WAW98

This is the beautiful scripture offered today on the WordArt Wednesday blog today. I find adding scripture to my cards to be very uplifting to those who receive them. These words were sung at a funeral I attended this past week of a young mother who died two days after giving birth to a new son. I will be sending this card to the young woman's aunt, who is my friend.

WAW89

I used the beautiful scripture that was on the WAW site this week. I used melon mambo cardstock for the background that I embossed, I used my spellbinder edge to make the white panels and then I stamped them with some of my Rubber Tapestry Stamps. I sponged the melon mambo ink around the edges of the verse.

Let prayer keep you by the streams of blessings!

FTTC220 and WAW80

This is for this week's Wordart Wednesday challenge using their Isaiah scripture. and for the Flourishes Timeless Tuesday Challenge to use blue and green. The zinnias are from a Flourish stamp set. This scripture is a great reminder of where our strength comes from the Lord. Have a blessed Wednesday.

Three fabulous challenges

I don't usually roll one card into 3 challenges but today I did. This is for the CQC188 challenge of using sage, saffron, coral, blush, and white, the CBC #169 challenge to do a Mother's Day card, and the Word Art Wednesday scripture for today. For the Creative Bellie challenge I pulled out some little diamond shaped ruby colored gemstones (although they look black in this photo) to look like the rubies mentioned in the scripture. I used my nestabilitiies to cut the shapes, I sponged the white shape masking it with the diecutter. I inked the embossed blush background with so saffron ink.

WAW75

Always love to check out the scripture for Word Art Wednesday. Love this from Jeremiah and wanted to keep it simple. Powerful words that need to be digested and taken to heart. The silhouette stamp is from Stampabilities. I sponged the colors using the negative part of a diecut circle.

waw74

For this scripture that is selected for the scripture over at Word Art Wednesday this week, I had to hunt through my angel collection but I found this beautiful one from Layers of Color. There are angels among us and seldom are the invisible. All of us have been touched in some way or another by these saints and servants of the Lord. 

Wednesday's cross

I made this to send to my brother in law and SIL for Easter. She loves this shade of blue and I embossed the cross with white MS embossing powder. I dry embossed the white cardstock and added the punched Martha Stewart  punch.  This cross is by Judi Kins and the sentiment is from Our Daily Bread Designs.

Hope you are reflecting this Holy Week on just how much Christ's death and Resurrection has changed your life. .

WAW72

A great scripture for this week over at Word Art Wednesday. I did something crazy with my design paper. It is from My Mind's Eye. I ran it through an embossing folder on my cuttlebug, and then I inked it directly from the pad with baja breeze ink. I added the spellbinder diecuts as the focus point and paper punched some flowers and leaves with some Martha Stewart punches. Added a bow for the final touch.

WAW67

I had a rough day, and didn't get much stamping in, but did print out this scripture offered on the Wordart Wednesday blog today for their wonderful weekly challenge. I got out a few of my spellbinder diecuts to make some shapes to use, stamped some flowers from Verve, cut them out, and glued them on. May your Valentines Day be filled with God's love and hoping  that you have lots of opportunities to pass it on to others!!

WAW65

I can't believe it's been a whole two weeks since I've posted anything here on my blog. But I have to say that most of my time has been spent the past two weeks  reading the Bible. Over 500 members of my church have made a commitment to read "The Bible in 90 Days." I have been in yearly Bible studies for years, but this is my first attempt to read the Bible cover to cover, 12 pages a day. It has meant giving up some times I use in other ways, like making cards, keeping up with my blog, and giving up all the time I waste on my computer and the television.It is great that this is butting up against Lent. Instead of giving something up, and doing without it, I have replaced that with an action that is the greatest thing I could do for my Lord. Read His word, learn His history, and begin to incorporate it into my life. I haven't really given anything up, I have simply prioritized my time in putting the Lord first. Learning about my heritage as a servant of the Lord is the best thing I have done in a very long time. His righteousness is what I long for.

WAW63

This is the scripture featured this week at Wordart Wednesday. Valentines are my favorite cards to make and seeking from God the help of creating a clean heart and a renewed spirit is wonderful little prayer for everyday. It is my resolution this year to abide in the Lord. I used a Cuttlebug embossing folder for the background, nestabilities to diecut the hearts, and diecuts for the flower (I am still trying to attempt to make those successfully). The leaf punch is from Martha Stewart.

WAW60

I finally arrived back at home after a busy week of Christmas holidays at my parents home. It's hard being away from the stamp room, so it was great to get going again on some challenges for the week. This one is for the Word Art Wednesday challenge making use of this wonderful quote from Helen Keller. I did some embossing on this card and then brayed colored ink over the embossed areas. May the Light guide us into this new year, and may our faith stand  firm against the unrighteous and the victory be the Lord's.

WAW58 and CR84FN68

Because it is December and I am short on time especially in my stamp room, I combined the WAW58 challenge with the CR84FN68 challenge. The scripture is the WAW verse this week and the colors are from the CR84FN challenge: burgandy, gray, and ivory. I stamped some flowers in sahara sand over the verse, and I also used platinum ink rubbed over the embossed area of the burgandy background. I added punched gray leaves and burgandy paper roses the edges of the nestabilities shapes.

WAW and WT404 favorites

Using the scripture from the Word Art Wednesday download this week, I also designed this card with some of  my favorite things (for the WT404 challenge--embossing, scripture, punches, and bling. I stamped some brown leaves onto the textured background which gives them a very subtle look. This scripture is one used so often at Stewardship times in churches, but I think it is a great verse that goes from our sense of Thanksgiving into our spirit of sharing our blessings at Christmas. I read the children's book The Quiltmaker's Gift to my 4 years at preschool yesterday. It is a beautiful story of a king who requires his kingdom to bring him a gift twice a year. Everyone did such yet he never seemed happy, even with a castle full of beautiful things. He hears of a quiltmaker who makes beautiful quilts. She had never given the king one, because she only gave her quilts to the poor and needy.She refused to make one for the king. This upset the king and after trying to imprison her without much success, he asked her what must he do for her to make him a quilt. She finally agreed that for every gift he gave to someone else, she would add a square of fabric and when it was complete, she would give him a quilt. At first the king found this a difficult task, but after finding the joy it brought to others, the joy began to spill over to his own sense of joy. After some time he had given everyone in his kingdom a gift, so he then went outside of his kingdom to continue giving gifts to others. He would send a sparrow to the quiltmaker to inform her that he had given another gift away. When he was down to the last gift, the quiltmaker realized this was going to be her last visit from the sparrow, so she finished up the quilt and took it to the king. The king rejoiced and told her that he really was not poor at all but rich from the joy that this had brought to him. Peace and Joy are priceless and are the other side of the blessings when we share instead of hoard.

WAW56 and CBC157

I'm using this card for two challenges: Word Art Wednesday and the Creative Belli Challenge.
I stamped repeatedly with a stamp from Inkadinkado and I used the scripture that Word Art Wednesday shared this week. The cross stamp is from Our Daily Bread Designs. Although they blend with the colors I used on the cross, there were rhinestones added to the cross as well.

WAW54

WAW #50

I love the book of James. This is a great verse from it. I used some wonderful design papers from Basic Grey. The little stamps I used around the verse are from Verve. The little punched flowers are from a Creative Memories punch I have had for a long while. I love the size it punches. I used little silver beads for the centers. The edge diecut is from Spellbinders.

WAW#39

Had to take a break from my Dare to Be dirty marathon I've been doing for the last 5 days. I've done 26 cards during that time span, so getting this one done was somewhat of a challenge too. LOL Not too much stamping on this one that shows up. I tried to stamp some white flourishes on the black cardbase, but it just didn't show up much, so I added the white pearls.

Word art Wednesday #36

This is such a powerful message from the Word for just the best advice of parenting we can give anyone.
AMEN, and AMEN. The cross image is from Verve and the mother silhouette is from Flourishes. I just used various papers I found in my scraps for the paper on the card. Word art Wednesday is my favorite Wednesday challenge. I'm getting a late start today, because I had other things that needed to be done today. One of which was having lunch with my favorite pastor, Lorraine Brown!! What a spiritual inspiration she is to me!!!

WAW35

I was delighted to find this scripture from Deuteronomy as the featured scripture today on Word Art Wednesday. The pear is a multi-layered stamp from Kitchen Sink Stamps. Isn't it amazing how when we put the love of God first in our lives, there seems to be less of me and a new joy in sharing that love with others.
This is one of those scriptures that remind us it is not about me because I am giving God my all. And He is my all in all. Like a song I love says, "He is my strength when I am weak, He is the treasure that I seek, He is my All in All. When I am down, He picks me up, when I am dry, He fills my cup."