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Welcome to Blessings, a site dedicated to helping you go deeper in your walk with the Lord.. Come and learn to Sketchnote sermons, doodle during your devotiona,ls, and do some brushwork in your Bible study. Check out my blog posts and the tabs at the top for more info. Be sure to sign up for my newsletter to get free exclusive resources from me to you!

  • Read-Pray-Sketch 10 Day Challenge – Days 1-10

    Read-Pray-Sketch 10 Day Challenge – Days 1-10

    The 10 Day Challenge to learn how to Read-Pray-Sketch starts on October 19, 2020. We will learn a quick method on how to spend 15-20 minutes a day in the Word. We will read a verse, journal a bit. List our prayers, gratitudes and draw something everyday. We will get our brains going in a…

  • Weekly Bible Doodle Challenge – Bread

    Weekly Bible Doodle Challenge – Bread

    Bread Did you know that Bread is mentioned in the Bible over 500 times? This is a great icon to add to your Bible visual library. Bread has many meanings—food for nourishment, eternal food, or provisions. It symbolizes worship when we take the bread for communion to spend time in His presence. We break bread…

  • Recap your year with a Sketchnote

    Recap your year with a Sketchnote

     The challenge this week is to recap your year. What did you do with your time? What did you accomplish? What did you enjoy (or not)? And what events occurred?  When I worked in Corporate America one thing that was required was to recap my accomplishments for the year to highlight the goals that were…

  • Sketchnoting with Flowers – Scavenger Hunt

    Sketchnoting with Flowers – Scavenger Hunt

    Flowers can add a great addition to any note-taking. They can symbolize something, they can make a great border or filler if you have some empty space. Learning to draw flowers can be quick with doodles or can take a bit of time if you want to do a BOTANICAL sketch or painting of flowers.…

  • Sketchnoting with Flowers

    Sketchnoting with Flowers

    This month we are going to use flowers in our sketchnotes. The process of sketchnoting helps us better understand the information we are hearing. According to the Dual Coding theory when we sketchnote we are writing the information on our brains twice.  We are taking information in through listening and then visually we are taking…

  • Praying for Ukraine Part 5

    Praying for Ukraine Part 5

    This week, a month of Praying for Ukraine would not be complete without sketchnoting some recipes. Sketchnoting recipes is one of my favorite things to do. Taking a recipe that has been in the family for years is a great way to document your family’s heritage. It’s visually inviting to motivate you to make that dish.…

  • Praying for Ukraine Part 4

    Praying for Ukraine Part 4

    This week as we continue praying for Ukraine, let’s learn more about the country we are praying for. Your challenge this week is to do a sketchnote fact sheet on Ukraine to help better understand the people of Ukraine. Find at least 10 facts about Ukraine and sketchnote them.  What does the flag look like? What…

  • Sketchnoting Prayers for Ukraine – Part 3

    Sketchnoting Prayers for Ukraine – Part 3

    This week as we continue our Prayers for Ukraine I thought we might pray the map of Ukraine while we doodle and sketch on it. Ukraine is about the size of Alaska. It’s a big place; about 600,000 square miles.   Some of you are not into or have time to make daily cards.   Here…

  • Sketchnoting Prayers for Ukraine Part 2

    Sketchnoting Prayers for Ukraine Part 2

    Thanks for tuning back in for week 2 as we continue to use our sketchnoting skills to make visual prayers for Ukraine. This week let’s continue our list of things to pray for. Hopefully last week you found 7 things to write on your cards. This week let’s finish the list till we get to…

  • Sketchnoting Prayers for Ukraine Pat 1

    Please join me for the month of May as we use our sketchnote skills to create some visual cues as we pray for Ukraine. The conflict has been going on for more than 60 days and the news outlets are not covering it as often as we are losing interest.  However, the struggle for the…

  • 10 Day Sermon Sketchnote Challenge – Day 2-3

    10 Day Sermon Sketchnote Challenge – Day 2-3

    Join us for our 10 day challenge to your first sermon sketchnotes. Day 3 Today we looked at our simple sketchnote format where we write on 3/4 of the page and draw on 1/4. Here’s my offering. As you can see I didn’t follow my own directions to only draw in the right column, but…

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