Blessed. . .

Her children arise and call her blessed. Psalm 31:28

CHACB Challenge #5: Pick a Stamp! Any Stamp!

The current challenge at Craft Hoarders Anonymous is to use a stamp (at least one!) as the focal point of your project!

 You don't have to be a card maker to hoard stamps! With the popularity of pocket-style scrapbooking and the explosion of journaling stamps on the market, many scrapbookers have also become stamp hoarders. Plus, digital stamps are more popular than ever. I am sure that most of us have at least one stamp in our stash! You may "collect" wood mounted stamps, clear stamps, cling rubber, or even digital! Get one out, dust it off, and make it the STAR of your project! We want to see a stamp (sentiment, word art, image, etc.) as the focal point of your project! Feel free to use more than one stamp, but you must have AT LEAST ONE stamped item on your project.

 
One talented participant (selected from both April Challenges) will receive this fabby prize for their work donated by Hampton Art. Hampton Art, founded in 1980 in picturesque Long Island, NY, has been inspiring stampers, crafters and papercraft enthusiasts for over 20 years. They have a portfolio of brands including Hampton Art™, Studio G™, Diffusion, Ditto™ and Ki Memories®, acquired in 2012.

 The deadline for linking up is Sunday, April 20 at midnight PST.  

  Blessed. . .

Crafted for my mother's birthday. . .my mom is amazing and I am blessed! So thankful to be living close (within walking distance) after nearly 30 years of living many miles apart!

Stamps: Hampton Arts (front of card); Our Daily Bread Designs Mother's Day and Birthday Blessings (inside).

Designer Paper:  Graphic 45 Ladies' Diary 

Cardstock: Black, Ivory
Ink: Memento OnyxAccessories:  Studio G Glitter Glue; flowers and lace from Sabrina Jackson; floral pins; Cheery Lynn French Pastry Doily die, Spellbinders Lattice Border, Circle and Scallop Circle dies, Prima gem flourish, Prisma and Bic Markers; Tattered Angels glimmer mist.

Amber Milone

Christy Butters

Debbie Seyer

Ginny Nemchak

Jan Marie Ennenga

Kathy Clement 

Gloria Stengel

Donna Idlet

Glenda Brooks

Karen Zueger

Pam Bray

Tammi Bennett

Blessings! jme ~ SDG

 

Embedded Faithfulness

Faithfulness springs forth from the earth, so righteousness looks down from heaven.   Psalm 85:11

 Vintage card to remind us that the Lord is faithful from everlasting to everlasting! Crafted for the Christian Paper Crafts Fun on Friday Challenge FOF111 to use embedded embossing,  and the Our Daily Bread Designs Shining the Light Challenge #66 Anything Goes.

Details

Stamps: Our Daily Bread Designs Scripture Collection #6

Card Stock: Pink Pirouette, Early Espresso

Designer Paper: SU Parisian Summer

Ink: Pink Pirouette, Early Espresso, Ranger Distress Antique Linen

Accessories: Spellbinders Borderabilities Lattice, Shapeabilities Lattice Pendant, Scallop Circles, SU Pearls, handmade twill tape flower, paper rose colored with RD faded lipstick ink, crochet ribbon, Vintage Wallpaper Embossing Folder, Tattered Angels Shimmer Mist

Technique: Embedded Embossing

Challenges:

• Christian Paper Crafts
• Fun on Friday 111 Embedded Embossing
• Our Daily Bread Designs
• Shining the Light Challenge 66 Anything Goes
• Ruby's Rainbow 
• Challenge C#6 Flowers 
• Our Creative Corner
• Your Style   
• Stampin' For the Weekend
• Favorite Things  (Roses, lace, pink, antiques. . .most of all the Lord!)
• Sugar Creek Hollow Tic Tac Toe ( Embossing-Flowers-Die Cut) 

 Have a blessed day!

Howdy

Howdy! Stayed with the western theme to making a card for my brother. . . .

Crafted for the Christian Paper Crafts Sprinkled and Sparkling Fun on Friday Challenge 110 and for Wombat Soup WS02 Recipe Challenge to use heat embossing, repurposing, shapes. The stars are punched from a piece of cardboard that was once a box bottom, then a stamping base. Stars were punched, covered with ColorBox metallic silver craft ink, sprinkled with SU Glassy Glaze and heated for an aged metal effect.

DETAILS

Stamps: Michaels $1 Bin, Hampton Arts Celebrate Ribbons

Card Stock: SU Basic Black, SU Crumb Cake, SU Silver Metallic, SUVVanilla

Designer Paper: Wrapping Paper

Ink: VersaFine Onyx, Crumb Cake, Colorbox Silver

Accessories: SU Glassy Glaze, Twine, Star Punch, Spellbinders Nestabilities Classic Circles and Scallop Circles, Vanilla and Silver Smooch Spritz

Technique: Stamping, Die Cutting, Sponging

Challenges: 

Christian Paper Crafts Fun on Friday 110 and Wombat Soup WS02

He is Able

He is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them. Hebrews 7:25

It only makes sense to quote a passage from Hebrews as the introduction to this week’s Christian Paper Crafts Wednesday Case Artist Traci S. Traci was raised Jewish, taught in the Jewish schools and at one point even wanted to be a Rabbi. The Lord had other plans, however; and opened Traci’s eyes to the see the glory of His Son and that indeed; Jesus is the promised seed, the Messiah, the son of David, the Deliver, and the Chosen One. And now her hope of heaven and the life to come rests solely in Him.

Though raised in a home where art abounded and an avid scrap booker for some 20 years, Traci has only been stamping about a year. She loves the color purple as it reflects royalty and majesty:  she is a daughter of the King, after all! She also loves butterflies as they symbolize the new creature, freed from the bondage of sin and raised to newness of life. Traci has a blog and has just celebrated her one year blog-a-versary, the name of her blog also corresponds to the Scripture: He is Able.

Traci and her husband have a blended family with four children and four grand-children. As part of her heritage, her dogs have all had Jewish holidays as part of their names because that is when they were rescued and came home to live with Traci.

Traci struggles with severe migraines that impair her vision and she has physical limitations as a result of debilitating injuries, nonetheless, she is joyful, enthusiastic and continues to craft cards to encourage others, serving the Lord with the gifts and talents He has given.

Or, as Traci says, “I have found my JOY in the Lord!  And, it fills me more than anything else could! Hallelujah!”

Challenge Specifics

This is your invitation to join me in honoring Traci S.. and to be inspired by her lovely gallery. So take a look through the gallery of Traci S. and create a card or project inspired by what you see there. Be sure not to copy exactly: make it your own!  When uploading your card or project to the Christian Paper Crafts gallery, please use the keyword WCA108 (no spaces or commas).  When posting anywhere else online, please use the keyword CPC-WCA108. Have a blessed day!

DETAILS

Birds, flowers and joy were what stood out when I looked through the gallery of this week's Christian Paper Crafts Wednesday CASE Artist, Traci S. This card was crafted with birds, flowers and a digital image from Sweet 'n Sassy to convey the joy of the Lord!

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Stamps: Sweet 'n Sassy Sing Unto the Lord digital

Card Stock: Baja Breeze, Old Olive, White

Designer Paper: None

 Ink: Computer, Bashful Blue, Old Olive

Accessories: Prismacolor markers, Zva Creative Pearls, Tattered Angels Rose Glimmer Mist, Pink Seam Binding, MS Ribbon, Sizzix Flowers embossing folder, Spellbinders Scallop Rectangles

Technique: Digi Image, Coloring, Embossing

Special Notes: The card base is embossed and the image panel in Old Olive is debossed ( I flipped it over) to give added dimension

Challenges:

• Christian Paper Crafts WCA108 {6-15-11} Traci S. 
• Sweet 'N Sassy Stamps Digi SNSCD7 All About Summer 

God is Our Refuge

Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him. God is a refuge for us. Psalm 62:8

Christian Paper Crafts WCA107 {06-08-11} Maxine D

This scripture seemed so fitting for this week’s Christian Paper Crafts Wednesday CASE Artist Maxine D, she knows that God is her refuge and the only One who can hear and answer prayer. The love of Christ is apparent in the way she reaches out to her friends, neighbors and acquaintances that are enduring trials, and in the way she intercedes in prayer. In fact, Maxine D is a relentless prayer warrior, and does not hesitate to enlist the aid of her sisters in petitioning our heavenly Father that He might hear and answer according to His perfect will.

She lives in New Zealand, has been married nearly 40 years to her wonderful husband. She is a full-time homemaker and helpmeet. Her adult children are happily married and have blessed Maxine D with two beautiful grandbabies (and you can know with certainty that they have plenty of sweaters and even a new pair of dungarees, thanks to her ability to sew and knit.)

She loves card making, embroidery, lacemaking and gardening. She also loves using different techniques on her cards and the more intricate the better, like paper quilling and stitching. Maxine says, “I am first and foremost a child of God. My whole life and testimony can be summed up in three words: God is Faithful!”

CHALLENGE SPECIFICS
This is your invitation to join me in honoring Maxine D, and to be inspired by her lovely gallery. So take a look through the gallery of Maxine D and create a card or project inspired by what you see there. Be sure not to copy exactly: make it your own! When uploading your card or project to the Christian Paper Crafts gallery, please use the keyword WCA107 (no spaces or commas). When posting anywhere else online, please use the keyword CPC-WCA107. Have a blessed day!

WCA 107 Gallery (http://www.cpcmag.com/gallery/search.php?keywords=WCA107)

SAMPLE DESCRIPTION
I'm always cheered up after looking through the gallery of this week's Christian Paper Crafts Wednesday CASE Artist. . .it's so full of encouraging projects, lots of flowers and very detailed techniques. I didn't use any detailed technique. . .but made a bright and cheery card based on what I saw in Maxine's gallery.

Pour Out Your Heart Before Him
Pour Out Your Heart Before Him CU

DETAILS
Stamps: Sweet 'n Sassy God is Our Refuge, Stamp Cabana Music 12
Card Stock: Chocolate Chip, So Saffron, Naturals Ivory
Designer Paper: The Paper Company Color Connect Strip, SU Botanical Gazette
Ink: Chocolate Chip Craft, Ranger Distress Antique Linen
Accessories: MS Sunflowers, Spellbinders Nestabilities Scallop Ovals, Michael $1 Embellishments, Twine Technique: Stamping, Die Cutting
Challenges:

• Christian Paper Crafts Wednesday Case Artist 107 WCA107 CPC-WCA107
• Stampin Sisters in Christ Challenge #92 Use Something New (flowers, metallic embellishments, striped paper)