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I shared a room with my sister. We spent so many nights talking into the darkness, giggling, or searching for spiders with our flashlights — just in case. Every night ended in a long, ritual good night phrase that we could both repeat to this day. But the nights also always ended with something else […]

It’s funny that I am just now recognizing the real impact this art piece may have actually had in my life as I think back on my memories of it and the choices I may have made. I grew up in a small town in Wyoming. I was around 6 years old when I moved […]

When we created “Savior,” we knew we wanted the pages to be full of watercolor imagery that children could connect with. Some of the imagery of Christ that we had grown up with had felt unapproachable to us, or at times even scary. But in the pages of “Savior” we aimed to create a connection […]

When Maddie’s son was three, he could completely recite the words from “Little Blue Truck.” When Kindal’s daughter was just a baby, she engaged with beautiful art. We both noticed the way our children responded to certain types of stories and art, and wished we had something that taught them all about Jesus Christ in […]

Hello! Welcome to the new Lighten Print blog and website, home of our debut children’s book, “Savior.” If you found us early on during our Kickstarter, or are just finding us now, we are so glad you’re here!  Lighten Print is all about Teaching Simply. We want to create beautiful art and memorable stories about […]

Hi! We’re Kindal and Maddie, and together we created Lighten Print to launch our new children’s book. This was a book we had tried to find for our own children, and couldn’t — a story of the life of Christ with rhyming words and painted pictures so children could connect with and remember His life, […]