Ask and He shall answer...

I've wanted to use my craftiness for the Lord in some way. I prayed that the Lord would show me a way to use the gift that He has so graciously given to me. The gift of paper craftiness I call it... :) I believe that I paper craft for a reason and I have been asking God to show me that reason, to show me the path that He wants me to take. What He wants me to do with this gift?

I have been doing some things for our Church, friends and family. I love that part. I love to be able to do something for the Lord from the heart. To see people smile and get so excited!!!! Brings JOY to my heart!!! I've been blessed abundantly. I have a husband that encourages me in my hobby, Church, friends and family that encourage me and lift me up when needed!!!

The last couple of week I've been really praying that God would help me use this hobby more for Him. And just couple of days ago I believe that He has answered my prayer and I am so excited!!!

You see my daddy has a Russian Christian Book store in Portland, Oregon. He has just moved his location and is doing some major work in his new store. So, the Lord send me a thought of making cards for my dad's store. How cool would that be? So I went on a hunt for some Russian stamps, but didn't find any with Bible Scriptures. So the next best thing would be to print them. And so I did. I am so excited! I've been working for the last couple of days making cards for him and did well over 20 different types of cards now. But the part that is exciting the most to me is that I got couple of cards with Bible Scriptures in Russian and I just know that mom and dad are going to be so thrilled!!!!

So here we go...

The first card the Bible verse is "Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong." 1-Corinthians 16:13






Second card is "Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation." Isaiah 12:2





I took this pic last night in the house it was dark already sorry.
Bible verse is "A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another." John 13:34



Thank you for reading this post and for being part of my hobby! I hope that you have found some inspiration in this post. I can't wait to get these cards to my dad!!! :)

Nadya

"A heartfelt thank you"

I've been making a lot cards these past two days. Play with Lyrical Letters cartridge is a lot of fun. If you have this cartridge but haven't played with these images yet, you are missing out on a lot of FUN!!!! :)

Here's 3 more cards that I did. They are very simple and easy. My cricut did the cutting of the image. All I did is added the paper and some embellishments. Again, I'm using my scraps, getting the basket to a smaller size... So you'll see some of the same colors, papers used.








I used CTMH stamp for the sentiment on this card.



Thanks for looking!!!

Nadya

3 cards using Lyrical Letters cartridge!!!

I wanted to try those card shapes that Lyrical Letters cartridge has sense I got the cartridge. But haven't done it till last night. I really don't know why I waited but I'm glad that I finally decided to try them out.

I have so many cards to share with you all but I think that I'll keep some of them for tomorrow.:)

I used my scraps of papers these projects. I'm on a mission to get that basket full of paper scraps smaller A LOT smaller!!!!

Used only Lyrical Letters cartridge and some word stickers that I had laying around. Actually I think I got those stickers in the mail with some scrapbook magazine subscription or something like that.
Start Dust stickers, pearls, ribbon, button and scrappers floss.
Hello Kitty sizzix embossing folder. I used baking rolling pin thing, to get that blue paper embossed. Don't have a cuttlebug or a bigshot and yes my hands were hurting after words. But I LOVE the way it came out.

OK here we got... Hope you'll like these!!!! :)









Thanks for looking and I hope you'll give this cartridge a try!!!

Nadya

Freebie Friday!!!!

At the Paper Popsicles blog today!!!!
They are giving away a FREE digital stamp Elizabeth and she is so cute!!!

I got my copy and I can't wait to print it out and play with it!!!!
Go to their BLOG and get your FREE digital stamp!!! So hurry up because as soon as Friday is over so is the FREE image.... It will still be available for purchase though!!!

Nadya

Flower Soft and Practical Scrappers Challenge!

I posted yesterday that I got my first tin of Flower Soft and BOY do I LOVE IT!!!!? :) It's is so AWESOME!!!

I found these two videos that are very very helpful. The lady has a very nice teaching voice and she explains everything so nicely!!!!

Flower Soft video #1
Flower Soft video #2

Make sure you watch both of them if you want to learn more about Flower Soft and awesome ways to use it!!!! I'm just starting out with it so both of these videos have been so helpful to me.

I had a BLAST working with Flower Soft last night. My husband and my brother in law who is visiting us right now even liked the cards that I did.. LOL :) It was SO easy to use and so much FUN!!! Now I need to get more colors!!!! hee hee

So here are the cards that I did plus a layout using Flower Soft. It is so windy outside today that I could not get the layout and cards to stay still. I take my pictures outside for better lighting. So I'm sorry if the pictures didn't turn out all that great.



Used on both of the cards:
Flower Soft Heather.
Aleene's tacky glue.
Flowers stamp from Garden bouquet collection by Posh Impressions.
CTMH Ink pens, Hydrangea, Topiary and Holiday Red.
Scraps of CM embossed paper that I had left over.
Bazzill Olive green card stock.
White card stock.
Star dust stickles.
Eyelets by SU.
Rub-ons.





They layout is simple. Some paper STMH stamps and Flower Soft. I just had so much fun playing last night!!! :) The layout is also a Challenge page for Practical Scrappers. We had to use 5 eyelets on a layout. Go check out their blog and what their DT team came up with for this challenge.

Here is my layout. The 4 eyelets are on the two pink strips at the bottom and the 5th one is on a circle. For the title I used Lyrical Letters cartridge the Capital font.


Close up of the circle that has the flowers with Flower Soft.


Thanks for looking and I hope you liked my projects!!!

Nadya :)

I just LOVE getting packages!!!!

Woohoo!!! I got a package in the mail today!!!! And it's from Our Daily Bread!!!
I'm so excited I can't wait to use my new Glue Glider Pro adhesive gun... :)

Just wanted to share with you my package!! I'm so excited it's like Christmas!!!!

Here is the box....

And here are the goodies.... Now those are not all of my refills... LOL :) Some of them are my friends we ordered together!!!! But don't you just LOVE that pile!!!! I know I do!!!

And here is my little helper that helped me open my box... She was all OOOOO and AHHHHH when I was taking things out of the box!!! Isn't she CUTE!!!! I Love it!!!

Don't look at all the mess behind her. LOL :) I've been busy doing stuff at my craft area!!!

And I got my very FIRST Flower Soft!!! I can NOT WAIT to use this!!!! I've watched some tutorials on this and I can not wait to use it on a card or a layout!!! Woohoo!!! :)


Hope you liked my goodies!!!
Nadya :)

More FREE stuff to win and Sketches to work with!!!

I just love sketches! They make my layouts so much interesting.

There's a new blog on a block!!! :) It's called Get Sketchy and right now they have some awesome giveaways going on. But you have to hurry up!!!!! The winders names will be drawn on August 3rd... so hurry up!!! :)

Don't forget to add their blinkie to your blog!!! :)

Nadya