For WOYWW post - see post below ... thank you!
Last month I had an email from the wonderful Karen Letchworth of Word Art Wednesday Challenge asking me to be a guest designer for January.
I was actually surprised and honoured. I love this challenge and the Design Team is a great team of talented card makers. I thank them for asking me to join their team for this month :D
Last month I had an email from the wonderful Karen Letchworth of Word Art Wednesday Challenge asking me to be a guest designer for January.
I was actually surprised and honoured. I love this challenge and the Design Team is a great team of talented card makers. I thank them for asking me to join their team for this month :D
So here is my offering - two in all for this week.
This was the first one I made.. I had two ideas as had to make some cards for a FB challenge too.The colours I wanted for this card wouldn't work for the challenge so decided to make two :D
The verse lends itself to a circle so a plain circle edged with black edging used, and yellow chalk to shade it softly. Cut a yellow *SB Shapeability Lotus Pendant, mounted it (*this year I want to use things in my stash ie hardly or unused items so here is good start on both cards). Cut 3 Dienamics Daisies and leaves, plus leaves from a Marianne die and Nellie Snellen leaf swirl. The embossing folder is new one from trip to Brisbane craft show @ $3.95, a bargain and love it .. very different on emboss and deboss sides .. this is Debossed and it is a 5' x 7" Couture Creations Circles Folder. I extended this too. see how here.
The verse lends itself to a circle so a plain circle edged with black edging used, and yellow chalk to shade it softly. Cut a yellow *SB Shapeability Lotus Pendant, mounted it (*this year I want to use things in my stash ie hardly or unused items so here is good start on both cards). Cut 3 Dienamics Daisies and leaves, plus leaves from a Marianne die and Nellie Snellen leaf swirl. The embossing folder is new one from trip to Brisbane craft show @ $3.95, a bargain and love it .. very different on emboss and deboss sides .. this is Debossed and it is a 5' x 7" Couture Creations Circles Folder. I extended this too. see how here.
Its been so much fun playing with these verses as so often I don't get to do this for the actual week's WAW verse.. and to do it ahead is really special, I so appreciate it.
This is the second card which I scanned a piece of DP (in case idea didn't work didn't want to waste the piece so could skip that step). Added the digital verse in Word by adding the DP image first in to a text box right size, + added verse as an overlay and printed it off high quality. I had checked the size the verse needed to be for die before overlaying it on rough piece cut out.
With the barely used SB A2 Divine Eloquence I cut the verse with a green snippet, and largest die. The saved negative part of the die was pasted for reinforcing onto a scrap piece of card, then also used on the bottom. To check out more on how I made this please look at the desk post over here.
With the barely used SB A2 Divine Eloquence I cut the verse with a green snippet, and largest die. The saved negative part of the die was pasted for reinforcing onto a scrap piece of card, then also used on the bottom. To check out more on how I made this please look at the desk post over here.
This
is the verse this week, it is clickable for saving if you right click
on it and select save.
I wanted to share how much this verse means to
me.
As most of you know I was born with some health issues.
It was
something that as a teenager really affected me and into my twenties. I
was different from my "normal" friends and younger sisters.
I came to know the LORD Jesus when I was young - I
share it in the post below or see this post here (as it's fifty years two days ago that I trusted Jesus down at our beach).
However
I was so angry at God.
He could've made a better job! He is God after all.
Finally after about eight bitter years the LORD brought me to the end of myself, a key part in this was this very verse.
Proud, angry, stubborn, "self-willed" me was able to say with all my heart:
He could've made a better job! He is God after all.
Finally after about eight bitter years the LORD brought me to the end of myself, a key part in this was this very verse.
Proud, angry, stubborn, "self-willed" me was able to say with all my heart:
"I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well" Psalm 139:14
I know now - God doesn’t make mistakes. As Romans 8:28 says:
"ALL THINGS work together for good to them that love God to them that are the called, according to His purpose."
"ALL THINGS work together for good to them that love God to them that are the called, according to His purpose."
His purpose note, not mine.
His ways are always best..
Hard? yes, not easy, but best - do we want second rate?
Well, thanks for popping over - and staying for a peek and chat.
May God bless your day where ever you may be.
Shaz in Oz.x
Linking up to:
1.
Di's Snippety challenge - Used a number of snippets on both cards http://pixiescraftyworkshop.blogspot.com.au/
2. Word Art Wednesday - anything goes http://wordartwednesday.blogspot.com.au
3. Our Daily bread challenge - Use old and new, first card - old SB circles and Shapeablitiy and new EF.
http://ourdailybreaddesignsblog.blogspot.com.au/2016/01/odbdslc269-something-new-something-old.html
http://ourdailybreaddesignsblog.blogspot.com.au/2016/01/odbdslc269-something-new-something-old.html
