Where does the time go?

this week seems all hickeldy pickeldy, I can't belive it has been a week since I last posted! Plus I keep thinking I am a day behind? Like thinking today is wednesday.... ARGH! Well I have managed to make some cards in my mad week... A couple here using the same materials for Father's Day, the sketch was taken from the newly discovered 2sketches4you blog. I hope you can see the sketch design through the embellishments? Was a bit of a challenge as I set myself to do Father's day cards using the sketch, think it would have been easier to do feminie cards! (always is though....)

Praise! Pain! Psalms!

My sister had a gorgeous baby girl! My first neice! (out of 5 nephews, including my other sisters family). I'm not sure whether I will be able to do much crafting for a few weeks, as I managed to hurt my coxix (the base of the back where your bottom is!) hurts to sit down, sneeze, cough, laugh (though not much of that happening!) Anyway managed to get my card done for the SALT challenge this week. It was on the broad topic of the Psalms, so I chose one of my favourite Psalm 121; you can read the words in the close up photo. Here is the blurbfrom the blog 'From frustration and anger to joy and support. there is so much in the book of Psalms. I'd like you to reflect on a favourite verse - or whole psalm and interpret it as you feel led. '

Blankety Blank

After seeing Di Hickman's sketch for this week, the idea came to me! A farely blank canvas card using my new QK alphabets, and embossing 3squares along the top and bottom, finishing it off with gross grain ribbon and a heart pin. I made this card with a congratatualtions on a baby card, as one of my sister's is due to give birth any time now.... this card I made with a scrap of card that was sitting on my table for a while that I teamed up with the feather- waiting to be used...

Reaching Retirement

Feels like ages since I have blogged... what the half term holidays, and stroking the guinea pigs, I have neglected my craft table- not by choice! Was lacking in inpiration so took a look at the latest challenges and sketches on the various sites, good old DI HICKMAN came to my rescue with her sketch. I used the stripey effect in the ribbon to follow the effect of her sketch (have a look at her blog so you know what I am talking about!). Doh! just realised I am like a week behind! oh well... I recently bought this stamp as I thought it would be nice to makesome retirement cards- so here is my first...

ribbon from charity shop! Prima's, stick on pearls- Lakeland, sentiment stamp clevercuts website, journal stamp -cant remember name of company!...

Everlasting Love

The Salt challenge this week is 'Walk in Love' 'There is so much that God has said to us in his Word about Love. God is Love. Faith works by love. The greatest commandment given to us by Jesus is to love.Jesus replied, "' Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind'. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' All the law and the prophets hang on these two commandments." Matthew 22: 37-40But if anyone obeys his word, God's love is truly made complete in him. This is how we know we are in him; Whoever claims to live in him, must walk as Jesus did. 1 John 2:5-6This week, consider your love walk ... and join us in creating art that glorifies him.'

I decided to do a 6x12 layout to add to my layout diplay, and take advantage of my massive new letter stamps! I took this photo ages ago when my son was a baby, and haven't got round to using it till now...

This is a recent commission I did for a 60th wedding anniversary! Amazing how long love can last, and none more everlasting than God's love to us!!!!

We Are Family...

Cards made for a mother and daughter, whose birthdays are near the same date so tend to send the cards off in one go...

Have my parents and auntie and uncle visiting from Australia coming to stay tomorrow for a few days, which will be great as I havn't seen them since 1990!

And also wanted to show you are new additions to the family, Teddy (sandy colour) and Rex (dark grey, with stripe)- the guinea pigs! First time having guinea pigs... so reading up a lot, they are still very shy as they are settling in, but hope that they will become part of the family real soon. Cant wait to here the speak, as they make the cutest sounds... (difficult to take a decent photo at the mo, hope to get some better shots soon)

Missing, Monochrome

Missing colour! And missing you, the theme of my card. This week's Tilda & Co challenge is to use the classic black and white. A great chance to use some new stamps, and my pretty pins!

Battle of the Sexes

Been making a lotof cards recently, just no time to load on blog, so here are a few pics... Stocking up on mens cards and got carried away with some new stickers and made some girly glittery cards too! Was trying to be diciplined and use up scraps which I find helps invent new cards that you might not have made normally :) Gave in and used some of my delicious Basic Grey papers too!

Purposeful Patchwork

My Patchwork heart was inspired by this weeks SALT challenge, the topic being FORGIVENESS. The idea behind it was that despite our sin God sent his Son Jesus to cover our sin and almost patch us up; through dieing on the cross and making a way for us to be forgiven. The date is significant, because it is when Christ invited me to be part of his kingdom. "God works in mysterious ways his wonders to perform" Some people cant pin point the day or the time, but for me it was this date that I came to the realisation, that I needed to accept that Christ died to save me from my sins, I was scared at not feeling 'guilty' but was told that if I accept that I am a sinner, and realise that I need a Saviour, to ask for forgiveness, then I will be saved. What a wonderful moment that was pouring my heart out kneeling in prayer and knowing that I could finally say I was a Christian! I Prasie the Lord for the wonderful work that He has done in my life, all of Him and nothing of me.

To make the card, I gathered some similar coloured scraps, mounted it on card and cut out the heart shape, used a stitching stamp for the edging and inked. Prima Hydrangeas with stick on pearls, wooden button from stash with raffia, then string form a clothes label to hang.

Brown is the new Black

... Well browns seems to be apprearing in a lot of my cardmaking recently... put this home card together out of bits and pieces, and then went on to use some scrap paper to make this ultra simple card...which as usual I was majorly tempted to add to,but managed to resist! Was also kickingmyself for not taking a photograph of a card I spent ages making for a friend and already put in the post!