He First Loved US...

 

What a beautiful and encouraging verse (John 4.19)  that WordArt Wednesday is featuring this week and the sketch at Freshly Made Sketches showcases it beautifully!    Clean and Simple.   The papers are from Sunshine and Rainbows an SU saleabration freebie right now.  The heart die came from Hobby Lobby, can't remember what company, but I'm thinking Lawn Fawn.   The sequins are Mango Melody and in the current SU catalog!      Thanks for stopping by,  comments are always welcome.   The challenges with links are below!      Smiles,   Kathy

Fun on ICE...

 

 First of all, you are not going crazy, the card that I linked is not the same as the one above.   The more I looked at the red sentiment the less I like it, so I did the sentiment in blue and used a cloud die.  So this is alow laying cloud just at the tree line but it works for me.  My mind had much on it when I started putting my card together during the night.  I had been looking at create a smile sketch for a few days and was planning to use some dies I have to give the look, but when I saw this background paper it just seemed to work so well, too bad I missed the link cut off.    I took liberties with the sketch, but it was defintely my inspiration and also the challenge photo at Just Us Girls served as inspiration.    Yesterday was my Multiple Myeloma infusion treatment day and I get steroids as part of the treatment, so I didn't even go to bed last night, because I always have so much drive going.   I take steroids every Tuesday, but only get the infusion every 4th Tuesday.    Anyway,  I found this cute set on Etsy and with so many elements I felt it would be something I could use every winter and for $3.00 it was a good deal,  so it is now part of my growing digital collection that I store on a flash drive to free my computer.  I work in Word when I use my digital papers and clip art digis..   I created the background and then printed the kids separately and fussy cut them.   I wanted to do a winter scene and the Olympics are on my mind, because I have a niece and her family who live near Bejing and it has been tough because of strict Covid Mandates, thankfully they are doing well.   These kids may just be practicing to be future ice skating Olympians.  Because of all that is going in my country and around the world, I really want to do more fun cards this year.  All of the challenges and the Etsy Digital set is listed below, I  wanted to try and make access easy,  but getting it all to stay put was like herding cats.  I think it's fixed, but I may not do it this way again..   I always appreciate comments and thanks so much for taking the time to stop by.   Blessings to one and all,  Kathy

  

 

                        

 

Christmas Trees Card....

I just loved this card, made by Jen Timko, so much so that I ordered the Pine Tree Honey Cuts and the Vintage Holiday paper pad along with some other goodies from the Honey Bee Company.    So of course, I've just been dying to play with it all, and today I did just that!  I also used a sentiment from the vintage SU set Joy Christmas.   It's simple and clean and I like it!   I hope you do too!     Thanks so much for stopping in have a great and safe week!       Kathy

 

Brown Christmas Card...

 

Never have I made a Christmas Card where I used shades of "Brown" predominantly.   Since this is the year I wanted to "branch out" and try different challenges and challenges out of my comfort zone I decided to give the current challenge at 52CCTD my best shot.   I am also linking to some "anything goes" challenges...Just click below and it will take you to the Websites.     The verdict is out on my card.  There are some lovely cards that have been posted for this challenge.   It's just that I have always been very traditional with Christmas (red/green black/gray with pops of color, or shades of blue). So I went shopping and  I downloaded some lace papers and used a very old CTMH set to create a Nativity.   The embellishments are SU Cinnamon Cider (last year's incolor) in this years book!    I am starting to incorporate digital into my artwork...I just love the brown lace papers I downloaded from Etsy.   I look forward to building my digi stamp collection.     I would love to know what you think!   Thanks for stopping by!   Kathy

THE HOLLY AND THE IVY CHALLENGE "Anything

Christmas Goes