Red White and Blue Thank You!

Hello everyone!  Happy Sunday!  It's time for another Stampin Sisters in Christ challenge!  Today, our hostess is the sweet and gifted Miesje!  She has chosen 

Galatians 5:1

"It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. 

Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery". 

Her challenge is to make a Red, White and Blue Thank You card.

I decided to use the sketch from Lily Pad Lovely Lucy's Lines.  

  This is definitely THE most CAS card I've ever made but the white does make the colors pop!  LOL!  When I saw the sketch I immediately thought of this great little set from The Craft's Meow.  It's called You've Got Star Quality.  I used a base of SU! craft and then layers on SU! white.  I stamped the stars with SU! Real Red and Night of Navy.  I used SU! hemp twine and Spellbinders Grommet tags for the sentiment which is from Our Daily Bread designs Mini Tags 2.  I had these cute star brads in my stash and decided to just do a little piercing in the corners and a little bling in the center of each star to keep it CAS.  

I'm so thankful for all the freedoms I enjoy!  In America, we have enjoyed many freedoms that many people in the rest of the world have not enjoyed... but even greater than that is the fact that in Christ, we are a new creation, and we no longer are in bondage to sin. This passage reminds us that now we are children of God's grace and no longer are we bound by the yoke of the many laws which until Christ's life, death and resurrection was the way people strove to obtain God's favor.  Paul is reminding us that we are not to go back to that thinking and be enslaved by it again, because Christ fulfilled the law!   We now need to understand that it is by grace we are saved, not through works. It's not that we no longer try to obey the principles of the moral laws...  but our salvation is not dependent on our doing so!  The law showed the need for a perfect Savior.  Our accepting HIM as our Savior and perfect sacrifice frees us from the law of sin and secures our future with Him in heaven.  Yes, we do still sin... but Christ's death, burial and resurrection proved Him victorious over sin, and His blood sacrifice is applied to everyone who believes and receives Him!  His blood covers all our transgressions and God sees us as righteous because Christ has cleansed us.  No longer are we doomed to spiritual death.... but as new creatures in Christ, we have a Savior who is preparing a place for us in heaven because of the price He paid to remove our sins as far as the east is from the west.  Christians are not perfect.... we are just forgiven!!!  Thank the Lord for His forgiveness and His grace!

Our sponsor this week is Gingerloft

The prize is four free digis from their site!  We want to thank them for their generosity!

Please be sure to stop by the Stampin Sisters in Christ Challenge Blog for the full devotional and challenge details.

For more inspirationplease visit my DT Sisters:
Chris, Linda, Peggysue, Miesje, Rebecca, Lisa , Kris, Sabrina, & MariLynn
Randi (on leave)

I am entering this in the following challenges:

 Card Creations & More By C - 2 Something Patriotic, Designed 2 Delight - 3E - Red, White & Blue and /or Christmas too  Craft Us Crazy -  Red, white & blue, Dutch Dare Card Challenge - Clean & simple, Moving Along With The Times -  Clean & simple, Pals Paper Arts - Stars, Some Odd Girl -  All white or kraft with 2 pops of colour, Penny's Paper-Crafty - red white and blue, Scrapbook Sisters -  anything goes, Everybody-Art-Challenge - #147 Anything Goes, Ladybug Crafts Ink TLT Challenge -  Use Red Somewhere, Sweet Stamps -  #20 Red, White & Blue, Bows 'n Berries - Thankyou/Appreciation, Cards For Men -  Stars, Die Cut Dreams - Red, White and Blue, Hooked on Crafts - 2Anything goes, Simon Says Stamp and Show... - some Metal(brads), Stamping Scrapping Central - Red, white and blue, Just Us Girls - #90 3D Project with Patriotic Theme, Stamp Something - red, white and blue


Thanks so much for stopping by!  Have a wonderful week!