Birthday Wishes

Hello Delightful friends and family!
Another card to share with you...

I have colors, a sketch and a couple of themes to create the inspiration for the following card!

The Stamps I've used Avery Elle (Many Thanks - all the dots, Sending You - sentiment); Inks: Memento, Gray flannel and Nautical blue; Archival - Rose Madder, Tree Branch; Designer Paper: (flag) Simple Stories - Vintage Bliss; Sequins: Teresa Collins - You Are My Happy; Twine (Darice Hemp Cording); Die (Spellbinders, Doily) Card stock: Neenah Desert Storm and Bright White; Bazzill card stock; Singer sewing machine.

Technique: Stamping off

Here is the list of challenges:

Color Throwdown #301

Freshly Made Sketches #145

Simon Says...Spots and Dots

Seize the Birthday - Stringing Along More Birthday Wishes

Thanks for visiting and I hope you are having a fantastic day!

I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you should go: I will guide you with My eye.  Psalm 32:8

P.S. I don't know about you but I'm sure grateful for the Lord's instruction and guidance!

Sunshine, Flowers and Saturday Morning fun!

Hello Delightful Friends and Family!
Hope your weekend is going well!  It's already been a busy day with making lunches for the homeless outreach our church does every 2nd Saturday of the month, breakfast with my hubs and t-ball with our little Addy.  Here is a card I did last night for a friend on the east coast, she's been on my mind lately so I thought I'd send her a card and let her know I'm thinking of her (Abby!).

Love this stamp set from Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps called Sunshine and Flowers I've been wanting to use it for over a month!  It's so cheery and the sentiments are wonderful too!  I've colored this with Copics, added Glossy Accents and Liquid Pearls (pumpkin) to embellish.  The inks I've used are Memento Tuxedo Black and Nautical Blue.  The designer paper is from DCWV 8x8 paper pad called Cafe Mediterranean.  I've used navy card stock to mat the middle dp.

Glossy accents used in the middle of the blue flower and Liquid Pearls added to the middle of the two other flowers.

I've entered this card in the following challenges:

Color ThrowDown #300

Seize the Sketch #24

Word Art Wednesday #140

 Here is a glimpse of our Saturday morning:  Assembly line to make a little more than 100 lunches.

A mound of bananas!

 Lots of sandwiches!

Here are some pics of Addy's first t-ball instruction through Kindersports.

Hitting off a batting tee.

Waiting patiently for her turn.

 

 Running the bases

Smiles for Grammie

But you, be strong and do not let your hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded.  2 Chronicles 15:7

Feel Better Soon!

Hello Delightful friends and family,
Another card to share!  I really enjoyed working with this sketch and I used my sewing machine too!  Love this fun stamp set from Paper Smooches (Healthy Vibes) and I've been hoarding this paper from Fancy Pants called Park Bench.  I'll be entering this card at Color Throw Down #300 (light blue, navy, pumpkin) I've used Memento Nautical blue ink to stamp both the image and sentiment.   I colored the heart with Copic markers and added Glossy Accents for dimension.

Here's the sketch I've used from Seize the Sketch #24 (from Vicki)

I'll be entering this at Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge (anything goes) also.

  

That's it from me, thanks for visiting!  This card will be going to a pastor friend of ours who was scheduled to have a triple bypass this morning but they were only able to fix one of the arteries. Please keep Pastor Andy lifted up in prayer for healing.  

For if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.  1 John 3:20

His Mercies - CTD 281 and WAW 121

Hello Delightful friends and family!

Pulled out my Distress Inks and water color paper to play along with the Color Throwdown #281 and Word Art Wednesday #121 Anything Goes

Ingredients: Distress Inks (Spiced Marmalade Squeezed Lemon, Black Soot, Mustard Seed, Dried Marigold); Archival Jet Black ink;  Stamps:  Taylored Expressions (Posh Posie) and Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps (Be Encouraged set); Paper: Bazzill card stock and water color paper; Mini Mister and water pen; EK Success corner rounder, rhinestones, white gel pen and Spica clear pen.

This card is going to friends who are having a rough time with guilt and regret due to their past. Have you ever felt that way? The wrong choices that perhaps you made in the past that effected future decisions made by your children.  And now the adult children are experiencing the consequences of their own choices, while the parents are experiencing guilt and regret.  It is so difficult to see our loved ones making decisions that could affect their eternal destination.  Addictions, bitterness and hardness of heart are very difficult to break through.  Wow, this sounds like a real downer of a post but I just want to say that there is HOPE.  God is faithful.  He is sovereign.  We have to learn to trust and serve Him faithfully no matter what. Is that easy? Not always easy, but possible. Discouragement is a powerful weapon of the enemy that we have to learn to recognize so that we can overcome it. We can overcome it through prayer and praise, but the best way is through reading the Word of God and taking time to really meditate on it and allow God to work in our hearts (couple that with the prayer and praise and it's a great recipe for a spiritual victory!).  I have found that when talking with friends who are discouraged that they are no longer reading their Bibles and spending time with the Lord.  You see, when we get our eyes off of Jesus and get them turned on ourselves and our circumstances we are playing right into the adversary's hand.  Does this sound like you? God's mercies truly are new every morning (He cannot lie).  He is waiting with open arms to love, comfort and extend His mercies to you.  

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.  1 John 4:4

Thanks for visiting!!