Christmas Lights: Micah 5:2

Happy Sunday - a busy one for most of you I am sure. It certainly has been a busy week for me and a lot still left to do. If it is Sunday it must be time for the weekly challenge at Stampin' Sisters in Christ.

Today Peggysue is the challenge hostess and the scripture she chose is from the book of Micah 5:2.

"But you, Bethlehem-Ephrathah, though you are little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of you shall come forth to Me the One to be Ruler in Israel, whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting."

Is it not amazing that long before Jesus was born his coming was foretold? There is quite a lesson in that for us. As I said in the beginning of this post, we are all very busy right now. Let us not forget that the shopping and wrapping and cooking and all other holiday related activities are not as important as remembering every second of these days that the reason for all of it is the birth of our Lord! The advent wreath is a constant reminder to prepare ourselves for Him!

The challenge this week is to create a card or project using inchies. I have never used inchies before so it was a challenge for me! I do like how it turned out though.

Be sure to stop by my SSIC design sisters to see what they have to share this week:

Chris Olsen: Twinkles Glow With Stamps

Grace Nywening: Th-INK-ing of You

Linda Lucas: Lovely Linda's Craft Central

Lisa Hjulberg: The Craft's Meow (On break)
Patti J Gilliam: Cherish Each Precious Day

Peggysue Turner: Roses By My Window

Rebekka Reed: Diamond in the Rough
Randi Barret: A New Creation (On break)

Thanks for the visit.

Recipe:

Stamps: Our Daily Bread Designs - I Wait for the Lord

Paper: GKD Pure Luxury Cranberry Tart and SU Gold
Designer Paper: Basic Grey - Jovial

Other: Spellbinder's Dies - Copic Markers and ribbon.

Other Challenges:

Trim the Tree: Ephesians 4:29

Right off the bat let me say that I goofed. I was supposed to make a card of encouragement - so let me see how I can make this work. Okay, ready? That cute little girl (an image from our sponsor this week, Simon Says Stamps) is wanting to trim the Christmas tree but there is no tree. (do I hear an ahhh) So she is holding the ornament waiting for encouragement. How am I doing? So our cute little girl is given permission to decorate the halls since there is no tree. So did I save face on this one? Yes, you are in the right place, the Sunday challenge at Stampin' Sisters in Christ.

Today Patti is the challenge hostess and the scripture she chose is from the book of Ephesians 4:29.

Let everything you say be good and helpful, so that your words will be an encouragement to those who hear them.

Everything that I say should be nice and good. Not easy to do for most of us. But so very important especially this time of year. The kids are trying to be on their best behavior (Santa is coming) the parents are a little more stressed than usual and even those of us who are not raising children yet or anymore are a little more on edge. We make our lives busier with social engagements and shopping and a list of things that have to be done. Now is when we should be trying to be good and helpful - I tell the younger students at school "Use your nice words". Maybe we need that reminder too.

So the challenge this week is to create a card or project that will compliment, encourage, or cheer someone in need of uplifting. Like the little girl who needs a tree to decorate. :-)

Be sure to stop by my SSIC design sisters to see what they have to share this week:

Chris Olsen: Twinkles Glow With Stamps

Grace Nywening: Th-INK-ing of You

Linda Lucas: Lovely Linda's Craft Central

Lisa Hjulberg: The Craft's Meow
Patti J Gilliam: Cherish Each Precious Day

Peggysue Turner: Roses By My Window

Rebekka Reed: Diamond in the Rough
Randi Barret: A New Creation (On break)

Thanks for the visit.

Recipe:

Stamps:Simon Says Stamps -  Trim the Tree 

Paper: SU - Blue Bayou
Designer Paper: Graphic 45

Other: flowers that I colored with a marker, a couple of buttons and gold thread

Other Challenges:
Simon Says Stamps - Christmas card with no red or green
Card Patterns - sketch
Sassy Studio Designs - non traditional Christmas Colors
A Spoon Full of Sugar - Christmas Card
Papertake Weekly - Christmas with no red or green

CSS Sketch Blog Hop

It is time for another Stamp TV CSS Blog Hop. This is a very busy time of the year for all of us and while I was trying to come of with the card for tonight's blog hop I thought of peace and quiet and serenity - none of which are a part of my life right now!  This time the blog hop is a sketch challenge, my favorite challenges! Here was the sketch:

And this is the card I made.

You should have arrived from Melissa Schultz blog and since she is so incredibly creative I am sure that you were wowed!  If you want to start at the beginning  or get lost along the way, just head on over to the home page of StampTV or directly over to the start of the blog hop here.

I really wanted a wintry card for this so I knew I would go with blues. The patterned paper came in the StampTV kit Winter Wonderland, the two trees that I stamped did also. I love the deer that is looking rather startled, he is from Theresa Momber's  set called Life is Good. I really like mixing stamp sets and these worked well together. I stamped the images on Gina K's Pure Luxury In the Navy card stock with Versamark and then embossed with Embossing Tinsel. In real life the embossing sparkles really well. I tore some white CS to make the snow and used a Versamark pen to make snow (or stars).  I used two oval shaped Nestabilities for the focal image and chose not to use a sentiment. The snowflakes were in my "winter stash" box and the bow was made with Bow Easy. I placed a few gems to add more sparkle.


Now hop on over to visit Peggy Wainman for what I am sure will be another amazing card.Thanks for hopping along with us and for the kind comments you leave. Happy Holidays to all of you.

 

I  also am entering this card in the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamps: Christmas card with no red or green

Catch the Bug: Winter Scene

Birthday Girl

A quick post tonight. I know that I have not been updating regularly. Work has been busy so my time is a little more limited. I made this card for a granddaughter who has a birthday coming up in a few weeks. I just love this stamp set by Melanie "A year of borders". This was a simple card to color, in fact I had fun with this card. After I used the Impressibility I used a distress ink lightly over the pink.




Card Recipe:
Stamps: A year of borders sold by GinaK
Paper: Pure Luxury Chocolate Brown, Innocent Pink, and Ivory
Other: A Spellbinder Impressibility and the row is also from Spellbinders as is the tag, a bow made with bow easy.

Challenges:
Flutterby Wednesday: Anything Goes
StampTV: Color Challenge - brown - pink - ivory
CES Challenge: No Christmas card

Christmas Blessings: Isaiah 1:18

My goodness what a busy week! I think that these few weeks out of the year are quite busy for many of us. Holiday get-togethers, shopping, cooking, making Christmas cards AND sending them. It is time once again for another challenge from Stampin' Sisters in Christ.

Today Rebekka is the challenge hostess and the scripture she chose is Isaiah 1:18.

Come now, let let us set things right, says the Lord: though your sins be like scarlet, they may become white as snow; though they be crimson red, they may become white as wool".

"Come now, let us set things right" - I love that! God forgives - no matter what we do, or fail to do, it can be set right - through the healing love of our Father. I am happy today - well, truth be told I am usually happy. But I have lived in darkness, a darkness of my own doing. When I thought that I had made too many mistakes to ever be forgiven of all of them and that I really did  not deserve to be happy. That was then and this is now. I am happy! And I have my relationship with God to thank for that and my acceptance of the fact that I have been forgiven and I have been washed white as snow and I have every right to be happy. I was able to set things right - with His help.

Be sure to stop by my SSIC design sisters to see what they have to share this week:

Chris Olsen: Twinkles Glow With Stamps

Grace Nywening: Th-INK-ing of You

Linda Lucas: Lovely Linda's Craft Central

Lisa Hjulberg: The Craft's Meow
Patti J Gilliam: Cherish Each Precious Day

Peggysue Turner: Roses By My Window

Rebekka Reed: Diamond in the Rough
Randi Barret: A New Creation (On break)

Thanks for the visit.

Recipe:

Stamps: Ornaments and Snowflake Background by ODBD

Paper: GinaK Pure Luxury white and SU Real red

Other: Ornaments and tag Nestability - some red ribbon and a red brad

Other Challenges: