Valentine’s Day Scallop Treat Box
It's Monday and that means it's Color Monday at Christian Paper Crafts! Today's colors were sherbet colors using a light green, pink, peach, and white/beige. In the over 5000+ pieces of paper that I have, I could not manage to find one piece of peach paper, so I challenge cheated again. I am not a good example! However, I did make this adorable little Valentine's day Scallop Treat Box that you can make too using die-cuts or a template, designer paper, ribbon, and some candy. I am going to give this to one of my children as a Valentine's Day gift, but it's also the perfect gift for a co-worker or friend. Thank you for stopping by and looking at my work. I really appreciate you taking the time out of your busy to to keep me company. God bless you! Today's Treasure: Ecclesiastes 2:24-26. Everything is from the hand of God and it is his hands that work in all of my work.
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Happy Friday! Today is Fun on Friday at Christian Paper Crafts AND challenge #3 for HOPE2010 at Splitcoast Stampers. I decided to combine these two challenges — well actually, it just kinda worked out that way without any real planning and one thing leading to the other. You know how those kinds of projects go.
The Fun on Friday challenge was to use 2-step stamping and I did this with the Central Park stamp set by Stampin' Up! I used Urban Garden and Urban Oasis Designer Series Paper to accent my card. A lot of various elements went into this card and I'm very pleased with the way that it turned out.
For the HOPE2010 #3 challenge, I'm digging deeper this week and am asking you what you would like to see in your personal life, what your hope is for your life. That is our challenge for today. It seems almost generic that my sentiment is "Love and Happiness," but how many of us truly have that? There are so many Christian women who are not loved by their own husband or have happiness in life because of that, or carry the weight of the world on their shoulders. In Matthew 11:28-30, Jesus says, "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls, for my yoke is easy and my burden is light." Today's secular culture tells us that "you can do it all," but they don't bother with mentioning the price of doing it all. Your burdens needs to be laid at the foot of the cross ladies, all of them. We literally wear ourselves out trying to do it all and generally of our own accord and ways, but this is not how God would have it. I don't know about you, but I'm pretty burnt out of being weary and burdened. The only way we "can do all things" is through Christ who strengthens us, Philippians 4:13. Just because we're Christians doesn't mean that we're perfect or not prone to depression, marriage problems, drug addition, you name it. As a matter of fact, we are more prone to these things because we have the enemy hot on our tail. On the other hand though, we are also more prone to victory through Jesus Christ and Jesus alone.
So, let's get back to our challenge of what is your hope for you personally? It can be as generic as you want it too with only you knowing the meaning behind it or if you wish to share, that's fine too. There's no judging here. I just want you to really soul search on what your hope is and how God is going to give that hope to you.
I pray that you, and myself, take God up on his promises of rest for our soul and strength. God bless you. All materials used for this card are from Stampin' Up!
Love Always Protects
Happy Thursday everybody. That means tomorrow is Friday and the end of another long week. At this point in time, I'm pretty much certifiable because I got Angella's Bible Verse Thursday challenge all messed up. Even with showing you this card a few weeks early, I won't be giving anything away, so you'll just have to wait to see what it is, but you can always play along in today's Bible Verse Thursday at Christian Paper Crafts that I don't have a card to show you for! It's been my weekly habit over the past few months to combine this challenge with Mercy Kerin's Lord Have Mercy Sketch Challenge every Tuesday. I think this card turned out real nice. It took me at least 50 photos to get the right light as I had to move all over the house to find some good light. I ended up just right across the room taking the picture in the corner that my sewing machine is located. A lot of little things went into this card, which I will describe below, but I tried various different methods of adding dimension to it, such as sponging the edges and using dry embossing folders on designer paper. There's a lot of other little things too! I hope you like this and thank you for stopping by. God bless you. Today's Treasure: 1 Corinthians 13:7 (paraphrased), Love always protects. If you have somebody that loves and protects you, count your blessings and give thanks to God because it is not easy when you are not loved or protected, and you're on your own.
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Hi! I pray that you had a blessed weekend. As usual, it's been pretty busy around here. The kids got a snow day on Friday and after I share this card with you, I am actually going to bed to hopefully catch up on some sleep!
Starting today at Christian Paper Crafts, our Bible Believer profile badge is now available until February 15. Our summer edition magazine will also be available online June 1! You can read all of the details here and submit your work here. I am super excited about this and covet your prayers.
As it is Color Monday, our colors were to use Chocolate Chip, two shades of pink, orange, and either white or cream. When I get hit with a challenge like that, the first thing I do is head to my designer paper to see how I can make it work for me and Sweet Always by Stampin' Up! fit the bill perfectly! Monday's are always very busy days for me — actually, every day is always very busy, so I decided to make this card using no stamps combined with today's Splitcoast Stampers Clean and Simple challenge too, which was a sketch challenge, so this all worked out very well.
I think it turned out real cute. What are your thoughts? You can make this too in less than 5 minutes. Thank you for stopping by and make sure you read Natalie's Bible lesson for us today and Marcelle's Daily Bread. Speaking of yet more happy news, our guest design team member, Randi Barrett, is now a full-time member of our design team, so please help me welcome Randi to Christian Paper Crafts! This has been a very blessed Monday. I haven't made the formal announcement on the boards yet but will tomorrow. God bless you!
Pearls and Prayers
As January comes to an end, so does our time with Gina K. Designs at Christian Paper Crafts. Gina's line of stamps are wonderful and we all had a blast playing with all of her toys! The variety was fabulous and she did get quite a few of us addicted to her Pure Luxury line of paper. It's the highest quality of paper that I've ever used.
I'd also like to thank the extremely gifted and talented Randi Barrett for being our guest designer for this month. She was such a joy to work with and the privilege was all mine. As usual, the Christian Paper Crafts Design Team rocked and you can see all of their projects in the Gina K. Designs Gallery.
Here is a card that I made to share with you using Nina Brackett's Lovely Shelf stamp set. I hope you enjoy this. Thank you for stopping by and for following my blog. Your support means the world to me. God bless each and every one of you.
Stamps: Gina K. Designs Lovely Shelf by Nina Brackett
Paper: Stampin' Up! Basic Gray, Gina K. Designs Pure Luxury White, Memorybox Rhubarb Tart
Ink: Stampin' Up! Riding Hood Red, Memento Tuxedo Black
Accessories: Prima Flower, bronze and white faux pearls by Recollections, Stampin' Up! scallop border punch, Certainly Celery 5/8" satin ribbon, Shimmerz Spritz Baby's Breath, Tsukineko Vintage Wine All-Purpose Ink
Technique: Paper piecing
#1 Son
This card is for my son Scott, who is a young man who's truly after God's heart. I started working on this a few days ago with just the image in mind because it's a great image to just color. When it was time to put it together, I used the Bible Verse Thursday challenge at Christian Paper Crafts and Mercy Kerin's Lord Have Mercy sketch challenge. I think this turned out to be a very clean and simple card that is very masculine. Inside the card is Scott's favorite Bible verse of Philippians 4:13. Please keep my kids and me in your prayers. Thank you for stopping by and God bless.
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