Fall Fearless & Fly Challenge #6

Fall Fearless and Fly with Dina Wakley!

Headline Prompt:  Divided by God:  What does "God" mean to you?  How do you access"God" or the divine or the sacred in your life?
Color Prompt: Metallics - gold, silver, copper, bronze, or all of them!
Quote Prompt: "This is my simple religion.  There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy.  Our own brain, our own heart, is our temple; the philosophy is kindness."  The Dalai Lama 

Welcome Dina Wakley and thank you for sharing your fabulous art journal page!

Dina: The prompts asks, "What does God mean to you?" I'm a spiritual person. I feel deeply. My feelings about God can be summarized in the simple phrase, "I am a believer."

My page started with inky blots and stencils on the page. I used a new stencil that I am coming out with, "Church Windows." The designs come from various photos of real church windows that I have taken in my travels. I love to visit places of worship: Buddhist, Christian, Jewish, it doesn't matter. I find it inspiring to be in places where people spill out their devotions and honor their beliefs.

I wasn't loving the way the stencils looked, so I gesso'd over the entire page. The images ghosted through the gesso and are a great, textured background. I added some gold paint over the gesso. I drew the woman on the left with a Stabilo Marks All pencil and filled her in slightly with Titanium white paint. Then I stenciled one of the church windows on another piece of paper with Wendy Vecchi's new Embossing Paste. I inked over it, let it dry, and cut it out. I put the window on the right side of the page spread. My journaling spreads across both pages and connects the woman and the window.  

I cut the hearts from a failed gelatin print. I never throw away my "eh" pieces of art. I cut them up and use them as collage papers.

Dina Wakley lives in Glendale, AZ with her husband and three sons. She started scrapping in 1995 when her first son was 6 months old. Her scrapbooking took an artsy turn when she discovered mixed media collage.

Now, she dabbles in mixed media collage, visual journaling, and encaustic art. Dina has kept a journal since she was nine years old, so combining words and photos and art was a natural progression.  Dina has a line of stencils with The Crafter's Workshop, and her own stamp line with Stampington.  She teaches all over the world, and also offers many online classes.  She is the author of the soon to be released book, Art Journal Freedom:  How to Journal Creatively With Color and Composition, available February 2013.

Dina shares more about her work and life on her blog: Ponderings.   Thank You Dina!!

Prizes! Everyone who joins in will be entered to win a Blue Moon Scrapbooking gift certificate! 

Blue Moon Scrapbooking  has generously provided a $25 gift certificate for this week!  They have a wonderful selection of Dina's stencils and her rubber stamps!  

What will you do in response to the sixth challenge?  Here are the rules:

• You may participate in one or all of the challenges.
• Use one, two or all of the prompts.
• Use any media -- art journal, scrapbook, canvas, watercolor, quilting, you name it!  This is "Anything Goes" as far as your creativity is concerned.
• Link up by Sunday, December 30, to be eligible to win a $25 gift certificate to Blue Moon Scrapbooking!   Go over to Jessica's blog to comment, and be eligible for a giveaway there too!
• You may link up to 2 times, but please only link up to work prepared for this challenge.  If not, we will remove your link. Please post the url of your blog post or flickr page that's specific to this challenge, rather than a general blog address.  And please tell us how your work relates to the challenge!
• Each time you participate, visit at least 3 other links and leave loving words!
• All challenge participants are welcome to join our private Facebook group as a place to talk about your journey and whatever is coming up for you as you work on the challenges.   As it is private, just request to join and we'll give you access. 

To recap, here is the 6th challenge:

Headline Prompt:  Divided by God:  What does "God" mean to you?  How do you access"God" or the divine or the sacred in your life?
Color Prompt: Metallics - gold, silver, copper, bronze, or all of them!
Quote Prompt: "This is my simple religion.  There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy.  Our own brain, our own heart, is our temple; the philosophy is kindness."  The Dalai Lama

Congratulations to Carly at True Color, the lucky winner of our Fall Fearless & Fly challenge #5, chosen by the random generator at Random.org!   You have won a packet of fabulous paper ephemera from Marcia, and a $25 gift certificate from Blue Moon Scrapbooking!  Please email your address to acolorfuljourney (at) gmail (dot) com for your prize!

And on Monday, December 31, check in for Challenge #7 with the fabulous Joanne Sharpe, and the winner of this challenge!

Looking forward to seeing your wonderful work!
Carolyn Dube and Jessica Sporn