Bible Journaling: Colossians 3:14

Happy Monday to you!!

This is now Week 7 over at Documented Faith. The focus word for February is LOVE. 

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This week's verse is in 

Colossians 3:14

"Love is more important than anything else. It is what ties everything completely together."

I am using a Journaling Bible in the ESV version, so my verse reads like this:

"And above all these, put on Love which binds everything together in perfect harmony."

When we have God's love, we do things in Love.For example; showing compassion towards others, spreading kindness, practicing humility, demonstrating gentleness, and having patience. All of these are easy to do when you have love for others. 

For this page, I used a little bit of everything. Various Stickers, some by Tim Holtz, some acrylic paint, stickers, Bo-Bunny stamps, epherma, and an arrow Paperclip I found at Michael's and Washi Tape for Target's $1 spot. 

Thanks for stopping by. Have a wonderfully blessed Valentine's Day tomorrow. I challenge you to spread some LOVE!!!

Bible Journaling: 1 John 4:7-8

Good Wednesday to you!!!

Today I'm sharing a page from my ESV Crossway Jornaling Bible.
The verse this week at Documented Faith is

1 John 4:7-8

7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

I think it's very appropriate for this month's holiday too!  

Valentine's Day that is!! 

Here it is: 
On the Recollections card, I wrote a list of the people I love....too many to list, but I wrote down my closest ones. :)

 Materials used: Polka dotted vellum and heart patterned paper (Michael's), Heart Washi Tape (Target $1 Spot), Recollections Library Card pocket/card (Michael's) kraft letter stickers (Hobby Lobby) Word Stickers (Tim Holtz) and Letter stickers (white letter on black) (Joann's Fabric Store), Plaid Ribbon (my sister had tied this around a gift) "Love Always" stamp (Peachy Cheap Deals)

Honestly,I hadn't worked in my Bible in months. I was in this "slump". Last weekend,

I atteneded a Women's Church Conference with a friend of mine. I had such an wonderful time, my soul was renewed.

On Friday, after receiving the email with this week's  Bible verse I was excited to read God's word and get some journaling done. 

Thanks for stopping by!! Have a blessed Wednesday!!!

DIY Valentine's Day Banner

I hope everyone is having a wonderful Monday! On Sunday evening I was supposed to be cleaning my craft room aka guest room. 
Funny thing is, instead of cleaning, I get hit with the "Crafting Bug"! 
Ever had that happen to you??

With Valentine's Day coming up, I found a banner I had a bought at Target's Dollar Spot...it's a super cute, ready to embellish banner for $1!! It came with 8 triangles to decorate, but I only needed 4, so now I have 4 left for another banner! 

As I was cleaning, I found lots of little things to put on m banner. A baggy of ribbons and trims.

A sheet of rhinestone stickers (left over from my Faith Banner), a jar of buttons and some twine.

I looked around for some letters to put on my banner and found a box of letters from my old scrapbooking days. The brand on these is Kurio. I was so disappointed because I couldn't find an "O"...BUT, I did find a "Q", SO, because I live out in the country and can't just run to the craft store, and because I was too lazy to look for more letters....I  trimmed it up to MAKE it an "O"!! And it worked!!!

I tried different trims of lace and ribbon until I liked what I saw. I then used my hot glue gun to attach all the cuties!

And I came up with this:

And here's my banner again!!! Very inexpensive and quick to put together. My favorite kind of crafting project!!

Have a blessed day!!!

You can Count on Me x 2!!

Happy Valetine's Day!! And what a beautiful day it looks like it's going to be! The sun is shining and our high today is supposed to be in the 70's.
Today I have 2 cards to share with you. Both using the same image from Whimsiedoodles, but totally different colors schemes!
These are going to some special gals in my life. 2 of them are going to be surprised today with these cards and some baked treats!!! Share the LOVE!!!!

Card Details: Digi Image/ Sentiment-Whimsiedoodles, Patterned Papers-October Afternoon and My Mind's Eye, Brad-The Paper Studio,Cirlces-Spellbinders, Misc.-Machine Stitching and Heart Lollipop

Card Details: Digi Image/ Sentiment-Whimsiedoodles, Patterned Papers-October Afternoon and My Mind's Eye, Felt Flower-Target Dollar Spot,Cirlces-Spellbinders, Misc.-heart Lollipop, Border Punch-Martha Stewart

Thanks for visiting!!! Here's wishing you a wonderful day filled with LOVE!!!

Linking to these challenges:

2 Sisters Challenge Blog-Hearts

CES Challenge-Lots of Layers (1st Card)

Cardmadfairy's Digi Days challenge-Hearts

Craft us Crazy-Anything Goes

Crafty Your Days Away #38-Stitching (1st Card)

Squigglefly-Have a Heart

Papertake Weekly-Black and White and Red all Over (1st Card)

One Stitch at a Time-Anything Goes

Stamps R Us-Anything Goes

Crafts and Me #68-use a NEW Image-I just bought this one! :)

Valentine's Day Treat Bags

HI there! Been working on some Valentine's Day treat bags this morning. I bought this set of tags at Whimsie Doodles, and they are the cutest things!!

Pretty cute, huh? Easy too.....I like that!!!

Have a wonderful Friday!

Linking this to:

Sassy Cheryl's Show Me #61

Tic Tac Toe-Valentine's Day Treats

Pinterest!!! I love this site...I have gotten so many cute ideas from it! Like the one I am sharing with you today!
This idea caught my eye:

from this site: SHIM+Sons, but I couldn't find a printable. So I googled and found this one:

I wish I could remember the site that i got this from. :( But again, just google "free valentine printables", and

you will discover all of these fun printables!

I really like this idea! Super easy and cute!!

So sorry for the late posting...Blogger is STILL giving me grief.

But I guess it's better late than never!!!LOL

Have a wonderful Wednesday!

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Valentine Treats!

Happy Friday to you!! Today I'd like to share some Valentine Treats that made last year and they were a hit, so...I'm making them again this year!!!

All of these images are by Whimsiedoodles. I purchased these last year and checked the shop and they are STILL available!  

Here is a close-up view:

I also made these "Hogs and Kisses"..using Hershey Kisses.

and a close-up:

These were super easy. Fill cello bags with kisses and tie on a tag with some cute ribbon!

Thank you for visiting today! Have a wonderful Friday!

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Happy Valentine's Day!!!

Just wanted to wish you and your LOVED ones a Happy Valentine's Day! I will spending the day home alone, cleaning and crafting!! Hopefully I will get to do a little more crafting and less cleaning! LOL
Here's a card to share with you:

Card Details: Digi Image-Whimsiedoodles, Patterned Paper-Cosmo Cricket, Ribbon-Hobby Lobby, Heart Button-Dollar Tree, Star Punch-McGill

Thanks for visiting today! Have a wonderful Monday!!!

Valentine's M&M Stix

Good afternoon!!!
We are having a beautiful day here in South Texas! The sun is shining and it's cool but not cold. So..you think with the sunshine I'd have tons of energy today...well, I don't. I've been so lazy it's silly!!!

I did work on some stuff yesterday, and would like to share with you a super cute Valentine's Day treat. I can also see these for any special occasion!

I got this idea off of another blog, but my mind is blank right now, and I can't remember the name. So sorry.

Please forgive my "unprofessional" photos. I have a new computer, but it didn't come with any photo editting software, so I didn't get to crop them. I'm hoping when my college son gets home, he can help me out with this! LOL

Here they are:

On these, I used some mini valentine digi images from Whimsiedoodles. This is from last years collection.

On these, I used some layered, felt hearts I found at Hobby Lobby.

I bought these bags, measuring 1x8 online from:

http://www.gtbag.com/

Tomorrow, I'd like to show you a card I'm working on using today's new releases by

Meljen's Designs

Have a wonderful Thursday!

Valentine's Hairbows

Happy Saturday!! As promised, I wanted to show you some hair bows I made for Valentine's Day.
I found these cute felt embellishments at Hobby Lobby, they came in  bag of about 20 for $3.99, PLUS...they were 1/2 off!! WooHoo! I picked up some clips and then found this matching ribbon at WalMart.
Here you go:

Super simple, and really cute!!!
Have a great Saturday!!!

Hogs and Kisses!!!

Goodmorning!!! And happy Friday to you!!!
Today I'd like to show you some Valentine treat bags that I made using the "Hogs and Kisses" digi image from Whimsiedoodles. When I first saw this image, that comes in set with many other cute images, I immediately knew what I was going to do with it!!! I paired it with some yummy pink, Caramel Hershey Kisses!

 

Here's a more frilly version! :)

 

They were so cute, I made a basket full!!!

 Right now Whimsiedoodles is having a challenge called Hugs and Kisses! I'm going to be using these in the challenge!!!
Okay...back to my Valentine crafting! Check back soon. Have a blessed Friday and a super wonderful weekend!!!


Please check back tomorrow. As I will be showing you some more Valentine goodies. Like Hairbows!!!

I'm BACK! New Meljen's Designs Releases!!!

WooHoo!! I'm back! I am still having major computer issues, but my brother helped me figure out a  way to post my pictures. So, what could be better than "back to blogging"? How about some new releases from Melissa of Meljen's Designs?!
You can find all of her precious digital images here: Whimsy Stamps

I was trying to post an image of her new releases for today, but my computer wouldn't let me do that. (((sad face))) So click on the link above and it will take you right to them, and you really wanna see these...it involves bras and panties!!! Risque!!!!(((he, he)))

Challenge #42 this week is all about Pink and Red!
Here's my card using Little Phone:

 

Card Details: Patterned Paper--The Paper Studio, Image-Meljen's Designs "Little Phone", Sentiment-Open Office, Scalloped Circle-Nestabilities, Brads-The Paper Studio, Misc.-Stickles 

Okay, now it's your turn! Please join us over at our Challenge blog:

Meljen's Designs Challenge Blog 

and play along! I cannot wait to see what you create. 

And....be inspired by cards using bras and panties! ((he, he))

Have a blessed Thursday! And please check back tomorrow as I will be showing you a Valentine treat I made using "HOGS AND KISSES"!!

I have "Me" time!

Yes!!! It's Monday!!!!! I know for  alot of you, it's your day off for President's Day, but for me...kids are back in school and my hubby is back at work! What does this mean for me? Cardmaking time!!!!!!!
Today I am using this card for Mo's Digital Challenge #18. The challenge says to use pink, red and white colors on your card and to include a heart.
So...here's my card:

Card Details-- Digi Image:Mo Manning, Patterned Paper:The Paper Studio, Sentiment: Microsoft Word, Circle and Scalloped Circle: Cuttlebug dies, Border Punch: Martha Stewart, Misc.: Ribbon, Heart charm, Stickles, Machine Stitching

Thanks for visiting! Enjoy your day!

A Digi Image named after me??

Well, I'd love to believe that...but no, it's not true!LOL These digi images are named "Audrey" but I'm not the "Audrey" she speaks of, it's actually her daughter Audrey that these super cute images are named after! :)
You see, it all started out with a free image from The Stamping Boutique, after I got this, I HAD TO have more!!! Especially since there's a whole collection of Audrey images!!!
Here's the card I made this weekend using Cooking Audrey (something I don't enjoy doing at all!)

Card Details: Digi Image: The Stamping Boutique, Patterned Paper: The Paper Studio, Sentiment: Studio G,Misc.:Ribbon, Copics to color, Trifold Card: American Crafts

One more thing........
My hubby is on vacation this week so I don't have alot of "me" time! So today I worked on a quick project
for Valentine's Day.
I started out with some packages of Grandma's Chocolate Chip cookies. I then printed out some Mini Valentine's by Whimsiedoodles. I colored them in, adhered them to cardstock and then strung ribbon through them to attach them to the pack of cookies!
Here you have it! My quick, fun project for today!!

Details: Digi Image: Whimsiedoodles, Cookies: Grandma's Cookies, Ribbon and Cardstock

Thanks for visiting, have a wonderful Monday ~God bless!
And....as always, comments are greatly appriecated!

Special Delivery

Before heading to bed I just have to show you a really cute image that I used to make a really cute card!!! Well, in my opinion it's cute!!! I'm sure you will think the same thing! This image is from Karen's Doodles. Please check our her blog, she has got the most darling images!!!

Card Details: Digi Image--Karen's Doodles, Patterned Paper-The Paper Studio, Circle/Scalloped Circle-Cuttlebug, Misc.-Ribbon, Sentiment-Microsoft Word


Thanks for visiting~~~Goodnight!