Clean and Simple

 A very basic design.

The colored bar is Glue & Pearl Ex technique.

The stamp is a PSX.

 Again the color bar is Pearl Ex and glue.

 A small repeating pattern with a coordinating

plain card stock.

This time the color bar is a gift wrap layered

over black glossy card stock.

Prayer is the key

A Our Daily Bread Designs stamp.

The phrase and the frame have been raised

slightly off the card front with

the flat parts of a paper egg carton.

All edges have been sponged with

a dark brown ink.

Love Is

A very old Embossing Arts stamp combined with a 

Spellbinders border die cut with

a few pearls tossed in for good measure.

I really really wish the company that bought

Embossing Arts would reissue all those 

wonderful scripture stamps.

Faith

The stamp is from Our Daily Bread Designs.

The bottom layer of the flower is

polished stone.

The dark layers are a copper gift wrap

that has been attached to text weight paper.

Psalm 91:11

 The scripture stamp is by Stampabilities

The die cut by Spellbinders.

The color of thescrapbook paper under the die cuts 

really changes the whole look.

I like both of them.

Love vs Loving Kindness

I was reading a commentary on Proverbs and there was a very very good explanation of the difference between love and loving kindness.

Here is the story.  A little girl goes to her mother and asks for bread and butter.  The mother gives her bread and butter, that is love, BUT the mother also put jam on the bread and butter without being asked.  That is loving kindness.

God's loving kindness to us often goes unnoticed.  For me it is little things in my day to day life.  Maybe I need to start looking a little harder for His loving kindness in my life and saying thank you.

Progress of designing a card

 The black and white card is made from left overs.

I just hate to leave spare parts laying around

because eventually I end up throwing them away

when I get struck by a cleaning frenzy.

 The above card is the final perfected design.

The stamp is by Our Daily Bread Designs.

I has been embossed with fine line copper 

embossing powder and die cut with a 

Spellbinders die.

The metallic layers are a copper gift wrap

that was spray glued to text weight paper.

The green paper with the copper flowers

is from DCWV.

Note the smear of ink on the white.

I was sponging the edges of the card and

accidentally ruined it by getting ink on the phrase. 

 Here is the second design in the progression.

It's okay, but not making me thrilled.

The very first design.  It is so-so.

When you compare it to the finished final design

you can understand shy this one just did not

make me happy.

Thanks

The "thanks" is a new die cut.

I used some paper that was made

using the Pearl Ex and Glue technique.

Valentines

Here it is, the vision in my head worked for once.

I bought the happy stamp years ago.

The valentines is a Cheery Lynn Designs

die cut.

Starburst IV

 Here is an example of two cards from one

starburst base.

I used the oval cut out for one card

and the outer portion of the cut out as a frame.

Note that the edges of everything have been sponged.

It adds great definition.

Oval cut out starburst in browns.

Big die cuts

I love this large die cut.

It is on polished stone.

Easy and elegant.

Starburst III

 More ideas for the starburst technique.

 I really like the ones with the dark brown sponged edges.

More Starburst

 A few more Starburst cards.

 These things are addictive.

 So much fun to make.

A Starburst technique card.