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How to Make a Quick Slimline Bible Verse Card, Links, a Tip and Freebie

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Happy Friday Everyone, A beautiful day here in CNY and I am about to head outdoors but before I do I wanted to share a super quick card making Idea.   In my Digital files, I have a wonderful folder of bible verses illustrated by various artists. I do lots of handouts for Sunday School and other church-related things.  I also leave some of these beautifully printed scriptures on tables in restaurants ( With a good tip! Someday I will share the story of a pastor who brought 18 people to dinner on a Sunday and left his waitress - a 19-year-old me- a tract and no tip!). Actually, I will leave these anywhere I can.  But today I made cards with bookmarks. The latest trend seems to be the slimline card; 4.00" x 9" in a business-size envelope.   Here's the set of Cards: I cannot seem to find the designer of the bookmark I used, but if you go here to Etsy you will find many wonderful designers Here is my Tip for the day;  We all seem to end up purchasing numerous cutters until we

How to Not Get Caught up in Craft Spending AKA Good Stewardship and Freebie

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Hello Everyone, I thought this was worth the time to listen too, Tips on how to avoid creative burn out, and how not get caught up in spending instead of creating - AKA good Stewardship! One of the reasons I post so many items for you on my blog is to help you build a collection of art and sentiments that you can use for your card making and card ministries without cost. It is so easy to get caught up in the marketing of "Stuff". This is one of the reasons I never designed for big companies -(I may not have been talented enough) It is so easy to get caught up in our hobbies, buying the latest and greatest. I loved working for the smaller companies and helping them grow their businesses, but even that chapter has changed and I just want to give what has been freely given to me. I hope you enjoy this video and find it helpful - Linday is a wonderful person and artist and since I know her personally I can attest to her excellent ethics! you can follow her here:  The Frugal C

Work Art Wednesday ,More Butterflies, Stickles and Mail-Able Dimension

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Happy  Word Art Wednesda y   everyone!  Karen Letchworth has given us a beautiful devotion !  We also have another gorgeous  Bible Verse digitized by Karen Murray!    Check out the blog to see our Sponsors for this week!        I hope you stop over to the blog and join in the fun My Card today is made with to digital files from my stash I printed these on watercolor paper along with this weeks verse and then printed a separate pair to create the pop-up wings On the pop-up pair, I added a little sparkly Stickles.  I could have used a glitter glue or sparkly pen, but those embellishments are water-based and would have caused the inks to run from my print. I am thankful for this verse and the long-suffering of The Lord, this long-suffering allowed me and then my children to enter into his kingdom, I never pray come now, Lord.  I pray for him to make me able to stand and work in the days he has given me. here are some lovely butterflies for you to add to

CAS Card Set Freebies for You, Featuring the Fruit of the Spirit

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I have some beautiful vintage fruit images and I thought to make a CAS set featuring Galatians 5:22 the Fruit of the spirit.  I want to share them with you for your card making and blessing others. My cards are the a6 size which is 6.25x4.  A slightly larger size which I prefer. if you are interested I purchase my card stock from The Papermill Store  (no Affiliation). I buy only a few papers. One of my favorites is   CLASSIC CREST Solar White Card Stock - 18 x 12 in 110 lb Cover Smooth Digital 125 per Package.  Cut in quarters this will make 500 card bases for about 90.00 Here is a peek at all four cards.  I edged each panel with Copper Sharpie and  adhered to the card base.  Super simple. You can right-click and save these to your files to make your own set: I hope you can use these for your card making, Thank you for stopping by and have a great day! 

How to Use Stash Up For Fun Tag Cards and a Freebie

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Hi everyone, I hope you are all healthy and staying safe.  The weather has been great here in Central New York and busy as ever.  As the "card Lady" for my church, I am always looking for ideas to make cards of encouragement that are unique and cheerful.  I came across a sheet of tags that I had printed some time ago ad though I would look for a fun print in my paper stash.  I will show you the cards and then the process, read along, or go right to the freebie for your card making! Well, how is that for focus!    I traced my tag on to a piece of paper to make sure I lined it up properly.  I only had 6 tags and didn't want to stamp on crocked.   Using a stamp positioner I lined it up  I also edged each tag I love using Hug Snug Hem facing for ribbons, they come in a huge selection of colors and are very affordable.  The knots tie easily and will lay very flat for mailing.  here I took snips of the ribbon and gave it a spritz of water

Word Art Wednesday Butterflies and Nail Polish and Freebies

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Happy  Word Art Wednesday   challenge # 448-449  everyone!  Karen Letchworth has given us a beautiful devotion !  We also have another gorgeous  Bible verse digitized by Karen Murray!    Our Sponsor this week is :   CAS-Ual Fridays !      I hope you stop over to the blog and join in the fun! I love this weeks verse, To think the Lord would even care for us so tenderly?  Is there any other god that speaks this way? That cares this way?  Not one! Like all my cards I make sure they are mailable or frameable.   In other words, they are very flat.  I know many card makers have a lot of beautiful embellishments and they are gorgeous, but they aren't mailable without using a box, and that would just be way out of my budget. In order to compensate I attempt to use color and pattern and good composition. For this card, I used the old nail polish trick to give sparkle to the butterflies and paper layering for interest  the paper is from my stash, an

Sunday Word

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How To Watercolor Using Digital Images Or a Paper and Paint Trial

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If you are an avid card maker there will be a point in time that you will run out of space for your stamp collection and take a look at using digitals instead of stamps.  I don't think one can replace the other completely.   Part of the process and love of the art is the ongoing hunt for the perfect stamp. Actually, it is an ongoing event of looking for the perfect everything in stamp making.  Ten years ago I unmounted about 3,000 stamps and created a storage system for them.  I also made copies of each stamp and digitized them for my personal use. 2 years ago I sold most of that rubber collection.  I still have plenty of well-loved and used stamps but I use 80% digital. 28 years ago when I  learned how to use windows 311 and transitioned to the mighty windows 95, I started collecting public domain art and creating a vast catalog of jpgs to use in art and card making.  Today I have an enormous collection of jpgs I use for stamps and cards.  All safely backed up and stored in mul