#AffirmationTuesday

Welcome back,

I got excellent feedback on the beautiful elephant.  My mother was the most vocal "this elephant has too many squares and that is just too much to color."  I can always count on my Mom to be the voice. So this week, I have images that I hope everyone can enjoy coloring.  Each week I will have a detailed image and an image that is a bit less.  I am hoping that this will encourage everyone to download and print the image as big or as small to color while focusing on this weeks affirmation.

I would love to see what you are coloring.  Post on Instagram, Therapy with Stamping's Facebook page or wherever you are posting your art and don't forget to tag #AffirmationTuesday so that I can see and follow your coloring as well.  I write my prayers, thoughts and anything else that comes to me on my coloring page. It is also a great way to keep up with your daily blessings.

Here is our affirmation for the week

My presence makes a difference in the world.  I joyously take on the challenge of exploring my passions and pursuing my goals so that the world can benefit from my existence.

Here are the free coloring pages

I am enjoying my journey and am so glad that you are joining me.  Enjoy your coloring.

Until next week...

Namaste

Happy Monday

Happy Monday!!!

I am getting my groove and finding my way.  I am going to post three times this week on my art journey and of course #affirmationTuesday is a separate post all on its own.

I am focusing on Tim Holtz crazy dogs this week and using some of the techniques that I have learned in Creative Chemistry 101 & 102.  I have  few more classes of 102 and then we will begin 103.  We are off schedule as Gigi and I are trying to get our schedules coordinated with summer travels.  We did not work on our class last week so I am going to take this opportunity to work in my art journal,  and also use some learned techniques from class along with the stamp set crazy dogs.

I was using the NUVO enamel on his nose, so I first stamped in archival black ink and colored him in Copics.  I had to let the NUVO black enamel nose dry overnight.  This puppy is too cute!

Once his nose was dry, I used distress inks in candied apple, wild honey and mowed lawn to create this background using stencils THS002 Bubble, THS056 Ringer and THS004 Stripes.

I used an old Close to My Heart Stamp set for the sentiment.  I added his bone in his mouth because I think this bone is his best friend.  He looks so in love.   These stamps are so much fun!  Well, let me get ready for #affirmationTuesday.

Hope you liked my first puppy!

Welcome to #AffirmationTuesday!

Each Tuesday I will provide a free coloring page and an affirmation that you can use to focus on while you are coloring. I have found that coloring lowers my heart rate and puts me in a state of quiet. During this time I am more receptive to Spirit so I use this time to say my affirmations over and over until they become a part of my consciousness.

I am in a Mastermind group written by Jack Boland, a Unity Minister. This is a group of people that gather weekly and support each other with words of encouragement and more importantly, prayers.

During my mastermind sessions I color to get and keep me in my quiet place so that I am more receptive. My spiritual coach, Norma Hill, told me that I should use art when focusing on my spiritual side.   It is a true balance for me.  As I stated on my blog in Sunday's post (which was supposed to be Friday, but computers, the cloud, pictures...don't get me started), which was, I believe that we must give focused time to our spiritual journey as well as focused time to our arts and crafts journey in order to have a balance.

How #AffirmationTuesday was born...

I was getting ready for my mastermind meeting and I started flipping through my coloring book, looking for a page to color, and the book was so beautiful!  It actually made me catch my breath, all I heard was "what?" "what happened?" So I told my mastermind partners what I was looking at...it was a collection of prayers and affirmations along with colored pages, and I told them...this book is beautiful!

A couple of days after the meeting one of my friends and prayer partners called and said you should do a coloring book with prayers and affirmations just like the one we talked about the other day.  I immediately said NO WAY...I am not interested in taking on that task, but Divine Mind immediately went into action and gave me the idea of doing my prayer partners concept but in another way, so I said...I may be interested in just one page at a time...and #AffirmationTuesday was born!

#AffirmationTuesday comes from an amazing place full of love and faith, which reminds us that God is our Source in all things.

Today was intentional because it is the first Tuesday since our conversation and on top of that, today is national coloring book day.  When I was deleting junk mail, I saw a flyer for National Coloring Book Day from Michaels Craft Stores and I knew immediately that all is in Divine Order and #AffirmationTuesday is what I am supposed to be doing.

So my beloveds, I pray this aids in your spiritual journey as it does mine.

Namaste

Here is your affirmation which comes from the Daily Word:

My faith is in God-the unchanging Source of all good

Here is your free coloring page to download and color.  You can use whatever medium you choose to add color, crayons, pencils, markers, paint, etc.  The point in this is to color and find some quiet time for YOU to reflect.  This is a .jpg so you can make it as large or as small as you wish.