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

More Bible Art

Good dreary afternoon from my neck of the woods, y'all.      The temp is about 38* with rain now on top of the snow and ice that we've had.      Now we even have flood warnings out around here.      With the melting ice and snow and now all of the rain, it is very likely that some of the low lying areas will be flooded.   I am reminded of a friend of mine up in Boston that has 8 feet of snow now.   She said someone had written in the snow the word "uncle".     I cracked up when she sent that to some of us on a group I belong to.      For some of you that don't know what that is all about, I'll tell you.      For me, when we was growing up, if you got into a tussle with someone, you might get them in some kind of uncomfortable hold and you would tell them you would not let them go till they cried out "uncle".     I don't know why that particular word was the chosen word, but it is what you would have to say in order to be released from that painful situation.      So, if y'all are ready to be released from this painful weather situation, we'll try it.     With that said, lets all say it in unison.     Ready, set, go......"U-N-C-L-E"!!!!       Ok, now all's good, right?       Well, some of us didn't say it loud enough!!!!!        Ok, again, a little louder this time.       "U-N-C-L-E!!!!!!"       Ok, that was better.     We'll see if that does any good.

For sure, some of our friends and neighbors in other areas of the country are really having a tough time with all the bad weather.     Snow, ice, power outrages, roofs collapsing, deaths, sickness and the list just goes on and the weather is just unrelenting.      Pray for these situations.      I pray for them every day.      With the little bit that we have been dealing with this week, it has hit home all the more for all the others across the nation and else where that are in the middle of trying to survive all of this.      We can't be there in person to help all these people, but we sure can pray for all of them.      I DO believe in the power of prayer and it should always be our first line of defense for any situation.     I never want to step out in anything, without first covering the situation with prayer and inviting God to go before me and plan my steps.      So, I ask God to go before all the people that are troubled with the severe weather and protect them.     As my husband leaves every evening for work, I am at the kitchen window watching him go out of sight and praying for his safety in travel and just all around safety and protection while at work, and for health and strength and wisdom and knowledge and skill and every thing he may need to do his job to the best of his ability, as though he is working for the Lord.      And this week I have also been asking God to protect him while out in this bitter cold and snow and ice.     I have also been praying for those who are alone, and for our community at large.  

Sometimes, I think situations like this will happen for the purpose of seeing how and if we reach out to those around us.      Sometimes we may be in situations where we can't do much for anyone, and God understands all of those situations. But don't ever think there's not anything you can do to help anyone.     Like I said earlier, we always have our first line of defense, our greatest weapon as Christians, and that is prayer.      Let's join together and pray for those who need our prayers.      God will bless those prayers, I just know He will.

I have some more Bible art to share with y'all today.    I hope you enjoy it and maybe even get some ideas for some of your own art.

 So, I love pearls and I had been wanting to do a pearl art page.    One of my sisters in Christ calls me Pearl Joy and I love it.      I call her Pearl Love.     So, this is for our love of pearls what they represent to us.     I chose to use this scripture, because I do really love it.     But the scripture that sticks out the most to me is Matthew 7:6   Do not give what is holy to dogs and do not throw your pearls before swine, or they will trample them under their feet and turn and tear you to pieces.      I may do another one on that scripture sometime, but for now, this is what I done.

This is what it looks like in my Bible.      Wink of stella really helped my pearl pop out and I love it!     I'm telling ya', there's nothing that a wink of stella won't help.    hahaha 

I have always loved this scripture also.     Waiting upon God is soooooo hard to do, isn't it?       It really is, but when we do, He goes before us, and He gives us strength and we don't grow weary or tired and we don't grow faint.   When we do it all in our own strength, we falter and we tire out and lag behind and quit.

In my Bible.    I really love how these pieces look in my Bible.   It really makes me happy to put one more in it and another one and another one.

I have had an image in my mind of a twisted vine heart wreath.      I had no idea of how to go about it.     So, I just shut my eyes and started drawing what I seen in my mind and it really started coming together and I was kinda happy with it.

This is it in my Bible.      I also used a gold sakura pen to do some outlining of some of my words and I really like the finished piece of this one.

Who of us doesn't need just a bit more courage.     Joshua had been told by God through Moses to remain strong and to not fear those that stood before him because God had put Joshua where he was.      God is still telling us today through the words that He spoke to Moses to tell Joshua, to remain courageous and strong, and to not be afraid, because He, the Lord our God is with us where ever we go!

 This is how it looks in my Bible.     I love the colorful words and how fun the piece actually turned out, even if it is just a bit elementary.      Most of my stuff is anyway.      So, it is what it is, but it sure is fun having another way to spend time with God, in His Word and learning more and more about His character and learning more and more just how much I need Him.     My friend said the other day, "Jesus is enough!"      And my sister in Christ, you are so right, "Jesus is enough!"      "Nothing more, nothing less, nothing else!!!!!"

As I leave you today, I leave you with all the scripture that you have read here.    Think about each one and how they speak to you and how they minister to your particular situation.      The funny thing about scripture, you read it today, and it speaks to you this way.      Read the same scripture tomorrow and it may speak in a totally different way.     That is what's so awesome about the Word of God.     It will minister to what ever your need is, because it is the Living Word!!!!!!!!

Enjoy the rest of your day and evening.      Tell someone you know that God loves them and cares about them and wants to have a meaningful relationship with them.      You won't regret and they won't either.

Hang in the Ladybug, the snow will get gone one of these days.    Sweetpea loves you bunches.

Till we meet again right back here, God loves y'all and so do I!!!!     hugs, Patty

My Journey into Bible Art

Good evening y'all!!!!!     I hope and pray that where ever y'all are tonight that you are warm and settled in for the evening.     We are expecting an arctic blast in my neck of the woods that could bring some precip in the form of snow and lots of frigid temps.    At 9:30 pm it is 19* here.    So, check on your elderly neighbors and bundle up and stay inside if at all possible.     The upper North Eastern US is being battered hard by all the snow.     I have a friend up there and she has said roofs have started to collapse.     So, while we can be thankful we won't get 7 feet of snow, we sure need to being praying for those that are being pounded over and over.    Take care my friends, and know prayers of safety are heaven bound.

One of the things that a precious sister in Christ and I have started this year is Bible Art Journaling.     We are each others cheer leader, cheering each other on to do more and more.     As I have progressed and put my pieces in my Bible, I decided I wanted to share mine with all of y'all.     Just bare in mind that mine is not all that good.     Just want to share with y'all and maybe give you ideas of how you can do your own art.      As a general rule, the art is actually done on the page.      I'm not comfortable enough yet to do mine directly on the Bible page so.....I modified it to suit my own needs.   

Here's what I do.     I got a tablet of tracing paper.     The size is 9x12 inches.      I cut the sheets down to 4.5x6 inches, giving me four small sheets from one large sheet.      It is just about as thin as a page in my bible and I use washi tape to put it on the page that the passage is from.      With it being tracing paper, if I need to get a basic shape of something, it's no problem to do that.     I have only used a prompt on one of my bible art pages.     It is the one with the lion on it.     I just got the basic shape of the face and then went from there and finished the drawing.     I may go back and re-do that one when I feel I can draw it on my own.     The lion will be in the next upload of my Bible Art.   But, anyway, I have a few I want to share with you and I hope you enjoy them.    They are a true labor of love and a piece of my heart.

On this one, I just wrote out the scripture on the full page in red and then stamped this really frilly heart and key over the writing in london fog memento ink.    I really like the way it turned out.

This is what it looks like in my Bible.    You can see the zebra striped washi tape.  Zebra stripes=By His stripes I am healed.     I tape my little pieces of tracing paper over a sheet of lined notebook paper, that makes writing in a straight line easier to do.

This is the one I done today.    A little emotional about this one.    This was the hardest one for me so far.    I was really proud of this when I got finished with it.

This is what it looks like in my Bible.

My friend had done this one and I so loved it.   This is my version of what she had done.     I love hers more than mine, but I do love mine too.    The pen is beside the page to show the size.     I really love this passage of scripture from the Message translation.       Just beautiful!!!!

What it looks like in my Bible.

I really love this one.    Are you a "whosoever"?    I sure hope so.      If not, it's not to late.

This is what it looks like in my Bible.

Well, there you have it.    This is some of the first ones I have finished.     I have about 5 more and will get them up soon.    And hope to do many more in the days, weeks, and months to come.     I hope if you haven't yet tried this, that you will give it a try.    You don't have to show it on your blog.   You don't have to show it to anyone.     It's just a way of helping soak in the Word of God.    It's not about being the best artist out there.     It's just giving what you have to God and spending time with Him while you are being creative.    Your creativity came from Him after all.     So do it, and enjoy it and let Him direct you in it.    You won't regret it.

Since today is Valentines Day, I have a special Valentine to share with all my favorite people; all of Y'all.      This is a special Valentine from God to us.     Thank you God that You "so loved" us enough to give us the best that You had to give!

There you have it.     The most special Valentine you'll ever receive from the One who loves you more than you could possibly know.      Enjoy!

That's it for the night.     I hope y'all enjoyed what you seen here.     I do love it when you leave me a note.     Take care, be safe and stay warm.

Ladybug, sweetpea loves you bunches!   Stay warm!

Good night y'all, God love's y'all and so do I!!!    hugs, Patty