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Friday Smiles!

  Linking up at Friday Smiles   :)    

David | Goliath | God

    Having done a study on David and Goliath I felt the need to paint what I had learnt.  The blurb is what I displayed with the artwork followed by a few Bible verses...         David was tiny and insignificant, as we may sometimes feel.     Goliath represents our problems and fears which can look enormous and far too big to tackle.   God is enormous, loving, giving, colourful, amazing… you can’t actually put God into words.   What we do know is that God is much bigger than our problems and is always on our side.     A rainbow reminds us of God’s promises to us; it is a symbol of hope and is absolutely awesome, just like God.   As I painted this picture I saw David as the small pale rectangle; Goliath, twice David’s size, as the bronze rectangle and God depicted as a rainbow, so much bigger.     1 Samuel chapter 17 verses 4-7 ...

Button Book

So, today it is Thursday and that means reminder time for this fortnights challenge at Crafty Ribbons Challenge... Here is my make for Kelly's Love/Romance/Anniversary Challenge. I nabbed this idea from Kira (seriously talented!) It's a button book that concertinas open to reveal a message of love.   The buttons are from Crafty Ribbons Christmas Berry button box. On the front and back of the book pages I randomly inked and painted and stamped, basically I got really messy which made me really happy!!  :) To tie it all up I dyed a piece of scrap bag  ribbon with some of the left over India Ink I had coloured the paper with.  It was an easy process - I screwed up the ribbon and dipped it in the pallet, pulled it out and squeezed out the excess, lay it flat on my craft mat and spritzed it with water.  The water worked it's magic and left me a mottled finish - perfect! Seeing as I don't have a man in my ...