When you think of “Covenant”, what do you envision? For me, I see the promises of God between God Himself and humanity. The first thing I envision in my mind’s eye, would be the rainbow, as it is the most well known promise of God, in my humble opinion at any rate. Of course, there are countless other covenants that God has made with mankind, and maybe I’ll do an article about some of them in the future. As for now, I want to introduce you all to my new Graphic Design business, Covenant Art Treasures.
Hey everyone, I know it’s been a while since my last post here, but I must say, that was one heavy post to follow up on. There has been countless happenings between then and now, and I’ll likely cover some of those in a future post as well. But to start, I wanted to at least write a little about my newest adventure in this crazy thing called life.
What is Covenant Art Treasures?
Covenant Art Treasures is the name of my new Biblical based digital and printable treasures company. I create artwork inspired by God’s Word, and sell that artwork for use to anyone who wishes to enjoy them in a digital or printed product.
When someone purchases my artwork, they can either use it on materials for church, youth group, social media, and so much more! Or, they can take that design (for some of the artwork I design anyhow), and print it on a shirt, notebook, mugs, keychains, and so much more! Seriously the sky is the limit with what can be done with my printable designs.
Basically, however, it’s an Etsy shop! Eventually I’ll set up a system to move the entire shop to it’s own platform, but as I’m just starting out, this seemed slightly easier on both my mind and my wallet.
How do the Products from Covenant Art Treasures Work?
Right now, I have two types of products on the Covenant Art Treasures shop. One is strictly for Social Media sharing, and the others are meant for Digital use or Print use.
So, if you were to purchase the 365 Instagram Reel Templates, you would then use that item as is on your Social Media accounts, like Instagram, or you could edit the template files to make it more your own.
And, if you were to purchase the Esther 4:14 SVG or the Blessed with Heart SVG products, you would be able to use them digitally in your own designs, or print them on products, such as T-Shirts, Framed Prints, Throw Pillows & Pillow Cases, Coffee Mugs, Keychains, Onesies, Wrist Bands, PopSockets, Vinyl Decals, Scrapbooks, Greeting Cards, and whatever else your heart desires!
But, why Covenant Art Treasures?
Now this is where things get truly interesting… You see, I have to preface the why, with an update on my own well being. And then it’ll make a little more sense as to how and why Covenant Art Treasures came into being.
The Update on My Well Being
A lot of you might not know this, but I’ve been struggling with a long term chest injury since late December of 2022. I got sick, and thought I had strep throat, and so I went to urgent care to attempt to get some antibiotics. Well, they tested for strep, only to find out that I didn’t have it! I simply had laryngitis, or massive swelling and pain in my throat. The doctor wasn’t too concerned but prescribed me steroids (Prednisone) to help the swelling go down. Little did I know, what a terrible thing that would be for me…
You see, I’m allergic to a lot of medications. I can’t even remember them all, unfortunately. But primarily, it’s antibiotics that I’m allergic to. And I’m always finding new medications that mess with my body in not so good ways. Sadly, Prednisone is one of those medications. Essentially, it makes my body act and look like I have a bad case of Parkinson’s. I shake, uncontrollably, even while sleeping. It also, weakened my cartilage, and the combination of both the uncontrollable shaking and the weakening of my cartilage, led to my current, long term chest injury. Costochondritis.
Costochondritis can take a year or more to heal up. It is an inflammation of the cartilage that connects a rib to the breastbone. Pain can even mimic that of a heart attack or other heart conditions. Basically, think of it like this… While shaking uncontrollably, my weakened cartilage essentially caused my rib to want to rip away from my breastbone. And yes, the pain is nothing I’d ever wish on anyone.
So, with that in mind, I have been on and off bed rest, to help heal myself from this injury. For the first 3 months after the injury, it was nothing but bed rest. I couldn’t work, I couldn’t leave the bed aside from going to the restroom, and I had a lot of time to think. Nowadays, I don’t have to rest in bed unless the injury flares up from me doing something that it doesn’t like. (Things that tighten my chest mostly.) Fast forward to now, and a new symptom comes into play.
A little more than two weeks ago, I woke up, and my chest was hurting worse than it had since the beginning of this injury. Wasn’t sure why, but just started my bed rest, and even while laying in bed resting, it was hurting. (Which again, was reminiscent of the beginning of this injury.) Almost a week later, Jeff was rubbing my back while giving me a hug, because mentally I’m just over this injury, and he noticed a lump on my back. He told me he thought it was my rib (the one affected by Costochondritis) and that it had popped out of place somehow.
I didn’t believe him, cause I figured something would have had to happen for my rib to pop out of place. Like, lifting something, or you know, stuff that I’m still not doing while recovering. But then, just a few days ago, I woke up, completely out of pain again! (Praise the Lord!) Wondering about this, I had Jeff hug me and rub my back again to see if the lump was still there. Nope, it’s gone! I even talked to my chiropractor about it and he agrees, it was likely my rib out of place, and now, back into place!
But during these two weeks of recent bed rest, my brain was spinning. Money this year has been tighter than either Jeff or I would like. We’re not at risk of losing anything, which is good, but we certainly don’t have extra funds for fun things, trips out, or some repairs that need to be completed for the house/car. Thankfully, God is wonderful, and always seems to provide us just enough to get by, right when we need it.
However, my brain was spinning, and I was thinking of new things I could do, while even on bed rest, but that also incorporated my love for God and has the ability to help spread God’s Word. That’s what I started working on my first ever product on Etsy, the 365 Instagram Reel Templates product. And the whole time, I was staring at “God’s Promises”. It was eating at me, as though I needed to focus on this phrase.
After creating that product, I showed Jeff and asked him to help me create a name for a digital product shop on Etsy, that focused on “God’s Promises”. He told me that that made him think of “Covenant.” And so, together, we thought up the name “Covenant Art Treasures.” Because, these are artwork and treasures based on God’s Promises to mankind, or His Covenants with mankind.
In Closing…
Phew, this turned out to be a lot longer than I originally anticipated, but I am happy with getting that off my chest. (Lol!) But seriously, this should give you a little insight as to why, how, and what Covenant Art Treasures does, and means to me. I am not sure what the future holds for this new, small business. I am not sure how often I’ll design new templates or printable artwork. I do not even know if it’ll be profitable at all! (Zero sales as of writing this article.)
But I do know this… It brings gladness and peace to my heart, and it allows me a creative way to study and share the Word of God.
And really, that’s enough for me.
God Bless you and keep you!
♥ Jess ♥
