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I did get my pot rack hung last night and I will have to show you a picture once I clean the bottom of my wok!!  It was a beautiful day here in San Antonio in the mid 70's sunny with a breeze!  I had the privilege of making lunch for a new friend "BeBe"!  We ate out on my balcony and enjoyed the spring weather!  I also able to get a few cards made today , the three of them are for Oriental Stamp Art swaps: This first one is for a postage stamp swap: and the Second is for a Asian Elephant Mingle: The back ground on the elephant is using a "black Magic" technique,    Click here for the you tube tutorial! Tomorrow we are off and traveling to a town near Austin! Thanks for stopping by! Ginny M

What I've been doing..

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I haven't posted in almost two weeks.  I have been busy Sorting; sorting out my craft room, my closets, my ministry,  my kitchen and my life.  We all come to crossroads in our lives and at those points things change.  Staying at the crossroad is also an option, but it is never a healthy one. There are a few things in my life that are unchangeable, my love of God, my husband and my family my friends.  Everything else is subject to fire, flood, hormones and flat tires.  You all KNOW what I mean, We all take up the paddle in this boat from time to time.  I am still making cards and doing DT work, I have downsized my collection and taken it off the high boil.  Why?  Because the season is changing.  I go through this every year, spring comes and I can't sit at my desk all day.  It is time for me to get out of my little apartment and start finding connections. It is time for me to start having people here and making connections.  Hopefully my craft will be apart of that, but righ

Word Art Wednesday and Challenge #218

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What a wonderful Verse we have this week at Word Art Wednesday !   When I make a card as a design team member for WAW, I take time to let the Bible verse sink into my heart and work in me.  I want it to become a "Rhema" for me for the week.   I try to bring images that will compliment the verse.  This week when I read the verse immediately the thought of iron works came to my mind and then behind the ironworks, a beautiful green garden.   How many Brass gates do we face in our life, how many iron bars keep us from our promises?  The Lord in this verse promises to go before us and make the crooked places straight, cast down the brass gates of judgment and break the bars of our prison.  What strong and powerful words the Lord promises to those who love him, To those who allow Him to be mighty in their lives!! Choose Him and be Free! Thanks for stopping by here and click over to Word Art Wednesday, Make a card , mail it and enter our family friendly any

Dood Good and Avoid Evil

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Beautiful illustration of this verse!  My Calander a day Card Challenge for today!  Original Art by Mary Englebreit: Thanks for stopping by! Ginny M

Layout Challenge

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 We had a fun Layout Challenge over at Oriental Stamp Arts  These challenges force me to try to do something a little different!! Here is the Layout: Here is my card: I fussy cut the Geisha Image added it to a hand stamped background and then layered on to the designer paper.  A fun layout to try! My CCADC 01/07/16 Great saying!! Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have time to check out all the fun things  at Oriental Stamp Arts! Ginny M

Word Art Wednesday!!

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Happy New Year and Happy new Challenge art Word Art Wednesday!!! Today is challenge # 217 with lots of inspiration and gifts!! Simon Says Stamps will be one of our new sponsors this year offering a $25.00 Gift Certificate every month!!  How awesome is that??  For all the details, a devotion and a digital scripture ( Win, Win, Win!!)   Head over to the blog!!! I have  a great tip for those of you who make digital and hybrid cards like I do too!! Here is today's verse: Here is my card: And here is my tip: When I printed this beautiful ballerina, I printed her on 140# water color paper on standard print.  I should have used photo print setting.  The image came with those tell tale printer lines running horizontally across the image.  You that  do digitals know what I am talking about.  This image used a lot of ink and I did not really want to reprint it.   So I thought what can I use to mix out those lines?  I thought well the T H distress inks have

Whats on your Work Desk # 344

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Happy New Year everyone!  After the holidays and after  having a crafty break for about two weeks (craft room turned into guest room), I feel charged and ready for a new creative year.  I've got a few fun challenges going on in my face book group and look forward to upcoming planned events. Here is my Desk today: I've got thank yous  made and waiting to be written out, I've done a  calendar coloring page and made it into a card , and lots of fun things this week, just visit a couple of previous posts if you are interested! This is a calendar page, about  5x5.  I purchased this desk top calendar for a few dollars a t a book store going out of business.  I'm not a great color-er, so I thought this might be a good exercise.  A lot of time for not much results!     I did make a card out of it. For more desk top fun, hop- over to Julias ' and join the run the world desk top hop! Thanks for stopping by! Ginny M

Quick Bible cover, or cover for any book!

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Steve and I spent the day shopping , one of our stops was the Christian Book Store in town. He needed a new journal for 2016 and I needed a new "church" bible. I gave my other "church" bible to a guy I met while I was walking my dog in the park.  I've been lugging my Thompson Chain Reference around, which is fine, but they are expensive and heavy and I like something lighter to take around.  I still prefer a "real" bible.  I use one on my PC but I like to carry mine in hopes of someday another person saying "hey is that a bible and how can you understand it"? I found what I was looking for, Large print, not to thick, white paper and clear print, and under 20.00. A basic KJV Good print on good paper I picked out a few sheets of cardstock- you only need 2. Drizzeled rubber cement - nothing high tech here! Placed the paper and burnished (rubbed down the surface to insure smoothness and adhesion.

We're enjoying a nice restful Sunday

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  I hope you're catching your breath today and having  a restful day!                                                        After Church and dinner I'll be working on a few gifts, I did want to show you my Card a day card:  What an Appropriate quote!! Thank  you for stopping by and have a great day! Ginny M

Card a Day Calendar Challenge

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I Enjoy using desk top day calendars, My favorite are Mary Engelbreit's' I get at least one every year! I also enjoy making cards from the pages, Mary's' artwork is just to wonderful to throw away!! Just in case you are wondering about the legality of that , you can read this from Mary Herself: This all has to do with license and the huge market in this country for theft of license product.  I am making cards with Mary's product for personal use, I am not using her art work to resell that would require being  licensed and all that goes along with that. With that out of the way, I challenged my face book group to make a card a day from one of their desk top calendars!  I also decided to make mine using scraps.   Here is my First Day's card: Nothing fancy, I'll let the Art speak for itself! I'm going to keep these on a separate page in my blog if you would like to follow along, it will be on a page called Card A Day! I hope you

A new a year and a Fresh Challenge for Oriental Stamp Arts

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This year I have taken on the challenge of teaching a technique every month at Oriental Stamp Arts! This Month's challenge is one of my favorite: Faux Cloisonne! I'm going to walk you through this wonderful technique and I hope you give it a try!  It is easy and with a little practice you will have an outstanding bit of art for your cards! What you will need: An "outline" style stamp,  A pigment or heat embossing ink pad.   Heat embossing Gold powder.  Heat tool (or a toaster if you don't have a heat gun!). Watercolors, or watercolors markers Fine paint brush Watercolor paper Standard card making supplies This Beautiful Line style stamp is from my Art Neko Collection  and works perfectly for this technique! I purchased a Versa Mark Embossing Stamp pad a few years ago and re-ink it with plan ole glycerin. This bottle will last years and only costs 2.99. Stamp your image, and cover with heat embossing powder.  I am showing