Art Journaling and Scripture Picture

 This afternoon I worked on the second week of documented Life.  

The prompts were: gesso,

and a quote that says:

"The Beginning is always today,"

by Mary Shelley,  

It's pretty amazing the things you learn as you go.

Like: When I  began preparing my journal I added tip ins for 

almost every page so I'd have something to start with for each week.

It seems so often I just can't keep up with everything so a head start

seemed like a good idea at the time.  But I'm finding the thickness of my book

is only gonna keep growing obviously because of all the layers of papers.  So for the 

weeks I don't seem to need them, I decided to just cut them back out.  Part of the

time I'll still be able to use them; and if it doesn't look good... I'll just snip it out.

I wondered if I'd have to re-washi tape the edges; but ... it was fine and 

you can hardly tell...-- so I left it just snipped off.  

So the pink tip in on the right... gone~.  

 After I got the layers done with paints and papers; 

I tried out this new stitching stamp sent by my dear friend.  

It looks so real I couldn't believe it.  That's how I stitch too.. all jagged like that.  

It's now my new favorite.  

The cross stitches to the right  are pen marks.  

Then I learned another valuable lesson.  

While I was stamping the arrow stamp on the right-- I pushed

really hard to get a good print and the sticky on the acrylic block

"stuck" to my book.  I just about didn't get it off!  

Woops.  It tore a lot when I finally got it apart. 

 .... So that's where the  journaling paper went.

:)

 This is week 2 finished except for

a little more journaling on the left side.

It's been awhile since I shared a scripture picture, 

so I share this verse with you from Romans.

"And we know that all things

work together for good

to those who 

LOVE GOD

To those who are the called

according to His purpose.

Romans 8:28