Robotics - Released!

This little boy, Jacob, has inspired me to create a whole line of robotic scrapbook graphics.  Do you like?  I am crazy for the colors and the way it shows a lot of movement.  It is difficult to achieve movement on a flat plane! I hope you like it, please feel free to leave me a message.  Thank you  :)

Faith - The Story of John the Baptist

I posted some art earlier this week - My Picnic Kit collection.  Now I'd like to post some "Faith".  The name of my blog has been changed to Faith, Love & Art because I believe that all three are essential to creating enjoyable art.  My son and I are on this journey of homeschooling.  He is in 6th grade and we are teaching the Mother of Divine Grace Curriculum.  I received this curriculum from my awesome Sister-In-Law.  She has homeschooled it to her children for many years.  It is a program that I am enjoying and would recommend to you.  My faith blog for today is this passage from the Bible Luke 1:5-31.  It is the Infancy of John the Baptist and Jesus.  In this reading we meet Zecharia the husband of Elizabeth.  An angel appears to Zecharia and tells him that his wife is about to have a baby and that he will free many men and lead them to Jesus (his cousin).  When I read this story to my son, he was full of joy.  He could understand the cousin thing and a man being afraid of an angel inasmuch that he did something wrong and the appearance of an angel was frightening.  He even understood when Zecharia accepted what the angel was telling him.  Everything was going along fine, until I opened my big mouth and told him that when Mary went to visit Elizabeth, the baby, John, lept for joy in her womb.  That was the breaking point.  There comes a time when information is too much.  Maybe it was the fact that he was a male and because males don't carry babies in their stomach they don't understand such things.  I'm not sure.  He just had a hard time understanding that a baby can "leep" in a woman's womb.  He just could not wrap his brain around this.  When I realized how difficult it was for him, I backed off.  I later talked to my husband and he said he would talk to him.  I'm not sure what they talked about.  My internal struggle is to not discuss, bring up, or mention anything more about this.  Until he has another question, my lips are sealed.  Some of you know me, some of you do not.  For those of you that don't this is really hard for me!  It could be hard for anyone.  The curriculum has daily (10-15 minutes) of religion and the concept of angels was this week.  We looked up different times the good angels appeared to people in the Bible and there is are things to discuss and think about.  This religion is taught from The New Saint Joseph Baltimore Cathechism.  This Cathechism book is wonderful; I just need to stay on track.  When you love your faith and you embrace your faith, its easy to get carried away.  My lesson was to slow down because he tells me.  Amen.  ~Karen 

Picnic Collection

Happy to finally be releasing this kit.  It's my first digital creation.  Please let me know your thoughts.  Thank you.  If you are interested, you can go to my website to view the product larger and purchase it.

From September 19, 2011

Writing on the Wall

I've always been a big fan of writing on the wall.  The only options I remember were a sign painter coming in and painting letters on the wall.  Until, Cricut came along!  That's right, Cricut diecut machine.  I love my Cricut because it cuts vinyl really well.  There are special settings it requires you to use.  But you don't have to worry about that because it tells you what settings to use in the Instructions.  You can buy your vinyl from several places and one of them is Circut and the other is Expressions Vinyl.  I use expressions vinyl when I want a smaller quantity than usual, like when you are just writing one word like I did on my walls, Heart.
Email me if you would like to try this technique and have questions.  It was scary when I started, but went up simple and without a hassle.

Here's a closeup and you know you can click on it for a larger photo.  Thanks for looking and leave a comment.