Word Art Wednesday - Challenge 138

I’ve had to make quite a few Sympathy cards of late sadly for friends and my mum-in-law which can sometimes be a tough challenge, but I’ve had some wonderful inspiration with using Word Art designs in particular rather than my usual decoupage designs.

So this one is a little A6 card done in a black and white theme which I feel works well for the occasion.

I embossed the background with a vine design and then used the MS Leafy Lace border punch to make 2 border strips.

I wrapped a strip of black ribbon on one side and added a black bow before putting the diecut sentiment onto a doily to make it a little less severe.  Had to hold off on the bling but was still very pleased with the end result.

I then created an insert with a suitable sentiment using some of the wonderful Christian poetry by Michelle Lowndes which has become a total life saver for me as her verses are so perfect for cards.

I've entered this into the Word Art Wednesday challenge 138

Vintage Sentiments

This is one of my all-time favourite card designs I think with it’s wonderful vintage feel.  It was originally a Christmas design but translates perfectly through to any kind of general one as you can easily change whatever text you put on the postcard.

I’ve matted a lovely vintage paper from Pion Design onto gold mirri card, then printed off a postcard with my WordArt verse on it which got matted onto a wonderful white doily which just sets it off wonderfully.  I love this particular verse as while not biblical per se, it’s ideal for anyone, Christian or not.

Finished it all off with a white ribbon and group of mixed flowers – this time using some from Prima as well as Wild Orchid Crafts, and some white pearls.  It’s such a hugely versatile card I know I’ll be making many more but sadly Prima have gone & changed their stock again, so the beautiful cream flowers aren’t available anymore.  But that’s ok – just have to try using some other colours or sizes etc.

So far I’ve only made this as an “ordinary” card rather than an easel but it would lend itself nicely to an easel style too.

I'm entering this into the Wild (oops KEEP writing that LOL!) sorry Word Art Wednesday challenge

Crafting from the Heart
Crafty Creations Challenge #264 - S for Scripture/Sentiment

Word Art Wednesday Challenge 130

Another week done & another month to boot – hard to believe we’re already into May as Christmas seems only a few wks past & the weather as yet at least hasn’t quite hit spring :(

This week’s card is in lovely soft brown colours that I absolutely adore, but can’t get the papers for any longer – they’re from a very old Paper Pizazz pack which I don’t even know the name of to hunt on Ebay or elsewhere for sadly, but someday perhaps I’ll come across them again.

I decided to change my normal design for this card & used two triangles instead to split the card in half along the diagonal which works perfectly with the circle sentiment which I’ve matted onto a 10 cm doily. 

Finished it off with a matching bow and a gold glitter border peel off to match the gold edging of the ribbon – just neatens up the ribbon edges at the ends as the cuts are prone to fraying.

I've just put an ordinary insert inside rather than matching it as I'd so little of the paper left to do so sadly.

LOVE this verse but caution you to remember it’s a single verse & thus shouldn’t be taken on its own to mean anything major – rather use it to be inspired to read the whole passage:

If you want to understand the issues behind that you could consider reading this article:  http://www.relevantmagazine.com/god/practical-faith/stop-taking-jeremiah-2911-out-context

I'm entering this card into Word Art Wednesday Challenge 130

Blessings

Easter Joy :)

Easter is the primary celebration if it can be called that, of the Christian calendar – far more significant than Christmas could ever be, yet I find I neither manage to produce nor send anywhere near the same volume of cards for this occasion as the latter sadly.  But without everything Jesus accomplished that first Easter, mankind would have NO redemption or salvation, or escape from God’s sure & certain judgement in the age to come.  Sin is so obviously inherent within every single person from birth we cannot escape its grasp.  God is perfect & just & thus cannot abide sin, demanding a payment be made for it, and a blood sacrifice is the only thing that makes us remotely stop in our tracks to appreciate the enormity of the crime we commit against God in our sinful nature.  Jesus came as our perfect sinless spotless lamb to be provided as God’s own sacrifice (just as He provided for Abraham), and thus only through Jesus can we ever be reconciled to God.  And thus we commemorate His awesome sacrifice & work on the Cross for this purpose, every Easter. 

If you’re interested in knowing more about what the point & purpose of that sacrifice was, then head over to my other blog Ever Looking Upwards and read more there.

This card is one of a few I did manage to create this week for Easter.  It’s a very simple basic card without too many frills although I’ve gotten utterly obsessed with diecuts & ribbon of late, so am churning out lots of similar designs to this for other occasions.

The background is a lovely grey baroque or damask style purchased locally in a mixed pack – a whole wonderful 24 sheets all different – soooo hard to choose and use anything as I just love looking at them all!! 

I used grey ribbon in a cross pattern and then matted the paper onto a gold mirri paper panel.   Then I diecut the quote and matted it onto gold mirri paper too.  Finally added the grey bow and some silver pearl adhesive gems.

As I was pushed for time I just used an ordinary insert with a nice verse as opposed to matching the inside to the outside as I’ve done with some other cards.

I’m entering this into 2 challenges:

Word Art Wednesday Challenge 128

Crafty Girls Challenge 16

Easter Blessings to you all!!

 

WordArt Wednesday Challenge #124

Another Word Art Wednesday challenge and thankfully again Anything Goes which as always, works wonderfully for me.   This week I’ve made a nice birthday card for an elderly relative who loves pink & lace so easy to provide for :).

The background paper is from a Paper Cellar tartan pack sadly now seemingly no longer available, and it was matted onto gold holographic card.  I punched a complementary pink border to go on top of the lace, which is a really deep lace.

Another wonderful Thomas Kinkade design - Garden of Promise - was tunnel cut and also matted onto the holographic card before putting over the lace border.  Then the best part as always comes with the Wild Orchid Craft roses which just set it off perfectly.

Then the “stop” is a foiled diecut one (possibly Hunkydory) which I’ve again put a couple of roses either side to just set it off.

 

And as always, the base & tag are made to match.

I finished it all off with a matching box as well and boxed the card with pink tissue paper which I know she’ll really love.

Blessings

I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. 

Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.

Psa 139:14 

Word Art Wednesday - card #2

This card is one I created for a friend who’s having a bit of a tough time spiritually just now.  She loves green & cream so I used those colours to good effect with the card.    This verse is just typed & printed out to fit into a Spellbinders scallop oval in cream which is then matted onto a green oval which has actually been cut out of a 2^nd Spellbinders floral oval (I just cut off the outside section, to ensure it would fit snugly inside the final one).  The final floral oval has then been diecut from greaseproof paper just to be different.  I’d been using this as a shim sometimes & then thought they looked quite nice so started using them rather than discarding (well, you know how we all just LOVE hoarding stuff!!)

Underneath that is a layer of 25 mm cream ribbon & a green punched strip (MS scallop punch I think).  The flowers are all Wild Orchid Crafts, & the decoupage is from my stash.

I’ve done the base similarly to the top, and again just diecut the printed greeting.  All finished off with some adhesive cream pearls and her name in peel-off gold foil letters.