Celebrating the Reason for the Season

In light of the true meaning of Easter, these friends of faith have gathered together to celebrate and share the Good News that Jesus Christ died for the sins of mankind and that He did rise from the dead so that all those that put their trust in Him would indeed be forgiven and have eternal life....Hallelujah! We wanted to emphasize the true reason for celebrating Easter with a card that draws attention to just that.

I used Flourishes "Easter Blessings" set (now 50% off) for my image and sentiment on the first layer and colored my image with Copic markers. I then printed the words to the chorus of that beautiful song by Keith Getty "The Power of the Cross" on vellum paper and layered it on top of the main image.

The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart exults, and with my song I shall thank him. Psalm 28:7 (NAS)

We invite you to join us:
Heather
Kelly
Maria
Sammi
Lorie
Stacy
Kadie
Carolyn
Paola
Linda
Susan
Karen (You're Here)
Catherine

While we cannot even begin to reciprocate the Lord's gift to us, there is "blog candy" on some of the hop stops as a token of appreciation for your comments and encouragement.
We also invite you to celebrate the real "Reason for the Season" by posting your own creation celebrating Christ's Resurrection. There is a place to link on Catherine's blog, and a prize is up for grabs for one randomly selected card/project. The blog hop ends on Saturday at midnight (Eastern Time). Thanks so much for stopping by.

Enjoy the hop!

Copic Creations Anniversary

Happy April! It's time for another Copic Creations challenge. Mary, our DT leader, has done a fabulous job of seeking out sponsors and coming up with themes for our challenges. Mary, you're awesome, girl! Today is officially our 2nd Anniversary, but we're postponing our celebration until the June 1 post where we'll have several sponsors and lots of blog candy. For this challenge we want to say a big thank you to Crafty Secrets for sponsoring our challenge. I am using an image from one of their sweet, Medium sets called "Little Boy." The theme for this challenge is to use our favorite technique. That was a bit of a head-scratcher for me, but I realized that I like to use my die cuts and cut out my images to work with them when they "overflow" the die shape. This card is sort of doing the reverse. I didn't cut out the image but the die cut had to go "behind the image." That meant that I had to cut out a portion of the little boy image so that I could slide the die shape underneath and then create the opening for the sentiment. I have two sweet little grandsons with birthdays coming up in June, so this is going to be for one of them. I'm not going to list all of the Copic colors I used this time, but if you're interested just e-mail me and I'll be glad to tell you. Each time I post I'm hopeful that I'll have more frequent posts for you. I have several occasions coming up that require cards, so maybe I'll surprise you and have lots to share. Be sure to check out what the other DT members have created and find out what their favorite technique is. Thank you for your faithful visits and I hope you have a wonderful month of April.

Copic Creations and Sugar Nellie

It's mid March and time for another Copic Creations challenge. This month's challenge is sponsored by Sugar Nellie and the theme is "coloring blues." I just love this little image called "Country Style". The blues that I used are B32,34,39 and B93,95,97,99. I also used B0000 for the background. My ribbons are from SU! and my sentiment is Just-Rite's new "Fancy Tags" coupled with Spellbinders coordinating dies. The DT has done some adorable cards so be sure to check them out. Hope you can join us for this challenge. Thanks for stopping by!

Copic Creations Challenge

Welcome to the month of March and another Copic Creations challenge. This challenge is sponsored by Crafts and Me and the theme is Complementary Colors. The name of this sweet image is "Noon". I chose colors in the Yellow-Greens and Violets and they're all listed on the Copic Creations website. My sentiment is from PTI's "Mailbox Greetings" and the lovely plum-colored strip is a new punch from SU! The DT did a wonderful job coloring their images so be sure to check them out and find out what you could win by entering this challenge. These color challenges have been most helpful in learning more about color. I hope you'll join us and thanks so much for stopping by.

Sweet Birthday Hugs

My sweet little granddaughter is having her third birthday, so I played with some new papers and stamp and made her this card. The image is called "Snuggle", from the Greeting Farm, and the DP's were a freebie from SU's Sale-a-bration. The pretty blue CS is called Marina Mist, from SU! and I love the color. The border and flowers are stickers that came with the fun paper. I've been quite busy with Spring cleaning, so stamping is sadly not the priority at the moment. It will be soon, though, and I love when the house, or parts of the house, sparkle and shine. Wish I had time to see if this fits any challenges, but I have to keep up the momentum on the house. Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful week-end.

Two Challenges and a Birthday Card

I chose this image as my "favorite" House-Mouse image, probably because it's happy and peaceful and fun to color. It was hard to pick a favorite amongst all those cutie images, but this one is the one I chose for the "Favorite" challenge. I made it for a birthday card for a very dear friend, and she loves blues and yellows so I hope she likes this. I followed the sketch for Friday Sketchers challenge which I am just getting in before the cut-off, I hope. The inside of the card says "..on your Birthday". I used my new blue from SU called Marina Mist and I LOVE the color. My clouds are from MFT's Rain or Shine and I colored it with my Copics (my happy time.) Better close and get this posted. Thanks for stopping by.

Warm Colors Challenge

Welcome to our next Copic Creations challenge. Our challenge this time is "warm colors," and our sponsor is Bugaboo stamps. I chose this adorable little fireman in the Sunbonnet collection that you can find here. They have some really cute images so you'll want to be sure and check them out. My sentiment is from the MFT Rain or Shine set. I hope you had a lovely Valentine's Day and I hope you're experiencing some warmer temps. We are here and it feels quite nice. Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you can play along with us and some warm Copic colors.

Have a Heart

I'm happy to be able to join the challenge at House-Mouse. I'm hoping that my stamping time is returning but we'll see. The theme is hearts so I think I've captured the theme with this image, colored with my Copics, and my heart-stamped background. I hope you're staying warm wherever you are. It's pretty cold here in northern Florida, but at least the sun is shining today. Thanks for stopping by. I'm babysitting today but I'm hoping to do some stamping.

Get Well Wishes

So many people have been sick with one thing or another, and this card was sent to one of my friends who had the flu bug. The image is from ALOTA Rubber Stamps and I fell in love with it the first time I saw it. My sentiment is from MFT's "Rain or Shine" and I had to dissect it to get it to fit. I colored it with Copics and the rest pretty much speaks for itself. Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day.

Love You

Just a quick post with the card I made for the MFT Wednesday Sketch Challenge #5. I love these pure innocence images and I finally inked this one up. This will be a card for someone special in my family, so I have a destination for it. The details can be found in my SCS Gallery here. Thanks for stopping by and have a super week-end.

Happy Groundhog Day

First of all, I know you are probably shocked that I'm posting a second time in a week, but I had to get this post up today because it is Groundhog Day, and it is my son's birthday. I'm sure he won't read this post, but just in case he does, Happy Birthday Sweetie! This cute image is compliments of Elizabeth Dulemba and it was the "Coloring Page Tuesday Alert" freebie image for the week. I have also missed participating in challenges so I decided to enter this into the "SweetStop Sketch" for this week. Sweet 'n Sassy has come out with some awesome new sets. I used my new Kaisercraft papers called "Rewind". They don't require that you use an image from Sweet 'n Sassy, but I wanted to use something so I pulled out a sentiment from the "You're a Genius" set. I'll put together a clever finish to this for the inside of the card. I'm going to keep this short but I'm so pleased that I got to post another card. Who knows, maybe things will settle down and I can stamp and post like I used to. Have a wonderful day. I'm sure those of you in the north want this little fellow to announce that winter will end soon. Thanks for stopping by.

Copic Creations Challenge #43

Hi and welcome to another Copic Creations challenge. Our sponsor this time is Lili of the Valley and our theme is "Cool Colors." This image is one from LOTV and she's called "Destiny's Moon." I listed the Copic Colors that I used on the Copic Creations blog. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink and the rest of it, which is stamped inside the card, says "...is warmed by friendship." Thanks to so many that joined our last challenge. I hope you can join us again this time. Be sure to check out what the rest of the DT created. Take care and I hope you have a great start to this new month.

Morley Dancing

We're back with a new challenge from Copic Creations. Our sponsor is "Prairie Fairy Designs" and the theme this time is to use something new with your image. My image is called Morley Dancing and my "new items" are a mixture of two colors of Flower Soft and my new Rustic Creme Button Twine from Papertrey Ink. I left the whole list of the plethera of Copic Colors that I used on Morley on the CC blog and I'd rather not list them all twice, so please stop by there to see the great cards the team did and what they used on their cards, and of course see what you'll be eligible to win if you participate in this challenge. I've spent the last two weeks coughing, blowing my nose and generally feeling puny so I just can't seem to get any momentum going for cards or blogging. I'm so hoping I'm at the end of this. I know I've missed a lot of posts so I desperately need to catch up. I hope you're having a good start to this new year. Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful week-end.

Easy and Fun

Hi and Happy New Year! I'm back from the long hiatus that the busy holidays imposed upon me. I know I haven't even visited any of y'alls blogs in forever and I'm so sorry. I'm sure I've missed out on some awesome creations, but life was very busy here and I had to be focused on the many goings on. The end-of-year/new year is also a busy time for me as financial secretary so where the holidays left off, work took over. I wanted to share a project with you that I did for Christmas gifts, but by changing the papers you can use them for any occasion. I found them to be easy and lots of fun and I made several to share with some of the staff I work with. I did each one differently and you can find the tutorial here done by Beate at her Fresh & Fun blog. I'll try to get around soon to visit and comment on your blogs and I'm hoping to post a bit more frequently that I have been. We'll see how that goes, but that is my earnest desire. Take care and I hope to see you soon.

From Our House

It's mid-December and it's time to sparkle. That's because "sparkle" is the theme for our 41st Copic Creations challenge. Our sponsor is Just-Rite Stamps and the DT has done some gorgeous cards for this challenge to illustrate their stamps. The prizes will be two snowman sets (Cling) with a storage box from Just-Rite, plus a set of Copic Spica pens. Our challenge is also going to run through mid-January as we will not be doing a challenge on January 1. My set is from Just-Rite's "From Our House". I am including a close-up to try to illustrate that I colored part of the image with the Copic Spica pens to add a sparkly look. I used two different Spellbinders die cuts and covered my paper first with a piece of my Be Creative sheets adhesive paper.
After they were cut I peeled off the top of the adhesive and sprinkled it with my Glitter Ritz glitter in Ice Blue and Gold. I also cut two strips of the adhesive for the top and bottom of the card and added the gold there. I'm pleased with how it turned out - in real life it's really sparkly. Thank you for all your wonderful comments this year....they all brightened my day. I hope you're having a wonderful month and I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.