SWEET STOP SKETCH #9 SKETCH WITH A SPIN

Hello! Today is the Sweet Stop Sketch - and since it is the third Saturday it is a SKETCH with a SPIN. I missed the SPIN. How did I do that? The Sketch with a Spin: use this sketch AND the colors red, white and blue. I obviously missed this!

The Sweet Stop Sketch is found HERE.

I will pop back in awhile with more details, but have had a busy week and day planned! Have a great day and thank you for stopping by!

BLOG HOP AND WET STENCIL

Join us for the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps May Blog Hop where we'll be sharing more fun creations with some "oldies but goodies" stamp sets.

(This is tomorrow!)
Wednesday, May 27th: SNSSBlog, Jeanette, Sarah, Chris, Cindy, Ceal

Thursday, May 28th: Lorie, Faith, Courtney, Deb, Deedee, Korin

Friday, May 29th: Teresa, Janette, Suzy, Sandy, SNSSBlog

I want to apologize for not being here more lately. I am working through some side effects of some medication and it has slowed me down quite a bit. I hope to be back into my regular routine soon!!!

This card was made using the Technique Wet Stencil found in the April/May issue of Technique Junkies.

Here is the list of supplies: Stamp Sets: His Eye Is on the Sparrow from Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps
Cardstock: Basic Black, Night of Navy, Whisper White
Accessories: Water Color Crayons, Aquapainter, Plastic Stencil, Paper Piercing Tool, Mat Pack, Dew Drops, Martha Stewart Branch punch,

Come back tomorrow for the Blog Hop and to see what else is brewing!!!
Have a blessed day!

THINKING OF YOU- MONDAY SNSS CHALLENGE #20

Hello! I hope you had a wonderful weekend. I had cards to post, but ended up taking the weekend off from blogging to play some games and do some activities with my children and family. We had a great weekend together.

This week's challenge is to make a THINKING OF YOU card. While the sentiment on this card, isn't exactly THINKING OF YOU - the sentiment would be encouraging.

Here are the details:

Stamp Set: His Eye is On the Sparrow by Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps

Cardstock: Regal Rose, Ballet Blue, Basic Black, Whisper White

Accessories: Primas, Ribbon, Dew Drops, Mini Glue Dots

We would LOVE to have you participate in the challenge. Create a THINKING OF YOU card and link up to Challenge #20 on the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Blog.

Be sure to check out the other Design Team projects!

Jeanette Olen

Courtney Fowler

Sandy Domelle

Korin Sutherland

Thank you for stopping by! Have a blessed day!

BLOGGERS CHALLENGE #92 & BELLI CHALLENGE

Good Day! I finally have it up! This week's Belli Challenge was to create a BOOK MARK using something you have not used in a LONG time. I purchased these Rub Ons well over a year ago because they were SOOOOO pretty and I HAD to HAVE them. So I grabbed those - it helped being gone on my Scrapbook Retreat to have my extra stash out before me. If you have not gone to the Belli Challenge Blog be sure to head on over there! http://www.bellichallenge.blogspot.com/

This week's Bloggers Challenge is to use the Texture Plates or Die Cuts. I used the Nestibilities as my "die cuts" and for the sketch I used the Sketch Challenge at Splitcoast Stampers #221. I used my stamp set - His Eye Is On The Sparrow and colored it with my Copics.


Since my mom is sitting next to me this weekend, I made her participate in the Sketch Challenge and the Bloggers Challenge too! :) Here is her SUPER CUTE card!
Be sure to check out the other Blogger Challenge participants projects. You will enjoy looking at them and surely be inspired!

Each morning, while here I have been reading a devotional to my table. I thought I would share what we read today... This was taken from the Proverbs 31 Ministries -I have these devotionals mailed to my mailbox each day.

Under My Skin
27 Mar 2009 Lynn Cowell"
…and provide for those who grieve in Zion- to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of depair..." Isaiah 61:3a (NIV)

It wouldn't stop burning. Like a sunburn after hours at the beach, the heat on my hands stayed for hours. As a blessing to my family, I had made Aunt Carol's jalapeno peppers. With the sharp knife and chopping block, I transformed eighteen forest-green peppers into little boats of tasty fun. What I hadn't counted on was that ten minutes of exposure to the pepper's oil to my dry, cracked winter skin produced a burning that lasted for hours.

As I looked at my red, cracked hands, I was reminded of another part of me that looked dry and under-nourished not so long ago. In the heat of the summer months, my heart was in bad shape. It felt like a stone. When I would go to church, I sang the songs, but my heart was not truly singing praise to my Love, Jesus. I assumed it was the church. Surely, something had changed. We needed new music; something fresh.

Soon after something did change, and it was me. I re-discovered the oil of gladness and oil of joy by personally coming into the Lord's presence daily. Although I had never stopped reading my Bible and praying, I hadn't been taking the extra time and effort to come into His presence.

With the help of a prayer journal, I started beginning my time with the Lord each day by exposing myself to Him in praise. In her journal, Intimacy with God; Your Daily Guide to Prayer, Tara Furman suggests several ways to come before Him: repeating His attributes, calling out His names, and singing hymns or worship songs. My favorite is read ing out loud the Psalms. Just yesterday the repairman heard Psalm 103 coming loudly from my lips as he banged away on my wood floor.

Opening the day with praises to my King has transformed my heart. Now, when I go to church, I no longer wait to enter into His presence; my heart is already there. I have found that my outlook through the day is different. Like the oil from the peppers, the burning effect of His presence is felt in my heart many hours after the exposure.

Dear Lord, as it says in Psalm 100:4, help me to enter into Your gates with thanksgiving and into Your courts with praise. Help me to give thanks to You and praise Your name. You are good and You deserve my heartfelt worship each day. I love you! In Jesus' Name, Amen.

Hope you have a great day! I am still in Iowa until Sunday but will have more posts.

A True Friend - Background Smoosh Resist

Hello! I hope this finds you well! I have spent the past few days between resting and stamping. I am a Guest Designer for Technique Junkies in April (I am SO excited) and the past 3 weeks have flown by - mostly because of illness in our household and very little stamping...My deadline to submit my work was TONIGHT and I was able to complete my assignments PLUS create this card. YEAH ME! :)

I had such a GREAT time stamping today and actually felt like my MOJO was coming back! Ohhh...what a feeling! Now you aren't going to be able to see my projects that I created for Technique Junkies for a few weeks...

This is a technique from Techniue Junkies February publication - I had SO much fun with this one! It is called Background Smoosh Technique... if you do not subscribe to Technique Junkies it is a fabulous newsletter with pictures - step by step! Perfect for those who need those visuals and step by step directions! (ME!)

I just heard of this FABULOUS (new to me!) Challenge group through Korin. Korin, from Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps is sponsoring this sketch this week, so if you participate you have a chance to win a FREE DIGI-STAMP!!!! Here is the link to Card Patterns Blog.

Here is a list of materials I used to make this card...

Stamp Sets: His Eye is On the Sparrow and A True Friend by Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps

Cardstock: Glossy Cardstock, Tempting Turquoise, Basic Black, Whisper White

Ink: Tempting Turquoise, Apricot Appeal, Basic Black, Versamark, Copics,

Accessories: Heat Tool, Nestabilities, Dimensionals, Dew Drops, Mini Glue Dots, Black grosgrain

I hope you have a fabulous day! Come back Monday morning for this week's Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Monday Challenge!