One Card, Four Challenges! Wait a minute...it's Five Challenges!

Hello and welcome to Delightful Details!! I'm so blessed that you've stopped by to visit and I hope you are inspired at least a little bit!!
My card today fills a few challenges I'm pleased to say!! Of course I've got to get in the color and sketch challenge from Christian Paper Crafts!! I'll be sharing what the challenges are in a minute but I did want to share that this card was also inspired by the challenge over at the Stampin' Sisters in Christ blog, too! We were encouraged to pray and seek the Lord on whatever we created with this Scripture as our inspiration: Colossians 3:17 "And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him." Personally, I need the touch of the Holy Spirit daily to refresh me to walk in obedience so that my words and deeds will glorify the Father so I thought this stamp from Our Daily Bread Designs would be perfect to reflect that.
Here are the challenges from Christian Paper Crafts: Color Monday: You are my sunshine! COLORS: Yellow, white or cream, & one other color. When uploading to the CPC gallery, please use keyword CM46 and when uploading to your blog or other online galleries, please use keyword CPC-CM46. Fun colors, Jen!! Thanks!

Here is our fabulous Sketch Tuesday from Gloria and just a reminder when you upload on your blog to label/keyword with CPC-ST46

Just added: BIBLE VERSE THURSDAY Challenge: Use your favorite verse about "The Son" along with any project theme you like......OR use sunshine as your theme plus any verse you like. How easy is that?!When uploading to our gallery here at CPC, use the Keyword BVT44. If uploading to any additional online galleries, please use the Keyword CPC-BVT44. (Thanks Angella for a great pre-Spring challenge!!)

Our FUN ON FRIDAY Challenge: Since we are all so ready for spring, Cindy thought that it would be fun just to use flowers on our projects. It can be any kind of flowers, but you have to make them from a die-cut, hand-cut, etc. so when uploading on your blog or another online gallery don't forget to label with CPC-FOF43

Here is my card:

CPC-CM46, CPC-ST46, CPC-FOF43 and SSCC#28 and last but definitely not least CPC-BVT44

Close-up of the flower. I punched out the daisy twice and added the pearls to the center of the flower.

Recipe for my card:

Paper: Cardstock : Paper Accents; Designer Paper, Creative Imaginations (Cross); Fancy Pants & Basic Grey (these were scraps I used for the flowers and the matting of the Scripture stamp)
Stamps: Our Daily Bread Designs (Baptism & Confirmation verses)
Ink: Archival Ink, coffee
Embellishments: Creative Charms, pearls; Offray, ribbon
Tools: EK Success, corner rounder, daisy, 3/4" circle punches

I know I kind of strayed from the sketch but I was inspired by it! Gloria understands these things! And as we always remind each other: there are no challenge police on staff site!!

Thanks for looking!! Have a great weekend and be sure to check out both sites and leave an encouraging comment. God bless!

Stampin' Sisters in Christ!!

Be sure and check out Stampin' Sisters in Christ Blog this week. Christian Paper Crafts is sponsoring the blog this week and the featured "Stamping Sister" is our very own Cindy Coutts! Hooray and congrats to Cindy! Be sure and play along with the challenge and get the opportunity to win a set of stamps from Unity {ippity} that CPC is giving away!

Here is the set to be given away :

Have a blessed day and check back for a Color, Sketch and Bible Verse Challenge that I will be posting later! Got to get back to the grandkids!

Happy Birthday to you....

Today we celebrated our grandson, Jakob's third birthday and since I took a gazillion pictures of the event, I will let the pictures tell the story! Of course I won't use even half of the gazillion, I promise!

Jake informed me that Costco doesn't do firetruck cakes...

This is Jake and his best bud, Garrison.

Fire Chief Jake blowing out his candles

Waiting patiently(?) to open gifts.

Poppa just as excited (or intense) as Jake. Of course Poppa knows that Spiderman is waiting inside that bag since he is the one who went shopping for his "boy!"

We had fun and I didn't have to cook or do dishes, whoo-hoo!!

(I love you Jakey, you are such a blessing to us and I can't believe how fast three years have flown by!!)

Simple Blessings.... Did you miss me?

Did you miss me?? I missed you all!

I'm not sure where this week has gone but it's already Thursday and I haven't posted for a WEEK!! My goodness, I guess I've been busy. Our friend and evangelist/pastor was staying with us and ministering at our church for 3 nights and so we were pretty much caught up in that, which was a good thing for sure!! We always have a great time with Darrell. He is usually over at the church all morning and then we head to the 2nd hand bookstores (he loves the old commentaries of the Bible as well as a lot of classical writings) he has 2 favorite places to check out in town and after that we go to lunch for some Chinese food, yum!! I feel just a little tiny bit guilty because dh has to work at the mill during the day, pastor the other hours of the day and night and I get to hang out with the "young" man of God and have lunch! Oh the perks of being the pastor's wife ;-) We did however grab dh some lunch and take it out to him on his lunch break.

Well, since it's already Thursday (12:03 am) I will post the Christian Paper Crafts Color Monday Challenge from Jen:

Shades of brown & Pink + white (Optional shade of green - just in case you want to use flowers )When uploading to our gallery, please use keyword CM45 and when uploading to your blog or other online galleries, please use keyword CPC-CM45.

AND

Here is Sketch Tuesday from Gloria:

CPC-ST45

Isn't this the cutest sketch, too bad I didn't follow it exactly!! Ooops and as we say at Christian Paper Crafts: "No worries, there are no challenge police" thank goodness for that!!

The sketch however was a great inspiration

and it got me out of my creative slump! Thanks Gloria!!

Here is the close up of my flower. Everywhere I look I keep finding handmade flowers so I jumped carefully onto the band wagon and this is what I got! Very simple: I used my large blossom punch (Marvy Uchida) punched out 4 blossom from regular printing paper, dabbed them with distress ink on both sides, I used Antique Linen and Worn Lipstick (I love those two together!) folded them every which way and then using my cropadile I punched a hole in the center. Added this custom brad (it originally was pink with white polka dots (Bazzill) that did not match my colors! So I used my Copics (E37)to color it and then added Glossy Accents and then a button!) Easy peasy! Another easy project was the leaves. Stamped them with a UNITY stamp on green paper using Coffee colored Archival Ink and then using my Copic (YG11) I colored the stamped image, cut them out and adhered to the card.

Here is a side view so you can see the dimension.

Pretty easy card, I used both the challenges and I'm a happy gal!! Here is the list of the ingredients not mentioned.

Paper: Pink Paislee (DP) Bazzill cardstock;

Stamps: Unity Stamp Co (this is a Thanksgiving stamp but you can see how versatile it can be!

Embellishments: Ribbon and buttons (from my stash)

Technique: Paper piecing, handmade flowers.

Ok my dear friends I'm falling asleep at the computer so I'll say good night and I hope to post something else tomorrow for Bible Verse Thursday..... stay tuned!!

PS hope there aren't too many typos... I'm not reading it again!!

Happy Thursday!!

Wow the work week is almost over! It's been a fast one hasn't it? Today almost got by before posting our Bible Verse Thursday. Angella has a beautiful card and a great theme and her verse is perfect for inspiration. Here is Angie's own words for this challenge:
"Happy Thursday!! This week's theme for Bible Verse Thursday is "He Is Our Protector". There are many verses which tell us not to fear, that the Lord's "got our back", if you will. Be as flexible on this theme as you wish.....let the Lord lead you as you create!There are no time limits....you can always come back later if you can't do it now!When uploading to our gallery here at CPC, please use the Keyword BVT42.....if uploading to any additional on-line galleries, please use the Keyword CPC-BVT42. To view my sample in the gallery, click HERE.To view all of the projects for this challenge, click HERE."
Be sure and check out the inspiration at CHRISTIAN PAPER CRAFTS and I hope to have a card to share by tomorrow! Have a wonderful day to all you challenge lovers!!

New Week = New Challenges!

Good Morning!!

New challenges in more ways than one this week (but we won't go into all that!!!) Our fun challenges over at Christian Paper Crafts are the ones we are going to focus on today. I'm so excited I even got to play!!! Our weekly color challenge from Jen is a great one and it really is getting me thinking about Spring!!

Here are Jen's words to us about the challenge: "I'm in the mood to celebrate some of the bright colors God has given us! This week: any shade of the following: turquoise, orange + white (Optional: any shade of green... just in case you'd like to stamp some wonderfully bright flowers!)" When uploading to our gallery at Christian Paper Crafts, please use keyword CM44 and when uploading to your blog or other online galleries, please use keyword CPC-CM44. Here is a link to the CM44 gallery.

And for our Sketch Challenge, Gloria rocks in her creative sketch this week!!

CPC-ST44 (isn't this a fun one!!)

I combined both challenges in my card and tried real hard to make it CAS. I'm late for work so I need to run and I'll be back tonight to put in the recipe for the card!!

Have a great day everyone!

Happy Valentines Day

Hi and Happy Valentines Day to you all! Hope you have a sweet day!!

Here are four cards I made using a heart pocket for our Fun on Friday at Christian Paper Crafts. The little girls in my Sunday School class will be getting them. Each is a little different, which reminds me that each of us are unique yet beautiful in our Father's eyes. Have you had a sweet moment with the Lord today? If you haven't, what's stopping you? Perhaps it's time to think about eternal things. If you've not asked Jesus to be your Lord and Savior I think today would be a wonderful day to consider this! I sure hope you'll give Him your heart today! He has a love that surpasses any other, it is unconditional and so much better than chocolate, flowers or a card, it lasts forever!

But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:8