A mini album using the Doodlebug Christmas papers. Please scroll down past the pictures for the video as well as links to the supplies used.
Supplies were purchased from Scrapbook.com. Here comes Santa Collection click here. For the odds and ends coordinating set of die cuts and accessories.
Doodlebug offers many accessories including stickers, paper packs as well as lapel pins. I love how everything coordinates together.
I hope you enjoyed the photos as well as the video showing the mini album. Please email me directly if you have any questions. My email is: ms.rhetta@gmail.com. Stay in touch. Links to my social media are on the upper left corner on the main web page screen.
Hello friends This is a tag for a swap on Creating the crafty life. I used chipboard for the base and the stamps are from Your Next Stamp. Your next stamp is a Canada based company. I have never had any issue with my orders. Once they ship the order usually arrives to my home in about 7 days.
This has to be my favorite tag. This uses stamps and dies from Pink and main. I love their stamps so much I ordered some more shortly after finishing this card. This little fella sitting atop a package under the Christmas tree is sure to make anyone happy!
This last project is a A9 size card. I cut the base from Kraft cardstock and the layering pieces, along with the stamps and dies are all from the My Favorite Things company.
I stamped all the images onto Copic express-it cardstock using memento tuxedo black ink. I then colored and cut out the images.
Once everything was all cut out, I used my regular stamping inks to create a landscape for these little guys. The hardest part of this card was trying to put the scene together in a way that made me happy. The sheep that is jumping the fence is actually on a mini action wobble. These new smaller sized wobbles are a great addition to any whimsical card. They are expensive, however they are worth the price.
I will have more projects to share with you all soon. Stamp Happy and be a blessing! Until next time . . .
My crafty space is starting to come together. I really love the bright sunny yellow. It is playful, creative and cherry!
Mike and I will be driving to nearby Scottsboro, AL to the Home Depot to buy some cabinets (kitchen cabinets) for the long (14’or 168″) wall. There will be upper and lower cabinets, a counter and led under cabinet lighting.
My paper storage racks will be coming in from the garage and the paper will be loaded into them. It is exciting. Once my room is complete, we will be able to work on the other rooms that need painting. Which basically is everything.
The family room and dining room’s are the next rooms to be finished. The kitchen just needs paint and one light fixture to be updated. The problem is that it feels like everything we do gets delayed in some fashion. Trying to live in an environment with all this construction going on is not easy. At least I do not have the need to curl up in a corner, cry and suck my thumb. (laugh its’ funny!).
I hope you are all doing well. Here are some updated pictures (Take 10/19-10/20/2017)
Coming soon two 15″ X 30″ upper cabinets over the paper racks. This will help balance the two sides of the room. I have set up my die cutting “cart” where the Sizzix big shot and some smaller dies will be living. On the bottom of this cart is over flow storage of stamp and die sets. I will post a room tour and details soon.
Have a great week. Stamp Happy and be a Blessing. Remember me in prayer tomorrow. My Craig will celebrate his 28th birthday. In prison. I love him. His decisions grieve my heart. I praise the Lord in the good and bad things of life.
Like many days recently, my heart and mind have been on Craig. My guess is the fact he will celebrate his 28th birthday on the 21st of October has something to do with it. I miss him.
The realization that I am unable to control the circumstances much less dictate the direction they have or will go is a revelation to me. I’m a control freak. Anyone who really knows me will simply stay if something needs to be done, call Loretta.
If I tell you I will be praying for you, I fulfill my promise. We all need prayer. We all need grace. None of us deserve grace. As I mentioned in a previous post, I am finally OK with Craig being in prison. He is actually where he needs to be. It is a minimal security prison and safe in the large scheme of things. I know he is fed, has access to a Library and I know where he is. I spent to much time worrying over him in the previous years.
This all started June 11, 2011. Fast forward 5 years. Time does not make things better, it simply brings things into sharper focus. It is the Lord that heals the wounds, including those that remain unseen. May my testimony be used for his glory and to help others going through difficult times. I don’t have all the answers, I just have Jesus.
Tomorrow’s post will be of a crafty nature. Stamp Happy and Be a Blessing, remember always be kind to one another, life is just too short not to be. Until next time….
Like most Sunday’s of late, Mike and I enjoyed worship services with fellow believers at Lake Guntersville family day. North Broad Church of Christ. As a recovering Southern Baptist, I must admit there are several differences with the doctrine between the two Christian worship services and beliefs.
One of the most notable is that the celebration of the Lord’s supper is every Sunday in the Church of Christ, where most Baptist Churches celebrate it quarterly. Another interesting observation, the music. I love to sing, I love hymns. In a Baptist Church especially now a days there is a “Praise” team. In a Church of Christ Congregation, each member is the praise team. There are no instruments, just the voices lifted to the God most high.
In many ways this small precious church takes me back to long ago days spent with my grandparents. Both believers in Christ. It was important to them that their grandchildren knew the gospel and their prayer the children and grandchildren would accept Christ as savior for themselves. My grand father was a fire and brimstone kind of preacher. I have often teased throughout the years that if you where not saved when you walked into a Sunday morning service, you would be before you left. How precious those days of enjoying an “Old fashioned” Sing were to me. How precious they still are.
In the daily grind of life, with all the unexpected twists, turns and even trials, knowing we serve a risen Savior is as constant as that River. It does not vary its course, it stays true.
One of my favorite hymns is “Standing on the Promises”. “Standing on the promises of Christ my King,
Through eternal ages let his praises ring;
Glory in the highest, I will shout and sing,
Standing on the promises of God.
Standing, standing,
Standing on the promises of God my Savior;
Standing, standing,
I’m standing on the promises of God.”
So my friend, stand strong on the promises of God. Remember he sent his son as our atonement.Remember it is not that the Lord allows bad things to happen. It is his promise that he will be there when they do.
