Our Salvation

 Hello everyone! Welcome back to my blog. Hope you are having a great Thanksgiving break with friends/family. I'm guest designing at Word Art Wednesday this month. Here's my card for this Wednesday (I'm posting it a bit late)

I printed today's verse and die cut it with a oval. Today's verse is about how God blesses us everyday, every minute and every second. I stamped the Altenew - Fresh Freesia with Fadeout ink and colored them with Copics. I fussy cut them out. I also stamped and colored the Altenew - Hope Butterfly. I added some enamel dots from Altenew as finishing touch. The color inspiration is from the current Altenew Inspiration Challenge.

How do you like my card today? Please do let me know. Hope you will join the Word Art Wednesday challenge this week. Thanks for stopping by. Have a great day!

Give Thanks

 Hello everyone! Welcome back to my blog! Today, I'm so excited to announce that I'm the guest designer of the month at Word Art Wednesday.

The scripture for this week is Psalms 75:1. This verse is about giving thanks to the Lord. It is always right to give thanks to God! I used the arch dies from Scrapbook.com, Honey Bee Stamps - Lovely Layers: Anemone dies and the background embossing folder is from Craftwell. I used copics to color the die cute flower layers. I'm so grateful for this opportunity to guest design for WAW.

How do you like this card today? Please do let me know in the comments. Also, please join us on the Word Art Wednesday blog, with your creations. Thanks for stopping by. Have a great day!

Cattails

Hello everyone!! It's time for a new challenge here at Word Art Wednesday. Tomorrow is Thanksgiving day here in the US. This week's verse fits perfectly for singing thanks to the Lord, who has been good to us always!!

I printed the word art on white paper and inked it with DI Scattered straw and Dried Marigold. Then I stamped Our Daily Bread Designs - Cattails stamp and the butterfly from Our Daily Bread Designs - Butterfly and Bugs stamp set using brown markers. The frame is cut with my Cricut using a cut file from Inspired by Stamping. It is a stitched rounded rectangle frame. I was inspired by Tracey's card at the MUSE challenge.

Thanks for stopping by. Please visit the Word Art Wednesday blog for more inspiration and for more insight into today's verse. It's not to be missed!!

Submitting this to:

• MUSE card challenge - Tracey McNeely's card
  
• SSS - Monday - Thanksgiving - Giving thanks to the Lord
• SSS - Wednesday - Anything Goes
• Sparkle and shine Challenge - Inspired by the general hue and the dry long grass reminded me of cattails
  

Give Thanks unto the Lord

Hello everyone!! It's time for a new challenge at Word Art Wednesday. Our free word art this week is the verse from I Chronicles 16:34, which says
"O give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever."
I think this verse is perfect for this week, as many of us prepare for Thanksgiving. God has been and is always good to me.

Here's what I made to inspire you:

I printed out the word art on white paper. I used the stamp from Power Poppy Azalea stamp set and stamped all around the word art and I colored it using my marker. I love the color combination. I used black card base. I thought of adding a few pearls/rhinestones, but it didn't look so good. Hmm!! Strange, isn't it? Lol!! So I removed it.

Thanks for stopping by. Do visit the Word Art Wednesday blog for more crafty inspiration and spiritual insight on this verse. Karen always includes a wonderful insight on the verse of the week, every week. Please leave your thoughts and comments below.

Bountifulness

Hello everyone!! It's time for a new challenge at Word Art Wednesday and this week we have an awesome Scripture to inspire you. This week's verse is taken from II Corinthians 9:11. God has given us things in plenty, so that we can be generous and share them with others that don't have them. Do visit the Word Art Wednesday blog for a deep insight on this verse. I'm sure this will be a reminder for many of us to be more generous.

Here's what I made with this week's word art.

This is a pretty clean and simple card. I  used a die cut oval frame (cut using Cricut) from my stash. The flowers are handmade. I used 2 different punches to cut the petals. The pearls in the center are from Dollar tree (This week, I found that they have pearls of various sizes in a single pack. I've never seen them before in DT). The pine leaves are cut using my MS pine branch punch.

I used my MS scoring board to create the pattern on the background. I added a few pearls (same pack from DT) to accent the pattern. The corner swirl is a stamp on the Justrite Happy Ever After Antique Labels stamp set. I stamped it with Hero Arts Lemon yellow ink.

Thanks for stopping by. Do visit the Word Art Wednesday blog to get more inspiration.

Submitting this to:

• CASology - Give - This verse talks about being generous
• IBSIC - flowers
• Power Poppy - Embellish this
• Virginia's view Challenge - Texture

Be Content

Hello everyone!! I'm very excited to be the guest designer at Word Art Wednesday this month! This is my first challenge as a guest designer with them. I'm very excited as this is one of my all time favorite challenges :) The word art/ scripture verse for this week is from Hebrews 13:5. 

Here's what I've made for this challenge:

I printed out the word art on a white paper. I cut out the frame using an SVG file from Bird's cards on my Cricut. I sponged word art with VersaMagic Pink Petunia chalk ink. I inlaid the word art in the frame and applied glossy accents on the frame. I cut a piece of pattern paper from the Colorbok Delilah stack. I used brown card base to go with the patterned paper. The ribbon, brad and flowers are from my stash.

I love this week's verse. It reminds me to be content with what I have and trust in God. I need that reminder from time to time. So I've planned to use this as a reminder on my craft table.

Please forgive the quality of the photo. Nowadays it gets dark by 5 PM here and I'm having trouble getting the picture during day. What light sources do you use for taking pictures? Please let me know.

Thanks for stopping by. Please do visit the Word Art Wednesday blog and see what the design team members have created for you. Do leave your thoughts and comments.

Submitting this to:

• Craft Rocket Challenge - Anything goes
• IBSIC - flowers
• Simon Says Stamp - Moday - So glossy

Calendar 2014 - Part 5

Here is the final part of the calendar.

To view the initial parts, please go here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4

I'm not very good at stamping. I had bought a new ink pad from Itsy Bitsy and I wanted to try it. I used the LOTV Christmas Baubles that I had got in LOTV's bithday celebration and colored it using sketch pens and glitter. Not very satisfied with the way I stamped it initially but somehow covered it up ;) Any tips for a stamping newbie??

The poinsettias are made by me using my new Itsy Bitsy flower punch and some golden beads :)

Here is the completed calendar:

The cover page has a scripture verse.

Since this calendar was for my husband, I had to avoid flowers, butterflies and pinks :) He was very happy with this calendar :)

All the scripture verse word arts are taken from Word Art Wednesday. They share beautiful word arts of wonderful verses every Wednesday. And they are free!!

Thanks for stopping by and please feel free to share your thoughts and tips :)

Submitting this to:

• Word Art Wednesday - Challenge 115 - Anything Goes
• Lulupu Challenge 23 - Create Calendar
• Lili of the Valley - Anything Goes
• A Gem of A Challenge - Challenge 111 - For the boys
• Scribble And Scrap Crafts - Challenge 10 - Always Anything Goes

Calendar 2014 - Part 4

Here is the 4th part of the desk calendar I made for my husband.

To view the previous parts, please go here: Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3.

For the month of September, I used a stencil from Itsy Bitsy and colored it with sketch pen.

The word art border is cut using a border scissor.

I made the month of October pretty simple.

For the month of November, I used a stencil from Itsy Bitsy and colored it using sketch pen.

All the scripture verse word arts are taken from Word Art Wednesday. They share beautiful word arts of wonderful verses every Wednesday. And they are free!!

Thanks for stopping by and please feel free to share your thoughts and tips :)

Submitting this to:

• Word Art Wednesday - Challenge 115 - Anything Goes
• A Gem of A Challenge - Challenge 111 - For the boys
• Dream Valley Challenges - Challenge 73 - Boys/Men
• Creative Fingers Challenge - Anything Goes
• Crafting By Designs - Anything

Calendar 2014 - Part 2

Here comes he second part of the desk calendar that I made for my husband.

To view the previous part, please go here: Part 1

For the month of April, I used a stencil from Itsy Bitsy and colored it with sketch pen.

For the month of May, I tried tiling with patterned paper from Itsy Bitsy for the first time. I've been wanting to try tiling for a long time and I'm quite satisfied with this result.

For the month of June, I used a stencil from Itsy Bitsy with glitter pen.

From a different angle.

All the scripture verse word arts are taken from Word Art Wednesday. They share beautiful word arts of wonderful verses every Wednesday. And they are free!!

Thanks for stopping by and please feel free to share your thoughts and tips :)

Submitting this to:

• Word Art Wednesday - Challenge 115 - Anything Goes
• A Gem of A Challenge - Challenge 111 - For the boys
• Dream Valley Challenges - Challenge 73 - Boys/Men
• Scribble And Scrap Crafts - Challenge 10 - Always Anything Goes
• Creative Fingers Challenge - Anything Goes
• Crafting By Designs - Anything

Calendar 2014 - Part 1

I'm sharing the 2014 desk calendar that I made for my husband. I completed it in November, but couldn't post it till now. I'm splitting the entire calendar in to 5 posts for easy viewing..

Now on to the calendar..

For the month of January, I used a stencil from Itsy Bitsy and colored using sketch pens.

For the month of February, I used some punches to decorate the entire page.

A closer look at the frame formed using different tiny punches.

For the month of March, I used a border stencil from Itsy Bitsy with glitter pen.

All the scripture verse word arts are taken from Word Art Wednesday. They share beautiful word arts of wonderful verses every Wednesday. And they are free!!

Thanks for stopping by and please feel free to share your thoughts and tips :)

Submitting this to:

• Word Art Wednesday - Challenge 115 - Anything Goes
• A Gem of A Challenge - Challenge 111 - For the boys
• Dream Valley Challenges - Challenge 73 - Boys/Men
• Scribble And Scrap Crafts - Challenge 10 - Always Anything Goes
• Creative Fingers Challenge - Anything Goes
• Crafting By Designs - Anything