Good evening y'all! I do hope that you are enjoying a fabulous Saturday with the one you love. I know I am. I hope you are having some sunshine today. The weather, now that is a subject and a half, isn't it? We got up this morning with an inch or so of snow and when the sun came out it really blasted the snow away. But, it still feels really cold. I keep having warm, spring thoughts and that brings on hot flashes, (hahahaha) so I just believe I will quit thinking about the weather and play in my craft room. How's that? Sounds like a plan to me.
So, play in my craft room, I did! We are having a Bridal Shower for one of our young ladies at church tomorrow after morning services. I had gotten her gift and started to just go ahead and buy the usual small note card to go on it with some kind of bow. I thought, naaa, don't want to do that. I'll see what I can come up with, and then if necessary, I'll buy something. So I took out my Cuttlebug and some dies and a couple of hours later, here's what I had.
This is what I came up with. Yes, it is very non-conventional, but you know what, so am I. I took 2 sheets of 4x6, lite purple cardstock and ran one sheet of it thru my Xyron machine and then stuck the two pieces together to beef up the weight of it. I used my Sizzix postage stamp die and cut it. The cross is Spellbinders d-lite die. The heart is a Nellie Snellen die. The round rosette on top of the heart is a small Sizzix rosette.
I punched a hole in the upper right hand corner of the stamp tag and pulled a loop of all the yarns through the hole and the pulled the ends through the loop and snugged them down on the corner. You can't see the yarns very well, but you will in another pic.
I laid the tag on top of the gift and taped it on with tape across the threads of yarn at the top of the tag and then popped the heart on with dimensional foam. She should be able to take both off and be able to save them if she so desires.
I was thrilled with the way the heart came out. I took one of my little ink pads and inked the top and the edges of the rosette after I had put them together. If I had it to do over again, I would ink all the edges as soon as I took them from the cuttlebug. Then I would have inked them again, after I was done with it. But, I am still happy with the overall affect. Then I put a piece of bling on the very top of the rosette. Hey, you know me, gotta have a little bling! ggg
I love this cross from Spellbinders. I punched that out of just plain old Georgia Pacific cardstock. Why? That's what I had. I took my Viva Decor Inka Gold in violet and rubbed that on, then I took the silver, same product, and buffed that over the violet. I absolutely love that stuff! Then I put a small half pearl in each corner of the cross.
On the background of the cardstock itself, I took a stamp called "crackled background" by Delta and inked it up in red and stamped all over the stamp after I cut it out. I also used a Dew Drop satiny silver on the edges. I really like the way it turned out. The red on the lite purple looks really neat.
I used my new fiskars stamp helper thingy, I forgot what it's called, and stamped the "congratulations" on first. Then I had another unmounted stamp. It is red rubber on a thin gray foam pad with no reverse image, so, I got it off kilter some. Believe it or not, I never even noticed it, until I seen the pics. I was ready to smack myself silly. Then I remembered, nothing about me is perfect, why should I expect everything I do to be perfect. I ain't, it ain't! So, there you go.
I thought this scripture is perfect for any bride and most surely for this precious young lady.
This is the last pic and I took the tag threads and brought them to the top so you could see them a little better. I was really pleased with the overall finish of my project today. It did not start out to be a blog post, but hey, what can I say? I was so stinkin' excited I had to share it with y'all! As always, I appreciate your looking at my project and I hope you can use it as inspiration or ideas.
As I leave you this evening, I desire to remind you of this, "The only safe place to build your life is on God's Word." That goes along with our Sunday School Lesson for tomorrow. As a matter of fact, it is the point of the lesson. We live in a world that believes in no "absolute" standards of right and wrong, but, God IS the standard! The way we live our lives, is based totally on our belief system. If God is first place in your life, it will show, if He isn't, that will show also. I challenge you to read God's Word for five minutes a day. I challenge you to start with the book of John. John talks about the deity of Jesus Christ. I love the book of John for that reason. I challenge you to read it deliberately and slowly, letting what you read sink in to your soul. That's the best way to build your life on God's Word and it's also a great place to be, in God's Word. Ok, y'all, who's up for a challenge? Call it the "Love Challenge". Let's take this challenge, y'all! You are loved! Jesus Christ is our One, True Love!
Hugs Y'all, and much love, Patty
