I can crawl!

A gift for a friend, the picture will be added later! The critters are all cut from various Cricut cartridges.

Pockets of Love

I have a dear friend who has been diagnosed with leukemia. She has taught the Bible to literally thousands of women and through all the challenges in her life, has been a godly example of trusting behavior, humility and faithful service.
We sent out emails, phone calls...everything but Facebook since she is there and asked ladies whose lives have been touched to send her a note to slide into a pocket. Less than 3 weeks later
the quilt is on its way, to be hand delivered by one of her former class members.
The quilting contains several Bible verses 2 Cor 1:6, Psalm 116:5, Proverbs 3:5, Psalm 46. You see the word compassion above. The backing was another gift from God...though purchased, I could not have found fabric that was more appropriate.
An extra blessing was 2 Saturdays that up to 7 ladies, all former students of hers, were able to spend in a "quilting bee", prayer and memories. the time spent was truly a blessing.
This is the finished quilt, filled with the notes. To God be the glory and we give thanks for all the blessings from our Lord Jesus Christ, given to us through Dawn.

Dayton and his doggy

Blessed to be Gram

Our newest addition, Dayton!
Fun in the annual "Greatest Leaf Pile" (though a bit scarce this year!) with Timmy, Lucy and Cooper!

Great thought

"I have been driven many times to my knees
by the overwhelming conviction that
I had nowhere to go.
My own wisdom, and that of all about me,
seemed insufficient for the day."

Abraham Lincoln

I posted this a week ago and now ... I know my wisdom is never sufficient and need to begin each and every day on my knees asking for the Lord's wisdom to guide my day and that, when the crisis hits during the day, realize that He already has it covered in His sovereign power. As far as the quote... "better late than never" and it is a great day when we realize we need to turn to our Lord Jesus Christ for guidance.

Simple Summer Pleasures

Practical Scrappers had a "recipe challenge" where you had to include 12 specific items in your layout. Here's mine...and the grkids are bonus features!

A Baby's Coming Soon!

Room for 4 pictures and journaling on the tulips!
Room for 3 pictures. Random stars are popped up with foam dots.

Lots of fun embellishments on these pages including flowers and gems from Creative Charms.

One Very Prepared Princess

Lucy loves to dress up and when she does, she dons everything that she is fond of at the moment. This often means layers of clothes and jewelry. She does know how to have fun!
Papers are from Luxe, Paper Studio and DCWV. Brads - Making Memories, Buttons - Walmart. Beads are from my stash.
This medallion flower is made using a Fiskars border punch. Paper is folded at about 1/4 inch.
This medallion flower is cut from a Martha Stewart border punch and folded at about 1/2 inch. I found it interesting how much difference the size of the fold makes. I determined the size of the fold by the points on the strip.

Welcome Spring

I stamped the initial images onto cardstock and on the stems, traced over it with my "Easy Sew" tool.
Using various shades of green embroidery floss, I covered the stems and then moved onto the actual flower heads. These were made with a combination of stitching and tying, leaving ends loose,

Practical Scrappers has a call out for projects with handmade flowers and another for creative use of stamps. I was trying to use my stamps in a unique way and ended up filling the requirements for both. Though its hard to see, some of the stamping is still there, making background flowers.

Wedding Friends and Family

A multi page layout with velum flowers cut from Cricut "Walk in my Garden". They are enhanced with ink and centers are Stickles. Leaves are by Decorative Expressions.

4 Generations

4 generations of women... my mom Marilyn, daughter Christine and grandaughter Lucy in front of mom's home and her beautiful crepe myrtle tree. A simple green frame and then some flowers cut from Core Essentials paper (and sanded) on the Cricut (Walk in my Garden) with brads and scraps for centers tied the picture to the page.

Engaged in Love

Christopher and Courtney's engagement photo and "Save the date" card.

All Girl

Little Lucy has been all girl from the start and loves dressing up. This was her first animal print outfit. The pink "co-ordinations" paper is embossed with an animal pattern, inked and sandpaer distressed. The animal print paper is flocked, black flower is glitter paper from Target. Polka dot and fuzzy ribbon are from Joanns. Pink bling and black pearls are from Want to Scrap, Lettering is Glitter Bling and bead flowers from Beadables. This is being entered in the Practical Scrappers ribbon challenge.

Gram love Challenge #2

This was my second layout for the challenge but when I saw I wasn't going to get it done on time, I ate dinner. Finished up, in all they both took 1 hour 15 minutes plus upload time. A fun challenge and 2 more layouts done!
Red/white paper - Luxe "Cocktail dress"
Navy - Bazzill Basics
Red ribbon - BasicBasic for Michaels
Rick rack - Wrights
Yarn - Bernat
Stickers - Miss Elizabeths

Challenge Winter Snow

Paper - Hot off the Press
Rhinestones - Studio 18
Brown Ribbon - American Crafts
Blue Ribbon - Holiday Inspirations
Stickles
Brads

Christmas Delights

Courtney had asked for a tree skirt for Christmas but what is a tree without stockings!
At first I thought it a bit strange that she wanted silver and gold, white and lime green, but when I got them together and thought "modern", it was fun and eye catching!
The background is white satin with a silver checkered organza over the top. The trees are a lime satin with inbedded random rhinestones. The nativity a gold organza and the stars are a white organza with gold stars and dots set on a silver satin. Merry Christmas Courtney and Christopher!

Quilt Dedication and Send-off

It is always exciting to get all the "Stitchin' for Missions" quilts together and ready to ship around the world. The quilts were dedicated yesterday and the congregation laid a hand on the nearest quilt while we prayed for the recipients. Always a touching service. I am so blessed to have hobby where I can serve the Lord and get such pleasure doing it. Now onto children's quilts for an Apache Mission and their Christmas party.

Touchdown Recycled

The chipboard circles are gone but the frame remained and when it was set down and landed on a picture, an idea was born! I have several others in the works now...usually those pictures "leftover" but still cute - so they are going into a "year end" frame/collage.

No recipe this time...its all leftovers!

Endings and Beginnings

Okay, I'll admit that this looks a lot like the end of school, not "Back to School" like the challenge. But before I even graduated, I was offered my first official teaching contract... provided I graduated. So though it was an end, it marked my "Back to School" beginning!
Papers are Miss Elizabeths and a scrapbook calendar page (floral).