Birthday emoji

My grandson, Anthony, has a birthday

coming up in a few days and I wanted

to make something different. I was

looking on my pinterest board of

kid's cards and saw the emoji ones.

I love this face! In fact, I love this card!

I think it's great for a kid-or a kid at heart.

  Isn't that neat? His sister, Samantha,

has a birthday two days after his. I'm

waiting for my new “lovely girls” dies

to come in to make hers. They should

be here any day now.

  I woke up at 530 this morning and couldn't

go back to sleep. I have to be up at 545

tomorrow morning and I'll be so sleepy

I can't see straight with my luck. Well,

maybe not, as I will be wound up, I'm sure.

I've gone over my assignments, glossed

everything to MY satisfaction. I don't know

if it will be to THEIR satisfaction. They

won't see the gloss, just me signing it.

I'm really nervous!

  Psalm 138:3

“In the day when I cried out,

You answered me, and made me bold

with strength in my soul.”

Happy Wednesday!

Silly mice

At least I think these are mice.

I thought at first they were chipmunks,

so maybe that's what they are. At any

rate, they are cute. This is the same

design I showed about a week ago, just

in a different colour. I haven't been

making too many cards of late. 

This is the last post until after CITI is over.

I've already been working on the assignments

they've given us ahead of time and it's

getting more real and more scary. The one

I'm most worried about is the passage I'll

have to interpret during chapel. I don't

know if they are using a King James Bible

or what. I suspect they might. I don't even

own a KJV! I looked up the passage online

and printed it out, but I don't know how

this is all going to work out. I have to

keep remembering-God's got this!

  So please say a prayer for my friends

and me. We are going to need it!

Isaiah 41:10

Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed,

for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you,

I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. 

  Good verse for today!

Happy Tuesday!

Little girl blue

I saw a card similar to this on pinterest

(hers was much nicer) so I decided to

see what I could do with the concept. I'm

not thrilled with it, but it's an OK card.

Yesterday was an awesome day. We had

a deaf man join us. Saturday evening at

practice Pam told me I needed to sign

bigger: “This is your signing space- use it.”

Because Mickey was there I was really into

signing the songs. It made a difference!

 There's someone there who NEEDS

to see the signing. And he was copying me,

so that was really cool, too. Later on I asked

Pam if I did better and she gets this big grin

and said, “Yes! You seemed to change when

you had someone to minister to.” That's why

we're doing this. I hope he comes back and

brings his friends, too! It was really exciting.

 

And, yes, I got the lawn mowed

when I got home from church
(at 4:30 pm...)!

I've been working on glossing my scripture

passage for CITI on Friday. Paul uses

too many words...my friend, Sam, finally

sent me pictures of a children's Bible for

that passage and although I haven't 

completely gotten the gloss, it's really

 going to help! Thanks, Sam!

Galatians 4:6

Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit

of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls

out, “Abba, Father.”

  Happy Monday!

Do butterflies dream?

Another butterfly card. I just can't

seem to get away from them. It's not

that I particularly like butterflies,

although I don't dislike them, it's just

that they seem to crop up in a lot of my

cards. They lend themselves nicely to

the front of cards, I think. The panel was

originally a bookmark but I thought there

was no reason why it had to stay that way!

I added another one of my words because

I love putting words on cards. I almost

used the “memories” words, but thought

“dream” looked and fit better.

 

I am hoping that it will be nice later on

today and maybe I can get the lawn

mowed. I'm not going to have a lot of

time this week before CITI gets started

and I need to get to the assignments

she sent us. But first I need to work on

“Hosanna” for service this morning. I

know HOW to sign it, I just get tripped

up for some reason. It's driving me

crazy! John would have said “short trip”.

  Psalm 17:6

 I call on you, my God, for you will answer me;
    turn your ear to me and hear my prayer.

Happy Sunday!

Pop up card envelope

I think the envelope turned out better

than the card! The only thing is that

I used a different card stock in the

middle of the envelope because I thought

I didn't have any more of the card stock I

used for the squares on the card. When

I had it all finished I saw the piece that I

had set aside. Oh well.

We've received our church assignments

for Thursday and Friday. Mine is on
Friday. No glosses yet, but we can

study the verses. It's becoming real

-and real scary! Each day there is

chapel and we have different parts of

the service to participate in. The three of

us will pray each other through it all and

support each other and that is so

much more than I expected when I

first decided to go on this journey.

I thought I'd be alone. God worked

things out for me and for them. What

a good God we have!

 

Psalm 46:10A

 He says, “Be still, and know that I am God;

Happy Saturday!

 

pop up card

This has got a lot of little parts and

is a little fiddly at the end, but I'm

pretty pleased with how it turned

out. I had to hang it from the cupboard

to get a picture of it opened.

 

Isn't it cool? It pops up and down. I

had to make a special envelope for it

since it's a bit bigger than the usual

square cards, but this one is going to

be delivered anyway. I think I'm even

going to decorate the envelope, so I'll

take a picture of that for tomorrow.

I was going to mow the lawn today but

it's been raining all day. Yesterday

would have been the perfect day, alas

I was unable to.

A couple of days ago I got my hair

coloured. It's the first time I've ever

had it done professionally. It looks so

great. It's red with dark brown. Those

of you who knew me way back in the

day will remember that my hair had

a lot of red in it. I am really happy with

how it came out!

  Psalm 17:6

 I call on you, my God, for you will answer me;
    turn your ear to me and hear my prayer.

 

This was one of the verses in my

Bible study this morning. I think

it's an awesome verse.

Happy Friday!

Summer sun

The temperature has dropped dramatically

in the last two days, especially today.

If it stays this way I'm going to go out

and mow the lawn. Here's a little girl

just sitting on a fence in the summer sun

  We used to sit on the fence when I was

a kid, with a salt shaker, eating tomatoes

that were growing in my dad's garden.

I wish life were that easy now. But I didn't

have such a wonderful childhood, so

I wouldn't want to travel back.

  I found this on facebook yesterday and

thought it was too great not to share.

Here's another one I like:

“To the world you may be one person

but to one person you may be the world”

Psalm 9:10

 Those who know your name trust in you,
    for you, Lord, have never forsaken those who seek you.

Happy Wednesday!

Happy mistake

Guess where I saw this card? No, not

pinterest! I'm a member of a card

making group on facebook and someone

posted a card like this. They were going

for something else, apparently, and

ended up with a happy mistake! I liked it.

  I've got to start  getting  some swaps

finished today. The rest of the week

is going to be busy.

Speaking of a happy surprise, yesterday I got

a facebook message from my grandson!

He said we haven't talked in a while

so he decided to get in touch. After I

verified with his mother that it was really

him-I've been hacked twice through FB

messages-we had a wonderful chat and

he even sent me a cute picture of himself

and his girlfriend. That was a real treat!

One of God's blessings!

Second Corinthians 9:8-9

“And God is able to bless you abundantly,

so that in all things at all times, having

all that you need, you will abound in

every good work. As it is written:

“They have freely scattered their gifts

to the poor; their righteousness endures forever.”

Happy Monday!

All creatures great and small

I liked all the images on the sheet that

came with this pattern so I decided

to make three of the same thing,

each with a different image. I have

two made so far:

Aren't they cute?!

We received some assignments to

work on before classes start at CITI

on June 28. There are four groups and

Coleen, Sam and I are all separated.

Probably because they see that Coleen

and I come from the same church and

Sam is from the same area. I was bummed

about that. I'm pretty shy around people

I don't know. That could be a problem.

Anyway, our group has to interpret Revelation

7:9-17 and everyone the first 55 seconds (nope, not

60 seconds) of “The little engine that could”.

She said there's a lot in that little bit....

Sounds pretty scary. I think we separate

the verses and story between those in the

group, but I'm not sure. I printed the

story and verses out and will gloss them

to make it easier to study. I don't know

if that will help or not, but it can't hurt,

I guess. I'm getting nervous now that it's closer.

 

Isaiah 41:10
So do not fear, for I am with you;

do not be dismayed, for I am your God.

I will strengthen you and help you;

I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

Happy Sunday!

A full deck

I saw this card on pinterest and I

blatantly copied it. I thought it

was such a great card! This is

the outside:

 

And the inside:

 

Isn't that hilarious? I don't know

who I'll give it to. My brother in

law has a birthday in November.

Maybe I'll save it until then.

1 Thessalonians 5:16-18

 Rejoice always, pray continually,

 give thanks in all circumstances;

for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.

Happy Saturday!

Thankful

Here's another little butterfly girl

combined with a corner die that

I love but hardly ever use. I have

quite a few of those, actually. If

John could see all the dies and

patterns I have he would be so mad.

Now I see on Facebook that my favourite

place in to order patterns in Switzerland

has posted more patterns. I haven't

even finished the ones I have and I'm

thinking about ordering more. In my

defence it takes about two weeks for

them to get here. Not much of a

defence, huh?!

I haven't done anything yet, I'm

still thinking about it, but that

in and of itself is dangerous for

me. No wonder I've had a headache

since last night. Too much thinking!

I'm looking forward to coffee with

Coleen tonight. Just because. It

will be fun.

Ephesians 2:8-10

8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and

this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—

9 not by works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are

God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works,

which God prepared in advance for us to do.

These are some of my favourite verses. 
 

Happy Thursday!

D-A-D

I really like how this card turned out.

But when I put the pretty peel off line

sticker along the edge I didn't realize

that the circles would cover it up. You

can see tiny little bits of it but that's

all. I was bummed about that. You'd

think I'd have laid it all out...and I did,

but I failed to realize that if I used the

smaller circles the letters wouldn't fit inside.

 

I got my lawn mowed yesterday and

about an hour later the rain started

pouring! I'd say that was really good

timing. The weather was great for it, too.

 

I found this on facebook today and

it really struck me, so I had to share.

Matthew 11:28

 “Come to me, all you who are weary

and burdened, and I will give you rest. 

 

Happy Wednesday!

Who can guess the flower?

For all my friends out there who know

flowers, what is this? I am terrible

growing, identifying and even liking

flowers. I know. It's criminal.

What can I say?

I was looking at the picture I posted

yesterday of my friends and I at the

ball game and I realized that our server

was grinning in the background! She

was so nice. I'm glad she photo bombed

our picture!

 

I have copied three books in the Bible now,

1 Samuel, John and Matthew. I'm starting

in Psalms this morning. I have read these

books before. Yet, writing them has slowed

me down enough that I have read things I

don't remember even seeing before! I have

finally found the best way for me to

study my Bible.

John 15:5

 “I am the vine; you are the branches.

If you remain in me and I in you, you will

bear much fruit; apart from me

you can do nothing.

Happy Tuesday!

New girlies

I got some new dies last week.

These are called “lovely girls” and

come from China. Much, much cheaper

than the Gorjuss girls.

 

I'm not all that enamoured of the

girl sitting on the books. When I finally

had it together it still didn't look like the

picture. The arms are supposed to be

farther apart on the book. Oh, well.

  I think maybe the knees are supposed

to be higher.

Here is a card using one of them:

 

I like this one very much.

Judy's brother in law takes the

game very seriously and has no

time for pictures, LOL

  
We had a great time at the Tin Caps

game last night. They were playing

the Lansing Lugnuts. When we left

they were winning 10-0 (the Lugnuts

aren't very good in my opinion). It

started raining pretty good so we decided

we'd probably better hit the road. By

the time we got to Auburn it was raining

hard. No lawn mowing for me today

as it was raining early this morning.

That's a real problem. My garage floor

is kind of slick. So I took the dog out, hit

the floor with wet shoes, slid (but didn't fall)

and tore my toenail half off somehow.

I'm keeping a bandaid on it until it grows

out a little more.

John 14:27

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you.

I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let

your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.

Happy Monday!