A Challenge from SSCC, Lessons from the Eagle

Hello! I guess I'm on a roll this week with the cards! Tonight I'm posting a card from the challenge blog of the Stampin' Sister's in Christ.
I haven't joined in one of their challenges in awhile (I'm sorry to say!) they have a terrifice DT and some incredible inspiration over their so be sure and check them out. This week Kristine has the challenge duties and here is what she wrote:


"SCRIPTURE: Isaiah 40:31 "But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint."

As I reflect on this verse, I find it very comforting. We all are hit at one time or another by sickness, disappointment, failure, and tragedy... but this verse assures us that if we put our faith and hope in Jesus Christ, He will give us the strength we need to go on and ride out the storm. I read once that an eagle knows when a storm is approaching long before it hits. The eagle will fly to a high spot and wait for the winds to come, and when they do, the eagle sets its wings so that the wind will pick it up and lift it above the storm. The eagle does not escape the storm, it simply uses the storm to lift it higher and soar above it. We too can rise above the storms that life brings by setting our hearts on God. He has bigger plans for us than we can see for ourselves, so put your hope in Him--He will take you to new heights!

CHALLENGE: and so my challenge is for you to "mount up" parts of your image, aka. Paper Tole technique. This is not simply paper piecing an image, but rather restamping your image 2 or more times and cutting out parts of that image to pop it up and make it 3-dimensional. There are good tutorials here and here and here."

Our Daily Bread Designs is the sponsor this month and a $15 gift certificate is the prize to be won!! Love their stamps!

( SSCC32)

Here is a view of how the card is 3-dimensional.

Here are the ingredients to the card:
Paper: DCWV (The Cafe Mediterranean); Paper Accents, cardstock
Stamps: Our Daily Bread Designs, (sentiment); Hero Arts (butterfly)
Ink: Palette, black; Archival, coffee; Copics (B12, B18, YG11, YG67, E37)
Embellishments: Ribbon (dollar store find in the wedding supplies!); Adirondack, Dimensional pearls-color: bottle; Ranger, Stickles - icicle; Perfect Pearls, pearl.

Tools: Nestabilities, Label One

Thanks for looking and God bless you!!

Color Me, Robin's Egg Blue!

Hello again!

Wow, I don't blog for 10 days and now I've blogged two days in a row!

Be sure and check out Christian Paper Crafts Bible Verse Thursday. Angella has a great challenge and a beautiful card to show us!! Can't wait for you to see her card!! The challenge is to use a Scripture from the book of Proverbs.

I also found a challenge that I thought would be fun to try along with Bible Verse Thursday, so here is the blog you need to check out Creative Belli Blog

Challenge #88 - COLOR SPRAY - this can be a home made mixture, Glimmer Mists, Walnut Ink sprays, a bottle filled with hairspray, reinker, and Pearl Ex, or even airbrushing with your Copic markers - whatever you desire!
I just happen to have a few Glimmer Mists so I got excited!! (tee-hee)

Here's my card (CBC88) I sprayed the already pretty blue cardstock from Bazzill with the Robin's Egg Blue Glimmer Mist to add a bit of sheen before adding the Basic Grey (Urban Prairie) paper.

Here is a close-up.

You can see where I used a stencil then sprayed the Robin's Egg Blue Glimmer Mist on the white cardstock. Then I stamped the Scripture (Stamp from Our Daily Bread Designs - Scripture Collection #4)

Here's the recipe to my card (items I haven't already mentioned!)

Ink: Palette, black
Embellishments: pearls (Creative Charms) Ribbon (American Crafts)
Tools: Corner rounder (EK Success); Floral vines Stencil from The Crafters Workshop (TCW82)
Martha Steward border punch (I did two layers)

Our Bible Study in the Gospel of John is now in the 6th chapter and moving right along. I would love for you to check it out. And if you do, be sure and pray for me as I teach the weekly study.

It looks to be a busy day and this Sunday is Resurrection Sunday (the pastor's wife's work is never done!!!) and we start Friday with dear hubby's birthday so I'm looking at a very full weekend. Have a fantastic day!

God bless!

PS Blogger has been acting strangely and for some reason I lost my siggy and had to resort to my backup. I'm sure next post everything will be back to normal (I hope!)

I'm back...

Hello friends,

Sorry I've been missing for over a week. Actually I wasn't missing, I knew where I was and it just wasn't here! ;-) I've missed it but I'm back with a card and three challenges met!

Here is the sketch I followed from this weeks challenge at Christian Paper Crafts, love Gloria's sketches!!! They are so adaptable to scrapbooking or cardmaking. Perfect for us crafters!

(CPC-ST50)

The color challenge is also from Christian Paper Crafts (CPC-CM48) which is any shade of green with brown and cream and white (optional). I loved this color combo!

The third challenge is from Our Daily Bread Designs. This is the Stamping in Time Assignment : The challenge this week is to make a monochromatic card. Choose any one color of choice along with any neutrals and go for it!

So here is my card that I made in a very clean and simple (CAS) style.

(SNTODBD6, CPC-CM48, CPC-ST50)

Here are my ingredients:
Stamps: Our Daily Bread Designs Scripture Collection 4 (I won this!! from ODBD - Thanks Kelley)
Ink: Black Palette Hybrid Inkpad (I won this too! From Lynn Mercurio at Stamperosity.com - thanks Lynn!)
Paper: KaiserCraft (Peachy Keen collection); Bazzill and Paper Accents cardstock
Embellishments: buttons (BoBunny)
Tools: Martha Stewart border punch

Thanks for visiting and I hope your day is a blessed one!

It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like....

HELLO SPRING!
Yes indeedy, Spring weather has come to northern California! At least for the last two days... we'll see if it makes it through the first week in April. We are notorious for prolonging winter here, just when we've seen the last... bam! Here comes a cold front to make us pull out the heavy jacket, perhaps this year will be different!


So since we are "thinking" Spring here is a card I made for the Our Daily Bread Designs challenge. Here is the challenge requirements: This week the challenge team is challenging you to Think Spring and New Life- Since this is the first day of Spring, create something for spring using Spring colors, sentiments and images portraying New Life. (perfect time for an Easter Creation being that we are new creatures in Christ).

(ODBDSLC6)

What better verses than those in John chapter 3 that speak of being born again, new life spiritually! What a wonderful hope we have in Christ. He died so that we might have life through His resurrection.

Here is my ingredients to my card:
Stamp: ODBD, Confirmation & Baptism verses
Paper: Little Yellow Bicycle double-sided; Vellum (Paper Accents); card base is from DCWV;
Ink: Pallette, black
Embellishments: flower & button from Making Memories (I altered the flower by using Glimmer Mist, marshmallow and the button I colored with Copic YG67 and YG11 to get the color I wanted); adhesive pearls, Creative Charms
Tools: Border punch, Fiskars; Corner Rounder, EK Success; Butterfly punch, Marvy Uchida
Scissors, Cutterbee (to cut out half the large butterfly)

I'M SO EXCITED TO SHARE THAT I ALSO WON A SET OF STAMPS FROM OUR DAILY BREAD DESIGNS FOR PARTICIPATING IN THEIR BLOG HOP THIS WEEK!! I'm so thrilled, they have some wonderful stamps! Not only are they excellent quality but I love the fact that they are Christian-based and perfect for sharing an encouraging word or expressing our faith. Thank you Kelley!! Also I would encourage YOU ALL to check out their design teams work. Each one is incredible! Definitely the WOW factor!

A card and an update and an ODBD blog hop

Another week, speeding by....

Yes, I have been a bit MIA!! Getting tax stuff ready for the accountant! Blaaahhh!! But hooray, it's done, I can breathe again! It's even done before April 1st, whoo-hoo!! Trusting the Lord that it will be good news when the accountant calls.

So here is what else is going on in my life: (better grab a cup of coffee or some tea)

I've been enjoying our Beth Moore Daniel Bible study we've been doing on Wednesday mornings! What a wonderful study (the homework is incredible, too!) My dh has taught this so it's not new to me but she does an excellent job communicating God's truths to us women, doesn't she?! I'm looking forward to her Simulcast coming up next month that the Nazarene Church is hosting in Eureka. I'm also facilitating (or moderating) The Love Dare Bible study a group of us ladies are participating in it at Christian Paper Crafts. This is a private study so unless you signed up for it you won't be able to comment or join in. It's been a real blessing to get to know the ladies and have a safe place to share our hearts with one another. I believe God is doing a real work in our lives and strengthening the marriages involved. Next up is the Gospel of John study that will be posted at CPC late Sunday night we are in chapter 6, I'm learning so much as I study and prepare for each weeks lessson, I appreciate all the prayer I can get on this, sometimes it gets a bit overwhelming but I am so grateful for the prayer support I've received and the strength the Lord has given me to get these things done each week. I absolutely could not do it without the Lords help and the covering of prayer I receive. Thank you ladies!!! You know who you are :-)

I do have a card to post that I did last week for last weeks challenges but was to overwhelmed with stuff to get it posted. Here it is: Don't tell my daughter, it's for her birthday (shhhh!) I don't have to worry about her seeing it here she doesn't have time for the computer with a 3 year old, a 9month old, plus working 3 days a week.

Christian Paper Crafts Sketch Tuesday (CPC-ST47) from LAST WEEK (I'm bad!) Thanks Gloria for an awesome sketch. Our color challenge CPC-CM47 is yellow, pink and cream or white. Thanks Jen! Sorry for the late posting. Here is my card:

CPC-ST47 AND CPC-CM47

Here is a pic of the "pleated" ribbon I did. That took a bit of time. Here's how I did it. First I measured one inch intervals and marked with a pencil. After doing that for the length of the ribbon I then folded the ribbon to the mark I made and just repeated but first I stitched it down (by hand, the button is hiding the stitch) then I attached the ribbon to the paper with Zots and the buttons, too. It wasn't hard, but a bit time consuming, is there an easier way? Let me know! I still don't have the sewing machine up and running or else I would have machine basted it. The patterned paper is from Basic Grey and the cardstock is from Paper Accents. I used a stamp fr0m an Autumn Leaves set and the ink is Archival (coffee). I added a little more color with my Copic R32 and the center of the flower with Smooch pearlized accent paint. The pink pearls from Creative Charms I customized using my Copic R32 and the border punch and corner rounder is from EK Success. One last thing I did was use Distress Ink, antique linen to distress the edges of the pink cardstock with the sentiment. (Ribbon from Michaels and the buttons from Making Memories)

I didn't mean to get so wordy!! You'd think I was writing a book for cryin' out loud!! Well it is now 11:55 pm (pacific time) and I've got grandbabies coming over early in the morning so I'd best get myself to bed. I'm going to try and coordinate nap times so that I can sneak into my craft room (across the hall from the nappers!) and create something with this weeks challenges at Christian Paper Crafts. You might want to check out the Our Daily Bread Blog Hop they are celebrating their 2nd Anniversary. Talk about some gorgeous creations, oh my goodness!! You really don't want to miss this so head over there. Ok this time I mean it.... good night!!!

My First Copic Colored Card!

It's been a week since I've posted a card but I wanted to share my very first card I've done using Copic Markers! I took a class at Scrapper's Edge a couple of weeks ago and my collection of markers is quite small (eleven to be exact, counting the blending pen), that's how new I am!! I don't quite have the hang of it yet. But I'm practicing and learning by watching a lot of tutorials online.

But I just love this little summer image of Tilda (Magnolia), I've used My Minds Eye DP (Pretty Please) and Bazzill cardstock, Martha Stewart border punch (picket fence, which I laced with yellow ribbon) and I rounded each corner with my every trustworthy corner punch from EK Success. I paper pieced one of the yellow flowers and added a button. I also blended Antique Linen Distress ink around the white of the cardstock so it wouldn't be so stark white.
My second piece of MME DP I cut out with the Spellbinders,
Nestabilities Label One with my Cuttlebug

Copic Pens:B12,E00,E33,E37,YG11,YG67,R20,R29,R32,W1.
Prismacolor pencil, Deco Yellow

Here is the inside of the card and I used one of the diecuts from the MME (Pretty Please) and the stamp is from Unity Stamp Co. I used Archival (coffee) ink.

So all of you Copic experts don't be too hard on me!! This is my first completed image I've put together for a card! I've been practicing a bit and not to make excuses (as I make an excuse... lol) I only have 11 markers, for crying out loud!!

Check back and I hope to have this weeks challenges from Christian Paper Crafts posted, I'm running just a few days behind!! oops!!

Well, thanks for looking!! Have a wonderful weekend!

Love to spread the Sunshine!

Thank you Brenda for this award, that was so sweet of you.

Be sure and check out Brenda's blog, she rocks in the Copic coloring and she is very creative in her card designs, not only that she is an alumni for Center Stage at StampTV (and there are more places she's been invited to create for!!) they know where to find inspiration!! You can find her at Stamp it Up! Definitely head over there and leave her a delightful comment!

Now it is my turn to pass this Sunshine Award on to some outstanding fellow bloggers that I just love to follow since I started blogging. Some I know personally and some I've come to know through blogging and they have blessed my life through their encouragement and/or creativity and sense of humor. Thank you ladies for "spreading the sunshine" in our little corner of blogland!!

Amy

Angella

Bobbi

Cindy

Jeanie

Marcelle

Randi

Here are the "rules" girls - but rules or not - enjoy your blog award - you are some of the sunshine in my life and you all make me smile!!
1. Pass it on to 6 bloggers
2. Put a link to your nominees within your post
3. Let your nominees know that you are passing this award along to them by leaving by leaving a comment on their blog
4. Link to the blog of the person who nominated your for this award