CASology #356...FAITH

FAITH is the cue card for the current challenge from CASology.  I figured nothing says FAITH more than a scripture verse.  So...here is Psalm 121:1-2!!  I kept my card very clean and simple (CAS) and added just a small touch of sparkle with the red rhinestone at the center of the cross.  


3 Gifts Challenge: (using Ann Voskamp's 1000 gifts daily prompts)  3 gifts white...fluffy clouds//white sandy beaches//crisp line dried sheets

Addicted to CAS...BLESSED

This week's code word for the Addicted to CAS challenge is...BLESSED!!  Those people in your life...they are what makes your life blessed!!  And I am thankful for each of those individuals.  I feel very blessed to have a tribe around me!!  Thanks Addicted to CAS for the inspiration!!  

3 Gifts Challenge: (using Ann Voskamp's 1000 gifts daily prompts)  3 gifts astonishing...His love for me!!  Family!!  Our Father's beautiful creation!!

Another Entry for the Library Challenge

The current Library Challenge is to create a card that is inspired by the book...The Sewing Matching by Natalie Fergie.  Just like the last card I made for this challenge I had to pull for the "stitch" part because of not having any sewing machine stamps.  So...I did little hand stitching around this shell die.  Plus the starfish has a bit of stitching on it!!  Good luck to all those of you who are braving the Black Friday shopping!!  

3 Gifts Challenge: (using Ann Voskamp's 1000 gifts daily prompts) 3 gifts red...heart emojis//apples//beets (my new favorite item to roast)

Paper Players #469

Happy Thanksgiving!!!  I hope everyone enjoys a day filled with blessings from above!!  Today's card should be a Thanksgiving card but alas it is a birthday card!!  I created with one for the sketch challenge from Paper Players.  

3 Gifts Challenge: (using Ann Voskamp's 1000 gifts daily prompts) gifts of community...Our small town community!!  Our life group from church!!  Extended family around the table!!

Got Circles?? Sunday Stamps Challenge #218

Got Circles?? Yep three of them!!  Thanks Sunday Stamps for the inspiration for this card.  Even though I was kinda stumped when I first saw the sketch...I love how it turned out!!   I was cleaning up a stash of goodies and found this stickers...decided they were perfect for executing this sketch.  

3 Gifts Challenge: (using Ann Voskamp's 1000 gifts daily prompts) gifts handmade, held, happy...Handmade cards, each and everyday, created with lots of love!!  A newborn, held and snuggled!!  Happy...oh so happy...I get to see me daughter today!!  First time since her wedding in September!!

Update: So excited to be a top cup!!

Inspired By Challenge #99

Another card made with this fun ribbon from our floral arrangement at work.  I should have been saving these ribbons all along!!  This card was made for the Inspired By challenge.  

3 Gifts Challenge: (using Ann Voskamp's 1000 gifts daily prompts) 3 gifts preparing...Preparing for our eternal home!!  Preparing for our holiday visit with our daughter!!  Preparing food for our family get away!!

Update: Winner!! So excited!! So honored!!

Color Throwdown Challenge #570

Had to give this color combination from the Color Throwdown challenge another whirl...Turquoise, orange and gray.  Several deaths in the last few days which has made it necessary to make sympathy cards...this color combo seemed fitting!!  

3 Gifts Challenge: (using Ann Voskamp's 1000 gifts daily prompts) 3 gifts ugly-beautifuly...tears//cacoon//rain

FMS #412 & CTD #570

Here is my take on the sketch challenge from Freshly Made Sketches and the color challenge from the Color Throwdown team.  The color combo this week was...turquoise, orange and gray!!  The stamps and die are from Verve stamps and the designer papers are from Stampin Up.  


3 Gifts Challenge: (using Ann Voskamp's 1000 gifts daily prompts) 3 gifts humble...A pastor with a spirit of humility is a true gift!! The birth of our savior...such a humble beginning!! I Peter 5:5 the gift of serving others with a humble heart...our server day yesterday with our small group at the local grocery store.

Fusion & Paper Craft Crew Challenges

Two challenges in one card today....Fusion's sketch challenge and Paper Craft Crew's inspirational photo.  Stampin Up's stitched circle dies were perfect for this sketches trio of circles!  

3 Gifts Challenge: (using Ann Voskamp's 1000 gifts daily prompts) 3 gifts only in Christ...Salvation, Grace, Mercy!!

Addicted to CAS...Challenge #172

The code word for the Addicted to CAS challenge is...BIRTHDAY!!  Happy B-Day!! No stamping today...just two dies!!

3 Gifts Challenge: (using Ann Voskamp's 1000 gifts daily prompts)    3 gifts grateful...birds that are visiting our feeder//employment//a house that is our home!!

Paper Players Challenge #468 & Less Is More Challenge #408

Two challenges rolled into one card this evening!!  Less Is More has use using torn papers...I love this simple technique but haven't used it for a while.  I am thankful for the inspiration!!  I also tied in the "North Pole" theme from Paper Players.  This two challenges ended up being a fun combination!!  I love snowflakes on cards but I must admit that I don't miss the snowfall in VA.

Another Sketch Saturday Card & Hand Stamped Sentiments Challenge #328

Loving this sketch from Sketch Saturday....used it yesterday and again today!!  I decided to make this one for my Christmas stash.  Normally this Tim Holtz sentiment is horizontal but I cut the letters apart to use it vertically.  Makes for a different and fun new look!!  This Christmas joy card also fits the challenge from Hand Stamped Sentiments!!

3 Gifts Challenge: (using Ann Voskamp's 1000 gifts daily prompts) 3 gifts family....My hubby, he is a true blessing to me!!  This year we have added a son-in-law to the family and we couldn't be more excited and pleased!!  Our parents, so thankful for the Godly heritage they have provided for us!!

CAS(E) this Sketch...Take Two

Here is another take on the sketch challenge from CAS(E) this Sketch.  I love the classy simplistic look of this sketch so much that I created another card using it.  Several days ago I created two Christmas cards using this sketch with ribbon from a bouquet of flowers that was delivered to our office...I did it again with the ribbon from last week's arrangement.  Each Monday the local florist delivers our office an arrangement for the waiting room...I have taken to repurposing the beautiful bows, and this sketch is perfect for doing that!!

Sketch Saturday #590

Sketch Saturday had a fun sketch this week.  Here is my take on the sketch challenge. Love this retired sentiments from Verve.

3 Gifts Challenge: (using Ann Voskamp's 1000 gifts daily prompts) 3 gifts of tradition...Giving gifts (small and meaningful) Christmas Eve service (time of worship with extended family) Driving to enjoy light (time together in the car brings good chats and recollections of times past)

CAS(E) this Sketch #348

Here is my take on the sketch challenge from CAS(E) this Sketch.  I liked the classy simplistic look of this sketch so much that I created two Christmas cards using it.  This ribbon was on a bouquet of flowers that was delivered to our office this week...I right away claimed for some Christmas cards!!  

3 Gifts Challenge: (using Ann Voskamp's 1000 gifts daily prompts)  3 gifts that start with N.....well?!!? This one took some thinking...for some reason I all of a sudden couldn't think of any N letter words much less things I was thankful for!!  Finally.....Night-time--rest is so good for our bodies!!  Nose--the gift of smell is usually a blessing!!  Nuts...cashews are my favorite but I love them all!!

As You See It Challenge #213 & Library Challenge #46

My card today was inspired by two challenges.  I used the sketch from the As You See It challenge.  And the book title from the Library Challenge...the book for challenge #46 was The Sewing Machine by Natalie Fergie.  I don't have any sewing machine stamps but that these Stitched Circle dies tie the bill!!  

3 Gifts Challenge: (using Ann Voskamp's 1000 gifts daily prompts) 3 gifts Autumn...Holiday time with family!! Pumpkin Spice!! Bonfires!!

Paper Craft Crew Challenge #358

Another snowflake card created with Stampin Up's Beautiful Blizzard stamp set and matching dies.  This time I used Paper Craft Crew's sketch as my inspiration.  I'm loving the Soft Sky & Night of Navy color combo....very wintery!!  

3 Gifts Challenge: (using Ann Voskamp's 1000 gifts daily prompts) a gift made, shared, passed on...Just this weekend a friend in VA sent me a picture of the glass ball ornament (filled with sand and mini shells from our favorite beach here in FL) that I made for her several years ago, she was decorating her tree and thinking of me!!  Shared...quiet time and coffee with my hubby each morning!!  Passed on...my love for hosting...it is so fun to here my daughter picking up this gift!!

Freshly Made Sketches #411

The Freshly Made Sketches team had a super fun sketch this week.  Here is my take on it using Stampin Up's Beautiful Blizzard stamp set and matching die.  

3 Gifts Challenge: (using Ann Voskamp's 1000 gifts daily prompts) 3 gifts laughter...Laughter truly is the best medicine!!  Just ask our friends we sat with today in the ER awaiting test results!?! Or the over worked mom of a toddler that just made her laugh!?! Or best friends to are sharing a private joke!?!  I always say...it is better to laugh then to cry!!

Color Throwdown Challenge #569

Purple, Lavender, and Green are the colors that are called for in the Color Throwdown Challenge this week.  I used Stampin Up's Fresh Fig, Wisteria Wonder, and Garden Green inks, along with Fresh Fig card stock for my sentiment die.  

3 Gifts Challenge: (using Ann Voskamp's 1000 gifts daily prompts) 3 gifts behind a door...Warming fire behind the door of our wood stove!!  Daughter's wedding dress--cleaned and hanging behind the closet door of our spare bedroom. We are so blessed with Godly son-in-law!!  Food--behind our pantry door--provision!!

Library Challenge...The Worst Class Trip Ever by Dave Barry

Here is my take on the current Library Challenge.  This challenge picks a book to be our inspiration..we are to use the cover, the story, or the title as our inspiration.  Our book for this challenge...The Worst Class Trip Ever by Dave Barry.  So....can you see where I gathered my inspiration??  

3 Gifts Challenge: (using Ann Voskamp's 1000 gifts daily prompts). 3 gifts golden...my skin tone, golden, inherited from my mother's side of the family!! Sunsets over the water!!  Sunlight in her hair!!

Update:  Yippiee!!!  I was the librarian's choice!!  

CASology Challenge #355 take 4

Here is my fourth card for the CASology challenge.  We have so much to be thankful for and I have enjoyed creating for this GRATITUDE cue card.  

3 Gifts Challenge: (using Ann Voskamp's 1000 gifts daily prompts) 3 gifts at noon...lunch with my hubby, I love that I get to go home each day to have lunch together // Sunshine on my face!! // Mid-day break in the hustle and bustle!!

CASology Challenge #355 Take 3

Here is my third entry for the GRATITUDE cue card from CASology.  I used the Painted Harvest stamp set from Stampin Up.  

3 Gifts Challenge: (using Ann Voskamp's 1000 gifts daily prompts) 3 gifts in remembrance...Our Veterans!!  My praying grandparents!!  My sweet father-in-law!!  This sentiment on today's card was perfect for this prompt...I am so very thankful for each of them!!

CASology #355 Take 2

My second entry for the GRATITUDE cue card from CASology.  

3 Gifts Challenge: (using Ann Voskamp's 1000 gifts daily prompts) 
3 gifts harvest:  
"the fields are ripe for harvest..."
Satsumas from our tree...it is full with fruit right now!!
Harvest time...a time of family gathering!!