Bless His Holy Name!

Christian Paper Crafts Wednesday Case Artist WCA106 {6-1-11} Mom3

Bless the Lord, O my soul and all that is within me. Bless His holy name. Psalm 103:1

If you’re looking for this week’s Christian Paper Crafts Wednesday Case Artist, you’re going to need to get up early. . .many mornings you’ll find her in her favorite chair, with a cup of coffee and her Bible as she basks in the glow of the rising sun (and the Risen Son!). When she’s not there, it’s because she’s headed off for an early shift ministering as a nurse to those incarcerated at the county jail.

Our Wednesday CASE Artist, Mom3, is talented and resourceful, loves to re-purpose and to use innovative items in her projects. She is also very fond of textures and textiles. . .which is fitting for someone who has a loom in one room of her home. Not only is Robyn, as we all know her, a member of the Christian Paper Crafts Design Team, she is co-hostess of the Fun on Friday Challenge and hostess of the Scrap Your Heritage Scrapbook Challenge.

She also loves the textures of life. Robyn is an encourager and a nurturer and a true blessing from the Lord. Her gifts of mercy and encouragement shine brightly from frequent use. She says that her favorite areas of nursing “are the beginning and ending, while caring for people.” She and her devoted husband have grown children and grandchildren, and a newly-turned teenager, who is home-schooled--more easily some days than others, or so says his mom and teacher.

Robyn says, "I have no list of accomplishments in the paper crafting world, but am blessed beyond words to be able to participate here for this season in my life. God reveals some profound thoughts to me through Bible study and searching for just the right challenge. So with His wisdom in mind, I pray over each challenge offered for our membership at Christian Paper Crafts.”

CHALLENGE SPECIFICS
You can join us in honoring our dear sister by taking a look through the gallery of Mom3 and crafting 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 WCA106 (no spaces or commas and no commas between keywords, either!). When posting anywhere else online, please use the keyword CPC-WCA106. Have a blessed day!

SAMPLE DESCRIPTION
Our Wednesday CASE Artist is talented and resourceful, loves to re-purpose and to use innovative items in her projects. When I saw what she did recently, I knew what I was going to CASE! The base of this card is a paper bag and it's designed to be a gift card holder and mini-photo album.

It's very easy. Take a lunch size paper bag, fold in half. The bag bottom will be the inside cover. and can be converted to a gift card holder. 

DETAILS

Stamps: Our Daily Bread Designs Scripture Collection 7, Fancy Labels SU Nature Walk and Four Frames

Card Stock: Brocade Blue

Designer Paper: SU Botanical Gazette

Ink: Ranger Distress Faded Denim, Frayed Burlap, Tea Stain, Antique Linen, SU Bashful Blue and Chocolate Chip

Accessories: Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels 17 #3, paper rose, Tattered Angels Shimmer Spray, lace, buttons, pearls, rolodex punch, shimmer paint, paper lunch bag, corrugated piece

Technique: Repurposing, Altered Art
Challenges: 

• CPC-WCA106 Mom3
• Our Daily Bread Designs Stampin' in Time SNTODBD 37 

Bless the Lord!

Bless the Lord, O my soul and all that is within me. Bless His holy name, Psalm 103:1

Crafted for the Fun on Friday Challenge to use butterflies and flowers and the Our Daily Bread Designs Stampin' in Time Challenge 35 "Frame it out in texture!" Aren't the tiny butterfly clothespins darling? If you really want to see them up close, just click on the photo!

Details

Stamps: Our Daily Bread Designs Scripture Collection 7

Card Stock: Bazill, SU Crumb Cake, Re-purposed bronze, Naturals Ivory

Designer Paper: None

Ink: Crumb Cake, VersaMark

Accessories: Bronze Embossing Powder, Michaels mini-clothespins, Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels 20 #3 and #4, SU Vintage Wallpaper Embossing Folder, Sizzix Dots EF, Flower, brad, piercing tool

Technique: Embossing, Piercing, Sponging

Challenges

•  Christian Paper Crafts Fun on Friday Challenge Butterflies and Flowers CPC-FOF107
• Our Daily Bread Designs Stampin' in Time Challenge 35: Frame It Out in Texture SNTODBD35 

Blessings!

Perfect Peace

“You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You.” Isaiah 26:3

Grab a tall glass of sweet tea, pull up a chair on the porch and sit and stay a while. We're going to visit with this week’s Christian Paper Crafts Wednesday CASE Artist, our charming and Simply Southern Stampersandee, and check out her simply lovely gallery, as well!

Sandee’s gallery is one of the hidden treasures at CPC. . .take a look and you’ll see just what I mean. It’s full of the most exquisite, rich and elegant designs that just warm your heart.  You may have seen some of her works at Our Daily Bread Designs, since she’s one of the “breadsticks”, as their design team members are known.

Sandee is a native and lifelong resident of Georgia, where she and her husband (who is “THE most wonderful man,” according to Sandee) raised two children, and now have been blessed with grandchildren which they greatly enjoy. She’s worked at the same place for 30 years, almost as long as she’s been married.

Sandee says, “ I have always enjoyed crafts.  Cross-stitching was my favorite until the mid-90’s when I discovered scrap booking.  Then in 1998, I was invited to a Stampin’Up! Party and I have been obsessed ever since! “

CHALLENGE SPECIFICS
Take a look through the gallery of Stampersandee 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 WCA105 (no spaces or commas and no commas between keywords, either!).  When posting anywhere else online, please use the keyword CPC-WCA105. Have a blessed day!

StamperSandee’s gallery is so stunning and her cards are exquisitely crafted. I attempted to incorporate a few of the elements and techniques Sandee has recently used, including embedded embossing.

DETAILS
Stamps: Our Daily Bread Designs Scripture Collection 7
Card Stock: Sahara Sand, Buckaroo Blue
Designer Paper: SU Paisley Petals
Ink: Sahara Sand, VersaMark
Accessories:  Embossing Powder, Zva Creative Gems, SU Beautiful Wings Embosslit, EK Flourish Border Punch, Seam Binding
Technique:  Embedded Embossing
Challenges: Christian Paper Crafts Wednesday Case Artist CPC-WCA105
Christian Paper Crafts Color Monday 109 CPC-CM109

Secured by God's Promises

May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else, just as our does for you.” 1 Thessalonians 3:12

Christian Paper Crafts Wednesday Case Artist {05-18-11} Gloriadee 

It’s time to turn on the lights, open up the curtain and see who is at center stage for this week’s Christian Paper Crafts Wednesday CASE Artist Challenge!  Why it’s our very own Gloriadee, sketch artist extraordinaire and much, much more. . .did I say, much, much more? Correction: make that much, much, MUCH more!

Gloria Stengel is one busy lady, but does her work as unto the Lord, as you’ll see when you look through her outstanding gallery. Although she’s on the design team for a two major manufacturers, Spellbinders Paper Arts, Graphic 45 Paper and designs samples for Hampton Art, she still serves on the design team at Christian Paper Crafts. She is our Spellbinders specialist, and since December of 2009 has designed the Tuesday Sketch Challenge which she also hosted up until this month. She also teaches classes and prepares samples for a couple of paper crafting supply stores in the general area of her southern California home.

And, if that doesn’t have you exhausted. . .Gloria homeschools two of her three children. The third has graduated and is attending college fulltime. She and her husband have been married for 23 years. And, she keeps us laughing over at Christian Paper Crafts with her very wry sense of humor.

As for Gloria’s style, she says, “I seem to be the queen of mixing product lines and mediums into my projects, and I guess my style is quite eclectic, as I love everything from collage art to simple, graphic page layouts. I used to fuss that I did not have a ‘signature style’ but I now realize that I’d be bored with doing the same type of work day in and day out. I enjoy the creative process, the discovery, and the ‘happy accidents’ that sometimes arise during crafting time.”

And when it comes to her motivation, Gloria says, “Well, I'll never get rich, and may not even break even! I may not become famous, but do I want to be? Not really. I will touch a lot of ordinary folks, I will share my faith, I will befriend the friendless, I will bring some joy and happiness to folks who need it. So, it's worth it. Plus, I get to PLAY with my TOYS every single day!"

So, as Gloria ministers in the places where the Lord has directed her steps, our prayer is that the Lord would make her love increase and overflow and that the light of Christ would continue to shine brightly through all she does!

CHALLENGE SPECIFICS
Your challenge, if you choose to accept, is to take a look through Gloriadee’s amazing gallery 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 WCA104 (no spaces or commas). When posting anywhere else online, please use the keyword CPC-WCA104. Have a blessed day!

MY SAMPLE
Eccentric was the word that stood out to me as Gloria described her style, so that’s the direction I went using one of her fab sketches, along with Graphic Arts and Spellbinders products (she's hit the big time, don't you know!). I also used a technique I learned while viewing videos on the Spellbinders site to combine the background papers before die cutting and embossing (thanks for the tip about those great videos, Gloria!)

And with all of the scurrying here and there, I thought a couple of safety pins might come in handy to help hold things together (yeah, they are rather small, aren't they?) That's okay because Gloria is trusting in the Lord and His promises are far more secure than any device of man (or woman!)

Card Inside

SUPPLY LIST

Stamps: Our Daily Bread Designs Scripture Collection 6

Card Stock: Very Vanilla, Basic Black

Designer Paper: Graphic Arts Domestic Goddess, Botanicals Collection Eden's Symphony

Ink: VersaFine Onyx, Ranger Distress Antique Linen, Aged Photo

Accessories: SU Vintage Trinkets, Bias Tape, Zva Creative Pearls, Spellbinders Labels 17 Nestabilities, piece of corrugated box, Fiskars pinking blade

Technique: Stamping, Sponging, Die Cutting

Friendship is Brewing

“My help comes from the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth.  He will not let your foot slip--he who watches over you will not slumber; indeed, he who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep." Psalm 121: 2-4

Thankfully, the Lord is ever vigilant and needs nothing, including things like tea and coffee which help to perk up our mornings. Still, it is a sweet blessing it is to sit down with a friend and enjoy a cup of warm tea. . .

DETAILS

The teacup has a slit at the top for the teabag, and the teabag can be removed without harming the card. The flower was made using an EK punch, sponged with Rose Red, crumpled and sprayed with Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist.

Stamps: Sweet and Sassy New Creature, Our Daily Bread Designs SC6, Unknown

Card Stock: Buckaroo Blue, Very Vanilla, Bazzill Moss

Designer Paper: SU Springtime Vintage Ink: Navy, VersaMark, Rose Red

Accessories: Grandmas' Buttons, Spellbinders Nestabilities, Lace, Embossing Powder, EK medallion punch, brad, linen thread, teabag, foam dots, Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist, SU Tulip Frame Embossing Folder, Prismacolor markers

Technique: Stamping, Diecutting, Coloring
Challenges: Stampin Sisters in Christ #89

For Loretta

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. Hebrews 11:1 

 
In all her interactions at Christian Paper Crafts, this week’s Wednesday CASE artist demonstrates a gentle, peaceful spirit and a heart filled with love for the Lord, anchored firmly by faith in the solid rock: our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. From her love of ballet to the soothing colors in her paper crafting works of art, the evidence of the grace in her life abounds. Take a look through the gallery of Lorettagrace and you will see just what I mean.

Loreta Grace O’Neill also has a playful streak! She says her kids start laughing when she digs out her old LPs and does her dusting to a 1980’s dance beat! Though a relative newcomer to the world of blogs, boards, forums and galleries, she’s made her way around quite well to the delight and surprise of her tech savvy offspring!

Loretta has “one son, one daughter, one husband and one Savior.” She says, “When I am not gluing bits of paper together, I enjoy cross-stitch, rose gardening and taking care of my home and family. I also like ballet.” Her parents and their families are Polish and were taken as Prisoners of War (POWs) in Europe during World War II. Loretta grew up in the United States hearing them reminisce about the homes they would never again see. She is thankful to the Lord for His mercies in bringing them all to the United States.

CHALLENGE SPECIFICS
Join with us in celebrating the Lord's gift of Lorettagrace to Christian Paper Crafts. Take a look through the her gallery 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 WCA103 (no spaces or commas). When posting anywhere else online, please use the keyword CPC-WCA103. Have a blessed day!

SAMPLE DESCRIPTION
Created for the Wednesday, May 11 Christian Paper Crafts Case Artist Challenge featuring Lorettagrace. I just loved Loretta's soft, soothing style so wanted to be sure and capture that in the colors and feel of the card I crafted. Thought not as bright, it uses the same basic colors Jennipher selected for this week's CPC Color Monday Challenge 107 and is based on Gloria's CPC Sketch Tuesday 103 layout.
Stamps: Our Daily Bread Designs Scripture Collection 7
Card Stock: Buckaroo Blue, Whisper White
Designer Paper: SU Bella Birds
Ink: Buckaroo Blue, Color Spot Dusty Blue
Accessories: Embossing Powder, Sizzlit Scallop Oval Die, Spellbinders Nestability and Borderabilities, Paper Rose, Ribon, Smooch Spray, Memory Mates embelishment, SU Tulip Frames EF
Technique: Stamping, Embossing, Die Cutting, Sponging
Other Challenges: Stampin' Sisters in Christ Challenge #88

Create in me a clean heart. . .

Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Psalm 51:10 We can work on improving our external appearance and even our behavior, but the Lord sees our hearts. Only He can change our hearts of stone into hearts of flesh. . only He can create in us a clean heart. Created for several challenges Christian Paper Crafts CPC FOF102 Layers Color Monday 106 Bible Verse Thursday 104 Our Daily Bread Designs Shining the Light Challenge 58 Sketch This is a 6x6 card and the four larger flowers are handmade. Stamps: Our Daily Bread Designs Scripture Collection 5

Card Stock: Chocolate Chip, Whisper White, Cool Caribbean

Designer Paper: Prima Madeline

Ink: Color Box, Versa Fine Sepia, Crumb Cake

Accessories: Zva Creative Pearls, Spellbinders Nestabilites, Medallion Punch, Brads, tulle, linen thread, lace, paper roses, SU Beautiful Wings Embosslit, Polka Dot, Damask and Checkered Texturz plates, piercing, vanilla smooch spritz, clear embossing powder

Technique: Stamping, embossing, punching