JOY

I love Christmas!!

I love that everywhere you go people are happy, for the most part!

Christmas can also be a very sad time for people!

Even in the middle of really hard times the Lord gives us JOY!

We have had a really hard year with one of our sons and sometimes it is overwhelming but I find myself full of Joy.

I have told different people what has been going on and they are usually very concerned and asking how we are doing and I say, "surprisingly well"!

The Lord is my Joy and strength, therefore it depends more on HIM then my circumstances!

So I thought it fitting to paint a huge Joy sign for my front door, like a declaration!

I painted this right on an old door, just because that's what we had!



More Christmas cards!

On my last post I said I was done making Christmas cards but really I am never done until Christmas is over! So here is a couple of cards out of the 15 I've done, since I said I was done.

I made 9 more of these cards, simply because they are so quick and easy!!



Christmas Card #12

 

Christmas is very close at hand, hope you have enjoyed my 12 days of Christmas cards!

Merry Christmas to everyone and a Happy New Year!!

Christmas Card #11

I love how this card turned out!

I used last years Holiday DSP. 

 I stamped the tree with versa mark then embossed with white.

Christmas card #10

Supplies used:
Festive Flurries stamp set and dies,
Expression thinlits die,
White embossing powder and Real red ink,
Red glitter paper, and rhinestones

Painted nativity scene!

After painting the snowmen, I started to think about what else I could paint on a glass ornament.

I took a silver glass ball and painted the background, then painted the black details!

After your paint has dried, it is important to seal the ornament with a sealer!

 

To protect the ornament from breaking I created this box.

I cut the bottom CS 9X9 scoring it at 3" and 6" on both sides.

The top is cut at 5 1/8 X 5 1/8 Scored at 1" on all sides.

You need to cut along the score line on two sides to the centre.

I hope that makes sense, I should of taken pictures!

 



More painted Snowman Cards!

I think this is the last of my snowman cards!

I keep thinking that then another idea comes in my head and voila, more snowmen!

There just so cute and make me happy while I am painting them!

I guess that makes them a double blessing, they make me happy and also the one who receives them!

My problem is, I make soooo many cards and then realize it wasn't enough so I have to pull out all my stuff again.  So even though I only needed two more cards, I made four and I am sure I will need them all.

I love this guys face!

It is so quick and easy to paint on Card Stock as oppose to round ornaments.

I had these whipped up in less than an hour.

Well there you go, that is all of them for this year!

Actually that is a lie, I have a birthday card snowman that I will show after the birthday; in case she reads my blog!