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

Focus on Faith: Fall Fox by Sara Furr

Blessings, my friends, and welcome to the second edition of my "Focus on Faith" for the month of September. 

Fall will be fast approaching my neck of the woods, and I honestly couldn't be happier! I LOVE Fall, and all it has to offer; the beautiful, rich colors, the smells, the harvest of fruits and vegetables, sweater weather, comfort foods, and hot beverages. I'm really looking forward to the cooler weather and slowing down just a bit from the chaos of my busy life!

So, I thought I would create a Fall scene with one of my FAVORITE Art Impressions Stamp sets.... The Foxes, and one of my favorite Bible verses, Psalm 46:10 "Be still, and know that I AM GOD", a verse that I find myself repeating when I try too hard to control all the chaos and drama in my life.

This is a call to stop worrying, quiet your mind, and remember God's power and presence. Focus on peace: Breathe slowly and remind yourself that you do not have to carry all your burdens alone. I thought this scene portrayed that "peace".

I stamped my fox onto Watercolor paper with Versafine Onyx black ink and watercolored the scene with Tombow markers 847, 925, 879, 969, N49. 

I masked off the left side of my fox before I added the foliage using the branch and leaves from the Foxes set, and I also used the leafy foliage from the Foliage set. 

When my scene was dry, I went back in with couple colored pencils, to add more depth and shading. I  then stamped the sentiment with Versafine Onyx black ink, and then die cut out the scene with the largest Scalloped Square die. I matted my focal piece to a square of green polka dot dsp from the Classic Christmas paper pack.

I chose this color because it creates a sharp contrast to the reds and oranges I used for my scene, and it really makes that fox come to life. Isn't he handsome? I just love this stamp so much!

I pray that you feel God's loving arms wrapped around you, keeping you safe, and freeing you from the worries of life. God has this! You can depend on it!

God bless you and keep you!

Sara Furr- The Crafty Farm Chick 

Supplies used:

#KH5951 Foxes set

#5417- Frameworks Sentiments set

#4051- Foliage set 

#5969- Classic Christmas PP

#6047- Scalloped Square dies

Canson XL Watercolor paper

Watercolor brush

Versafine Onyx black ink pad

Tombow markers: 847, 925, 879, 969, N49

Focus on Faith with Sara Furr: Lacy Pink Church

 Blessings my dear friends, and welcome to my first edition of Focus on Faith for the month of September.

If you have been following me, you know that I like to use several different kinds of medium to color and create my projects.

 This week, I have a lovely little country church scene I created using colored pencils and dye ink markers. 

I just stamped the front flowers and the church with Versafine Onyx black ink and colored them up with colored pencils. I stamped the foliage (tree, leaves, shrubs, and grass) with dye ink markers.

 To create the sky and the grassy foreground, I just turned my pencils sideways to swipe them across my cardstock and blend them into each other. I added some tiny white accents to the flowers and grass with Dr. Ph Martin's Bleedproof white paint.

If you have any questions on how I created this, please feel free to leave me your questions in the comments section. 

I pray you all have a very blessed month and I will see you soon.

Blessings to you all, 

Sara E. Furr- The Crafty Farm Chick 

Supplies used:

Canson XL Bristol Smooth cardstock 

Colored Pencils

Dye ink markers

Versafine Onyx black ink pad

Stamp platform

Paper cutter

Scissors

Lace

Sewing machine

Foam adhesive 

Focus on Faith with Sara Furr: Misty Sunrise

 Blessings dear friends and welcome to my second edition of "Focus on Faith" for the month of August. 

Every morning I wake up and I thank God for the gift of a new day! New Blessings! The other day I woke up and came downstairs, and while I was walking around with my morning cuppa tea, I caught a glimpse of the beautiful misty sunrise, and had to run out to capture it.

This photo I took is the inspiration for my card today. I will be taking you through a step by step tutorial of my process.

Step 1- colored in my background grass and tree line with a green alcohol ink marker onto Canson XL Bristol Smooth cardstock. I created a small circle mask with a circle punch out of post it tape and applied it above the tree line to mask out my sun.

Step 2- ink blended in some blue sky and some yellow for sunrise, then removed the circle mask, and ink blended some white pigment ink in the tree line for the mist.

Step 3- stamped the barn from #5011- WC Truck mini set,  and colored barn with black alcohol ink marker.

Step 4- stamped in bushes from #4051- Foliage set and #5372-WC Mini Foliage Set with dark green inks.

Step 5- stamped in tree foliage with dark green ink.

Step 6- added in darker shades of grass line with alcohol ink marker.

Step 7- added white permanent ink marker to roof of barn.

Step 8- added foliage back in over the barn roof.

Step 9- stamped in sentiment from #5127- Build My Life set, with stamping tool, in blue ink.

When I was done, I went back in and added some sparkle pen to the sun and tree line to look like the mist. I wanted to male my sun even whiter, so I added some Ph Martin's Bleedproof white ink to the sun with a small paint brush. I trimmed my panel down just a bit and then matted it to a dark green cardstock  and then to a white panel. I popped that up over a panel of light green striped dsp from the #6072- Father's Day PP and a bow of green twine.

Here is my creation....

If you look close you can see the glitter pen I used for the mist.

So, here again is my photo...

AND here is my card...

I hope you are inspired to recreate of little bit of God's creation too.

God Bless, 

Sara Furr -The Crafty Farm Chick

Floral Frenzy Challenge #433 Week #2

Hello Ai fans!

Welcome to our challenge.

FLORAL FRENZY

Let's see your floral creations.

Remember, they don't have to be cards. You can create anything you like as long as you use something from Art Impressions. We'd love to see your gift card holders, gift tags, boxes and bags, bookmarks, place cards, cake picks, designer paper, framed art and more. Anything with flowers.

Last week Janet was our Featured Artist and she took the theme to heart,
creating the most amazing floral card.

Janet also created a second card with a bee theme.

Now for the rest of the Design Team cards.

Our Monthly Challenge inspiration artist is Debbie and she created a sweet

humming bird floral card.

Watercolor artist Gennette created this lovely floral Story Tile card.

Simone created two floral cards for her Watercolor Weekend post.

Our Focus on Faith artist, Sara, created this beautiful wall hanging.

I created a floral Story Tile card.

Neema created a lovely floral panel framed with a pretty border.

4603 Blooming Birdhouse (retired but HERE are lots of other options)

5892 Easter S2 PP

And, a second card from Neema. So pretty!

6216 - Mercy set

Simone also created two floral bookmarks.

5718 Mini Journal Template
6150 His love set
6055 Water of life Set
6230 Mini Decorative Bookmark Set

                

Tasha has a beautiful floral Story Tile card.

Dori has a dozing gnome and his friends, enjoying some flowers.

Sharon has some stunning daffodils for you.

Wow!! Talk about some amazing floral inspiration!

We can't wait to see what you create for the challenge.

Here are the details.

Please make a new project featuring any floral themed
stamps, dies or paper from Art Impressions.
We can't wait to see what your beautiful creations.

Here are the rules...

✻ Please make a new card or handmade crafty creation using either stamps, dies and or designer paper from Art Impressions. You can make any item you wish; this is not limited to cards! (unless specified)

✻ Limit two submissions per person.

✻Top Spot Winner and Lucky Random Winner each receive a free 

stamp set from Art Impressions

 ✻Please include your first name and last initial on your submission. You may include your entire last name, but it's not necessary.

✻We love to comment on your entries, but keep in mind if you use a private group or a platform that you need to sign up for, we probably won't be able to.

✻ The Ai Challenge is open to everyone, international submissions are welcome!

✻ Include a link back to the Ai Blog or grab our button on the top right of our sidebar!

✻ Share the Ai love if you can, by clicking and commenting on your fellow crafters.

✻ Make sure to get your link up by the deadline to enter your creations.

✻ Good luck and happy stamping! 

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