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The Crow’s Nest
Managing Your Mundane Like A Queen
About This Course
Find the Treasure Hiding in Your Ordinary Days
The Crow’s Nest was born from my slightly unusual obsession with crows and my ongoing dream of convincing an entire murder of them to move into my backyard and become my friends.
I know. It’s a very specific dream.
But the more I’ve learned about these fascinating birds, the more I’ve come to appreciate the way they move through the world. Crows are incredibly intelligent and resourceful. They notice what others overlook, remember what matters, form relationships, and have quite the eye for interesting finds.
That sounds a lot like the way I want to move through my own life.
I want to notice more.
Not because every day is exciting or beautiful or profound, but because most of our lives are lived right in the middle of the ordinary. If I’m always waiting for the big moments before I pay attention, I’m going to miss an awful lot of what God has placed around me.
The Crow’s Nest is a creative faith journaling course about learning to see those ordinary things differently.
Throughout the course, you’ll learn from a collection of creative teachers who will each bring their own artistic style, techniques, and perspective to the idea of gathering and creating. We’ll use found papers, scraps, everyday objects, collected treasures, words, Scripture, memories, and unexpected materials to make journal pages filled with meaning and story.
You’ll learn art techniques, experiment with different materials, and stretch your creativity, but this isn’t your everyday art class. We aren’t creating simply for the sake of making something pretty.
At Kim Pepper Creative, we believe creativity can become a way to experience God in the day to day.
When we slow down enough to notice the torn piece of paper, the handwritten note, the old book page, the tag we almost threw away, or the tiny detail we normally wouldn’t give a second thought, we begin practicing a different kind of attention. And that practice can spill over into our faith.
We begin noticing provision. We remember people. We recognize beauty. We become grateful for things we’ve taken for granted. We see evidence of God’s creativity everywhere, and ordinary moments begin to feel a little less ordinary.
By the end of the course, your journal will become your own little Crow’s Nest, filled with things you noticed, gathered, created, remembered, and discovered along the way.
My hope isn’t that you finish this course and suddenly start hoarding every interesting scrap of paper you see—although, if we’re being realistic, that may happen.
My hope is that you begin looking at your everyday life differently.
Take the bird’s-eye view. Keep an eye out for treasure. Appreciate what you already have. Share the good stuff. Stay curious.
And when you discover beauty hiding in the mundane, remember Who put it there.
The Crow’s Nest is a creative faith journaling course that transforms found papers, everyday scraps, collected treasures, and overlooked materials into meaningful art journal pages. Through mixed media, Scripture, storytelling, and creative exploration, you’ll learn to notice beauty in ordinary things and discover God’s presence in what is already around you.
Sign Up NowIn This Course You Will Learn:
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Watercolor painting and acrylic painting
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Mixed-media collage and creative layering
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Found textile weaving and fabric collage
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Creative ways to repurpose junk mail, cardboard, packaging, and everyday scraps
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Stenciling, ink techniques, and oil pastel detailing
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Kintsugi-inspired art using gold accents and broken pottery imagery
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Incorporating vintage ephemera, clothing tags, and found objects
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Creating windows and transparent elements with packing tape and recycled plastics
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Adding texture and dimension with burlap, fabric, and 3D embellishments
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Altering envelopes and creating hidden paperclips
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Making prayer cards, tags, and pockets to hold meaningful treasures
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Combining nature finds with paint and raw canvas
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Using creative journaling to preserve prayers, memories, friendships, and testimonies of God's faithfulness
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Meet Your Teachers
Caroline Stoltzfus
Caroline is a Biblical soul care coach, Bible teacher, and artist who loves helping women experience the renewing work of God in everyday life. She believes creativity offers a space to process, reflect, and meditate on the truths of God's Word. Whether she's teaching the Bible, coaching women or sharing a creative project, her hope is that every woman feels welcomed, encouraged, and inspired to abide more deeply in Christ.
Christine Durrant
Christine gives pre-loved bibles a new lease of life by hand-painting the covers, making them a joy to own. She loves the idea of a bible carrying on its journey and enhancing a new life. She also creates bold vibrant fine art, concentrating mainly on florals, finding beauty from God's creation.
Jenna Burne
Jenna lives in Stroud, UK, and is passionate about helping people encounter God through mixed media art journaling. She teaches at retreat centres, in schools, churches, festivals, and events, and also online through Youtube and her online course, Wild Art, Deep Faith.
Maria Lyons
Maria is a follower of Christ, wife, mother, and faith based junk-journaler. She created Prayers on Paper with the goal of helping women slow down and connect with Jesus through creative journaling. Her desire is to encourage women to invite Him into every corner of their hearts, allowing God to renew their minds, refresh their spirits, and gently transform the way they live and serve.
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Rhonda Elder
Rhonda Elder is a Texas girl who wears the joy of Jesus with a big smile. She adores family gatherings and creating. Her favorite form of learning God's word is listening hard, note taking, pondering and journaling with collage and paint. She has led women's ministries for over 40 years. During that season she has written Bible studies, illustrated books, photographed magazine covers, as well as hosted retreats. She draws inspiration from God's little wonders in His beauty. She also enjoys teaching the word of God or art at women's events. Her life verse is Proverbs 3:5-6 because trusting God is vital in her spiritual walk.  Â
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Cathy Freeman
Cathy Freeman is an artist and creative mentor who encourages women to embrace their God-given gift of creativity as a meaningful form of self-care. She believes creativity can be more than something we make - it can be a way to navigate the emotions of everyday life. Through her creative classes in My Art Sisters, podcast, and the Tiny Village Post mail club, she helps women slow down, manage emotions, ease everyday stress, and create space for reflection, encouragement, and connection with God.
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Kim Pepper
Kim Pepper is a faith artist, teacher, and the founder of Kim Pepper Creative, where she helps women deepen their relationship with God through art journaling, mixed media, and creative Bible study. After years as a successful DIY and home décor creator, Kim discovered that creativity could become an act of worship, and she's been inviting women into that journey ever since. Through online courses, workshops, and the Creative Faith Club, she encourages women to slow down, notice God's presence, and create with purpose. Kim lives in the Texas Hill Country with her husband, Ladd, and her three children, Mae, Hank, and Sadler.
We have two options for you to access this course:
START TODAY — WITH WHAT YOU ALREADY HAVE
You don’t need a perfectly stocked art room to take this course.
In fact, we’d rather you start by looking around.
Open the junk drawer. Dig through your paper scraps. Save the tag from something you bought. Pull out an old book page. Notice the packaging you normally throw away. Look through the little pieces you’ve collected because they were simply too interesting to toss.
The Crow’s Nest is about learning to see possibility in what is already there.
You don’t need expensive supplies, advanced art skills, or a perfectly planned journal. You simply need a willingness to gather, experiment, and pay attention.
As you work through the course, you’ll discover that creativity doesn’t always begin with something new. Sometimes it begins with noticing something old, ordinary, forgotten, or overlooked and asking:
What could this become?
And as we practice noticing creatively, we’ll practice noticing spiritually too.
Where has God provided?
What have you overlooked?
What small thing is worth remembering?
What beauty has been sitting right in front of you?
Start today.
Gather a few scraps. Open your journal. Look around with fresh eyes.
You might be surprised by how much treasure is already there.
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Ready to Build Your Nest?
You don’t need fancy supplies, a perfectly planned journal, or a pile of brand-new art materials. In fact, for this one, the scraps, bits, pieces, old papers and little things you’ve been saving might finally get their moment!
The Crow’s Nest is an invitation to gather what catches your eye, look a little closer at the ordinary, and create something meaningful from what might otherwise be overlooked.
Come gather with us. Let’s build a nest full of creativity, stories, Scripture and reminders that God can make something beautiful out of just about anything.
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