Paper Craft Crew Challenge #275

Trying a new challenge this week. I really liked this card sketch and I am in the process of working on my new year's stamping goals to deplete some of my design paper scrap piles in my stamping room. So I used old papers, and a new die cut I have never used before. Here is where I found this challenge.

Here is my card:

CCEE1802 Honoring Hot Tea Month

Hi, I am  hosting again this week. In honor of "Hot Tea Month",  use a teapot or teacup on your card or use a "tea stain" technique if you like.  Here's a link to how to tea stain your paper:

http://www.instructables.com/id/Age-paper-using-tea/ 

if you so choose to use.

Use the CCEE1802 as your keyword if you post over on SCS, and you can link your card to Mr. Linky over on the  CCEEstampers Blog found HERE and join in on the fun this week.

I used a Unity stamp for the image and the sentiment is from Paper Trey Inks. I am trying to use on every one of my cards this year scraps that are already cut from a sheet of design paper as not to have to cut up new ones until some of these others are used up. So far, so good.

Paper Players 375

I love Valentines. It is my favorite card making time of the year. They seem less stressful that Christmas cards, I guess because there is not so many other things going on at the same time.
Paper Players challenge today is a fun one:

My new year's resolution is to use some of my old stamps more, and deplete my paper scraps. I am proud to say this card has helped me to do both things. The  stamp is an old retired SU set. Some cuteness  just lasts forever, so  remain a  part of my massive collection of stamps. Thanks, Paper Players for making this challenge "just my type" of challenge!!

Crafters of Faith Jan. 2018

Starting my second year with the Crafter's of Faith challenge group, and I am looking forward to all the blessings waiting for us in 2018. Barb is hosting the first challenge and using the scripture:

Scripture: 1 John 4:12
No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us. 

challenge The challenge is to make a card or another creation that describes how "we" love one another--through friendship, trying times, music, holidays, etc. 

I used a stamp from Unity that I think shows fellowship and diversity. We are the body of Christ and the priesthood of all believers, and Jesus' greatest commandment to us was to love one another. We must be a united body of love if we want to teach anyone about our Saviour and King. We are all different, have differing opinions, and offer different talents, but God sees not the differences between us, but our common ground of His love for us, and to carry that love all over the world. 

Some of my favorite songs were old folk songs of the 60's that made us question many things in our lives, and it seems like even though we made  huge strides in some areas, hate is still a part of this fallen world. The answers lie in our hearts, that very special place reserved within that makes us incomplete without knowing and showing His great love to all. 

Dear Lord, You sent your one and only Son to redeem us and to prove your great love for us. I can think of nothing that displays love any greater than this. Help me embrace every opportunity given to me this year to express that love in all the ways I can, in all the places I am,  at whatever time it is to all the people I can. I can only make the difference that I can make, but I do have to put forth the effort, and I know you will magnify my efforts. In Jesus name I pray, Amen. 

Mod Squad Color Challenge

I have started the new year out just like I like it, stamping every day so far. This card today is for the  Mod Squad color challenge to use kraft, black, and white, and I also used it for the WT669 challenge over on SCS. For that challenge we were to use something new. This die set, Tim Holtz's cityscape was a Christmas gift from my sister, and this is the first card I have made with it. Hope everyone has found somewhere to warm to hunker down during this miserable cold everyone seems to be having. I am hybernating in my stamproom, staying in, and getting a lot of stamping done.

CCEE1801 Waddle you do in 2018?

Happy 2018!

I am starting the year off for the CCEE Stampers' challenges for January. So, we are using a play on the word Waddle, and the question to you is "Waddle you do in 2018?"  The challenge is to use a penguin or any other animal that lives where it is cold.  

My little penguin is hoping that 2018 might include a vacation to a warmer climate for him. 

I used some fun paper from a summery pad from Bo Bunny. The stamp is an old retired stamp that someone gave me who had given up their stamping addiction. I guess it is safe to safe that this addiction is something with which  I will always be afflicted.  

I always try to make a stamping resolution for the new year, so this year is to declutter the stamp room,  use up my scrap piles, and let some old stamps see some ink this year. So this card is making use of two of those resolutions with the use of this stamp and the little punched out squares on this from scraps left over from something else. 

Maybe your resolution could me to join us in our challenges this year. Check out all the details every week over on the CCEE Stampers blog that is found HERE.  There you will also see the designs for each challenge done by me and  my fellow team members: Frances, Lois, Anne, Vicky, Lynn, Kelly, and Marianne. We all wish you a very happy 2018!

Mod Squad - SNOW

Here is my last minute entrance to the Mod Squad challenge this week. I am having so much fun with this snow pen I found at Hobby Lobby when I went shopping the after Christmas sales. This stamp is from Penny Black, and the inked background is done with Oxide Distress inks. I colored the snowman's accessories with copic markers. Hope everyone is keeping warm during this terrific freeze that is covering so much of America!! I unlike this snowman am not enjoying it so much. We just get the cold but not the snow in our part of the country, and I guess I should not complain. Except our humidity always makes it seem even colder even without the snow.

Wow, I am so honored to see that this card was selected as one of the top three last week over on the Mod Squad blog.