Friends forever

Hello everyone! Today I have a card I made for my design team sisters and Layers of Color owner, Laura... Due to my own personal limitations, and not wanting stamping to consume my whole life, I have decided to step down from the "official" design team but I am not going far! I am going to be a "Friend of Layers of Color", and I will continue to use and blog Layers of Color products because I love them and they are so fun! You may even see me popping in on a blog hop from time to time! :) I feel some sadness in doing this because this is truly such a special company and design team!!! I love every one of my sisters...and Laura is such a special godly woman... but that won't change! We decided to have the theme of our blog hop today "Friends Forever", because that is how we all feel. So I decided to choose as joyful an image as I could find to celebrate this forever kind of friendship! I chose Layers of Color Reindeer Waltz because these guys just look like they are having a blast together... and it's the way I feel about this team! I used Webster's Pages, some unknown aqua on which I stamped images from this set with VersaMark and heat embossed with Kaleidoscope embossing powder. I used Spellbinder's Labels 17 for my main panel and matted that with a Beaded Oval which I cut in order to enlarge it to show around the Label 17. I used some dotted ribbon from my stash and the little sentiment is hard to see in the photo, but it's from Studio G and says "friends for life".

I do want to thank Laura for the opportunity she gave me to be on this team and I am honored to have been here for the past 8 months. I appreciate the sweet godly spirit present in each DT member! What a special place to be!

Please be sure to keep your eye out for great new things coming your way from Layers of Color!!! It's exciting to watch God bless a company that's focused on Him!

This isn't goodbye... it's just a slight adjustment in responsibilities and commitments... so I'll be seeing you all frequently and I do hope you'll come visit me too! I love you all, and pray God's richest blessings on each one of you and on Layers of Color!

To see what others have created for today's hop, please visit these uber talented gals:
Laura* Melisa * Nina * Linda * Jenny * Janice *

Victorian Framed Encouragement

Happy Sunday! I hope those of you who celebrate Thanksgiving had a wonderful holiday, and lots of time to thank the Lord for His many blessings! Today we have a new Stampin Sisters in Christ challenge for you. Lisa is this week's hostess and she has chosen Philippians 4: 13 for this week's Scripture:

" I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me."

The challenge is to make a card/project of encouragement or congratulations.

I love this verse and remind myself of it often. In our own power and strength, we can do nothing, but when we are yielded to His will in our lives, `He gives us just what we need when we need it! Have you ever been through a terribly difficult time and thought you just couldn't make it through? But then, from somewhere, you got the strength to go on and looking back on it you realize that that strength was straight from God! I chose this sentiment from Our Daily Bread designs Grow in Grace, because it goes hand in hand with our theme this week. Whether you need encouragement to just keep moving on one step at a time, or whether you stand on the edge of a big leap of faith... He promises to give you the grace you need when you need it! In myself I can do nothing, but in Christ, I can do whatever He wants me to do!

The frame I used is from Layers of Color, and is the Victorian Frame cling art stamp. I just love this frame and how perfectly it fits the Spellbinders Labels 14. I love how it frames the sentiment from Our Daily Bread designs. I wanted a soft feminine feel to this, so I lightly chalked the frame and matted it on some pretty soft Websters pages and lace. I added Prima flowers and butterfly and punched some leaves from the Prima packaging. It was a super quick card as I had very little time to create this weekend!

Our Sponsor this week is Score Pal ! We want to thank them for their generous donation and support of Stampin Sisters in Christ! Be sure to check the SSIC blog for all the prize details!

For more inspiration, please visit my dt sisters:
Chris, Linda, Peggysue , Randi, Meisje, Rebecca, Lisa, Patti

For the full devotional and challenge details please visit the Stampin Sisters in Christ Challenge. I can't wait to see what you come up with!

I am entering this in the following challenges:
Craft Your Days Away (2 weeks) - texture
Marks Finest Paper - add a bow
Delightful Challenges - flower power
Hodge Podge Shop (2 weeks) - anything goes
CCEE Stampers - lace
Inktegrity - anything goes
Ginergersnap Creations - vintage hues
Artful Inkables (2 weeks) - die cuts and punches

Thanks for stopping and I love knowing you were here! Have a blessed week!

Our Daily Bread designs PreSale and Free Shipping!

Hello everyone! I hope you are enjoying a wonderful Thanksgiving break (if you live in the US) and if you don't celebrate Thanksgiving... I hope you still have had time to thank God for His many rich blessings! Please be sure to read the EXCITING NEWS at the bottom of this post!

Today I wanted to show you another sneak peek at the fabulous Ornament set being released by Our Daily Bread designs! I am absolutely in love with this ornament and it is designed to fit in the Spellbinder's Heirloom Ornament frame! I used Midnight Madness Sketch 81 for this card, stamped with Memento Rich Cocoa and colored with Copics. My base is Bazzill and the two dps are Memory Box Mistletoe Pack. For embellishments I added gold pearls, sheer ribbon and gold swirls from the Spellbinder's set "Fanciful Holidays". On the inside of the card I stamped one of the new Our Daily Bread designs sentiments from the "Christmas Blessings" set. I stamped it in a smaller die cut from the ornament spellbinders set, and love how perfectly it fit in it! ODBD is so honored to have been chosen as a Spellbinder's Preferred company, which means the stamping community will continue to be blessed with specially designed images and Scriptures to custom fit Spellbinder's dies! Whoo hoo!

Exciting News: Kelley is offering free shipping and Blog Candy of a Bread Basket Bundle Thur. through Sun. as a way of saying Thank You to her customers! You can use the coupon code below and get it shipped free!


Also, Our Daily Bread Designs is offering for the first time ever a PRE-ORDER for the new December stamp sets! There are 3 new stamps set, including an ornament set that was made to coordinate with the Spellbinders 2010 Heirloom Ornament Dies!!! See THIS POST

Our Daily Bread designs is so proud and pleased to be chosen by the Spellbinders company as a Preferred Stamp Partner. Our partnership with Spellbinders will be a blessing to the stamping community as well, as we expand our line to include perfect-matched sentiments, scriptures and images to Spellbinders products. We look forward to a long and blessed partnership with such a fine product as Spellbinders.

Thanks so much for visiting! Have a blessed weekend!

I am entering this in the following challenges:
Christmas Stampin' - CHRISTMAS and anything goes
Crafty Catz (1 entry) - christmas
Stampin For The Weekend (2 weeks, 1 entry) - winter
Crafty Sentiments - christmas
Digi Doodle Shop's Best - red and green
Southern Girls - your favorite color (I LOVE red and green together)
Stamp Insanity - try something new
Stampin' B's - holiday card
ABC Christmas (2 weeks) - CHRISTMAS and x is for xmas
Crafty Creations - christmas
Creative Inspirations - red, gold, green
Freshly Brewed - winter or christmas
Inktegrity - anything goes
Creative Belli (2 weeks) - "R" embellishments (Ribbon I've had for years)
Fab 'n' Funky - anything goes
Ginergersnap Creations - vintage hues
A Spoonful Of Sugar - anything goes
Kaboodle Doodles (2 weeks, 1 entry) - 1 solid, 2 PP, 3 embellishments (ribbon, pearls, gold swirls)
Lexi's Creations (2 weeks) - traditional christmas colors
Crafty Pad - red and green

Sneak Peek and Black Friday Special!

Today I have a sneak peek for you of a FABULOUS set to be released by Our Daily Bread designs on Dec. 1! It is an ornament set made specifically for the Spellbinder's Ornament Die! Our Daily Bread designs is so pleased to be chosen by the Spellbinders company as a Preferred Stamp Partner. Our partnership with Spellbinders will be a blessing to the stamping community as well, as we expand our line to include perfect match sentiments, Scriptures and images to Spellbinders products. We look forward to a long and blessed partnership with such a fine product as Spellbinders. This particular ornament is the smaller one of the set and is a snap to color up! I stamped mine with Memento and colored with Copics. I used Paper Sundaes Sketch for my card front. The dp is BasicGrey Eskimo Kisses on a base of SU! Ruby Red. For the inside, I added the rest of my sentiment also from this set... (don't you just love the innie / outie sentiments?!!) I then made a pop up by cutting three ornaments and attaching them together.

Be sure to do the Our Daily Bread designs Blog Hop on Dec 1 for several chances to win, and if there are things you've been wanting to purchase from Our Daily Bread designs... THIS week is the time to do so! Kelley is offering free shipping and Blog Candy of a Bread Basket Bundle Thur. through Sun. as a way of saying Thank You to her customers! You can use the coupon code below and get it shipped free!

AND.... finally, see THIS POST for a first time ever chance to pre-order these Dec. sets! This includes the Ornament set used here and the Spellbinder's Heirloom Ornament Die Cut!

I am entering this in the following challenges:
Crafty Calendar - winter
One Stitch At A Time - a season or event
Scrappy Frogs - christmas
Catch The Bug (1 entry) - christmas crafts
Our Daily Bread Designs - holiday cards
AiFactory (2 weeks) - die cut or punch
Digi Doodle Shop's Best - anything goes
Hodge Podge Shop - anything goes
Pals Paper Arts - ribbon or fabric
Paper Romance - your favorite things (ribbon)
Crafty Creations - inside of the card
Creative Cottage (2 weeks) - for someone special at christmas
Freshly Brewed - show off your style
Stampin' Royalty - patterned paper
Stars and Stamps - NO GLITTER and winter
Caardvarks - holiday cards using die cuts
Flourishes - christmas

Thanks for stopping and I love to hear your thoughts! Have a Happy Thanksgiving!

Give thanks to the Lord

Hello everyone! With Sunday comes another Stampin Sisters in Christ Challenge!

Today our hostess is the sweet and talented Miesje. For this week's Scripture, Miesje chose

Psalm 107:1 "Give thanks to the Lord for He is good; His love endures forever."

Miesje's Challenge: create a card/project showing thankfulness to God.

I have to say I was happy when Miesje chose this Scripture and challenge, because it seems like every year, the Christmas decorations and toys appear earlier and earlier in the stores, and Thanksgiving just gets lost in the Christmas rush! It's interesting that in Romans 1, where we read that difficult passage that talks about God's wrath on unbelief and how eventually He "gives them over" to a depraved mind...at the top of the list of sins, is the sin of ungratefulness. Rom. 1:21 ""For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened." I think we live in times where people are arrogant and when they have much, they tend to think it's because "they have earned it"... and few people stop to give God thanks, for even their ability to earn anything is a gift from Him! Really, we ought to thank God every day for everything we have, for life itself and all that He has done for us!

So with Thanksgiving coming this week here in the US, I thought I'd use this bountiful fruit bowl and Thanksgiving verse from Our Daily Bread designs. The image is from Fruit of the Spirit. The verse is from Give Thanks. I used this week's Midnight Madness Sketch
#80 and the colors were inspired by this week's Shabby Tearoom Challenge photo. Aren't these colors yummy? I used the new BasicGrey Curio dp, Bazzil for my base and colored the image with Copics. I spritzed it all with Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist in Honey Dew Mist. Love the sparkle... wish you could see it! The flowers are Primas and were a gift from a dear friend! The lace is vintage seam binding from a thrift store. I fell in love with the vintage wrapping around it, but it worked perfectly for this color challenge.

Our Sponsor this week is Seredipity Stamps ! We want to thank them for their generous donation and support of Stampin Sisters in Christ! Check out their store for a beautiful selection of stamps!

For more inspiration, please visit my dt sisters:

Chris, Linda, Peggysue (off this week), Randi, Meisje, Rebecca, Lisa (off this week), Patti

For the full devotional and challenge details please visit the Stampin Sisters in Christ Challenge. I can't wait to see what you come up with!

I am adding this to the following challenges:
Cinema Saturday - a hint of lace
Crafty Emma - lovely lace
Tellen's Place (1 entry) - give thanks
Daring Cardmakers - 3 of something (Roses)
Raise The Bar - grateful
Digi Doodle Shop's Best - anything goes
Hodge Podge Shop - anything goes
Paper Romance - your favorite things (Roses, lace)
Shirley2Girls - thanks and leaves
Freshly Brewed - show off your style
Sisterhood of Crafters - thankful
Stampin' Royalty - patterned paper
Creative Card Crew - give thanks
Paper Take Weekly - autumn colors
Crazy Challenge - thank you or thanksgiving

Moxie Chic

I made this for this week's Tuesday Trigger which is Moxie Chic! I drew my inspiration from the colors and replicated the ruffles with my May Arts wrinkled ribbon which I gathered up and then added the touch of pink ribbon from SU! over top. My frame is from Layers of Color, Rose Blossom Frame cling art stamp, designed for the Spellbinder's Label 16. (Layers of Color is a Spellbinders Preferred company) I matted it with black like the hat. The sentiment is from Gina K, Lovely Labels, one of Nina Bracketts wonderful sets. The embossing folder is Cuttlebug. I colored the rose blossoms with my Copics. The cs is SU! and the white is Gina K.

I am submitting this to the following challenges:
Freshly Brewed - show off your style
Crafty Cardmakers (3 entries) - dry embossing
Critter Sketch - texture
Little Paper Shop - die cuts
Paper Sundaes (3 entries) - punches, ribbon, embossing, blue (at least 2 of these)
Paper Players - cherry cobbler, always artichoke and a neutral
Daring Cardmakers - poppies or vibrant red
Fairy Tale (2 weeks) - anything goes
AiFactory (2 weeks) - die cut or punch
Cute Card Thursday - anything goes
Sassy Studio Designs - anything goes


Thanks for looking and have a blessed week!

A Sister's Album begun

Hello friends! Today I am showing you a project I have been working on. It's a 5.5" x 11" chipboard album that I am making of my sisters. Since I have very few photos of us as kids, I wanted to try to make something that would tell our story a little bit for generations to come. I am working with very old black and white photos that are poor quality, making copies of them and trying to edit them to be a little better. In some cases that's working and in some it is not. Most of the time involved with this has been trying to get decent photos to put in the album.

Anyhoo... above is the cover for the album. I used designer papers from Prima "The Sasha Paper Collection". I stamped the flourish from Layers of Color Nature Walk clear art stamp set with White Craft and heat embossed directly on the dp, and added some Prima flowers and chip board letters from K&Co. I sewed around the edges and added some pearls and ribbon from my stash. The butterfly is from Layers of Color Flutterescent art stamp set and is stamped with Stazon on vellum and colored on the back. I have sponged on the flowers a bit to give them some age, since the pictures in this album will be old.

This first page is using the same Prima pack for the designer paper, but I used Layers of Color Brick Wall and Garden Wall Frame cling art stamps. Again, this frame is designed for the Spellbinders Label 14. I colored lightly with Pebbles Chalks which are pearlescent. I added some flourishes from QuicKutz and punched edges made with 2 Martha Stewart edge punches and one EK Success punch. The butterfly is from Layers of Color Flutterescent art stamp set and has Stickles added, as do the flowers. My journaling card is Crafty Secrets and I surrounded that with flowers from LOC Merci Bouquet art stamp set and the little Chickadee from the LOC Backyard Birds art stamp set.

Here is some detail on the Brick Wall Frame and the brick wall. I love both of these and love them together! The brick wall can be stamped continuously for a solid wall too if you want that look.

On this third page I used Layers of Color Victorian Frame cling art stamp which is designed to fit the Spellbinder's Label 14. I love this frame! I colored with Copics and then embossed with UTEE to give it a shine, cut out the inside and framed my picture. I wanted to add lots of pink to this one so I stamped the Layers of Color Cottage Rose cling art stamp and colored with Copics, and cut out. I paired that with Layers of Color Vintage Rose and Nature Walk clear art stamp sets, as well as a butterfly from Flutterescent art stamp set. My embellishments are only a sheer pink ribbon, heart charm that says "love" and a vintage brad as a center for my flower. I have done quite a bit of sponging to this page and it is matted with a pink piece of cs.

I have a long ways to go on this album but I wanted to show you what I have been working on so far. These first pictures are of my oldest sister, who passed away at the age of 44. Although she was 10 years older than me, we were still close. I will always miss her but this little memory book will be a great way to pass on some of my memories to my grandchildren who never knew her.

We are excited that Layers of Color is a preferred Spellbinder's Company!

Visit Layers of Color Art Stamps Group on Facebook, Layers of Color Art Stamps Group on Flickr ,

My Gallery on Layers of Color, The Designers Galleries On Layers of Color

I am entering these in the following challenges:
Critter Sketch - Texture (LOTS)
Little Paper Shop - Die cuts (Spellbinders Label 14)
Paper Playtime - About love or use something you love (my sisters)
Gingerloft - great outdoors ( birds, butterflies, photo of outdoors)
Let's Ink It Up NO DIGI STAMPS and recycle it (used cardboard from dividers in paper box)
Paper Sundaes - punches, ribbon, embossing, blue (at least 2 of these)
Cinema Saturday - a hint of lace (The cover has eyelet lace)
Fairy Tale - anything goes
AiFactory - die cut or punch
Cute Card Thursday - anything goes
Delightful Challenges - glitter
Paper Play - ribbon, lace and flowers (Ribbon is woven through lace on cover)
Creative Belli - I have old photos, new stamps, blue dp and coloring
Penny's Paper-Crafty - alter it(this album is made on cardboard dividers from paper box)

Thanks as always for visiting! Have a blessed week!