Little C's Sketchy Saturday Challenge

Hey There!!!

So I totally forgot to post this!!! Here is the Sketch Challenge that I had over on my FB craft group. Here's the sketch I posted, and the sample cards below....

Thanks for popping by!!

Deer Stamp is from Unity Stamps. Sentiment is a MFT Stamp. Thanks again for stopping by!!!


Aloha,
Jen



"Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within ME!!!"  ~Psalm 51:10~

Jesus Calling June 6th Decorated Devotional Page

As I was doing my devotions this morning, the Lord wanted me to glorify Him by decorating this page, while spending the time with him. If you love bible journaling, this is just another way of doing that, but within a devotional book. The creativity is unlimited as to what you can do, and what you can decorate in..... Bibles, Devotionals, Old Books.... so many more!!!

In my devotional today, I was reminded that HE filled my world with all these BEAUTIFUL things, and these things are meant to always point me back to HIM. Never away from him!!!

I use Distressed Oxide Inks to decorate this page, and also a feather stamp from Unity Stamp Company.

Here are the scriptures that were also on this page:

"Look to the Lord and his strength; seek his face always." ~Psalm 105:4

"The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they display knowledge." ~Psalm 19:1-2

"See, darkness covers the earth and thick darkness is over the peoples, but the Lord rises upon you and HIS glory appears over you." ~Isaiah 60:2

I pray you are blessed by this short video of my decorating this devotional page. Video is after still shot below. Thanks for stopping by!!!!

Aloha,
Jen



"Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within ME!!!"  ~Psalm 51:10~

Colossians 2:14

Happy Resurrection Week!! Did some bible decorating on Monday when I woke up, as I was reminding myself of the sacrifice Jesus did on the cross for me, because God loved us so much, he had his son die on the cross for our sins. He wants us all to go to heaven, but heaven is not a place for "good people", heaven is a place for "perfect people", therefore, with Jesus being the sacrificial lamb for our sins, he took that place to make us perfect for entering into heaven. I put Jesus on the cross... my sins... a humble reminder...

What I used:

• Sweet n' Sassy Alphabet Stamps; The Good News stamp set
• Distressed Oxide Ink: Wild Honey
• Unity Stamp: Dandelions 
• Illustrated Faith Die Cuts n' 9" x 12" Spiral Bible

Aloha,
Jen



"Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within ME!!!"  ~Psalm 51:10~

New Beginnings

Aloha Stampers!!!!

What are you all up to today?? I have a list of cards to create, and Praise God, I have some card orders to work on!!! But this past weekend, I went to celebrate with some sisters in Christ, a sister that is leaving our state. She will be moving back to her home in Puerto Rico with her hubby and daughter. The Lord has called them to return for this season, and so we sisters wanted to celebrate the excitement with have for her and her Ohana, and just send her off with love n' fellowship and celebrate also with food!!!! :)  Here are some pics I took at the event. What a blessed time of fellowship. We will truly miss this beautiful sister of ours!! After viewing pics, be sure to scroll below to view the card I created for her.

Gonna miss our laughs and smiles together... and will always cherish the beautiful memories we've created.

Beautiful sisters in Christ...

 Valerie doesn't like to take pictures... she's too cute!!!

A pic with Queen D!

With all of the sisters.... God is so good n' amazing to put these beautiful ladies in my life!! Thank You, Jesus!!!

Thanks for looking at my pics of the wonderful night well spent. Now to share with you the card that I created for her, using a Unity stamp. There are actually several sentiments that came paired with this jar stamp. Each sentiment is different and can be used accordingly to the event. This set of stamps also came part of another set of stamps, it was a monthly kit I used to subscribe to!! But I think I've got a pretty good collection of Unity stamps now, so I had to stop ordering from them. LOL. I stamped with Black Momento ink, and then colored with my Zig Watercolor Pens. Then I went back and lined the image again with black ink, just so the lines looked more dominant, since it looked faded after using some water to blend my ink coloring. The embossing folder is from Stampin' Up!

Thanks for visiting!!!! I hope you've had a wonderful weekend as well!!

Blessings,
Jen

Little C's Aloha Friday Challenges - Ombre Inking

Welcome back stampers!!!! So today is Aloha Friday!!! Today I begin my Little C's Challenges up again. I'm so excite. Because I really wasn't planning on putting up a challenge, but the Lord said, "just do it"... and so here I am... posting a challenge!! I hope you have some time to play along... there is a little prize that I will give to 1 winner at the end of the challenge week, and announced next week when our new challenge is posted. 

This week, the challenge to is create an ombre look on your project. An ombre look is simply a "faded" look to your creation. 

On my cards below, I created some "Beautiful You" cards using Unity Stamps, and the ombre look comes from Hero Arts Ombre Ink pads. You can see how the sentiment "Beautiful You" fades. There are so many fun ways to create this look... you can either stamp using an already ombre ink pad like I have, or simply stamp on, stamp again, and stamp again, until the entire image/sentiment is faded away. 

Anyways, I can't wait to see what you'll create..... Love Unity stamps esp when I'm feeling like being 'artsy fartsy'.... makes me feel like I've painted or used mixed media. This one I used my chalk, and ombre ink pads, that's pretty much it. 

Be sure to add a link to your project using the Mr. Linky section below. 

Due to cost of postage for prize, prize winners will go to only those participating in with addresses located in the USA, AFO and APO residents only!! However, you are free to play along (just for fun), if you are located in different parts of the world.   Thank You for your understanding!!!!!

Now, it's time to play along!!! Create, post to the web, and link your project here:


   

    An InLinkz Link-up
   

Unity Monday

Aloha Monday Crafters... it is "Unity Monday" here on my blog today. Sharing a project I created using a Unity stamp. I made this card for a dear friend who recently celebrated her bridal shower. This stamp came with April's KOTM stamp set, and it came in perfect timing.

I used watercolor paper, and added some water color paints to it.  I waited for the water color painting to dry before I stamped the image. Then stamped the sentiments. "Shower" is from the same Unity set, while "HAPPY" was from a Stampin' Up! set. I then added some rhinestones to the bodies of some of the bigger butterflies, and randomly on the card as well. :)

I am submitting this card to the following challenges:

• Pearl Sparkles Challenge - Anything With Wings
• LLC May Challenge - Blossoms or Butterflies
• CD Sunday - Something that begins with "B" 
• Crafting When We Can - Clean & Simple
• Crafty Calendar Challenge - Things with Wings

That's it for now. Thanks for stopping by!!!

Have a blessed Monday!!!
Aloha,
Jen

"O" is for "Oval"

Aloha and Happy Monday to YOU and You and YOU!!!!

Gonna dive right into our challenge this week... first on our winner - thank you all who submitted your work. I really appreciate you taking the chance in posting your project. You all did such a great job on your projects.

The winner from last week was:

Pannell Designs

Here is her card:

 

Awesome! Look at all the detail on her card!! Thanks for submitting your "Natured" themed projects... all of you!!! Debby, please email me your mailing address, I will send you an awesome prize!!!

Now on to this week's challenge... the theme is - "O" is for "Oval"...  just incorporate an oval on your project. Here is my sample:

 

I based my project off of this color combo found at ColorQ Challenge:

I am submitting my project to the following challenges:

• Word Art Wednesday - Anything Goes #221
• Lacy Sunshine - Flowery Inspirations
• Morgan's Artworld - Include a Sentiment
• Crafting By Design - Anything Goes
• Crafting for all Seasons - Add Some Sparkle
• Fresh Brewed Design - Spring
• Inspiration Destination - Anything Goes
• ColorQ - Color Combo Challenge

Here is the InLinkz button to submit your project:

   

    An InLinkz Link-up

   

Ephesians 2 Verse 8

Created a simply sweet card using 1 Unity Stamp's stamp - the butterfly, and made the scripture on my computer, printed on my laser printer. I like simple n' sweet cards like these.

I should've added some embossing to the main card... but I made this while my hubby slept near by, so I didn't wanna buss out all the tools I needed to go n' emboss it.


I am submitting this card to the following challenges:

• Crafting From The Heart - Anything Goes
• Our Crafty Corner - Anything Goes
• Word Art Wednesday - Anything Goes

"L" is for "Love"

Aloha and Happy Monday!!!!

It's that time of week again... time for a new Alphabet Challenge. We are on the letter "L". First to announce our winner from last week's challenge. The winning project was created by

KT Fit Kitty

You can click on her name to check out her project. Everyone's project was so cute!!! I had a lot of fun visiting and seeing what y'all created.

Now on to this week's challenge. Yep, you know it was coming, right??

"L" is for "LOVE"

FINALLY!!!! I am loving how all the letters are perfectly matching with the month of February, of which when we celebrate Valentine's Day. But I do pray that you are celebrating Love throughout the year, and not just on VDay.

So here are the rules for this week's challenge:

• Create a New Project, according to the THEME above
• Link to project, by entering your URL in the inLinkz area below
• Submit no more than 3 projects. 
• Open to US, Canada, AUS
• Acceptable words: "Love", "Loved", "Loving", "Luv", "Luving"
• Acceptable images: Anything About Love
• Have Fun!!!

My sample... my sample is created using Unity Stamps. I also used a sketch from Unity for there new Sketch Challenges that started up this past Thursday!!! Here is how their sketch looks like:

 

I turned it to it's side, and here's how my card turned out:

I water colored my image! I also used the masking technique of using liquid mask on the image to mask my forest stamp image behind the foxes. :)  

I am submitting this card to the following challenges:

• Unity Show & Tell Facebook Challenge - Sketch
• Fun Cuts - "L" is for "LOVE
• The Ribbon Girl - Anything Goes
• One Stitch At a Time - Anything Goes Love is in the Air
• Crafting When We Can - Add Hearts (Heart between foxes n' Heart under sentiment "Loved")

Ok, I hope you are inspired this week to create with me. Don't forget to add your link to the InLinkz below for a chance at the prize at hand. 

   

    An InLinkz Link-up

   

"I" is for "I Love You"

Aloha all... welcome back to another week of my Alphabet Challenge!! Amazing projects submitted from last week. I was so pleased to see so many submitted!! It'll take me a while to visit each of your pages, but I will get there... Everyone created such awesome projects, and are all very pretty. But only 1 winner can be selected by Mr. Random. Mr. Random selected #23, which belongs to a project created by:

Bonnie Garby

Thank You Bonnie for submitting your adorable project with all the adorable hearts that had such adorable messages on them. I really enjoyed looking over your project and all the details you put into it.  Please send me your mailing address via email, and I will get a sweet treat sent your way.

Now on to the challenge for this week... we are on the letter "I" and again, we are all working on projects for Valentines, so hopefully you'll be able to make something with the words "I Love You" on it. You could also do "I Heart You" or "I {heart} You" or "I (heart design) U", all sorts of combinations, as long as it is saying "I Love You".

Here is my sample. I created it with a stamp I received from Unity Stamps. Both the image n' sentiment came in the same set. I believe it is a Stamp of the Month Kit. I recently signed up to get their kits monthly, and am really enjoying what I receive. I just gotta make more TIME to use all of them.

I am submitting my project to the following fun challenges:

•  One Crazy Stamper - Anything Goes
• Paper Creator - Anything Goes
• Crafts Galore Encore Challenge - Anything Goes
• Fun Cuts Alphabet Challenge - "I" is for "I Love You"

Now it's your turn!!! Join the fun by creating a project with the sentiment "I Love You" on it, and add to the internet and post your URL to the InLinkz section below...


   

    An InLinkz Link-up