Starting a prayer file

This challenge by the Kitchen Sink Crew motivated me to start a prayer file for those whom I need to pray for each day. I just freehanded the sentiment, and of course, I used the KS rose. I just love that stamp!!

Fly on by!

You've got to go to Digital Stamp Oasis to see these great new images just released. Is this not the cutest thing for a little boy's birthday or even a big boy's birthday for that matter!!! I love the fact that I can size these images to the size I would need for my card. That is a great advantage over rubber images.

Hebrews 1:19

This is a page for my scripture project that I have been making this year, and it also was my ways to use challenge today making use of all white. Any color had to be white paper altered. I embossed the heart using white craft ink and clear embossing powder. Then I sponged on pink pirouette and regal rose ink.I cuttlebugged (my favorite tool, BTW) the background and used one of my cuttlebug diecuts as well. The scripture was cut with an oval scalloped nestablities run through my cuttlebug, of course. The scripture is computer generated making use of a font I found on a disc I bought at Hobby Lobby by Autumn Leaves and the font was called Playbook. I've gotten many comments on this font that I have used often for scriptures. So this is my week's scripture as a way to share God's words of truth to brighten the corner where I am. It is my prayer that God anoints you with the oil of JOY!

Color Throw Down Challenge #39

I did this card for this week's Color Throwdown Challenge of real red, black, and barely banana. I did the shading on the rose with my buttercup yellow copic marker and thought it was perfect. I also used it to color over my ivory brads to get them the color I wanted. I love that about copics. You can color your white primas and white brads to perfectly match them to your colors. I probably should have added a back layer on this card. But I guess I was conserving cardstock!!??

Spotlighting technique with the love birds

I thought this image from Digital Stamp Oasis would be fun to use for the spotlighting technique. I cuttlebugged the background, which I think gave it a look of elegance.

Bluebonnets in Texas

It's heaven on earth in Texas this time of year. Thought I'd share some of these beautiful Texas bluebonnets with you. These were some batches we found just outside Brenham, Texas.

Color Throw Down #38

This is for this week's Color Thrown Down Challenge (number 38). The colors are ruby red, baja breeze, and basic gray. I stamped the natural white with bella toile with baja breeze ink. I stamped the lilies from Fifth Avenue Florals on ruby red cardstock and then cut them out and added copic markers to do some shading on the lilies. The dots are done with a black Spica metalic pen. The punches are SU's large oval punch, and the border punch is from Martha Stewart as is the leaf punch.