Blog Award

I have just been honored by receiving this fantastic award.  Thank you Edith.  I feel so undeserving.  I do love the Lord with all my heart and I do try to honor Him in my life and in my crafts.  

The Exalting Christ blog award is given to bloggers who consistently exalt the name of Christ on their blogs. What a joy to see crafters blend their passion for Christ and papercrafting. This award is given to bloggers who share Christ through their posts or through the design of their artwork. We are commanded in Scripture to be "salt and light" sharing the Good News of Jesus no matter where we are (Matthew 5:13-16). This award is just a way members of Women to Women: Sharing Jesus can say thanks for exalting Christ with us!

Rules:

1. Post the blog award in a regular post on your blog with the explanation, including the original link to WTW and the rules for passing the award along
2. Name five people (more or less is fine!) to whom you want to offer this award and link to their blogs. The blogs need to obviously exalt Christ in some manner.
3. Contact the bloggers you have named to let them know they can pick up their blog award from you.
4. Invite them to permanently display the WTW blog badge and/or the award on their blogs. The badge can be obtained on the WTW site.

I"ll have to come back and add my list of people that I will pass this on to.

Bridal Shower with PTI

Welcome Back!

Mrs. Bookstore wanted some Bridal Shower cards since there is a shower in the month of May for one of the ladies in the church.  Looks like PaperTrey came out with the Scattered Showers set just in time!  Here are 3 of the cards and the 4th one is down in the Papertrey Princesses challenge post.  

They all use Scattered Showers for both the image and the saying.  I really like how they all look so different with using basically the same stamps.

The first card is made with Aqua Mist and Lemon Tart cardstock.  The second one uses Pure Poppy and PTI White.  The third one uses Vintage Cream, Aqua Mist and Ocean Tides.   I saw the idea for the cut off Nestability die cut on Dawn's Blog

She sure does GREAT work!!!

Well, I hope the cards sell and that the bride likes them!

April PTI Blog Hop

 Welcome to another Papertrey Ink Blog Hop.  This month we needed to use one of Lauren Meader's templates.  I LOVE these templates!

This project uses the Recipe Wrap-Up.  I used it to help organize all of my gift cards.  Our school started using a program that when we buy gift cards part of the money goes back to the school.  I hav

e lots of gift cards to organize and keep track of the balances.  

PaperTrey Princesses Challenge #1

Welcome, Papertrey Princesses, to your first challenge.  For this challenge I would like for you to use paper piecing to show off some of those great outline images.  

I flunked coloring, so until I master the art of using copics, I like to use this technique to add a splash of color to my cards.  

The first card uses the new Tea for Two tea pot.  I also used the small tea cup from the new anniversary set and the verse from Warm Happiness.  The tea pot is paper pieced using the Polka Dot Parade patterned paper.

Card two uses the Scattered Showers outline umbrella along with the Pink Patterns patterned paper.  

For the third card I used the PTI stamp set Boards and Beams along with the Everyday Blessings patterned paper.  Even the roof and trees

are paper pieced.

I can't wait to see how you use paper piecing in your cards, layouts, or other paper projects.  

Happy Mother's Day

Just a really quick post showing some of the Mother's Day cards I made for the church bookstore.  These are all so different it is hard for me to pick a favorite.  

I think I am done making M.D. cards for the bookstore, now I need to make some for my Mom and my Mother-in-love.  

Happy Birthday Mom and Filed with Flair

Wow!  Two posts in one day!  

This first card is one we made for Ink Pad Missions and I liked it so much I made one for my Mom too.  It uses PTI's Woman of Life set.  The colors are also from PTI. 

Next is the FANTASTIC Filed with Flair boxes I made with Lauren Meader's template that can be purchased from PTI. (www.papertreyink.com)  These are so fun and EASY to make.  I made a different color of box for each type of card.  As I finish a card I put it in the appropriate box.  When a box has 10 cards in it I will take it to the bookstore to sell.  I should have taken pictures of the sides. I used the Friends til the End patterned paper.  I'll have to photo the side of the next box I make.  The fun part was seeing all of the PTI sentiments I have from different sets.  

Enjoy!!!

Raspberry Suite Week 3

I finally decided to join in the fun and partcipate in Dawn's color challenge.  Once I got going this was a lot of fun.  All of the cardstock I used is from PapertreyInk and My die cuts are made with Labels One Nestablities.  After all of the talk about how to attach the ribbon "through" the button holes I had to try it myself.  The sentiment is from PTI's Heartfelt Basics.

Well, Suzanne, it took me a while to find it, but I finally did and I thank you for this award!  I do feel loved!

You will all need to stop by Suzanne's blog and check out not only her gorgeous cards but also her beautiful quilts.  Even better yet is when she combines the two.  WOW, girl!  You do wonderful work!

Now it is my turn to pass on this award. 

The rules for passing this award on: you must post the award on your blog, name the person who awarded you, then pass the award to 6 other bloggers and leave a message on their blog that they've received the award.

1. Kerianne 

2. Edith

3. Lori

4. Lee

5. Cheryl

6. Michele

I invite you to stop by and visit the blogs of each of these wonderful ladies.  They inspire me to be a better stamper, a better organizer of my time, and have a closer walk with God. 

Bookstore Grad Cards

Time to start gearing up for graduation.  The bookstore lady said she wanted 30 grad cards so I figured I'd best get movin'.  Here are eight cards to add to the collection.  As I've said before, these are inspired by other people.  I sure wish when I printed out ideas the printout would say whose they were.  Oh well, if one of them looks like something you have done, THANKS!!! 

I think all of them use PTI stamps.  The die cuts are made using Spellbinder's Nestabilities.