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A Million Stitches of Love: A Paper Quilt Journey of FaithÂ
A Paper Quilt Journey of Faith
About This Course
Piece by Piece, See the Story God Is Creating
A Million Stitches of Love began with a handmade gift I received from my mom more than 25 years ago.
She created an enormous hand-stitched bedspread for me in beautiful shades of cream, taupe, beige, and shimmering gold. With it, she gave me a note containing words I have never forgotten:
“I’d gladly sew a million stitches of love for you.”
That bedspread has stayed tucked safely away for most of those years because I’m still terrified that kids and cats could undo countless hours of my mom’s work in approximately five minutes!
But the gift has never really been about the bedspread.
It’s about what handmade things can hold.
Time. Love. Story. Memory. Sacrifice. Beauty.
There is something incredibly meaningful about making something with your own hands and giving it to someone else—and something equally meaningful about receiving a handmade gift and knowing someone spent their time creating it just for you.
My mom is an incredibly gifted seamstress.
I am not.
I love paper.
And that became the idea behind this course.
What if we took the beauty, tradition, patterns, stories, and meaning of quilts and translated them into a medium that paper lovers could explore?
A Million Stitches of Love is a paper quilt journey of faith created for anyone who loves sewn crafts, quilts, textiles, and handmade treasures—but loves paper even more.
Throughout the course, you’ll learn from a collection of creative teachers, each bringing her own artistic style, techniques, and perspective as we reimagine quilt-inspired designs through paper, collage, mixed media, journaling, and more.
But we’re going beyond learning art techniques.
This isn’t your everyday art class.
At the heart of every Kim Pepper Creative course is the belief that creativity can give us a new way to experience God in our everyday lives.
As our hands are busy cutting, layering, arranging, painting, gluing, and creating, we can make room for something deeper.
We can remember.
We can pray.
We can sit with Scripture.
We can think about the people God has woven into our lives.
We can recognize His faithfulness in seasons we didn’t understand at the time.
We can notice how seemingly unrelated pieces of our stories have been joined together into something we never could have seen when we were living them one piece at a time.
By the end of the course, you won’t simply have a collection of paper quilt blocks.
You’ll have pages filled with pattern, story, Scripture, prayer, memory, creativity, and faith—a paper quilt that could only belong to you.
Because the most beautiful handmade things carry a little piece of the person who made them.
And sometimes a million stitches of love can stay with someone for a lifetime.
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A Million Stitches of Love: A Paper Quilt Journey of Faith is a creative faith journaling course that combines traditional quilt-inspired patterns with paper, mixed media, Scripture, and personal storytelling. Learn approachable art techniques while creating meaningful paper quilt pages that help you reflect on God’s faithfulness and see how He is woven through the pieces of your everyday life.
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
Kelly Pittman
Kelly Pittman is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and poet, certified in therapeutic arts, whose work invites women to rediscover their true selves in Christ. Believing that life itself is a work of art, she weaves together art, beauty, story, nature, play, contemplative practices, and soul care through transformative workshops and one-on-one coaching, creating space for healing, remembering, becoming, and noticing the wonder found in the ordinary.
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Laurie Richardson Haley
Laurie Richardson Haley is a Christ follower and mixed-media artist known for her whimsical, rule-breaking approach to creativity. She turns scraps into quirky flowers, playful journal pages, fabric dolls, and delightfully odd creations that spark joy and curiosity. Laurie's passion is encouraging others to let go of perfection, experiment freely, and find joy in simply trying.
Leslie Ackman
For more than 20 years, Leslie Ackman has helped women experience the transformative power of art journaling. Through Sacred Feather Soul Journaling, she creates Cut + Paste Kits and faith-inspired art that encourage women to connect with God, honor their stories, and move forward with courage and purpose. Leslie believes your story matters, your creativity has purpose, and you were made to live a big, brave life.
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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.
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
Melanie Fagan
Melanie Fagan is an artist, photographer, writer, and creative guide who invites women to discover God’s beauty waiting in their everyday, sacred-ordinary lives and experience the restorative power of creativity. Through faith, photography, journaling, and expressive art, she encourages women to explore, reflect, process, and express what is within them in ways that bring greater peace, joy, and meaning. As the founder of Creating with Beauty, Melanie believes that when we learn to see and experience beauty differently, we can begin to experience and live our lives differently too.
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Sierra Hayes
Sierra is a mixed media artist and art journaler who loves combining paint, paper, texture, and meaningful words to create expressive, layered art. Through her creative process, she explores joy, faith, reflection, growth, and connection, embracing the beauty of imperfection along the way. She shares her art, techniques, and inspiration to encourage others to slow down, trust their creative voice, and discover the freedom and joy of making art that comes from the heart. Her hope is to inspire others to embrace the process, explore their creativity, and find meaningful connections through art journaling.
 Dale Ann Cubbage
Dale Ann Cubbage is a mixed-media artist who enjoys creating with all the mediums! Through paper dolls, art journals, miniatures, and online courses, she combines her love of creativity with her faith, pointing others toward the hope found in Jesus and exploring creative ways to work through grief, learn the language of lament and find healing through artistic expression.
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 — ONE PIECE AT A TIME
Maybe you’ve always loved quilts but have never sewn a stitch.
Perfect.
We’re using paper.
Maybe precise patterns intimidate you. Maybe measuring isn’t your favorite thing. Maybe you look at a beautiful quilt and immediately think, I could never make that.
You don’t have to.
A Million Stitches of Love isn’t about becoming a quilter or perfectly reproducing traditional quilt blocks. It’s about allowing those beautiful patterns and traditions to inspire something completely your own.
You don’t need to be an experienced artist. You don’t need perfect cutting skills. You don’t need an enormous supply collection.
Start with paper.
Cut a piece.
Move it around.
Add another.
See what happens.
As your hands work, give your heart permission to wander toward God.
Think about the people who have been stitched into your story. Remember a prayer He answered. Sit with a Scripture. Notice a season when you couldn’t see what He was doing until much later.
That is what makes this course different.
We’re learning art, but we’re also creating space for God to meet us right in the middle of ordinary things—even scraps of paper and a glue stick.
Start today.
One piece. One page. One prayer. One stitch at a time.
You don’t have to see the entire pattern yet.
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Do I need any prior experience?
How do I access the course once I enroll?
When does the course start?
What materials will I need?
Do I need to know how to quilt or sew?
Are we making an actual quilt?
Do I have to make my pages look like traditional quilt patterns?
What kind of paper will I need?
Will my work look the same as the teachers?
Is there a community with this course, and how do I access it?
What Is Faith Journaling?
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Ready to Add Your Piece?
A quilt doesn’t begin as something big and beautiful. It starts with one piece. One color. One pattern. One stitch. And then another is added beside it until all those individual pieces become something worth keeping.
Our faith stories are a lot like that.
A Million Stitches of Love: A Paper Quilt Journey of Faith is a chance to slow down and create those pieces—to remember the people, places, prayers, lessons and moments God has stitched into your story along the way.
No sewing machine required. No perfect points to match. Just paper, creativity, faith and a story that is completely your own.
Come create with us. Your piece belongs in the quilt.
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