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. 

 

Catch up Post, Snippets + NBUS

 I've not posted since Easter (April) mainly due to health. I have followed some other bloggers through follow it and commented on some 😉

This is a catch up post for my records. 

This was for a May birthday and blue white is wide  NBUS washi tape and greeting die.

This is a mixture of Lavinia stamping and the flowers were masked with masking fluid before the coloured background was done. Stamps are NBUS.

This was obviously a six year old birthday card, images a NBUS, Lawn Fawn. Have another birthday 10 year old, this month and plan to use another NBUS Lawn Fawn set as shaker.

Another nonagenarian birthday, had two of them this year. Lavinia stamps, NBUS, kind of cased from Jo Rice video.

This is my Snippets card, its for Mister 16 y.o. but mauve brayered Stampscapes piece from Snippets drawer was cut down to remove some poor stamping, with black snippets frame and snippets greeting dies, both disc. it made a nice card or I liked it and so did recipient, so thats good.. 
Now to Aussie photos.

It's Spring here but this red poinsettia has been flowering since winter. The second photo is of plants bought with a friend at our local nursery, I lost my white Iceberg bush rose so replaced it. The red azalea was bought for my friend she loves red and had perfect spot for it. 

Now to some mandatory beach shots I am walking most days now so very blessed, these are from last week, including the Willie Wagtail which I love.

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

 Thought for the Day:

This verse is on my mind.

"This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it." It is from Psalm 118:24 emphasizes gratitude and joy for each day given by God.. it's a verse that's on a present for my friends who are getting married on Saturday. It's a miracle of God's and answer to much prayer they're getting married. Indeed to God be the glory. That's part of what I wrote on their card, I've not posted it yet. Praying Gods blessing and joy upon you, may you rejoice in the LORD also. 

Linking up with the following:

1. Word Art Wednesday  Washi card, Shaker card, poppies and Dandelion card, and Stampscapes card.   

2  Snippets Playground - Stampscapes card. 

3. I.D.EA.S - Ink and colour medium - Dandelion and poppy card, Mister 6, Stampscapes 

4. NBUS  Never used before schtuff. 

5. Allsorts Challenge with birthday, Mister 6 shaker card