Enjoying a book Painting

Here's a painting I worked on recently. I'm trying for a more painterly style. This is of my second child when he was little. My kids love books and I love that they love to read!

Little Witch Freebie

I finally figured out a quick way to extract my pastel drawings. This is very exciting for me, because I love the rough looking edges that come with using pastels. I made this little witch for a game I played in primary filling in for our chorister. Let me know how you like Little Witch Freebie. This not a good element to use a drop shadow with, I like it to look like it was drawn right on the paper.

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Scrapbook pages Easter

One reason I love digital scrapbooking is that it is so easy to make a similar but different page with just a few tweaks. I made these Easter pages for our family book, but wanted to make similar ones for little Z's baby book. I mostly used "My Sweet Girl Mini" by Studio Flergs. 

Halloween Party Invitation

I made a Halloween Party Invitation mostly with Hocus Pocus mini kit by Shel Belle Scraps. I love Halloween! It is so fun to dress up, but this is the first year one of my kids is dressing up "scary"! 

Come, listen to a Prophet's voice

This weekend I'll be spending time with my family listening to the words of our prophets: https://www.lds.org/general-conference/watch?lang=eng

Can't wait to be spiritually fed, and also to be physically fed by fun snacks and of course cinnamon rolls!

Love this gem from President Monson's talk last conference: 
I have wept in the night
For the shortness of sight
That to somebody’s need made me blind;
But I never have yet
Felt a tinge of regret
For being a little too kind
-Author unknown

Scrapbooking

Hi I just wanted to share a few scrapbook pages I've been working on over the last few months. I've been trying to work on my baby's album. I've really enjoyed keeping these pages pretty simple, to not only focus on the photos, but also to get them done faster! These are a few favorites.

 

The Gardens

Here's a series of paintings I've been wanting to do for a long time. Awhile ago I read an article about the atonement, and how we wouldn't have needed Christ to atone for our sins if Adam and Eve hadn't partaken of the fruit of good and evil, and how both of those things were part of Heavenly Father's plan for us. I can't remember where I was reading about this, probably in the Ensign magazine, but basically the Fall, Atonement, and Resurrection are interrelated. It made me think about how they all happened in gardens, and the idea for these paintings has been mulling in the back of my head for awhile. I liked the idea of no people in the paintings, just because it is a little different, and it helps you to think about the setting that Adam and Eve and Christ were in during these most important events in history. So here is The Garden of Eden, The Garden of Gethsemane, and the Garden Tomb.

I found a scripture that illustrates this concept in 1 Corinthians 15:20-21:

20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first fruits of them that slept.

21 For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.

22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.