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I love the spiritual inspiration of the words on many of the stamp sets offered by Sweet and Sassy Stamps. This set is from Sweet and Sassy and has been one of my favorite "go to " stamps for the summer.  Grouped with this great design paper from Graphics 45 and using today's sketch over on the Sketch Challenge over at Splitcoaststampers, I think I might even use this as my WordARt Wednsday card today. Look for God in everything around you this day, and continue to grow in His grace and His righteousness. And may all honor, glory and praise me unto Him.  Happy Hump day!

FLLCAUG13

What a pretty color combo this is that FLLCAUG13 has for their challenge this month. I stamped this Flourish bouquet with tuxedo black and then used my copic markers for coloring. The embossing was done with a Darice embossing plate I purchased in July at a scrapbook convention here in the Houston area. I really liked how it looks with this bouquet. The teal cardstock is a back panel to the whole card. The card actually opens with the card base which is the rust layer. I used some tarnished silver cardstock for my gray. to get all the colors of the challenge in.

HMFMC151

What a great way this little guy has to cool off on a hot summer day! The theme for HMFMC151 is Liquid Refreshment and this little guy is certainly refreshing himself. I love that look of pleasure that is on his face. I used copic markers to color this image and then used  a little speckles to add the sparkle to  his condensation collecting glass. The papers are from Basic Grey and the cardstock from Stampin' Up. I've had this ribbon for a year and finally found the perfect sparkly place to put it. I added a yellow flower to pick up on the yellow flower coming out of his glass. Hope if you are in the heat of things you follow suit like this little guy and drive into something wet and wild. Happy Summer!

C4C197 and Little Red Wagon challenge

Don't you just love it when there are two challenges that are the same for the same week?
So this card is for the Crazy for Challenges 197  and The Little Red Wagon challenge #197. I seem to see a pattern here. This stamp is a little more tedious than the ones I usually use for paper piecing, but I thought this image was so cute from Graphics 45. The sentiment is from Sweet and Sassy stamps. 
My state of Texas has been suffering a drought the past couple of summers, and there is some rain in the weekend forecast for some parts of Texas, so let this little sentiment be my little prayer to those of you that are still in the driest parts of Texas. 

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I always look forward to the new weekly challenge over at Our Daily Bread Designs. This week it was a sketch challenge which are always  more challenging for me. Getting things cut near the correct size and getting the placement just right. Isn't that what I do to God sometimes? I worry too much about saying things in the correct ways that I fail to speak the words that just come from my heart. God doesn't expect me to come up with the exact words or being in the most appropriate setting. That's why He sent the Holy Spirit. I just need to remember to let Him be my guide and provider. So, His daily blessing to me is the gift of the Spirit, which Christ died for us to have.

FTTC232

Although this looks gray in the picture, the card base is actually always artichoke. I stamped the white background with one of the other images in this Flourishes set with tuxedo black. I colored the lily of the valley with copic markers.  I added the seam binding bow for the final addition. This is for the Flourishes Timeless Tuesday challenge, which was to stamp a background.

COF July challenge

Thanks, Kelly for this challenge, and thanks for the reminder that mine was not done, So I'm a few days late, but I did this card in about 10 minutes. I have all my beach and water stamps in a tub together so it was easy to locate this one, which is a retired Stampin' Up stamp. It has always been one of my favorites. I always love wading along the shoreline of a beach. I love how the incoming waves bring little treasures in with it and it also changes and rearranges the sand on the beach too.

Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water

 will flow from within them."

 ~ John 7:38

So, as this scripture tells us, living water flows within believers. Just as this ocean water is beaming with life, and has the might and force to change the shoreline, so is God's power within us. We are filled with the plans He has for us and in His power He can change and rearrange those things that do not fit in His plans so that He is glorified and His great love flows on. 

Have a blessed weekend and take some time to worship God for all the glorious things He has done, is doing, and will do.