LOTV Birthday Card + Washi Card + WOYWW

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Well it’s time for another WOYWW, What is On Your Workdesk Wednesday. Over HERE 😁 at Julia's, Queen of Deskland, there's worldwide desk exploring to be found!

My desk this morning shows work on a small calligraphy piece, which I’ve done many times, “Looking unto Jesus” Heb 12:2a. 

Looking to Jesus - that’s something which is good to do any day of the week, but especially now.        

It’s for a centenarian for her birthday, she can see, but hearing not so well. I use gouache layered on a piece of heavy duty water colour paper, decades old, and it has conveniently graduated colours on it.

This is just kept from work to work and add to it, as I go along. The gold leaf 23 carat at top of desk is ready to add, once I’ve added gilding size. I have ialready done that now and gold leaf, but touching up is needed.

Next desk is one of my favourite cards for this year, for a very special two year old, Oliver Charles, his second name Charles is after our darling dad and poppa.😊 Here I’m working out the layout, you can see a piece of white dots embossed card with an un-embossed image on top. I stamped the ballon bear image in Black Onyx Versafine; heat embossed the image, before dry embossing the white card with CB Swiss Dots EF, extended (to a non-crafter this might sound contradictory 🤔). Then used the stamped outline, on which to overlay coloured image. The image I stamped and coloured it a couple of times and layered it up onto the plain white dot embossed card. To see original technique - see here. Original design was by Debby Yates, her link over there too.

Here is the completed card. Similar items as on my original, so see there for full design, link above. Except “Vintage Happy Birthday” die is by Poppy crafts.

Next card also is a repeat. It’s using the wonderful versatile washi, scoring and peel offs. Die cut is washi mounted on cardstock, too. Full step by step given on this post HERE.

Now to my Aussie pickies, the first few are from late on this afternoon’s  walk.

Yes, I’m incredibly blessed here. The lights are stunning. It was so still, yet very crisp and cold.. for us 😂 not winter in  northern hemisphere! 

Love the flowering Wattle at moment, in foreground on first photo, although my hay fever doesn’t! 🤧

The last photo was a few weeks ago and loved the juxtaposition of the two pairs, the couple on the path, and the cuties in the foreground! They've a funny, typical Aussie name, they’re called Galahs! If someone is acting the fool, they’re also called a galah! Might explain why they’re called that. 😉

Well, that’s it for now, do have more cards to share another time.

Happy WOYWW everyone and May our dear Loving Father God bless and keep you in your day wherever you may be, hugs Shaz in Oz.x 

Thought for the day:

This has to be one of my many, many  favourites... 

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, 

saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, 

to give you an expected end. Jer. 29:12

Yes, thoughts of peace NOT of EVIL. 

Yet the enemy would have have us believe otherwise!

 It’s very easy these days to get extremely discouraged.

 I find not listening too much to the news really helps, reading just what I want helps me to be selective, but informed.

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An anchor in a time of storm is definitely the Word of God.

Our Father God understands He gets it, for He said, "I will never never leave thee, nor forsake thee". 

If He seems distant,

 guess who’s moved?

Linking up with:

Word art Wednesday Anything goes!  http://wordartwednesday.blogspot.com/ both cards

https://www.welovechocolatebaroque.uk/2021/08/august-favourite-stamps.html LOTV are definitely up there as favourite Stamps, not many LOTV, only three, but yes do have lots of other favourites too! 

http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/2021/07/week-6356-anything-goes-with-option-of.html anything goes, LOTV bear card. 

Simon Says Monday Challenge Challenge - Birthday. Oliver’s 2nd birthday card.