WOYWW, Male Birthday cards 2yo & 13yo, house moving Snippets + NBUS

 Hi everyone, about time I did another craft post and warning I've lots of card to share. 

The first card is an oldie but a goodie - using a LOTV stamp called Patchwork of Balloons.  I've a number of LOTV stamps and printed coloured images sheets I bought, but as I'm out of touch with UK scene I didnt realise Lily Of The Valley or LOTV was out of business. For WOYWW at Sarah's Craft Shed (What is On Your Workdesk Wednesday) I'm sharing my desk, I've stamped image!

 Testing Prismacolor shades on rough stamp on back of card. Proper stamping on other side. This card is a CASE from Debby Yates see HERE. Debby also no longer blogs. Loved her work.

It's a 2nd birthday card for Chester. Used same papers, snippets left over as previous makes. Now to my second male cards for a 13y.o using an optical illusion found online. I die cut a vertical happy birthday, shadowed in gold like the 13 in top right. It was harder than you think to get this sorted! 😂

My dear friend's birthday in April, her name is Robin! the base was an ink block smooch then stamped with NBUS but Disc Darkroom Door Robin. Coloured in promarkers. Die corners are snippets of black from edges from an ancient Spellbinders square die. Card below that is Disc Penny Black Flower Cascade stamp, fussy cut out. Coloured in pencils then Stickles on top, Jo Rice style - squirt on inky mat, and add to image with an old shimmer pen, and keep it just for Stickles. Rectangle die set is NBUS PB Semi-Circle stackers, yet a Rectangle set!

 This is a Lavinia card, masked the inked and stamped. An encouragement card for a dear friend. ODB verse stamp disc.

And a last card, a house moving card a Bugaboo image, I found out they closed down last year too!

I was really sad this family were moving as they were the loveliest neighbours. Someone has bought the house and no idea what they're building there. 🙏🏻🙏🏻

 Now to Aussie photos - taken on walks, but no beach walks at the moment.   I've had an SCC taken off my left shin 5 days ago. I must rest it for a while. Have another SCC on left arm to come off too. At least it was only 2 this time. 😄

Vibrant purple Morning Glory down at the beach. 

This is where I go swimming in high tide, like this photo. 

Love walking on the dog beach!

Thank you very much for your patience. I had no idea how many cards I'd done, and I've more to share! But halved the post. I have a lot in a few months. 

May God bless you wherever you maybe,

Prayer hugs, 🙏🏻🤗

Shaz in Oz.x 

Thought of the Day  

 This is the verse on my encouragement card.

Isaiah 12:2 Behold, God is my Salvation, I will trust and not be afraid; for the LORD JEHOVAH is my Strength and my song, and He has become my salvation.

Another verse came to mind as I pondered this one... Psalm 56:3 - What time I am afraid, I will trust in Thee.

David knew all about fear, and trusting in God, in fighting the bear and lion and Goliath, the Philistine giant. We maybe facing a giant in our life, or a lion or bear, but the same Almighty God is with us, with our Jesus we are NEVER alone. Praise His name. 

Linking up to the following Challenges:
 1.Allsorts Challenge blog In the Garden - or Anything goes. 
A number of mine are in the Garden but will enter the Penny Black stamp. 

2. Snippets Playground first card made from snippets as made this card twice before with exact same two sets of 12x12, took some finding this time so put them together 😂 

3. Word Art Wednesday is HERE!! all cards. 

4. NBUS Challenge Never Before Used Schtuff. Robin is a NBUS as is Dies on Penny Black stamp card. 

5. And lastly Darnell's I.D.E.A.S challenge. Week 3 is Embossing ! So will enter 2.yo male, house moving, Penny Black Floral and Robin cards, all so varied, but some embossing! great to support challenges. 

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.

A Twofer Christmas with Snippets + WOYWW.

(If you haven’t - please also join in my 10th Blogaversary candy over HERE!)

Well, yes it’s Wednesday, my desk share day, with cards and Aussie fun photos, too! Over at Julia’s here you can see worldwide Workdesks for What is On Your Workdesk Wednesday! And of the wonders of Christmas Twofer?? .. see more below, because desk must come first! 

Really this is what I’m supposed to be making a birthday card, with one of those very pretty digi papers and a birthday for the 2nd Dec., since it’s going to Victoria I need to mail it ASAP.. however last night I headed off on another tangent. You see, I added two more folks to my card list. They’re missionaries away over the sea in Africa, who can’t come home as planned for Christmas because of our closed borders, so I decided two more cards last night.. finished them this morning.

Over at Darnell’s Twofer (over here), and just cos it’s Christmas, you’re allowed to make two Christmas cards, not necessarily two different occasions as it is normally! and those stars grabbed me.. with the help of a google search I adapted two card designs I found, to things I had in stash.

Namely a star mask by MB, heat embossed with Versamark in silver EP and some CCD stars  were cut in assorted sizes. I used Poppy stamps “Joy to the world” stamp die set for greeting.

On this card on piece with "Tidings of Comfort and.." I used a NBUS Not Used Before Schtuff (so joining NBUS Challenge here). It's an Avery Elle set of Simple Sentiment dies. Love them and see those Courture Creations glue pens? they're brilliant, larger than most others, never  block and at under $4 in Oz, they're a bargain!

Second card super simple, a star decoration with my totally favourite “Stampendous“ verse, "For unto you is born this day in the city of David is a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord." Luke 2:12 and as both of these cards used snippets.. I’m off to the playground too, Snippetty playground challenge here .... AND Miss has a bad shoulder so I’ve lots of prayers for her healing and big bunch of our roses, virtually! due to lockdown... wouldn’t it be grand to really visit! Playground open week longer and we may enter twice! 

Now the Aussie shots are courtesy of a grey nomad in our family, remember this rock platform a few week’s back?

 

Lunch Lady Jan asked how big it was? Well, that piece was relatively small but there were many other parts to the rocky headland at Woody Head.. as these photos show! Have a clamber over it with me 😁

Also someone else asked how big the tree goannas or lace monitors grew, usually they’re 1.5 to 2 metres or approximately 6’.

Not things you argue you with, but usually leave us alone, my BiL had a photo of my sister in her chair reading with one a little to her left behind her. Hoping no doubt she’d be eating and drop something! 

Above one checking put a BBQ...

... and one up a tree, hence tree goannas.

Above - these palms are in Whian Whian State forest. 

Here below are the willie wagtail fledglings on their beach front yard.

It's spring here, and there is also in their nesting box a fledging rosella, very shy.

This is what rosellas look like, this is courtesy of a SA friend.

Well, that’s it for today, I’m hoping, God willing, to finish my overseas mail today. Done USA, doing UK and Africa!

Praying much for all in USA, UK, France and many other countries to be kept safe and for God to watch over all whom you love.

Thanks for popping over and saying hi, am hoping to do better this week in visiting, God willing.

Prayer hugs,

Shaz in Oz.x 

Thought for the day:

 A favourite verse of mine (one of many!) is:

"Thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall."

Isaiah 25:4

Are you labouring long in prayer, is your heart heavy, your spirit overwhelmed?

Remember the battle is not mine, yours, ours or theirs.... 

But the battle is the LORD's. 

Rest on His might.

 Not resting in self, but resting, really resting in surrender.

For He "hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall. " 

Praise His glorious name, how He loves us!

 

 Linking up with also:

**Word Art Wednesday - anything goes. Both cards  http://wordartwednesday.blogspot.com.au/

**Also linking over to http://craftyhazelnutschristmaschallenge.blogspot.com/2020/11/chnc-challenge-515.html?m=1

**Christmas card is linked up to new challenge We love Chocolate Baroque, theme is Christmas, used Stamping on greetings on both cards.. and embossing and masking on first card.

 

Ten Year THANK YOU Blogaversary!! Wow! 😁 Come Join my Blog Candy!

(Drawn here on this post here)

Just popping in to say ... a TEN YEAR Blogaversary is HERE!

On 01.11.10 I started this blog with this post (here), with just calligraphy, and explained name of blog.

So 1st Nov. 2020 is special! 

I wrote my first post on the unusual date of 01.11.10! 

Ah, my very own Palindrome. 😊

  The purpose of THIS post is to say a really huge thank you to all my Wonderful Encouragers! I really did not know what I was starting back then, so many friends made through the wonders of blogland, and met many on international trips. Truly a miracle of God’s goodness!

The prize is below: 

Two options

Option 1:

A Scrapdragon (Aust. company) Happy Birthday die, hand made card with it shown, and 100 mini pearls. Light enough for OVERSEAS post, so goes anywhere... as long as you’re an encourager.

Option 2:

A handmade book mark with a verse of your choice calligraphed on it. Example here:

To enter, you must:

1. Be an Encourager of this blog ie join through the follow button, on side bar (instructions below).
I suggest you check it is showing "un-follow" button - as sometimes blogger plays tricks and un-follows you - it has with me! and had to re-follow blogs.

To follow... then please go to this link here and follow instructions.

So if you are an Encourager of my blog (or Follower) please put a comment below (I don’t know how to do the Mr Linky bit) and you will go into the draw for this candy. 

You will receive two entries as an encourager, and you may chose one entry for each of two candy, or both to one. **Please say clearly which you chose in your comment. 

2. If not yet an Encourager, please do join on link above. I would dearly love you to occasionally visit and comment, and I will happily reciprocate. 

I’m sorry but if you’ve not joined, your entry will not be counted. This is a THANK YOU to Wonderful Encouragers!

3.  I would appreciate it if you would kindly put a link for the candy on your sidebar of your blog, if you have one (EXTRA third entry if you do this so please let me know in your comment if you've added to sidebar). 

4.  It will be drawn on 1.12.2020 (sometime that day here in Australia). No fancy methods for the draw – I will put names in hat, old style!

Many, many thanks again to you one and all.

 I'm hoping for an increase in Encouragers, as its been stuck on 343 for a year or more... so different to 2010, lots more new bloggers then. 

******

To cards. 

First one, part of the candy prize 1, as shown..

A piece of scrap card coloured in blended oxides and spritzed with glimmermist.

2nd sample to give you ideas how this die maybe used. This card is separate to candy, is a serviette mounted background, actually wallpaper oriental design in Blenheim Palace, UK. I've seen it in one of my visits, a beautiful palace, loved the china there too. Both cards have greeting multi mounted with gold in this and silver in candy card.

This HAPPY birthday die is VERY easy to layer and use. Be good on A2 card too. 

When adding to card, use the piece you've removed it from as placement guide as that really helps.

**AFTER a comment on previous post, I thought I’d share this tip for single layer embossing. 

These card fronts below are dry embossed. I've an A4 size machine and love that you can make one layer base cards with embossed fronts.

It beats layering and is great for a CAS look with extra pop!

I've just run the folder through spread out length wise on A4 in opened up 5 x7 cards. I've quite a few 5 x 7 Embossing folders too. The one on right is Enbossaliscious Recency Swirls, on candy card with rounded corners.

On left is a Courture creations 5 x7 EF, and has a perfectly fit border around it.

Thanks so much for your visit, especially I thank you if you're a wonderful encourager and PLEASE DO join in the fun with this candy!

May the Lord bless and keep you all well and safe.

Prayer hugs 🙏🤗

 Shaz in Oz.x 

Edit:  please do not refuse candy because of distance, post cost very little on both prizes.

It will spoil my desire to say thank you, you are so precious to me. 

THANK YOU!

***CANDY IS NOW CLOSED!!***

Today's thought:

In the words of the hymn:

 To God be the glory .. great things He hath done, 

So loved He the world that He gave us His Son, 

Who yielded His life an atonement for sin,

And opened the life gate that all may go in.

Refrain
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord,
Let the earth hear His voice!
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord,
Let the people rejoice!
O come to the Father, through Jesus the Son,
And give Him the glory, great things He hath done

Linking over to these challenges:

**Word Art Wednesday - anything goes. Both cards  http://wordartwednesday.blogspot.com.au/

** Di's Snippets Playground Latest Snippets Challenge here - both cards have snippets.** NBUS challenge the Happy birthday is a NBUS “NEVER BEFORE USED SCHTUFF”over here at Darnells.

Snippets Playground, NBUS, with Friday’s 😀 Smiles

Hullo there everyone .. another Friday here in Oz is drawing rapidly to close, so better do my Friday post to link up with Annie's Friday Smiles.. and the Snippety Playground too.

This was on my desk yesterday, I’ve cropped it to show you this was originally one card, but I’ve made it into two beauties, well I think so anyway. Too nice an image not to use!

This is it made up, using some dies and two Our Daily Bread Stamps from a scripture set.

I’ve had these unused for years, I’d tidied them away into an unexpected spot which I came across the other day... as you do! So as they are NBUS (Never Before Used Schtuff), I’m off to Darnell’s NBUS May Challenge.
Used snippets in all but base card so off to Snippets Playground, wowee lots of fun today! Big smiles!

Next card is another of the ones I’ve been doing with masking of DI Oxides, firstly shown here.. with full recipe!  Loved this .. used the Sweet n Sassy Scripture set "Wait on the Lord" again.

It’s in mail today as are one of the others. That makes me smile more!

Now for rest of my Smiles... and why wasn’t here on Wednesday for WOYWW??

Well, this scene gives it away, I’d baked a cake and travelled to my sisters.... this cake is a family tradition, called Lady Smith Cake. The recipe apparently goes back to Boer War, when it was concocted after the siege of the town of Lady Smith in Sth Africa. These were ingredients left from siege to bake celebratory cake.. or so legend has it! See on internet (here) there are lots of recipes, stories too. It's what we call a basic butter cake, with additions.

Our mother always swirled the jam, plain layer and spice layer around with a skewer as you can see in the cut cake, and we always have crushed nuts on top not walnuts. Must be raspberry jam too. So grateful we could celebrate together, as our restrictions are being lifted little by little, we are at 97 deaths in our country. We are grateful for our government, who reacted more firmly than other places, which now suffer as a consequence. Our Christian PM has been a real peacemaker in all this, getting all the state premiers together each week to decide what to do. I am really, really praying for so many countries with large death rates, may the Lord bless all who care for ill, especially in aged care.. so hard with minimal visitors. 🙏🙏🙏

Next smiles are from my walk today. 😁😁

... at 4.30pm to 5pm the lights of setting sun are so beautiful and was wearing short sleeves, too as walked, beautiful Autumn weather and we were blessed with good rain during week, and praying for others who need it too.

This large shrub of small tree is called a Banksia and I think the banksia flowers look like candles on it (Banskia genus are named after Sir Joseph Banks, the botanist on the Endeavour with Captain Cook in 1770).

See the lovely lights here ..peering through to the Jetty and boats moored there too.

A final smile. I sent this on Wednesday to someone whose birthday I'd missed.. it did make me laugh!

Well, thanks for popping over for peek and especially if you stay to chat. I shall try to return your kindness, you are appreciated.

May the LORD bless and keep you blessed in all things, and those you love also.

Prayer hugs, 🙏🏻🤗❤️

Shaz in Oz.x

 Thought for the Day:

This verse came to mean a great deal to me many decades ago now.

I remember crying with joy that Someone really understood my predicament like none else. I’d been really ill again and nearly died (no.4), but the LORD graciously carried me through. Sitting alone feeling so sad - suddenly the light of the promise of this verse broke through my grief, my God was there with me, holding my hand, He understood! He got it!

Great is our God and of GREAT power, His understanding is INFINITE! 

Wow! Our omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient God understood it all!

Like none other did, and so I was never ever alone, then or by simple childlike faith in the LORD Jesus!  ❤

Linking over to:

1. Two puss cards are nearly all snippets, so off to Miss' snippets playground... over HERE!
2. Darnell's NBUS (NEVER Before Used Schtuff) challenge.   https://mynbus.blogspot.com/

3. Word Art Wednesday - anything goes. Both cards  http://wordartwednesday.blogspot.com.au/

4 Simon Says Wednesday Challenge is Dies and punches over HERE!