Bride of Christ Placemats

My church is having a ladies' tea in May and they asked people to sign up to decorate one table with whatever theme they chose.  Since I am getting ready for my wedding, I have weddings on the brain.  So my table is going to have the theme "The Bride of Christ."  I will take some photos of the table when it is all decorated and put them up here, but in the meantime, I made placemats for the occassion.

Supplies:

• 10 sheets Whisper White 8 1/2 x 11 cardstock
• Versamark Ink pad
• White embossing powder
• Crumb Cake classic ink
• Cherry Cobbler classic ink
• Vintage Vogue stamp set
• Heat gun
• Computer generated text

The text says:
The Lord will hold you in His hand for all to see
a splendid crown in the hand of God
Never again will you be called
"Forsaken" or "Desolate"
Your new name will be "God's Delight"
and "The Bride of God"
for the Lord delights in you
and will claim you as His bride
God will rejoice over you
as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride.
Isaiah 62:3-4, 5b

I printed out the text.  Then I stamped 6 of the large flowers from the Vintage Vogue stamp set with the Versamark ink and applied the embossing powder and melted the powder.  Then I sponged them with the Crumb Cake ink.  I stamped 4 of the small flowers with the Crumb Cake, but to lighten them, I stamped on scrap paper and then onto the placemat.  Then I stamped the decorative element with Cherry Cobbler.

They look complex, but they really are not.  In fact, I was able to do 10 of them within about an hour and a half. 

I also took them to a local business and had them each laminated so they can be easily cleaned off and perhaps framed and hung on the wall later.  :-)

Wisemen Still Seek Him Wallhanging

This is a super simple wall hanging using my newest cartridge Inspired Hearts.

Supplies:

• 12 x 12 sheet navy cardstock
• 6 x 8 black cardstock
• 18" black ribbon
• Computer generated Sentiment  (font is Penhurst)
• Popdots
• Black embossing powder

I cut the wisemen out from  Inspired Hearts with a height of 5.5.  I then embossed the cut out with black embossing powder to give it a nice shine.  I put pop dots all around it and placed it on the navy cardstock which formed the base of the wall hanging.  I layered the computer generated sentiment on a scrap of black paper and placed that under the cut out.  Like I said, super easy!

Peace on Earth Shadowbox card

This is my Christmas card this year.  I am so happy with how it turned out.  There is a lot of detail that the photo does not show unfortunately.

Supplies:

• 2 pieces white cardstock 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 & scrap for sheep & mountains
• 1 piece blue cardstock 4 1/2 x 3 1/2 & a scrap
• Scrap green cardstock
• Scrap brown cardstock
• Scrap yellow shimmer paper
• Snowflakes cuttlebug folder
• White embossing powder
• Frost Versamark ink pad
• Grey chalk
• Peace on Earth stamp (purchased at Hobby Lobby)
• 12" silver ribbon
• Popdots



Ok so you will need to cut a circle in the center of one of your white pieces of cardstock.  Score both pieces of white card stock at 1/2" and 1" on both ends.  This will form your base.  Emboss the blue cardstock with the cuttlebug folder and add shimmer to it by inking the snowflakes with the Versamark ink pad.  Adhere this to the white piece that does not have the circle cut in it.

Next you will want to cut out all of the pieces.  I cut out a sheep from Paper Dolls Dress Up, the Mountains are from Paper Dolls for Every Day (I also added glitter to the mountain tops), the Star is from Doodlecharms and the Trees are cut (with the border feature) from Doodlecharms.  I popdotted the trees and the sheep.  Then punched a tiny hole just above the circle andt hreaded some clear thread through it to hang the star.  After embossing the stamped sentiment with white embossing powder, I used it to cover the hole for the thread. 

After you have put all of the pieces on the base, you adhere the two pieces of whitecardstock together to the first score lines.  I then punched two holes and threaded silver ribbon through them and tied a little flat bow (not visible in the photo sorry).