Saturday, March 5, 2011

scrapbooking your faith - august

In August we talked about challenges and how we deal with them. Several had been having some trials in their lives and so we took time to reflect on some of that.
My pages that I chose I tried to keep upbeat. Because even when we have trials, we can still have joy and/or blessing can still come during and from those times. We also discussed how we are never alone as God is always with us. :)

My one page I copied the idea from the Stampin' Up! catalog for the most part but the other side I just made up to go with it.
The saying on the top picture says, "If at first you do succeed try not to look astonished." The other is a quote from John lennon that says, "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." Both I thought were fitting when it comes to challenges. One because life does happen no matter what and I know lots of people that have been astonished when something worked out. That saying always brings a smile to my face, because I've seen it happen more then once.
The main sets used on this was the Eastern Blooms stamp set and the Full of Life stamp set. I cut out some of the flowers and punched out some of the others. The main colors were Crumb Cake, marina Mist, Perfect Plum and Concord Crush. The ribbon and some of the words were also in Pear Pizazz.
Hope you enjoy the pages and always remember God is with you and loves you. Hope you have a great day.

Eastern blossoms birthday

I just love this new tree branch stamp from the new mini. It comes from the Eastern Blossoms stamp set. I colored this one and made a little birthday card using it. It was a fairly easy card and filled my need to color, which I get from time to time as you guys know.
I used Pretty in pink and rose to color in the flowers and pear and olive for the leaves. I stamped the saying and punched it out too and the ribbon is our new Rose Red seam binding. I love having different colors of ribbons that match.
I hope you enjoy my little share today.
I know I've been a slacker a lot lately and I apologize. We have so much going on right now and I don't see it getting better soon. I'll try and post as often as I can. I'm still creating when I can and have various class items to post. I just have to get time to post them. :)
Hope you have a great day today.