Inspired bird on branch

Hello everyone!
Today I'm sharing a card I made for Saturday's Inspiration Challenge on SCS. I used Layers of Color Back Yard Birds and Merci Bouquet, and the frame is Our Daily Bread Designs Vine Borders. The inspiration piece was from Elizabeth's Embellishments and can be seen here. The base and brown are Bazzill, the MS punched layer is SU! Kraft and the designer paper is Deja View Timeless Collection. The little bless you sentiment is from Rubber Stamp Tapestry. The string is May Arts. There is sparkle on each of the flowers with Stickles, though it's too dark today to capture that.

I'm submitting this to the following challenges:
Shabby Tea Room~ Tag You're it
Bee Crafty - Anything Goes
Whoosie Daisy September challenge: lots of flowers
CES (Crafty Emmas) - Floral Frenzy
Pile it on~ Add those layers
Oh,Alice!- Sparkle and shine (There are Stickles on all the flowers though in this dark day they don't show)
Bee Crafty - Anything Goes
Gingerloft - Anything Goes
Charisma Cardz - Challenge 35, Inspired by a Song His Eye is on the Sparrow
Pocket Full of Posies~ Floral Fantasy
Lexi's Creations~ flower power
Stamping Vacation - Animal with a Beak
365 Cards Day 191 - All Creatures Great and Small
Drunken Stampers - Serenity Now
Cowgirl Sunday - Anything Goes
A Spoon Full of Sugar - Animal Crackers
Twisted Thursday - Animals
Pear Tree Designs - Animals

The Old Water Pump

Hello everyone! Happy Labor Day to those in the USA! If you are looking for the Stampin Sisters in Christ post, please scroll down one.

I made this for Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge 69. I have been away and unable to do the last couple and I love doing them, so here's my take for this week and I have to slip it in there quickly!!!

I once again used the new Our Daily Bread designs set "Never Thirst". I used Spellbinder's Classic Circles (the largest in both the petite and large sets) and the pretty embossed circles are JOY Crafts Die Cuts. I used Memento ink to stamp the image and colored with Copics. I then masked and air brushed a glow behind the pump, blending out to a warm gray around the edges. The base is Bazzill, the DP is Memeory Box Twiggy, the circles are Mellow Moss and SU! Kraft, sponged with Mellow Moss. The flowers are Martha Stewart and I added Stickles to the little flowers in the image. The large lattice strip is MS as well.

Besides Midnight Madness, I am entering this in the following challenges:

I am entering this in the following challenges:

A Crafty Little Place - Anything Goes

The Craft Den Anything Goes Challenge - Say it with Flowers

My Time to Craft - In the Garden

Bee Crafty - Anything Goes

Pollycraft - Add a Little Nature

Thanks so much for looking! Your comments mean so much. Have a blessed week!

Sunflower Blessings

Good Monday Morning everyone! What a month July was for us.... BUSY! But so fun! But now it's Aug. and time to get back into my routine! LOL!

It felt so good to get into my craft room last night and make another card using the newly released Our Daily Bread designs sets Happy Fall and Harvest Blessings. I just love sunflowers and had to make another card while the release blog hop is still going on!

If you are here for the ODBD Blog hop, please see the post below, and if you are here for the Stampin Sisters in Christ, please see 2 posts below.

This card uses the Our Daily Bread designs sunflower images from Happy Fall and part of the sentiment from Harvest Blessings. It is colored with Copics and the papers are: Chatter Box (checked), The Paper Patch (Sunflowers) and Bazzill base. I used this week's Midnight Madneses Sketch for my layout. I used these amazing die cuts by Nellies from Terryfic Times. All the layers of the die are connected so you cut several at a time, but to make new frames for my focal point I also used SB circles to cut the inner edges and layered up my dies. All the die cuts were done on GPW and then sponged with Distress Inks. I repurposed some raffia and added a sunflower charm and some sewing. The trim is made from natural rope and is by Fancy Fashion from Hobby Lobby.

Thanks so much for looking and please check out this month's release and blog hop! You have until 8PM tonight to complete the hop for three chances to win! Also, ODBD now has great dies that precisely cut out the images in Harvest Blessings and Happy Fall, and some new frames for those old favorites, Scripture Collections 1 & 2. You will love them!

I am entering this in the following challenges:
Our Daily Bread Designs Shining the Light (charm, ribbon +one)
Midnight Madness (Sketch)
Cute Card Thursday (Text)
Delightful Sketches (1. Great Outdoors, 2. Dps, 3. embellies - raffia, charm, rope trim)
Paperplay - (Anything goes)
Sew Many Challenges Anything Goes

Peaceful Rest

Hello everyone and happy Sunday! I hope you are having a wonderful weekend! Today's Stampin Sisters in Christ challenge is brought to us by our guest designer, Miesje! The Scripture she chose this week is:

"Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest." Matthew 11:28

What a wonderful and comforting verse! Have you ever felt burdened beyond what you could bear? Have you ever felt that you would just break under the weight of it all... or experienced such intense pain that you wondered if you could go on? It is at those times, when we realize how powerless we are in so many ways... and it's also those times when we realize how powerful our Savior is! Not only is He fully able to hear our cry and heal our wounds, our pain, our burdens.... but He is standing ready to relieve us of the greatest burden of all... that of our sin. He loves us with a love that is pure and unending. In love, He provided the way for us to be released from the weight of guilt of all our sin... past, present and future.... and He did that by giving His own life for us. He offers us the greatest peace and rest imaginable... free for the taking! What's even more amazing about the Christian life is that once we give our hearts to the Lord, He also gives us a peace that surpasses all imagination.... He is the source of our deepest joy! We can face uncertain days, difficult days, painful days, knowing that this earth and it's trials are but a drop in a bucket compared to the riches He has for us in glory, and we find strength to help in time of need!

Miesje's challenge to us is to make a project that symbolizes what brings you rest or peace. It could be flowers, an ocean, music, mountains, sitting with a friend, or just reading a book.

Well, while the greatest source of peace for me is knowing my Savior, spending real time with Him, walking in relationship with Him.... I wanted to use this image to represent the peace I feel when I have time to get away from my usual duties to just sit by the ocean and listen to the waves, watch a sunrise or sunset, watch all the beauty of nature and be reminded that even nature calls out of the love and creativity of our maker! It's so comforting to know that that same God who created the seas and the dry land, the expanse of sky and the sun, moon and stars, also created me! He created me in His image to do good things... and gifted me in just the way He wanted so that I could do what He wanted me to do.

So for today's project, I used stamps from Our Daily Bread designs, Serendipity and Verve. The image is one I got for Christmas and adore, but have not had time to ink up, from Serendipity. It so represents what I love to do when we visit our "home" state of Maine. I cut it out with a Spellbinder's Label 11 and colored with Copics. The verse is from Verve and is a plain Jane stamp, which I stamped directly on the dp with Lavendar Lace Ink. The matching bookmark uses a Scripture from Our Daily Bread designs Customer Favorites Series 1. I used this gorgeous Memory Box Poppyfinch dp on Baja Breeze paper, and Baja Breeze ribbon. The punches are Martha Stewart around the page punches. For the bookmark I used the same punches and sponged my sentiment in Baja Breeze, and tied a little hemp twine at the top.

Our sponsor this week is Simon Says Stamp and they are donating a fantastic set "Relax Vacation" which you can see on the Stampin Sisters in Christ post.

We'd love to have you play along... if you do, please place a link to the Stampin Sisters in Christ Blog in your post, and place a direct link to your project on the SSCC thread.

Be sure to check out the rest of the Design Team for more inspiration for this week's challenge!

Here's links to the rest of the team to make it easier for you!

Chris
Cindy
Linda
Randi
Peggysue
Lisa
Miesje
Rebekkah

Thank you so much for looking and for your sweet comments! They mean so much!

I'm linking this to the following challenges:

*Little Red Wagon- Nestabilities
*One Stitch At a Time- lace, ribbon, bows
*By the cute and girly-warm summer days
*Ooh La La Creations-simply summer
*Drunken Stampers- Summer Theme
*Lexis- layers
*Creative Card Crew- to Die for
*PIO- favorite things- image, Scripture
*Incy Wincy-use punches

Happy July 4th America! Stampin Sisters Challenge:Blue

Hello everyone and happy 4th of July to all my American friends!!!

It's Sunday and time for another Stampin Sisters in Christ challenge! Today, our hostess is my dear friend Chris, and she chose 2 Chronicles 7:14 for today's Scripture:

" If my people who are called by My name will humble themselves and pray and seek My face,

and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven,

and will forgive their sin and heal their land."

What an appropriate Scripture for our nation today! We in the USA have been incredibly blessed, and I believe that much of that was due to the fact that the nation was founded on Godly principles. However, as we look around today we see a greater and greater move away from that Godly foundation our forefathers fought for and many died for. More and more we are pushing God out of everything from our schools to our court houses, gov't buildings, even ball games! It seems today that there is "tolerance" abounding for every thing EXCEPT for things of God! It amazes me to be honest! I wonder though as I look at our nation today, how much longer will we enjoy the blessings of God upon our land? I remember after 9-11, everyone flocked to the churches to pray and call on God's name. No news casters were downplaying or ridiculing the use of God's name in prayer then! The American flag was raised over the site and people begged God for mercy as rescue workers feverishly dug through the rubble for bodies. I made the comment to some friends then... I wonder how long people will be crying out to God for help? How long until they have forgotten? Well.... it wasn't long. I believe we are starting to see some judgement for how we have turned our backs on God, and unless we repent and turn back to Him I fully expect that things in our own country will just get worse. Our only hope is to humble ourselves, pray, seek His face, turn from our wicked ways and THEN, He will heal our land.

Chris' challenge is to use Red or Blue somewhere on our card. It does NOT have to be a patriotic card!

For my card, I used the July release from Our Daily Bread designs, "Our Daily Bread". I colored a scene using my Copics and airbrush set (something I have not practiced with much yet) to create a little scene that focused on "purple mountain magesty" and a setting sun. I then overstamped the first verse to America The Beautiful from this set with Versafine Onyx Black. I matted with these gorgeous papers from Memory Box "Enchanted", and mounted on a Papertrey base. The ribbon is May Arts, and the pearls are ZVA Creative.

Our sponsor this week is Whimsy Haven (Lindsay Spencer)

We'd love to have you play along... if you do, please place a link to the Stampin Sisters in Christ Blog in your post, and place a direct link to your project on the SSCC thread.

Be sure to check out the rest of the Design Team for more inspiration for this week's challenge!

Here's links to the rest of the team to make it easier for you!

Chris
Cindy
Linda
Randi
Peggysue
Lisa
Miesje
Rebekkah

Thank you so much for looking and for your sweet comments! They mean so much, and for my American friends.... I wish you a very happy 4th of July! God bless America!

I am linking this to:
Crafty Cardmakers - use ink/stains/mists- my whole bg is airbrushed copics

Great Is Your Faithfulness!

Hello everyone! Happy Sunday! It's time for another Stampin Sisters in Christ Challenge! This week our hostess is the lovely Candace, and she has chosen this wonderful verse:

Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. Psalm 119:105

The challenge is to use no stamped image but only words, sentiments, verses. So no picture images.

I love the verse Candace chose because it reminds us that God has given us all we need to know about Him and about how He wants us to live... and it's in His Word. Our job is to read it, study it, apply it, love it, obey it. How well would we know our family members and other people in our lives if we never spent time with them? We have to spend time talking with our loved ones, listening to them, hearing what's important to them. As we do this, we grow closer to them and begin to change our own ways to please them more, and it's the same with God! When we take time in His Word... it becomes a light in the darkness that's all around us. It leads us in the way we should go. It tells us who God is and what He wants from us! It tells us the real meaning to life, our purpose, our value to God, and that He dearly loves us. It tells us about sin, and how it separates us from a totally Holy and righteous God. It tells us that He so loved us that He sent His Son to pay the penalty for our sin, so that through faith in His shed blood, we can come into right relationship with God. It tells us the answers to all life's questions. Granted, sometimes those answers don't come easily. But He promises that those who diligently seek Him will find Him. He has given us the light we need to guide our steps... let's be sure we are availing ourselves of all He's given us!

So for my take on today's challenge, I used an Our Daily Bread designs set, Scripture Collection 1. I chose this wonderful verse from Lamentations, because in thinking about God's Word... I think of His love, mercy and faithfulness to us. Doesn't this verse make you want to break into song... Great is thy faithfulness... Lord unto me!

The sketch I used today is from Midnight Madness58 and I used a base by Coredinations which I lightly sanded to expose the core color. The papers are from PinkPaisley Queen B pack. I have torn the lower edge and used the faux burned technique. I used spellbinders labels 12, 5 and curvy rectangles and a CB embossing folder. I have added two Sizzix corner pieces and pearls to qualify for the OCCC challenge this week "got you cornered". I did some sewing and added this beautiful lace that was a gift from my sweet friend Pat. I'm almost out of it and am sad to see it go, as I can't find anything like this around here! Thank you Pat!!!

Our sponsor this week is Paper Jewels. They are donating a $15.00 gift certificate!

We'd love to have you play along... if you do, please place a link to the Stampin Sisters in Christ Blog in your post, and place a direct link to your project on the SSCC thread.

Be sure to check out the rest of the Design Team for more inspiration for this week's challenge!

Here's links to the rest of the team to make it easier for you!

Chris
Candace
Linda
Kathy
Randi
Peggysue
Lisa
Miesje
Rebekkah

I am entering this in the following challenges:
There She Goes - Worn, torn distressing
Secret Crafters - Quote (the Bible)
Charisma Cards - Bling- pearls
Dutch Dare Challenges - Bees (my dp is QUEEN BEES... doesn't that count?)
Paper Play Challenge - Something Old (Sizzix Corner die cuts and pearls)

ODBD Stampin in Time Inspiration Challenge

Hello everyone!

It is time for ODBD Stamping In Time on assignment challenge(SNTODBD12)! The challenge hostess for this three week challenge period (due to the July 4th holiday) is LeAnne Pugliese. LeAnne is challenging us with an inspiration picture! Be inspired by the colors, shapes, patterns, or design in the picture! Enjoy and have fun! We would love to see what you create using Our Daily Bread Design stamps! You have until July 7th to link your card to the ODBD Stamping in Time post. When uploading to on line galleries, please use keyword SNTODBD12.

Here is the inspiration photo: For my card I used Our Daily Bread designs set "From Me to You" and stamped in Chocolate Chip Ink. The dp is BasicGrey Sultry and the cs is Kiwi Kiss, Papertrey Pink and GPW. I used Card Patterns Sketch #68 for my layout.
Card Details: Spellbinder's Mega Ovals and Scalloped Ovals, CB "Ornamental" die cuts and swiss dot ef, MS Scalloped hearts edge punch, May Arts Soft & Silky ribbon, SU! Corner Rounder and pearls by Mark Richards. I wove the different elements of the die cut together to replicate the feel of the side strips on the bag, then fussy cut some of the flowers out and adhered and added the pearls. Hope you like it~ thanks for looking!

Be sure to check out Leanne's and the other design team samples this week:

ANGIE

CHRISSY

SABRINA

BETTY

LEANNE

This also qualifies for the following challenges:
Stampin Royalty - another picture inspiration of flowers and summer colors... perfect!
Sentimental Sunday - summer and a sentiment
The Cuttlebug Spot - Embossing(white panel is swiss dot ef)
Kitchen Sink - ribbon
Lexi's Creations - something old... the pink pearls are very old, kiwi kiss cs is retired
Shabby Tea Room - summer fun (flowers are the best part of summer)
Timeless Tuesday - embossing (swiss dot white panel)

Two sketches for fun! MMSC56 & ODBDSL16

Hello everyone! I have a double post for you today! My first card is for the Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge#56. I LOVED this sketch! I had so much fun with this and I LOVE this new BG paper! I used the fancy option of the sketch but just didn't use the ribbon slides, so I guess I went half way in the middle. I used the new Our Daily Bread designs Scripture Series 1 for the verse stamped in VersaFine, then I stamped the Fleur de Lis Border set to stamp my border in Mellow Moss. I cut that panel with Nellies Multi Frames and then Spellbinder's Label 3. Base is Mellow Moss, mat is Very Vanilla, then BG Capella dp! O how I love this pack!!! My center strip is Very Vanilla run through the Bug and then sponged with MM, as are all the layers. The Green lace is a RAK from my sweet friend Pat (thanks a million time sweetie!) and the cream lace is K&Co. I added a couple cream buttons, and I popped up all the layers, so this will have to go in a box!

My second card is for today's Our Daily Bread designs Shining the Light Challenge. and we have some extra inspiration this week, as some of the Design Team are being spotlighted as well as our talented Challenge Team!

This week the challenge team is challenging you to a sketch:

To make the challenge even more fun, we will be giving out a prize , a $ 15 gift certificate to be used toward stamps at the Our Daily Bread Designs store!! Entries for the prize must be submitted by Thursday, June 10. One random winner will be chosen and announced next Saturday. While it is not required to use Our Daily Bread Designs images and sentiments on your creations, we would love to see them if you have them. As a way of recognizing those who do use Our Daily Bread Designs stamps, we will again be choosing 1 to 2 creations to spotlight for our Shining the Light Award. In order to qualify for this award, however, you must use Our Daily Bread stamps and have your submission added to Mr. Linky by June 10 at 8 p.m. EST.

If you upload your creations to Splitcoast Stampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword is ODBDSLC16. When creating your posts on blogs please include a link to the challenge.

My Card Recipe:
Stamps: ODBD Scripture Series 1 (June Release of Customer Favorites),God Loves You
CS: Bazzill
DP: BasicGrey Bittersweet
Ink: Memento and Chocolate Chip
Accessories: Copics, Spellbinders, SU! Ribbon, ZVA Pearls, Sewing Machine

Thank you so much for visiting and I so appreciate your sweet comments! Have a blessed week and please come back tomorrow for the Stampin Sisters in Christ Post when I'll share a really special project with you!

Please be sure to check out the rest of the team's creations and please leave them some love!

America
Fran
Sandee
Lorelie
Chrissy
Chris
Patter
Sabrina
Christine
Natalie

Challenges:
Time to Scrap: Pink (Card 2)
One Stop: Swirls and Pearls
Charisma Cardz: Flowers (Both cards)
Delightful Sketches: Texture (Both cards are Cuttlebugged plus other texture)
Sweet Stampin Challenge: Pink your card... bling it up
Polka Doodles - sewing (card 2)
Oh Alice - your muchness (elegance, texture, Scripture)

Stampin Sisters in Christ and a sneak peek

Hello everyone! It's time for another Stampin Sisters in Christ Challenge! We so enjoyed all your submissions for last week's distressed creations! They were amazing!


Our hostess this week is the lovely... Linda Lucas! For this week's Scripture, Linda has chosen Heb. 11:6 "For without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is the rewarder of them that diligently seek Him."
What a great verse to be pondering this week as we diligently seek Him!  Do we really believe this verse?  Do we actually diligently seek Him expecting Him to keep His promises?  Do you ever feel like your prayers are just words being spoken but you're not sure if He's really listening?  I think we all have felt that way some time... but perhaps when we do, we need to examine our own hearts.  God is the same... yesterday, today and forever.  If there's a time when we don't feel like our prayers are "getting through"... it's not Him that moved!!!  Let's examine our own faith today and be sure that we DO believe that He is God, there is no other.  Then lets reaffirm our belief that   He does reward those who DILIGENTLY seek Him. Then.... let's diligently seek Him!  So often we don't seek Him until the going gets rough in our lives and then our prayers are all about us and our needs, and yes, He DOES care about our needs very much, and He does answer prayer... but I've learned so much lately about prayer!  It's all about HIM!  It's a time to not only bring our petitions, but a time to truly worship Him, glorify Him, adore Him, and LISTEN to Him!  I think the idea of diligence means much more than "much talking"!  I think it includes much listening too!  I hope you have a blessed week diligently seeking Him!

Linda's challenge is:

Use a heart on your creation.  It can be the image, a charm, the dp.... anything with a heart.

For my project, I made a gift set.  Both this card and the little box with tea lights in it are made with a sneak peek at one of the new sets being released June 1 by Our Daily Bread designs, "From You to Me".  The gorgeous Fuschias were colored with Copics, and the sentiment was stamped with Memento.   The pink is Bazzill and the purple is Kaisercraft La-Di-Da (love it!!!).  I used the Martha Stewart around the page loop punch, an Ornaire Piercing template and tool, and Recollections pearls.  The yummy pink ribbon was in a wonderful blog candy I won from Crystal B (Sugar Crystals)!  Crystal, I'm still hoarding some of that yummy ribbon you gave me... I love it so much, thanks again!!!

For the box, I used a template I had purchased at a stamp show by Darcie's Designs.  I used the same papers and cut out my Fuschica image, popped it up, then stamped just the word "blessings" from one of the sentiments of another of  the new releases at ODBD, "God Loves You", and punched out the heart in white, drew a larger one in pink for a mat and cut that out, mounting on my ribbon.  Inside is a ring of green tea light candles with one fuschia one in the middle, all wrapped in some purple tissue that comes wrapped around your purchase when you purchase from the ODBD store!  I hope you enjoyed this little project, and I hope you'll play along with us this week!

For more inspiration for this challenge, please visit my dt sisters: Candace , Chris , Kathy, Linda, Lisa, Peggysue, and Randi

Our sponsor this week is Digital Delights by Louby Lou and they are donating 5 free digis to the winner!!!

Don't forget to stop by the Stampin' Sisters in Christ blog to see all the exciting creations the week.

If you create a card or project for this challenge, please leave a direct link to your project on the Stampin Sisters Challenge thread. Also, please include a link to Stampin Sisters in Christ in your post!

Please come back June 1 for the Our Daily Bread designs Blog Hop!  You are going to LOVE the new releases this month!  They are among my favorites of all time.... and there is a surprise set too... you don't want to miss this!!! See you then!

MMSC55 and a Sneak Peek

Hello everyone! I hope your week is going well! My Grandkids went home yesterday and I spent today trying to get caught up with some projects. This card is a sneak peek at two of the new Our Daily Bread designs sets to be released on June 1st! I'm so excited about these sets! You do not want to miss the Blog Hop on June 1st!

I used this week's Midnight Madness Sketch for my layout. My base is Blush Blossom and then Papertrey Vintage Cream which I embossed with the Cuttlebug and lightly sponged the embossed areas with Blush Blossom. My lacing elements are triangles cut out to expose the base, then laced with gold cord from my stash.

My image is from the soon to be released Our Daily Bread designs set "From Me To You". I LOVE Fuschia and have been having so much fun coloring this image.... but for this card I simply embossed it in gold and then painted it with Opal Shimmerz. I wish that showed up in the photo, but it doesn't. The verse is from a "surprise" set to be released on the first as well!!!! That's all I'm going to say for now! You'll have to check back then to find out more about it! I embossed on Blush Blossom CS and then matted that on more cream. I cut out part of the image for more interest. I added wide lace and some gold lace by Webster's Pages.

I am linking this to the following challenges:
ABC Challenge - Vintage
Crafty Creations - Favorite Stamp (This is a new favorite for sure!!!)
Quixotic Challenge - Emboss It

If you haven't checked out the Blogaversary Party going on at Midnight Madness, you might have missed that there is a special award (The Priscilla Award) being given away to one person who will be voted on by YOU! I am blessed to be one of the 20 finalists selected by the DT from among the Gold Star Winners this past year, but now the voting is up to how many friends you can get to vote for you. Well.... I have lots of friends but not too many blog! LOL! If you would like to check out the contestants and place your ONE vote for your choice... please see this post. Of course I'd love to have your vote, but also be sure to sign up for the HUGE giveaway going on for this one more week!

Thank you so much for looking and I love knowing you were here! Have a blessed week!

I pledge allegiance

Hello everyone! It's time for another Stampin Sisters in Christ Challenge! We so enjoyed all your submissions for last week's "music and joyful praise" challenge, and we hope you'll play along this week as well!

Our hostess this week is the talented and sweet Peggysue! For this week's Scripture, Peggysue has chosen Isaiah 64:6 KJV "But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousness as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away."

We may not like to think about ourselves in these terms... but God's Word is clear, that we are all sinners, and in need of a Savior. Without the work that Christ did on that cross, none of us would be able to stand in the presence of a Holy and Righteous God. Even if we do all sorts of good deeds... they are still like filthy rags in the light of a perfect sinless Holy God. It's humbling to realize that He loved us even while we were yet sinners, and died for us.... so that we CAN stand in His presence, covered with the righteous blood of Christ. Because of Him, our FAITH is counted to us as righteousness, and He sees us as if we had never sinned! Oh the blood of Jesus! It covers me! To be covered with the blood of Jesus, there is something we have to do... we have to believe in Him, believe in His work on the cross, and we have to accept Him as our own Savior. He loves us all with a pure love. He gave His all... because He wants us to have a personal relationship with Him! If you have not done so, I hope you will accept Him as YOUR Savior, and give your life to Him! Not only will you have the promise of heaven in God's presence for eternity... you will have "life more abundantly" here and now! You will be filled with joy! Even in the midst of trials, pain and suffering... your heart will be joyful! Any of us on the team would be thrilled if you would like to make that decision... we'd love to pray with you, share with you ... feel free to contact me through my email address in my side bar!

Peggysue's challenge is:
Use distressing or sponge the edges of your project, any chosen technique to give it a vintage or distressed look.

For more inspiration for this challenge, please visit my dt sisters: Candace , Chris , Kathy, Linda, Lisa, Peggysue, and Randi

Our sponsor this week is TheUnity Stamp Company and they are donating a free stamp set!!! Thank you Unity Stamps for your generosity!

Don't forget to stop by the Stampin' Sisters in Christ blog to see all the exciting creations the week.

If you create a card or project for this challenge, please leave a direct link to your project on the Stampin Sisters Challenge thread. Also, please include a link to Stampin Sisters in Christ.

Card Details:
Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs I Pledge Allegiance
Paper: Bazzill Basics, DP - Maxxie "Hero", F Myer (Wavy stripes), Very Vanilla (SU!)
Ink: Night of Navy, Various THoltz Distress Inks for sponging
The Eagle Charm was a RAK from my sweet DT sister, America

I used the Midnight Madness Sketch#54 and went half way between CAS and Fancy, using a few buttons but keeping it mailable! :) I also used the Shabby Tearoom challenge to be inspired by Old Glory and use Red, White and Blue OR Stars and Stripes.

My sentiment panel is Very Vanilla, then distressed on the edges and on the right side I rolled it up like a scroll on my piercing tool and sponged the back side as well. I added 2 large eyelits and ran twine through it for my third ribbon element in the sketch. The two wavy lines on the left are cut out of some DP. The star buttons were white and I colored them with Copics and the Airbrush.


I hope you have a blessed week and thanks so much for stopping by!!!

With Wings as Eagles

Hello everyone!

It is time for another Stamping In Time Challenge (SNTODBD10)! Silke Ledlow is our challenge hostess this month! Silke is challenging us with a sketch! It is a high and low card or tall and thin. Your choice! However, it is not an A2 or a square card sketch! Good luck and have fun with it!

To see the other DT creations for inspiration, please visit the following DT blogs!

Betty
Silke
Sabrina
Angie
Fran
Debi
Kathy
Randi
Lorelie
Connie


I used Our Daily Bread design's On Eagles Wings. The base is Bassill, the soft blue is from my stash, the sentiment is on vintage cream, and the designer paper is BasicGrey Periphery. I love the soft muted shades in this card. I colored the Eagle image with Prisma Pencils and cut out, popped up on dimensionals. I used the Spellbinder's Long ovals for the sentiment. I added punched edges with an EK Success punch and some pearls and I textured the blue panels with the CB Swirls folder. The ribbon is from my stash. I hope you enjoyed this card.... the verse is among my favorites... Is. 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 grow weary, they shall walk and not faint.

I am entering this in the following challenges:
SophistiCat Challenge - Color challenge: blue, brown, cream
Your Next Stamp - Cut It Out and Pop It Up
ABC - U = Unused Stash
Cute Daisy May - As You Like It
Practical Scrappers - Patterned Paper
The Crazy Challenge - Something New
Hand Full of Stamps - Get Your Shine On - Gems/Bling
Crafty Ann's - Anything Goes
Crafty Creations - Encouragement
Quixotic Challenges - Sentiment/verse as focal point

Have a blessed day!

In all your ways....

Hello everyone! Hope your week is going well!
I have another card to share with you that I made with the newest Our Daily Bread designs release, As You Graduate (image) and For the Graduate (Verse). I used designer paper from Making Memories Sydney (green) and Webster's Pages (Black and White print). I matted with basic black. This is pretty clean and simple... I stamped the Scripture from Proverbs 3:6 right onto the card and popped the heat embossed image up. I used a Martha Stewart edge punch, sheer ribbon, a cross charm that was given to me by my dear DT sister, America. I colored the butterflies with Kiwi Kiss. Hope you like it! I love this verse and it's so versatile. While it is great for graduation... it could be perfect for a new job, new home, retirement, a move, and so many other things!

Prov. 3:5 "In all your ways acknowledge Him and He will direct your paths."

Thanks for taking a peek! I love knowing you were here!

Sing and Make Music!

Hello everyone! Happy Sunday!
Today I am the hostess for the Stampin Sisters in Christ challenge! The verse I chose is:

Ps, 95:1-3a "O come, let us sing for joy to the Lord, let us shout joyfully to the rock of our salvation, Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving, let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms. For the Lord is a great God..."

To read my devotional thoughts on this verse please be sure to stop by the SSCC blog!
Music... can you imagine life without it? From the time we were little children, we all have loved music! Even unborn babies have been found to have a positive response to good music! God made us with this incredible ability to enjoy music, to be moved by it, and to make music ourselves! What a gift that is! He also made us to worship and praise Him! I love reading the Psalms of David.... because with full abandon, he loved to praise God for all His goodness, protection, wonderful works, and faithfulness. David praised God in many ways, but one of the major ways was through music...through singing, through musical instruments... and even in the dance.

My challenge this week is to create a card that depicts music or joyful praise. I can't wait to see your creations!

My card this week is a little different than my usual. I made the main panel a removeable bookmark. I stamped the flourish from Layers of Color onto white cardstock, cut it with the Spellbinders Mega Oval Die, and colored it with my Copic Air Brush. I then stamped the Verse from ODBD onto Acetate with Stazon ink and cut it with the same oval. I punched a hole in the top of both and tied the two layers together with a black ribbon. I added some musical notes to the dp from the same LOC set. The black mat is cut with a Tim Holtz Sizzix die cut (Bracket) and then embossed with the CB folder. The piano keys are stamped onto white and to achieve the curve I simply put the stamp on my block in that curved shape rather than straight. I thought it gave interest to the matting of the image and the whole musical theme. The corner treatments were also colored with the Copic Air Brush. The pretty Layers of Color Butterflies are heat embossed with Ultra Thick Embossing Powder and popped up.

Here is my card recipe:
Stamps: Sing to the Lord sentiment from Our Daily Bread Designs, Joyful Noise images from Layers of Color Art Stamps and Butterfly collector from Layers of Color Art Stamps
Paper: Basic Black, Marcella by K&Co, Acetate, GP White
Accessories: Spellbinder's mega ovals, T Holtz Edge Die, CB Embossing Folder, QuicKutz Corner Die Cut, Black half crystals, ribbon, Ultra Thick Embossing Powder and heat embossing materials, Copics and Air Brush System

For more inspiration for this challenge, please visit my dt sisters: Candace , Chris , Kathy, Linda, Lisa, Peggysue, and Randi

Our sponsor this week is Hambo Stamps which are donating a $15.00 gift certificate. Thank you Hambo for your generosity! Don't forget to stop by the Stampin' Sisters in Christ blog to see all the exciting creations the week.

If you create a card or project for this challenge, please leave a direct link to your project on the Stampin Sisters Challenge thread. Also, please include a link to Stampin Sisters in Christ.

I am also entering this in to the following challenges:

Your Next Stamp - Cut it out, Pop it up (butterflies)
Crazy Challenge - Something New (My LOC stamp set)
ABC Challenge - Unused Stash (The green paper has been around for ages!)
Crafty Anne - Anything goes
LaLa Land Challenges - Anything goes
Pixie Dust Studios - Cut it out


Thanks for stopping by and for all your comments! Have a blessed day and I hope to see your take on this challenge soon!

Midnight Madness As You Graduate

Hello everyone! Today for the Midnight Madness Sketch, I went really out of my comfort zone and created an "orangish" card!

I stamped the image from the Our Daily Bread designs May release, As You Graduate with Archival Sepia and wanted to just give the image a hint of Sepia tone, but since Archival is water proof, I couldn't water color it, so I added some SU! Markers and Ranger Inks to get close in color. I paired the image with a Bazzill brown base, and designer paper from BasicGrey in Origins, Porcelain and Sugar Rush. I paper pieced the butterflies by stamping them again on the dotted paper and cutting out and mounting above the stamped image. The flowers are Primas. For the tab parts of the sketch, I stamped the sentiment three times to be able to cut the words apart and I distressed each tab with Distress Ink, then I added the tassle.

I am linking this to the following challenges:
Crafty Calendar - Great Outdoors
Crafty Cardmakers - Distressing
Whoopsi Daisy - As You Like It
Flutterby Wed. - Butterfly
Creatalicious Challenge- Flowers & Wings
Alphabet Challenge - B is for Butterfly
Thanks so much for looking! Be blessed!

The party is on over at Midnight Madness... check it out as all week there will be prizes and fun!

Stampin Sisters in Christ Be Strong and Courageous

Hello Everyone!! Happy Mother's Day to all the Moms out there!!!

Today it is time for another Stampin Sister in Christ Challenge and the sweet and talented Linda Lucas is our hostess this week.

For the challenge she chose the scripture:

John 4:23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
Her challenge is to create a card or project using any shades of the colours brown blue and white.
Be sure to stop by the Stampin Sisters in Christ Blog to read Linda's devotional thoughts on this Scripture! We were created to worship, and our main purpose on this earth is to enjoy God and to bring Him glory. He made us in His image and put His Spirit within us when we accepted Him as our Savior. Every facet of our being yearns to worship God. God isn't concerned with where we worship Him... it doesn't have to be in a fancy building... and He isn't concerned with our music choices, how we dress, etc. What He wants is our hearts to yearn for Him and to adore and worship Him from our spirits, because we have the truth (Christ), and Christ has set us free! I hope this is true for you today!

Our sponsor is Simon Says Stamp. The prize will be this adorable set

Card Recipe:
stamps: Scripture Collection 3 from Our Daily Bread Designs
Paper: SU! Close to Cocoa, Parisian Breeze
Accessories: Spellbinder's mega ovals and scalloped ovals, ZVA Creative pearls, Prima, Sewing Machine

For more inspiration for this challenge, please visit my dt sisters: Candace , Chris , Kathy, Kristine , Linda, Lisa, Peggysue, Randi

If you create a card or project for this challenge, please leave a direct link to your project on the Stampin Sisters Challenge thread. Also, please include a link to Stampin Sisters in Christ. Should you upload your creation to SC or PCP, please use the keyword SSIC38.

Thanks for stopping by and for all your comments! Have a blessed day and I hope to see your take on this challenge soon!

A Wallhanging for a Mom

Hello everyone!  I hope you are having a wonderful Sunday!  Today's Stampin Sisters in Christ Challenge was chosen by Randi, and is based on  Ex. 20:12 "Honor your father and Mother, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the Lord your God gives you."   What a great verse!  It's the one commandment with promise!  We live in a day where children often don't respect their elders, and seldom "honor" them... but God must put GREAT importance on it!

Randi is challenging us to make a card or project for our Mom or one who is like a Mom to us.  My Mom is in heaven, but I do have someone special in mind for this... I hope she will like it.  Instead of making a "Mother's Day" card, I made a wall hanging that honors Moms.  I used Our Daily Bread designs "Mom" set.  I really went green on this project too.  The wood base for my wall hanging is a left over piece of kick plate from our kitchen cabinets.  The panel that I stamped on came from the packaging for some Prima Flowers I bought at Michael's.  I loved the color combo on it and felt it would make a great book mark... but it turned into a wall hanging!  LOL!

So I covered my wood base with Bazzill Chocolate textured card stock, then layered on a lighter shade that I had lightly stamped with the floral image from the Mom set with Adirondack Latte ink. I mounted the Prima packaging piece onto a piece of teal cs from my stash, and hand cut the corners to match the Prima piece.   I added an assortment of Primas, and pearls from ZVA Creative.  The lace is from my Christmas Tree decorations from years ago when I used to add lace bows to many branches.  Now I have lots of it for other things!  I added some sheer May Arts ribbon and done.  I had fun with this... I really enjoy altering things!  I especially love it when I find ways to re-use things!  I hope you enjoyed this little project!

This week's sponsor is Sofpencil Digital Stamps.

   Elizabeth Pujalka, the owner of Sofpencil Digital Stamps  is giving a prize of a

$15.00 Gift Certificate to her store!  

Thank you so much Elizabeth!

To see what the rest of the team has created for you this week, please visit: 

Candace , Chris , Kathy, Kristine , Linda, Lisa, Peggysue, Randi

I hope you will play along with us this week!

To be entered in the drawing, your card must be linked to Mr. Linky by 12:00PM PDT (GMT-8) Saturday May 1st. The winner will be chosen by random and will be announced on Tues. 3rd.

Please be sure to make your link direct to your project, not just your blog or gallery, and please place a link to Stampin Sisters in Christ in your post! I can't wait to see your creations!

 May God bless your week ahead and thanks for stopping by! I love knowing you were here!

I am linking this to the following challenges:

Our Daily Bread Designs - Mothers Day

Sew Many cards: Anything goes

Pennys - Open week
Practical Scrappers- ribbons, floss, fibers
Sentimental Sundays - use a sentiment and flowers on your creation

Paper Cutz Challenge - Mother's Day

Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps Challenge - Lots of flowers

Our Creative Corner - Blossoms

My Time to Craft - Quotes

S2G - Spring has Sprung with a Twist - Flowers

Charisma Cardz - Quotes

Alota - Mother's Day

Clearly I Stamp - All Tied Up - Lace & Ribbon

DCRU - Earth day - Flowers