Galaxy Background Birthday With Beccy’s Digi + WOYWW

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Well, yes, I’m back! 😃 I’ve been absent for some reasons, mixed, will share below. First of all as it’s Wednesday, time for another WOYWW, What is On Your Workdesk Wednesday. Over HERE 😁 at Julia's, Queen of Deskland, there's worldwide desks there is loads of fun!

My desk is quiet today but loads to share… inky fun a few weeks back! The inky background was built up in various stages of ink applications, brights first as shown, mostly Distress Ink, but if didn’t have shade wanted, just substituted. Then added deep colours in black, Chipped Sapphire blue, deep brown.

The latter just in selected areas not all over. At the end water is put into one hand then clapped over it to get a spread out sprinkle, coming from various directions, used paper towel to lift water and colour after 10 to 30 seconds. Then flicked with small short paint brush iridescent medium mixed with white reinker on mat, and also DI blueprint sketch. Pretty much followed video below. Card down below.

Video on HOW TO creating background - link here if not showing.

I’ve been crafting in weeks of absence, although not blogging on here. I’m not as well some days, need more rest plus other time demands.

Here is card above for Mister six, it was a shaker card, the real colour is the shade on left. (I’m linking this card over to Beccy’s Digi Challenge here - check it out do, she has freebie images and paper, really lovely!)

 Cards galore to share, way behind on Christmas cards. First lot of Christmas cards are using a NBUS paper bought near Llandudno with Margaret, it is white frosted and silver Christmas pack, we went halves, I’d bought an ombré pad with Marilyn in Florida on same miracle trip in 2018, and combined the two on this set of cards.

The nativity die in silver is by Impressions Obsession, MB Star die set and 1990s wood mount Joy stamp. Bottom sentiment set is Colorado Craft nativity set.

 More Christmas cards using a new to me NBUS 3D Botanical folder by Sizzix.

Technique is sanding foil card for emphasis as shared on Loll’s blog.

With Britannia dies poinsettia, lge medium die. Verse is old 1990s Joy to the world stamp PSX, heat embossed. Made multiple in two styles, haven’t photographed the other.

For the Aussie shots… a bit of garden, when I’ve been well that’s where I’ve been! Had help too, as too much for my little hands.

The first collage, has three roses that my dad planted here from cuttings in 1974! Still same bushes!! Cuttings were from a high school friends mother’s rose garden. Very special, and I’ve just been in touch with that very same friend, after more than fifty years, which is an added blessing!

The 3 dozen rose bushes this year have responded to extra TLC due to our month long lockdown (NO CASES here, in God’s mercy). Once over, I’ve been visiting lonely friends or folks in nursing homes with flowers, see two bunches ready to go in top left image - mixed bunches of sweetpeas and roses. Delivered two more today. As I chat a lot, it takes time!😂 

Also sharing a collage of seascapes, as we’ve had amazing skies on my walks, so very blessed to live where I do.

That's it for today. 

 

Hope this finds you well (for you🙏), praying too that God will richly bless and keep you safe and those you love, too. 

Re health: lately been really unwell with lower molar extraction, which is still causing issues, but will, in God's mercy, improve. 😁

Thanks so much for popping over and saying hi, I really appreciate you very much, will do my best to reciprocate, hopefully tooth pain and my oomph 🙄🙏 will co-operate.

Prayer hugs,🙏🤗

Shaz in Oz.x

Thought for the day. 

Although no craft blog I have been posting regularly on my Christian blog!  Today’s verse and share is in second part an excerpt from my last post. 

When I was first teaching in Melbourne there was a lovely landlady, she had a favourite saying:  “ Sufficient unto the day!” 

Meaning she’d done enough for today! 

I’d really want to finish it for her, as it was a verse from the bible, which Jesus shared to encourage folks. 

It was part of the well known Sermon on the Mount which are chap 5, 6, 7 of Matthew.

Basically this verse says 

DON”T WORRY! 

Easy to say, hard to do. 🤔🙏

But let’s look at the verse. *Take no thought, ie don’t worry about tomorrow. Be prepared, but don’t worry.

Note the LORD Jesus emphasised “Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof”! 

That’s the bit I wanted to add for Mrs Graham. 

Grace is only given for today.

Today’s worries are enough.

So don’t borrow tomorrow’s as well! 

For more info, including story on dear Corrie ten Boom, 

 please continue reading over here.

Linking up to:

1 Word art Wednesday Anything goes!  http://wordartwednesday.blogspot.com/ 

2. Joining with the NBUS Challenge .. three NBUS 1. Technique- Galaxy Background, a fascinating learning curve. 2. Ombré Christmas card set, NBUS paper inked in ombré pad. 3. EF 3D my NBUS on poinsettia card.

3. Snippets playground - poinsettia card as snippets used on all cards to be truthful, but prob most on those. http://pixiescraftyworkshop.blogspot.com/2021/09/pixies-snippets-playground-challenge-412.html

4. Allsorts Challenge anything’s goes with option of nature. Space card, poinsettia card. http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/2021/09/week-643-anything-goes-with-option-of.html

5. Simon Says Monday Challenge. Touchy Feely … Shaker card and 3D embossing card with shaped poinsettia. https://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/mondaychallenge/?p=24992

CAS Simple Stencil on Brusho + WOYWW

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Well, everyone I’m back again with another WOYWW, What is On Your Workdesk Wednesday. Over HERE 😁 at Julia's, Queen of Deskland, there's worldwide desk exploring to be found - so please join in, do! As my title indicates there is brusho in the mix.

The design is similar to that I’ve done before but not like this, which uses TH mosaic stencil, and mauves are the order of the day because it’s favourite colour of a dear friend for her birthday card!

The completed card, used SB fancy oval die, stitched oval die, MB Prim Poppy. Brusho background is from food packet, plus other snippets in die cuts, frame, so off to Di's Snippets playground.

Framed text is coloured, 23 carat gold leaf, begun on last fortnight's post below. We all need to look up, not within or around, that is discouragement.  The upward look, looking unto Jesus.. that indeed is peace,  by faith alone in the Prince of Peace.

This next card is a technique of alcohol ink (actually mauves but look more blue!) on ordinary kitchen alfoil, which I adhered first on scrap cardstock. Once coloured and completely dry, I dry embossed it. Frame is Stitched rectangle, and flower is MB. Saw a example of this on Loll's blog, ages ago, but her alfoil was leftover, was used to keep her desk clean! Must admit alcohol is tricky on Alfoil as we call it(kitchen foil), found not to spray it, just add the liquid alcohol to alcohol inks, not spray or blow very much at all as dries too quickly. 

Birthday stamp is by Lawn Fawn, Too much to say! 😁 as this is a NBUS technique and medium to me, I'm popping over to Darnell's NBUS Challenge. 

(EDIT: links to inspiration post from Loll HERE. Two other similar ones, but diff technique HERE and HERE. The original card was a google image and couldn’t ever find it, just had Lolls watermark, otherwise would never known. Suspect it was on Splitcoast stampers.)

This card again is 

using the lovely penguin set from our very dear ShazSilverwolf at 2018 crop in Llundudno.

 They’re called Angry penguins, however I think they look like they’ve attitude instead?!! Also coloured with brushos, technique here with previous cards - Kazelkraft (145) Angry Penguins stamp. Also more with same image used here.

Now

, a few Aussie photos to close, some fortnight lilies and then some from yesterday's walk, so tranquil. 

That's it for today.  

Hope this finds you well (for you🙏), praying too that God will richly bless and keep you safe and those you love, too. Thanks so much for popping over and saying hi, I really appreciate you very much, will do my best to reciprocate.

Prayer hugs,🙏🤗

Shaz in Oz.x

Thought for the day:

Except below is from my Christian blog post yesterday.

 “This too Shall Pass..“ link Here.

“. . in the Bonhoeffer movie this was a prayer he prayed with a young man weeping inconsolably in the cell next door. Bonhoeffer cried out to him, the guard remonstrated at first, then allowed him to speak. ”

Linking up to:

1 Word art Wednesday Anything goes!  http://wordartwednesday.blogspot.com/ 

2. https://www.welovechocolatebaroque.uk/2021/08/august-favourite-stamps.html well this penguin set must be one of my favourite sets this year, this is about my sixth card with them! All male one for birthday, not usual Christmas cards I was told. Living in Oz I'd never think of them as Christmas stamps!

3. Simon Says Monday Challenge - Dry Embossing the alfoil floral card https://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/mondaychallenge/?p=24711

4. Allsortschallenge.blogspot.com http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/2021/08/week-6378-add-some-sparkle.html?m=1

Add some schparkle to quote Darnell.. used 23 carat gold leaf on the illuminated text, and alfoil on floral card both have lots of schparkle which photos dont entirely capture. No worries if not okay.. ie not schparkly enough. 😊

LOTV Birthday Card + Washi Card + WOYWW

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Well it’s time for another WOYWW, What is On Your Workdesk Wednesday. Over HERE 😁 at Julia's, Queen of Deskland, there's worldwide desk exploring to be found!

My desk this morning shows work on a small calligraphy piece, which I’ve done many times, “Looking unto Jesus” Heb 12:2a. 

Looking to Jesus - that’s something which is good to do any day of the week, but especially now.        

It’s for a centenarian for her birthday, she can see, but hearing not so well. I use gouache layered on a piece of heavy duty water colour paper, decades old, and it has conveniently graduated colours on it.

This is just kept from work to work and add to it, as I go along. The gold leaf 23 carat at top of desk is ready to add, once I’ve added gilding size. I have ialready done that now and gold leaf, but touching up is needed.

Next desk is one of my favourite cards for this year, for a very special two year old, Oliver Charles, his second name Charles is after our darling dad and poppa.😊 Here I’m working out the layout, you can see a piece of white dots embossed card with an un-embossed image on top. I stamped the ballon bear image in Black Onyx Versafine; heat embossed the image, before dry embossing the white card with CB Swiss Dots EF, extended (to a non-crafter this might sound contradictory 🤔). Then used the stamped outline, on which to overlay coloured image. The image I stamped and coloured it a couple of times and layered it up onto the plain white dot embossed card. To see original technique - see here. Original design was by Debby Yates, her link over there too.

Here is the completed card. Similar items as on my original, so see there for full design, link above. Except “Vintage Happy Birthday” die is by Poppy crafts.

Next card also is a repeat. It’s using the wonderful versatile washi, scoring and peel offs. Die cut is washi mounted on cardstock, too. Full step by step given on this post HERE.

Now to my Aussie pickies, the first few are from late on this afternoon’s  walk.

Yes, I’m incredibly blessed here. The lights are stunning. It was so still, yet very crisp and cold.. for us 😂 not winter in  northern hemisphere! 

Love the flowering Wattle at moment, in foreground on first photo, although my hay fever doesn’t! 🤧

The last photo was a few weeks ago and loved the juxtaposition of the two pairs, the couple on the path, and the cuties in the foreground! They've a funny, typical Aussie name, they’re called Galahs! If someone is acting the fool, they’re also called a galah! Might explain why they’re called that. 😉

Well, that’s it for now, do have more cards to share another time.

Happy WOYWW everyone and May our dear Loving Father God bless and keep you in your day wherever you may be, hugs Shaz in Oz.x 

Thought for the day:

This has to be one of my many, many  favourites... 

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, 

saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, 

to give you an expected end. Jer. 29:12

Yes, thoughts of peace NOT of EVIL. 

Yet the enemy would have have us believe otherwise!

 It’s very easy these days to get extremely discouraged.

 I find not listening too much to the news really helps, reading just what I want helps me to be selective, but informed.

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An anchor in a time of storm is definitely the Word of God.

Our Father God understands He gets it, for He said, "I will never never leave thee, nor forsake thee". 

If He seems distant,

 guess who’s moved?

Linking up with:

Word art Wednesday Anything goes!  http://wordartwednesday.blogspot.com/ both cards

https://www.welovechocolatebaroque.uk/2021/08/august-favourite-stamps.html LOTV are definitely up there as favourite Stamps, not many LOTV, only three, but yes do have lots of other favourites too! 

http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/2021/07/week-6356-anything-goes-with-option-of.html anything goes, LOTV bear card. 

Simon Says Monday Challenge Challenge - Birthday. Oliver’s 2nd birthday card.

Stencilled Oxides with Glimmer Paste + Scrappy Mo’s Christmas Challenge

 Well, well! I actually started this post over a month ago.. where have I been? *Short answer = “busy”. 😉😃 Doing extra things, including extra time of prayer each morning, in times like these more prayer is needed. That is for sure.. plus other demands on my time. So here I am sharing as the title said stencilled oxides and glimmer paste… love how the colour underneath layers up and shine through. Of course cannot see shimmer in photos!

Stamp unknown, red rubber set bought on eBay unmounted.  Masked off that section when doing the two layer, ink then paste stencilling. Linking over to Scrappy Mo’s Christmas Challenge here! And as that stamp “Star of Wonder, star of night, Guide us to thy perfect light” is a NBUS..  Off to the NBUS challenge.. here - yippee!

The die cut and stencil are both MB discontinued.

This is card made for a dear couple’s wedding, hindered a little by COVID as groom’s parents, family et al, were in lockdown in Sydney, mercifully groom made it out before it happened.

This card has loads of shimmer in all of the layers but only tiny bit shows. Mixture of dies mostly, bar the fancy corners, are SB - but all disc., as is alphabet, it’s CB.

This is a teabag folding card if you want to see how it’s done look on this post HERE way back in 2012! The verse is by WAW, and SB fancy labels, square die is by Nellie Snellen, maybe available, not sure. It's for a very special friend's birthday, and I know she's received it already.

Just a few beach scenes to cheer you up, soo pretty …

and have loads more cards to share but no time. 😃

Thanks so much for popping over especially if you’ve time for a peek and chat, your encouragement is greatly appreciated, I’m sorry I really struggle to reply on mobile device, even doing blog post is harder sometimes than other. It’s photos that are hardest. I’ll do my best to comment, but am reading posts .. and praying.

Prayer hugs  🙏🤗  Shaz in Oz.x 

Thought for today

When we look around today it is so easy to be discouraged, as things do seem so topsy turvy. Folk, or more especially the media, are prone to cry like Henny Penny that “the sky is falling in”, or like the Aussie poem “We’ll all be Rooned said Henrahan, before the year is out!”

You know it’s been much darker in decades or millenia past eg Isaiah who penned verse below, died by being sawn in half in a hollow log, or as Hebrews 11 puts it “sawn asunder”, hounded to death for disagreeing with government of the day. 

We are apt to forget to count our blessings. So here is a verse I love and rediscovered to share, it's something we need to do often, be thankful and praise our Loving Father God. Especially praising Him for the grounding wisdom of His word!

O Lord, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth. Isaiah 25:1 

A hymn to cheer your heart to go with it... In times like these… we need an Anchor.. to hold us to the Solid Rock. Hymn link also here if not showing. https://youtu.be/j3jK3x3iMOM

Linking over to the following:

1. Word art Wednesday Anything goes!  http://wordartwednesday.blogspot.com/

2. Snippets playground … about time I joined in. Actually all the cards hav3 snippets but think the teabag is most Snippetty as started it in 2012 and just added bits in bag as tim3 went on so it kind made itself! http://pixiescraftyworkshop.blogspot.com/2021/07/pixies-snippets-playground-challenge_0902861094.html?m=1

3. https://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/simon-says-anything-goes-86/

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CAS Washi & Peel Off Cards + WOYWW

Hullo, hullo! It’s Wednesday... again! 😉😃 Those in the know, also know Wednesday is time for desks of the world at WOYWW - What is On Your Workdesk Wednesday So head over to Julia’s - peek, learn and share - do!

I’ve some simple cards today, I saw some discussion last WOYWW on someone’s desks re peel offs not being used.. curiously peel offs silver borders, front right, washi cards, in make, etc. was what was on my desk last week, not been touched again til this morning. 

When I need a card in a hurry, this is an idea I sometimes chose! Here I’m making the most useful JUST FOR YOU (Die by Ultimate Craft)  or THANKS (CB die) on cards for my stash. It’s quite simple, using two neglected stash items.. namely washi or peel off stickers. And if you don’t have a wide washi, you just put two from a set together like I’ve done of these cards, here. Layered up the greeting with a washi die cut too, which is adhered to white snippet of card and DST on the back, to make layering easier. 

Step 1: lay the wide or two layers of washi roughly an inch or 3cm from top of folded card.

2. turn it over tape ends die my score a pair of lines top and bottom and to finish off hedge of washi.

Then add the silver/ gold border of of peel off, top and bottom (peel offs front - silver sheet).

3. Then round the bottom corners. 

4. add layered chosen greeting. Full step by step given on this post HERE.  

So here's two cards made this way.

Another Kazelkraft Brusho penguin cards (Technique, includes polished metal embossing folder technique- see here), which is flying to Norway, DV. One more male card then I’m done, for a while. Now to Aussie photos some seascapes mostly.

First off a potplant  from our courtyard has been magnificent for months. An Anthirium - in cooler climates they grow indoors, but here they grow outdoors.

Seascape on one of main beaches where there’s a walkway along the break wall…

I saw this curiousity - do you know what it is? I didn’t know till I looked up closer!

Mm, I thought Rolls Royce doggie shower, obviously a dog lover on the council. I wonder how obediently said doggie is rinsed off?

Seascape of one of northern beaches - such beautiful contrasts.

That’s it for today, I may miss next week I’ve a very busy week, and blogging is difficult then. I did try visiting everyone who saw me + extras last week, but sorry for those I missed. 

BTW in post above this one, here, I share I’m going to use Follow.it instead of feedburner for email subscriptions. It has a free option (as well as paid options with more perks), of course I’m doing the free one. 

Or that’s the plan.

Every blessing in your day and God’s keeping upon you, and those you love, Shaz in Oz.x 

Thought for the day.

This is what we all need to do every moment of every day… 

And it’s not a suggestion!

It’s a command. 

“Seek ye my face”! 

When we truly know someone - we know what their face looks like. 

Seeing God, truly, makes us want to follow him.

Seeing, knowing, believing, trusting, loving God, and His Son, Jesus, our Saviour means we want to follow Him.

 

If there is something between that relationship between us and God, some sin , then we won’t want to seek God.

As Adam and Eve hid from God in the garden after sinning, so will we. 

“When Thou saidst, SEEK YE My face 

My heart said unto Thee,

Thy face LORD, will I seek.” Psalm 27:8

Linking up also with the following:

1. Word art Wednesday Anything goes!  http://wordartwednesday.blogspot.com/

2. Chocolate Baroque- hand coloured image - Brusho penguin.. all in watercolour Brusho. https://www.welovechocolatebaroque.uk/2021/06/june-hand-coloured-or-paper-pieced-image.html

3. https://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/simon-says-animal-antics-5/ penguin Brusho card.