Bizzy Becs Anything Goes November Challege - Our Daily Bread "Joy to the World "stamp set.

Hi there everyone - tis time for another Anything Goes challenge over at Bizzy Bec's so sharing some cards.

Warning! Am in Christmas card making mode at the moment!
To join in with us over at Bizzy Bec's ANY-thing Goes November Challenge - please pop over here!! a prize drawn each month!

You saw me colouring these images over here on this post here.
The stamps used are from Our daily Bread called "Joy to the World" set, and hopefully ** available through Bec upon request.
Corner die is a Nellie Snellen Lace corners set - see here. Other Spellbinder dies used are listed below the individual cards.

Nellie Snellen Lace corners set - here.. **Spellbinder Shapeabilities Lattice Pendant die, and SB Fancy tags Die, extended. **Our Daily Bread stamps - Joy to the World set

Nellie Snellen Lace corners set - here  **SB Fancy tags Die, and the corners on the square mounted nativity image  are from Fleur de Lis Square image - see here

Nellie Snellen Lace corners set - here  **SB Petite Ovals and scalloped die , and the corners on the square mounted
**Our Daily Bread stamps - Joy to the World set
The corners on nativity image are made from second square of Fleur de Lis Square image - see here

Well, I'm delighted to welcome  a new wonderful encourager. Unhappily I dont know blog link either as they have not commented. Please let me know so I can join your blog as an encourager too!    Marie Bingaman

Thanks so much for popping over for peek and chat.. you are really appreciated! Don't forget to pop over to Bizzy Bec's Anything Goes challenge.

Shaz in Oz.x

Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice. Philippians 4:4

Also linking up to:

1.Our daily bread 279 Colour Challenge (used the colours in the colouring on cards) http://ourdailybreaddesignsblog.blogspot.com.au/2016/10/odbdslc279-color-challenge-reminder-post.html

2.Word Art Wednesday - anything goes     http://wordartwednesday.blogspot.com.au  
3. Crafty Hazlenut's  Extra Christmas challenge  http://craftyhazelnutschristmaschallenge2.blogspot.com.au
4. Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge 306  - Vintage or Anything Goes So Long As It's Christmas 

Word Art Wednesday Guest Designer - Jan 2016

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

This year we are having two week Challenges so this makes it easier for folks like me - and as always - Anything Goes! so please join us! great prizes to be won.

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.

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.

 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:

"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."

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

Our Daily Bread Stamps + Christmas challenge at Scrappy Mo's

(WOYWW post is just below this one, thank you!)

Well, have managed to join in with the Christmas card challenge - or Rudolph day over at Scrappy Mo's ~ do join over at Mo's, you only have till 30th this month! 

I guess I wont be the only one with a collection of cards since this is the last challenge for 2015.
And, yes, the year has simply sped by not waiting for me to catch up at all.

Saw this on Pinterest ages ago, original by Darsie Bruno in 2010, when this die SB Fleur de lis came out. Minimal explanation on her page but worked out you cut two of each of the large and small dies and overlay them, mounting tape between layers. The stamp is from ODB Joy to the world set. Used SB ribbon label die extended (see WOYWW post below how to extend dies).

The underlay is beautiful sparkly paper called Pacific blue. Wish the photo could capture it. Embossing folder is CB snowflake one, discontinued. Made three in all, may make one more as have enough blue out of my 12 x12" sheet - has anyone else discovered how good a scoreboard is for accurately drawing lines for measuring??? Had light bulb moment when making this card.

TIP: 1. Once I marked from base exactly how big wanted blue layer, ruled the line down my scoreboard with pen, as shown.

2. Then turned it around the other way and ruled the other line.

3. Then simply cut by hand with my very good long bladed scissors. Job done!

This is wonderful time saver .. just line it up with base, mark both corners where you want and the draw a straight 90degree angle line on score board!

Base was a snippet base from last year in reject pile .. one of corners punched with MS layered arches was not quite right but I think no-one else will notice so a year later I use it :D The two stamps on this card are both quite old and discontinued.

More of the Bonbon or Christmas cracker foiled paper saved from previous years .. nearly used it all up but doing different styles as get sick of same one. these use same embossing folders as dont have many of Christmas A7 and need big ones for this landscape card. Used at last my Penny Black Holly leaves die. Greeting is from ODB Joy to the world set.

 

Thanks so much for popping over for peek and chat .. will return your visit as soon as I can, as do love to see your work too. :D
I apologise as have not commented on many from last few posts .. but will do you first, sorry. 
 May God bless your day and those you love, wherever you may be.

Shaz in Oz.x

O give thanks to the LORD; for He is good: His mercy endureth forever. Psalm 131:1

Linking over to:

1. Di's 200th Snippety challenge - Used laods of snippets, except for card base. 
2. Word Art Wednesday - anything goes  http://wordartwednesday.blogspot.com.au

3. Rudolph day challenge over at Scrappy Mo's 

4. ODBDSLC263 Our Daily Bread anything goes with Religious Christmas challenge.
  All have Christian verses on them all but one from the "ODB Joy to World" set on them.

A New Year Approaches + Snippets

Hullo there everyone.. 

Well, another new year approaches - doesn't it?
Something which we all face with varying amounts of interest, planning or concern etc. mostly depending on how preceding one has past.

A new year - 365 days in which to serve our Lord, should He give them to us.

This year has been mixed. I think most of us say that.. the high was the wonderful trip over seas which have yet to share much about - to see my family... and then ended with number of medical necessities, not quite so wonderful! 

I still have stitches this time in right calf as it was positive there also... but it is easy peasy compared to hands and feet!! give me limbs any day!!!

Here are some pickies from Boxing day from my sister's beach home, front verandah, they live overlooking the beach and wake up to this view everyday!
Photos taken on mobile, here are some Galahs and Seagulls at bird bath:

This bright and beautiful Bromeliad in courtyard was our Christmas tree this year as it was a bright and colourful as one! and even had wee white fairy lights on it in the blooms! if you look up close!

Also it time to share a card - here is one I actually made with Snippets so can enter it in Di's Snippets challenge. This card was made quickly, as I wanted one on Christmas day! 

I had the Spellbinder Medallion dies already cut in gorgeous Magenta Mirri card in Snippets pile, also with DST in perfect colour combo with piece from another card, perfectly with wee gift card which came in post! So cut it up attached and mounted, add wee bling, and voilà!

Another thing  I hope, next year,  God willing, in the new year apart from sharing the superb blessings while away, is to show more of calligraphy past! Calligraphy was on back burner this year apart from one done in March. Still awaiting next cataract surgery but will show as have heaps of others I have to share there!!

In 2013, may we look to our LORD, praying for His hand on each moment of each day and also on us, keeping us till He comes! 

God bless your day everyone wherever you may be and thanks so very much for popping over for a peek and chat, and most all for all your very wonderful encouragement in 2012!!

Shaz in Oz.x

 

Looking unto Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our faith. Hebrews 12:2

 

White, silver and a touch of purple - Wedding Card + Cards for Debby

Hi there everyone. Well here is the card which I promised you on Wednesday - and to the WOYWW-ers among you, I am just letting you I may not be around this Wednesday. Hope to catch up with you all on 19th all being well.

This week is the last lesson of my calligraphy students and hope to have heir final projects to show you - God willing!
As I said on WOYWW post I was asked to do a wedding card in white, silver with a touch of purple by a very special friend.
I am also going to enter it into the Anything Goes Challenge blog for this week as the challenge is for Challenge 51 - Die cuts/ Punches or both.

Now to the recipe, used the Cuttlebug folder Swiss spots, and it was extended it a little (check post on this if you want to know how). It was scored a couple of lines to have a plain section for bottom of card. Used Mirri card from UK and Fleur de Lis Spellbinder Medallion for two main parts of the centre pieces and the tiny flower centre is from Spellbinder Flourish set. The alphabet was Cuttlebug Olivia and the labels was from Fancy tags 3 set, and Petite ovals - second smallest die. I used the tiny pearls from the Nestabling that matches these sets. However I did not like to when I overlaid as it is meant to be, as it hid all the purple underneath.

Hence I decided to do the very tedious thing of hand dividing them. Placed them one by one with ultra fine tweezers around the Petite Ovals die, and extending pearl double loop to outer as it was meant to be. If you can't understand what I mean let me know, it is hard to explain. Also added other pearls to corners and various other sections of the die cut outs, and silver ribbon.
Thanks for popping over, and may God bless your day wherever you may be!
Shaz in Oz.x
PS. Please if you have time, send a card for Debbie see below. I plan to send one from stash this week, God willing - see link on top of sidebar or also with details pasted here:

"Friday, September 2, 2011 

Smile 4 Kids blog

Please help us Shower Debby with Thoughts and Prayers and Cards

About a month ago, one of our SAS4Kids team members, Debby Walker, was in an accident and sustained severe head trauma. After she came out of her coma she has had amnesia. She is slowly remembering things including how much she loves stamping and being on her design teams.  She is having motor skill issues as well and has started physical therapy.

Let’s shower her with thoughts and prayers and cards and let her know all of us are wishing her well. Here is her address:

Debby Walker

1805 Brownstone Blvd #301

Toledo OH 43614

I know stampers and crafters are giving and loving people and I hope you can take the time to send d Debby a card- just say you are an on line friend from Send a Smile 4 Kids.

Stamping smiles for Debby, 

Karen."

WOYWW - What's On Your Workdesk? Wednesday 107

 Well, hi everyone ... Here is some great news! my pIf from Jozart finally made it to Oz on Monday and put a post on it here!  Just a peek of it allowed – do take a look at Monday's post and see how she wondrously spoilt me! 

I love it to bits! A VERY big thank you, Jozart (you can check out her gorgeous blog here!), for all the love and attention which went into making this incredibly gorgeous pIf!!

Here is my desk for this week and you will see I have made some progress on my text for this week. I have begun the paintwork (I use mainly Gouache but also some watercolours), but you will also see there is a very long way to go. The verse is from Psalm 62 vs 8 "Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah." ("Meditate" in Hebrew). I have finished Morti’s mother’s piece, but I won’t show you it till it is safely in England. I have not mailed it yet as gold leaf takes a few days to dry properly. I am not sending framed and so there is no glass to protect the surface and don’t want it to be damaged in transit.

The main reason I have not done as much as intended on calligraphy is because of card making.

I know! I said last week I was not going to be making any cards for a while but concentrating on my calligraphy! 

 So much for that, I have made three in the past week. The first two were a very quick and easy - one for my nephew (whose birthday, 22nd June, crept up on me – funny that!) the other will be a spare, never have too many of those. For this card I recycled a card given to my brother in law, cut out the black & silver “happy birthday” greetings into two pieces and then triple mounted them, embossing on the last one with Domino Cuttlebug folder. Hey presto! simple masculine cards. I am not too proud to recycle in this way if I end up with good results!

The next card was yet another engagement card. I was asked to do some cards for this event. When I delivered them I found I was one short on the number required so off home again to make another.Here is the last one ( I hope I have it right this time).

I have used Craft Concepts embossing folder – Budding Vine – really love this one (with extended embossing method, as have actually embossed it twice of length on cardstock – i.e .in one way till centre edge reached, reverse it out. Then turn it around and emboss into other till centre edge is reached and reverse out again, for details - see here). Then used Cuttlebug Vintage corners, Shapeabilities from Spellbinder – Pendants – Lattice, with labels 4 with the computer generated greeting, and the Olivia alphabet. I used Mirri card in iridescent shade and the ivory card for bottom layer.

If you want to enjoy a snoop at desks around the world, and learn sooo much, please join in the fun and pop over to Julia’s blog, Julia's Stamping Ground! for the best blog hop around!

And may God bless your day wherever you may be 

Shaz in Oz.x

WOYWW - What's On Your Workdesk? Wednesday 105

Well, here we are - a whole week after the excitement of last week! How much fun we all had! As I live in Australia I have no exciting pIf from Jo yet. Long way over here! It has not arrived all the way from UK, but the delay just wets one's anticipation, and am very much looking forward to its arrival. I will display it when it comes (still feeling nervous about mine as really wanted to re-do it but not the time to get it done!).

For those of you who are wondering why we are looking at  desks it is all because of Julia our wonderful hostess who thought up this blog hop - do join in our weekly peek and come with me to Julia’s beaut blog -  Stamping Ground.

I have done  a little of my calligraphy this week so the piece of my desk is inked in ready for colouring for Morti, and you can see my calligraphy dip pens to the far right of the picture as I used one of them for part of this, but mostly this past week it has been cards. I am also working on a birthday card - an owl one for my friend, who loves owls and her birthday is coming up! So you can see me colouring an owl (or two) as well as the usual items on my desk!

 Here are the cards - two engagement cards for an order. First one done with pink vellum and Labels 4 frame, plus 3D rose on a Marianne die, coloured in pink pigment ink and perfect pearls, small heart Cuttlebug embossing folder, and lace edge. I used the Cuttlebug Olivia alphabet for the Initials, also coloured and perfect pearls applied.. Second card is done with Cuttlebug Textile texture folder and vintage corners too (also on first one, but different corner) a Fleur de Lis Pendant Spellbinder on Mirri card and also white card with pearl centre.Use for the greeting is a an petite oval spellbinder + scalloped one, mounted on a Spellbinder Fancy tag.

And  I also have another card with the lovely new papers from Fat Cats (Natural Foil Mat Stack 4.5"x6.5" 72 pages). This set of papers  (also pictured on my desk - in the top centre) are perfect male card papers and so was really pleased with them when I splurged on them and they arrived, even better in real life! As I wanted to show off the pretty foiled paper I did a simple design. Mounted it on a white core sheet of Paisley Cuttlebug folder which I distressed, added a little ribbon, cat brad, and  "For You" decoration which had on hand from the cheap shop.The photo sort of captures the pretty foil shades of the paper, especially at the top of the paper where the light catches it!. 

May God bless your day everyone wherever you may be, and happy WOYWW everyone!

Shaz in Oz.x

Easel Baby Card + Male card - playing with metals!

Card one: 

Male card. There is a further trip into recycling here with e metal piece at the top of this card - it is a yoghurt top embossed with the Clockwork Cuttlebug folder and then inked with the Adirondack Ink Fixative Copper. 

I don’t have the blending fluid you use with it, but Metho and foam applicators work beautifully. I also coated a small sheet of Kromcote (white glossy card stock) with the copper, stamped the sentiment from Our Daily Bread Stamps in Archival Ink black.. It gave it the most awesome finish just like burnished copper on the Kromcote.

Used Labels Nesties 8 for this card and some gold mesh at the bottom with a clock stamp (no name very old one, says Made in USA) coloured in my Promarkers. If it was a Penny Black could put it in their recycling challenge. Maybe this stamp is an antique Penny Black (tee hee!) sure is nice enough and old enough to qualify!

Card Two:

Easel card. This is my very first attempt at an easel card and used the Hedgie stamp from Penny Black baby set, except I masked the square frame out of this one when I stamped it, as I wanted it to be a cut with my circle Nestie. The picture was done with my sister’s Prismacolor watercolour pencils, with the stumps for blending and White Spirits or Gamsol as they call it in US - here it is called White Spirits. And it was really fun to do. I used the Pendant Fleur de Lis Spellbinders, plus border as well as as the centre piece. Fancy labels was used on the base as well as Labels 4, I extended the fancy labels as it does come that long. I used this tutorial by Shazsilverwolf to help me out with design – thanks Shaz!

The big secret to this card is how I made the paper pillow affect. I am not sure if everyone has the gutter guard where they live or what it is called elsewhere but have included a photo so you can see what I am talking about.

You use the gutter guard in the bug and the sandwich for my bug is:

 A Plate, B plate, Mesh (gutter guard), cardstock cut to size, rubber mat and one thin shim and B plate and put it through once only.

The beauty of this is you really can do large piece if you have a large rubber mat. I must get myself a bigger one (do they make them?) as the 5x7 one I have is a tad too small for size of guard I use.

Have had fun with these two cards and I hope you enjoy seeing them too!
God bless you wherever you are - thanks for popping by!  
  Shaz in Oz.x

Treasure Trove Transformed!

Well, have I ever fun with the bonbon loot I spoke of in the last post.
To start this post I am putting a picture of my cuttlebug machine to show folks who have never seen one how these items are made as I have had folks ask me.
Here it is poised ready to cuttle one of the red sheets of bonbon paper.

This piece is on the first card pictures and is from the Cuttlebug Winter Wonderland set - as are the other two folders I have used.


The pendant dies in the middle are from Spellbinders - one is a Fleur de Lise and the other is the Lattice.
The Nestablities were Labels Four and Labels Eight. I just loved the white card stock and the red on the bonbons. One of the red cards has an embossed holly on it and it came like that on the bonbons.

Stamps are from Stampendous and Holly Pond, I bought them in Brisbane over ten years ago now, so not sure if still available

I have used the lovely toppings on the bonbons. and the cardstock and the ribbons to make over a dozen cards for next Christmas!

Yes! I know some folk may be "Christmassed" out by now.

However I like to get in early because once the count down begins in July or so I will run out of time,

I had most of this years done by then and will do the same this time around and have made a really good head start.... and just think I may have done that so far, for this last day of 2010 lets hope and pray I keep this way onto the New year!!

I pray God will bless each of you for this New year of 2011 with health and His special blessing for each of you!

Enlarging Cuttlebug Folders for Card Backgrounds

This folder pictured is Victoria and I have chosen it for a card I was asked to make for a dear lady’s 60th birthday.

I had chosen this folder because complimented the Fleur de Lise Spellbinder die I was using on the card.

Often we want to make a card larger than the A2 size. As you can see by the picture I have some of the elements of the card assembled for outline planning. If you look at the purple card you cannot see clearly where the two folders are joined.

To explain the steps to to here - I have put the piece of purple cardstock from Stampin Up Subtles through the bug twice. I use the following method when enlarging a folder or changing the general use for a die, etc.

1. Always do a sample first on scrap paper. I made the paper/ cardstock almost the full width of the bug.

IMPORTANT to note: the folder is placed horizontally across the cuttlebug so it is fed through across the length of the folder not vertically through the bug, as you usually do.

2. As you roll it through the bug do it carefully and watching all the way – slowly.

3. Watch through the clear plate "B" till it almost is at the end.

** Don’t** let it go to the “bump feel” as it passes from folder to just paper. This prevents any line mark coming on the card stock.

4. Roll it backwards through the same side you started from in the first place. You do this each time around so there is not a line in the middle from the folder where it ends.

5. Turn the card/ paper around, place the folder so it meets where it finished. Take it through the folder carefully watching again so it comes to the edge almost of the folder. Sometimes you may need to put put it through again because you did not go quite far enough so check carefully first before removing folder.

This will give a folder double size pattern.

With Victoria there is no repeat pattern as there is with some of them - eg. Swiss Dots, Textile do have repeat patterns in them and you can line the patterns up so that there is no pattern lost at all.

I have card to show one day in Textile, so you will see what I mean.

**But again do sample first for trial run and you must feel the Cuttlebug through the motion carefully.

It sounds complicated but the trial run makes it clear whether the folder you are trying will work this way or not. And if you have been using your bug for a while you will already have a good idea of its motion that you did not realise you had!! :)

Next post will, God willing, show the assembled card.