Peace...

Happy Sunday, and welcome to another challenge at Stampin' Sisters in Christ!

Our hostes this week, is Miesje. She has chosen John 14:27, as her scripture: "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give it to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled or afraid".

Miesje's challenge for the week, is to use a Christian symbol of peace, or to make a card or project that shows or shares peace.

Our sponsor this week is Designed 2 Delight Digital Stamps. One lucky challenge participant will receive a $10 gift certificate to shop at Designed 2 Delight!

For my card, I chose Heartfelt Wishes. This is just about the cutest snowfolk ever!

You can find it here!

Supplies: Snowman Image: Designed 2 Delight, Dove Image: There's Magic in the Air, Coloring Medium: Koh-I-Noor Pencils and LOMS, Polar White Flower Soft, Red and Green Stickles

In 1980, the love of my life, my DH received 1st, 2nd, and 3rd degree burns over

nearly 80% of his body when our house burned.

As you can imagine, this was a very intense situation for us all.

We were told to expect the worst - he would probably not survive, and should he live,

he would be horribly disfigured.

This week's verse is special to me, as it helped to carry me through the days of his healing. There were the skin graft operations, the emotional strain, and once we got him home, the daily wound debridment, all while I was several months pregnant. Many years later, this same verse continues to carry me through difficult times in my life - the two military deployments of DS, watching DD struggle through, and triumph over an abusive marriage, then move away to Asia for over a year, the loss of our parents and grandparents, etc. The glorious peace of the Lord, and the peace that this verse has given me over the years has kept me calm and sane for my family.

I wish for all of you peace in this new week!

Smiles and blessings,

Patti J.

Mr. Willy Melt and Ms. Betty Will...

Tee Hee.....

The card above was made using a set of free digi images from The Digi Kitty for the Digi Kitty Challenge. The images were individual images, but I decided to put them together.

The story is that Ms. Betty Will asked Mr. Willy Melt "does this suit make my butt look big"??? Well, you can only imagine why she is firing snowballs at him!!!

Lol...

That one was just for fun! Gotta smile, right???

Here is another one of Nina's fabulous images from There's Magic in The Air. This week our twist was that it had to be a monochromatic card! I used Crackle Accents on it to distress and age it, but it's hard to tell in the photo's....

Patti J.

Hmmmm.....Funny how opportunities always look bigger going than coming!

Don't forget to sign up HERE for blog candy! DH says it IS going home with SOMEONE on the 20th!!!

Another rainy day in Missouri...

Yup, it's raining again! I am seriously pricing lumber for our 'big boat'... however, I refuse to take two rodents...(sorry Nina!). We apparently have another critter that is smarter than the traps are - lol.

My card today was made for Lynn's challenge at Stamp TV for this week: "Let it Snow".

I just got some Polar White Flower Soft on Tuesday at O'Dear's, (thanks Deb!!!) and hadn't opened it yet (except to share with a friend), and was anxious to give it a try.

I used Theresa Momber's new set, "Very Merry Christmas", and the stamping and sponging was done with SU's Bashful Blue and Wild Wasabi Green. I think the only other ingredient in this recipe was the Sakura Starburst Glitter Pen for the snow 'flakes'.

It is certainly not my favorite piece of work, but my morning's been pretty hectic, and I only had 15-20 minutes to spare.

Well, hope that you are all looking forward to the weekend!

Take care -

Patti J.

Another real church blooper: This being Easter Sunday, we will ask Mrs. Jackson to come forward and lay an egg on the alter.

Fall is in the air...

Wow, what a great challenge this week over at Our Creative Corner. The challenge has a fall harvest theme, and is an art inspired challenge as well. Here are the inspiration pieces:

Aren't they beautiful? Please go check out the OCC blog, and read about these photo's, and perhaps play along! Their DT has posted some fabulous cards for you to see, as always! I know you won't be disappointed!


I didn't have any stamps that I could think of that depicted picking wildflowers...


However, I had a cute set by TAC that had a man picking veggies, and a cute wagon by Rupa, from Gina K. Designs that was full of apples.

So... I put some stems on the mans veggies, and made them apples!!! It's amazing what you can do with a sharp colored pencil and some stipple brushes!!! On glossy paper, I did some brayering and some masking for the background with the Kaliedacolor Autumn Ink Pad. I brought out the Heather Flower Soft for the field. The images are cut out and popped up with dots. I omitted a sentiment, as I wasn't sure what I was going to do with the card.


Hope you like it!

Here is today's card for 365 Cards...we were to use stars on our cards! And since this week is also glitter week, I blinged these babies up!!! Lol! Thank heaven for glittered cardstock, as it was 10:30 p.m., and I realized I had not even thought about this challenge yet!!! Cheesy but finished....relief!

By the way - here is TODAY'S view from the doorway at 6:30 this a.m.... God is good!!!

Patti J.
Time - the gift to give someone who has everything, or nothing...

Crop till you drop, and Lace!

Good morning!

I happened to get a couple of challenge cards done, and thought I'd take a minute to post them!

The challenge at 365 Cards for yesterday was so much fun, but also very difficult!

We were to create an "Inside Scene" on our cards! Well, I just couldn't think of a thing! I was at my friend (Super Angel) Shirley's yesterday, and remembered a set that she had gotten at seminar a couple of years ago. She let me borrow it, and voila!

If you can't read the sign, it says: "Free Make & Take Projects 1:00-5:00 p.m., Crop Till You Drop - 5:00 p.m. - Midnight, Sponsored by: 365 Cards.blogspot.com, Register here!!!"

I couldn't get the look of the walls the way I wanted, but that's okay! You can look at it yourself, and decide whether the border is baseboard, and the blue is the floor... or if the border is chair rail with two different wall colors!!! Lol...

Stamps: The Angel Company, Tombow Markers, Kooh-I-Noor Woodless Pencils, Computer Generated 'sign', Versamark Fine Black Ink, Stampin Up Wild Wasabi Ink.

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This card is for 365 Cards challenge today, which was to use lace on our cards. I think the photo

is self explanatory!

Stamp: Inkadinkado, DP: Heidi Grace, Ink: Colorbox Chalk Ink, Chestnut Roan, Flower Soft (Heather)

That's all I have for today! It is a beautiful day in Missouri. I am headed back to the hallway to hang some pictures! Hope you are all having a great Friday!

Patti J.

~A bumper sticker I saw yesterday: Honk if you love peace and quiet.

The Smartest Audience in the World....

Which, of course, is you! However, no one noticed that I was in such a hurry on my last card that the inside had a butterfly on the front, and a dragonfly on the inside flap!!! Lol....DD noticed it right off! I feel pretty silly! Oh, well.... gotta laugh - it is really funny!

Today's card is for a challenge over at Heart Hugs Designs. We were to go to Bacon Square Farm's site on Etsy, and pick out something to design a card after. I picked this:

I cut 9 strips of CS about 1/8" wide, distressed the edges, hoping they'd look like the pipes in the above photo. I think they look more like siding : -) Anyway, it was something I liked, and here is what I made...

Supplies: DCWV CS, Verve's Abundant Blessings Stamps, Colorbox Chalk Ink; Charcoal, Flower Soft; Spring, Marvy Scalloped Circle Punch. I colored the edges of the punched circle with a black Tombow marker, and adhered it over the cut out center with a pop up dot.

Hopefully, you have been blessed with a beautiful and relaxing weekend. Ours has been nice. DD has had to work all weekend, as did DH, but he and I did manage to go to the movies last night. We saw Angels and Demons. Funny.... we thought that the Angels and Demons book was better than the DaVinci Code book, but the DaVinci Code movie is better than the Angels and Demons movie!

Cardinal's lost....bah...

Peace out one and all!

Patti J.

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. ~Abraham Lincoln