Snow~globe Christmas Card

Well folks, if you read my previous post, 

you knew I'd be adding this card for the 

same sketch.  Although I only submitted 

the fall card to the challenge. 

It is at: Freshly Made Sketches

I really do love this layout.  Like I said in

my previous post, it reminds me of a snowglobe.  

I use to collect them growing up.  I've always

been so drawn to these miniature worlds inside 

glass globes.  Any ways this card reflects it perfectly.  

I even embossed the background with 

one of my snowflake folders.  Then 

then I inked up a blue circle and die cut it

out to glue down on the snowflakes.  I

stamped the Christmas house and trees,

and then cut them out for my little snowglobe.  

I added a few snowflake embellishments to

finish it off.  I think the sentiment is so clean

and simple looking.  

The stamp sets featured in this card are:

Stampin up:  Night Divine, Peace to you,

Still Scenes 

SO if you had to choose between my last card

and this one, which one do you think I 

should have submitted to the challenge? 

The verse I chose for this Christmas card is:

Luke 1:14 KJV

 And thou shalt have joy and gladness;

 and many shall rejoice at his birth.

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 Thank you for stopping by for a visit.

Keep Smiling and Keep Stamping

💗PJ 

 

Hello Fall Card

We sure had a burst of color change the 

past few days.  It inspired me to make this card. 

I will submit this card to the challenge at:

Freshly Made Sketches

I absolutely love this sketch.  Perhaps because

it reminds me of a snow globe.  In fact I made 

another card using this exact sketch.  I'm not sure

if we can submit two cards, so I will just share

it on my next blog post.  

The stamp sets featured in this card are:

Stampin Up:  Seasons of fun, For all things. 

I sponged the yellow circle, and then stamped

the image directly on it, and also on a piece 

of white cardstock.  I colored in the images,

and then cut out the little boy on the white cardstock

 to add him over the yellow.  So it looks more natural.  

I thought I'd share a picture of one of our lovely trees.

This ash tree turns golden then hints of red, so gorgeous. 

The verse I chose for this card is:

Psalm 85:12 KJV

 Yea, the Lord shall give that which is good;

 and our land shall yield her increase

I hope you will stop back and see the other card

I made using this sketch. 

Hint:  It's a Christmas card.  My favorite cards to make.

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 Thank you for stopping by for a visit.

Keep Smiling and Keep Stamping

💗PJ 

 

Harvest Time Thank you

Hello Friends.  

The weather here has been rainy and cool.

Which means the little rodents are 

wanting to move in again.  

Just today there were 3 mice in the house.  I'm telling 

you, I'm no pioneer woman.  I lost my 

marbles over that.  I ended up putting 

a plastic container over one of the rodents

and texting my husband.  He couldn't come

home, but this evening he rescued me.  

The joys of living next to a junk yard, and 

living in an old home.  Any ways, thankful 

to have a home, I've been  researching 

my garden stuff, so I thought why not

plants that rodents don't like.  Apparently,

next year I will be planting, mint,

lavender, and catnip.  Hopeful that will 

stop them from enjoying the warmth of 

our home.  

I made this card for the challenge at:

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge

The stamp set featured in this card is:

Sampin Up:  Painted Harvest 

I just used the one set, and stamped the flower

multiple times to give it a 3D look. I then 

cut it out and popped it up.  There was actually 

quite a bit of fussy cutting with this card.  

I love the acorns,  I think that's my favorite part. 

There is HP again.  My little darling with those

cute eyes, looking at me, but not letting go of his toy.  

Love that little fella.  

I also want to share some happy news.  

I had my first sale yesterday since re-opening

my etsy shop this past July.  So super exciting.  

The verse I chose for this card today is:

Galatians 6:9 KJV

And let us not be weary in well doing: 

for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

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 Thank you for stopping by for a visit.

Keep Smiling and Keep Stamping

💗PJ 

 

Happy Harvest

I made this square card for the challenge at:

Freshly Made Sketches

The stamp sets featured in this card are:

Stampin Up:  Earthen Textures, You've got this,

Autumn Harvest.

Lawn Fawn:  Happy Harvest 

This card was just simple stamping techniques,

a little layering with the pumpkins, but otherwise,

just the basics here.  Lot's of fun coloring and cutting. 

You know the usual elementary stuff that 

calms the mind and let's you unwind. 

I love the different textures to the background. 

I think it helps give depth to the card. 

Just wanted to let you know that I just added 7 new

stamp sets to my etsy shop.  Hope you go check 

them out.  Might be something you like. 

My little guy decided to pose for a picture.

Not really.  Every time I go to take a picture

he turns his head.  little rascal.  

Found this lovely little art piece on instagram

and thought I'd share it. 

The verse I chose for today's card is:

Leviticus 23:22 KJV

 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not 

make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when

 thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning 

of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, 

and to the stranger: I am the Lord your God.

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 Thank you for stopping by for a visit.

Keep Smiling and Keep Stamping

💗PJ 

 

Harvest Thank you

I made this harvest card for my dad, to 

thank him for being such a helper.  

He always has the best word phrases. 

and the one he uses when he don't understand

what I'm talking about because I talk a mile

a minute (they say) is: I'm

"corn-fused"  haha I love it.  So I thought 

this was the perfect card for him. 

I will submit it to the challenge at:

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge

The stamp set featured in this card is:

Lawn Fawn:  Happy Harvest 

Another card of mine with just plain old 

basic stamping techniques.  A bit of fussy cutting

with this one.  When I was cutting out the corn

stalks I was thinking of my own little garden,

and I think I figured out why the corn cobs didn't

get full of kernels.  I guess you are suppose to 

plant them in rows.  haha imagine that.  I planted

ours on the perimeter of our garden but not in rows.  

Next year I will do better.  Lord willing.  Any ways,

that is what I occupied my mind with when I was 

cutting.  Then it was a matter of placement so 

the little scarecrow would sit nicely to scare away 

the crows.  Of course I had to think of the Wizard

of Oz when I was coloring and cutting him out.  

I really like the Stampin up DSP I used for 

this card.  It has nice harvest/fall colors.  

My darling son celebrated his 30th birthday yesterday.

I'm so happy he was able to come home.  We planned 

on going by him, but he wanted to come home.  Bless his heart.

I'm so grateful for all that have prayed for him since his 

bad bike accident in August.  As you can see from the 

above picture I took yesterday, he is back at it.  

Glory to God. 

Here is a picture of this little sweetheart. Right in 

the middle of the walk way again, and so darn cute. 

Now you all know I love house plants,

and I had quite a collection of African Violets.

Well, there is one particular one that I'm most 

fond of.  Anyways somewhere along the way

with all that has been going on with my health, 

I've neglected them.  It just dawned on me the other

day that my beautiful big purple one was no more. I 

had propagated three hoping one of them would be it.

I'm happy to say this could be the one.  In the picture above.

Her blooms are about the size of a 50 cent piece. So when it 

opens all the way I will know, and if it is, I will be 

propagating many little leaves from her. In hopes 

that she will not become extinct.  

The verse I chose for this card is:

Psalm 9:1 KJV

I will praise thee, O Lord, with my whole heart; 

I will shew forth all thy marvelous works.

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 Thank you for stopping by for a visit.

Keep Smiling and Keep Stamping

💗PJ 

 

Halloween Card #3 for the 2023 Season

Halloween card #3 for the 2023 season. 

I made this one for the challenge at:

Freshly Made Sketches

The stamp sets featured in this card are:

Stampin Up:  Harvest Hellos, Seasons of Fun 

What a funtastic card to make.  I love cutesy 

Halloween stuff.  I've not ever been one to 

go for the spooky stuff. 

So this little gal with her pumpkin costume on

makes me smile.

Even though she has roller skates on, I sat 

her on top of the pumpkin line up.  This was just 

basic stamping and fussy cutting.  Then a matter

of following the sketch for placement. 

Below is a picture of my orchid.  So happy 

to see it bloom, especially since I cut the 

air roots which is a big no no.  I just got a little

crazy trimming all my plants and apparently 

the orchid got a "plant trim" too.  But happy

to say she blooms still, and hopeful always will. 

The verse I chose for this card is:

Psalm 95:2 KJV

Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, 

and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.

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 Thank you for stopping by for a visit.

Keep Smiling and Keep Stamping

💗PJ 

 

Glory To God Christmas Card

Guess who made a Christmas card?  

Oh how I do love Christmas card making. 

Some of my other cards always seem to be 

hit or miss on instagram.  So maybe I should 

just focus on all Christmas all the time.  haha 

I followed the sketch at:

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge

The stamp sets featured in this card are:

Stampin Up:  Decorated with happiness, Night Divine,

Reason for the season, Peaceful boughs, and 

the stitched shape dies. 

I started off thinking I would be using ornaments to 

go around the sentiment and the oval.  However, after

coloring and cutting them out, it just didn't seem to match

the elegance of the oval or the sentiment.  So hence the 

poinsettia, pinecones and pine sprigs.  I use some 

dimensionals to pop up the oval and then went to work

layering the arrangement.  Now for the little embellishments

I chose white sequins to blend in.  Did you notice I embossed

the white cardstock in the background with snowflakes?  

I had so much fun making this card, I had the Christmas tunes

playing and it was nice and cozy, even as it was storming outside. 

I thought this was the perfect picture(below)for today. 

It was a good reminder for me too, since I had another 

lovely experience with doctors.  This time I went 

for a second opinion for my eyes last Friday.  My appointment

was at 7:15 A.M.  Well on Saturday my one eye (the bad one)

was still dilated.  Oh boy after crying hard, which I'm sure

did not help it at all.  I asked for my fb friends to pray for me

and by Sunday the dilation was normal.  I was still quite 

upset about it, and told my husband I don't think it's right,

he says, "want me to get a caliber to measure your pupils?"  

Isn't he the cute one.  haha. 

The little guy was moving his bed closer and closer 

to my stamp room, the little darling.  

The verse I chose for this card is:

Isaiah 9:6KJV

 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given:

 and the government shall be upon his shoulder:

 and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, 

The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

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 Thank you for stopping by for a visit.

Keep Smiling and Keep Stamping

💗PJ 

 

Happy 30th Birthday Son

I made this card for my son.  He is 

catching up to me in age.  haha  

I will submit it to the challenge at:

TGIF Challenges

The stamp sets featured in this card are:

Stampin Up: Beautiful World, Number of years,

Birthday wit. 

Hampton Art~candles.

I decided to use the sketch in a square 5" x 5"  card. 

It was quite a challenge to fit that circle with the strips

on there along with a sentiment in the corner.  

I chose a scenic DSP that is land, water, sky,

to fit with the whole world, and globe theme. 

I cut the strips and glued them on green 

card stock before adding them to the finished card. 

It was quite the decision on what color the globes

should be, and so I just stuck with the basic blue. 

I love how the inside of the card turned out.  I 

did a "W" fold to give it the pop out look.  

I hope my son likes it. 💖

The verse I chose for this card is:

Psalm 20:4 KJV

Grant thee according to thine own heart, and fulfil all thy counsel.

NIV 

May he give you the desire of your heart
    and make all your plans succeed.

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 Thank you for stopping by for a visit.

Keep Smiling and Keep Stamping

💗PJ