DESIGNER'S CHOICE CHALLENGE AT REPEAT IMPRESSIONS

Hi blog friends!!! 

It's time for another fun Designer's Choice Challenge at Repeat Impressions and The House That Stamps Built.  This challenge  - Christmas with Trees - is brought to us by the very talented and lovely, Joy Hadden. 

 

The stamps I used for my card are RI #2204-G "Christmas In the Heart" and RI #2719-K "Large Pine Tree.

 

Please visit the other Rock Stars for some awesome inspiration and then create your own card for Joy's challenge and link it over at The House.  You'll be entered to win $25.00 worth of awesome RI Stamps.  Get all the details there. 

 

 

Joy - Brenda - Deonna - Geri - Joyce - Karen - Melissa

 

Thanks so much for stopping by! 

 

 

WHAT IF? WEDNESDAY AT REPEAT IMPRESSIONS

Hi blog friends!! 

Happy Thanksgiving to each and every one of you who are celebrating this American holiday.  I hope you're all gathering with family, friends or people you don't know to join in thanksgiving for blessings known and unknown. 

It's What If? Wednesday time at Repeat Impressions and Wendy has quite a sketch for us this time. 

 

Awesome sketch - and fun to interpret.  I took some license here and enjoyed the results.

I hope you can see the sketch in this card.  I used some awesome paper by American Crafts called "Peppermint Express".  I couldn't resist. 
Stamps:  RI # 413-H "Let Heaven" and as you can see, there's "stretch" in the sketch....but that's what makes these sketches so much fun....you can find a way to interpret them. 

We hope you'll come over to The House That Stamps Built and join the WIW challenge.  While you're there,  check out Joy's Project of the Week (so very cool).  

For some incredible inspiration please visit my awesome Rock Star Teamies.

Brenda - Deonna - Geri - Joy - Joyce - Karen - Melissa 

 

Thank you so much for stopping by!  I wish you all a blessed Thanksgiving Day. 

 

 

WEEKLY CAS CHALLENGE AT OUTLAWZ

Happy Sunday, blog friends!!! 

There's a new challenge over at Outlawz Challenges and today's challenge is from Linda Anderson.  Here it is.

"It Was All Started by a Mouse" - This is part of a quote by Walt Disney. I have a quick trip to Disney World planned for this week with my son...I'm so excited!!! So of course, this challenge is dedicated to the man himself, Mickey Mouse. This week's challenge is to create a CAS card using a mouse. Any theme will do, as long as there's a mouse.

 

It's a fun challenge, so I hope you'll have an opportunity to play along.  There are challenges for every day of the week at Outlawz Challenges which is a free membership site and there are tons of prizes to be won each and every week. 

Stamps:  Repeat Impressions #910-E "Mouse and Cheese" and for the sentiment I used a PTI set "Handwritten Notes". 

Papers:  GKD Pure Luxury "White", "Black Onyx", "Red Hot" and "Sweet Corn". 

To make the "cheese", I took scraps of the "Sweet Corn" cs and using my "Crop a Dile", I made random holes.  I stamped the sentiment with VersaMark and then heat embossed it wth white ep so it would pop off the page.  Copic Markers were used for coloring the mouse and cheese. 

 

Thank you so much for stopping by. 

I hope you all have a fabulous week ahead and if you celebrate Thanksgiving, have a happy Thanksgiving Day. 

 

 

 

SPREADING THE WORD

Happy weekend, blog friends!!! 

I'll be back later with a card posting, but this post is to spread the word about a little guy named Jonah who needs some cards. 

I subscribe to many blogs and read most of them....yeah, it takes me awhile to get through my mail, lol...and every once in awhile one captures my heart.  And so it was when I read Susan Raihala's blog this morning.  Please read it and see if you can also help her. 

Friday, November 22, 2013

When God Drops Something in Your Lap

This post appears on my other blog, Questioning my Intelligence, today, too. I hope you'll think about helping.


A few weeks ago, I posted on my stamping blog about keeping Christmas simple and asked readers to comment about their own plans for simplifying Christmas. One of the more than 50 comments stood out. Here's what a reader named Jane wrote:

Well -- on Sept. 28th my husband fell out of a tree while trying to help his 98 year old mother by trimming her trees. He broke 7 ribs in multiple places and his wrist. A week later we found out that our 4 year old grandson had a cancerous tumor on his kidney and within four days they removed his kidney and adrenal gland. After a second surgery for a bowel obstruction he is now starting chemo and radiation for his stage 3 cancer. So Christmas by necessity will be simple. The first thing I did was to give myself permission to not make my Christmas cards this year. So I have a good start on next year's cards! The other thing is to ask for help. So my son and his wife are coming tomorrow to help us decorate our Christmas trees. I think our simplest Christmas was the two years when we were missionaries in Africa.... we could not give or send cards or gifts... so it was very freeing. Yes we missed family terribly but the tension of the holidays was gone and the focus was where it should always be!

I asked Jane to send me her grandson's address so I could send him a Christmas card, and she did. I stared at that address for at least a minute without blinking. Then I prayed.

Seriously, God? What do You want me to do with this?

Because Jane's grandson, whose name is Jonah, lives ten minutes from me. Could this be a coincidence in the big, big world of the World Wide Web? Perhaps.

But probably not.

I believe God dropped information on my hurting neighbor in my lap, and as I prayed about what to do that might be useful, I realized Jane was my best guide.

Fortunately, Jane shared that Jonah's family is surrounded by the love and support of family, friends, and church. His mom, Molly, started a Facebook group for Jonah. You can read it HERE. Molly combines their daily experience with Jonah's cancer and an amazing witness for faith and leaning on God. Jonah and his parents are facing an unimaginably challenging situation with grace, courage, and generosity.

Most efforts I could make to help are unnecessary and would probably would feel intrusive. But card making brought me and Jane together, and card making feels like the best way to respond.

Because who doesn't love getting happy mail?

I'm asking my readers to shower Jonah and his family with cards for Christmas. Store-bought, hand-made...doesn't matter. If you have children, perhaps you could ask them to draw pictures or make cards for Jonah.

Let's shower Jonah in love and support as he fights this thing.

Email me at susanraihala at roadrunner dot com for my mailing address, or you can click here for an email link. I will collect all the cards and drop them on Jonah's doorstep periodically. If you choose to continue sending cards after the holidays, I'll keep delivering.

Sending cards is one small thing we can do to lift this family up. Another is to pray for them. If you pray, please add Jonah to your prayer list and to your church's prayer list.

God's grace, peace, love, and healing mercy are descending on this family in their time of trial. I'm so happy to be a small part of that. Will you join me?

 

I emailed Susan and asked her for her address so I could help out and now I'm also spreading the word.  I hope you can help out too. Here's the address to send cards:

Jonah
c/o Susan Raihala
7430 Waterway Dr.
Waynesville, OH  45068

 

Thanks for stopping by and if you can, please spread the word for Susan and send Jonah some happy mail.

 

 

 

 

 

 

DESIGNER'S CHOICE CHALLENGE AT REPEAT IMPRESSIONS

Hi blog friends! 

Oh, yeah....it's Wednesday once again and another DCC at The House That Stamps Built/Repeat Impressions.  This week it's Deonna's choice for a challenge and it's a "Thank You" challenge. 

Here is my card for her challenge.

 

My card uses RI Stamps #915-I "Wheat Sheaf" and #1140-E "Thanksgiving". 

Head on over to The House That Stamps Built and play along with Deonna's challenge.  You'll be entered into a drawing for $25.00 worth of RI awesome stamps.  If you have and use an RI stamp for this challenge, you'll be entered into the drawing twice. 

Please visit my Rock Star Teamies for even more inspiration. 

Deonna - Brenda - Geri - Joy - Joyce - Karen - Melissa

 

 

Have a great week and thank you for stopping by!