MPS GIVEAWAY WINNER

Dear Friends,

I want to first of all thank you for taking the time to leave your comments for the giveaway post, your comments are always so much appreciated. The winner of the Autumn Splendor is comment #6, using Random Generator.... Mari! Congratulations, Mari, I will be contacting you to get your info and I will be having more giveaways soon! Thanks everyone!

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HOW I FOUND MYSELF IN MY ART

I thought I would try to actually write something today instead of just "posting." Its been over 6 months since I've posted anything (except for yesterday) I took some time off this year from my online art to find myself creatively and I think I found what was missing in my creative life.

Over the past year I have been teaching an art class to a room full of 11 year olds and during that time as I was teaching the girls art journaling, calligraphy, lettering, watercolor, glittering and sketching what makes them happy and inspires them, I realized that I loved all of these things and have not done any of them for years.

I have been designing digital stamps for 5 years and I have loved every minute of creating those designs and still do, but I was craving color and creating something more. So for the last few months I have had an outlet for my creativity besides the art class. I have been creating paintings and donating them to the Orange County Magnificat Women's Prayer Breakfast raffle every three months.

I am a part of this ministry and it has been a huge blessing to me in more ways than one. I have grown so much in my faith because of it and because of all the inspiring women in it. They are such prayer warriors. And I have started a new "Faith" portfolio thanks to all my "donations."

I've taken all of these watercolor, ink and colored pencil designs and have mounted them on wood and paint the wood, embellish the painting with glitter and crystals and am so happy creating these pieces. Actually, happy isnt the right word, deliriously happy is more like it. It feels amazing to create a physical product that I can hold in my hands.

This has been such a joyful part of my life over the past few months which has been crazy to say the least; my car has broken down 3 times, my Mom has been in and out of the hospital and ER off and on since July and the heat this summer in CA has been so oppressive that all I can do after my dogwalks is come home, turn the a/c on and work on my art. It has saved me from going insane this summer. Just me and Jesus, creating together, love it.

Anyway, the time away from blogging, Facebook and my Etsy shop has done me alot of good I think. Here is a bit of what I have been painting this year...

MPS GIVEAWAY AND NEW RELEASES

Hi Friends,

I cant even believe how long its been since I even posted anything, I had to clean out alot of cobwebs and dust bunnies from my blog and decided to re-design my blog banner here while I was cleaning house:)

I have some new releases to share with you...I have 2 new rubber stamp sets that have just been released from Sparkle N Sprinkle, the first is "AUTUMN SPLENDOR" which I will be giving away to one lucky winner this month! Just leave a comment below and you will be registered to win, I will choose a name randomly on OCT 15th!

"AUTUMN SPLENDOR"

and is also available as a Digital Stamp Set here:



And the second rubber stamp set is called,  "A SAVIOR"

"A SAVOIR"

A SAVIOR is also available as a digital stamp set here

And, I have a new digital stamp and a new digital stamp set now availabe at my ETSY SHOP:

Here is "MATTHEW 18:14" with Jesus and the little lost sheep:

"THE SECRET GARDEN"

I am now having a 50% off sale at my Etsy shop NOW THRU OCTOBER 31ST AT MIDNIGHT PST

COUPON CODE IS: MPSOCT