Focus on Faith: Clean and Simple PRAISE sets by Sara Furr

 Blessings my dear friends, and welcome to the second edition 

of my "Focus on Faith" for the month of October. 

Today, I am excited to share with you a clean and simple Faith inspired card featuring the newest Bible Journaling stamp sets called "Praise set 1", and "Praise set 2".

 Now, if you know my work, you know that I love to make incredibly detailed, layered, shabby chic, square cards.... but I also love to challenge myself to work on techniques that I'm not very good at, so I challenged myself to create a clean and simple, A2 sized Watercolor hybrid. I'm not very comfortable doing Watercolor, so I like to mix it with mediums that I have been working with to get better at using, and colored pencils is one of those mediums. I consider myself a "jack of all trades" so to speak, when it comes to using different coloring mediums. I'm not strictly a Watercolor artist or strictly a marker artist, like most of the other Design Team members. I love to experiment with using multiple mediums to color my images and create my scenes.

 So, to start with, I stamped the girl with flowers and the two side florals in a soft neutral grey, and then colored them with colored pencils, but I watercolored the sky and green grassy area below the florals.

When it was all dry I applied self adhesive black rhinestone gems to the centers of the flowers. I stamped the music notes in a very soft light brown, and I stamped the sentiment in Versafine Onyx black ink. I cut down my panel and distressed the edges of it before adhering fun foam to the back, and adhering it to my card base.

For the inside I simply stamped the sentiment in Versafine Onyx black ink and then the G clef in the light brown ink, but I stamped it off once before stamping the image over the sentiment. 

And that's it. This was a fun challenge for me to do lots of things that I don't normally do. I really like how it turned out.

 Do you ever challenge yourself to step outside your usual comfort zone and try new things, or work at perfecting techniques you don't normally do? I do, it has really helped me grow as an artist! 

"Praise the Lord O my soul", "The Lord is my strength and my song"

Thank you Bonnie for giving us these beautiful Stamp sets! 

Blessings to you all my friends!

Sara Furr- The Crafty Farm Chick

Non Ai products used:

Tombow markers: 847, 131, 126, 192

Prismacolor colored pencils

Self adhesive Black rhinestone gems