It's done

I'm really glad that I started a Lent journal this year-- it's been something that I've really enjoyed making. I also love how it's made me reflect on different aspects of my faith and write them down to share with others (I'm especially excited for my kids to read it when they get older!)

And yet, it also seems like the most personal thing I've done, as I feel a certain amount of vulnerability when I share it with others. Like, this is me, this is what I think and believe.

Here are the last of the pages that I made:



I read the book Sex God by Rob Bell during lent and liked a few of his quotes. He had questions in the back, so I answered one of them in my journal, in a 6x12 page, folded in half.





I took this photo when I took communion with my Bible study group.



This is the back of the page:
















This next page was for Ali Edward's Weekend Creative Challenge:



And my journaling on the back:






We watched a short video in church on Sunday morning and these words were in it:



So, now that it's done, I took it to My Scrap Shoppe on Tuesday and bound it with Marcy's bind-it-all (love that gadget!)




Thanks for looking!

Some more pages...

from the art journal that I'm making during Lent.

This one was inspired by Ali Edward's Weekend Creative project a few weeks ago:

and this is what I wrote on the back:

This is a page that I did using the lyrics from a song by Jeremy Camp that we sang in church :


This is a page the I made that talks about how I bless my kids each night before they go to sleep:

Another page inspired by the Ali Edwards project that I mentioned above:

I have a few more ideas of pages that I'd like to make before Easter Sunday, so hopefully I'll have time to do them.

As a Bible study group yesterday morning, we took communion together. I took a picture of it and want to print it out to add to my journaling. Maybe I'll start on that right now...

Thanks so much for looking and for your kind comments-- they really mean a lot to me! :)

A few pages...

from my Lent Journal.

So far I haven't done too much with it. (I'm very glad I didn't set a goal for one entry a day or anything crazy like that-- I would have given up a while ago I'm sure!) I've actually been inspired to work on it at different times, just not at times when it's actually possible to do so-- like during the sermon on Sunday morning!

(This was my "trial run" with my butterfly mask.)

(I covered a Scenic Route chipboard frame with patterned paper and used rub-ons to create the quote. It's one of my favourites from Rick Warren's Purpose Driven Life. On the back, I journaled a few thoughts about it.)

I had fun with this next one (the following three photos). I took a piece of Bazzill scalloped cardstock (5.5x11.5") and folded it. On the front, I did this:

When you open it, you see this:

And I journaled on the back:

Thanks for looking!

Unexpected

I didn't realize that lent was upon us until I spoke to my mom on the phone the other day and she mentioned that it was Shrove Tuesday. I remembered that we always had pancakes for supper on Shrove Tuesday, so I decided to make them for supper for my kids.

Other than that, my only "plans" for lent were to give up purchasing scrapbooking supplies (because after a fairly decent spree at MSS in January, I promised Cameron that I wouldn't buy any more supplies until after Easter) and to give up sugar (because, frankly, I'd like to lose weight.) Not so much spiritual sacrifices-- even though I know both of these will be tough.

Then, when I was looking at blogs yesterday, I came upon Molly Irwin's blog and the art journal that she created last year for lent.

AND I WAS INSPIRED.

I decided to create an art journal (of sorts) during the lenten season this year. I want to include Bible verses that have spoken to me and things that I've learned on different spiritual topics, but also share my beliefs and things that are important to me. I'm quite excited about this. It's my first attempt at an art journal.

(But I've decided up front that it will not necessarily be an every day thing, because right now, that's too unrealistic for me. I'm just going to create pages when I can.)

So here is the title page that I made yesterday afternoon:



The green letters are Scrapworks and are adhered to a 6x6 piece of thick clear Hambly. The next page is Bazzill cardstock, Scenic Route and Bo Bunny patterned paper and Heidi Swapp clock stamps.



And here is my first entry. We had a women's night at our church on Tuesday evening and the speaker, Beth Moore, had a lot of good things to say. I summarized some of what she said here, and added some of my own insights.




Thanks for looking!