With Liberty, Equality and Justice for All

On this 4th of July - I celebrate the beautiful words of the Declaration of Independence, as well as the spirit of all who have fought to have those words apply to ALL, and not just some, Americans.  Though we have come far, we still have lots of work to do.  

ONWARD!

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Summer Blog Hop with the Creative Team

Hi all!  I'm so excited because it's the summer blog hop with members of the Jessica Sporn Designs Creative Team. 

Today I'm hopping along with: 
Karen Gaunt,
Marit Barentsen,

and

Kristin Van Valkenburgh

to share some summery creations using my stamps and stencils, AND.... 

We have a giveaway - one lucky commenter will win my Women Will Heal the World Stencil from Stencil Girl Products.

I know I'm going to be spending a lot of time this summer sending snail mail to my representatives in Congress and the White House.  So I thought I'd show you how I used this stencil to create some postcards.  Enjoy this video:

You can also watch Women Will Heal the World on YouTube!

And now, make sure to leave a comment below.  Then hop over to all the other artists in the hop and leave comments for them too.  All comments in all posts count toward chances to win!  

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I hope you've been enjoying ALL the Creative Team posts - I know I have! 

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How To: See the Divine in Everything

Stencil Girl recently released seven new designs of mine! Over the next few weeks, I will be showing you how I used them.

Today, I'm sharing the Love is for Everyone Script, and See the Divine in Everything stencils, that were inspired by insights I've had in meditation.

I designed them so that you could mix and match the words to make different phrases, besides the obvious, such as:

everything is Divine

I am Divine

I see the Divine

Love is Divine

Love is meant to lift us up

lift up out of the darkness

see Love in the darkness

I am in Love 

Love is everything

lift up the Divine in everything

Love everyone and everything

lift everyone up in Love

You get the idea! I am sure there are many more!

Of course, you can also use each stencil on its own, like this:

You can also watch "Divine in everything" on YouTube here.  

I hope my videos and tutorials spark your creativity. If you use any of my stencils or stamps, or are inspired by techniques I share, please let me know so I can feature you!

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How to Take a Leap of Faith - A Mother's Love

I hate to waste paint - so I made this from wet acrylic paint from a previous project.  As a mask for the "leaper," I used the form I had cut out to make the jumping girl stencil.  Then I sprayed around it with Adirondack color wash to give it some depth. 

Using the Balzer Designs punchinella stencil, I added some texture on the left, and painted swirls with watered down gesso.  The lettering is a mix of my hand and stamps.  I painted shadow around the form (right side and under is the mantra I repeat to myself) and I love how it looks like it's popping out of the page!   

Also today, a design for Mother's Day.  There's nothing like being a mom to give you perspective on your own mother.  When we're young, we lack the wisdom to appreciate our mother's advice.  By the time we have our own children, we realize all too well that a mother's strength rests in the love of her children.  

Thanks Mom - for raising me to be a creative, caring person, just like you! 

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Create Your Own Art Journal Pages Inspired by Love

"Love yourself. It is important to stay positive because beauty comes from the inside out." 

Jenn Proske  

Maybe I'm waxing nostalgic, but I came across one of my older posts and, even after so much time has passed, this post couldn't be more true.  Over the coming weeks, watch for my throwback posts where we'll revisit some of my favorites to inspire us today.

Lately, a particular girl has been popping up in my art journaling....

She was seen "Longing for Love" in this post:  

http://jessicasporn.blogspot.com/2014/03/art-journal-page-longing-for-love.html

"Making a Wish:"

http://jessicasporn.blogspot.com/2014/03/make-wish.html

and Finding Calm:

http://jessicasporn.blogspot.com/2014/03/one-little-word-calm-and-dream-tutorial.html

She's definitely been searching, doing a lot of thinking and exploring both her inner and outer worlds.   She took quite a journey in my most recent art journal page.  It started out with gesso over Terri Stegmiller's Curvy Stems stencil in my altered book journal.  For a while I thought this page would be about this goose, which was the photo over which I gessoed!

Even after I wiped green and yellow fluid acrylics over it, I still though it might be about the goose.  But then, I came home from a wonderful yoga class and post yoga tea and chat with Marcie Wallace, feeling so open to receiving the love in the universe, and so able to radiate that love right back out.  (Yoga can do that to you!)

So I quickly sketched this:

Then stencils came into play.  I used Six Point Starry Night to add stars to the sky, and Judy's Trees to add foliage to the earth.  I painted in a big yellow moon.

 

I used Michelle Ward's Circle Rays stencil to show the energy coming out of her heart.  (I mixed Zinc White fluid acrylic and aztec gold mica powder to make the rays very sheer.)  I wanted hearts coming to, and going from, her heart, and I had left on my table some motifs from my Flowers, Pomegranates and Leaves  project from Stencil Girl's newest release, which I posted about here.   (No scrap left behind!)

Some journaling..."I will open my arms wide and collect all the love the universe has to offer me and hug it into my heart and then offer it right back."

I hope you have a beautiful week and that this inspires you to love YOU and see yourself the way your loved ones see you.

Your comments make me so happy and let me know you were here. I read and treasure every comment and will happily answer any questions as soon as I can.

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