Blue and Green Challenge

Hello everyone! It's time for another Stampin Sisters in Christ challenge! This week our hostess is the lovely Lisa. Lisa has chosen the Twenty Third Psalm for today's Scripture. Many of you can quote this entire Psalm because you learned it by heart, perhaps when you were young... I know I did and I'm so thankful for all the Scriptures I committed to memory when I was young because it sure is more difficult to memorize anything now!!! Anyway.. what a comforting passage this is!

"The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever." Ps. 23

Lisa's challenge is to use the colors of blue and green on your project.

I decided to just play for fun this week. I found this fabulous Sugar Nellie image as a digi HERE
and just had to have her. Her name is Grace! How could I resist? LOL!

I used the Papertake Weekly sketch for this card. I needed a birthday card so my tiny tag is stamped with a stamp from Popcorn Bear set, Birthday Hugs. I love how tiny it is... fun to just add anywhere on a card! I stamped my image with Memento Ink and colored with Copics. The base is SU! Pear Pizzazz and the designer papers are from BasicGrey Urban Prairie and Memory Box Spearmint. I used a Martha Stewart punch for the greenery and an EK Success punch for the little flourishes. Sponged everything with Crushed Olive Distress Ink. I used Spellbinders Lacy Circles and Standard Circles Small, and three different Cuttlebug folders for the embossing. The flowers are ZVA Creative. The ribbon is May Arts silk.

I had so much fun coloring up this image! I so often do more serious cards and it was fun to break out and do something different!

Our Sponsor this week is Taylored Expressions!

They are giving away this set! Wow! Can I play? :)

We want to thank them for their support and generosity!

For full details on the challenge and the prize please visit the Stampin Sisters in Christ Challenge Blog!

For more inspiration on this challenge, please visit my DT Sisters:

Chris, Linda, Peggysue, Miesje, Rebecca, Lisa , Patti, Randi (on leave)

I am entering this in the following challenges:

Delightful Challenges - include a heart on your project (2 heart embossing folders)

Do You Stack Up? - patterned paper

Meljens Designs - create something with hearts

Moving Along With The Times – Spring

Pals Paper Arts - bows

Paper Play - layer it up

Southern Girls - dry embossing

Cooking It Up With Katie - use a sketch from another current challenge, add texture, use a punch

Fab 'n' Funky - use a digi

Penny's Paper-Crafty – anything goes

Pixie Cottage - SKETCH and/or flowers

Sisterhood of Crafters- anything goes

Stars and Stamps - NO GLITTER, cards for kids

Rubber Redneck - COLOR I used them all but the early espresso only a touch in her shoes

Everybody-Art-Challenge - "my favourite thing" (flowers)

My Time To Craft - embossing

Crafty Cardmakers - Floral

Karber Weekly - DIGI STAMP and Dots & Stripes (dp & dots in her dress and embossed heart dots)

Magical Mondays - Flowers

Ooh La La Creations - 3 of a kind (flowers)
BasicGrey - BG ITEM and flower power
Copic Creations - use something new plus Copics (new image)

Thank you for visiting and for blessing my day with your comments! I hope your week is simply wonderful!

Love... Stamping in Time

It is time for ODBD Stamping In Time Challenge(SNTODBD27)! The assignment is Our Daily Bread Design stamps. The challenge this rotation is "All about Love!" Love can be conveyed in many ways. You can use sentiments, stamps, or designer papers that use the word love or have a heart on them! You can use scriptures that actually use the word LOVE! Or, you can come up with your own idea about LOVE! Just let us know what you use to convey love! We look forward to seeing what you create using ODBD stamps!

For my card I used Our Daily Bread designs Love One Another set. I colored it with Copics and cut the panel with Spellbinders Labels Ten . I matted that on Gina K Cranberry Tart cs cut with Spellbinders Labels Fourteen which I embossed with a Cuttlebug folder. I matted that with a white layer, embossed with a Cuttlebut Swiss Dot folder and cut with a Spellbinders Curved Rectangles die. I cut and embossed everything with my new Grand Calibur and I love how smoothly it works, yet makes an incredible impression when embossing! I used a Martha Stewart edge punch.

This card was made to take to my church along with a lot of others to donate to a missions scholarship fundraiser. I bought a revolving card rack to have in the Church where people can take whatever cards they want... and hopefully will leave a donation in the attached box. My hope is that lots of cards will be taken for whatever donation people care to make, and that those donations will enable someone to go on mission who can't otherwise afford to do so. I'm resisting the temptation to see how much money has been raised so far, as it's only been in place a little over a week, but pray with me that God will use this in many ways.... it's always amazing to think what God can do with even a little thing! Just think... if someone goes on mission.... and someone else finds the Lord through that person... and then two more find the Lord through that person... well... the results could be far above what we can even imagine! Will you pray with me for God to use this little effort?

Well... that's my take on the love challenge this week! Now let's see yours! Simply link to the Stamping in Time Challenge on the ODBD Blog by Feb 9th! Can't wait to see what you come up with!

Be sure to check the rest of my DT sisters who played in today's challenge:
Sabrina, Fran, Pat, Angie, Patter & Betty

I am entering this in the following challenges:
A Spoonful Of Sugar - Valentine's
Everybody-Art-Challenge - "my favorite thing" (love)
My Time To Craft - embossing
Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Love is in the air
Lexi's Creations - Valentines
Pink Elephant - Red, brown & pink
Let's Ink It Up - NO DIGI and Anything Goes
Pile It On - Love is in the air
Craft Your Days Away - love
Secret Crafter - it's a couple thing (2 characters in your main image I hope hearts apply)
Totally Papercrafts - add a heart
Penny's Paper-Crafty  – anything goes
Sisterhood of Crafters  - anything goes 
Stampavie and More - love
Meljens Designs -   create something with hearts
Paper Play -  layer it up
Southern Girls -  dry embossing

Sneak Peek... Steadfast and Sure!

Hello everyone! I made this for several challenges, using today's sketch on SCS. It is a sneak peek at a wonderful set to be released by Our Daily Bread designs on Feb. 1! It's great for guy cards and easy to color up quickly. I colored my image with Copics and the sentiment is stamped on Gina K with a light stamping in VersaMark of ODBD's very first set, Light of the World behind it. I sponged the edges with Adirondack Latte. The base is SU! Soft Suede and the dp is my hoarded Blue Awning by K&Co. The charm was a gift from a sweet friend, America. It's perfect for this card!

I am also entering this in the following challenges:
Flourishes Timeless Tuesday - add hardware
Creative Belli - anything beginning with "P" (Paper)
Penny's Paper-Crafty – anything goes
Sisterhood of Crafters - anything goes
Tuesday Throwdown - distressing (ink distressing)
Stamp with Fun - Blue & Brown
Woodware USA - Anything Goes
Aly's Sunday Challenge - For the guys
CD Sunday -Something from a CD and Where Waters Meet (My anchor holds)
Let's Ink It Up - NO DIGI and Anything Goes
Paper Sundaes - Distressing (ink distressing)
Allsorts - for a male/boy
Copic Creations - use something new plus Copics (new stamps)
Delicious Doodles - get well soon or cheer someone up (this verse is encouragement)
Mami Doodles – mostly blues
Stamp Man – distressing (ink distressing)
Charisma Cardz – numbers (Scripture verse numbers)
Crafty Purple Frog - distressing (ink distressing)
Digi Doodle Shop's Best - anything goes

Vintage Valentine

Hello everyone! It's time for another Stampin Sisters in Christ challenge! Today our challenge hostess is our Lovely Linda! Linda has chosen Jer. 31:3

The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with loving kindness have I drawn thee.

Linda's challenge this week is to make a Vintage Style Card or project.

I love today's Scripture because even though this refers to God's restoration of His people Israel, we as Christians can find such comfort in knowing that God is unchangeable, and His love for us is also everlasting. He has drawn us to Himself because He loves us and desires a relationship with us. There is nothing we can do to make Him stop loving us! His very nature is love, and that love is unconditional love. If you have been feeling unloved, or if you have run so far because of past sins that you think He would never forgive... feel His love for you today! It is everlasting and He desires to draw you to Himself! Run to Him for comfort, for help, for all His best that He wants to pour out on you!

When I saw the challenge I immediately thought of this image from Layers of Color Fleur Heart clear art stamp set. It is such a detailed beautiful vintage image. The sentiment is from Crafty Secrets and says "You make my heart sing". I decided to play along with the Shabby Tearoom challenge this week which was to use white or cream plus one color, and neutrals. I also used this week's Midnight Madness Sketch.

I embossed my image and sentiment in gold and lightly chalked the heart. My base is Papertrey Sweet Blush sponged with with Adirondak Latte ink. The designer paper is two sides of one sheet from a Crafty Secrets pad "Heartwarming Vintage Collection". It is a creamy base with taupe and those same sweet blush colors. I used Spellbinders Label 13 (#1 size) and the oval from a Spellbinders retired tag trio, sponging them with Latte and layering. The ribbon is May Arts and the lace is vintage lace my sister found at a wonderful shop. I added some pearls and little Prima rose buds as embellishments.

Our Sponsor this week is Designed to Delight
The winner will be receive 2 free digi stamps!

We want to thank them for their support and generosity!

For full details on the challenge and the prize please visit the Stampin Sisters in Christ Challenge Blog!

For more inspiration on this challenge, please visit my DT Sisters:

Chris, Linda, Peggysue, Miesje, Rebecca, Lisa , Patti, Randi (on break)

Thank you for visiting and for blessing my day with your comments! I hope your week is simply wonderful!

I am entering this in the following challenges:
Craft Your Days Away - love
Really Reasonable Ribbon - ribbon and hearts
Crafty Catz - use a forgotten stamp
Phindy’s Place - lace & pearls
Totally Papercrafts - add a heart
AiFactory - anything goes
Crafty Sentiments - vintage
Digi Doodle Shop's Best - anything goes
Do You Stack Up? - pink
Stamp Insanity - use your favourite colour and go monochrome
Crafts and Me - monochrome
Creative Belli - anything beginning with "P" (peachy pink)
Freshly Brewed - love or Valentine's themed
Penny's Paper-Crafty – anything goes
Tuesday Throwdown - Valentine
Pollycraft - Pastel Colours
Corrosive Challenges - Lace and Pearls

Fresh Brewed Coffee - Love/Valentine

Aud's Sentimental - Love Theme

He makes everything beautiful in His Time!

Hello everyone! If you are looking for the winner of my blog candy, please scroll down one post!

I have one quick card to share with you today. I used my new birthday toy... my Marianne doily die cut that I got from Terryfic Times. (If you call them make sure you tell them Grace sent you!) Oh I love the pretty lines on this die! I used this month's Our Daily Bread designs release, Faith. I stamped with Memento on Papertrey Vintage Cream cs, colored with Copics and cut with the Marianne die (smaller circle). I then cut a circle from the Spellbinders classic circle Nesties set, and then the largest doily die from the Marianne set. I stamped the verse and punched it out in a tag, and attached with some May Arts Ribbon. The pearls are ZVA creative. The purple dp is daisyd's and the green is Memory Box Enchanted. I made this for Angie's Bible Verse Thursday over on Christian Paper Crafts, which was to use the theme of "beautiful"! Come play along!!!

I am entering this in the following challenges:
AiFactory - anything goes
Digi Doodle Shop's Best - anything goes
Creative Belli - anything beginning with "P" - pearls, pink ribbon
Penny's Paper-Crafty – anything goes
Stampin' Royalty - anything with wings
Oldie But Goodie Challenge - Bright and Cheerful
Paper Take Weekly - Ribbons and Pearls
Top Tip Tuesday - All Sentimental
Pollycraft - Pastel Colours
Aly's Sunday Challenge - Things with wings
Let's Ink It Up ) - NO DIGI and Anything Goes
Pile It On - Anything Goes
Quirky Crafts - In the Spring Garden
Our Daily Bread Designs - wings

Blog Candy Winner!

Hello everyone!!!
As promised.. we have a winner for my Christmas to Birthday Blog Candy! I had 376 signed up, plus another 11 who were not able to that I added in by number, for a total of 387! I wish you all could win something for blessing me so with your comments, but here is the number Random.Org selected:


MariLynn... that's you! Please contact me within 48 hours so I can get your package out to you!!! Congratulations!!!

Thank you all so much! I had a wonderful birthday... my hubby cooked me breakfast while I snoozed... I had literally hundreds of emails, and messages, received numerous gorgeous cards, and I was able to talk to many of my family members who live far away. I spent the morning with good stampin buddies over coffee, and then was taken out to dinner by my wonderful hubby... who also brought me flowers! It just doesn't get much better than that! Kind of takes the sting out of getting older! :)

Thank you all for joining in and blessings to you!!

Design Divas Oldie but Goodie Blog Hop

If you are on the Design Diva's Oldie but Goodie Blog Hop, you should have arrived here from Tenia Nelson's Blog. If you happened on my blog and would like to do the hop, it starts at Sue Morris' Blog and from there you just follow the links!

The Design D.I.V.A.S are a group of talented papercrafters who formed a group first on SCS, and now on Facebook to share our common interests in all things paper! The meaning behind the group's name of DIVA is: Divine, Inspirational, Virtuous, Artistic (or Annointed) sistahs! Don't you just love that? I was honored to be invited to join! We were challenged this week to use some of our old stamps and supplies that have not seen any love in at least 6 months. I pulled out this Impression Obsession Clear stamp set I won about a year ago from Stampers Dream, and have not had the chance to ink it up even once! I guess you could say it is my NEW but old stamp! So this gave me the reason to do so, and I had a blast coloring it. I stamped it on Ex-Press It cs, colored it with Copics and matted it with BasicGrey Green at Heart, which also is old now! I used a base of Gina K Pure Luxury and used designer paper from BG Sultry as well. I used an EK Success punch and May Arts twine. You can't see it in the photo but the flowers are highlighted with Spica Pens for a little sparkle. The sketch I used is from Card Positioning Systems. I had a blast using my "new" old stamps and I hope you've enjoyed this hop!

From here hop on over to the talented and sweet Deb Felts to see her oldie but goodie!

I am also entering this in the following challenges:
Claudia & Co - COLOR (red, green, yellow)
Oldie But Goodie Challenge - Bright and Cheerful
Quirky Crafts - In the Spring Garden
Pile It On - Anything Goes
2 Sisters - flowers
BasicGrey - BG ITEM and dots & spots
*NEW* Copic Creations - anything new plus Copics (stamp is never used before and ef)
Craft Your Days Away - anything goes
Fairy Tale ) - flowers
Stamp Something - anything goes (using a rubber stamp)
AiFactory - anything goes
Meljens Designs - square or round cards (no rectangles)
Sassy Studio Designs - use something that is over a year old

Thanks for stopping and for blessing my day with your comments!