How to: Love is for Everyone and Giveaway Winner!

Stencil Girl recently released seven new designs of mine! In recent posts, I've been showing you how I used them. 

Today, I'm sharing a tutorial with the Love is for Everyone Script.

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

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
everything is Divine

I am Divine

I see the Divine

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

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

In addition to the Love is Everything stencil, I used my Build a Cosmos stamps from Rubbermoon.  You can see them all here.  

AND only one week late... here is the winner of the summer blog hop!!! It is 

cjsrq, who commented on all of our blogs, and said: Thanks for all you are doing to make America kind (and rational) again.   I am reaching out to you for your snail mail address to send you your Women Heal the World stencil!

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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!

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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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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BLOG HOP (Love Theme) Jessica Sporn Kristin Van Valkenburgh Marit Barentsen, Denise Alloca, Sherry Canino, Karen Gaunt

Hi all!  I'm so excited because today,  I'm hopping  along with members of the my Creative Team.  

We've used Deco Art Media products to make fabulous creations around the theme of LOVE. 

I hope you've been enjoying the Creative Team posts - I know I have! Here's a chance to see five of these amazing artists all at once,  because today I'm hopping along with:

Kristin Van Valkenburgh
Karen Gaunt
Sherry Canino

Marit Barentsen

and 

Denise Alloca

And... we have a great giveaway - one lucky commenter will win my 7 Hearts Stencil from Stencil Girl Products.

All comments on all the blog hop posts count - so make sure to visit everyone and leave some kind words for a chance to win!

Now on to my project. 

My team is such an inspiration to me.  With each of their posts, I want to run and try one of the techniques they showed so beautifully.  These Valentine's Day Affirmation Blocks were inspired by Denise Alloca's December post all about turning Dollar Store finds into treasure.  Here's a "beauty shot" of my three finished blocks!

And here's a fast forward video of my process.  Enjoy!  

You can also watch Valentine's Day Blocks on YouTube here.   

I hope this gave you some ideas to kickstart your Valentine's Day crafting. 

Now, hop over to 

Kristin Van Valkenburgh
Karen Gaunt
Sherry Canino

Marit Barentsen

and 
Denise Alloca

to see their LOVE-ly creations! 

(See what I did there?)

Remember, all comments on all the blog hop posts count!    Comments close at 9PM EST on Monday, February 13, and I'll announce the winners in my Tuesday blog post on February 14. 

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Thank You!