Growing in Love

The verse this week (Hebrew 11:6) is very powerful! Faith - what in incredible word and what a challenge to us! I tried to explain the kind of faith that we must strive for to the 4th graders at school. I asked them how sure they were that they would be picked up from school, they all said that they were very certain. I told them that this is the faith in God that we all need to have. I know that we also need to have that faith in each other in our relationships. Jerry and I were involved with World Wide Marriage Encounter for many years. One of the statements that we spoke and lived is that "Love is a Decision", it is a decision that we have to remake all the time. I have complete faith in the fact that Jerry loves me - I also have complete faith in the fact that I NEVER walk alone, Jesus is always with me. WOW - what an awesome thing that is!

On this Memorial Day Sunday - I wish you all faith and love - totally! This card was rather a quick make this week. I was very busy at work and at home also. We have a houseful of company coming for our Memorial Day lake party. Lots of family and friends. Have a wonderful day and I will be back next week. This card was made with several different stamp sets, all from GinaKDesigns. There were: Organize It, Spring Florals, and Heartily Yours. The designer paper was from the Cosmo Cricket Earth Love paper pack and the green and gold were Pure Luxury from GinaK. God Bless!

Cherish Life

I love flowers and being outside. This past week or so I have had a cold and those headaches that often go with it. Right now hoping and praying that it does not become one of those dreaded sinus infections. Anyway, I realize that I often do not appreciate or cherish the simple pleasures of feeling good, having energy, and being among God's wonderful world of flowers which was the challenge on SCC this week and also for a StampTV challenge of course! This was a sketch challenge and it did not flow the way that some cards do. It required a lot of playing with and laying out and trying different embellishments. Regardless this is the finished product. I used the Spring Florals and Spring has Sprung stamp sets from Gina K Designs. The card stock was also from her - called Ocean Mist and Lemon Drop. The DP came with the Spring Mix StampTV kit. Love it all! Thanks for stopping by. God Bless!

Birthday Gateway Card

I really struggled with this challenge for StampTV. The challenge was to make a gateway card. I found the DP from SU and really wanted to use it. I wasn't sure if I wanted to use the adorable birdbath from Sending Spring or the daisies from Spring Florals for the focal image. I went with the daisies and colored them in a non-typical daisy colors. The birdbath still wanted to be a part of the card so it ended up on the inside along with the birthday message. See the inset for the inside of the card. Thanks for stopping by.

Lotsa Green

It does seem like I have done several monochromatic cards lately and there is another one in process on my work table. This one was all greens for a Challenge on StampTV - and the layout is for CPS. I found the border punch at Target this weekend - it is always fun to use something new. The green is Wild Wasabi from SU and the stamp is GinaK's Spring Florals. I used a cuttlebug folder too. It was not a difficult card to make, in fact I did this one pretty quick (for me). I often agonize over a card for quite a while. This one just came together very quickly. The one on the table is taking a little longer. I hope to post that one tomorrow night. Anyway - here it is.

Easter Blessings

My goodness this card was a long time in the making. It started out as a purple challenge last week, didn't like it so put it aside. Then I had a different Lovely Label stamp all inked and colored - - didn't like it and put it aside. Then tonight I looked at the challenge on StampTV and it was to use diamonds. Eureka! Out came my cuttlebug for the diamond background - found the Lovely Label that had teeny diamonds in it and tilted it so that it was also a diamond. Then I remembered the JUGS challenge for this week and it all came together. I stamped the flower image from GinaK Spring Florals and cut it out very carefully. I also colored the flowers and the teeny, tiny diamonds with Copics. Whew! Now I am exhausted!

Daisy Birthday

Well, I got one card made for the Gina K challenge and the opportunity to be a guest designer. It is not the best card I ever made but I will enter it anyway. I had a super busy weekend and just did not have the time to put into it. I used 2 of the wonderful summer colors and the Spring Florals stamp set along with the sentiment from Inside Out. I did check out the other entries and WOW Gina - you have a tough choice ahead of you. Lots of great cards! 

 

Spring Crocus

I got my box of goodies from GinaK and inked up the first stamp "Spring Florals" and used the wonderful new spring colored Pure Luxury Card Stock. And the Spring ribbon.  I also used the Spring Digital Paper that Nina designed. I suppose you could say that this is a totally spring card! Living in Florida does mean that we get Spring sooner - in fact today has been lovely - even went for a little spin in the boat. The bling is from Micheal's and I loved how well it matched. I did not use any words on this one - will see what I want to use it for first. This is for the Monday StampTV challenge and the CPS154 challenge.