very happy.     So, for the first one here, this is my lion.     And I do have to tell you that I did use a prompt for this one.     I am not very good at drawing, so I did have to have some help to get the face of this lion drawn.    At some point in time, I hope to come back to this and redraw it all on my own.     Until then, I'm still pretty happy with the way it turned out anyway.

I really love how it looks on my Bible page.

I really enjoyed the simplicity of this cross.    Just freehanding it and adding swirls and dot.    It was really fun to do.

It looks nice on my Bible page.

This is the very first one I done, and I used stamps for it.    Then I colored it and added the sun burst up in the corner.    I kinda liked using the stamp, but I decided I wanted to be challenged  a little more, so I started trying to draw everything.    But, I still liked this one a lot.

 I think it looks nice on my Bible page.

 Ok, so this was the funnest of all to put together.    I knew I wanted to use music notes and such, but I also knew I didn't want to try to freehand that many and make them look alike.    So, I dug up a svg and shrank them down and then resized them to the sizes I wanted.     After getting them to the size I wanted, this is where the fun really comes in.     I cut them out of vinyl on my Silhouette Cameo.     I just cut out a 4x5 inch of sticky back vinyl and placed that on my mat and made sure that my blade did not cut thru the backing.     These cut out soooo wonderfully smooth.     Now, the pieces of paper I use for my art is 6x4.5 inches.   With that in mind, you can see how small some of those music notes are.

After I got the page made, I took my white signo pen and wrote joy on each one of the notes.    I really like this page a lot.     I hope I can utilize vinyl and my Cameo in more of my Bible Art.

This is the piece of vinyl that I used and I put my note on it for all the settings I used.    Look at those small notes as compared to the quarter.    This cut just perfectly!     And, as I said earlier, I did place this on my mat.    So, don't be afraid to put your vinyl on your sticky mat and and have fun with it that way.    It is fun and easy to do.

So, this picture was taken the last time I got to go up to my Mom's and spend a couple of days with her.     It was actually the last of January.   It started snowing on Friday before noon and for the most part, it melted as it hit the ground.    Later on in the evening, it started sticking.     We had the front door open, and looking out at about 9 pm and this is what it looked like.     I placed my smart phone against the window pane in the storm door and took this picture.    This is directly out her front door looking out at the circle court.   The trees had just latched on to the snow and it was just amazing and it was also still snowing pretty hard.     I took a ton of pics and this was just one of them.  

I will leave you this evening with the scriptures on my Bible art.    What do they say to to you?    What is your reaction as you read each one?     How has God spoken to you thru them?      I hope as you read them, that they speak to your heart in such a way that makes you want more of the Word of God.     If you haven't tried something like this, I suggest you try it.    It really isn't about being the best at anything.   It's just about sharing your heart with God and letting Him speak to you thru your art.     It really is fun and you end up with all these neat little pieces of art.

Hope you doing great Ladybug, can't wait for the weather to get better so I can visit for a couple of days.    Sweetpea loves you!

I hope y'all have seen something here that has inspired you is some way.    Just know that God loves y'all and so do I.     hugs, Patty