scrapbooking your faith - winter

This was my January SYF. We discussed having winters in our life. Times when things aren't always going right or are "darker" so to speak. Winter with it's starkness and lack of light can feel that way at times. It's during those times that we need to focus more of our time and energy on God and his wisdom. If we rely on him, he can direct our paths and help us through the harder times. He can help us focus on the beauty that winter brings into our lives. I know I love to look at an area (especially a wooded area) after a fresh batch of snow has fallen. Sometimes it's almost magical and extremely beautiful. What we have to remember is that the winter times help strengthen us and helps us persevere.

I know it's not really the time to think about winter in the middle of a hot spell of our summer. I apologize for being so far behind. I guess you could say at this time, I'm still going through a winter of sorts with trials. I know though through it all God will remain faithful and I will persevere.


These pages mainly use the Big Shot, but it also uses the Snow Swirled stamp set.

scrapbooking your faith - christmas

Since I'm so far behind I'll post two in one day. This was our Christmas Scrapbooking your faith class. I always feel torn around Christmas about what to scrapbook. Why, because we don't ever have any pictures really that share our faith during these times. We go to services and Christmas events, but most are quieter times where you don't really take pictures. So all I really take pictures of is the gift exchanges and decorations and such. So all I can do with the other part is journal it.

Since I only have the other to scrapbook, I wondered how I could add a religious element to the pages. One of the ways was to use the Come to Bethlehem set. Being smaller though it got kind of lost on the page, so I had an idea. I decided to punch out a circle and stamp the image. I then used my dauber and inked the bottom to look like sand and then inked the edges to give depth. Then I used my tab punch and made it look like an ornament. Several of our decorations that we have in our home share our faith, so it will fit right in with the pictures. It also fits in with the gift giving, because Christ was the perfect gift we could ever receive.

I used the Jayne's type alphabet and the concord ribbon and papers. A tip I used for my stamp set was that I cut the star separate from the wise men. I don't know why but I didn't like the look of a dark star. By cutting it apart I have a choice. With the clear mount I can put the star anywhere I like now. I also used Elements of style for the vine look behind the letters and popped up several of the ornaments. It's hard to see in these pictures but the one cherry cobbler ornament has the tinsel wrapped around it that we sold in the holiday mini. It only took a small bit to wrap around it, maybe 3" or so. It just gave it an extra sparkle it seemed, kind of like being on our tree.
So I hope you like these pages and it gives you ideas of some things you can do to share your faith.

Have a great day.

scrapbooking your faith - trust

Seems like I'm farther behind then I remember. It's almost this time of year again. It won't be long for sure, especially as fast as time seems to be flying.

This was either last September's or last October's Scrapbooking your faith class (seems like we had to cancel one month). The theme was trust. We talked about learning to trust God, especially when life seemed scary or unknown. He knows the plans for us and we don't, so we need to learn to trust and rely on God more in our lives.

These pages could be used for Halloween pictures or also to share about a time in our life where we had a challenge or needed to place more trust in God.

We used the Wicked cool set that will be in the new catalog along with the Broadsheet alphabet. I think the only things retiring are the bat punch and the pumpkin satin ribbon. I will miss them. I thought the bat punch was really cute for the fall and I love the satin ribbons. The spider was made with punches too. I used circle punches and the bat punch for the legs cut really close together. It's attached with linen thread to the spider web. It's also on a dimensional so it's like he's floating down so to speak.

So I hope you enjoy the pages and have a great day today.

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.

scrapbooking your faith - July

These were July's pages. This set and roller was in the mini at the time. I really liked this Fourth of July set and hope it returns. We just stamped and punched out the stars. Some are raised up on dimensionals. The saying is one from the matching roller that I cut apart to use for various sayings. It's also up on dimensionals.

The fireworks are stamped in red and navy too. The ribbon is navy grosgrain with a small piece of real red for the knot. Just a little variance that I thought went with the pages. It's also hard to see, but there are little firecrackers stamped in Versa Mark on the bottom of the right side red. If you look really hard you can see it in the picture.

I like the saying too - God bless the USA. We are really truly blessed in this country with all the freedoms and all that we have. Sometimes we have to take time out and remember how blessed we are.

I hope you like the pages and it helps you, even at this time of year, to remember the blessings you in particular have. Everything from food, to shelter, to freedom of religion and just freedoms in general. Even freedom to speak your mind for the most part. Something not found in all areas of the world.

Hope you have a warm and safe day today.

Scrapbooking your faith - June

This month we picked some fun, Summery pages using items from the mini. I thought it would be fun to showcase some vacation, traveling or summer fun type pictures. The main colors are Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive, So Saffron and Rose Red.
I really liked this set and coordinating paper and was a lot of fun to use. I hope it ends up in the main catalog as this was a great summer set. It had flowers and greenery and even a palm tree.


We also discussed rest and reiterated how rest is important to our lives. Resting helps our bodies and our spirits and can help us focus on God more. Sometimes its in the quiet times that we can really hear his voice.
So I hope you enjoy the page ideas. Don't forget to take time out from time to time to rest too. It really does your body good. :)

scrapbooking your faith - may - church family

These were our May Scrapbooking Your Faith pages. We focused on what a difference church makes in our lives and also what a difference our church families make in our lives.
The church I just hand drew and cut out the various pieces. Then used those to create more. The clouds are punched scallop ovals. The door is just smaller then a circle punch and slide through to round the top. It's also stamped with the woodgrain background stamp and then I added a gold brad to make a doorknob. The grass is just the pinking hearts border punch.
I stamped a couple of sayings - one is the definition of inspire. The other one says, "The greatest gift is a portion of thyself - Ralph Waldo Emerson". I thought that fit- one because Christ died and gave his all to us. Also as we serve in our church environments we also give of our time and talents and in doing so get a great blessing in return - like a gift. It makes for a great reminder I think and we can also share how much our church and our church family means to us, which is a cool memory to scrap too.



The main colors used are Bashful Blue, Always Artichoke, Night of Navy, whisper White, Basic Black, oh and Chocolate chip for the door. Inks were Bashful, Navy and Chocolate (for the door) and Sahara Sand (to ink the edges of the church with a dauber). I also used an Artichoke marker to add little grass pieces to the green grass, which are hard to see in the photo. So I hope you enjoy the share today and gives you another great idea of a memory to scrap about.

scrapbooking your faith - easter

I just realized how far behind I am in my postings for my syf class. I didn't realize that I hadn't posted these. I apologize that I didn't post them sooner. The good thing is that these months aren't that far off and many of the materials are still available.

This one was the Easter pages that we had done back in April. There are some things in this picture that are hard to see. First the sun has shading on it and then each little ray has a bit of glitter added to it for extra sparkle. The crosses have the wood grain background stamp stamped on them and then we colored in nail holes with a marker. The concord mats and the sand are spritzed with shimmer paint mixed with alcohol so they both sparkle. The ribbon was a ribbon from the last catalog and a bulk buy for demonstrators, but could be substituted for a different kind. The shadows were just created with a dauber. These are 2 - 12x12 pages pushed together. There is one cross on one side and two on the other. I thought these were a neat change of type of page. Everyone is wanting the mats for the 4x6 pictures so that is what we are incorporating for now. Limits the creativity a little, but really helps in the completion process which many of us need right now.
I hope the pages inspire you some and help you share some of your faith and traditions with your family. So many times we scrapbook events or trips and very little about what we believe, our traditions and what is important in our lives today. That's why this class was formed to help us at least take a few pages to share those types of things.
I hope you enjoy the pages as it won't be long before that season arrives again and our focus shifts from Christ's birth to his death and resurrection.
Hope you have a great day today.

scrapbooking your faith -things I love

Sorry I've been such a slacker posting lately. It's been very busy here. Last week we took some vacation time even and I used a lot of the time to get caught up on cleaning in various parts of our house. You know you are busy when you don't have time to clean. :)
We did go somewhere too, but the days we stayed home we did quite a bit of cleaning. Not that you could tell it much in our cluttered home, but it did make a dent and made a couple rooms much nicer.

So I haven't had a lot of time to create outside of class material lately it seems. Between work, having to lead a bible study at church now and trying to keep up with family stuff along with my stamping classes it's been busy. I need to take another vacation day and just create I think. :) That would be lots of fun.
So I was looking at my blog and realized what a slacker I had been with my blog and especially with my scrapbooking your faith posts. I haven't posted those the last several months and I hadn't even realized it. So here is the pages we did several months ago. We used a few sets here as well as some punches. The main stamp set we used was the Things I Love stamp set. We also used some others too, but they aren't all in the new catalog. There is a similar one though so that's good. We also used several punches including the full heart punch, large oval and some circle punches. We also inked all the edges.
We focused this lesson on the things we focus on and spend time on or with - kind of like our favorites. We put a cross near the front because I hoped those attending the bible study placed God high up in their lives as well as their families and loved ones (hence the saying, "but most of all you" punched out with the oval). The others were used mainly for favorite items, but could be interchanged depending on likes or what photos they had. I tried to pick items they might have pictures of and could journal about. I placed strips so they could add lists of favorites or multiple photos. They could do it like in columns even if they wanted to. Have pictures with lists under or around them.

I made these pages for a couple reasons. One, I thought it might help us focus where we spend our time and such. I also thought they could be fun page to look back on. Our favorites change over the years and sometimes it's fun to look back and see what we liked - what foods, what styles, what events, etc. Even what people were in our lives at the time as they change over time too.
So that's my share for the day. I hope you enjoy it and it gives you an idea to scrapbook about as well. Have a great day today. Blessings.

Scrapbooking your faith - love

These are the pages we did for our scrapbooking your faith class. Sorry I'm a couple months behind posting. I just realized that. This is the one we did the end of February. Yes I know it's retired paper, but this is not a class that I'm trying to make money on. It's put together to help us scrapbook more about ourselves and our faith. Something I tend to do little of with all the birthdays and special events that we have. I so need to do so much more of that and this class helps me do that. It also allows me to have bible study with my friends and grow stronger as a Christian as we learn and share together.
These pages would also look pretty I believe with the designer series paper located in the current mini. It's full of pinks and reds and it glitters. What's neat about the paper that's on these pages is that it's flocked and was in the Holiday mini. I had hoped to use it before it retired, but I did get to show it off during that time. I just thought it went really well with pages on love and couldn't help but use it. Even though the pages are retired, I hope the pages give you ideas that you can use in your albums.

I liked the way these pages turned out as I thought they could be used in a myriad of ways. We could focus them on people we love or a specific person, about our relationship with God and how he loves us and we him or even how you share love with others - mission, working with kids, youth, etc. You could also scrap gifts/talents he has given you that you love and how you use them or even what your favorite love languages you have are and how you share them. I could keep going on with ideas.

We started out our lesson by defining love and looked at various scriptures that did that (i.e. 1 Corinthians 13). We also talked about how love is an action - an act of doing. How when we have a growing faith and hope (positive outlook) it is so much easier to share and spread love. We also talked about various bible characters that we had been discussing lately and how they shared and showed love. How much God loves us - enough to give us his son. We also talked about if we share our gifts (talents) with love how much more we can do there. We just have to be open to the opportunities God gives us and realize that if it is his will he will provide all the resources we need to teach others about his love.
So I hope you enjoy my pages and the really short synopsis of the study. We spend about an hour in the bible study part, so that was definitely the quick version. As always if you have any questions, just ask.

a Moment in Time

I'm sorry I've been such a slacker posting. This has been a crazy week for us with quite a few stressful things going on, so I haven't had much creating time this week.
So I was looking at my last few posts and I realized that I hadn't posted pictures of the month before last's scrapbooking your faith pages. I knew I was a slacker this week, but didn't realize it was that bad. :) So this is the pages we made in January. I thought since January is typical of making resolutions and setting goals and such, I thought time a neat thing to talk about for the month. It went really well with the Sense of Time stamp set that I have with the clock and the cool sayings. I also used my two alphabet stamps and we stamped "a moment in Time" with them alternating with old olive and Chocolate Chip ink. The mats are in olive and the side piece and other parts are in Vanilla and inked with Chocolate, carmel and olive. It gives it an aged yet also camoflagey look. I also made an alternative jounal mat to put on one of the olive ones, but I guess I forgot to take a picture of that. The class members want to use 4x6 pictures so that limits the layout some, but overall I thought they turned out pretty cool. In real life you can see more of the shading too, which gives it more character. If you didn't want to use the time theme it would also make some cool manly type pages by changing the sayings.
But for this study we talked about time and Moments in time. We discussed some various bible characters and caught glimpses of their life in certain moments in time. We talked a lot about Zechariah and Elizabeth and waiting on God's timing and being faithful to God through it all. We talked about Moses and God's timing in using him. We talked about Jesus, Joseph and David and having to wait until they were 30 to provide their respective roles and ministries. How we can learn and grow while while waiting for God's timing. We talked about how we could use the pages to talk about a specific moment in time in our life - where we are at, what we were doing, how God used us, etc. We could talk about multiple moments that were special in our lives. We could talk about people God placed in our lives at particular moments and we could also talk about what God was doing in our life at that moment, etc. There are lots of possibilities and I love to have options for those that participate.
So I hope you enjoy the pages and even if you don't have the same sets, you can improvise. Think about ways you can make pages to talk about where you are at this moment, how your relationship to God is at the moment or even various events in your life that has brought you where you are today. If you are more of a cardmaker and not a scrapbooker, how about journaling about your thoughts? Just because you don't scrap, doesn't mean you can't leave your family a legacy of who you are, what you believe and where God has helped you come from and how your life is what it is today because of your relationship with God.
It's great to look back on things and remember. I so wish I could ask my grandmother more questions, which is what prompted me to do more pages about myself and who I am. This way, my children and family can know more about me and who I am. I normally focus my scrapping on events or special occasions. This way it helps them learn more about who I am now in my life.
A cool concept if you think about it. So how about taking time to do that? I love hearing other's stories too. If you get time to share, I'd love to hear about a moment in time in your life.
Hope you have a great day and the page inspires you.
Blessings.

scrapbooking your faith - thanksgiving

I just realized that I hadn't shared our last scrapbooking your faith class pages. These were done at the end of last month, so we focused on Thanksgiving. For these pages the ladies were suppose to scrap items/people/events, etc that they were thankful for. We talked about being thankful for what we have, for giving thanks to God and to others who make a difference in our lives, for events that have helped shape us into who we are now or for anything else that they were thankful for. As a last resort they could just scrap some thanksgiving pictures, but I hope they really think about what blessings they have received or what has shaped their lives.

These pages were fairly easy to put together. They are on very vanilla bases. The main mats are rich razzleberry. Then the words are backed with vanilla, crushed curry, rich Razzleberry, and Always artichoke cardstock. The leaves are the same colors (minus vanilla) plus pumpkin pie, dusty durango, soft suede, & handsome hunter. The leaves are cut out using the Big Shot and the leaves die. The colors for the letters are rich razzleberry, dusty durango, hunter, curry, pumpkin and artichoke.

Pretty quick and easy. I hope you enjoy the pages and it helps remind you what blessing you have in your life and what all you can be thankful for. I know during this busy season, it's sometimes the little things that are often forgotten.
Also, what a great gift to give someone - to let them know how thankful you are that they are in your life and what they mean to you.

Hope you have an awesome and thankful day.

scrapbooking your faith - fear

Here are our pages for October's scrapbooking your faith study.
I guess I should have taken a little better close up of the pages. The title says To fear or not to fear. Fear is in Basic gray and Not is in pumpkin pie. The little words are written using a Basic Gray marker. The alphabet is the new Jayne's type alphabet. I also stamped a bat in eggplant and a spider in black and cut them out and placed them at the top. On the pages in black are the big stamp from "From the Crypt" and spiders from the same set. I also added on each white piece a spider stamped in going gray, so you could write over it if you wanted to (you can probably see it better if you click on the picture).
I thought these were fun and easy pages. I also thought they had options.
Our study that night was about fear. How fear of God leads to wisdom, how when we rely on God he helps us overcome our fears and how our fears keep us from using our gifts and talents - which we discussed last month. I love it when studies work together.
When it comes to the pages, I also shared some ideas about what we could put on them. Since we are suppose to be scrapbooking about ourselves, I shared how it would be good if they only used pictures of other family, kids, church events, etc as a last resort. Basically only if they couldn't come up with anything else. I shared how it would be good to talk about and put pictures of things we were afraid of - hence the spiders and bats on the page, or they could talk about a time when they overcame their fears and was able to do something good. I think it's important to our families (especially younger generations) to realize that we had fears and struggles and how we got through them. I loved hearing the stories my grandmother shared both good and bad as those talked about her character. I wish now I had more. So that's what I'm trying to accomplish for my children. That way they can know me better and what my faith means to me and what I can do with God in my life. That I have struggles and celebrations. That I love them and through good or bad God loves them and can see them through anything.
So I hope you enjoy the pages and they help you think about things you can share with your family and friends. To me, it adds a great dimension. Have a great day.

gifts and talents - scrapbooking your faith

Wow, I can't believe I let the time slip by me. I didn't realize it had been since Monday since I last posted. This week has flown by. We had something every night this week. A lot of the week was taken up with school tours. You would think picking a middle school would be easy, but each one is different and offers different items depending on your child's interest. My child has several interests so we get to tour several schools and we aren't done yet. It's very overwhelming some days, but I know God will see us through it.

I also hadn't realized until just recently that I hadn't posted my last scrapbooking your faith pages that we did last month. Our theme last month was gifts and talents. I saw an idea in our Stampin' Success magazine and I modified it some to make two pages out of the design. I thought they came out kind of fun and different. It was a little out of my comfort zone, but I like them. I actually found several pictures for my pages and it was really cool to see the progression of how my talents and gifts have evolved over the years. My evolution started with me thinking I had very little to offer, so I worked mainly behind the scenes or behind the stage. The next thing you know I was performing, then leading, then mission teams, then actually planning and helping lead ministry work. It was cool looking back on it seeing the transitions and where we were at the times and what what we were doing. God can work that way though if you let him and are open to His will.
In our study we basically talked about various gifts and talents mentioned in the bible. We also talked about some different bible characters and their gifts and talents, like Moses for example. We talked about what he did, but also how he felt - inadequate. Even he questioned his abilities, but with God's help he made it through and God gave him the resources to get what he needed done. I asked the ladies to think about their respective gifts and talents - from small to big. I reminded them that not all talents are performance oriented or big. Even something like sending cards to people to encourage them is even a gift or fixing a sick family a meal, etc. I then challenged them to figure out what their gifts were and look for ways they could use their gifts. It ended up being a good lesson time.
So now on to the info about the pages:
One thing I did differently on these pages was on the Soft Suede but it's a little hard to see. SU's paper is solid all the way through. I found if I rip a side of my paper and then ever so gently take my paper piercer and pick at it a little I can actually separate the sections of the paper. I then ever so gently pulled back a little of the top layer (once it starts it's easy to keep it going) and rolled it a bit. To highlight it I just rubbed it over the ink pad to make it darker. You can see it a little better in the top picture. I then used my Extreme Elements and Extreme Guitar to stamp my images. I actually let the ladies pick other items beside the guitarist if they wanted too to represent their talent, but this was my page, so I picked the guitar because I liked him. Not that I have musical ability, but I thought he went well with - you rock. The words are stamped using the Just Perfect Alphabet in Crushed Curry. The guitarist is also popped up on dimensionals too, so you can slide pictures under it if you needed too. So I hope you enjoy them and it encourages you to scrap about your gifts and talents too. We focus so much of our scrapbooking on others or events, so I like being able to share parts of me with my family too. So that's why we are doing them.
Here is what I used for these pages:
stamps: Extreme Elements, Extreme guitar, just perfect alphabet.
inks: Brilliant blue, crushed curry, soft suede, garden green
paper, kraft, whisper white, crushed curry, garden green, brilliant blue, soft suede
accessories: both star punches, circle pundhes, dimensionals, silver brad, paper piercer, snips, Crushed curry polka dotted ribbon

scrapbook your faith friends class

Hey everyone,
Sorry I didn't realize it had been so long since I posted. We had a busy weekend or I should say we made it busy. Not doing all the stuff we should have been doing - like cleaning house and such, but we took some time and had a little family time. We actually had a few hours to eat dinner without kids one night, which rarely happens and I was also trying to catch up on all the stampin stuff I was behind in. Luckily my husband is really nice and I got to spend a big part of today stamping. I did take some time out to be with my kids some, but for the most part I was trying to play catch up. I worked on swap cards (this coming weekend is regionals). I also worked on my club projects and my next syf class pages. I'm still debating on a couple of choices there, but I kind of got the pages laid out sort of so that was good. I've also been working on various seasonal projects too, so I hope to show you those shortly too. So now that I've caught you up on what I've been doing, here are the pages that we did for the scrapbooking your faith class.

Our subject this month was Friends and we learned more about David and Jonathan, as well as various verses throughout. We also talked about who I refer to as Rack, Shack and Bennie (Veggie Tales does that to you - it's just easier to remember) also known as Meshach, Shadrach and Abednego. I hope I spelled those right it is getting really late. We talked about friends who stick by us no matter what. Ones, who are there for us, encourage us, pray for us and want the best for us no matter what, even if it means giving up something for us (as Jonathan did) or risking their life for us (as in Rack, Shack and Bennie's case). Someone who will stand up with us for what we know is right and who will help hold us accountable. Those are the types of friends we talked about. So I hope you have friends like that that come to your mind. Maybe over the years they have changed somewhat, but hopefully you have experienced that.

We also discussed God as our friend and how he wants us to come to Him with our concerns and how he is there for us too.

So these are my pages for this month. The designer paper is unfortunately retired (demos I believe can still buy it in bulk). I just couldn't work in all our beautiful papers before they retired and I really liked these bold colors so I wanted to use them.
The non-designer papers are Tempting Turquoise, Summer Sun, Chocolate chip and old olive. Everything is inked with chocolate chip (all the edges and such). I used Chocolate chip ribbon, Schoolbook Serif alpha (stamped in olive) and the Big Shot die called sparkle. We stuck the ribbon on with glue dots.

So I hope you like the pages. They are really bright in person, which is a little different for me, but I do like them. So I hope you had a wonderful holiday weekend and got to spend time with your family or friends as well. Have a great day.

First page of this month's scrapbooking your faith

I apologize for not posting sooner. We were gone most all day yesterday visiting with wonderful friends some that I haven't seen in years and today I have spent most of the day packing and cleaning for our house sitters.

Here is page one from the scrapbooking your faith class pages. I again used the same items to make this page, except that I added the alphabet stamp set to stamp the word Family. I thought it added a little elegant touch. In the study we talked about family and who is a part of our family and how we are a part of God's family. We discussed how we are adopted children of God and we are co-heirs with Jesus and how important that makes us as part of His family. Also how that makes us brothers and sisters all part of the same family. We even talked about people in our lives who are almost closer then family who have made or make a difference in our lives. It was a good discussion and I know that we are blessed to have family and extended "family" that mean and have meant so much to us over the years. So I hope you enjoy these pages and get some ideas for scrapbooking your faith or even your family as these pages just make good Family pages all around. On another note, I know this dsp and baja paper is retired, but you can use the same principal or idea to create similar pages.

Also on another note: The reason I was packing is that I'm leaving tomorrow early to head to convention. I'm so excited to see all the stuff that will be happening and we will be making. This week's messages may be sporadic depending on internet access (hopefully there will be some - if not I'll post when we get home) and then also when I have time to post could be interesting. We are doing a mini vacation, so we are hoping to go see some sites. I'll try my best to keep up.
So have a great day and be safe.

2nd page of scrapbooking your faith

I'm in a hurry this morning, so here is the second page of the scrapbooking your faith class. I'll post the other one tomorrow. We have people visiting and a big get together tomorrow, so I have limited time today as I have to leave for work shortly. This uses a paper that was in the mini that I was saving and the Good Friend stamp set. It also uses Baja and Not quite Navy paper. The dsp is edged with white paper that has been border punched with the eyelet border punch. There is also white ribbon at the top of the dsp and has 2 butterflies cut out and placed on the pages. They look really pretty and soft in real life. I hope you enjoy the pages and they give you some ideas. I hope to post the other ones tomorrow with more about the lesson then. Thanks for looking.

scrapbook your faith 4th class

This is our 4th set of pages in the scrapbooking your faith class. This one's lesson was about our purpose and talked about sharing our testimonies. I included bigger squares so we would have a larger area to journal in. The darker page is suppose to be about their life before becoming a Christian and the lighter page is about how their life has changed or is changing now that they are a Christian. Or even what God means to them or if they have kids what they would like them to know, etc. It has a lot of possibilities. But we talked about how there is so much we can do now, not in the future, but now. How we can be used at any time, we just need to look around and jump in and serve and share. So these are the two pages we made to go with that theme. We used the refuge and strength stamp set (there are little gray flowers in each of the 4 corners of the bigger white pieces which are hard to see. The scriptures from that set went well with the pages too, so I included them on the page too.
So I hope you enjoy the pages today.

Here is what I used to make these pages.
paper: Walk in the park dsp, riding hood red, whisper white, basic gray
ink: riding hood red, going gray
stamps: refuge and strength
accessories: riding hood red striped ribbon

scrapbook your faith class blessings

It just dawned on me that I hadn't shared our scrapbooking your faith pages. This time we focused on the blessings God gave/gives us and I shared scriptures about God's blessings and what a blessing means. This month we are suppose to think about the blessings we have and try to focus on the good things in our lives. So on these pages we are suppose to list our top ten blessings and pick pictures that correspond with those.
It's a little hard to see in this picture, but all the white is edged with Riding hood red and the green has grass stamped on it with the Inspired by Nature stamp set. The flower is from Petal Pizazz. The letters are cut out with my Big shot. There is a gold brad attaching each strip of white too. So I hope you enjoy the pages if you haven't seen them and if you have, I hope you are getting a chance to work on them as it makes it so much more fun if you share.

Here is what I used to make these pages:
paper: kiwi kiss, riding hood red, whisper white
ink: riding hood red, kiwi kiss
stamps: inspired by nature, petal pizazz
accessories: big shot,serif essentials alpha, billboard alpha, gold brads

second scrapbooking your faith class

Sorry I didn't post yesterday as I was feeling really bad. Still a little puny today but better. I was going to use some of yesterday to make some new projects, but didn't feel good enough to venture downstairs. So I have some make up work to do as I'm low on items I can post (as the rest are gifts for people that I can't post yet. :) ) Anyways, I was looking at some of my recent posts and I realized that I hadn't posted the pages from my second Scrapbooking your faith class. These were two pages we did using the sunshine garden simply scrappin kit. The theme of this one is "I am fearfully and wonderfully made". We went over several verses in this study but the main points came from Psalm 139, which is where this quote originates. Last month we focused on God and His beauty and this month was about us and "How we can do all things through him who gives us strength" Jer. 29:11 and how if we believe we are God's masterpiece and that we are made to do good works that we can do a lot for the kingdom. So that's a little snippet that we talked about in class. The pictures and journaling were suppose to be about ourselves as we as scrapbookers tend to not scrap ourselves as much but about our friends, families and events. It was a fun class and I hope you all realize just how great you are in God's eyes.

Here is what I used to make these pages:
Papers: white 12x12, old olive, so saffron, sunshinie garden sskit bulk
ink: old olive, so saffron
accessories: sponges, Big Shot, Serif alphabet dies, 1/2" circle punch, embossing buddy