Word Art Wednesday #41

Happy Wednesday!!   Instead of a verse of scripture for our word art this week, we have a  quote from Mother Teresa...

Smiling,  that's been a big topic of discussion in our home lately.  TJ doesn't like to smile for pictures anymore.  I think it's a teen thing or something, smiling just isn't cool.  But sometimes, we can catch him off guard... perhaps with a joke or retelling of a funny experience ... and we'll get a glimpse of his beautiful smile and those  dimples.  That's what happened in the photo I used for my layout today. Tim was talking about something funny that happened at church and TJ was trying his best not to smile, but he couldn't help himself and Tim snapped the photo.  It's become one of my favorites.

 

Supplies:
Studio Calico Patterned Paper
Bazzill Cardstock
Mr. Huey's Mists
Studio Calico Wood Veneer People
Baker's Twine, Charm, Brad
EK Success Punch

I hope you join the Word Art Wednesday challenge this week. Check out the Word Art Wednesday Challenge Blog to see what the other design team members created with this week's art. Be sure to check out the challenge guidelines to find out how you can be eligible for the prize drawing from this week's sponsor Lisa's Altered Art.

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to smile  :)

Rose Garden

When I returned home from our vacation,  a RAK (random act of kindness) package from one of my sweet sisters in Christ was waiting for me.  I opened it to discover all kinds of wonderful goodies, including lots of flowers. I love flowers, in fact I have quite the collection of them :),  but I don't get to use them as often as I'd like.  As soon as I saw the flowers,  I knew I wanted to use them on a page,  so I looked through my vacation photos and found the perfect pictures...photos of my son and nieces taken at the Exposition Park Rose Garden in Los Angeles, CA. 

I added some glimmer mist and stickles to the flowers to really make them sparkle and I added some Websters Pages trim under the flower on the left for a different look.

Supplies:
Webster's Pages Patterned Paper
Bazzill Cardstock
ODBD Honeycomb Background, Faith and Grow in Grace Stamps
Cheery Lynn Flourish and Mini Flourish Dies
Spellbinders and Lifestyle Crafts Label Dies
Webster's Pages Stickpin & Trim
Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist
Stickles
Tim Holtz Distress  & VersaFine Ink
Distrezz It All
Flowers - Thanks Sabrina!!!!

I'm linking this to the Our Daily Bread Designs Shining the Light Challenge ODBDSLC118 - use scripture on your project and to the August Gems of Inspiration Challenge - to scrapbook summer photos.

Thanks for stopping by!!  Be blessed!!

Word Art Wednesday #40

Hi Everyone!!!  It's Word Art Wednesday time!!  Today's word comes from Psalm 33...

This verse really needs no explanation...

The NIV version reads... Sing joyfully to the Lord, you righteous; it is fitting for the upright to praise Him.

And from The Message... Good people, cheer God!  Right-living people sound best when praisng.

In other words,  all of us (God's people) should be praising God, with joy and thanksgiving. No matter what we're going through, we all have something to praise Him for.  For the big things and the small things, in everything ...we must praise! 

One way to praise is through song, so for my layout, I used a photo of my church choir singing praises to the King!!  On a whim, I took this photo with my cell phone at church on Sunday.  Imagine my delight when I read this week's word later on that day.  The photo fit this scripture perfectly!

 
Supplies:
Bo Bunny Patterned Paper
Bazzill Cardstock
Prima and K & Co. Gems

I hope you join the Word Art Wednesday challenge this week. Check out the Word Art Wednesday Challenge Blog to see what the other design team members created with this week's art.   Be sure to check out the challenge guidelines to find out how you can be eligible for the prize drawing from this week's sponsors Lindsay's Stamp Stuff.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a blessed week.

ODBD August Gems of Inspiration Challenge

We’re deep into summer right now, and depending on where you live, you’re either enjoying the last days of summer vacation or the children are already back in school.  Either way, August seems to be a busy month for lots of us.

So the challenge for August is really simple… create a layout using photos that were taken during the summer months.  

For my inspiration today, I’m revisiting a layout of TJ at Myrtle Beach, SC in July of 2006.  I used the ODBD The Mighty Sea stamp set.  This set contains a beautiful image stamp plus several scripture verses and quotes.

Supplies:

K & CO. Patterned Paper
Bazzill Cardstock
ODBD The Mighty Sea Stamps
Basic Grey Gems
K & Co. Paper Ribbon
Buttons, Tags, Twine, Thread
Pebbles Chalk
Memento, Tim Holtz Distress, Colorbox Chalk and VersaFine Inks

I challenge you to play along this month.  I’d love to see your layouts.  You are not required to use ODBD stamps for this challenge, but if you do, please upload your pages to the Scrapbook Pages Category in the ODBD gallery.  If you aren't yet registered in the gallery, sign up only takes a couple of minutes.  If you do not use ODBD stamps, you can post to your blog or another publicly viewable online gallery and share the link here.

Please use the keywords ODBDGI09 (with no spaces) when uploading your layouts to public galleries and be sure and come back here and paste a link in the comment section to let us know so we can see your beautiful work!

I will be posting more layouts for this challenge during the month  (using photos from our vacation) so please stop back  by and check them out.

Thanks for stopping by today!  Blessings to you !!!

Word Art Wednesday #39

Hi Everyone!!!

I'm back from our 2 week road trip across the USA.  We drove from Virginia to California and back, stopping to see the sights along the way.  America is definitely a beautiful country and I felt myself humming this tune in my head quite frequently from the back seat of our car...

O beautiful for spacious skies,

For amber waves of grain,

For purple mountain majesties

Above the fruited plain!

America! America! God shed his grace on thee,

And crown thy good with brotherhood

From sea to shining sea!

I'll be sharing more from our trip in future posts,  but today is Wednesday and that means...time for some Word Art!!!!  Today's word is from Colossians 3...

Chapter 3 in Paul's letter to the Colossians is all about rules for holy living. Paul tells us that the attitude of peace that Christ alone gives (in place of the attitude of bitterness and quarrelsomeness) is to rule in all human relationships. Christ gave us HIS peace, a peace that surpasses all understanding.  His peace gives us unity and oneness,  a sense of wholeness and well being.  It is a state of true harmony, not division.  His peace should rule our hearts and minds.  Let us use his peace, which he generously gave to all of us, to decide what is right when conflicts of life arise.  Just think of how much misery and strife we would avoid if we let the peace of God rule our hearts.  Christ calls us to peace, and we are to be thankful. 

For my layout today,  I used an iPhone photo of me at the Grand Canyon last week.  Talk about the peace of God!!!  Standing at the rim of the Canyon,  looking out upon all of God's handiwork,  you can feel His presence.  And if you are still for a moment, and just take in all the beauty, an indescribable feeling of peace overwhelms you. And you know, without a shadow of a doubt, that this is God!

Supplies:
Me and My Big Ideas Patterned Paper
Club Scrap Cardstock
Washi Tape
Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist
CTMH Ink
Stampin' Up Corner Punch
Charm - Thanks Sabrina!!
Floss

I hope you join the Word Art Wednesday challenge this week. Check out the Word Art Wednesday Challenge Blog to see what the other design team members created with this week's art. Don't forget that we have two sponsors this week so you have double the chances of winning.  Be sure to check out the challenge guidelines to find out how you can be eligible for the prize drawing from this week's sponsors Heart and Soul Rubber Stamps and Freckled Fawn.

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Have a blessed week.

Word Art Wednesday # 38

Hi everyone, I know some of you have wondered where I've been. I'm on a family vacation, on a road trip across the great USA. We left Virginia 12 days ago headed to California for a family reunion and now we're on our way back home. I'm actually typing this post on my iPhone from the back seat of our car somewhere in Oklahoma...where the wind comes sweeping down the plains...or something like that LOL. I'm not very iPhone savy so I don't know how to add photos to my post so I'll just give you the address to the Word Art Wednesday blog and you can find out all about this week's word and view my layout for the week. http://www.wordartwednesday.blogspot.com I'll be home in a few days and back my regular Word Art Wednesday posts next week. Thanks for stopping by!! Blessings, Gemiel

Word Art Wednesday #36

Hi!!  Before we get to our word art for the week,  I'd like to thank everyone for stopping by my blog week after week and viewing my layouts.  I really appreciate all of your wonderful comments.  They bless me more than you know.

Today's word is from the Book of Isaiah...

We are all children, God's children, and as such we should be taught of our Father, the Lord.  God has appointed and annointed teachers to instruct us under His direction and blessing. God tells us that those that know and love Him shall have great peace and joy.  As a parent, what greater joy is there than to know that our children will have God's peace because we have ensured that they have been taught of and know Him.

We started teaching our son TJ of God at a very early age.  Proverbs 22:6 tells us to "Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not turn from it."   TJ is active in our church and he has been a lay reader since he was in elementary school.  When he first started reading, he had to stand on a stool to be seen.  Now he no longer needs the stool.  We are so proud of him.

For my layout,  I used a photo of TJ doing the scripture reading at Sunday service last month.   To embellish the page I stamped the Our Daily Bread Designs Grunge Cross next to the photo. To go along with the grunge look of the image,  I distressed the edges of my papers and added metal studs.

Supplies:
DCWV Patterned Papers
ODBD Grunge Cross Stamp
K&Co. Metal Studs
Tim Holtz Staples
Lifestyle Crafts Die

I hope you join the Word Art Wednesday challenge this week. Check out the Word Art Wednesday Challenge Blog to see what the other design team members created with this week's art. Be sure to check out the challenge guidelines to find out how you can be eligible for the weekly prize drawing from this week's sponsor Whimsy Stamps.

This week, I'm also linking my page up to ODBD Shining the Light Challenge and Tuesday's Testimonials Linky Party.

Thanks for stopping by.   Blessings to you.