Hummingbird birthday

 

I used one of my newest stamps from Maymay Made It for this card. I fussy-cut the little hummingbird and popped him up on foam tape. I think I am continuing to improve in my coloring technique! I used white card stock but put it on a cream card stock card base and I like the slight difference of color for interest.

A new blog is born!

When I began this blog, my plan was twofold: to share cards I made along with some other papercrafts, and to share devotional thoughts from the Bible as I studied it.

Over time, I have shared more crafting than anything else, and I have enjoyed doing that, but lately I have been thinking about my second goal and realized that I needed to change things up a bit and push myself to share more spiritual things as well.

As I thought about this, I came to the conclusion that to do a better job at both goals, I needed a separate blog for them. That is why I have created Thinking My Way Through The Bible, following up from the book I wrote a couple of years ago.

I'd love to have you take a look at it and let me know if you find it helpful in any way. My goal is not to be your resident Biblical scholar! I just feel compelled to share some of my personal insights as I read and study the Word of God.

Lilacs or Wisteria

 I found a small piece of sparkling blue card stock in my stash so I used that for the "sky" in this card. I had a fairly old Stampin' Up stamp set that I really like but have not used much for some reason.

Bloom where you are planted

 I made this card for my SIL who broke her leg and is in rehab. I had just watched a video not long ago about using glitter on cards in a way that limited the amount of sparkles that usually end up all over everything, so I tried that and it really did work well. My end problem stemmed from finding a way to photograph the glittery background that still allowed me to see the rest of the card! 

You can't see it very well, but I heat embossed the word with a sage colored embossing powder and it actually goes really well with the rest of the card.

Thank you again, Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps, for the stamp set I used!
 

Sylvia's birthday

I created a card for my very dear friend Sylvia using a new Sunrise Stem die I purchased from Simon Says Stamp, and I love how it turned out. 

I used a Stampin' Up die for the white background and backed it with one of the papers from Simon Says Stamp Color Blend set.  It is not clearly visible in my photo, but I embossed the stem and leaves with green embossing powder and feel quite pleased with how well I was able to cover the leaves and still have the embossed lines show.

Fourth flowers

 I was challenged at Sweet 'n Sassy stamps to make a card using at least one of their products and a red, white, and blue theme. This is what I came up with.

I made the background from strips of card stock, then colored the flowers, die cut them, and arranged them on the front. I used a sentiment from another Sweet 'n Sassy set for the front sentiment.

On the inside,

I stamped one of the flower images then heat embossed the sentiment from yet another Sweet 'n Sassy stamp set on top of it. Finally, I outlined the flower image to add some extra color to the inside.

All in all, I was pleased with the outcome.

I also posted this on the Word Art Wednesday page for the Anything Goes challenge.