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Word Art Wednesday! and a Freebie!

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Happy  Word Art Wednesday   everyone! I hope you stop over to the Blog and join in the fun, We have a inspiring and uplifting devotion by Karen Letchworth and another beautiful bible verse digitized by Karen Murry! This week we have two wonderful sponsors!  The Project Bin $15  AND Imagine That ! (Digital Prize) .  You will really enjoy anything from either of these shops! To Play:  go over to Word Art Wednesday and create a card, either with the verse or any family friendly card!  Enter it and that is it, there will be a random draw winner announced in two weeks!   Don't forget to mail that card and send someone a blessing! Here is my Card for today I find this verse so reassuring, even after walking with the lord for almost four decades! A lovely spring freebie from Gecko Galz Spring Fling Stamp Collection HAve a great day and don't forget to join the fun at Word Art Wednesday ! Ginny M

Whats cooking?

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Winter here is cold, so far not to much snow, but lots of cold.  Perfect time to spend warming up the house with wonderful aromas from my whole food kitchen, which is now Gluten and Dairy free.  Since we have gone the DF and GF route ( due to food allergies) I've had to learn a whole new way of cooking, Honestly, I thought this was going to be rough.  But I am really enjoying the experience both in cooking and the improvement of my health.  I have now lost 50 pounds  that I been dragging me down. My overall general health is much improved.  I am thankful! Here is what I did yesterday: Gluten free flour made from home ground rices: 4 cups each: White rice, Sweet rice, Brown rice and 4 cups Cassava ( ground tapioca). all milled in my Vitamix Highly season bread for making GF croutons and Bread crumbs. In the bread machine. Bread sliced and ready to go in the dehydrator. Cubed and dehydrated. Some will go into the vita mix for bread crumbs.

Great sale at Paper Temptress - Free shipping

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I really thought this was worthwhile  to share with my readers and card making friends, My friend Pat is having a great Sale: To celebrate a new year and hopefully a better year PaperTemptress is offering FREE SHIPPING on the very gorgeous  Valentine Day Speciality Pkg   which works out to let you only pay $2.25 to ship up to another 50 sheets of any cardstock including any of the Copic Blending cardstock and only $7 shipping for up to another 400 sheets so a PERFECT time to add speciality cardstock to your paper stash! The gorgeous Valentine Day Speciality pkg is 22 sheets of gorgeous specialty cardstock that coordinates to design very special Valentine Day cards... Here are the sheets of gorgeous cardstock that is included in the Valentine Day Speciality Pkg. 2 Wild Cherry Pop Tones 100# 2 Vintage Silver Lustre 2 Nero Incandescent 1 Pink Lemonade Pop Tones 2 Cotton Candy Pop Tones 100# 2 Gold Mica/Metallic text 1 Opal Mica/Metallic 2 Gold Pearl Linen 2 Virtual Pearl Iridesc

Making a Cool Cat Card and a Few Tips and a Freebie

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 Last Summer I received a very cool birthday card from my mothers' boyfriend ( yes she is 90 and they have been together for 18 years)  The card was simply a cat image with the words Cool Cat.  It was simple- only black on light green.  I was happy to receive it, but I got really excited because I have the image in my Magenta Rubber Stamp collection!  So I knew I had to make the BF a card.  He's been under the weather so I thought this would be a great get well/ thinking of your card!  he will get a big kick out of it!  Here is my card and a few tips: I wanted to keep this in a monochrome palette, Gerry is 87, I know he will like this but I wanted to still have great contrast - to keep the card from being boring - a big risk working with Sepia colors Here is a tip: ninety-five percent of the time I keep a small margin of space on my card base/background, it acts like a frame and gives the card another layer of sharp contrast. Another tip

Word Art Wednesday Challenge # 318-319

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Happy Word Art Wednesday everyone! With all the crazy weather we are having everywhere I am really happy to stay home and craft!  How about you?  I hope you stop over to the Blog and join in the fun, We have a inspiring and uplifting devotion by Karen Letchworth and another beautiful bible verse digitized by Karen Murry! This week we have two wonderful sponsors!  The first is  - Bossy Joscie $25    AND Cutting Cafe (Digital Prize).  You will really enjoy anything from either of these shops! To Play:  go over to Word Art Wednesday and create a card, either with the verse or any family friendly card!  Enter it and that is it, there will be a random draw winner announced in two weeks!  Don't forget to mai8l that card and send someone a blessing! I'll show you more how to details in an upcoming post. Thanks for stopping by, Ginny M

How to Create a Rich Digital Card with Texture and Foiling

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Today I decided to play around a little with my foils and make a birthday card while I was at it! I printed two images of this rich colored woman holding a lantern by Gecko Galz Pulled out a piece of my Copper Transfer Foil  by Scrpaperfect I squggeled the adhesive on my watercolor background card ( from my stash) went over it with a palette knife Put the foil on top ( shiny side up) burnished with my finger (rubbed), let it sit for a few miniutes Simply lifted the foil sheet off  and built my card! all of my layers and embellishments were held together with The Best Glue Ever Thanks for stopping by and I hope you give this technique a try, it is a lot of fun and really gives an extra richness to your creations! Ginny M

A Sweet Adoption Card

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Today I've made a sweet Adoption card!  I think this is the first I ahve made for this type of event, I have friends that are soon to bring home a 7month old baby girl and I wanted to have something  special to put in her baby book.  I created this card using Paper Temptress Heavenly White 80#  to print on and 120# Paper as the base  and the  Gecko Galz Stamps from  the Land of Nod Set . I also used a piece of  scrapbook paper from my stash in the background Suchh a happy occasion, I printed my stamp in a slate blue, as I originally intended to make this card with a blue palette, I changed my mind when I cam across this Cherry blossom paper. One nice thing about using digitals, you can easily change the stamp colors.  I stayed with the blue and decided it worked  well giving just a bit of contrast Thanks for stopping by, I hope you have a great day! Ginny M

Healthy things to do when it is so cold And why I went Gluten Free and a freebie

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Here in Central New York, we've had a week of sub zero weather. So  this is what I have been doing inside: soaking and then dehydrating 12 lbs of Walnuts, Apples, today; Lemons,and then overnight Onions (Outside in the garage!).  Oranges and Lemons go into the water, we drink a lot and this gives the water a nice flavor boost and a few nutrients. I am also going to make my first batch of Ginger Beer today (non-alcoholic) Why I've gone gluten and dairy free  I have always had a lot of food allergies -since I was a little kid, but something happened to me in Texas and my Autoimmune system went a little haywire  and I developed even more allergies, so now I can't eat gluten, any kind of Dairy( including beef- Casein allergy) Chickpeas, Soy, Coconut Oil. So this has meant basically  I had to learn how to cook all over again. Gluten was a big thing, I thank God I had to make a trip to the ER last June, I had a cold which spiraled into a re

Word Art Wednesday!!

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Happy Word Art Wednesday everyone! I hope you can find a few moments in teh nest week or so to stop by the Blog and andter or awesome challenge!  I ahve been traveling for the last two months and I have missed the WAW fun!  we have a beautiful devotion by Karen Letchworth and a KJV digitized scripture by Karen Murray - all top be a blessing to you at no cost AND prizes!This week We have some pretty Awesome Prizes! Wild Orchid Crafts (UK 15 pound prize) AND Paper Smooches (US Prize $25)! Here is my Design Team entry: I have been in the position where this verse meant everything and I did attsain the victory! There is such sweet peace when you can trust in the Lord! The verse by Karen is on  Word Art Wednesday Blog , I have added it to one of my frames for you to use: I cut this with my brother  scan n cut  - I actually made a dozen! Thanks for stopping by, Don't forget to make a card, mail it and enter the Challenge! Have a great day!

How to Glue Glitter Card Stock, Embellishments and a Freebie

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Happy New Year Everyone! May this be your Best Year Ever! It is freezing sub zero cold here in Central NY and I was able to spend some time in my cozy warm craft room, So  I made a birthday card for a sweet little 7-year-old.  I wanted to use her favorite colors: Red, Brown, and Turquoise.  I thought using a bit of Glitter Cardstock would add a nice touch. I used  Best Glue Eve r for all the embellishments and paper on this card: lace, felt, glitter and glitter cardstock it held it all on perfectly! Glitter cardstock can be problematic  when it comes to adhesives, it is very heavy and the textured surface can be very difficult to get adhesion Just a little will hold it perfectly!  No more score tape -one glue for all the layers. The digital is by  Gecko Galz I really enjoyed making this whimsical card! and thought I would leave you the sentiment digital that I made: If you have an electronic cutter, this comes out beautifully! Thanks