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   Good Morning! It is Word Art Wednesday's Anything Goes Challenge # 627-628. As always, Share anything family-friendly makes,  a card, an ornament, a journal, or framed art; we love you sharing your talents and creations!   We have our beautiful devotion by Karen Letchworth, a digital scripture gift from Karen Murray. Design team inspiration.   We have a very special Blog Hop Today.   Extra Prizes: 2- $25.00 Gift cards from Unity Stamp Company    For our overseas entries: Stix to Anything   for those entering in our regular link-up Each Blog will have a drawing giveaway with a unique gift; check mine out at the end of the post! You must stop at each blog on the Blog Hop list and leave a comment on each blog to be eligible for the prize(s) shown on that blog.  My card today using the Unity Sponsor Stamp Set:  Fall Gal I love this set. Instead of coloring it, I normally use leftover bits of paper, stamp multiple images, fussy-cut, and then put it all together like a paper doll!  In

Good Morning! It is Word Art Wednesday's Anything Goes Challenge # 625-626.  As always,  anything family-friendly goes a card, an ornament, a journal, or framed art; we love you sharing your talents and creations!   We have our beautiful devotion by Karen Letchworth, a digital scripture gift from Karen Murray, design team inspiration, and a sweet prize from  Really Reasonable Ribbon ! Check the website out; there is something for every type of crafting. Mark your calendars for the annual Word Art Wednesday Holiday Blog Hop!  The fun will begin on Wednesday, December 20, with sponsor prizes, as well as design team giveaways. Our gift verse this week is perfect for your Christmas card-making. I am using it for mine this year. I have always sent a Christmas card centered around our Redeemer's birth, and now it is even more important to keep it about Jesus. My card is a slim line A9 size using navy blue paper and lots of gold. This has to be the question of the hour of the day we l

 In First Corinthians 1:4-9 Paul teaches on the gifts given to us by the Lord - gifts given in abundance to keep us in the long walk of life until we see Him.  That he knows what we need when we need it.  What a comforting thought.  Of course, this hinges on our trusting him.  If we don't trust, we won't be able to navigate the narrow path. The narrow path would be the easier one to navigate; it would be if there were no obstacles lying in the way of the flesh. We have to trust him to hold our hand and direct us on that path. If we stumble, He is faithful to help us up and onward.  The broad path requires no assistance, and everything dangerous is hidden until a person falls so severely that they can not get up again and realize their ruin too late. I wanted to emphasize all the gifts needed in my journal entry. So, I used a stamp that came to me in a "lot" of rubber stamps.  At first glance, I thought it was a Magenta stamp.  It is an Art Impressions stamp from 2002.

 From  2 Corinthians 9, a lesson on giving and not giving.  These verses speak about financial giving, how to do it, and why to do it,  the point being that  God's economy is perfect.  A Cheerful giver is a person who is not owned by his or her bank account or possessions. Paul encourages us to be free in our giving, loving others as Christ loves us. Banking the freedom of righteousness, which through us produces many thanksgivings to The Lord! I used an old Impression Obsession wood-mounted basket stamp. I love the quality of "IO" stamps. and a few markers to make the seeds. It was a restful journaling session. I hope you all have a wonderful day filled with Thanksgiving to the Lord for his many blessings in your life, with family and friends and great food! Ginny M

 Hello everyone; it's  Word Art Wednesday once again, and we are now at challenge 623-624. As always, it is anything family-friendly goes!  We have our sweet devotion by Karen Letchworth, a digital scripture gift from Karen Murray, design team inspiration, and a sweet prize from Pretty Little Studio !  Check the website out. They have some awesome crafty stuff, including Digitals!! This week I made a folded card using an Anna Griffin fold-over die and a beautiful digital of a painting by Victor-Gabrie Gilbert titled 'Flower Seller'.   This die was a new experience for me, and I could not find any instructions for its use anywhere, so I winged it more or less.                              Here is the lovely painting The Process: I used the die on a piece of scrapbook paper and then thought I would use it for the card base. I used Microsoft Publisher for my printing and measuring  I eyeballed and used a grade school ruler, nothing fancy. The rulers in the program make this v

 My Bible journaling for today is John 10:9                                                                                                      Jesus Said:  I am the door: by me, if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. This passage has been lingering in my mind all day; I shared it with the sweet 94-year-old that I care for several days a week. We talked about that door and how, when you look at it from afar, it seems very small and plain and nothing that you would run to and desire to enter.  It is not like Door Number One or Two or Three.  Even though plain, it is the most important door a person can pass through. Here is the finished page, and I will share the process: The digital is from Charlene Warwick's Art Doors of Hope .  Her work is truly beautiful and I am happy to share this link.   I cut the doors open with an exacto knife I used an image from the  'Beautiful' journaling series by Open Journey I used T. Holtz Tea-Dye

  Today's title is a quote from our assistant pastor, Andrew, as he was walking past a group of us as we were talking about tithing after a service. There was a small debate about whether this was an NT-valid practice.  This post is a little different from my normal, but I felt like it was important because while I do tithe now         (with a cheerful heart), that wasn't always my case. The root problem was much mire serious than I realized. A long time ago, in a land far from where I am spiritually now, I struggled with tithing.   I was a single mom with two kids and making an income that was well within the poverty zone. I struggled with my 30.00 a week tithe offering from my regular job and the 10.00 a week from a part-time job I did from home after the kids went to bed. Eventually, I just stopped - Now I know that was the worst thing I could have done financially. This was for an 8-year period. There were all kinds of reasons that I justified it with, but honestly, I felt

 Hello, Everyone, hope you are all having a great weekend.  It is Saturday night here, it has been a beautiful day here, Study and housework in the morning, and in the afternoon, a big yard project that was a fail, no fault of ours,  it just didn't follow the plan. We all have those events.  After dinner, back to studying and getting ready for Sunday.  On Saturday, I normally finish up my scripture writing for the week and do the next week's layout.  Last week's layout with the verses for the week. I use the Inscribe plan and usually write the thought of the text, not just a verse or two. A couple of tip-ins and a large flip-down.  I make most of my stickers, using different digital companies and public domain art.  A favorite of mine is  The Graphics Fair y, for two reasons, #1, superb selection and #2, you have at your fingertips a world-class digital art education. Another new favorite is Daydream Bible Art , a wonderful company by artisit and author Diane Noble.  I am

 A few weeks ago, I joined a bible journaling Facebook group.  I was looking for Christian women who had a passion for this form of spiritual expression and bible study, new ideas, sharing my ideas, and last but not least like-minded friendship.  Well, I found all the things I was hoping for in "JOTW".  The group is based in South Africa and owned by the delightful Lynn G.  Yesterday  Lynn taught a class or page demonstration from a devotion written by Shauna Niequist.    The title of the devotion was "Created on purpose - for a purpose" ( which just happens to coincide with Ingrid Blixit's Open Journey devotion series this month)!    Shauna used the scripture from Job 37:5-6 and Lynn purchased (with license) a terrific image to illustrate each woman's uniqueness, expressing how important it is to become the 'you' that 'you' really are, and not the 'you', you think you should be!  I think many women struggle with this.  Life has so ma

  This morning's scripture writing is Psalm 118:22.  It is a work morning for me and I don't usually try to journal on a work morning, just not enough time. But today I really just had to do something after reading and scribing verses 19-24 of Psalm 118, I really felt a sense of awe at what the Lord has done for us.  You know the Adversary of our soul has waged a full onslaught against our really feeling anything. Media has robbed us by numbing us to Awe and Wonder by replacing it with special effects and intense soundtracks. We are deluged day in and day out, with mind spraining nothingness to the point where we are impressed by very, very little.  In these short passages The psalmist freezes history and brings the ancient world into our present and our future and David who never saw The Redeemer, penned the plan and the future.  He said It is Marvelous. It is really beyond that, I don't think our language can convey what it really is- Think about it! I used from stash a h

 Have you ever watched that show?  Personally, I am not a fan, I don't like all the drama and conflict, seeing a bride's feelings get hurt, mothers being pushy and dominating, sisters being mean and petty.  Do you ever wonder why the media loves to push such a bizarre normal?  Any way,  Today I am bringing you the Dress to Say Yes to, the one that will forever be perfect and comfortable, you will never have to diet physically for it (you may be required to fast and push some things away from your table).  But it is the PERFECT  Dress, designed just for you by your creator.  He has even taken care of the laundry for it, it will never be spotted or wrinkled, and it will never be less than perfect for you.  The price of the cleaning would have never been payable by us, the cost was so beyond anything in this world, that he himself had to pay it, the cleaning solution;  his own blood.   That blood washed the dress we were wearing and turned it into our wedding garment and made it p