Moxie Fab World - Creative Spaces - Linky Party!

Hello Delightful Friends and Family,
While my mom is taking a nap (she had hip replacement surgery on Monday) I thought I'd share my favorite space on my desk since Moxie Fab World is having a Linky Party to promote the new Creative Spaces Volume 3. Hope this will inspire!
I've collected Crystal Light containers (thanks to my dear hubs!) for my Copic Markers.  They are the perfect size and stackable and with their lids on, portable. The shelving is actually for shoes but works perfectly. I also was blessed at Christmas from my oldest daughter who bought me the stamp pad holder from OrganizeMore, which I've outgrown and could use another one (hint, hint). This unit can free stand or hang on the wall.
I keep my Stazon inks in another large container under my desk. This picture was taken in January and I've added more markers and more stamp pads!  I've also labeled all the stamp pads.  This system works perfectly for me.  When I get back home, I'll have to take a picture of my craft table and share (my husband bought it for me at Costco and it's WONDERFUL) he added a laminate top to it and I love it!!  I can't wait to see all the creative spaces to find better ways to utilize my space!

Thanks for visiting, better go get some dinner started!  Have a great evening!

I will lift up my eyes to the hills -- from whence comes my help?  My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth.  Psalm 121:1-2

A Little Moxie Spatter

Hello Delightful Friends and Family!

I'm sharing a tag using a less messy technique using water (the "etc." in the Moxie Fab description).  I'm sure most of the really cool samples of this technique will be with paint spatters, but to tell you the truth I just wasn't up to the creative mess tonight! 

Have you ever had one of those days where you just can't seem to keep things picked up or there is always some chore calling your name a little bit louder than usual??  This was my day.... thus the clean and simple spatter technique with water! Nevertheless, this is still a cool effect on the Distress Stains, I think so anyway!  I've used four different stains (Tumbled Glass, Stormy Skies, Peeled Paint and Shabby Shutters) for the background colors. After the tag (Paper Accents) was dry I "spattered" away, dried the tag again and then stamped the kite/tails (Taylored Expressions) and sentiment (Gina K Designs).  I then stamped again on designer paper from Simple Stories (Fabulous) the kites and one tail (for above the sentiment) fussy cut and applied.  The tails of the kites were glimmered up by Spica Pens.  I've stamped with Memento tuxedo black and the water came directly from my bathroom sink and applied by the quick flick of my fingers :-)

The camera picked up the glimmer of the Spica Pens and the dried water spatter, yay!!  The next time I use this technique I promise to use paint and a toothbrush!

Be sure and check out MOXIE FAB WORLD and all the delightful spatter technique samples and inspiration!

"O LORD, You have searched me and known me!  You know when I sit down and when I rise up; You discern my thoughts from afar.  You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways."  Psalm 139:1-3

Thanks for visiting, have a wonderful day!

Pray Hope Trust - Moxie Fab and CPS #265

Hello Delightful friends and family

It's a new week and new opportunities to pray, hope and trust the Lord.  One of my fav Scriptures is in Proverbs 3:5-6 "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct your path."   I don't know about you but there are too many times I don't see the big picture and I need the Lord's wisdom and direction.  Thankfully, He is faithful to honor His Word and help us when we call on Him! The above verse doesn't say He might direct us but "He shall direct" are you listening for His direction?  Lord, help us to have hearing ears!

My card today is inspired by a few things.  First, a sketch challenge at Card Positioning Systems and I was also delighted to see an opportunity to use my Mini Motiff stamps from Taylored Expressions for the challenge at Moxie Fab World (using Damask or Brocade).

When I saw this sketch I knew the exact stamp I was going to use and it's  from Gina K Designs called Lacy Borders (it's brand spankin' new this month!)

Well, I didn't follow the sketch exactly but you know these cards can have a mind of their own ;-)  I was attempting to keep it CAS.

This pic shows off this Lacy Border stamp and it's details a bit better.  So cool!! When I first saw this stamp I knew that I would want to try to emboss it and so this is my first attempt at embossing this longer stamp and I'm very pleased how it turned out.

I'm also sharing this card over at Word Art Wednesday #27. I didn't use the verse that was shared (it's not required to) but I thought the sentiment fit with the challenge verse well.

No designer paper was used on this card only card stock.  The base is Bazzill and so is the Dusk Gray.  The white card stock is Neenah bright white and I used it to stamp the mini motiff and then cut a larger piece to mat it. The ink I've used is Memento tuxedo black and I've used VersaMark watermark stamp pad and clear embossing powder from Ranger to stamp the lace.  The sentiment is from Taylored Expressions - Faith in Bloom set and the ribbon is from a TE Key Ingredient kit. 

Thanks for visiting today!  Have a great week.

Moxie Fab World - Country Gingham Card

Hello Delightful friends and family!

I just love gingham and I was so excited to see the Gingham Challenge at Moxie Fab World.  Here is my card all countri-fied with some delightful teal blue gingham, a pretty bouquet of flowers and a very sweet sentiment.  Be sure and head over the Moxie Fab World and see all the delightful gingham inspiration!!

Ingredients:  Stamp Set: Gina K Designs (One in a Million); Ink: Memento tuxedo black; Bazzill Card Stock, ribbon, pattern paper (Simple Stories, Fabulous) all from Taylored Expressions Key Ingredient Kit (April); Rhinestones, Hero Hues from Hero Arts; Liquid Pearls, Ranger (assortment) and Copic Markers.

Thanks for looking and I hope you all have a wonderful day and for all the moms out there "Happy Mother's Day" this card is for you!

Draw near to God and He will draw near to you.  James 4:8

It's a "Spectacular" Girl Thing!

Hello delightful friends and family! 

 The weekend is almost here and so is National Scrapbook Day.  Lots of fun planned at Scrapper's Edge our lss where I work and this time I get to play instead of work! Yay!!

I can't believe I was able to squeeze in a card before I start organizing my stuff and loading up the car (that's going to take some time while watching my two little grandkids who love to "help" Grammie!)

Here's my card and you know that "bling" is a girl thing so I made sure my fun glasses were blinged up with my Spica Pens.  I've also added a couple of Hero Hues (Hero Arts) adhesive gems to add to the bling. The paper is Authentique "Delightful" Collection and the fun glasses and sentiment is from the Sweet Stamp Shop (Spectacle set).  Other than the bling this design is pretty clean.  The sketch is from the challenge blog    Deconstructing Jen and this is Deconstructed Sketch #50 this is my first time playing with this challenge blog and I kept this very true to the sketch.  I'm also playing along with Play Date Cafe #130  and the color combo is Dolphin, Salmon, Sea Glass.  I'm also entering this in the Spectacular Spectacles Challenge in the Moxie Fab World. Be sure and head over to all these sites and check out all the inspiration.

So glad this pic shows the glimmer!

Other ingredients: Bazzill card stock and Neenah bright white card stock; Memento tuxedo black ink.

Have a great weekend and I'm hoping to have my project finished for my new great niece and some scrapbook pages completed for my youngest granddaughter, Tucker! With 12 hours of crop time I hope I can get something accomplished (!) and I'll share next week.

"What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love Him." 1 Corinthians 2:9 (ESV)

"If we never risk standing for Christ, we will never discover the faithfulness of God's promises." (Quote: James McDonald from the Bible Study "Always True - God's Promises When Life is Hard")

Butterfly Inspiration - Tuesday Trigger at Moxie Fab

Hello Delightful Friends and Family!

Hope you are having an incredible day!  I'm excited to share a couple of tags for Tuesday Trigger at Moxie Fab World.  Aren't these gorgeous colors, I love the jeweled tones and the butterflies! The picture reminds me of rainbow sherbert (yum!)

 

This is actually the second tag I made because after revisiting the inspiration photo I realized there was no purple in my original tag!  That will teach me to get crafty away from my craft room! (ha!) I "had" to watch the baseball game with the hubs so I pulled out the card table and relocated to the living room for the evening and watched a nail biter of a game, it's a wonder I was able to even concentrate on my projects!  S.F. Giants won in the 11th inning!

Ingredients: Ranger Craft Tags #8 (manila); Distress Stains: Worn Lipstick, Dried Marigold, Mustard Seed, Fired Brick, Peeled Paint;  Distress Inks: Dusty Concord, Milled Lavendar; Inks: Stazon, Jet Black and Vibrant Violet;  Making Memories, Purple Potion Acrylic Paint; Sharpie Fine tip marker; Stamps: Hero Arts Butterflies; Unity (Ippity series)  Devoted; Taylored Expressions, Faith Blooms set (sentiment); paint brush, Q-tips, Mini Mister

This is the first tag I did and I really love the white space showing throughout the tag, that was also one of the "triggers" that I loved about the photo.

This photo really shows off the Perfect Pearls and the glimmer it gives that I added to the wings, not so noticable in the first shot. Ranger Liquid Pearls also added a little dimension.

Here is a list of ingredients: Ranger Craft Tags #8; Stamps: Hero Arts Butterflies; Ranger Dylusions (ribbon border) Taylored Expressions (Faith Blooms); Distress Stains: Worn Lipstick, Fired Brick, Dried Marigold, Mustard Seed; Memento tuxedo black ink; Distress Inks: Worn Lipstick; Liquid Pearls (Ranger) Cantaloupe, Flamingo; Perfect Pearls (pearl); Mini Mister

O give thanks to the Lord; For He is good: For His mercy endures forever"    Psalm 118:29

Well, that's all for me for now, be sure and come back soon and visit, I have some more tags to share!

Fun Summer Challenges!

Hello Delightful friends and family!
Thought I'd play in these fun summer challenges.  Clean and Simple is the technique and summer/botanicals is the theme.

Cindy Coutts Designs is having an impromptu challenge to show her appreciation to Paper Creations Magazine and there will be blog candy for the winner so be sure and check out all the requirements (very minimal) and join the challenge and win a wonderful stamp set from Papertrey Ink.

Also Moxie Fab World is having a challenge called "Fanatical About Botanical"  

Last but not least is Flourishes - Bring Back Beautiful Challenge "Clean and Simple" (BBB13)

Here is my entry:

Step 1: Make base from card stock A2 size.  Corner round the bottom edge.

Step 2: Ink up flower stamp (stamp off once) stamp image.  Repeat but position a little lower than the first flower.

Step 3: Stamp sentiment near the top of the card in black ink.

Step 4: Stamp 3 different butterflies, color in lightly with Copic Markers.

Ingredients:  Card Stock: Neenah bright white;  Stamps:  Gina K. Designs - Botanicals and Taylored Expressions (butterflies) Summer Wreath; Inks:  Distress Inks: Peeled Paint and Mustard Seed; Memento Inks: Cantaloupe and Tuxedo Black; Copic Markers: Y11, E95; EK Success, Corner rounder

I've been in a real creative slump lately so starting out with a CAS card, although out of my comfort zone (all that white space, YIKES!) worked out pretty well. Hope you like it!  Thanks Cindy for inspiring me to get "crafty" and thanks Jan for encouraging me to play the challenges!  Be sure and check out Christian Paper Crafts for the latest challenges we have going on too!!  Did you know we have a whole thread dedicated to just Cricut techniques?  And another thread specifically for Spellbinders dies? Our gallery is full of wonderful projects by the members that will amaze you and inspire you too. So, won't you consider joining us at Christian Paper Crafts for encouragement, Bible study and lots of fun inspiration with paper crafts!

Thanks again for visiting and God bless!