Resurrection Day - "He is not here, for He is risen as He said."

 Well, today is Resurrection Day! We who believe celebrate the Resurrection of our Saviour after the GREATEST DEFEAT in history, the Lord Jesus' death on the cross (*BTW Easter varies its date because it  is celebrated at the time of the Passover, based on the Jewish Jewish calendar (explanation here). 

Then it truly looked to the followers of the LORD Jesus that Satan had won and their Saviour, the One Who they thought would rescue them Roman rule, was dead on the cruel cross.  

But to God - a GREATER PICTURE was in view... as I am a Christian, and a crafter I wanted my card to reflect this "GREATER PICTURE". 

Looking through my verses I thought the one we most often quote in trials Romans 8:28, was surely it!

If ever a time in History the our wise God worked ALL things together for Good, it was at the Resurrection. Satan's victory was utterly defeated, he no longer had power over death, and we had the promise of eternal life by simple childlike faith in Jesus as our Saviour for our sins.

Romans 8:28

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose.

 Curiously I've done this card twice in last 24hrs. I'll show the first one at the end, I realised my mistake after I did it. A Resurrection Card needed to reflect the colours of the glory of that Resurrection morning, when Jesus rose again in Victory.

This Hymn "Christ Arose!" (link here if not available below) Truly this reflects that victory Christ has wrought. 

After all if there is no resurrection then the whole of Christianity is in vain as Paul put it himself realized this when he wrote:

1 Corinthians 15:14-16

" And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.
 

15 Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not.
 

16 For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised:"

 

 Yet God is true, His Word is true and to be trusted. Praise God, Jesus is indeed risen as He said.

Praying much that all everywhere would see the truth, see Jesus and His gift of salvation and a heavenly home.

For there is a heaven to gain and a hell to shun.

Hell is the punishment for our sin's curse. 

Jesus spoke 4 x more on hell than Heaven His Home because He loves us so much and wants no one to go there. 

I am forever grateful I saw this at 12 years old, and trusted in Jesus as my Saviour from sin! 

How I rejoiced with great joy on that day I was saved.

Well, as promised this is the first card done with this verse in the same Elements inks as the card on Good Friday post. Pretty but not right for Resurrection 🌄Morn (nor perhaps for poppies I also thought). The stamps are from Lavinia. 

Now for my traditional Aussie photos

 Firstly two from garden and two beach photos for those who need their sea fix. 😄 First in the courtyard garden we have a red anthirium, and below that miniature bicolour snapdragons. 

Thanks so very much popping over on this the happiest day of the year, and thank you too if you are able to comment, it's much appreciated. Also there is a very different post over on my Christian blog for Resurrection Sunday today, and I'd love you to visit it - see HERE

May God bless you wherever you maybe,

Prayer hugs, 🙏🏻🤗

Shaz in Oz.x 

 

Linking up to the following Challenges:

 1.Allsorts Challenge blog- Springtime or Anything goes. My cards both fit Springtime perfectly, but linking no 1 card. I've used Lavinia stamps Buttercups,  Poppies, Butterfly and Ferns, and DI inks.

Verse is Our Daily Bread set 1. Disc. 

2. Word Art Wednesday is HERE!! 

3. NBUS Challenge Never Before Used Schtuff. The Lavinia stamps, on first card I finally inked one of Lavinia Silhouette Butterflies which are NBUS 😀

4. And lastly Darnell's I.D.E.A.S challenge. Week 1 is Inky and I used lots on this inky card. 

Our Suffering Saviour on Good Friday

It seems it doesn't take long for it to be Easter once we've passed Christmas! And today we celebrate Good Friday and we are looking simply at why today is truly Good in this post. 

 Joni Tada Eareckson shared the following video. In it she  shares that the LORD Jesus in the gospels spoke four times more about hell than heaven - heaven is Jesus' wonderful home that He wants us all to have... and hell is to be shunned!

He knew all too well the horrors of it and He wants no-one to go there.

https://youtube.com/shorts/aahNMH5WXkw?si=ZMO_De-EuKI626Qc

So much so that He suffered and died on the cross on the first Good Friday for our sins. It was love, His love for us that kept Him on the cross, suffering the agony of death for  us. The greatest agony was being separated from His Heavenly Father when He bore our sins, when Jesus cried, "My God, My God Why has Thou forsaken Me?". And greatest blessing to us was when He cried, "It is finished!", and "He gave up the ghost." Then Salvation's work was truly done, finished. We cannot do anything else to gain it. We can never earn heaven by what we do. If we could, there would be no point to Jesus dying on the cross.  I think this verse on this card explains it.

Isaiah 12:2

... "God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD is my strength and my song; He also is become my salvation." Truly salvation bought on the first Good Friday with His cry, "It is finished." Yet foretold years before in books of prophecy like Isaiah. 

Now sharing some Aussie photos. As we look let us remember Christ is not only Saviour and King, but our Creator as well. 

Isaiah 40:28
Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.

Well, thanks so much for popping over for a peek and a chat, I pray for God's blessing on you, wherever you  maybe. You might also like to pop over to my Christian blog post, too, here. It's totally different. 

Shaz in Oz.x 

 Linking up the card with the following Challenges:

1.Allsorts Challenge blog- Springtime or Anything goes. My card fits Springtime perfectly . I've used Lavinia stamps Meadow grass, Buttercups,  Poppies and Ferns. The bird stamp is a stampcapes and stamp verse is Our Daily Bread set 1. Disc. 

2. Word Art Wednesday here! 

3. NBUS Challenge Never Before Used Schtuff. The Lavinia stamps Buttercups and Meadow grass are NBUS 😀

4. And lastly Darnell's I.D.E.A.S challenge. Week 5 is Stencils and I used a moon stencil or sun, take your pick, on this inky card. 

 

 

 

WOYWW, Snippets, NBUS, Allsorts, Simon Says

This is a continuing catch up, skim if in a hurry, it's more for my records than anything else and yes, I'm finding blogger clunky to do, like some others, but this is a post actually done on my Android phone, it's better than Apple, as blogger is Google programme, it doesn't like Apple!

To my desk (for WOYWW over at Sarah's). A number of cards in making, Lavinia was discovered in last 12 months and did a few orders directly to Lavinia mostly as was cheapest in product and good post to Oz. Not done one since April though.

You'll see these further down, the black background was changed in final make! First a 90th card for a dear friend, this is a direct case from Jo Rice. I love her videos, especially her florals. (*NBUS Greeting and stamps, not poppies)

  Snippets Card, background is made with alcohol inks and embossed background, die is MB discontinued you can see my Snippets left over. A card for my sister.

 

 

Baby congratulations card, I had this image Penny Black stamped and coloured in my stash, DP from old pad added for background. Ribbon and greeting from stash.

Lavinia poppies, did it as large longer piece and cut it. Case from Jo Rice, from memory. Verse, a beautiful one, is a NBUS from Scrapbook.com. This card is the other end of the DL card it was done on. Verse is Sweet n Sassy with a typo on it... a lovely verse none the less.

A Lavina card, stamps are NBUS, think a partial CASE from Jo Rice. NBUS stamps used here. This card is in  Allsorts under Flowers..

This is the one that on my desk shot had a black background and was portrait not landscape! Like it much better this way, love that verse, the lavender are Lavinia NBUS, for a very dear friend who loves mauve.

This is by Darkroom Door stamps disc, another one made up similar to ones in February.

Finally the wedding card mentioned in last post. This is Simon Says layer it up challenge, bottom card, house mouse image is disc., have gold layer then cuttlebug plus folder disc.and gold initials, plus greeting gold embossed with computer print out on shiny card snippet. 

Now to Aussie photos, very grateful I can walk again.

As mentioned in last post its spring here, this is a banksia two doors away from me. They've perfect spot for it as they're hard to grow. Next is purple Tibouchina do love it, also in a neighbours yard, around corner taken, on a walk.

This is creek where I walk when I can, these were pelicans but they've moved on since then.

Now two beautiful sunset photos from down at the beach on another walk.

I love the clouds reflecting on wet sand 😍. God's creation is amazing. 

Thanks so much for popping over, praying 🙏🏻 God's blessing and keeping upon all who come this way, may you seek Jesus while He maybe found.

Prayer hugs 🙏🏻🤗

Shaz in Oz.x  

Thought of the day:

Isaiah 55:6
Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:  

I am so very thankful I found Jesus and trusted in Him as my Saviour at 12 years old, very many decades again now. I definitely would not be here (health wise) without the keeping power of my loving Father God. He allows hard things in our lives to draw us closer to Him. We are richer through them, hard though they be.

Linking up with the following:

1. Word Art Wednesday - poppy cards (2 with bible verses) 

2 Snippets Playground sister's birthday card

3. NBUS Never Before Used Schtuff   **cards as indicated 

4. Allsorts Challenge  plants trees flowers or anything goes. Flowers as indicated above. 

5 Simon says challenge layer it up, wedding card as described. 

 

Resurrection Day - "He is not HERE, He is risen as He said", Snippets card, NBUS, IDEAS

 Well, it's a bumper post today - it's the most important day on the Christian calendar when we remember and celebrate the day our Saviour the LORD Jesus Christ defeated Satan and death by His resurrection from the dead. We worship a living Saviour, no other religion worships a living God.

How do we know Jesus was truly raised from the dead, seeing as we aren't from 1st Century history? It's verified not simply by the bible, but by historical research from that era eg. Josephus a Jewish historian.

For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.  2 Peter 1:16

 The disciples, or apostles, themselves were eyewitnesses to this event and Jesus appeared alive after His death to over 500 people at one time.

As the Apostle Paul wrote:
"For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 

And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: 

And that he was seen of Cephas (Peter), then of the twelve:

After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.

 After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles. 

And last of all he was seen of me (Paul) also, as of one born out of due time."

1 Corinthians 15:3-8  

This card is to send to dear one who needs encouragement, the verse is a favourite of mine.

 "When my heart is overwhelmed within me, lead me to the  Rock that is higher than I." 

That Rock of course is the LORD Jesus, may He be our Anchor in the storms of our life. The golden rose paper I bought with Marilyn in Hobby Lobby in Florida in Sept. 2018, and I've finally cut into the 12 x 12 sheet, it's a gorgeous NBUS, the snippets are the gold cardstock which is diecut, and also the piece the cream card from which the verse is diecut.

To close with a few Aussie photos, I've had a visitor and we drove to the first two photos at a local beach, the third is the Cosmos in front yard, then one from our creek a short walk from home, so blessed to live here, lastly a rose collage :

Today's roses, two were struck by my father in 1974! The scarlet Queen Elizabeth, and peach rose, My Choice, above it.

Praying for all who visit this blog to know the Living Saviour, and may your day be blessed, thanks especially if you take time to comment. 

Prayer hugs,🙏🏻🤗

Shaz in Oz.x

 

Linking up with the following:

1. Word Art Wednesday 

2. Snippets playground

3. I.D.E.A.S - dies

4. NBUS  Never used before schtuff. 

5. Allsorts Challenge with Anything Goes.

WOYWW 800 in review + Snippets

(I unusually did this early as have medical entertainment today, found out after doing it we were if possible to share our first WOWW post. Mine is HERE January 2011. Oh, it took me back, over a decade!)

 Well, I've heard through email 2nd of Oct is a very important date... our 800th WOYWW! Hurray! So even though I've not blogged since June, I'm going to attempt a catch up share and reminisce as requested by Sarah at Sarah's Craft Shed, Head Desker of WOYWW.. this year Sarah kindly replaced our former Queen of Desks, Queen Julia. 

My desk shows some current cards and also my first item for my first anniversary from 2011! (I joined Jan 2011). We had a PiF or Pass it Forward then instead of ATC. My PiF was from Jozarty who had as I recall a round craft table with a strawberries 🍓 cloth on it, then as her craft interest changed it had a metal top then Jozarty went into making exquisite sewn bags with detailed embroidery.

My PiF was a kind of key chain, labelled with WOYWW icon, and is always on my desk, at the back, along with monkeys and their WOYWW Badges, WOYWW sign + lighthouse light pull from 2018 crop. I'm unsure of Jozarty all these years later. My most exciting adventures with WOYWW was when I met up with WOYWWers in UK.  Neet and Margaret were the two instigators. I think the most exciting was my visit in 2018 to Llundudno. I met Shaz Silverwolf who's sadly no longer with us.

From WOYWW crop with dear kind Magaret I received many ATCs. Tag was from Sarah (I think). I loved it.
Neet have me the gorgeous ATC holder above and glasses case from dear Jan and bear from Annie, spare ATC is Heather.

Here's the ATC cover that Neet made me for that crop and Shaz brought me a huge bag of crafty treasures too. I then met up with Sarah and lots of other WOYWWers. Margaret took me all over! to even see my friend Iris who lives near where Margaret's now living in Lincolnshire.

It's Spring in Oz, & I've picked in last 2 days 8 bunches of flowers, 5 of roses 3 of sweetpeas ... sharing a few here.

There are still more out there. I've 3 dozen roses, and I now have more help paid for by a government package as I couldn't manage otherwise. My health is very poor these days. God is good and kind to me though and I'm well looked after. I'm still crafting and learning new techniques. I just rarely come onto blog land to share. I'll share new cards now as my blog is also my creative record for myself. Some panpastel cards with PB Aspire stamp, Lavinia stamping and also a disc Bible stamp. Birthday cards too.

A surfer handcoloured free digi and die cut card for Eamon who's 9, I loved the purple card on this I used perfect pearls in interference violet on top of purple ink. It was WOW. Eamon loves purple.

As does Emily who's 13, loves her ballet and she has brusho deep blue and purple background with unamed stamp on it, greeting is celebrate die cut and digi. Inside I did photos of Emily over last 12 years and a poem. It was very special. Just adding cards now since June, sorry for overload as I said this is my record, a wedding card and other special ones.

This is glittery but photo won't pick it up. Lavinia, new stamps as are pair of birthday cards below, also NBUS Lavinia stencils.

SNIPPETS CARD, mostly kraft like packaging from freezer goods, coloured with inks and Lavinia red brick stencil (a NBUS), the gold bronze in back ground is heat and dry embossed CB cogs folder. Gold cogs and number 5 are years old and heat embossed. Linking to Snippets Challenge here.

Now to Oz photos! Mostly nearby.

I've just realised I've laser surgery on cataract today so glad I've done this early. I maybe late in comments, depending on eyesight.

And NOW thought of the day.

Living as I do with precarious health, I've become very conscious of life's brevity and to make every moment count for Jesus. I don't want to be ashamed when I stand before Him as my Judge. I want to be always ready .. "ready for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of Man cometh ". Matt. 24:44.

1. As well as Snippets with link above in post, I'd like to link up to:

2. NBUS Challenge here red brick stencil by Lavinia is new on 5 y.o birthday, the ballet stamping on 13.y.o also, and are Lavinina stamps in mauve encouragement card with bible verse.
3. Allsorts Challenge 800! A hearty congratulations,  to Brenda and crew... how amazing is that 👏👏👏 exactly the same as WOYWW 800!!

See over here Anything goes so linking the 13 y.o birthday card which uses brushos and NBUS stamp.
 4. I'd also like to link these cards over to this wonderful challenge - Word Art Wednesday- Anything goes.  Linking the 5 cards as chosen, I think it's best I can do, hopefully ok. I'm struggling doing this post so hope this is okay.

God bless and have a great day everyone. Shaz in Oz.x