God’s timing never ceases to amaze me. This morning I was really down. Actually, I’ve been a little down for the last two days. I’ve been wanting to give up on my creative life. I’ve been wanting to give up on my store, my website, my crazy ideas along with product development. I’ve been wondering what life would be like if I stopped designing, stopped inventing, stopped creating… Sounds like a bummer doesn’t it?! This morning I really didn’t want to create the things that I had to create. I didn’t want to make something with a specific purpose in mind. I didn’t want my creation to have a deadline. I didn’t want to create for anybody but myself. I decided that playing in my art journal was what I needed. I dragged my feet down the stairs to my basement art studio and began creating a background. After a few minutes I had a thought. If I was going to art journal then I may as well check the Word Art Wednesday blog so I could print out the weekly bible verse from it. As I dragged my feet back up the stairs I was hoping the verse for this week would be something I felt like journaling about. I sat at the computer, typed in the address and waited for the page to load. What I saw next almost made me cry. Yes they had a beautiful bible based message that I loved but the Word Art was not a verse but a quote. God knew how bad I needed to hear that, and there it was. So here’s to me “not giving up”again..!
This page will remind me to never give up on many things, including art journaling! I think I’ve mentioned before that this form of art doesn’t come naturally to me. For this page I wanted to try a technique that I learned from Christy Tomlinson. Of course when I saw her do it, it seemed easy! I raided my kids crayon box to create a resist, that part was easy since I do remember how to colour! I used a stencil to make some flowers on my background. The next step was to cover the whole thing with alcohol ink. Simple right? Well it didn’t quite work for me but I kept telling myself to never give up. After that I wanted to do an image transfer…the first one didn’t work at all….never give up! I tried again, this time it worked! Oh yeah and I forgot to mention that I pealed a piece of gel medium that ended up tearing a piece of the page…that’s OK, I ended up liking how it looked….never give up! Well that’s enough ranting for now! Thanks for stopping by.
Marjolaine, your page turned out so beautiful, but more so your story just touched me, my “art studio” area in the basement is covered in dust and “give uppin”. You have just inspired me to dust it off! Hope to get out to you again soon, E has also asked to go visit with the kids, will connect soon.
Marjolaine!!!!!!!!!!!! I love your word art.. it is perfect in the sight of God.Your time with Him was well spent.. hope he put his hope deep in your heart!!
Tracey!
I need to put this quote up in our house!! Inspirational. Thank you.
Great job on using your word art, Marjolaine! I so enjoy your beautiful work, and I’m so glad you choose to play along with us. Here’s to wishing you a wonderful week filled with God’s blessings.
Karen L
Word Art Wednesday
What a great post! I love how God arranged everything perfectly for you. He must have known you needed a little encouragement 😉 And, of course, your page is amazing!!!
I generally watch art journaling tutorials on my laptop downstairs (away from my third floor craft room), and, I agree, they look almost simple, use few elements and I am sure I can do it with ease. But, sitting at my craft table, it doesn’t always work quite like in the tutorial! Sometimes, I just have to try and then try again! Looking at your finished page, I would never have guessed that you struggled with parts of it! I love the Churchill quote and just may have to “lift” that from you! Thanks for the inspiration!
Wow, thanks for sharing your heart with us. When I was reading I thought: o, no!! Don’t give up on your creative gift you’ve gotten!!
But I was so glad to read you did continue, even when you did have to drag yourself up and down the stairs 😉
God is so good, and he put that desire in your heart to got to the WAW blog and read to never give up. That week I also struggled, and I almost gave up. But I didn’t want that, because it would be to easy…. especially when we had THIS never give up quote to use (LOL).
Keep on praying before you get starting your creative things. For me I feel like that really helps.
Thanks so much for sharing your art with us on WAW.
Wendy
Oh and btw…. I so love how your page turned out.
This is so pretty ~your words, your work, your open heart. Thank you for your transparency! I got hit with the depression bug a few weeks ago and finally admitted it to my husband (it helps to have someone pray). Then, I jogged! Just a little (endorphins). It helped some. Never,never,never give up your beautiful gift. God uses it! Thank you for sharing with us at Word Art Wednesday Marjolaine. 😉
Thank you everyone for all your encouraging and kind words, much appreciated!
Congrats on your win over at Word Art Wednesday today!
Hugs,
Karen C