Card #39 for 2024

Hello Crafting friends. 

My husband encouraged me to keep trying to stamp.

I really didn't want to..(note the picture at the bottom)

Nothing was going right, and my raynauds kicked in too. 

I am hoping my creativity comes back.  My dog 

has left my heart so broken that my sweet husband

even has been helping me with house chores. 

Let's talk about the card.  This was a tough sketch, at

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge

Notice the card 

on the bottom of this post?   The 

one with the bright springy/summer/sherbet colors, 

well it was too busy for me, so I switched things up a bit. 

 I chose to use two colors and make it patriotic. 

The stamp sets I used were:

Stampin up:  Dandelion Wishes (for the fireworks)

Watercolor Shape(for the background strips)

Repeat Impression( flag/sentiment.  It's one stamp

but I cut it apart so just the sentiment was on the

front of the card, and the flag is on the inside)

The two colors I chose went a long way because

I stamped them off 3x.  So it gave it the look of multiple 

colors.  When I finished I thought it looked sloppy,

but then again looks like a basket weave so I let it go.

I cut the sentiment from the flag and cut out the dandelions

and glued everything down.  I popped up the sentiment

to give it some height, and added 3 silver star brads for some

sparkle and shine.  

Below is the original card in the background underneath my hand. Had

to wait for my hands to regain feeling and then back at it.

I'm glad I tried again and that my husband encouraged me to do so. 

The verse I chose for this card is:

Galatians 5:1KJV 

Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ 

hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

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 Thank you for stopping by for a visit.

Keep Smiling and Keep Stamping

💗PJ 

 

Card #38 for 2024

Hello Crafting friends.

I will enter this card in the challenge at:

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge

The stamp set I used for this card is

Stampin up, trusty tools 

I just used the whole stamp set for one card,

not something I usually do.  I tend to play 

with multiple stamp sets for the desired card.

But just was not feeling up to it lately. 

I do feel the highlight of the card is the

brads in form of screws.  

and of course leave it to me to finish

the card off with an upside down 

signature stamp in the back.  Sigh. 

good thing my dad understands.  

Freedom is not free.  Remembering 

the soldiers that laid down their lives

for my freedom with a humble and forever

grateful heart.  

The verse I chose for this card is:

Eph. 6:1-3KJV

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

 Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise;

 That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.

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 Thank you for stopping by for a visit.

Keep Smiling and Keep Stamping

💗PJ 

 

Card #37 for 2024

Hello Crafting friends.  
Hope you are doing something fun 

and creative this weekend.  

I'm trying, Lord knows I'm trying, just

is taking longer then I had 

expected.  Seems that I relied on my 

beloved hound more then I even had realized.

I miss him terribly. 

I will enter this card in the challenge at:

Freshly Made Sketches

The stamp sets I used for this card are:

Stampin Up:  Mischievous Mice & Borders to backgrounds 

I used an embossing folder to give some

texture to the card, and I lightly sponged 

over the top so it didn't appear so stark white.

I love how the side strip turned out, I think

that's my favorite part of this simple card. 

Below is the latest book I just finished.

It was very good to get myself in a book

and forget my troubles.  I highly recommend this 

one.  I'm now on a bit of a Titantic journey as

this is my third book about that terribly

tragic ship wreck.  I have already started my 4th.

The verse I chose for this card is:

2 Samuel 17:29KJV

And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for David, 

and for the people that were with him, to eat: for they said,

 The people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.

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 Thank you for stopping by for a visit.

Keep Smiling and Keep Stamping

💗PJ