Thank you for taking time to visit, and I hope I am even a tiny bit helpful as I have been helped and blessed by so many others. I have been doing Calligraphy since teens, and card making for many years as well. In 1990 I delighted in the joys of stamping with ink and embossing after a trip to Cairns, Qld. In 2009 I discovered the brayer, 2010 the Cuttlebug, also have now taking to reading up on crafting blogs and lo! Here I am, on one of my own.
I live on the coast of eastern Australia. I am a Christian. I trusted in the LORD down here at the beach, amazingly it is not far from where I now live. It was over 50 years ago, after a Beach Mission Service at the age of 12 years
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.
(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!!
First of all, though, thanks to all who care enough to pop over and say
Hi. Things are very topsy turvy health wise this past month and look like
being that way for a while. Sorry I wont
perhaps be as active at returning comments,.
Dear Ones, well today is a day of great rejoicing as my title shares.
Can you imagine the great sorrow of the women and disciples upon the first day of the week?
They thought all was lost - Jesus was dead upon the cross of Cavalry, and buried in stone tomb!
"Now
upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came
unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and
certain others with them.
2 And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre. 3 And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus. 4 And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in shining garments: 5 And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead? 6 He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee, 7 Saying, The Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again. 8 And they remembered his words," Luke 24:1-8 (emphases mine)
I
think this image of an empty tomb encapsulates the work of the cross
the death, burial and resurrection of the LORD Jesus Christ, the Son of
God our sin-bearer on the cruel tree at Calvary - there the LORD Jesus died for you and me! How rich we are in Jesus if we truly know Him as our own Saviour from sin and love and serve Him.. A
hymn came to mind as I think upon today, Resurrection Sunday, and as
verse 2 says the day of Hus appearing will come at last - one glorious
day He’s coming back again! for He promised (John 14: 1-6)! I so look forward to His coming AGAIN!
It is I serve a Risen Saviour... may it bless your heart as it did mine. I serve a Risen Saviour by A J Ackley I serve a risen Saviour, He's in the world today; I know that He is living, whatever men may say. I see His hand of mercy, I hear His voice of cheer, And just the time I need Him, He's always near.
Refrain: He lives, He lives! Christ Jesus lives today! He walks with me and talks with me along life's narrow way. He lives, He lives, salvation to impart! You ask me how I know He lives? He lives within my heart!
2 In all the world around me I see His loving care; And tho' my heart grows weary, I never will despair. I know that He is leading thro' all the stormy blast; The day of His appearing will come at last. [Refrain]
3 Rejoice, rejoice, O Christian, lift up your voice and sing Eternal hallelujahs to Jesus Christ, the King! The Hope of all who seek Him, the Help of all who find, None other is so loving, so good and kind. [Refrain]
To Him alone be all the glory, honour and praise, with much thanksgiving for Resurrection day!
Now to some cards, as most of my cards are snippety, its always hard to pick a snippets card. The first one is the most snippety!
Green piece was a watercolour piece done ages ago, added versamark ink on EF & accidentally debossed with poppy stamps folder, so could not use it as intended.
Recently saw it in "use it!" box desk. Thought, Mm, brayer the beautiful gold acrylic paint over the top, see what happened!? This is it!
The frame was already cut to right size! that's God's goodness! from a natural coloured cereal box, painted it with same gold acrylic paint. Verse was stamped & gold embossed ages ago, a wooden Stampendous stamp, a favourite verse of mine - "WITH God, ALL things are possible." Mtt 10:26 Frame is a Kaisercraft die. MB butterfly Pippi disc.
Links below to challenge.
Next card - is with vellum, I was given some Prima metallic accents paints for Feb birthday, I've really enjoyed making a lot of cards with them. Have many in wings which hope to share in months to come as health permits.
The frame, punch butterflies (Kaisercraft large, small unknown) and back of embossed vellum were painted with these paints, the frame and one above are Scrapdragon brand, an Aust online company. CB embossing folder disc long ago. Again my favourite bible verse stamp. Used NBUS Prima Iridescent watercolour paints!
Two more cards, I made a number of these, with this NBUS flower stamp die set.
This is an encouragement one with Hero Arts hugs and prayers.
The floral stamp set is disc., though a NBUS! as is mixed Oligagarch (sp?) greetings stamp die set, that was bought recently on Amazon!
No longer available! I think the EF on background is Altenew 3D folder from memory. Added light spatter in colours used to paint them, with a bit of the gold as well.
These are all NBUS so will pop over to Darnell's challenge.
Okay it’s WOYWW day again ie desk day, What is On Your Workdesk Wednesday, over HERE 😁 at Julia's .. so where’s my desk!? Actually it's four desks, over a few weeks!
Desk 1: Happened to come across this video by Christine Stokes (link here). Chrissie used 5 layers of toilet paper = snippets, I used four (forgot one layer). I think I'd use serviette next time, I've done this with serviette and die cutting, although didn't wet it, added card base too - See it here. Very successful too.
Snippets card (and a NBUS, as definitely never used loo paper on a card before!😂)
Added shimmer paints to define the letters, NOEL, this large wooden stamp was a gift from Ginny Maxam in US. Extended in shimmer green the quite small rectangle die .. cut it thrice to make green scalloped strip base.
Desk 2: Masking was inspired by a GinaK Insta movie - this is HERE closest I can find to it, as she used a stencil and masking on it.
Ahh, one I watched, here tis! Both are great five min videos, anyhoo 😂✅
Next desk 3 for Christmas cards, brayering. (Desk 4 is bonus background done while had brayer out - for brayering background file, note colours do fade some)
It's an idea that popped into my head as I was waking up one morning, seen the window die the day before in an old blog post, plus stamp was using too in other set! Adding another very old sentiment stamp from early 1990s. Decided it needed another appearing. Most of my crafty stash these days may be labelled DISCONTINUED. But still too many NBUS, think next set of dozen Christmas cards must use some NBUS.
The embossing of "Christ the Savior is born" is two tone, gold and platinum EP.
Loved effect, not that it's very visible in photos..
These are roughly A2 cards, as can get two of them and one larger 5 x 7” out of one A3 top quality 300gsm white cardstock sheet. Three cards out of one sheet is very economical.
Thankfully I’ve a new ream and a half of it left, as probably very expensive now, as thought it was when bought it years ago. So a dozen each in two designs, plus 1 in NOEL stamp = 25 cards, roughly a third of number needed.
Give some as presents at Christmas.
We’ve had some lovely clear days with stunning winters skies, this very short video is one taken and shared on the day I was out walking.
It was very cold about 4.30pm, the dogs didn’t notice cold, but swam joyously with the swiftly, moving creek tide. One more obedient than the other, he took the longest route possible! 😂
Took some still photos, too. Different days, my dad loved to paint these skies, see one of his here.
This is a photo of him (in 1970s) painting up on top of lookout above our coastline, it’s the only one I have of him painting ...
A memorable day, I took it on my first proper camera (a Ricoh), circa 1975.
Well, busy with birthday cards too, but share another day. Started also another dozen Christmas cards, so almost caught up when done, as was way behind. July 25th reminder helps me get skates on.
Thanks so much for popping over - I really appreciate it so much! I will visit as many as I can, but iPad now blocks all bloggers except those with pop up windows comment boxes.
May God bless you and all whom you love,
Shaz in Oz.x
Thought for the Day:
I think this is very hard today... to
"BE *STILL"
and
"*KNOW that I am God.."
two deliberate actions with a liberating result.
For then we are free to love and worship God, Who loves us so very much.
Stillness brings peace and rest, contentment .. as we rest in His everlasting arms.
5 NBUS = Never Used Before Schtuff = loo paper on a card before.. a NBUS technique that’s for sure, and it will be having another outing too as itching to do a blue or purple version, maybe with silver? https://mynbus.blogspot.com/2022/07/nbus-challenge-40.html
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